HOSPITAL DAY EFFORT.

Shannon News, 12 November 1926, Page 2

HOSPITAL DAY EFFORT.

—4 NEARLY £4OO RAISED. Tne balance-sheet of the Hospital Day movement, inaugurated to raise a comforts fund for the patients in the Palmerston Hospital, shows that a net amount of £399 12s lOd was received front the various centres in the Hospital 1 istrict. It has been decided to expend this money in providing a threequarter billiard table for consumptive patients, food conveyor for children’s ward, gramophone' and records for Me j’s ward, cardigans, slippers and dressing gowns:, games—such as draughts, chess, etc., spinal chair, small meal trays for patients, £SO to provide Christmas presents for all the patients, £75 to be spent on fruit, tobacco and cigarettes for the patients as required, lounge chairs for convalescent patients, sun blinds for surgical ward, £2O for materials to enable men jiatients, who arc destined for a long time in the hospital, to make mocassins, raffia work, etc., to pass away their time. The balance will be spent, for the benefit of patients in the maternity home when opened. Mr E. R. Harris, of Levin, who took a leading part in organising the local effort, has made a request that the Ota id Cottage Hospital .should receive a measure of the comforts and also Christmas presents, and it is proposed to ghe some assistance in this direction. The balance-sheet forwarded by the Tr msurer, Mr F. J. Oakley, shows total receipts of £420 10s 4d, and disbursements of £2O 17s 6d, the expense rate thus being- under 5 per cent., -which is ver^ r satisfactory from the point of view of -areful organisation. The main details of the balance sheet are as follows: J . RECEIPTS.

£ s,. d. Levin (badges and stall) .. 44 0 1 Feilding (badges, etc.) .. 52 2 3 Palmerston (stalls) ...... 44 10 9 Palmerston (badges) s* 183 ii 3 Shannon Hospital Day . . .. 50 5 9 Ashhurst (badges) ...... . 7 (j 0 Sale cf badges in Schools 38 15 3 £420 .10 DISBURSEMENT^. 4 £ s. d. H. L. Young (printing, etc.) 14 5 0 Advertising J. 5 1 0 Suudries 1 11 6 £20 17 6 Credit balance .. 399 12 10 £420 10 4