HOSPITAL FINANCES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 6

HOSPITAL FINANCES

HALF-YEARLY FIGURES CHINESE DONATION The statement of accounts for the financial half-year of the Auckland Hospital Board, presented at the board’s meeting yesterday afternoon, showed an increase in receipts over the previous period amounting to £4,651. Payments totalled £156,317, compared with £151,791 in the corresponding period last year, an increase of £'4,526. Receipts totalled £15G,695, against £152,074, and outdoor relief cost £25,950, against £21,730, an increase of £4,220 .and £5,950 ’more than the estimate. The hospital expenses totalled £66,069, £7,569 more than the estimate. The Relief Committee reported that 96 cases were considered in September, as against 105 in August and 143 in July. Cases revised numbered 416, as against 364 in August. Unemployment accounted for 262 of the cases considered in September, as compared with 243 in the previous month and 295 in July. The Finance Committee recommended that in view of the fact that the honorary medical committee had appointed a sub-committee of specialists to be responsible for the investigation and treatment of cancer the staff should be invited to meet the board to discuss the question of reorganising the. radiographic department. This was agreed to.

A donation of £2l 16s was received from the Kwong Chew Club, of Hobson Street. The chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, said it was gratifying to know that the Chinese community appreciated the benefits received from the hospital. Mr. Wallace also commented upon the fact that tlie Chinese of Pukekohe had never failed to send an annual donation to the board since the epidemic of 1918, in appreciation for the services rendered by the board at that time. A donation of £lO was also received from tlie Colonial Sugar Company.