New Plymouth Hospital.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 143, 21 June 1904, Page 2

New Plymouth Hospital.

ANNUAL STATISTICS. By tho courtesy of the secretary, Mr C. M, Lepiier, the following! figv ires are taken from the annual returns of tho Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board up to March Hist last :- RECEIPTS, £ s d Clovernmcnt subsidy of 2802 0 a Local bodies' contribs. 1975 10 4 Voluntary contributions 188 18 11 ' Bents 68 1 0 Payments by patients 1297 110 Other sources 780 13 9 Total £8607 1 8 In dispensing charitable aid t*e board spent £l7l in boarding out children, £IOB4 15s 6d in indoor relief ; £579 9a 7d in outdoor relief, and £403 10s 8d in wages at tha Home and in carrying on outdoor relief work. Twelve children were boarded out, at an average cost of os s}d per woek. Without taking' nto consideration tho rent of build- 1 ng's, the average cost of mainten'ir.e per inmate of the Old People's Homo was sixteen shillings per week. The hospital account shows the .'ollowing expenditure . EXPENDITURE.

£ a d Untions ami provisions Gfjl ill •Vines and spirits ?.*■ 1" urgery and dispensing uel and lighting .edding and clothing •'urniture and earthcnwarel..!- 1 . felling and laundry 48 10 0 Salaries and wages 878 8 11 Repairs 774 15 % Printing, advertising and ' ofllcu expenses 87 6 U Payment of interest 24 18 11 Innuruncc 83 17 ft Commissions 20 11 ft 1)1 her expenses 348 12 ft 'l'iitul £8530 5 4 At the commencement o! the year >n April Ist, 15)08, there remained in the hospital from the previous year 20 patients. During the twelve months ended March flint, 1004, 412 were ndmill<>d. and the total under I treatment was 482, of whom 372 were discharged, 2!) died, and there remained in the institution at the end ol' the year 81 patients. Tnranaki County sent in the largw est number of cases, the figures feeing : Tarnlnaki County 146, Kcw I'lymouth 1)5, Stratford County G7K Hawera 42, Clifton County' 37. Opumike 15, Auckland 11, Wellington (i. Want-wim 5. Patea 2, Australia 2, I'almerston North 1, Oamaru 1. The nationalities of the patients- , are interesting, being as follows : New Zealanders 266, English 80.. Irish 35, Scotch 8, Australian 20,. Herman 7. Austrian 1, Chinese 1„ Swedish 1, Jersey 1, American 8„ Hhvdeira 2, Isle of Man 1, Shetland! Isles 2, Indian 1, Portuguese 1, Danish 2. , There were 10.054 collective days" Btny in the institution, the individual average being' 24.4 days, and thedaily average cost per patient. 7s Id,. to which the patients contributed an average of 2s 7d per daj.