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Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 247 1 0 Bations, wine, spirits, ale, &c. ... 174 3 1 Local bodies ... ... ... 222 18 11 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 11 410 Subscriptions and donations ... 100 10 0 Fuel and light ... ... ... 21 17 3 Patients'payments ... .... 810 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 16 7 3 Furniture and earthenware ... 4 2. 0 Salaries and wages ... ... 315 0 0 Funerals ... .. ... 7 0 6 Bepairs ... ... ... 14 8 6 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 317 0 Insurance ... ... ... 536 Other expenses ... ... 5 16 0 Total ... ...£578 19 1i Total ... ...£578 19 11 Date of inspection, 20th January, 1898. Considerable improvements have been effected since my last visit. One of the wards has been cleaned, painted, and papered. The whole outside of the building as well as the roof ought to be painted at once, for it is not creditable to allow a public building to perish through neglect. The patients consisted of eight chronic cases. All spoke in the highest terms of the care and kindness they experienced at the hand of Dr. Bossetti and Mr. and Mrs. Meeson. * _ >

SOUTH WAIEABAPA HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1897 ... ... ... 1 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 48 Total under treatment ... ... ... 49 Discharged ... ... ... .. ... ... 40 Died ... ... ... ... .., ... ... 6 Bemaining on 31st March, 1898 ... ... ... ... 3 Sex. —37 males, 12 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Carterton, 13; Greytown, 8; Featherston, 1; Martinborough, 10; Morrison's Bush, 2; Lower Valley, 2 ; Woodside, 1; Gladstone, 7 ; Ngahauranga, 1; Kaiwaiwai, 1; Dannevirke, 1; Matarawa, 2. Country. —England, 14 ; Scotland, 2 ; Ireland, 4; New Zealand, 25; Germany, 2; Bussia, 1; Mexico, 1. Beligion. —Church of England, 36; Boman Catholic, 3; Presbyterian, 6; Wesleyan, 3; Lutheran, 1. Total collective days' stay in hospital, 1,054; individual average days' stay, 21-51. Daily average cost per head, Bs. 3Jd.; less patients' payments, 7s. 10£ d. Bevenue and Expenditure. Bevenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 239 0 3 Bations ... ... ... 121 12 1 Subscriptions and donations ... 180 3 9 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 17 3 Bents ... ... ... ... 14 0 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 25 8 2 Patients'payments ... ... 22 1 0 Fuel and light ... ... ... 13 210 Other sources ... ... ... 518 6 Bedding and clothing ... ... 211 3 Balance from last year ... ... 83 1 5 Furniture and earthenware ... 718 0 Salaries and wages ... ... 213 12 0 Funerals . ... ... 3 0 0 Bepairs and additions ... ... 26 2 5 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 876 Interest ... ... ... 18 0 Insurance ... ... ... 6 11 9 Other expenses ... ... ... 649 Total ... ... £531 8 11 Total ... ... £437 6 0 Inspected 19th December, 1897. This is a comfortable cottage-hospital, which is well looked after in every respect. There were three patients on the date of my visit, one of them a very remarkable case of recovery from a dangerous gunshot wound right into the body of the sacrum. A four-roomed cottage makes a suitable fever ward.