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Receipts and Expenditure. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 924 19 4 Rations ... ... ... 325 6 4 Local bodies... ... ... 525 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... 5 0 10 Subscriptions and donations ... 283 4 3 Surgery and dispensary ... 130 18 9 Rents ... ... ... 25 14 0 Fuel and light ... ... 213 10 8 Patients'payments ... ... 384 9 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 37 12 5 Other sources ... ... 36 19 9 Furniture and earthenware ... 43 8 4 Balance from last year ... 935 0 7 Salaries and wages ... ... 868 10 0 Repairs ... ... ... 16 15 7 Additions to buildings ... 480 5 1 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... 16 0 9 Rates ... ... ... 2 19 0 Insurance ... ... ... 55 1 0 Sanitation ... ... ... 26 4 2 Interest ... ... ... 0 17 0 Other expenses ... ... 9 15 0 Total ... ... £3,115 611 Total ... ... £2,232 411 Visited 20th May, 1905. —This Hospital has earned commendation at my hands for many years. It contained sixteen men and twenty-four women on the day of my visit, and they all spoke in the highest terms of the treatment they received. I found no indications of a demand for outside doctors to be allowed to attend their own patients in the Hospital. A great deal of credit is due to the Chairman, Mr. Nolan, for the excellent condition in which I found this institution, and especially for the tact and firmness with which he resisted in former years the above preposterous demand. Dr. Morrison is in all respects deserving of confidence, and the Matron could not be excelled.

GREY RIVER HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1904 ... ... 60 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 236 Total under treatment ... ... ... 296 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 206 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... 37 Remaining on 31st March, 1905 ... ... 53 Sex. —244 males, 52 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Greymouth, 98 ; Grey County, 156; Brunnerton, 24 ; shipping, 7 ; other districts, 11. Country. —Great Britain and Ireland, 170; Colonies, 90; Europe, 14 ; America, 4 ; China, 18. Religion. —Church of England, 110; Roman Catholic, 97; Presbyterian, 48; Confucian, 18; Wesleyan, 6 ; others, 17. Total collective days' stay in Hospital, 19,781; individual average days' stay, 6683. Daily average cost per head, 2s. IOJd.; less patients' payments, 2s. Id. Outdoor Patients. —Individual cases, 237 ; attendances, 406. * Receipts and Expenditure. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 1,416 9 6 Rations ... ... ... 881 2 1 Local bodies ... ... 787 10 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. .. 103 1 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 436 4 2 Surgery and dispensary ... 151 4 3 Bequest ... ... ... 250 0 0 Fuel and light ... ... 171 1 1 Patients'payments ... ... 748 4 7 Bedding and clothing... ... 156 18 11 Other sources ... ... 130 8 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 121 8 1 Washing and laundry ... 60 0 0 Salaries and wages ... . . 984 14 4 Water-supply ... ... 15 0 0 Funerals ... ... ... 43 7 6 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... 60 16 6 Interest ... ... ... 15 18 6 Insurance ... ... ... 20 8 0 Other expenses ... ... 33 0 9 Total ... ...£3,768 16 3 Total ... ...£2,818 1 0