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Receipts and Expenditure. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ...1,863 5 4 Rations ... ... ... 244 18 10 Local bodies ... ... ... 1,570 15 11 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 9 13 0 Subscriptions and donations ... 144 4 8 Surgery and dispensary ... 109 8 0 Interest ... ... ... 141 3 8 Fuel and light ... ... 91 310 Deposit on account sale of site ... 120 0 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 40 6 9 Bents ... .. ... 16 5 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 18 18 1 Patients'payments ... ... 11117 0 Washing and laundry ... ... 915 10 Other sources... ... ... 33 16 1 Salaries and wages ... ... 494 16 4 Balance from last year ... ... 2,092 11 11 Expenses sale of site and taking 3 poll 46 4 3 Funerals ... ... ••• 9 0 0 Repairs and additions ... ... 16 14 10 Printing, advertising, telephone, postage, and stationery ... 34 17 7 Interest ... ... ... 41 2 3 Insurance ... ... ••• 20 15 9 Commission ... ... ... 25 3 6 Other expenses ... ... 14 2 5 Total £6,093 19 7 Total £1,227 1 3 Visited 17th August, 1904. —This Hospital is at present in much the same condition as the Blenheim institution, the focus of a deep-seated and long-standing professional feud, with now the one side, and now the other, in the ascendant in the counsels of the Board. A new hospital has been a sanitary necessity for many years since I first condemned the old one. The conduct of the Board has become to me incomprehensible. Their frequent changes of policy and of proposed sites for the new hospital are bewildering. They introduced to the contagious-diseases annexe outside practitioners of the opposite faction, who asked payment for their services. Dr. Butement, after years of good service, has been removed.

MERCURY BAY HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1904 ... ... ... 3 Admitted during the year ... ... • • • ... 45 Total under treatment ... ... ... 48 Discharged ... ... ••• ■•■ ■■• ■•■ 47 Died ... ... ••• ••■ ••• ••• 1 Remaining on 31st March, 1905 .. ... 0 Sex.— 37 males, 11 females. Locality from which Patients came.— Whitianga, Tairua, and Gumtown. Nationality—British, Austrian, German, Maori. Religion.—No record. Total collective days' stay in Hospital, 1,049; individual average days stay, 21-85. Daily average cost per head, 17s. s£d.; less patients' payments, 16s. Outdoor Patients.— lndividual cases, 1,731. Receipts and Expenditure. Receipts. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. From Government ... ... 542 3 2 Rations ... ... ... 127 3 2 SubscriDtions and donations ... 333 9 2 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... 15 5 fa Bents " ... 14 4 0 Surgery and dispensary ... 125 13 8 Patients'payments 77 2 8 Fuel and light 26 0 5 Other sources 5 9 3 Bedding and clothing 5 19 3 Balance from last year ... 260 2 3 Furniture and earthenware ... 912 8 Washing and laundry ... ... 8 10 9 Salaries and wages ... ... 520 13 8 Repairs ... ... ... 17 7 1 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... 8187 Insurance ... ... ... 910 10 Other expenses ... ... 41 11 2 Total £1,232 10 6 Total £916 6 9 Visited 10th January, 1905.—Mr. O'Brien, the Chairman, takes a deep interest in this institution, and matters in connection therewith were discussed with him. The new medical officer has only been three weeks in the district.