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15. COROMANDEL HOSPITAL. Governing body : Coromandel Hospital Trustees. Usual date of meeting : Third Monday in each month. Secretary : Richard Simmonds. Stipendiary medical staff : R. B. Stanley Smith, M.D., M.S. Montreal. Nursing staff : Matron, Miss Graham, and 1 registered nurse and 2 probationers. Domestic staff : 1 cook ; 1 wardsman ; 1 laundress (not permanent). Number of beds available for males, 15; for females, 4; children's cots, 1 ; isolation and infectious, 4 : total, 24. Average number of patients per diem, 4. Average number of patients to each of nursing staff, 1. In-patients : Number of patients on 31st March, 1908, 3 ; admitted during year, 50; discharged during year, 44; died during year, 6; in hospital on 31st March, 1909, 3. Sex—Male, 35 ; female, 18 : total, 53. Collective days' slay, 1,442; individual average days' stay, 27; average daily cost per head, 13s. 9Jd.; average "daily payment per head, Is. 2£d.; average daily cost per head after deducting in-patients' payments, 12s. 7£d. ; weekly fee charged for maintenance—£l 15s. to non-subscribers able to pay, 15s. to subscribers (adults), and 10s. for children of subscribers. Percentage of cost of administration on maintenance-expenditure, 5L Localities, broadly, from which patients came : Coromandel County. Nationalities of patients : Colonial, 36 ; Great Britain, 13 ; Norway, 1 ; Denmark, 2 ; Maori, 1. Number of out-patients treated during year, 473 ; number of attendances of such out-patients, 4,300. Visited on 12th April, 1909. There were six patients in. One had been in for some years—a young girl whose leg had been amputated for tubercular disease. She has, through the benevolence of a member of the Board, been given an artificial limb, and will be able to leave the Hospital, and earn her living by needlework. The wards were in very good order. The Matron, Miss Graham, is a good manager and housekeeper, and keeps her store-room well supplied with home-made preserves, the materials for which are presented to the Hospital. The grounds were fairly well kept. All vegetables used are grown, and a cow is kept. Foodstuffs are rather high in price, owing to lack of competition and expense of carriage.

46. CROMWELL HOSPITAL. ' ' ' ' Governing body : Cromwell Hospital Trustees. Usual date of meeting : Second Tuesday in month, at 4 p.m. Secretary : George Stumbles. Honorary medical staff : John G. Hyde, L.R.C.P. & S. Edin. Stipendiary medical staff : George A. Morris, M.8., CM. Nursing staff : Miss Underwood. Domestic staff : 1 cook, 1 wardsman, 1 gardener. Number of beds available for males, 8 ; for females, 4 ; isolation and infectious, 3 : total, 15. Average number of patients per diem, 4. Average number of patients to each of nursing staff, 4. In-patients : Number of patients on 31st March, 1908, 2 ; admitted during year, 49; discharged during year, 42 ; died during year, 4 ; in hospital on 31st March, 1909, 5. Sex—Male, 41 ; female, 10: total, 51. Collective days' stay, 1,112; individual average days' stay, 22; average daily cost per head, 13s. 3|d. ; average daily payment per head, 2s. Id. ; average daily cost per head after deducting in-patients' payments, lis. 2Jd. ; weekly fee charged for maintenance, £1 10s. Percentage of cost of administration on maintenance-expenditure, 10-92. Localities, broadly, from which patients came : Clutha Valley, 16 ; Bannockburn, 12 ; Cromwell, 10 ; Lowburn, 10 ; Nevis, 1 ; Gibbston, 1 ; Pembroke, 1 : total, 51. Nationalities of patients : New Zealand, 18 ; England, 12 ; Scotland, 11 ; China, 5 ; Ireland, 4 ; Denmark, 1 : total, 51. Number of out-patients treated during year, 58 ; number of attendances of such out-patients, 104. Visited on 26th February, 1909, with Dr. Morris. The Matron, Mrs. Underwood—not a registered nurse—was away. There were no female patients in, and her husband, who acts as wardsman, was taking charge of the male patients, of whom there were four. The place was in very fair order. A large portion of the food-supplies of the Hospital are homeproduced. There seemed to be plenty of vegetables and fruit. Cows and poulty are kept, which supply the place with butter and eggs. • 47. WAIAPU HOSPITAL. Governing body : Waiapu Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Usual date of meeting : Fourth Wednesday in every month. Secretary: W. O'Ryan (non-resident). Assistant,!, Stipendiary medical staff: Cyril Stephen Davis, M.D., D.P.H., M.R.C.S. Eng. (non-resident).

• 47. WAIAPU HOSPITAL. Governing body : Waiapu Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Usual date of meeting : Fourth Wednesday in every month. Secretary: W. Q'Ryan (non-resident). Assistant, 1. Stipendiary medical staff: Cyril Stephen Da via, M.D., D.P.H., M.R.C.S. Eng. (non-resident).