167

H.-31

Table VIII. —Showing Average Annual Expenditure per Occupied Bed on Principal Items of Expenditure for the Three Years ended 31st March, 1912, in Hospitals divided into Classes, and the Average Expenditure for each Class.

25— H. 31.

Average Number of Ocoupied Beds per Diem. Average Annual Expenditure ier Occupied led. Hospitals. Surgery Domestic Provisions. and „ f D ,°. . Dispensary. Estabhsh- * J ment. Salaries and Wages. Total Maintenance. Class I — Over 100 occupied beds daily — Auckland Wellington Dunedin Christchurch 248 243 147 136 £ 20-6 20-9 24-4 2-59 £ 8-0 6-2 11-2 11-1 £ 26-2 23-2 32-0 33-6 £ 27-7 35-9 390 44-0 £ 82-5 86-2 106-6 114-5 Average for class 22-4 8-6 27-8 35-2 94-0 Class II — 40 to 99 occupied beds daily — Napier Waikato Wanganui Southland Nelson Timaru Palmerston North Thames Gisborne 70 69 69 50 19 l-o 43 41 -10 26-8 28-0 21-0 23-6 20-3 21-5 19-7 131 23-2 14-5 9-8 11-4 8-6 7-5 10-1 10-3 5-0 10-8 28-4 20-7 24-0 27-7 201 26-1 30-2 13-3 301 34-3 37-3 26-7 37-6 33-0 35-2 33-0 29-6 45-6 104-1 95-8 83-1 97-5 81-0 92-8 93-1 61-1 109-8 Average for class 22-5 10-1 24-5 34-4 91-5 Class III — 30 to 39 occupied beds daily — Waihi New Plymouth 36 35 24-6 27-8 12-6 16-1 28-4 34-2 43-0 49-7 108-6 127-8 Average for class 26-2 14-3 31-2 46-3 118-1 Class IV — 20 to 29 occupied beds daily — Westport Dannevirke Masterton 24 21 20 27-9 23-9 29-1 13-3 8-1 15-2 21-1 24-0 311 47-8 41-3 50-2 110-2 97-4 1256 Average for class 27-0 121 25-2 46-4 110-7 Class V — 10 to 19 occupied beds daily — Waipawa Wallace and Fiord Wairau Oamaru Hawera Ashburton Gore Whangarei Waimate .. .. , 19 19 18 16 15 14 12 11 11 48-8 23-5 32-5 22-1 32-6 23-4 19-1 22-9 31-5 22-8 8-1 13-8 9-8 130 9-0 8-9 100 11-7 48-7 18-1 39-4 29-9 43-1 36-4 27-5 24-8 46-6 74-8 45-6 56-3 44-2 66-9 55-0 56-1 83-2 56-7 195-2 95-3 142-1 106-1 1.55-5 123-8 111-7 140-9 146-6 Average for class 30-3 12-6 35-8 60-4 139-0