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Battersea 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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In the District Midwifery service, also inaugurated in 1921,
only 2 maternal deaths had been recorded at the patient's home
to the end of 1937, the rate per 1,000 cases being 0.83.
Cost of Maternity Hospital.
I am indebted to the courtesy of the Borough Treasurer for
the following statement of the cost of the Hospital during the financial
year ended 31st March, 1938:—
Maternity Hospital, 1937—8.
Total beds (excluding cots, labour and isolation beds), 30;
total cases admitted and discharged during year, 467; average
number of beds occupied during such period, excluding cots, labour
and isolation beds, 18.3; number of weeks spent in Institution
by patients admitted and discharged during year, 914.7.
A statement* showing expenditure tor the year ended 3lst March, 1937, in respect of the Maternity Hospital is given below.
| Item. | Total. | Per patient-week. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salaries " | Medical | s. | d. | |||
| 548 | 0 | 11 | 4 | |||
| Nursing | 883 | 0 | 18 | 3 | ||
| Domestic and other | 841 | 0 | 17 | 5 | ||
| Superannuation (Council's contribution) | 92 | 0 | 1 | 11 | ||
| Provisions | 755 | 0 | 15 | 8 | ||
| Drugs and other medical requisites | 215 | 0 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Fuel, lighting and water | 448 | 0 | 9 | 3 | ||
| Laundry | 343 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Repairs and renewals | Domestic | 191 | 0 | 3 | 11 | |
| Structural | 377 | 0 | 7 | 10 | ||
| Miscellaneous items— | ||||||
| Telephones, stationery, etc., and | ||||||
| sundries | 175 | 0 | 3 | 7 | ||
| Totals, excluding rates, insurance and loan charges | 4,868 | 5 | 0 | 8 | ||
| Rates and insurance | 76 | 0 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Loan charges | 995 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||
| Gross cost | 5,939 | 6 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Income | ( Pupil Midwives (including training grant) | 280 | 0 | 5 | 9 | |
| Patients' payments | 2,189 | 2 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Other | 96 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Net cost | 3,374 | 3 | 9 | 9 | ||
* This statement does not take into account the Government Grant.