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Gratuities.
10 (2) of the Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act of 1909, were granted. The
sums returned amounted in total to £2,970 16s. 7d.
99. The Council granted, under section 4 of the Act of 1909, gratuities to the
widows of two members of the established staff who had died from illness while in
the service and who had served for at least 10 years, and in whose cases it was
medically certified that had they survived their illnesses they would have remained
permanently incapacitated for further asylum duty, and therefore that had they
retired at the date of death they would have been entitled to pension. The aggregate
of these gratuities was £288 7s. 4d.
Deceased
pensioners.
100. Nine persons in receipt of pensions under these Acts died during the year
1926-27.
Sanction to
remove.
101. Written sanction to remove, under section 6 of the Act of 1909, was given
to three officers and employees who were transferring to the services of other asylum
authorities.

Income and expenditure.
Income and
expenditure.
Statement of
accounts.
103. A detailed statement of the accounts for the year ended 31st March, 1927, is
shewn with other accounts of the Council in the published abstract of Accounts
(see Vol. V.).
Cost of maintenance.
Cost of maintenance.
104. The charge made by the Council to London boards of guardians at 31st
March, 1926, for the maintenance of parish patients in the mental hospitals was
26s. 10d. a head a week. This charge was increased from 1st April, 1926, to 28s. 7d.,
at which figure it stood at 31st March, 1927.
105. As the charges for in-county parish patients have exceeded the limit of
14s. a week, prescribed by section 283 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, the same charges
have been made for patients chargeable to out-county parishes.
Charges for
private
patients.
106. The charge made at Horton mental hospital for female private patients
in the private ward, which at 31st March, 1926, was 35s. a head a week, was increased
from 1st April, 1926 to 36s. 2d. a head a week.
107. At Claybury Hall the charge made for male private patients, which, at
31st March, 1926, was 56s.aweek forthose having a London settlement, and 59s. 6d.
a week for out-county patients, has remained unchanged throughout the year.
Private
list" cases.
108. The charges for "private list" cases (those admitted chargeable to a
parish, who, having a settlement in or status of irremovability from a London parish,
are able to pay the full cost of maintenance or perhaps a little more, as a contribution
to capital expenses which are not included in cost of maintenance) have been at the
minimum, the charge current for parish patients, and, at the maximum, 4s. 1d. a
week in excess of that charge.
H. F. Keene,
Chief Officer.
R. Dunn Gardner,
Chairman.