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Willesden 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden, UDC]
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TABLE No. 4.
The following table will give some idea of the working and cost of such
Hospitals, viz.:—
| No. of beds. | Patients admitted. | Death rate. | No. of Staff. | Cost of each patient. | Annual Cost. | Cost per bed. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £, | s. | a. | £ | S. | d. | £ | |||||
| The eight Hospitals of the M. A. Board | 3,278 | 8,958 | 9.8 | 1,455 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 300,000 | 0 | 0 | 91 |
| Average of each Hospital | 410 | 1,120 | 9.8 | 181 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 37,500 | 0 | 0 | 91 |
| Isolation Hospital, Willesden | 70 | 347 | 10.0 | 30 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3,423 | 6 | 0 | 49 |
the cost. £10 13s. 5d.. of each patient, come to less
than £100,000, so that I am rather at a loss in making
these comparisons.
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