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Battersea 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Statement showing expenditure for the year ended 31st March 1931, in respect of the Maternity Hospital.
| Item. | Total. | Per Patient Week. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Salaries | Medical | 402 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Nursing | 671 | 0 | 13 | 4 | |
| Domestic and other | 573 | 0 | 11 | 5 | |
| Provisions | 798 | 0 | 15 | 11 | |
| Drugs and other Medical Requisites | 136 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |
| Heating and Lighting | 494 | 0 | 9 | 10 | |
| Laundry | 371 | 0 | 7 | 5 | |
| Repairs and renewals | Domestic | 273 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Structural | *1,174 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Miscellaneous items— | |||||
| Telephones, Water, Stationery, etc., and Sundries | 192 | 0 | 3 | 10 | |
| Totals, excluding rent, rates, taxes, insurance and loan charges | 5,084 | 5 | 1 | 3 | |
| Rent, Rates and Insurance | 85 | 0 | 1 | 8 | |
| Loan Charges | 1,386 | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
| £6,555 | £6 | 10 | 7 | ||
| Gross cost | |||||
| 306 | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Income | 'Pupil Midwives (including training grant) | ||||
| Patients' Payments | 2,243 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| Other | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Net cost | £3,993 | £3 | 19 | 7 | |
* Includes £750 expenditure on extension of hospital charged to revenue
account.
District Midwifery Service.
During 1930 there were 112 cases † attended in their own homes
by the District Midwife as compared with 124 in the previous year, a
decrease of 12 cases.
Particulars relating to this Service during the year are set out below :—
| Total number of cases attended in the district | 112 |
| Average number of visits to each case | 18 |
| Number of cases delivered by:— | |
| 110 | |
| (b) Doctors | 2 |
† Early in 1931 this service showed evidence of rapid increase, probably
due to the closing of the district service conducted at St. John's House,
Albert Bridge Road, the Out-Patients' Branch of the Clapham Maternity
Hospital.