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Battersea 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Maternity Hospital, 1938—9.
Total beds (excluding cots, labour and isolation beds), 30 :
total cases admitted and discharged during year, 377 ; average
number of beds occupied during such period, excluding cots, labour
and isolation beds, 17.1 ; number of weeks spent in Institution
by patients admitted and discharged during year, 758.9.
A statement* showing expenditure for the year ended 31st March, 1939, in respect of the Maternity Hospital is given below.
| Item. | Total. | Per patient-week. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Salaries - | Medical | 666 | 0 | 17 | 4 |
| Nursing | 885 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| Domestic and other | 819 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Superannuation (Council's contribution) | 84 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Fees to nursing homes re closing of hospital | 278 | 0 | 7 | 3 | |
| Provisions | 686 | 0 | 17 | 10 | |
| Drugs and other medical requisites | 111 | 0 | 2 | 11 | |
| Fuel, lighting and water | 371 | 0 | 9 | 8 | |
| Laundry | 297 | 0 | 7 | 9 | |
| Repairs and Domestic | 140 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| renewals Structural | 383 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| Miscellaneous items— | |||||
| Telephones, stationery, etc., and sundries | 169 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| Totals, excluding rates, insurance and loan charges | 4,889 | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Rates and insurance | 81 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| Loan charges | 969 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |
| Gross cost | 5,939 | 7 | 14 | 9 | |
| Income | Pupil Midwives (including training grant) | 175 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Patients' payments | 1,942 | 2 | 10 | 7 | |
| Other | 71 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |
| Net cost | £3,751 | £4 | 17 | 9 | |
* This statement does not take into account the Government Grant.
Southwark Diocesan Homes.
The Council make a grant of £150 per annum towards the cost
of maintaining before, during and after confinement unmarried
mothers and their children resident in the district, in St. Mary's