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122
£ £
(d) General Items:—
(16) Staff—
3 Health Nurses, £255—£345 765
Uniform 24
2 Junior Clerks 150
939
(17) Cleaning Assistance—
330 hours per week at 11d. per hour 787
787
(18) Rates, Taxes, Heating, Lighting and Cleaning, including electricity,
coal, gas, coke, replacements, window cleaning, etc. 1,200
1,200
(19) Superannuation and State Insurance 360
360
(20) Miscellaneous—
Investigations 16
Travelling Expenses 20
Printing, Stationery and Postage 100
Dried Milk 140
Virol 40
Apparatus—Inspection and replacements 16
Conveyance of children 5
Hospital Treatment (Tonsils and Adenoids and Marasmus) 230
Other Sundries 400
10,400
Less: Saving of 2/5ths of present costs of dentures 535
Income—Dental fees 70
605
Total additional annual maintenance costs excluding loan charges 9,795
Add: Loan Charges—
*Equipment, £5,000 at 4 per cent. 10 years 611
Land £1,480 at 4 per cent. 30 years 85
Building £52,500 at 4 per cent. 30 years 3,021
Total additional annual maintenance costs including loan charges 13,512
†Less: Grant M.C.W.—25 per cent. on two-thirds of costs 2,252
S.M.S.—50 per cent. on one-third of costs 2,252
4,504
Total Net additional annual maintenance costs including loan charges, less Grant £9,008
† Note.—The amount of Grant payable particularly in respect of Maternity and Child
Welfare is somewhat problematical.
* Additional Equipment—Provisional Estimate £5,000.
This estimate has not been worked out in detail.
The equipment for Health Centre (3) cost £1,600 in 1930. Health Centre (2) is four times
the size of Health Centre (3).
The estimate of £5,000 includes unit dental equipment for three Dentists at £200 per Dentist,
equipment of X-ray Room and X-ray Dark Room, £1,200—leaving £3,200 for general equipment,
the equipment of the additional rooms, and the special equipment for the Squint Clinic, Skin
Surgery and Dental Mechanic's Room.
There is some equipment in the present Health Centre (2) which will be transferred.
Existing Health Centre (2)—This will remain as an asset to the Council.
GEORGE F. BUCHAN,
Medical Officer of Health.