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£43,000, some account of which is given in another part of this
report, have been sanctioned by the Local Government Board :
"the provision of this additional accommodation" (for 168 additional
patients) "being necessary to meet the increasing requirements of the
district allotted to the Hospital." The Local Government Board,
moreover, have sanctioned plans for the extension of the administrative
buildings at the Northern Hospital, for Convalescent Fever and
Diphtheria patients, at an estimated cost of £8000. These plans make
provision of extra sleeping accommodation and bathrooms, additional
mess-rooms, and a general recreation room for nurses and servants,
"not only for present requirements, but also for any extra staff that may
be required for four additional pavilions, if, and when erected at the
Hospital."
Reference is made to the Ambulance Statistics, which are
more fully set out in the report of the Ambulance Committee, it being
stated that nearly 13,000 removals having been "effected without
a single casualty:" also to the enlargement of the Western Ambulance
Station, at a cost of about £3,500, a work which is now in
progress. The Managers, it is observed, consented, in January, to the
use of their Ambulances for the removal of Influenza patients, but
comparatively little use was made of them.
The Asylums Board have other important duties than those
connected with the removal and isolation of persons suffering from
infectious diseases, to wit, the care of imbeciles and idiots, and of
boys on the Training Ship Exmouth, many of whom, on discharge,
enter the Royal Navy, the Mercantile Marine, and the Army, as
musicians. The Chairman gives some account of the proceedings of
the Managers in this (exclusively poor-law) department of their
work, which does not call for detailed reference here.
Appendices are given shewing the various institutions and
establishments under the Board's control, with financial, statistical and
general information in regard thereto, and also a statement of receipts
and expenditure for the year, and of balances and liabilities of the
Board, on the 25th March, 1892,