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Remaining in Hospital on 31st December, 1911 .... 4
Total number of days treatment during the year .... 942
Average number of days treatment for each case .... 16*82
Average daily number of patients in Hospital .... 2*58
Average daily cost of maintenance per patient - - -2s. 1*75d.
Average total cost of maintenance per patient £1 16s. 1*1$.
The total number of patients admitted to the Hospital during the year was 56.
Of these the largest number were cases of Enteric Fever, numbering 22.
Of the total number of patients admitted, all recovered with the exception of
four—there being one death from Enteric Fever, one from Scarlet Fever, one from
Small-pox, and one from Diphtheria.
The total number of days treatment was 942, the average number of days
treatment for each case being 16*82, whilst the average daily number of patients
in Hospital was 2*58.
The average daily cost of maintenance per patient will be seen to amount to
2s. 1 %d. per head.
The exterior of all the buildings has been painted, and two boilers heated by gas
provided in the laundry.
The boiler of the disinfecting apparatus was examined in December, and it was
found that the boiler tubes were wasted and required replacing. The work was
carried out at a cost of 17/. 10s.

POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.
At the Gravesend Police Court on the 21st July, 1911, William John Page, Master
of the s.s. " Ayrshire," was summoned for a breach of the Regulations of the Local
Government Board relating to Cholera, Yellow Fever and Plague. The vessel arrived
on June 27th, and in answer to questions put by an Officer of H.M. Customs, and also
subsequently by an Assistant Medical Officer of this Authority, the Master stated that
all were well on board, and that there had been no sickness during the voyage. It was
subsequently found that there was a man on board who had been suffering for several
days with symptoms of Enteric Fever, and he had to be removed to the Port Sanitary
Hospital at Denton.