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Poplar 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]

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Table: POPLAR AND STEPNEY SICK ASYLUM DISTRICTStatement in connection with the Accounts of the Managers for the Half-year ended at Michaelmas,1896.

POPLAR AND STEPNEY SICK ASYLUM DISTRICT

Statement in connection with the Accounts of the Managers for the Half-year ended at Michaelmas,1896.

STATISTICAL.FINANCIAL.per dayper week
Cost of Maintenance per head010 2/100511 1/10
The Asylum is certified to accommodate 770 PatientsNote.—Maintenance includes Food and the expenses in warming and lighting, together with the cleansing of the Asylum, but no labour is included.
The highest number in the Asylum at any one time was 764 15th April, 1896.Cost of Clothing00 9/10006
The lowest number in the Asylum at any one time was 605 30th August, 1896.Total Cost of Maintenance011 1/10065 1/10
Salaries and Rations of Officers08 9/10052 3/10
The average number of Patients in the Asylum during the Half-Year was 682½ 3/8 7/9 .Establishment Charges08 5/100411
Gross Cost per head24 5/100166 4/10
The average number of days residence of each Patient 49 2/2 0/5 7/9 6/1.The Total Ordinary Expenditure during the Half-year was £16519 1s, 2d.26 7/1001711
Number of Admissions1856
Cost of Food alone included in the above item per head08 2/10049 3/10
„ Discharges1711
„ Deaths259Cost of Wines, Spirits and Beer included in the above items of Food00 6/10004 1/10
Average Death Rate per cent, in comparison with the number of admissions13 1/1 7/8 7/5 2/0Repayments from the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund:
Poplar Union£519351
Stepney Union206012
Number of Days Maintenance129035£725363
Cost of Maintenance as above per head per week65 1/10
Number of Officers and Servants, on 3rd October, 1896:Allowed by Metropolitan Common Poor Fund0211
Allowed by London County Council024
Resident9053
Non-Resident80Net Cost to Unions per head per week for Maintenance12 1/10
170Note.—The Metropolitan Common Poor Fund contributes 5d. per head per day, and the London County Council 4d. per head per day towards the cost of Maintenance.