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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 DISTRICT.Statement in connection with the Accounts of the Managers for the Half-year ended at Lady-Day, 1897.

POPLAR AND STEPNEY SICK ASYLUM DISTRICT.

Statement in connection with the Accounts of the Managers for the Half-year ended at Lady-Day, 1897.

STATISTICAL.FINANCIALper dayper week
Cost of Maintenance per head011 5/10068 5/10
The Asylum is certified to accommodate 770 Patients.Note.— 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 756 28th January, 1897.Cost of Clothing00 5/10004
12th February, 1897.
The lowest number in the Asylum at any one time was 625 4th October, 1896.Total Cost of Maintenance10070 5/10
Salaries and Rations of Officers09053 2/10
The average number of Patients in the Asylum during the Half-Year was 713 85/175Establishment Charges08 4/100410 9/10
Gross Cost per head25 4/100172 6/10
The average number of days residence of each Patient 51 1339/2421.The Total Ordinary Expenditure during the Half-year was £18591 8s. 10d.211 7/101010 2/10
Number of Admissions1800Cost of Food alone included in the above item per head (£188 19s. 4d )08048 4/10
,, Discharges1423
,, Deaths323Cost of Wines, Spirits and Beer included in the above items of Food (£126 17s. 6d.00 3/10001 7/10
Average Death Rate per cent, in comparison with the number of admissions17 1700/1800Repayments from the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund:
Poplar Union£489351
Stepney Union20361110
Number of Days Maintenance124810£69261611
Number of Officers and Servants, on 27th March, 1897:Cost of Maintenance as above per head per week70 5/10
Allowed by Metropolitan Common Poor Fund0211
Resident92Allowed by London County Council024
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Non-Resident78Net Cost to Unions per head per week for Maintenance19 5/10
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.