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The sum of £161 0s. 0d. was received during
the year for patients admitted to the Hospital from
other districts.
The above total gives an expenditure per patient
of £9 17s. 0d., but deducting the disinfecting and
stabling which are distinct from the Hospital, the
average would be £9 8s. 0d. There might be a
further small sum deducted from capital and interest
account for buildings, for disinfecting and stabling,
but I have not thought it necessary to do so. The
cost of each patient in the Hospitals of the Asylums
Board was £10 13s. 5d., the number of cases admitted
into the eight Hospitals was 8,958. which gives an
average of 1,120 patients to each Hospital, or rather
more than three times as many as we had.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Our staff consisted of medical superintendent,
matron, three charge nurses, three night nurses,
three probationers, one seamstress, ten subordinate
staff, steward, porter, who also had charge of the
boiler and disinfecting apparatus, and his wife,
coachman and wife, and three laundry staff, a total
of 30, but I feel that the number of nurses has at
times been insufficient, and that for the future we
ought to have a fourth trained nurse and an advanced
probationer, or assistant nurse, who could
temporarily take on the duties when any of the
charge nurses are ill, or absent on leave, or when a