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Hospital Administration.
(b) for the services of a Health Visitor, twenty-five pounds
per annum.
(c) for the treatment in hospital or shelter of each approved
patient being an insured person or the dependent of an insured
person under the National Insurance Act, 1911, the sum of thirty
shillings per week to include all patients' cost of maintenance
treatment, nursing and food.
(d) for the like treatment of patients resident in the said
district who are neither insured nor dependent the sum of fifteen
shillings per week inclusive of all charges the balance of the cost of
treatment to be found by the District Council and the patients in
such proportions as they may respectively agree.
(e) for the like treatment of non-insured persons resident in
other parts of the Administrative County the sum of thirty shillings
per week inclusive of all charges.
The result of the Agreement will be that at the end of 20
years the Ward Block and Dispensary becomes the property of
this District Council, and that in case of need this Council can
acquire them at any time on terms which under the circumstances
seem reasonable.
The Tuberculosis Ward block and Dispensary are in course of
erection, and so soon as they are completed the little mortuary
adjacent will be converted into a bacteriological laboratory. A
small mortuary for infectious cases has recently been added to the
present public mortuary. The furnishing and equipment of the
new buildings will cost about £200, after allowing £50 for stock
in hand.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The deaths from Tuberculosis of the lungs for the last two
years are in excess of the average for the last ten years, but
this is probably due to the compulsory notification of the disease