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RECEIPTS.
The amounts received from other Sanitary authorities
for patients taken at their requests were—Acton,
£257 17s. 0d.; Chiswick, £24 6s. 0d.; Wembley,
£57 3s. 0d.; total, £339 6s. 0d. This might have been
increased as patients had to be refused for want of space.
The sum of £1 0s. 6d. was received for the use of the
ambulance in conveying patients suffering from other
infectious diseases not admitted to the hospital, to
other places. The expenditure under Land, Interest,
&c., includes interest on loan for the purchase, in lieu
of rental, of the remaining portion of the hospital
ground, which now consists of 8 acres. The expenses
of the staff, provision and other general details remain
very nearly the same.
The average weekly cost for each patient during
the year was 5s. 2d., which was precisely the same as
last year, for the staff 8s. 2½d., which is rather less.
Including the 71 remaining in hospital at the
beginning of the year, the actual cost of the provisions
divided among the 558 patients comes to £2 12s. 8½d.
In 1897 it was £2 15s. 0d. In 1896 £3 5s. 0d.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
This has consisted for most of the year of
Medical Superintendent, Matron, Steward, four charge
nurses, (five for a portion of the time) two assistant