Annual report : 1943 / Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby.

  • Hospital of St. Cross (Rugby, England)
Date:
1943
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Credit: Annual report : 1943 / Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS, RUGBY FOUNDED 1884. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT FOR THE YEAR 1943. The Board of Management have the honour to submit for approval by the Governors their Annual Report and audited statement of accounts for the year 1943. Work of the Year. This report indicates that considerably more work has been done during the past year than in 1941, when the number of patients treated was the highest ever recorded. In addition to providing services for a greatly enlarged civilian population, the Hospital has continued to deal with a considerable volume of work in all departments on behalf of the Emergency Medical Services of the Ministry of Health. The work of the year is briefly summarised below with comparative figures for the two previous years. In-Patients. 1943 1942 1941 In Hospital on 1st January .... 121 111 146 Admitted during the year 2571 2173 2433 In Hospital on 31st December 144 121 111 Number treated to a conclusion 2548 2163 2468 Average number resident daily 141.3 119.9 132.3 Average number of days resident ... 20.3 20.2 21.1 Number of major operations.. 1218 1046 1034 Number of deaths 107 113 143 Out-Patients. Number of new patients 2807 3538 3583 Number of Casualties 2562 3359 3123 Attendances (Out-patients and Casualties) ... 13516 16923 — Attendances Massage Department .... 6761 7392 — Attendances X-Ray Department 2865 2801 — Total Attendances 23142 27116 — Number of Minor Operations 802 879 856 Fractures treated—In-patients 233 209 211 Fractures treated—Out-patients — — 470 Pathological Examinations—Hospital 13294 7568 4459 Private 1484 724 441 Financial Position. The Board of Management consider the financial position of the Hospital in the fifth year of War to be satisfactory but wish to sound a note of caution as to the outlook for the post-war period. The total expenditure in 1943 was £39,908, compared with £40,054 in 1942. Decreased expenditure under the headings Surgery and Dispensary, Domestic, Miscellaneous, Administration and Establishment were offset by increases in the cost of Provisions and Salaries and Wages. These increases .can be explained by the fact that the average number of patients receiving treatment was nearly 20% more than in the previous year and in addition to the number of staff employed being increased, the effect of adopting the Rushcliffe Report, which made substantial increases in the Nursing Staff salaries, together with other increases based on official recommendations, made additional expenditure inevitable. i