Annual report : 1941 / Gertrude Myers Home.

  • Gertrude Myers Home (Evesham, England)
Date:
1941
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1941 / Gertrude Myers Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report, 1941. The Committee have pleasure in presenting their Twenty- ninth Annual Report for the year ended 31st December, 1941. During the year, 329 patients were admitted, which is an increase of 28 on the number admitted during 1940. The average stay of each patient was 14 days, and the average number resident daily in the Home was 12.6. The amount collected by the “ Friends of Cleeve League ” during the year was £53. 9s. 2d. This League provides the means for patients to help the Home by taking a collecting card and undertaking to collect a minimum of 1/- during each year. The greater number of patients are only too glad to show their appreciation of the Home by becoming members of the League. Since its inauguration in 1934, the sum of £227. 2s. nd. has been collected. The total Ordinary Expenditure during the year was £2,081. ns. 6d., and the total Ordinary Income was £2,033. 9s. 7d., which shows a deficit on the year's working of £48. is. nd. The average cost per patient per day was 9/8. The average cost per inmate per day for food only was 1/2-2. The amount received for the maintenance of patients during the year was £1,275. 9s. 9d. The Committee are glad to report a most successful year’s work. The number of patients received was a record, and’ the Home was becoming increasingly popular amongst the patients. In these difficult and trying times, they appreciated fully the benefits to be derived from a short stay in such comfortable and attractive surroundings, with every care and attention. The New Bathroom and Sanitary Block had added greatly to the efficient working of the Home. The outside painting was completed during the year, and the Home has never looked better than it did at the present time.