[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For the financial year, ending March 31st, 1899, the cost of the hospitals was :— L C INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL. Matron and Porter 112 Nurses and their Expenses 99 Provisions for Inmates, Staff, etc 3^6 Domestic Servant and Laundress 57 Gas, Coal, Water, Rates and Taxes 151 Alterations and Repairs 95 Gardening 72 Medicine and Medical Appliances 19 Advertising, Printing, etc 9 Sheets, etc 15 Washing and Wringing Machines, Linoleum, etc 30 Disinfectants, Matron’s and Nurses’ Uniforms, Cleaning Materials and Sundry Expenses 102 1.147 Less Receipts from Inmates 98 1,049 Interest and Sinking Fund 316 1,365 OLD SANATORIUM. Rent of Site 6 Gas, Coke, Coal and Water 11 Nurses : i — 18 1,383 During the financial year, April ist, 1898, to March 31st, 1899, the average stay in the hospital of the 165 patients was 32‘37 or 5,342 days, bu two persons who were not patients were in nine days. Not including in the cost of the hospital the interest and sink- ing fund, the cost per week per patient was £\ los. o'ld., or os. 5d. per year. Deducting the amount received from patients, and including interest and sinking fund, the actual cost to the rate- payers of each patient averaged £\ 15s. 8'5d. per week, as compared with £\ 3s. 6d. in the financial year 1897-8. In this cost, the cost of disinfecting articles sent from the Borough to be disinfected is included.