Annual report for the year 1956 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1957?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1956 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHARITIES. The new Charities Scheme, embodying the Ablett Fund and other charities previously administered separately but now administered by the Trustees under the title “ The North Wales Hospital Poor Mental Patients Fund,” has been operated for the benefit of indigent patients on discharge. With the change that has taken place in the social structure of the Country in recent years, and the improved social services provided to meet the needs of all, the Trustees have experienced some difficulty when making grants in satisfying themselves that the claims comply with the terms and conditions laid down by the Charity Commission in connection with the new Scheme. Up to the present time, annual income from investments exceeds pay¬ ments made bv way of grants. - j o FINANCES. A summary of Group expenditure and income during the year 1956-57 is given elsewhere in this report. The cost of maintaining the services for which the Committee are responsible continues to rise each year, and whilst some of the increase is accounted for by development and expansion, a considerable sum has been required to meet higher wages and commodity prices. As against the previous year’s expenditure of approximately £467,854, this year’s original allocation of £472,750 had, of necessity, to be increased in stages throughout the year to a figure of £514,824 as at 31st December, 1956, to which will be added in due course a further sum necessary to meet salaries and wages awards payable during the last three months of the financial year. The main headings for which additional allocations were made by the Regional Hospital Board during the year were:— Salaries and Wages (cost during 1956-57 of awards made 1/10/56— 31/12/56) . . Provisions—increased prices.. . Patients’ clothing... Fuel—increased prices . . Furniture and furnishing—restoration of cuts made in original allocation Cleaning and Chandlery—increased prices. Rates—increased valuations . . Other expenses . Development: Brynhyfryd Villa.. 2850 Oakwood Park... 4705 Comparative statements of cost per head per week for the year 1956-57 are not available at the time of preparation of this report, but taking the previous year’s comparative statement (in respect of the year 1955-56), it is noted that the cost per head per week at Denbigh of £5 9s. 5d. compares with an average of £5 12s. lid. in the mental hospitals in Wales. £20487 500 1000 1600 5500 1000 3432 1000