Annual report : 1947 / St. George's Hospital.

  • St. George's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1947
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Credit: Annual report : 1947 / St. George's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICAL TABLES. Statistics for Year to 31st December, 1947, compared with those of the previous year. I.—IN-PATIENTS. A. Number of Beds and In-Patients. Numbers in 1947. Numbers in previous year. (1) Beds (these figures are based on the daily count) :— (a) Complement at 31st December ... 474 468 (b) Average daily complement during the year (c) Average daily number closed during the year, owing to— 469 453-11 (i) Rebuilding or Extension Schemes — — (ii) Repairs, Redecoration, Cleaning or Infection 6-5 23-65 (iii) Other causes ... •5 — (d) Average daily number open during the year ... 462 429-46 (e) Average daily number occupied during the year 380-56 339-2 (2) Number of In-Patients in the Hospital at beginning of year 338 310 (3) Number of In-Patients admitted during year 7,599 6,741 (4) Number of In-Patients in the Hospital at the end of the year 361 338 (5) Average number of days each Patient was resident (Ascertained by dividing the total of daily counts, viz., 138,907 by the number of Patients treated to a conclusion, i.e., (2) -f (3) — (4).) (6) Number of Patients admitted and discharged during the year who were resident for— 18-33 18-44 (i) only 1 day . ... ... . 411 319 (ii) 2 and 3 days. . ... . 479 329 The above Statistics include 6 beds at St. Teresa’s Hospital to 30th June, 1946. B. Annual Expenditure on In-Patients apart from that on Out-Patients ; Average Cost of each In-Patient per week ; and Average Cost of each In-Patient. 1947. Previous year. * t * f Expenditure Average cost Average Average cost Average on of each total cost of each total cost In-Patients. In-Patient per week. of each In-Patient. In-Patient per week. of each In-Patient. (1) Provisions (including Board £ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. of Officials) 25,617 1 5 10 3 7 7 16 2 3 8 11 (2) Surgery and Dispensary 33,325 1 13 7 4 8 0 16 5 3 9 8 (3) Domestic . (4) Salaries and Wages 38,281 1 18 7 5 11 1 13 9 4 8 10 (Maintenance) 154,594 7 15 9 20 8 1 4 18 1 12 18 6 (5) Miscellaneous ... . 8,912 9 0 13 6 7 2 18 11 (6) Administration . 7,471 7 7 19 9 6 7 17 4 Statistical Cost . (7) Establishment: 268,200 13 10 4 35 8 0 9 18 2 26 2 2 Renewals and Repairs 10,059 10 2 16 7 7 5 19 7 (8) Finance . 8,542 8 7 12 7 7 7 19 10 . Total Cost . 286,801 £14 9 1 £37 17 2 £10 13 2 £28 1 7 * Average cost per week found by dividing the amounts of Expenditure shown against each heading and total by the average number of In-Patients resident daily (No. 1 (e) in A above) and dividing by the number of weeks in the year (viz., 62} or 62*), f Average Cost per In-Patient found by dividing the amounts of Expenditure shown against each heading and total by the number of In-Patients treated to a conclusion during the year (Nos. 2 + 3 — 4 in A above).