Report : 1929 / Middlesex Hospital.

  • Middlesex Hospital.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Report : 1929 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Out-Patient Department. This meant a loss of wards, for most of the time two, but as many as four were at one time out of commission. This is reflected in a bed occupancy of 298, and a total of In-Patients of 5607. And this inevitable loss of beds has, as inevitably, increased the cost per bed. There are savings in food, dressings, and the like when beds are closed, but all the more costly services must be maintained and their expense shared by the smaller number of beds. The comparative figures for 1928 and 1929 are £4 15s. Id. per wreek against £5 4s. 8d. The work in the Out-Patient Department, which has not been so much affected, has actually increased again, new cases numbering 54,400 as against 52,580. The year was one of the utmost financial difficulty. It was inevitable that the great Reconstruction Appeal should affect adversely the ordinary maintenance income, while at the same time we could not cloud the issue by making a separate appeal for running expenses. By Midsummer the last of our available securities was sold, whilst there wras an adverse difference between current expenditure and income at the rate of £16,000 per annum. Thanks to a special effort by our supporters a large sum was raised by the middle of the autumn, and, with some legacies falling in, we had a balance on the year of £5588. Income was up by £18,497, while Expenditure showed the satisfactory decrease of £3,645. But it must not be forgotten that all our free investments have been realised and that we axe living from day to day. Among the more notable benefactions of the year which w7e received were, in legacies :— £ s. d. Prom the Estate of the iato Miss F. A. Hormuth 7,500 0 0 >> >> 55 55 55 J. M. Johnstone, Esq.... 3,344 14 0 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 S. M. WOOd, Esq. 2,600 0 0 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 MrS. J. E. J. Welfol’d 1,750 0 0 55 55 55 55 55 5> Miss S. J. Bazalgatte ... 1,267 4 6 and in Donations :— Sir George Metcalfe (for the endowment of a bed) 1,050 0 0 Messrs. Bourne & Hollingsworth, Ltd. ... . 1,000 0 0 Bequest of the late A. Barron Bosher, Esq. 841 18 '9 The Lord Howard de Walden 600 0 0 The Bernhard Baron Charitable Trust . 600 0 0 “Anonymous” ... ... ... 500 0 0 Sir Edmund Davis ... ... . 500 0 0 “ In memoriam John Cory ” ... 500 0 0 Messrs. M. Samuel & Co., Ltd. 500 0 0