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Revenue and Expendituee. Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d From Government ... ... 596 12 1 Rations ... ... ... 135 13 7 Local bodies ... ... ... 243 710 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... ... 13 9 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 15113 6 Surgery and dispensary ... ... 3115 11 Patients'payments ... ... 138 3 9 Fuel and light ... ... ... 28 7 0 Other sources ... ... ... 412 6 Bedding and clothing ... ... 20 11 3 Balance from last year ... ... 1160 Furniture, earthenware, and repairs 105 18 11 Salaries and wages ... ... 408 5 0 Water-supply ... ... ... 15 4 9 special ... ... 98 17 1 Funerals ... ... ... 28 0 0 Additions to buildings ... ... 30 0 0 Printing, advertising, postage, and stationery ... ... ... 618 9 Interest ... ... ... 12 0 Insurance and rent ... ... 21156 Commission ... ... ... 20 9 7 Other expenses... ... ... 7 4 0 Total ... ...£1,136 5 8. Total ... ... £973 12 10 I found this Hospital working well. The people of the district were satisfied that the grounds of my former strictures were removed. The patients were well cared for, and I heard no complaints. The wards, especially the new one, were in good order. A suitable scheme of drainage is very much needed. More attention must be paid to looking after the outside sanitary arrangements. Some of the blankets supplied are very inferior.

GISBORNE HOSPITAL. Number of patients on 31st March, 1898 ... ... ... 26 Admitted during the year ... ... ... ... 168 Total under treatment ... ... ... 194 Discharged ... ... ... ... ... ... 166 Died ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 Remaining on 31st March, 1899 ... ... ... ... 18 Sex. —135 males, 59 females. Localities from which Patients came. —Cook and Waiapu Counties, and Borough of Gisborne. Nationality. —British, 192 ; foreign, 2. Total collective days' stay in Hospital, 4,908; individual average days' stay, 25-30. Daily average cost per head, 4s. IOJd.; less patients' payments, 3s. 7d. Revenue and Expendituee. Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d From Government ... ... 340 0 0 Rations ... ... ... 237 3 5 Local bodies ... ... ... 340 0 0 Wines, spirits, ale, &c. ... 14 11 6 Subscriptions and donations ... 67 4 3 Surgery and dispensary ... 83 2 6 Rents ... ... ... 3110 0 Fuel and light ... ... 95 14 8 Patients' payments ... ... 310 13 0 Bedding and clothing ... ... 20 1 0 Interest ... ... ... 16 0 0 Furniture and earthenware ... 25 4 6 Balance from last year ... 203 19 4 Salaries and wages ... ... 604 6 8 Repairs ... ... ... 30 19 10 Printing, advertising, postage, ' and stationery ... ... 14 10 5 Interest ... ... ... 026 Insurance ... ... ... 17 8 9 Sanitation ... ... ... 20 0 0 Commission ... ... ... 17 0 3 Other expenses ... ... 13 14 9 Total ... ... £1,309 6 7 Total ... ... £1,194 0 9 This is a well-managed comfortable Hospital. At the date of my visit (which was short, and fell on a Sunday, owing to the exigencies of the steamer time) there was a large number of typhoid cases. One ward of nine beds was quite filled with them, and several were convalescent. They were most admirably nursed by Miss Stewart and her staff of one trained nurse and two probationers. In all there were thirteen cases of typhoid. An addition is to be built, to contain a new operation-room and certain conveniences. It ought also, in this town so difficult of access, to contain a padded room for eases of delirium tremens and lunatics under remand or awaiting removal, were it not that it would be highly inexpedient in such a position to expect the nurses and only one man-of-all-work to look after them. The police-station or its neighbourhood would be a better place for erecting suitable accommodation.