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MENTAL HOSPITALS DEPARTMENT— continued.

ofZoris. Item - 1931-32. VOTE No. 23.—MENTAL HOSPITALS 1931-32. | DEPARTMENT —continued. £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 5 Buildings, improvements, repairs, and replacements 6,000 6 Compassionate allowance to widow of late Dr. H. E. Jeffreys, Medical Superintendent, Nelson Mental Hospital ... ••• 502 7 Compensation to Nurse C. Ross on account of accident on duty ... 82 8 Dental services ... ••• ••• 300 9 Farms, maintenance of (part recoverable) ... 10,000 10 Fencing, draining, and roading ... ... 900 11 Freight, cartage, and transport charges ... ... 1,700 12 Fuel, light, power, water, and cleaning ... ... 28,000 13 Funerals, expenses of ... ... • 450 14 Furniture and furnishings ... ... ... 2,500 15 Gardens and shrubberies, expenses of ... ... 300 16 Laundry ... 3,400 17 Legal and inquiry costs ... ... 25 18 Machinery, repairs, and stores .. ... 900 19 Medical fees for certificates and consultations (part recoverable) ... ... ••• 2,300 20 Motor-vehicles, maintenance of ... ... 1,000 21 Motor-vehicles, purchase of ... 950 22 Nursing staff: Uniforms, purchase of ... ... 1,600 23 Office equipment .. ... 90 Patients, expenses connected with — 24 Gratuities ... ••• ••• 550 25 " Patients'Friends" ... ... ••• 90 26 Recreation ... • • • • • • 7,500 27 Transfer ... ... 200 28 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 1,000 29 Printing and stationery ... ... ... 1,000 30 Rations ... ••• 80,000 31 Rents and rates ... ... ... 1,740 32 Sockburn Railway-crossing accident — Compensation to— Widow of Engine - driver £ C. W. Smith (deceased) 1,300 Less ex gratia payment by State Fire Office ... 650 £ 650 Mother of Chaffeur R. A. Smith (deceased) ... ... ... 151 Mother of Matron I. D. Brand (deceased) ... ... ... 75 Compassionate allowances to relatives of Nurses Benfell, Palmer, and Cameron (deceased) ... ... 150 1,026 Less amount charged to vote — Working Railways ... ... 513 513 33 Stores ... ••• ••• 4,000 Surgery and dispensary— 34 Drugs and instruments ... ... ... 2,000 35 Wine, spirits, ale, and porter ... ... 50 36 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 800 37 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 200 38 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 1,250 Treatment and maintenance in general hospitals — 39 Patients ... ••• 400 40 Staff ... ... ••• 300