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¥EAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1943.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH— continued.

REMARKS. (a) Increase in non-permanent staff due to introduction of general medical services and pharmaceutical benefits under the Social Security Act, also relieving of permanent officers on military service. (b) Amount required to pay a living-out allowance to nurses at Rotprua Services Convalescent Hospital. No accommodation is available for the nurses to live in. (c) Overexpenditure last year due to cost of printing Social Security regulations and pamphlets. Amount so expended has been recovered. _ (d) Compensation payable to the Public Trustee for the benefit of Mrs. M. G. Scoles in respect of injuries received by her whilst a patient at St. Helens' Hospital, Auckland. (e) Fees and expenses of lecturers in course of training for dietitians (recoverable from examination fees). (f) Provision for the disbursement of grant made by the New Zealand Crippled Children's Society towards the cost of establishing travelling orthopaedic clinics at public hospitals. The society has allocated £1,000 towards the cost of these clinics. (n) Overexpenditure last year due to freight on materials for Whangarei Emergency Hospital being charged to this item. Approximately £130 is being recovered from War Expenses Account. (h) Additional provision required on account of expansion of Department owing to the introduction of general medical services and other benefits under the Social Security Act. (i) Special grants to Hospital Boards in respect of capital cost of providing hospital accommodation for tuberculosis cases, the total cost of which (to the Department) is estimated to amount to £44,430. Expenditure last year less than anticipated owing to the necessity for Hospital Boards to proceed with more urgent works. (j) The Department agreed to make a special grant for five years in easement of any additional contributions required from contributing local authorities of the old Thames Hospital District as a result of the amalgamation of the Thames-Coromandel-Waihi Hospital Districts. The grant involved payments as follows: 1938-39, £750; 1939-40, £600; 1940-41, £450; 1941 42, £300 ; 1942-43, £150. (k) To cover the cost of pamphlets, exhibits at Agricultural and Pastoral Shows and other appropriate places, visual aids (films, &c.) to be used for the purpose of health education and publicity. £1,500 commitments brought forward from last year. (I) Includes cost of alterations, &c, at District Offices and subdivision of Head Office in new State Fire Building. Also alterations, &c, to premises rented at Hamilton, Palmerston North, and Oamaru for departmental stores.

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