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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH—continued.

REMARKS. (ffij To cover living-out allowances payable to a number of the nursing staff at Services Convalescent Hospital, Rotorua, who are unable to be accommodated in the Nurses' Home. Allowances £95 per annum; 11 nurses living out at Ist April, 1943. (6) Provision for the recovery from Social Security Fund of salaries of officers engaged in work incidental to the administration of Part 111 of the Act. (c) Provision for recovery from Hospital Boards of the salaries paid to members of Civil Nursing Reserve during period they are employed by Boards. (cl) To cover the cost of medical examination of reservists not specifically provided for elsewhere—vide uniform allowance, £3,600; travelling-expenses, £1,000; administration, £750; and salaries £30,000. The salaries of reservists for periods during which they are employed by Hospital Boards are recoverable from the Boards. Iho full establishment contemplated is 100 trained nurses and 300 V.A.Ds. (e) Provision for the disbursement of grants 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. (/) Special grants to Hospital Boards in respect of the capital cost of providing hospital accommodation for tuberculosis cases, total cost of which (to the Department) is estimated to amount to £52,583. Expenditure last year less than anticipated owing to the necessity for Hospital Boards to proceed with taore urgent work. (g) To cover the cost of pamphlets, exhibits at agricultural and pastoral shows, and other appropriate places ; visual aids (films, &c.), to to be used for the purpose of health education and publicity. Expenditure last year not wholly brought to charge. (h) Provision for the payment to Auckland Hospital Board for hospital treatment afforded Charles A. Main, of Fiji. (i) Provision for expenses incidental to the administration of the Act comprising mainly fees of Board members. This item is in substitution for the amount previously provided for the Quackery Prevention Act, which was repealed in 1942. (j) Provision for the payment of bursaries at the rate of £70 per annum plus £40 per annum boarding-allowance where students are required to live away from home, subject to the Bursar entering into an undertaking that they will serve the State for the following periods— (1) Students who have enjoyed the full bursary plus boarding-allowance, a term of five years. (2) Students who have enjoyed the full bursary without boarding-allowance, a term of three years. (3) Students who take up the bursary after they have commenced the medical course and enjoy only a part of this term, a period proportioned according to the length of time they hold the bursary. (k) Increase occasioned by appointment of additional District Nurses and'high-costs of repairs to old cars. (/,) Expenditure not wholly brought to charge.

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