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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1944-45

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

(а) Provision for compensation and expenses payable to R. R. Williams, Porter, Queen Mary Hospital, on account of injuries sustained whilst on duty. (б) £13,000 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required for extra cars and replacements for District Health Nurses and Health Inspectors. (c) £1,000 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required for repetition of campaign held earlier in tho year. (</) £200 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required for the purchase of packing-materials required at departmental stores. v(e) £37,500 provided on main estimates. Additional supplies were available and distributed this season. (/) £148,000 provided on main estimates. Additional amount to meet adjustment in price paid to suppliers and to allow for non-school days. (g) Provision to covor expenses of persons in poor financial circumstances who are being examined for tuberculosis or are suspected of suffering from this disease travelling from their homes to centres where they can be examined. (h) £20,000 provided on main estimates. Provision for purchase of supplies of penicillin from Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Australia. (i) £1,169,000 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required as disclosed by complete survey of approved estimates furnished by Hospital Boards. (j) £125 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required to meet costs incurred in legal proceedings. (k) £700 provided on main estimates. To provide for treatment of additional cases.

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Salaries. j Other Charges. Total. VOTE—HEALTH— £ £ £ Gross TOTAL .. .. .. .. ■■ ■■ •• 165,350 165,350 CREDITS-IN-AID .. .. .. .. ■■ •• 19,025 19,025 NET TOTALS .. .. 146,325 146,325 For Services chargeable on the Consolidated Fund — £ £ £ continued ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT —continued VOTE—HEALTH Other Charges for and incidental to — General Administration — Compensation and expenses incurred in respect of injuries sustained by employees of Department .. {a) 73 Motor-cars, motor-cycles, &c., purchase of (additional) .. (b) 3,200 Nursing Recruitment Campaign expenses (additional) .. (c) 1,050 Stores and materials (additional) .. .. .. {d) '250 Supply of apples to school-children (additional) •. . (e) 1,500 Supply of milk to school-children (additional) .. ■ ■ (j) 20,000 Travelling concessions for tuberculosis patients and suspects (g) 500 26,573 Health Act — Sera, purchase of (additional), (recoverable) .. .. (A)18,900 Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act— Subsidies to Hospital Boards (additional) .. .. (i)100,000 Medical Practitioners Act — Expenses (part recoverable), (additional) .. .. (j) 100 Social Hygiene Act — Expenses (additional) .. .. ■ ■ • • (/«) 500 Treatment of indigent patients by medical practitioners (additional) .. .. .. • • • • (&) 300 800