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REPORT ON THE
Treasurer's Statement of Account for the year 1878.
Rs. A. P.
Rs. A. P.
Balance in Bank, January 1878
726 14 0 Salaries and rations, General Hospital
12,162 4 3
ash with Treasurer
8 0 0
Ditto ditto,
Medical College
10,197 2 2
Government grant-in-aid
8,400 0 0 Chuprassees' wages
106 0 0
Subscriptions and donations
11,009 0 0 Sundries
214 15 2
Donation for aiding Canning nurses re-
ceived from Mrs. Nicholson
20 0 0
Offertory from the Cathedral 702 6 9
Ditto from St. John's Church 275 15 9
Ditto from St. Peter's Church 81 14 0
Ditto from Barrackpore
26 0 0
Ditto from Hazaribagh
12 12 0
1,099 0 6
Interest on investments
720 0 0
Fines
56 0 0
Out-nursing
299 0 0
Miscellaneous receipts
54 9 0
Total
22,392 7 6
Balance overdrawn
287 14 1
Grand Total
22,680 5 7
Total
22,680 5 7
The following paper relative to the Lady Canning Home may be interesting :—
LADY CANNING HOME.
Rules under which Out-nurses are supplied to Subscribers and others.
I.—Applications for out-nurses should be made to the Lady Superintendent of the Lady
Canning Home. Every such application should state, as far as possible, the nature of the
case requiring attendance. Applications from subscribers or donors to the funds of the
Home will be complied with before those of strangers.
II.—The daily charge for the services of each nurse varies from Rs. 3 to Rs. 5,
a c c o r d - i n g t o t h e c i r c u m s t a n c e s o f t h e c a s e . T h e L a d i e s ' S u b - C o m m i t t e e w i l l d e t e r m i n e t h e r a t e
of charge in each instance.
III.—Employers are also required to pay all travelling expenses, and provide the nurses
with food and washing during the currency of their engagement. When a nurse is required
to attend a case outside Calcutta, the amount of her travelling expenses from the home to the
residence of the patient must be remitted in advance to the Lady Superintendent along with
the application for the nurse's services.
IV.—A nurse's engagement is held to run from the date of her deputation from the
Home, and to terminate on the day of her return to it, the journey being supposed to be made
direct and by the nearest ordinary route. Employers are therefore requested to intimate
to the Lady Superintendent, by the earliest possible opportunity, the fact of the nurse's
discharge and departure for the Home.
V.—When a nurse's services are no longer required, the sum due under Rules II and
IV above should be remitted direct and without delay to the Lady Superintendent. If in
any case the nurse is retained for a prolonged period, payments should be made monthly
in the same way.
VI.—Employers are requested to fill up and return to the Lady Superintendent the
form of certificate, which will be sent them in each case, giving particulars of the manner
in which each nurse has performed her duties. It is desirable that the countersignature of
the medical attendant should be obtained to this certificate.
VII.—Employers are expected to treat the nurses with consideration, and specially to
see that they each have a reasonable amount of' rest, so far as the circumstances of the case
will admit. At least six hours out of the twenty-four should ordinarly be secured to them.
The nurses should also receive their meals regularly. They are not entitled to receive beer,
wine, or spirits, which are not allowed them in the Home. But when, on account of exces
-sive fatigue or other special cause, some stimulant seems called for, it is open to the employer
to give this in strict moderation.
VIII.—Nurses are not permitted to accept any gratuity in money. If in any case
employers are anxious to recognise specially the service of the nurses, they can best do so by
Contributing to the Hospital Nurses' Benefit Fund, the object of which is to assist the nurses
of the Home when incapacitated for work by sickness or old age. Remittances on account
of this fund will be thankfully received by the Honorary Treasurer of the Ladies' Sub-
Committee.
J . A . W I L S O N ,
3, Camac Street, Calcutta.
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