CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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remained at the end of the year an invested capital of Rs. 38,000.
The income of the institution from private sources amounted to Rs. 28,855,
of which Rs. 8,427 were paid by the Port Trust for diet of sick sea-
men ; Rs. 2,400 by the municipality ; Rs. 1,492 were obtained as interest on
invested funds ; Rs. 4,976 from the sale of a Government security ; Rs. 11,496
were received as subcriptions from Europeans, and Rs. 64 from natives. Total
income from these sources in the two preceding years was Rs. 21,464 and
Rs. 21,292. Government contributed Rs. 4,745 against Rs. 4,669 in 1885,
which consisted of the following items, viz., salaries, registers and forms,
Europe medicines, diet of police cases, and special allowances. The total
expenditure amounted to Rs. 33,883 against Rs. 24,143 in 1885. Building
charges in 1886 were Rs. 9,769 against Rs. 857 in the previous year.
The increase of Rs. 8,912 was due, it is said, to the quadrennial repairs to,
and structural alterations in, the hospital building. Deducting the cost of
buildings and repairs, the actual amount spent on sick was Rs. 24,114 against
Rs. 23,286 in 1885.
72.
The expenditure on establishment was Rs. 11,382 against Rs. 11,598
in 1885. Bazar medicines cost Rs. 694 against Rs. 675 in the previous year,
showing an increase of Rs. 19. The increase was due, it is said, to the larger
daily average number of in-door patients treated. The expenditure on Europe
medicines, as compared with 1885, shows a decrease of Rs. 427. Dieting
articles cost Rs. 6,863 against Rs. 6,249 in 1885, showing an increase of Rs. 614.
The increase is said to have been due to the larger number of European
in-patients treated. The average cost of each diet among Europeans was 7 annas
2 pie, and among natives 2 annas, against 7 annas 11 pie and 2 annas 1 pie
in 1885 respectively. The expenditure on miscellaneous items was Rs. 4,221,
or in excess of that of the previous year by Rs. 839. The increase is said to
have been due to the larger expenditure on ice, earthenware, jhamps, purdahs,
furniture, &c. At the end of the year there remained a cash balance of
Rs. 1,771.
73. Lock hospitals.—These hospitals are entirely supported by Govern-
ment. Rupees 48 were obtained from the rent of a godown in the Sealdah
Lock-hospital and Rs. 6 from the sale of condemned articles. The total
expenditure of the hospitals was Rs. 21,871 against Rs. 17,552 in 1885.
74. The cost of establishment was Rs. 10,144 against Rs. 10,039 in the
previous year, showing an increase of Rs. 105. The increase was due, it is
said, to less fines in 1886 and to a larger daily average number of patients
treated in the Alipore Lock Hospital in 1886. Bazar medicines cost Rs. 54
against Rs. 45 in 1885. The increase is explained to have been due to a larger
number of patients treated in 1886 than in 1885. The cost of Europe medi-
cines shows a decrease of Rs. 208, the amount being Rs. 151 against Rs. 359
in 1885. The expenditure on diet was Rs. 5,918, or in excess of that of the
previous year by Rs. 455. The increase was due, it is said, to a larger daily
average number of native patients treated in 1886 than in 1885. The
average cost of each diet among Europeans was 6 annas 3 pie, and among
natives 2 annas 4 pie, against 6 annas 1 pie and 2 annas 4 pie, respectively,
in 1885. Miscellaneous charges amounted to Rs. 1,264 against Rs. 1,133
in 1885, showing an increase of Rs 131, which is said to have been
due to the payment by the hospitals of municipal taxes of the Sealdah
Lock Hospital, which were hitherto paid by the Public Works Department,
and to the payment of increased charge for burying dead bodies, &c.
Building charges in 1886 amounted to Rs. 4,340 against Rs. 513 in 1885,
showing an increase of Rs. 3,827, which is explained to have been due
to protecting the hospital buildings from the Tolly’s canal, whose banks
gave way during the rains, to the kutcha ward, and servants’ houses of
the Alipore Lock-hospital having had to be almost rebuilt, to repairs to
the floors of the wards and the latrines of the hospitals, and to exten-
sive petty repairs to the roof of the Sealdah Lock Hospital. Excluding the
charges for buildings and repairs from the total expenditure, the cost of
treating patients in these hospitals amounted to Rs. 17,531 against Rs. 17,039
in 1885.