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increase under bazar medicines, diet, and miscellaneous. The cost of diet and
stimulants rose from Rs. 24,163 to Rs. 26,423, the increase being due to the
larger number of patients treated in 1882. The average cost of each diet was
7 annas 7 pies against 7 annas 9 pies in 1881. The expenditure on buildings
amounted to Rs. 10,122, including a sum of Rs. 6,317 spent on quadrennial
repairs to the hospital.
20. The total receipts of the Campbell Hospital amounted to Rs. 31,443,
including the donation of Rs. 30,000 from the Calcutta Municipality. The
total expenditure was Rs. 78,498, against Rs. 1,02,773 in the previous year.
In 1881, however, there was exceptionally heavy expenditure on buildings.
The amount spent on the ordinary requirements of the hospital in 1882 was
Rs. 58,404 against Rs. 53,299 in 1881. The cost of establishment was
Rs. 24,697, shewing an increase of Rs. 684, which is not fully explained. The
outlay on diet and stimulants amounted to Rs. 17,530 against Rs. 20,281.
This fall is due partly to the reduction in the number of patients treated, and
partly to the greater cheapness of the year under review, the cost of each diet
having been reduced from 2 annas 4 pies to 2 annas 2 pies. The expenditure
under the head of "Miscellaneous" was Rs. 12,245 against Rs. 4,224. This
large increase, amounting to Rs. 8,021, is not sufficiently explained.
21. The total expenditure at the Police Hospital was Rs. 16,124,
being almost exactly the same as in the previous year. One-sixth of this
amount was borne by Government, the remainder being contributed by the
Calcutta and Suburban Municipalities. The cost of dieting fell from Rs. 5,435
in 1881 to Rs. 4,449 in the year under review, and the average cost of each
diet was 2 annas 4 pies against 2 annas 6 pies. None of the other items of
expenditure call for remark.
22. The invested funds of the Mayo Hospital were increased by Rs. 5,000
during the year. In the Resolution of last year, it was stated that, in view
of the large sums invested from annual income, the question of revising the
Government grants would be considered in the Financial Department. A
report on this subject has since been received from the Governors of the Mayo
Hospital, and is now under the consideration of Government. The matter
will be separately dealt with. The total expenditure of the hospital
and its associated dispensaries amounted to Rs. 58,281, including the outlay
on buildings, against Rs. 59,413 in 1881. Of this amount Government
contributed Rs 37,366, or 64 per cent. of the whole. The expenditure on
establishment was Rs. 31,455, or Rs. 250 in excess of that of 1881. There was
a small reduction under the heads of bazar medicines and diet, and a large
one under that of Europe medicines and miscellaneous. The Lieutenant
Governor regrets that he is again compelled to notice the high cost of dieting
patients in this hospital, which amounted to 3 annas 2 pies, the same as in 1881.
Not only is this rate much higher than in any other of the Calcutta Hospitals,
but it shews no reduction on the figure of the previous year, although prices
were decidedly lower in 1882 than in 1881. Attention was drawn to this
point in the Resolution recorded last year.
23. The income of the Howrah Hospital from private sources amounted
to Rs. 22,885, of which Rs. 6,904 was paid by the Port Fund for diet of sick
seamen, Rs. 2,400 contributed by the municipality, Rs. 1,446 represented
interest on investments, and Rs. 12,129 payments by the East Indian Railway
Company, British India Steam Navigation Company and others. It is not
encouraging to notice that native subscriptions to this important charity
amounted to Rs. 6 only. Government contributed Rs. 5,168 in cash, and part
of the salary of the Assistant Surgeon. The total expenditure amounted to
Rs. 23,634 against Rs. 28,032 in 1881. Deducting building charges, it appears
that the actual amount spent on the sick was Rs. 22,723. The average cost of
each diet among Europeans was 9 annas against 9 annas and 2 pies, and among
natives it was 1 anna 10 pies against 1 anna and 7 pies in 1882. The per--
centage of total cost borne by Government was 21.8.
24. The Surgeon-General bears grateful testimony to the value of the
reforms effected in the work of the nurses in the Medical College and General
Hospitals by the ladies of the Clewer Sisterhood. Early in 1882, under
arrangements made by the Committee of the Nurses' Institution, the control of
the nursing arrangements passed into the hands of these ladies; and from the