CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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68. The income and expenditure are contrasted with those of the previous
year in the following table :—
1899.
1900.
Rs.
A. P.
Rs.
A. P.
1. Net cost of all the hospitals to
Government
...
...
7,86,033 13 3
7,60,687 6 8
2. Receipts from local and municipal
funds, interest, subscriptions,
&c. ...
...
...
2,11,135 8 6
2,27,279 6 9
3. Cost of establishment, up-keep,
&c.
...
...
. . .
9,93,230 1 10
9,80,158 10 1
4. Invested during the year
. . .
......
4,472 15 9
The total cost to Government shows a reduction of Rs. 25,346-6-7 as
compared with that of the previous year. The decrease was mainly due to
less expenditure on new buildings at the Presidency General Hospital.
69. Receipts from paying patients increased by Rs. 7,487-15-10, the figures
having been Rs. 63,346-11-6 against Rs. 55,858-11-8 in the previous year. The
increase was chiefly due to the higher rate charged for private rooms throughout
the year at the Presidency General Hospital, where the admission of patients
of this class was also larger than in the previous year. The income under the
head of local funds shows an increase of Rs. 7,446-0-7. The receipts from
Ports Dues Fund were less by Rs. 9,843, owing to the admission of fewer
seamen in the Medical College and Presidency General Hospitals, but the pay
- m e n t s m a d e b y t h e L a d i e s ' C o m m i t t e e o f t h e H o s p i t a l N u r s e s ' I n s t i t u t i o n , w h i c h
are included under the head of local funds, were greater by Rs. 16,462-12-10
than in the previous year. The increase is nominal, as the figures for
1899 were, by mistake, shown less by the Honorary Treasurer of that
institution. The amount received from municipal funds was Rs. 48,424-2-4
against Rs. 45,000 in 1899, the increase being chiefly due to the inclusion in the
returns of the income of the Kidderpore Municipal Dispensary. The interest on
invested capital varied but little, the figures having been Rs, 25,855-8-7
against Rs. 25,935-6-3 in 1899. Subscriptions from Europeans show a small
increase, viz., Rs. 203-15-3. The amount paid by natives, on the other hand,
show a fall of Rs. 2,401-8, the figures having been Rs. 1,602-0 against
Rs. 4,003-8 in 1899. The figures for the latter year included a special
donation of Rs. 2,500. The small amount paid by the native inhabitants
of Calcutta and Howrah has formed the subject of anxious consideration
during the past year, but up to the present date inadequate proposals for
increasing it have been made. What is required is not large donations so much
as small but regular contributions from all classes. The difficulty seems to be
in providing the agency by which this may be done. It is presumably a
matter for leading Native philanthropists to take up and settle for themselves.
It is not worthy of, the capital of India that the average contributions of its
native citizens, excluding donations during the years 1882 to 1899, should have
been only Rs. 2,098, and, including the figures for 1900, Rs. 2,067. Miscel
- l a n e o u s r e c e i p t s a m o u n t e d t o R s . 2 , 7 7 1 - 2 - 1 a g a i n s t R s . 2 , 7 0 8 - 0 - 2 i n 1 8 9 9 .
70. The usual table showing the proportion of Government contribution
towards the
expenditure
of the differ
-ent institu
-tions is
given in
the margin.
1899. 1900.
1899. 1900.
Medical College Hospital
Campbell Hospital
... 58.96 57.13
Proper
... 86.06 83.32 Police " ... 99.78 99.80
Eden Hospital... 68 66 66 83 Mayo Institutions
... 61.20 64.14
Ezra " ... 88.63 82.74 Howrah General Hospital ... 20.54 17.80
E y e " . . .
98.08 95.42 Dufferin Victoria Hospital ... 6.14 6.76
Chuni Lal Seal's Dispensary 58.35 51.97 Sambhu Nath Pandit Hos -
pital, Bhawanipar
... 65.48 67.80
Presidency General Hospital 87.95 86.37
The variations in the percentages do not call for special comment.
71. Medical College Hospital Proper. —The total expenaiture was
Rs. 16,386-2-11 more than in the previous year, owing chiefly to improvements
in the operation theatre of the hospital.
The amount received from paying patients shows a decrease of Rs. 623-4-0,
due to the conversion of a room for patients of this class into an officers' duty
room. Receipts from Port Dues Fund also fell off by Rs. 298, owing to the
admission of fewer seamen. The payments made by the Ladies' Committee
of the Hospital Nurses' Institution amounted to Rs. 12,625 against Rs. 5,611-13-9
in 1899. The increase is said to be nominal, as the figures for 1899 were shown
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