(
6
)
39. The accounts of the Balrampur Hospital, as will appear from
statement No. 1, show that its finances are in a flourishing condition, the
annual expenditure being well within the income, and leaving a large
balance at the close of the year.
40. The actual amount of subscriptions having increased by
Rs. 2,867-12-4 over the previous year, and the Government allowance
has increased by Rs. 3,003-12-0 during the same period. The total receipts
during the past 12 months were Rs. 46,l60-5-10, and with the balance
at credit on the 31st December, 1875, Rs. 69.999-7-12. The aggregate
amount of Government grants was Rs. 30,883-11-7 ; the expenditure
during the period under review was Rs. 79, 102-4-10, including the sums
spent in the various institutions in repairs, leaving a balance in hand on
the 1st January, 1877, of Rs. 21,780-14-9; but although this sum appears
large, it is very unequally divided ; for instance, in the civil dispen-
sary, Lucknow, the amount available on the 1st January, 1877, was Rs.
2,288-0-8. In Unao district the year closes with a balance of Rs, 686-11-5,
and not a rupee in favour of any of the branch institutions. So too in
Bara Banki Rs. 132-10-5 were available on the 31st December, 1876,
but all the branch establishments, as in most other districts, open accounts
afresh with nothing in hand. In Sitapur, the sadr dispensaries each
have a small balance to their credit, whilst the receipts and disbursements
of the branch institutions as most of the others in the province balance
each other.
Shahganj
Tanda
Akbarpur
Rs
182
286
360
a.
0
14
15
p.
10
11
0
41. In the Fyzabad division the sadr and its three branch dis-
pensaries, as per margin, as also the three branch
establishments in the Bahraich district and Rae Bareli
and its two branch dispensaries had each a fair open-
ing balance on the 1st January, 1877 ; but the Gonda sadr dispensary
is out of all proportion, and has a larger balance than any other dispen-
sary in the province, there being Rs 3,000 in hand at the close of the
year, but in the three branch dispensaries in this district the expenditure
is balanced by receipts.
42. Out of the 34 branch dispensaries in Oudh, only Rs. 3,034-3-0
was in deposit to credit in eight branch establishments in January 1877,
and which, if equally distributed, would give about Rs, 88 to each of the
34 alluded to.
43. In the civil dispensary at Lucknow the Government grant was
Rs. 1,133-11-10, and from other sources Rs, 1,074, leaving with the
amount to credit on the 31st December, 1875, a balance in hand of Rs.
2,288-0-8, after all expenses had been defrayed.
King's hospital
44. The expenditure and receipts shown in Statement No. 1 gives
only the sums actually drawn and paid away, but the income does not
appear, the institution being supported by the monies from Government
securities, and the sums already at the credit of the endowment.
Dieting
patients.
45. The total cost of dieting patients was Rs. 5,521-0-8, or about
8.43 pie per head per diem. The amount expended during the past year in
the purchase of medicines was—Europe drugs Rs. 4,760-13-8, bazaar, Rs,
5,277-0-3. Since the introduction of the cinchona febrifuge as a substitute