The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-05

| CEHlS. Itr9G JLtIllt dTG lldQG up as LUZ lows;
 Total Current expenses, $63, 05903; Less
 board of Superintendents family and
 supernumary nurses, $43793, total $62,-
 621 10; Number of weeks hospital care, 6241 AZ; cost per week per patient, 1O.- 03; total cost of food, $27 245.77; average daily number of inmates, 222 7-10; cost
 of food per inmate per day, 331a cents.
 The accompanying balance sheet gives
 detailed statement of my receipts and
 expenditures for the year.
 Tl1e report of the directors contains the following:
 CD Leaving out the year 1898, which
 was exceptional by reason of our sol
 dier patients, the whole number of pa
 tients in the year which we have just
 closed was greater than in any previous
 year of our history. It is interesting to
 note that the increase has been largely
 in self-paying patients
 | (2) With the same exception, our re-
 celpts have been greater in 1899 than in
 any previous year, and if special dona-
 tions on account of the soldiera pres
 ence be excluded, the receipts are much
 greater than in 1898, especially in the ! last quarter when they nearly equalled
 our expenditures. But part of this in-
 crease is referahle to the payment by
 the United States during the last quar-
 ter of the long delayed earnings of 1898 "a debt which we carried for nearly year,
 (3) While the increase in the number
 of patients, and therefore in the amount of our work, and other causes
 to be mentioned later on, have involved us in increased expenditures, so that
 our expenses have been greater than in previous years our deficit in the income and expense account is less than year ago by $l .59331 In this reslut we have found encouragement for the future. | (4) There have been unusual demands upon charity funds and more than usu-
 al occupancy of our free beds almost throughout the year. Sometimes these demands were greater than we could
 meet. Our draught upon these charity funds Is greater than, in the year pre- vious by $2066 and upon one of them the Engllsh-we have made a slight overdraft. This has been very notice- alie feature in the years operations
 Our impression is that 1t may arise from special causes. but possibly 1t indicates OUT need of larger endowments
 (5) Tie whole number of weeks oFcu- pied in S95 was e24 AT; of which 1874 weeks were occupied by town patients These had the benefit of the state ap propriation to the extent of $S.64 per week. Even with this addition the rate for town ratlents does not meet the ex- pense on their account
 (6) It is gratifying to notice that the collet tions on hospital Sunday for 1899 showed a considerable increase as com pared with the year previous. We hope this IS an indication of increasing DUO lie confidence, and trust that we shall contlnue to deserve, and to receive that confidence, especially in view of the great advance which has been made in GUT arrangements for the comfort, anG our appliances for the skilful treatment of our patients
 The Following table exhibits the num- Der of weeks occupied by charity and free bed patients each year for the past ten years:
 1890, 9s 2-7; 1891, 1107 4-7: 1892, 1,i72 AT; 1SHS 2,137 AT. 1894, 1889 3-7 1895, 21s3 1-7, iSss a,3i7: 1897, 2,395 2-7; 1898, 2,s9l 2-7; 1899, 3,755
 Of the whole number of patients in the hospital in 1899, 73S were males and 466 females Of the fifty births, 22 were nial.s, 2S females Of the whole nmber registered 635 were discharged cured z30 improved, 32 unlmproved, 16 with out treatment; 15e died 135 remained at the Sear's end Of the number ad- mltied m 1899, 723 were residents Of New Havcl the remainder came from seventy different towns and villages In ihls state, and from thirteen other states The average residence of each | patient was five and one-hfth weeks, or deductins those residing the whole year four and e-sixth weeks.
 The ct st of food per inmate in 1899, as compared With 1S8S showed a very | slight advanca-only two-tenths of a | cert. But rcsal ding 1898 as exceptional | and taking for a comparison 1897, the | incroase .s al cat 1G per cent. This rep ! resents the average advance in the mar 1 ket prioe of very important supplies. Meat and poultry have advanced 20 per | cent, butter on the average 10 per cent 1 eccntly 30 and even 40 per cent. 10 | this cause WC must attribute very | largely the advance In the weekly cost | of supporting our inmates from $S.95 12 in 1897, and $9.47 in 1898, to $10.03 in 1899. We can trace Al cents of this advance | to the enhanced cost of food. The change in our dietary system spoken of in our last report has proved to be in the interest of economy and good ser vice.
 The year just closed brought Us very special cares and large expenses. Of course the great event of 1t was the erection and occupation of the new wing kitchen, nurses dining-room and sewing room, together with rooms for male help on the third floor. This result involved extensive changes in the building, It was inn possible tc accomplish so much without some disturbance of the life of the hos pltal It was our purpose to make the as slight as possible. To do his no doubt we somewhat protra acted the process. It proved not little tedi- DUE, The work was commenced in March, and we hoped to be able to en- CT the new building before mid-sum- nef. Instead of that, the kitchen was lot ready for use until September H. lnd the nurses dining-room could not i )e occupied until October s. The hanges ill the old building were not