The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-15
CUT DOWN DEFICIT
TNFIRMARY ESTAB-
Gho 'l,.n NEW RECORD LAST YEAR.
Is NOW SELF SUSTAINING.
..xcIEs IN BOARD OF DIRECT
oRs HAS BEEN FILLED.

- the Treasurer Showed
Although There Was Def
=. If over $500 in 1902 the In
,,.u,ion Had Lived Within Its
During 19O3-Number of
TENTS Treated During the Year
smaller Than During the
.,,.;ous Year-LOw Rate of Nor
talitN.
~. o,nual report of the Georgia In
..o,y which will probably be sub
....d n the city health department
doy To assist in making up the an
81 health report of the city, will
some interesting facts. The re-
Ut was made to the board of direc-
If the intirmary at their last meet
~ some days ago, and shows that
.,oro we're fewer patients treated in
,oo3 than in 1902.
,.,oording to the treasurer's report
-. total income to the institution was
:, o,s ~ and the total expenses were
&c 300 "a. leaving a profit of $15.4S. The
,..i+,,tjon entered into the year 1903,
'.h deficit of S467 Al. and subtract
,.r the SIS. As realized this year, brings
80 amount down to $4S1.99.
rho following report of the secretary
an tbe work performed at the intirmary
is interesting:
Number of patients at the infirm-
ary on Jan. 1, 1903 ......."..... 80
N"nher of patients at the infirm-
Nv IN Ian. l, 1904 .............. 80
Number of patients cared for dur
ing 1908 .........''- '.'.'''' o'H
Number of patients admitted dur
ing the year ...'....;' $50
Number of patients discharged -.
during the year .................. 444
Number of patients died during
tho wear NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 44S
largest number in the hospital in
one day ..............s. .'...'''''''' o.
Smallest o.. 49,. .
Number of births in the hospital. 10
PATIENTS received into the hospital
,,I iu, 1857
stortaIity less moribund .... 1856
Number Of attendants. including
nurses e. ................... ''.:'' 10
lU notionts ......................11,774
Total mum per Oh udSS u pay PC -
tients . NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ..'''. 1,Efo
Total number OF days of all pa
TENTS q. ................' ''.' '''' - Io'V1S
Daily average OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 90 20
Cost per patient per day .......... .65A
On seIf-Sustaining Basis.
The mortality rate is considered low
In view of the large number or morl-
bund ratients brought in. In deter
mining mOribund patients an arbitrary
rule has been resorted to, ana II mas
been found that a large number are
really not put in this class, though
they have no chance to live when they
are entered, but the question being just
how long they can live.
The average number of patients treat
ed during 1903 was lower than in 1907.
The report of the treasurer shows that
the institution is now conducted on a
self-suStainng basis, with the appro-
priations that are made by the city,
county and charity.
FILLED Three Vacancies.
There were three vacancies in the
board of directors, caused by the
death of DR.. j. B. Read, Mr.. William
Duncan and Col. r. D. Walker, and
the following were elected to fill the
vacancies: Pleasant A Stovall. George
P. Walker and George w. Tiedeman.
The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, C. M. Gilbert; vice
tary and treasurer, M. S. Baker; medi-
cal director, r. ]. Charlton; superin-
tendent, DR.. Craig Barrow.
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