Putnam patriot., 1930-07-24
HOSPITAL TREATED
 2,l64 PATIENTS
Year Ended June 29th.-Am- bulance Answered Total of
 S5 Calls
Same Officers Eleeted-Trea.urer
 Report

The reports of the superintendent and treasurer of the Day kimball Hospital were read at the annual meeting sn the Chamber of Com merce rooms, Wednesday, July 10th. Officers for the ensuing year were elected. All were re-elections. The officers are: President. M Nj. Kim ball; vice president, Ernest B. Kent !; secretary, r. w. Seward; treasurer, Charles Ii. Brown; trustees for three years, George NJ. Sampson, Wood stock; John P. Grosvenor, Pomfret {; E. s. Backus, Thompson; Ray C. Bos- worth, Putnam.
 Superintendent Report
 Following is, in part, the thirty sixth annual report of the superin- tendent. Miss Nellie L. Bloxham, for the year ending June, l930:
 Number of patients admitted to the hospital, 1,277; number remaining from previous year. 42; out patients, s45; total number treated. 2,164 i; days care this year, 15, ,432; from last year, 692; total days care this year, 16,124.
 Private patients, 335; semi-private, 426; Ward patients. PIP; free pa- tients, 2S5; town patients, 20; pri- vate days care, 4,947; semi-private, 4,5S6; ward days care, 1924; free days care, 3,S56; town days care, S11.
 Medical patients, 210; surgical, 753; obstetrical, 3f4; male patients. 533; female, TAI; operations, 66l !; births. I23; still born, T.
 Maximum number in hospital any one day, 66; minimum number, 30; patients discharged cured, 99S; im- proved, Ss; unimproved, 13; relieved, 1; unadvised. 13; transferred, l2; not treated, 49; died, 57; remaining, 46.
 The ambulance answered eighty-five calls during the year.
 Daily average patients, 44.20; daily average employees, 25.S5; cost per week per patient, S27.49; cost per week last year, S26.i3.
 Free patients cared for from the following towns: Brooklyn, 6, 79 days; Canterbury, 1. 14 days; East ford. 1, 2s days; Killingly, 54, 799 days; no residence. 15, l54 days Plainfield, s, 40 days; Pomfret, id 333 days; Putnam, 113. 1873 days state poor. 1, for 42 days; Sterling 2 patients, 3 days; Thompson, 55 769; Windham, 3. 30 days; Wood stock, Il, TIA days.
 Treasurer's Report
 The treasurer's report shows thu following receipts and expenditures for the year:
 Balance of account June 29th. 1929 S2,073.49; received from state, S9,- GOO. From towns: Putnam, Sl l,5O0i Killingly, $500; Pomfret, $750; Thompson. 5000; Woodstock, $300i total. S3.950.
 Legacy Susie E. Williams, sl.000; income from estate Irving Wood, Ss,- 750; N. G. Williams, S1s1.36; Fran eis L. Palmer. Sf46.25; Charlotte E. Palmer. ss5.24; Dr. A. G. Paine s150.00
 Collections for free bed fund by Mrs. c. Q. Thompson, S710; contribu. tions, Howe-Marot School. S200; J K. Gladding, $50; Susan D. Clark $25; Woman's Board, $479.s1.
 Sale of supplies, SiS0; interest or investment, S2,SS9.S5; care of pa tients, S44,641.20; out patients, S4, 073. Grand total. SITS, ,5s5.20.
 Expenditures for superintendent nurses. engineer and house employees clerical and X-Ray account, $30, 390.63. Supplies: medical and sur gical, house and office, provisions fuel, water and ice, s24.792.47. (Th largest item, provisions, was S14. 1 067.23.1
 Miscellaneous, Ss.157.17; transfer red Pomfret free bed fund, $40 special reserve, 4,000; balance. S10, s34.93. Grand total, $7s,565.20.