The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers, and the Inspector and Director of the Public Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, for the year 1865.
- Kingston Public Hospital (Jamaica)
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers, and the Inspector and Director of the Public Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, for the year 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![is By the financial retnrns it n il! he seen that the niimher of iients treated dnrini^ the year ending dOtli Septemher last, was 2472 at a gross cost of £76il 14s. 9d. or for eacli [)atieut £8 Is. lOd; against 2205 treated t!u^ previous year, at a gri)SvS cost of £7828 5s. 8J. or for cacli patient £8 11s. Od. That theaverage dailj'immher of patients forthe last financial year wjislSO-3-Sths, at a gross cost of £42 7s. 3d. each per year, or *^s 3]d. each per day, against an average number of the previous year, of 170 at a gross co.st of £46 Os. 11 Id., each per year, or 2s. 6]d. each per day. Thus it will be seen that a greater number of patients by 267 were tiamted last year, than the year before, for a less gross e.xpenditure of £186 10s. ild. I have made up a comparative statement of the two past j'ears, based on the gross amount of e.xpenditure as I find my predecessor made Ids calculations in tliis wa}' ; but I do not think in fairness to the Institution that this should be taken as tlie correct expenditure. It is but right that the Hospital should take credit for £134 13s. 2d. the amount paid into the Treasury for Hospital Dues, and the cost of medicine dispensed to the out door poor of the city of Kingstoui amounting to £225 18s. 4d. as she^vll b}- statement herewith; I have made a return for the last financial year, siiewi'ng that ! the actual expenditure of the institution, after deducting these amounts is £7281 3s. 3d whicli reduce? tlie C6.st of the average daily number of patients by nearly £2 0.*.. Od. each, or of the patients treated during the year, by 2s J Id. each i am unahle to given comparative statement ns I do not find any account of the medicines dispensed to the city poor, for tlie jtrevious year. All other particulars will be found in the returns which accoiri- pauy this report. it affords me mncli plensii’e to report that the Condition of thC female patients has been coiisideraldv improved. The Ordiiiaiy Me- dical Officers suggested to me, that the removal of the partitions in the late lunatic wards would he of great advantage to the ulcer patients then occupying two ranges of these wards. I superintended this work myself and accomplished it by the sale of the old material. I then suggested that tlie females should be removed to thesei wards which would iiicrca.se the beds for females from 28 to 42, and that for a time the male ulcer patients should occupy the Into female wards, niilil 1 could alter and repair the old Female Lunatic ^Yards for the use of this class of patients. The Medical Officers were Imt too happy to fall into this plan, and I am glad to sa}' I liave effected the alteration and repairs to the latter ward, and that is now occupied by the male ulcer patients. Tliese alterations have the beneficial effect of having all the patients within the walls of tlie Hospital. The wards now occupied by the ulcer patieiits were used for store rtioms and work shops. 1 have removed the stores to the late female wards, in which place rooms could be partitioned oflf for the occupation of the subordinate servants, a thing highly de- eirable. Although the wards to which the female patients apd male](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22337775_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
