Fourteenth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
[1867]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fourteenth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the past year your Committee have made certain alterations in the Kitchen Department, and instead of obtaining the supply of Bread by contract, they now contract for the supply of Flour and furnish the establishment with home-made Bread; by these alterations a great saving in the expenditure during the latter six months of the year has been effected, as will appear by the following statement:— For the Quarter ending 15th September, 1866. £ s. d. Flour, 75 sacks at 31s. per sack. 127 10 0 Potatoes, 7181bs., at 2s. 6d. per bushel. 1 13 4| Salt, 3001bs., at 2s. per cwt. 0 5 4§ Yeast, 13 gallons, at Is. 4d. 0 17 4 Coal, 37| cwt., at 19s. per ton. 1 15 7| 13 weeks’ wages of Baker, at 10s. 6 10 0 13 weeks’ board &c., of same, at 10s. 6 10 0 Total Cost .£145 1 8| Loaves (7,303) made during this Quarter, at 6d. per loaf . 182 11 6 Deduct the cost of the same, as above. 145 1 8| Saving .. £37 9 9| For the Quarter ending 15th December, 1866. Flour, 77 sacks, at 38s. per sack . Potatoes, 7801bs., at 2s. 6d. per bushel Salt, 3081bs., at 2s. per cwt. Yeast, 13 gallons, at Is. 4d. Coal, 38| cwt., at 17s. 6d. per ton. 13 weeks’ wages of Baker, £7:10 . 13 weeks’ board of same, £6:10. £ s • d% 146 6 0 1 14 10 0 5 6 0 17 4 1 13 8f 14 0 0 Total Cost .£164 17 4[ UW./- IWIIITT HII1BI Loaves (7,433) made during the quarter, at 6fd. per loaf . 209 1 Of Deduct the cost of the same, as above. 164 17 4f Saving. £44 3 8|