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TABLE SHOWING ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE BAHAMA GOVERNMENT 



ON MARCH 31, 10O3. 



Assets. 





 2,16' 



Cash in chest 



Balance in hands of Out-island 



Collectors and in transit 328 18 1 



Balance in hands of Crown Agents. 1,995 9 7 

 Investments on account of Surplus 



Funds [ 5,720 8 5 



Investments on account of Hotel 



Fund 8,177 6 1O 



Cash on deposit of Hotel Fund 1,026 2 



Savings Bank, invested to 30th 



June, 19O2 17,631 15 7 



Crown Agents, invested to 30th 



June, 19O2 



Income Tax invested to 3Oth June, 



1902 74 1 7 



Savings Bank balance, cash in- 

 vested to 30th June, 19O2 180 15 9 



Cable Repair Fund Invested 8,13011 1 



Cable Repair Fund Cash 1 3 9 



Total. 



Liabilities. 



On current accounts 



Savings Bank (due to 

 depositors^ includ- 

 ing interest to 3Oth 

 June. 19O2 16,607 12 1 



Advance from 

 ^treasury 8OO 



45,433 16 1 



Total 18,827 18 1 



a. d. 

 1.42O 



17.4O7 12 1 



The government institutions, such as hospitals and asylums, have been 

 discussed .at length in the chapter on " Sanitary Conditions." They will not 

 be considered here further than to give the following two tables : 



TABLE SHOWING PATIENTS RECEIVED AND TREATED IN THE GOVERNMENT 

 HOSPITAL BETWEEN APRIL 1 AND DECEMBER 31, 1902. 



Males. Females. 



Number in hospital, 1st April 62 43 



Number admitted 202 111 



Daily average in hospital 49 47 



Patients discharged cured 106 53 



Patients discharged relieved 49 22 



Patients discharged not improved 9 5 



Number who died in the nine months 32 21 



TABLE SHOWING PATIENTS IN THE GOVERNMENT INSANE ASYLUM ON 



DECEMBER 31, 1902. 



Males. Females. 



Maniacal and dangerous 11 7 



Qu'et chronic 5 5 



Melancholy 1 



Idiotic 4 



CONDITION OF PEOPLE. 



From an examination of the charts which have been given in the pre- 

 ceding discussion it will be correctly inferred that the people of the Bahama 

 Islands as a rule are not wealthy. The scale of living is not high and an 

 individual in the possession of what would be considered a moderate income 

 in the United States would in the Bahamas be regarded as rich. In 



