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HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION', 



permanency of whicli, of course, depends upon the nature of 

 the disease : malignant disease— phthisis and such like— do not 

 improve permanently. I may say that I have never known any 

 immediate injury incurred by the removal from Sydney to this 

 place of any sick person. 



" W. E. STEON&, M.D., 



" Fred. King, Esq." " Surgical Superintendent." 



Thus it appears that from fifty to eighty beds have until recently 

 been occupied by patients who either possessed homes where they 

 could have been treated as out-patients, or were received into 

 one of the Asylums where they were treated and lodged without 

 suffering in health from the change— some, indeed, benefiting by it. 



Let us take the medium number of sixty-five of such patients 

 as a fair average ; probably ten of tJiese, certainly not more than 

 fifteen, would enter one of the Asylums ; the saving, therefore, in 

 one year would amount to £2,925, calculated at £45 each ; but 

 from this we have to deduct the cost of the fifteen patients who 

 go to the Asylum at £12 14s. each — say £200, leaving a balance 

 of saAdng of £2,725 for one year. If we carry this back only ten 

 years, we have an approximate estimate of no less than £27,250 " 

 that might have been saved ; or, to speak perhaps more correctly, 

 that would have been available for the treatment of patients to 

 whom justice caunot be done at a less cost than £45 per annum. 



The following table, prepared from statistics kindly furnished , 

 to me by the Committee of the Infirmary, may be found useful : — 





1 







<1 



1^ 



1-5 





i 

 Total number of vacant beds eacb month 200 

 Total number of vacant beds each month 68 



161 

 95 



217 



398 



433 

 733 



1 

 218 297 

 794 790 



1873 

 1874 



Total number of patients admitted each 

 month 183 



Total number of patients admitted each; 

 month 192 



164 

 174 



159 



184 



158 

 173 



166 



187 



126 

 183 



1873 



1874 



Monthly sm-plus of vacant beds ... ... 17 



Montlily sui'plus of vacant beds ... ... 124 



— 



58 

 214 



275 

 555 



52 

 607 



171 



607 



1873 



1874 



Average number of beds vacant daUy in 



each month 

 Average number of beds vacant daily in 



each month 



6i 



2i 



51 

 3i 



7 

 12i 



m 



24i 



7 

 25i 



10 

 26i 



1873 

 1874 



Average number of patients admitted daily 



for each month ... 

 Average number of patients admitted daily 

 ■ for each month 



6 

 6 



6 

 6 



5 

 6 



5 

 6 



5J 

 6 



4i 

 6 



1873 



1874 



