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Recommendation.
Governor's Decision.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,—Continued.
Fees for 2nd class patients to be raised to $5 a day.
Wives of Police and Sanitary Inspectors to be treated at privileged rates for Civil Servants as 3rd class patients only.
Immediate.
Savings.
Prospective.
Minimum. Maximum. Minimum, Maximum.
$
$
$
Brought forward.......
42,510
16,053
10,534
11,689
Approved,
:
Do.,
Deletion of the item "Temporary Staff,
Do.
1,000
1,000
Kennedy Town Hospital "-$1,000.
Reductions in the following votes:
Do.
Health Officer of Port.
Coal, &c., for Launch,
Incidental Expenses,..
Civil Hospital.
MOL
$200 50
200
200
50
50
Fnel and Light,
200
200
200
Furniture,
200
200
200
Incidental Expenses,.
50
50
50
Medical Comforts,
300
300
300
Provisions for Patients,.
4,000
4,000
4,000
Washing,
200
200
200
Lunatic Asylums.
Bedding and Clothing,
50
50
50
Fuel and Light,
250
250
250
Provisions for Patients,
100
100
100
Kennedy Town Hospital.
Provisions, &c.,
500
500
500
Victoria Hospital.
Provisions,
500
500
500
180
180
That research work should be regarded as forming an adjunct to the Bacteriologist's other duties, to be performed in any spare time remaining over after their perform-
ance.
That the supply of local English News- papers should be reduced from 10 to 5.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
Abolition of Plague Inspectors.
That each District Inspector should be solely responsible for his district.
That the staff of Inspectors should be reduced from 28 (including one acting as Storekeeper) to 21.
Approved, but in normal times theBacteriologist should be able to devote a sufficient time to it,
Approved,
The Plague Inspectors as such have been abolished, and
in the Estimates for 1939 none appear under that name,.
Approved,
Decided to have 24 In- spectors + 1 Storekeeper who is to be shown separately in the Estimates. Savings:
2 Inspectors at $1,800-
:
:
:
Do..
2,040, Exchange Coin-
peusation,
3,600
1,080
2,571
2,914
Do.,
Ilouse Allowance
to 1,
360
360
Carried forward,.
56,821
61,187
10.584
11,689