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Finance.
The amount sanctioned in the Estimates for the Medical Department was $970,350.00 and the amount expended was $867,292.50.
Revenue received:-
For Medical Treatment $101,520.17 Medical Certificates 105.00 Bacteriological Examinations 8,307.44 Chemical Analyses 24,974.00 Bills of Health 12,108.00 Medical Examination of Emigrants 152,509.90 TOTAL $299,524.51Ratio of expenditure on medical and sanitary services to total revenue from all sources:-Because of the overlapping which occurs when a work serves both a utilitarian and a sanitary service it is impossible to assess exactly the amounts which have been spent for purely medical and sanitary purposes. Including all water works and drainage works as sanitary works the following shows the commitments as laid down in the Estimates for 1929:-
Expenditure by Medical Department $867,292.50 Sanitary Department 821,501.00 Public Works Dept. 1,071,200.00 Police Department 9,000.00 Subsidies to charities 103,000.00 Miscellaneous 11,000.00 TOTAL $2,882,993.50Expenditure 2,882,993
Ratio = 12.70%
Revenue 22,700,000
SECTION II.
PUBLIC HEALTH.
GENERAL REMARKS.
One of the most important events of the year from the public health point of view was the drought and the consequent shortage of water. The situation in the Island is such that there is sufficient reserve in the reservoirs to tide the population over a drought of any one year but insufficient when one dry year follows on another.