CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 411

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Hospital.

8. His Estimate of the annual cost

amounto however to £147,151, exclusive of £530 required for temporary fittings. The Hospital charges for provisuano and

Medicines, viz

£2000 per annum, may be regarded as nearly balanced by the Hospital receipts - whilst there is no valid reason why they should not be made to cover them completely Neverthelefp, a the receipts from dicenses, which, are paid falikte by Chinese and other brothels, have averaged only $6000 or £1250 per

there would be

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considerable annual

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only expense to be made There would be also the first outlay

the buildings, for if the beammission has

the

to provide for the patients they would probably forward

commodation of 200

plans for

new and expensive permanent

agree

buildings, under the plea that such must be required; and I cannot at all with DF Mounay in considering that the present Lock and fever Hospitals could afford even temporary accommodation to 260 Lock Patients. Any attempt to accommodate such a number in those buildings would,

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deficit of £2,700 to be made up- if 200 Mennay's Estimate be correct.

19. The above £2,700 - however, is not

my opinion,

and a

be

a

source of scandal, violation of all usual Sanatory

precautions

as well as

ordinary decency.

10. Moreover, whatever be the Number of

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