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12 The expenses (direct) of treating the out-door sick are:— The cost of maintaining the Workhouse Hospital may be estimated as follows:— The Hospital contains accommodation for over 1,000 patients, and has often 1,000 in it. The cases at present are:— The weekly discharges are from twenty to thirty per cent, of the whole number in the hospital. The present workhouse staff consists of fourteen paid officers (who are superintendents, but not trained nurses), and about 150 paupers acting as nurses, but not paid. It has been proposed to add a trained hospital matron and trained nurses, such as those trained in the Nightingale School, and assistant nurses, so as to give one trained day-nurse and one