[Fundraising appeals].

  • Leeds General Infirmary.
Date:
[1900?]
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    of open corridors, which also act as sun baths for the patients in suitable weather and, at the same time, act as an extra means of escape in case of fire. This block of three wards would provide for 100 beds, and be capable of treating 2,000 patients per annum, based upon each patient staying in, on the average, two and a half weeks. This block would cost £36,500 for the building, and approximately £3,500 for equipment, or £40,000 complete. NEW WARD BLOCK FOR PAYING PATIENTS. 2 The second block of three wards, to be built on the East side of the King Edward extension, is intended for the use of paying patients : that is to say, patients who are on the border line, able to pay for treatment in the Infirmary, but not able to pay the fees of a private nursing home. The Board have for a long time contemplated having to provide for this class of patient, who do sometimes, through recommends and other ways, obtain treatment at the Infirmary free of charge, when they could have paid at least the cost of nursing them back to health again. It is intended all such cases, and especially motor accident cases, wherever possible, shall be treated in the paying-patients’ department. This block of three wards would be self-contained, one consisting of private rooms, one of cubicles, and one an entirely open ward, as in the rest of the Infirmary. It would be connected to the main buildings by an extension of the present corridors, which also connect with the operating theatres and other parts of the Infirmary, Owing to the provision of private rooms, cubicles, and special service arrangements, it is estimated this block will cost complete £50,000. ANTICIPATED INCOME FROM PAYING PATIENTS. If 80 beds were occupied at an average of £5 per week, the income would be £20,800 per annum, which would be sufficient to render the block entirely self-supporting, and of great benefit in relieving other beds for the admission of patients unable to pay for treatment. The operating theatres, which are adjacent to these two new ward blocks, are amply large enough to deal with the additional work when completed. EXTENSION TO NURSES’ HOME. 3 It is intended that the extra nursing staff required should be housed in the new proposed extension to the existing nurses’ home provided by the late