Sixty-eighth annual report of the County and City of Worcester Mental Hospital, Powick, for 1920-21, and financial statements.

  • County and City of Worcester Mental Hospital (Powick)
Date:
1921
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Credit: Sixty-eighth annual report of the County and City of Worcester Mental Hospital, Powick, for 1920-21, and financial statements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'll “ Only 67 were shewn at the annual stocktaking and when this was compared with the Weekly Stock Book, it was disclosed that the number of Store Pigs should have been 78. “ The larger number must have been on the Farm, as that number has been accounted for since, and agreed with the actual stock of Store Pigs at the special counting of these animals. “ The number taken into stock at the June stocktaking included the larger item, so that there has been no loss to the Institution. It was only an apparent omission to produce at the stocktaking the whole of the pigs on the Farm. “ The only effect of the omission has been to reduce the profit made on the Farm during the March Quarter, and increases it to a corresponding amount in the June Quarter. “ Yours faithfully, (Signed) “ H. LEICESTER.” It seems to me very desirable that the Committee should give instructions that, at all future stocktakings, the Stock Valuation and the Farm Bailiff’s Weekly Report Book should be compared immediately after the stocktaking, and that any differences then found to exist between the figures contained in the Valuation and the Book should be at once investigated. Farm Sales. I shall be obliged if the Committee will consider the advisability of having a complete record submitted to them at each Meeting of all sales effected on their behalf by the Farm Bailiff. At present he appears to report the sales of Live Stock, but does not report the sale of Fruit and other crops grown on the Farm. The Accounts of the Clerk of the Hospital appear to be well and carefully kept. This observation also applies to the Stock and Store Books kept by the Steward of the Institution. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, J. H. EASTON, District Auditor.