IV. We cannot count the cost of Orderlies and Nurses, including lodging, rations, wages, at less than £50 a year, which when capitalized at 3 per cent. (33 years’ purchase), would amount to £1,650 for each.
V. A ward of 9 sick would cost in nursing £1,650 × 2⅓ = £3,850, or £427 15s. 6d. per bed.
VI. A ward of 30 sick would cost for nursing, in perpetuity, £1,650 × 4 = £6,600 = £220 per bed.
[One Nurse to each ward is here allowed.]
VII. The cost of the two plans relatively for a Hospital of 1,000 sick would stand thus:
| Wards with 9 beds | = | £427,775 | |
| Wards with 30 beds | = | 220,000 | |
| Capitalized difference of cost in favour of large wards | } | £207,775 | |
| Netley has cost already Land | = | £30,000 |
| Works | 89,000 | |
| £119,000 | ||
It hence appears that, if works and site were both sacrificed, and fresh land purchased, and wards for 30 sick built on it, the country would actually save the difference between the two sums of = £88,775.
Suppose the sanitary requirement of 25 sick to a ward, which is the best number, be combined with the greatest economy of administration, the cost would stand thus:
| For each ward of 25 sick, 3 Orderlies, at £1,650 | = | £4,950 |
| If two such are built in line, close to each other, with the Nurse’s room between them, one Nurse could superintend both wards, or half a Nurse to a ward. The cost would be for the ward | 825 | |
| 5,775 | ||
| Or cost for each bed 5775 / 25 | = | £231 |
The comparative cost of wards with 9 beds and 25 beds, would stand thus for 1000 sick: