Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-16 | Page 9 | Deficit for Hospital Believed unavoidable

Deficit for Hospital Believed Unavoidable Unless some means of further economy economy economy econ econ- omy or revenue are are found county hospItal expenses will run more than into the red this year County Commissioner B. B F. F Quinn said Fri day Mr Quinn who he heads ds the county health and charities department planned to confer with Dr R. R J J. Alexander Alexandcr hospital superintendent on plans plan to prevent the threatened overdraft Increasing charity demands have hit lit the patient out-patient department especially especially especially espe espe- hard the commissioner said An average of more visits arc are being made in the division each month this year he a added ded pointing out that thai more than visits were made last year The drug and medicine budget already already already al al- al- al ready is overdrawn with six months yet to go Co Mr Quinn said Purchases of insulin alone for diabetic patients takes more than a month Approximately was trimmed from the hospital budget at the outset of gf the year by the county commis commis- sion Expenditures Expenditures' were placed at as compared with last year Planned economies economics to absorb the difference have been impossible to attain the commissioner said because of the heavy increase in patients patient