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Report Chairman Finance Comtee.
December 12,1917.
To the President and Members Common Council.
Gentlemen:
At a meeting of the Finance Committee held on December 10, the
report of the Treasurer for the quarter ending November 30,1917, was examined
and approved, and its adopted is recommeded by the committee.
The Committee also recommends that the salary of the City Sergeant be increased
five dollars per month, and that $250. be appropriated to cover City Manager's
expense for period of one year, beginning September 1,1917, for furnishing and
maintaining a car for the City's service, and that the petition asking for an
appropriation of $500. for the District Nursing Association be declined for the
present.
Respectfully submitted,
J. R. Gleason, Chairman.

Report from University Hospital.
A communication from Dr. M. R. Pratt, Sup't University Hospital:
December 11,1917.
Mr. E. I. Carruthers, Auditor, City.
Dear Sir:
I have just finished checking up the charity work done by the University
Hospital in accordance with the appropriation made by the City of Charlottesville.
The daily per capita cost for the year ending August 31,1917, was $1.468.
The number of days of treatment given City charity cases was 5147, making
the cost to the Hospital for the City patients $7,555.80. This does not include
a large number of patients who, to insure their entrance to the hospital,
promised to pay their own expenses and later turn out to be charity patients
from whom the hospital could collect nothing.
To cover this work the City appropriated $2,000., a great help to us it
is true, but hardly a proper return.
The Hospital deficit for the pastyear was approximately $11,000.; the
deficit from City charity was half this, and, if we consider the patients who
agreed to pay but could not, we will find well over half of the entire deficit
of the hospital came from work done for the City of Charlottesville.
The annual report, now on the press, will indicate to what extent we tried
to have patients help themselves. Those agreeing to pay a part but not the
entire cost increased to 1332 from 580 the previous year, and the number of free
patients went down to 1147 from 1619 the previous year.
As stated above however, many of those agreeing to pay something proved
to be charity patients.
That the City of Charlottesville should make a considerable increase in
its appropriation is very evident.
Sincerely,
M. R. Pratt, Supt.

Treasurer's quarterly report.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR THE QUARTER ENDING NOVEMBER 30,1917.
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RECEIPTS		DISBURSEMENTS.
Gas	$8,257.91	Amt. overdrawn Sep.1,1917	$6,364.76
Water	7,990.91	Salaries	4,495.57
Taxes	71,067.17	Police	2,325.57
Licenses	1,187.14	Gas	10,112.35
Taxes, Annexed Territory	14,028.89	Water	2,054.83
Fines	665.30	Incidentals	1,451.23
Cemeteries	753.83	Streets	16,402.12
Dogs	14.00	Health	517.65
Scavenger	481.25	Poor	1,088.38
Interest on Taxes	54.65	Cemeteries	642.16
Engineering	375.00	Fire Department	1,371.73
Perpetual Care of Sections	100.00	Interest on Bonds	4,802.50
Sidewalks	692.71	Schools	8,000.00
Streets	24.31	Lights	1,961.92
Fire Department	7.55	Engineering	278.90
Rents	4.20	Interest & Discount	330.00
Capitation Tax returned by State	557.00	Bills Payable	47,000.00
Bank Tax	98.35	Total	$109,453.34
Bank Tax annedex territory	516.44	[blank]	[blank]
Bills Payable	15,000.00	Bal. in Treasury 12/1/17	12,464.19
[blank]	$121,917.53	[blank]	$121,917.53

W. G. Steele, Treas.
Examined this 10th day of Dec.1917 and found
correct:
J. E. Gleason, )
W. F. Souder, Jr., ) Finance Committee.
R. C. Walker, )
F. W. Twyman )

Police report.
Report of the Chief of Police for November showed cash fines $177.83, cases to jail
in default,$60.50.

Report City Manager.
The report of the City Manager for November was read and considered with the following
actions: As to the matter of collecting trash and garbage from residences, etc.,
it was the opinion of the Council that the City ordinance dealing with the matter be
adhered to.The Manner in which the Inspection work should be done in the Health Dept.,
was left in the hands of the Public Safety Committee to consider and report.