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Basis for the request for an increase in the Student Health Service
medical fee from $20 to $25 beginning in the Session 1958-1959.

At the time of the organization of the Department of Student Health in
1938 the unit medical fee was tentatively placed at $15 per session. Due
to deficits based mainly on increased costs of hospitalization, the fee
was increased in 1950 to $20. Our request for a further fee increase in
1958 is based upon (I) increased costs of operation as reflected in (II)
current and estimated annual deficits.

I. Increased costs of operation

• 1. Increased expenditures for personnel

  • a. Merit increases

  • b. Social Security contributions

  • c. Virginia Supplemental Retirement System contributions

  • d. Salaries for new personnel, needed to provide services
    for a larger student population.

• 2. Initial expenditures for equipment due to expansion of Clinic
  space and facilities.

• 3. Increased costs for medical supplies, medications, new
  vaccines, office maintenance.

• 4. Increased expenditures for hospitalization and consultation
  services.

II. Current and estimated annual deficits

For specific details referable to these needs, please refer to data
itemized in our budget prepared for the biennium 1958-1959, 1959-1960,
submitted to the Comptroller of the University on June 28, 1957, copy
attached.