HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 150, 22 April 1940, Page 4

HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

PAST YEAR REVIEWED MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT'S SURVEY "As will be seen by the statistics," ran Dr E. Tewsley Dawson's annual ' report to the meeting of the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board, "the hospital has had a record year, the total admissions being just on two hundred in advance of last year, and the occupied beds have risen from 41 to 50 per day. This means added work and during the next year 'w© shall be obliged to increase the number of our staff. We have a sufficiency of trained nurses but our probationers are short and will have to be increased in numbers. This will mean a shortage of rooms in the Nurses' Home, and I would suggest that, if possible, a house might be rented near\,jpje hospital' to accommodate the stfx Annexe trainees* Failing this, further extensions to the Nurses' Home must be considered." The Medical Superintendent's re-* port then referred to the taxing ic|f the hospital accommodation, even though extensions to the men's ward had been completed. The womenls ward was quickly becoming too small to meet requirements". "Plans are already being prepared for the extension to the annexe, 1 * the report continued, "and this should relieve the position there for quite a long time. The building programme has been completed as far as the men's ward, Nurses' Home and Superintendent's residence are concerned. "The appointment of an engineer has been a great benefit ta the Institution. The machinery is now kept in excellent order and all th,e small repairs at the hospital are done promptly and efficiently.' This in itself will be a great saving to the Board in addition to keeping up the value of the Board's assets. "I should like to take this opportunity of expressing mj' great appreciation of the work of the staff during the year. In spite of all difficulties they have done their work efficiently and cheerfully. "In conclusion I wish to thank ' the Board for its sympathetic con« sideration of all proposals put before them and for the great help the members have always given i)fc anything that pertained to the welfare of the hospital."'