FOOD FOR PATIENTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 70, Issue 91, 18 July 1944, Page 4

FOOD FOR PATIENTS

— ♦ '■ - QUALITY QUESTIONED BOARD MEMBERS' DISCUSSION Alleging that there was not sufficient care exercised in the receiving of food destined for consumption by patients in the hospital, Mr H. C. McCready at last week's meeting of the Board drew attention to a complaint received by him regarding the unsavoury state of fish which, he had been told, had been accepted by the kitchen staff. The chairman, Mr L. JBuddle, asked Mr McCready to supply the Board with further information, as to dates and persons concerned, in order that the matter could be followed up. Mr McCready: I leave that to you. I have laid a complaint and made a statement. I will withdraw it if it is disproved. Mr Mullins: The point raised byMr McCready should be followed up. I think the greatest care should be talten to have all foods checked in. The secretary said that the tt«uA involved the signing of chits *or ay such orders, and if some person had accepted food in a bad state then they were due for a 'shakeup.' He would like to know more details. Mr Suckling contended that the main point Avas whether or not such an oversight had become, a practice or was just accidental. There was always the human element. Mr Mullins agreed. "None of us is perfect" he said, "and what we want to know is whether such an. action, was due to a temporary oversight or deliberate slackness. In the latter case the Board should act. The matter was then dropped*