HOSPITAL BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 765, 14 March 1910, Page 4

HOSPITAL BOARD.

SPEECH -BY- A - CANDIDATE. '•• Dr. E. Borghotti, who is. a candidate for the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Bbard, addressed a small meeting in the 1 Primitive Methodist Schoolroom, Sydney Street, on Saturday evening. The Bev. C. E. Ward presided. The candidate said he approved of the new Hospitals Act, because it removed power from a restricted number and conferred it upon the people at large. ' H elected, ho would do'Tiis best to acquaint himself with the huge administration, and lie would promote all those reforms which, in his past experience of hospital management in other lands, % he had found to'be 1 good;'He was particularly anxious to promoted scheme whereby due consideration should be shown; in the appointment' of the medical staff, to. those candidates who had children. He hoped that, in' the interest of the birth-rate, this -precedent would , find favour with other local bodies and the Government He , also favoured the separation of the speciality of the eye, from those of the nose, ear, and throat according to theexample set in England- , and on the Continent; He held that, in the distribution of charity, a- line should b? drawn between the thrifty and the thrift less, the former being entitled to a-large! share of public sympatHy than the latter, If > returned, .he would endeavour to set that justice was done to the friendlj societies, in the way of hospital accommodation, ■ according to the law, and, if possible, even above it, for-, the friendly societies represented an individual effort which ought to be enconraged, and not discouraged as had often been done. The effect of too many of. our present law,s and social; arrangements was to' penalise thrift. . , . ',-..■ A vote ■of thanks and confidence was. passed unanimously. . v