PALMERSTON HOSPITAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 3

PALMERSTON HOSPITAL.

OLD MEN'S HOME- PROPOSED. (By Telesraph.-Special Correspondcuk.) 9 Palmerston, 'April 21.' The monthly meeting of the Palmerston Hospital Board was held today, Mr. J. ii. Wilson presiding. Among the correspondence read was a letter from the ' Inspector-General, stating that in future a charge of 20s. per week would be made for each indigent 'patient admitted to Cambridge Sanatorium on the application of the board...

The tender of the Union Timber Company (£119) for effecting a new bathroom in the old Upstairs ward was accepted..

.Donations were received ; from the Methodist Church of Palmerston (£5 16s. 2d.), and from Mr. 11. A. M'Kenzie (£3 35.). Mr. ,M'Kenzie stated ho wished to convoy his appreciation of the attention received during, his stay in the hospital. ■ ■' The names of Misses Howell, Crampton, and Gillard were placed-on the list of applicants. for the positions of probationers. . '.' ■

The estimates for tho year, endinc March 31, 1911, were submitted ana adopted. The receipts were set down at £6530 17s. Id., including credit balance ou April.l, instant, of £780 Is. sd. The expenditure is estimated at £1370 for charitable aid and £1570 for the hospital. Mr. It. Essex mentioned the question of purchasing the'site for an old men's home, "pointing out the great necessity for such an institution.

The chairman said that the feeling among those bost\ablo to judge .was rather against having collections' of old ineri living togothei, as their differences in disposition made thorn very difficult to deal with. . Ho admitted, however, that it was their duty to see that the old men wore provided lor. ■ Mr. Essex remarked all the principal hospital boards had erected old men's homes, to which the chairman replied that it was their experience which should' make .them pause. . • Mr. Essex said, that as. Dr. Valintine would be in the district in a few days ho would let tho matter stand over till that official could he consulted.