JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 844, 16 June 1910, Page 9

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

HOSPITAL AFFAIRS. . , (By Telegraph-Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, June 15. The number of patients treated in the Wanganui Hospital last month , was 119, the number" of infectious diseases -being nine. The Hospital Board wall soon be making a start with the building of a new infectious diseases hospital to replace the one destroyed by fire about two years ago, but the board, is looking cautiously at the expense which would be involved by what is felt to be the too elaborate requirements of the Health Department. Though nnality seems to be arriving in regard to the Department's approval of the plans, the Department eeems to be too strong on disinfection precautions to please the chairman ol the board, who said yesterday: "You will have'to crawl through a tunnel to approach the building, take oil your clothes, get thoroughly disinfected, and then run a 100 yards to get another suit of clothes. That may seem exaggerated," added the chairman, "but it is something like what is going to happen if the Department's v;ay is followed." The appointments of visiting medicalstaff to the hospital having, expired, by effluxion of time, the Hospitai Beard yesterday made new appointments. The applications beting in excess of the number reouircd, ballots hod to b« taken, with th« following . results:—Honorary consulting physician, Dr. Innes; honorary consulting surgeon, Dr. Christie j honorary visiting surgeons, Drs. WaJl, Reid, Anderson, and Crawford; honorary dental surgeon, Mr. H. Brookfield. A resolution, was carried appreciative of the valuable services and indefatigable attention of Dr. Wilson as one of the visiting surgeoais during the past four years. The board deoided in future to pay probationer nurses while undergoing three months' trial.