HOSPITAL BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 849, 22 June 1910, Page 3

HOSPITAL BOARD.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. A meeting of tho Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday, when there were present Mr. J. 0. W. Aitken (chairman), Rovs. W. A. Evans, and 11. Van Staveren, Messrs. R. C. Kirk, G. T. Lundon, J. W. JJ'En-en, J. Trevor, B. R. Gardener, and Robertson, J. E. Fitzgerald, H. Baldwin, A. H. Hindmarsh, F. T. Moore, J. J. Devine, W. Galloway, W. Tompsitt, and D. M'Laren, M.P. Tho Hospital Committee recommended :— That patients attending the hospital for electrical treatment, massage, and dressing of wounds he charged from 4s. to Is., according to their means. That Sister Dalryinplc ho granted an additional month's leavo of absence. That tho Salvation Army Band be thanked for their performance last Sunday, tho proceeds of which amounted to £3 ss. Id. That monthly accounts for May, amounting to £841 6s. 7d., salaries for May £517 3s. Id., wages £315 45., potty cash, £3 18s. 73.,- and Hunt and M'Donald progress payment of £1275 on contract Infectious Diseases Hospital, be passed for payment.. The report was adopted. OTAKI INSTITUTIONS. With regard to the Otaki Hospital and Sanatorium, the Hospital Committee recommended:— That accounts amounting to £318 7s. lOd. be passed for payment. That the-tender of F. F. Mann for brickwork and erecting copper bo accepted. That tho overseer be authorised to purchase eight dozen 200 voll. lamps and canvas firehose to replace wornout sections. The matron of the Otaki Hospital reported that during May eight patients ware admitted to the hospital and nine were discharged, and that four patients were admitted to tho Sanatorium and soven discharged (six being well and able to work). Thoro are seven males and live females in the hospital, and fourteen males and twelve females in the Sanatorium. Tho report was adopted. CHARITABLE AID. . The Charitable Aid Committee reported as follows: — That the matron's assistant at the Ohiro Home having resigned, Mrs. B. Low had been appointed to tho position. The committee recommended the board to instruct the Inspector of Police, Wellington, that all requests mado by the Charitable Aid Committee for the committal of children under the Industrial Schools or other Acts of Parliament were to bo regarded as having the authority and sanction of the board, which would accept the statutory liability for tho maintenance of all children so committed. Relief for the.month had been granted as follows:— Outdoor relief:—-Number of cases assisted, permanent 25, temporary 37; total rations issued, 4927; rations issued for same period last vear, 5479; cash grants in aid of rent, £36 2s. 6d.; cash grants for same period last year, £42 os. lOd. Indoor—Ohiro Home: Total number of persons assisted, 142; grand' total of persons relieved, 363. The report was adopted. . SUPPLIES. The Supplies Committee reported as follows on the matter or obtaining supplies for the various 'institutions of the board:— That all items to be tendered for, i should ho on one combined tender for i the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Committee. That all items to be purchased in the open market should, where ever possible, bo bought in quantities large enough for the supply uf both institutions. That the following items be supplied by tender:—Groceries (general), meat, fish, coal, wood, wines and spirits, tea, drugs, clothing, milk. That the following items bo purchased in the open market: —Sugar, oatmeal, eggs, vegetables, potatoes, fruit, flour, butter. That all tho bread for the Wellington Hospital and tho Charitable Aid Committee be supplied by the Wellington Hospital. That, all burials be by tender. That a committee be set up consisting of the chairman (Mr. J. G. W. Aitken), Messrs. J. Godber, and H. Baldwin, to whom the officers of the board could confer with when buying goods in the open market. The report was adopted. FINANCE AND PROPERTY. The Finance and Endowment Committee receommended that they bo known in future as tho "Finance and Property Committee." .This was agreed to. FINANCE. The present financial position of the board was reported to bo as follows:— Credit balance at bank, £676 12s. lid.; cash in hand, £31S 45.; Government subsidy due, £2942 Bs. 4d.; total revenue, £3937 os. 3d. The second quarter's levies are due from local bodies on July 1. Accounts were passed for payment totalling £3745 10s. 6d.. OTHER BUSINESS. The following motion, of which notice had been given by Mr. M'Laren, was adopted without discussion:—"That the committee roport on tho advisability of establishing a policy that persons in receipt of a minimum scale of earnings shall be exempt from chaTges for services received as patients of tho Hospital." Mr. Gardener's motion: "That the medical superintendent, Dr. Harkwick Smith, report as to the advisability of moving the Seddon Shelter Shed from tho Wellington grounds to the Otaki Sanatorium grounds," was postponed for a month. Mr. Moore gave notice of motion that tlie medical superintendent be asked to roport on the need or otherwise of taliing effective measures for the isolation of cases of pulmonary consumption. Other important business is reported i elsewhere. ■' DO NOT THROW AWAY Your hair combings, ladies are advised to save their combings, which can be utilised into any form of lair arrangement. Mr. Heady will l)t pleased to forward illustrated catalogue of various designs of liairdressins into which ladies' own hair ran be worked, including switches, frihgei pin curls, clusters, etc" Bend your combings and get quotations for making up same. Price lists post free on application. A. ,M. Ilendy, Hair Sueoialist and Wigmalcer, Dunedin.—.Vcfvt. ;j COLDS. 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