HOSPITALS' CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 15

HOSPITALS' CONFERENCE.

SOME REMITS. (By Telcsraph-Press Ast-ocialion.) Chrlstchurch. April 28. The annual Hospitals Conference will open in Wellington on Juno 14, and a request has been received by the boards from Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, that all remits should lie sent to him by April 30, sotliatthoy can lie circulated in time. The North Canterbury Board, at its meeting today, received the following draft remits from its .Policy Committee: — (1) Consideration of provision for Sanatoria for Consumptives on lines laid down in Dr. Blackmore's report, namely, 0110 sanatorium for the North Island, and one for the South Island. In this connection the Government to be asked, as a step towards stamping gut consumption, to bring this disease within the scope of infectious diseases for compulsory treatment, also to give powers to hospital and charitable aid boards of legal detention of all patients in infectious hospitals and institutions during periods medically declared necessary for the recovery of such patients.

(2) Necessity of founding a State School for defective girls, similar to that established for boys at Otckaike, and a State homo with powers of detention for women of feeble character, whoso proclivities aro a source of danger to the community, both from a physiological and moral point of view. (3) Urging the Government to take more active measures for tho arrest of deserters of wives and children, and parents of illegitimate children, and set them to remunerative work, tho halanco of their earnings (after defraying first charges for maintenance) to bo applied towards the support of those dependent on them who may be in receipt of relief out of public funds. (4) Relation of boards to children committed under the Industrial Schools Act.

(5) Differentiation of relief with regard to widows and children. (6) Adoption of some uniform policy among tho several boards in order to meet cases of applicants from one district applying to another for relief. (7) Interchange among all boards of information relating to the number of inmates in the several institutions, salaries, or other emoluments _ paid to employees of every description and grade, showing length of service, etc., with a view to comparison and approximation of duties and remuneration ; also mutual exchange of annual balancesheets throughout the Dominion.

(8) The question of the reasonable claims of sick members of the Trained Nurses' Association to have tho benefit of treatment at their own local Hospital at reduced charges, in consideration-of their agreeing to assist, when able, in nursing at the public institutions at a reduced rate of payment. (9) Visiting of out-patients at their homes by qualified nurses,, and consideration of tho question of setting up dispensaries elsewhere than at public hospitals. •