CHARITABLE AID.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 July 1911, Page 5

CHARITABLE AID.

OUT-DOOR MEDICAL RELIEF.

_ The Charitable Aid Committee of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid board met yesterday. There were present: Messrs: J. \V. M'Ewan (chairman), AV. Galloway, D. M'Larcn, J. Smith, and the lievs. Y\. A. Evans and H. Van Stnveren. An elderly bricklayer, who had been in New Zealand for some years, and has, for a brief period, been au inmate of the Uhiro Home, was granted a to .Sydney. He nroduced a letter from a member of the Master Buillers' Association in that town stating that there was plenty of building work in Sydney at the present time. Mr. Truehridge was authorised to obtain about a thousand young trees to be planted in the grounds cf the Ohiro Home. The plants are to be procured, if possible, from the Agricultural Department. . 5t was reported that the new system pt outdoor medical relief would come into operation on August I. In cases approved by its inspectors, the Hospital Board is to pay half ordinary fees to doctors for attendance upon indigent patients, and medicine is to be- supplied to thrse patients free of charge. Within Wellington proper prescriptions are to bo dispensed at the Hospital Dispensary. Arrangements have been made with chemists in tho suburbs and outlj-ing districts to dispense prescriptions at rates ranging from 10d. to is. nd. nor eight-ounce bottle. I he board is called upon to pay considerably more for medicine obtained in small outlying centres of population than in the suburbs adjacent to the city.