A NEW MATERNITY HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 21 August 1912, Page 5

A NEW MATERNITY HOME.

. PROPOSED BY THE HOSPITAL : ; • BOARD. _ Consideration was given by the Wellington Hospital Board at 'its meeting yesterday to a recommendation from tho Charitable Aid Committee that "in order to '.provide for the proper housing and nursing in confinement of single women, who, having previously been the mothers of illegitimate children, are neither eligible for admission to the Salvation Army nor tho Alexandra Maternity Homes, the committee be authorised to obtain working drawings and - specifications and to invite tenders for the erection upon available land attached to Ohiro Home of a cottage for the treatment of such patients upon, the lines of the sketch plans prepared." Tho recommendation was moved by Mr. J. W. M'Ewan, as chairman of the Charitable Aid Committee. The question of finance presented no great difficulty, ho said, as theTe would snortly be available thie capital and interest of a sum of JE3OO, which the Board of Trustees of the Bonovolent Institution (the Ohiro Home) had some years' ago set aside with that idea in view. Mr. R. C. Kirk thought that' the efficiency of tho Hospital work as a ; whole would be better served were the accommodation for these maternity patieiits found in tho precincts of the Hospital itself, sav in one of the spare wards. Ho suggested a conference'.between representaMr. MTJwan's committee and.the Hospital Committee, with a view to arriving at a solution of the question which would- be satisfactory to both sides. ■P"