HOSPITAL BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 21 August 1912, Page 6

HOSPITAL BOARD.

_» MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday, there being present: 'J'ho chairman (Mr. Jas. Trevor), Miss Richmond, the Key. H. Van Staveren, and Messrs. \Y. Galloway, H. Baldwin, J. Godbe r, B. E. Gardiner, D. Eobertson, F. T. Moore, J. Smith, E. C. Kirk, J. W. M'Ewan, G. Nash, and E. Fletcher. ■ The recommendations of tho Hospital Committeo (as previously published in The Dominion), were adopted. . i The resignation of Miss Cox, typist, was received with regret. A letter was received from tho Otago Hospital Board, conveying compliance with the Wellington Board's suggestion that a reciprocal agreement bo entered into with other hospital and charitable aid boards, and that the four main centres —Auckland, Wellington, Christeliurch, and Dunedin—enter into an agreement not to charge each other on account of indigent hospital patients only from each other's districts except in cases of patients sent there by the boards themselves, but each board will render any other board all assistance in endeavouring to collect accounts from relatives, if possible. Dv.' Valintine, head of the Health Department, wrote to the board with regard to tho question of conducting a campaign on uniform lines against consumption, and suggested that the medical superintendent might be deputed to 'meet the officers of the Department at a conference to be held in Wellington. The board resolved accordingly.