HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 5

HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.

« ' ,1116 Wellington Hospital Committee met yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. Smith presiding. It was decided to recommend the board to follow the course in future of inviting public tenders for works exceeding £20. . It was recommended that a piano should bo purchased for the administrative block of the Infectious Diseases Hospital. Tho committee resolved that tho Hospital Board be recommended to,comply with the conditions of the award for tho Wellington Stationary Traction and Locomotive Engine-Drivers' Union. Fortnightly returns from February 16 to March 2 in' connection with' patients under treatment at. tho Hospitalwere tabled as follow, the figures for the same period last year being given in parentheses : Admitted, 153 (129); discharged, 151 (151); still in hospital,' 299 (295) The total numlier of male 3 in the institution ,is 157, and the number of females is' 142. , • Tho statistics for tho Otaki Hospital for the month of February are as follow :—Admitted, 10; discharged, 5; death, 1; under treatment, 9. Otaki Sanatorium: —Admitted, 5; discharged, 3; under treatment, 26. The Otaki Committee reported that information had been received from the Department of Agriculture stating that a composite sample of milk from the sanatorium herd, collected on December 10, had been submitted to the biological, test for the presence of tubercle bacilli with negative results. The following tenders for supplies to the Otaki Hospital for the current year were accepted:—Groceries, Messrs. Bills and Moore, and Mr. H. F. E. Cockrell, for alternate months; meat, Messrs. J. and G. Fairley; bread, Mr. J. Robertson. ■■