HOSPITAL NURSES HOME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 2

HOSPITAL NURSES HOME.

. ~ IS IT ADEQUATE. Ai yesterday's- meeting of the Hos* pitai and Charitable Aid Board, tlio Hospital Committers i-ewmmwndod: '■'That, as tJte accommodation ftt the Nurses' Home is taxed to its Utmost, it is considered necessary to enlarge the home by_ extending the south.wn wing 80 feet (more or loss) .winch would make provision for an additional 30 bedrooms. As this ts_ a very urgent matter, an estimate-of'the casi should be obtained without delay. -s Mr." 3. Smith moved the adoption- of the reeo-irjm&Kdfltioi}. Hs\ Oard-ener pointed out that the proposals already before tiro board weuld run into akmt £20,000 if carried ctrt-= So thought all tho proposals should !» brought together and fionsirfered at one time. The chairman (Rev. W. A. Evans) Said that the recommendation did not .commit the board to anything. All fchat it did was to authorise the am* mittee to obtain estimates. It was an exceedingly ' urgent matter. Est fa nurses wore, required at the Hospital, and there- was no accommodation for them. '• The Rev. J, K, Elliott considered t'hat> She board was unttartakiiija: bur■delis which the taxpayers could not stand- -Bo approved of the suggestion that they shoftM have all the proposals ■before them before taking any step. ft© Rev. H.. Vail Stavereii. supported the recoinr&eudatron. It was necessary fliat the patients should he- looked after, and siccoMiirrodiition must ho provided for that purpose. The fecomujendation was adopted.