DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 573, 11 April 1873, Page 2

DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL

The usual monthly moating of the Committee of Management was hehl in the Committee-room, Town Hall, on Monday, March 7, at 8, p.m. Presen', James Hazlctt, Esq., President, in the Chair, and Messrs. IV. L. Simpson, J. E Stevens, Cambridge, Naylor, Marshall Holt, A. Christophers, and G. Faehe, Sec retary. The minutes of previous meetings wore read and confirmed. The inward and outward correspondence was road, received and adopted. The Visiting Committees Vo. 2 Report recommended payment of accounts for Salaries, Supplies, itc., for the past month, amounting to 18Sf. Bs. Sd. was read and adopted. Accounting for the heavy expenditure, it was explained that special items forbedai'-g and clothing, insurance, repairs and furnishings, amounting t090,'. wereincluded. The Treasurer’s report as follows was read and adopted, Receipts. Kawea Lake Station, pier Cromwell Local Committee ... £5 S 0 Clyde subscriptions ... 7 11 C Hospital taco, Black’s ... 7 15 0 do Bald-hill Flat ... 7 14 0 do and sports at Aevis 11 8 0 £.19 13 ti Balance from last Report ... 2.33 13 0 • ... £203 6 0

Disbursements. Accounts paid ... 12G 411 ... £1(37 1 7 #• Liabilities. Unpaid accounts ... £2lO 13 1 Assets. Balance in band ... £IG7 1 7 Government subsidy due for quarter ending March 31, 1873 ... 87 10 0 £234 17 7 Resident Surgeon reported as follows Patients admitted during the month 12. do. discharged 11. do. died 2. do. remaining in Hospital 9. Daily average indoor patients 10. Number i f out-door patients attended ' 9 Number of attendances on same 12 The report drew attention to the want of surgical instruments and apparatus, and urging on the Gommitteo not to overlook so importanta matter. The Secretary was instructed to request Dr. Stirling t 0 furnish the Committee with list of instruments required. Mr. W. L. Simpson drew att ntiou to the fact of there being no honorary Surgeons to the Institution—after some remarks it was resolved, That the Secretary write to those gentlemen who held the position during tire past year; explaining tmir re-e ection was an oversight, apologise for the apparent no ject, and ask of them to resume their duties until a special meeting was held for their due election. Resolved, Hurt the Visiting Committee, the Resident Surgeon, and the Honorary Surgeons confer as to the instruments required for the Institution, and to lay their report before next moe’i’ig of committee. Mr. B. Naylor was re elected member of ±ho Visiting Committto. Mr, J. Ilazlett, Chairman of the subcommittee appointed to investigate into alleged insubordination of servants, reported the matter had been explained, and that the Committee had drawn up a code of rules for the guidance of the servants. Hie Secretary read the rules as prepared, and said he had furnished the Surgeon with copies of same. A vote of thanks to the chair terminated the meeting.