DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 799, 10 August 1877, Page 2

DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

o The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management was held in the Library Hall, on Monday evening last, the Gth inst. Present : —W. L. Simpson, Esq., Vice-president (in the Chair ; B. Naylor, Esq., President; and Messrs Holt, Beck, Auckland, J. E. Stevens, Treasurer, and George Faohe, Secretary. The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. The Visiting Committee brought up and laid on table statement of cost of removing out-houses from one Side of the main building to the other, and recommended that the work be done at a cost not exceeding LlO. Mr Stevens said it would be well to shift the kitchen and bath-houses as well, hut suggested that the work be delayed till it w'as seen if the now Charitable Institutions Bill in its present form became law', as under it provision was made for the Government to contribute towards the alteration or re-building of any institutions incorporated under the Act. It was decided that the matter he delayed. Report No. 2, recommending payment of accounts for salaries and supplies for the month of July, amounting to L7O 10s 7.1(1, w'as read and received. The Treasurer’s report as follows, was read and received i Receipts. Balance from last report £47 18 11 Subscriptions 4 2 0 Pay ini Patients 10 5 0 Overdraft Bank N S.W. 42 7 3 £lO4 13 2 Disbursements. Passed accounts paid £lO4 13 2 Assets. Government Subsidy for last quarter £2Ol 3 6 Government Subsidy for current quarter 4 2 0 £205 5 G Liabilities. Overdraft Bank N.S.W. £42 7 3 Passed accounts unpaid 70 10 7 £ll2 17 10 Credit Balance £92 7 8 The Besident Surgeon reported as follows: No. of Patients jemainingm Hospital 30th June ... ... ... 10 ~ since admitted ... ... ... 7' ~ discharged ... .. ... 11 ~ remaining in Hospital July 31st ... 7 He further reported that on Sunday, the | 22nd July, one of the Chinese patients cither jumped nr fell into the Molyneux, and tut j for the promptitude displayed by th» Wankman, must have been drowned. He, however, appeared none the worse for his wet- \ ting, and has since been discharged. The “ Charitable Institutions Bill,” now before Parliament, was read, and its several clauses considered. [A svnopsisoftheme* sure is given in another column.] The sug- i gested amendments arc as follows “That j Bye-laws must bo advertised in a local i Paper as well as in the Gazette before they ; have any force or effect.” “ That the imxi-1 mum sum to be paid from the Consolidated | Fund towards the support of any institution j shall not exceed a payment at the rate of j 255. per Week for each of the inmates of | such Institution, and at the rate of 7s. (icr | week for each person in receipt of out-door J relief from such Institution.” “ That j power bo given tbo Managers to recover J from patients for their maintenance, and I attendance whilst inmates of the Institu-I tion.” Resolved—That the Secretary, in a letter! to V. Pykc, Esq., M.H.8., embody the I abnvo suggestion, and ask him when thof Bill is before the House of Representatives to move their adoption. Certain other matters respecting the J management of the Institution having been! dealt with the meeting closed with tlwl customary vote to the chair.