DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 904, 15 August 1879, Page 3

DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL

The usual monthly meeting of the Com mittee of Management was held in the Committee Room on Monday evening last, the llth inst. Present—B. Naylor, Esq. (President), and Messrs Holt, Attfield, Oliver, Auckland, J. U. Cambridge, J. E. Stevens (Treasurer), and Geo. Fache (Secretary). The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

The correspondence was read and received.

The Visiting Committee’s report No. 1, recommending that a portion of the resei ve adjoining the new buildings be fenced in for a garden, and that the morgue be removed to a more convenient spot, was read anil received.—Resolved that the Visiting Committee be empowered to act. The Visiting Committee's No. 2 report, recommending payment of accounts for salaries and supplies for the past month, amounting to L 76 7s lid was read and received. The Committee explained that the purchase of blankets and patients’ clothing brought the mouth’s expenditure above the usual average. The Treasurer's report, as follows, was rea I and received. To Sub&ciiptious £4O 8 0 Paying patients 17 0 0 Govt. Sub. for lastquarter 112 15 ]1 Bale of old iron 8 0 Balance iu hand from last report 352 £lB2 17 1 MBy Passed accounts paid 41 15 2 Balance iu hand 141 1 H £lB2 17 1 Assets. Balance in hand 141 in Govt. Sub. for current quarter 61 2 0 £202 3 11 Liabilities. Passed accounts unpaid 165 3 8 Credit balance 37 0 3 £202 3 11 The Surgeon’s report, as follows, was read and received :—No. of patients in hospital- beginning ot the month, 5 ; since admitted, 12; discharged during the month, 6 ; remaining in InstitntiononSlst July, 11. 1 have to report that Henry E. Deidrich, who died in the hospital on 3lst July has made a will, leaving all his property to the Institution, and would recommend that the Committee should give the matter their immediate attention, as the property, amongst

other things, consists of a house, and gold mining claim.

The President stated that the Visiting Committee ami himself had incurred extra expenditure in providing a better class of coffin for deceased, and asked that the Committee would support them. Resolved- That the action taken by the President and Visiting Committee be upheld.

It was understood that Dr Leahy, Mr Russell, the wardsman, and Mr Robert Scott, of Tinkers Gully were the executors under the will, and that the matter was now in the hands of Mr F. J. Wilson, Solicitor. The Treasurer referred to the fact that from the Alexandra and Drybread districts, few or no subscriptions had been received for the past two years, and asked if nothing could be done.

The Secretary said he hail asked over and over again the leading residents in each district to canvass for subscriptions until he was perfectly ashamed. For him to make a personal canvass was little better than a waste of time as it was well-known that men, whether farmers or miners, but seldom carried money with them to their work.

Discussion ensued during which reference was made to the large number of patients now in the hospital as evidencing the fact that the Institution was required, and the Secretary was instructed to specially solicit contributions, anil where possible to make a personal canvass. Mr A. A. Oliver was re-elected member of the Visiting Committee. A vote of thanks to the Chair con eluded the mealing.