Palmerston North Hospital Board

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 85, 16 January 1892, Page 3

Palmerston North Hospital Board

- The ordinary monthly meeting of the was held at Palmerston on Thursdft£ last. Present— Messrs Leihbridge (chatrnian); ISPje; i Grant, Park, Taylor. :: CORRESPONDENCE. From Borough Council granting the application of the Board for use of the -.Council Chambers for meetings of the Board. • . F.rpin Dr Macgregar, inspector of Hospital^ as follows:— "In reply to your .enquiry regarding the terms on which -pn>T6nls are admitted into the Botorna Sanatorium, I beg to enclose an extract from the N.Z. Gazette. With reference to jour request for a model hospital plan, I would point out that before fixing on a plan it would be necessary to know how many patients you . have to provide for. and t hit as you seem to have^ already called for competitive designs it would be belter if 1 were asked to approve or disapprove of the plan selected, as the law provides." '• From , same, in answer to questions submitted by Board, stating his opinion that as the. Pill merst on district had been separated for. hospital, purposes and for charilable aid purposes as well, any persons appointed must serve in both capa* cities. As regarded the question of accounts, there should, be no difficulty in squaring receipts and expenditure with the Wanganui 'Board. -•; From same,- with regard to application for. subsidj, on £574 17s 6d, forwarding form to. be, filled in.- --' ;■,.'- '„.":■'. .FINANCE, . .-,. On the motion of Mr Grant, it was re* solved, That' all moneys in the hands of the Palraerton Borough Council and all deposit receipts be bended to the Board, 'deposit, receipts to be endorsed before being handed over. ; . In answer to Mr Park, the chairman stated that members coming from a distance were allowed by .the Act to charge actunl travelling expenses. With regard "to. the Bulls hospital fund,- Mr Park said te understood that, at any rate, two of the three trustees were willing to hand over the amount to the Board. He suggested that two members of the Board should be appointed to confer with the trustees on the niaiter. '"..'.' Mr Taylor moved, That the Chairman ''and 1 Mr Park be appqinted to interview "the Bulls hospital trustees to see what . could be done in the matter. Seconded by Mr Grant and carried. . THE YOTTNO CASE. As to the man, David Yonng, whom it was suggested to send to the Eotorua Sanatorium, the Chairman pointed out that the 'case was one for the Wanganui Board to deal with at the instance of the Manawatu County Council, as the Palmerston Board had not really taken up that part of their functions yet. M r Park handed in a letter received from Mr J. GraGe, one of the trustees of ■ the Falmerston hospital fund, enclosing deposit receipt for £247, lodged to the credit of the Board at the Colonial Bank, and a receipt slip for £23, also paid into the credit of the Board. . - The Board then went into Committee to consider the designs for the hospital uilding. — Manawatu Times,