HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1431, 16 September 1878, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The Board hold their usual weekly meeting at the Hospital on Saturday night. There were present —The Mayor of Christchurch (chairman), Mr George Booth (Mayor of Sydenham), and Mr J. E. March. An apology was read from Dr. Turnbull. The acting house surgeon (Mr Pridgeon) presented his report of patients admitted and discharged for the two weeks ending September 7th and 13th respectively. The number of patients admitted were eight for the week ending September 7th, and six for the week ending September 13th. There were no discharges. The house steward presented his report for the past fortnight and the returns with accounts for the month ending August 31st. A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary’s office, Wellington, approving of the suggestion of the Board in the matter of calling for tenders for dispensing medicines for the following institutions: —The Lunatic Asylum, Gaol and Police, Industrial School, Immigration Depot, Female Refuge, and Charitable Aid department. A number of tenders were received for dispensing medicines for the foregoing institutions, and it was decided to accept that of Mr Joseph Stevens. It was resolved that a copy of the letter from the Government, re dispensing, be sent to the institutions named therein, and that they should bo informed that the Board have made arrangements with Mr Stevens, chemist, to supply medicines as per prescription.

It was resolved that Dr. Guthrie should be authorised to engage a night nurse for the Akaroa Hospital, the engagement to be temporary. A number of matters pertaining to the Lyttelton Orphanage were disposed of. Mr J. E. March reported that the Ashburton Homo was in a satisfactory state, and that donations of books, periodicals, &c., had been received from Mr George Gould, Mr Cass, and several other gentlemen, which the secretary was ordered to acknowledge, A letter was read from the chairman of the hospital staff, recommending that cases of infectious disease, such as diphtheria and scarlatina, should not be admitted into the general medical or surgical wards, and that a detached ward for such cases should be built as soon as possible, the proximity of fever patients to the other inmates being very objectionable. The staff further recommended that a limited number of young men aiming at entering the medical profession should bo taken into the dispensary under proper regulation. Tins terminated the business, and the Board adjourned at 10 p.m.