HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1537, 21 January 1879, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, at 4 p.m. Present—Mr H. Thomson (chairman), the Mayor of Sydenham, and Dr. Turnbull. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. THE OBPHANAGE. Certain application wero made by the parents of children for the admission of their children into the Lyttelton Orphanage. On consideration tho Board detorminod on not acceding to the applications, as they considered it foreign to the objects of the institution to admit children into it whose surviving parents were able to provide for them. Besidoa, they thought it wrong in principle to separate children from their parents, unless the latter were unfit to take chargo of them, and when that was the case there was another institution to which they could gain admission. AKAEOA HOSPITAL. A letter was read from Dr. Guthrie, intimating his intention of carrying out the wishes of the Board with regard to the admission of patients into the hospital, and their maintenance while inmates. EXCHANGE OF TATIENTS. A letter was read from the llouso Surgeon of tho Auckland Hospital, stating tho impossibility of their receiving patients from other localities requiring change of air, as all the accommodation they had waß required for the local cases of sickness. THE DISPENSES. A letter was read from Dr. Turnbull, the chairman of the hospital stuff, calling the attention of the Board to the regulation as to thedutieaof tho dispenser, and recommending that for the future he shall ceasato accompany tho house surgeon and staff during their daily rounds of the wards. On the motion of Mr Booth, seconded by Dr. Turnbull, it was resolved—" That rule 22 of the regulations be rescinded compelling the dispenser to accompany the house surgeon and medical staff on their rounds, and that the recommendation of the staff be avoided." dispensee's assistant. The Board resolved that Master Lewis Hobbs be admitted into the dispensary for the purpose of assisting in the duties involved in counection with it. DECEASED TATIENT3. A discussion took place regarding the special duties of the employes of the institution, and the Board resolved that for the future it should be an instruction to the house steward that in the case of deceased patients, where the address of their friends or relatives was known, he should communicate the fact to them, or where they had none to make the necessary arrangements for their interment. HOUSE SCBGEON'S BEPOHT. The house surgeon reported that there had been fifteen admissions during the past week. HOHSE STEWAED'S EEPOET. The honse steward reported that thoro had been seventeen discharges and threo deaths during the week ending January 19th. THE OBPHANAGE. _ '■ A variety of matters in connection with the Orphanage were considered and disposed of, after which the Board adjourned.