CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1899, 25 March 1880, Page 2

CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The ordinary meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held Wednesday at 4 p.m. Present—His Worship the Mayor of Christchurch (in the chair), Messrs. W. Montgomery, Q. Booth, J. G. Hawkes, and the Mayor of Sydenham.

The medical report of Dr. Irving was read concerning the state of the criminal patient Tadball, to the effect that he was progressing slowly but favorably, but that an amount of functional derangement of the heart existed, sufficient to require medical supervision under proper surveillance. The secretary was directed to send a copy of the report to the gaoler at Lyttelton. The hospital committee reported that during the last fortnight thirty patients had been admitted and thirty-seven discharged, leaving seventy-six in the hospital. The committee recommended certain alterations in the grates in the wards to economise the consumption of coal. Also that the matron’s room should be papered and the passages restained, and that the lobbies and entrance to the wards be whitewashed and the kitchen distempered. The report was adopted. The house steward reported on certain alterations and renovations which had been made, and recommended further alterations which he considered necessary. The report was approved. A letter was received from the Under Secretary in Wellington, notifying the official appointment of Mr Hawkes and Miss Esmond to the positions of dispenser and matron to the hospital, vice Mr and Mrs Pridgeon resigned, A letter was read from the Wellington City Council, asking the Board to furnish them with information relative to the management of the Christchurch Hospital, more particularly to the economic administration thereof, for their guidance in the management of the Wellington Hospital, which was now under their control and management. It was resolved to furnish the information required. A letter was read from Messrs Eempthorne and Prosser, offering to supply the Hospital with drugs. The matter of the general supply of drugs was remitted to the Hospital committee to report upon.

Correspondence was read from the master of the Lyttelton Orphanage, referring to the settlement of some of the boys in suitable callings. The correspondence was referred to the Orphanage committee. A letter was read from the Under-Secretary at Wellington, sanctioning the addition of two rooms to the Old Man’s Home, at Ashburton, the cost not to exceed £95. Several tenders for the work in question were opened and read, and that of Mr Whinam accepted for £BB 10s. The tender of Mr Stevens was accepted for the supply of drugs to the Charitable Aid Department. The tender of Messrs Langdon and Jndge, for the supply of meat to the casual ward, Lyttelton, at 3d per lb beef and mutton, al round, was accepted. This terminated the business, and the Board adjourned.