HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2208, 24 March 1881, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The ordinary meeting of this Board was held on Wednesday last, when there were present—Mr Thomson (Ohairman), the Mayors of Christchurch and Sydenham, Mr W. Montgomery and the Mayor of Lyttelton. The hospital committee reported that for the four weeks ending the 19th instant, fiftytwo patients have been admitted into the hospital, and twenty-two discharged, leaving eighty patients in the institution. Cue death occurred during this period. The Chairman remarked upon the large increase in the number of patients admitted into the Hospital, Dr. Meikle, the house surgeon, was in attendance, and explained that a number of accidents from the country had been admitted. None of those admitted could have been treated os out-patients. The majority were quite destitute. A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary's office, acknowledging receipt of notifi* cation of Mr and Mrs Baxter’s appointment to the charge of the Orphanage. Correspondence in reference to the complaints of Mr Hill re the treatment of his brother was forwarded from the Colonial Secretary’s office, with an intimation to Mr Hill that the Board in Christchurch were the proper authorities to apply to. The correspondence was referred to the Hospital committee to report to next meeting. A notification was read to the effect that Mr Froggart bad taken charge of the Akaroa Hospital Cottage.

Correspondence was read touching candidates for admission to the Ashburton Homo, and the Board resolved to intimate that before patients could be admitted to the Ashburton Home the Board must have full particulars of the oases.

A letter from the Akaroa Borough Council was read, asking that the Hospital deadhouse might be used as a public morgne. The Board had no objection to the use of the building as suggested, and the secretary was instructed to reply. It was also resolved to adopt'* farther suggestion from the same source, to the effect that the Mayor of the town be given the power to distribute charitable relief in the district.

A report on the Orphan Asylum was brought up, showing number or inmates to be —Boys, 53; girls, 46—total, 99.

The caretaker of the Ashburton Home reported that there were thirty-one inmates in the institution.

After dealing with some oases of charitable aid, the Board adjourned.