HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2230, 21 April 1881, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The ordinary meeting of the above Board was held yesterday afternoon, in the Boardroom, Ohristchuroh Hospital, at 4 o'clock. Present the Mayor of Sydenham (in the chair), and the Mayor of Ohristchurch. The following report was read : The Hospital committee beg to report that during the past fortnight twenty patients were admitted into the institution, and thirty-two discharged, leaving seventy-one patients in the Hospital. During the same period there were seven deaths. The committee recommend that the following extracts from the regulations be painted on the black board at the lodge gate : - BXTBACTS FBOM REGULATIONS. 1. Applications for admission to the Hospital shall be made between the hoars of 9 and 11 a.m. (cases of emergency excepted). 2. Out-patients must attend on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and be provided with an order from the secretary of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. 3. Visitors are admitted on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays between the hoars of 2 and 4 p.m. Visitors cannot be admitted at any other time except by an order from the house surgeon. 4. The gatekeeper is empowered to examine all parcels oonveyed into and from the Hospital. Visitors and friends of patients who desiro to give any articles of food, wine, spirits, &c, to inmates of the Hospital must first obtain permission of the house surgeon. 5. Public vaccination en Fridays at noon. 6. No dogs admitted. A letter was read from Dr. Campbell as follows:

Colombo street, Christchurch, April 19th. 1881. Sir, —As it is my intention to leave Christchurch for a visit to Europe on the 26th instant, and as I shall be absent till the end of the current year, I feel it my duty to resign my appointment as one of the medical staff of the Christchurch Hospital. I have to thank you for the uniform courtesy Bhown by yourself and the other members of the Board since my appointment. I have, &c , D. Campbell. The Chairman Hospital Board, Christchurch. On the motion of the Mayor of Christchurch, the resignation of Dr. Oampbell was accepted. It was then resolved—" That applications be invited from duly qualified men to fill the vacancy on the Hospital staff caused by the resignation of Dr. Oampbell." A report of the house steward wos read as follows:

Christchurch Hospital, 20th April, 1881. To the Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Christchurch.

Sir, —I have the honor to hand yon herewith an analysis of the expenditure for the three months ending the 3 bt March, 1881, which I purpose, with your permission, to do in a like mannor every quarter. The total amount expended during this period has been i 11302 17s Id.

The receipts from patients for their maintenance have been ; —At the Hospital, JEII2 7s ; at the Charitable Aid office, .£3 15s ; total, .£ll6 2s.

The daily average number of patients was : For January, 64 ; for February, 53 ; for March. 79 ; the average for tho three monthß being 66 daily. The daily average cost per patient was 4s 4Jd; the payments made by patientß reducing this to 4s per day. The number of patients in the bospiial on January Ist, 1881, were 70 Admitted during the three months 122 192 Discharged during]the three months ... 104 Remaining in hospital on March 31st, 1881 88 The number of deaths has been 9. I would moßt respectfully suggest that you would accord me permission to replace the trees on the portion of the grounds adjoining the Acclimatisation Grounds, about two acres in extent, by choice fruit trees, forming an orchard, which sb time rolls on would be not only a source of pleasure, but one of profit to to the institution by the sale of surplus produce of fruit. I have carcfnlly considered tho cost, which I estimate would not exceed £3O, including fencing material, trees, and labor. I feel it my duty to call your attention to the dilapidated condition of the bridge across the creek near the laundry. I may mention that for some time past I have been compelled to stop all transit of a heavy nature across it. and I wonld suggest that it be either underset by a wall on each side, or replaced by a structure of a more substantial nature. I oufjht furthermore to call yonr attention to tho worn surface of the concrete floor of the err dor, which perhaps it might be wisa on economical grounds to have attended to er j it gets worte. I have, &c , Robert T. Belt,, Honsc Steward. The question of tho orchard was referred to the Hospital committee, with power to act. The report as a whole was adopted. The appointment of a caretaker of the oasual ward, Lyttelton, was deferred, owing to the ab»enoe of Mr Allwright, to whom the matter had been referred. This concluded the ordinary busineoc, and the Board having disposed of some cases of •heritable aid, adjourned till next day of meetirg