HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2242, 5 May 1881, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The ordinary mooting of this Board was hold on Weddosday afternoon at four o’clock Present—Mr Thomson (chairman), the Mayor of Sydenham, the Mayor of Lyttelton, and the Mayor of Christchurch. The Ohoirman referred to the melancholy event which had overtaken Dr. Campbell and his family, and lost a valuable citizen to this community. Tho minutes only just having been read, in which appeared the record of Dr. Campbell’s resignation, brought forcibly to mind how dreadfully sudden was the calamity. . The Board generally concurred in the opinion expressed by Mr Allwright, that Dr Campbell’s death would bo felt as a severe loss to this institution and tho entire community. The following resolution was passed—- “ That this Board desires to place on record their deep sense of grief at tho appalling catastrophe which has overtaken tho lato member of tho Hospital staff, Dr. Campbell, and his family, and also to express their sense of tho groat loss sustained, not only by this institution, but by tho entire community, in tho untimely end of so valuable a life as that of Dr. Campbell.” It was also resolved to send a copy of the above resolution to the surviving relatives. The Board then dealt with the correspondence accumulated since last meeting. Tho following letter was sent to the Colonial Secretary by authority of the Board :

Christchurch, Btb April, 1831. Sir, —I have the honor, by request of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, to call tho attention of the Hon. tho Colonial Secretary to the fact that the Board are constantly receiving applications for work or assistance from men who are in some way or other disabled, but are yet quite competent to be employed at railway crossings or work of a similar character. The Board think those men should have work found them suitable to their power instead of being kept idle at the coot of the country, and they desire mo to bring this subject under your attention with the view of ascertaining if some employment could not be found for these men on the railway 1 may add that in several cases the men have met with their injuries on the railway. I have. &c., H. Thomson, Chairman. In reply to tho above, the Secretary read a letter from the Colonial Secretary’s office as follows : Sir, — I have tho honor to acknowledge receipt of year letter of the 9th April, calling attention to tho fact that the Board are constantly receiving applications for work or assistance from men who are in some way disabled, but are nevertheless quite competent to do light work, and recommending their being employed by the railway department on crossings, &c. lam directed to inform you that inquiries shall be made into the matter. G. S. Cooper. An application was received from Dr. W. F. Moore to fill the vacancy on tho Hospital staff. This was the only application, and Dr. Moore was accordingly appointed to the position. In reference to a resolution by the Ashloy County Council as to tho administration of charitable aid, which appeared in the Christchurch papers, The Secretary said he had written to Mr W. O. Fendall, to tho effect that the hospital committee would feel obliged by hia giving information as to the case alluded to, as they were quite unaware of any caso of tho kind, and, further, that whatever it might have been, tho case was certainly not refused on the ground of its being too far from Christchurch.

No reply had yet been received to the secretary's letter. Mr Scott was appointed caretaker of the casual ward, Lyttelton, at a salary of £4O per annum, the appointment to bo of a probationary character for three months.

A report on the Ashburton Homo was read, showing that owing to the excellent management, the institution waa in a highly satisfactory condition, the rooms being clean, and the grounds very much improved. Some charitable aid cases were then considered and disposed of, after which the Board adjourned.