HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2284, 28 July 1881, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The ordinary meeting of tbe Board was held on Wednesday last, at the usual hour. Present —Mr Thomson (chairman), the Mayor of Christchurch, the Mayor of Sydenham, and Mr Hawkes.

The report of the hospital committee was read as follows, and adopted : The hospital committee have the honor to report that during the fortnight ending July 23rd, twenty-three patients have been admitted into the Hospital and ten discharged, leaving fifty-seven patients in the institution. During the same period four deaths occurred. For the corresponding period of last year there were forty-nine patients in the Hospital.

Letters were read from Messrs E. Richardson. E. O. J. Stevens, S. P. Andrews, and J. T. Fisher, re the establishment of a Benevolent Institution, and promising to give the matter their ponsideration. The annual statement of receipts and expenditure of the oharitable institutions undor the oontrol of the Hospital and Oharitable Aisl Board was then submitted. The members having copies of the statement, it was taken as read and adopted. The Board resolved to send copioa to the various bodies interested, and also the Government.

The statement showed that tho receipts from all sources amounted to £B6O 2s 6d, as against £94117s 2d for the preceding year. The expenditure had been £15,263 10s, as against £16,752 6a 9d for the year previous. The number of patients admitted to the Hospital during the year was 587 ; during the same period 532 were ditcharged, and 60 died. The receipts were £558 Is Bd, and the expenditure £4318 2s 43. The receipts and expenditure in conneotion with the casual ward, Lyttelton, were £37 8s 6d, and £126 Is 6d respectively. Six patients wero admitted during the year. At Akaroa the admissions numbered 33, and the discharges 32, while two deaths occurred. The receipts were £47 14s, and the expenditure €430 14) sd. The number of children in the Orphanage on July Ist, 1880, wbb 60 boys ana 45 girls. Eleven boys and an equal number of girls wero admitted during the year, and 17 boys and 12 girls apprenticed or withdrawn by relatives, leaving 54 boys and 44 girls in the institution on June 30th, 1881. Tho receipts were £194 lis 2d, eid the expenditure £1964 163 7d, a considerable reduction on the previous year. The average cost per week of each child was 6s 9d, against 7b 6id. At the ABhburton home the number of inmateß was 42 on July Ist, 1880. The admissions were 34, the discharges 30, and the deaths 4, leaving the number of inmates the samo as at the beginning of the year. The expenditure amounted to £983 111, an average for each inmate of 10s 9fd per week. The number in receipt of charitable aid relief on June 30tb, 1881, inclusive of thoßa inths Home, was !868, an increase of 149 compared with the same period in 1880. Temporary clief was granted during the year to 393. The expenditure amounted to £7077 15s sd, db against £7715 2s Id. This expenditure ineludes the sum of £1228 Oa Id as wages on relief works ; last year the amount paid as wages was £IOBO 6i 6i. The aotual cost, after deducting receipts, of the hospitals and charitable institutions under the control of the Board for the year ending June 30th, 1881, has been £14,403 7s 9d, as againßt £15,810 9i 7d'for the proceding year. Copious tables are appended to the report, setting forth the various items in detail.

The Secretary then read a memorandum showing the contributions from local bodies under Hospitals and Oharitable Institutions Bill. It was resolved to send copies of the memo, to the various local bodies.

The memorandum gave the estimated cost of maintaining the different institutions for the year ending June 30th, 1882, as follows— Christchurch Hospital, £4BOO j Akaroa Hospital, £450 ; Casual Ward, Lyttelton, £l5O ; Canterbury Orphanage, £2000; Ashburton Home, £1000; Charitable Aid, £7OOO total, £15,400. The amounts to be contributed by the various municipalities or boroughs towards the maintenance of the above would bo as follows—Christchurch, £1222 9a 4id, or equal to a rate per head of population of Is 7id; Sydenham, £679 3s 10|d ; rate, Is 7Jd per head ; Lyttelton, £196 lss}d; rate, Hid per head; Kaiapoi, £9B 2s2£d; rate, Is 7id per head; Eangiora, £lls 4s sid ; rate, Is 7id per head ; Akaroa £6O 12s 7|d j rate, Is llf d per head; Ashbutton, £7l 12s 9id ; rate, Hid per hoad ; Timaru, £lB4 13s Oid ; rate, Hid per head ; Waimate, £75 14s Bid ; rate, Hid por hoad ; County Helwyn, £2445 9s Hid ; rate, Is 7id per head; County Ashley, £9Ol 10s 10 |dj rate, la 7id per head ; County Ashburton, £512 19s 2id ; rate, Hid per head ; County Geraldine, £4BB 6s lOd ; rate. Hid per head ; County Waimate, £278 15s B|d; rate, Hid per head ; County Akaroa, £368 12s Hid ; rate, Is llfd per head. Total contributione, £7700, which, added to an equal subsidy from the Government, would give the required amount. The seoretary remarks that, in arriving at the approximate estimate of contributions required, it must be borne in mind that in the counties of Waimate, Geraldine, Ashburton, and Akaroa, hospitals are established and are locally managed, with the exception of Akaroa. These counties, however, do not administer charitable aid, while at Lyttelton the borough administers charitable aid, but patients for the hospital are sent to Christchurch ; it is therefore necessary to separate hospitals from other charitable institutions. The appointment of Mr and Mrs Smart as caretaker and matron respectively of the Akaroa Hospital was confirmed. , A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Oarrick for his donation of clothing to the Old Men's Home.