ACCOMMODATION FOR NURSES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 150, 13 July 1937, Page 14

ACCOMMODATION FOR NURSES

Opposition to Proposal Before Board MR. BEDFORD NOT TOLD The matter of extra accommodation for nurses at tlic Naaier Public Hospital caused some friction at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board yesterday, when it was reported that a committee of executive officers of the hospital had decided that, us temporary accommodation, a large house in SixtyFifth street, at present one of the houses controlled by the Park Island Joint Committee, would be used. Several members objected on various grounds, and it was decided that the Napier building committee, with the addition of the Rev. K. li. Gosnell and Mr S. J. McKee, should go into the matter. The executive committee, consisting of the chairman, Mr U. .Lassen, the medical superintendent, Dr. J. J. Foley, the matron, Miss L. M. Croft and the managing-seeretary, Mr E. T. Rees, reported having considered the question of extra accommodation for nurses. Eight additional beds would be required in October, they reported, "and as the house was nearby, and was the property of the board, it could provide accommodation for 12 nurses, giving accommodation to 107 in all. Mr C. O. Morse asked if it were not correct that this was the function of ^ne Napier building committee, and vvlien it was replied that the matter was a temporary one only he' pointed | out that as the Park Island Joint Com-mi-tee held the use of the house tho chairman of the committee, Mr A. E. Bedford, who is also a member of tho board, should have been advised of tho intention as a matter of courtesy. The chairman replied that the committee held the house, which was occupied by Mr G. H. Puflett, fpom month to mcnth only. Mr Morse tlien eontemled that the house was not suitable for use for a nurses' home, and would tahe a great deal of money to renovate. Mr Bedford said that he thought he should have been advised. He wanted to know What was going to happen to • he 18 old men at present in the home. They were, he said, too ill to be shifted to the. home at Dannevirke. The chairman: Too ill to be shifted to the care of a trained sister at Dannevirke ? Mr Bedford: Yes, and the medical superintendent will bear me out. The chairman: Well, the medical superintendent was at the meeting, and he did. not say auything about their beJUg too ill to be moved. The decision to refer the matter to tho building committee, with the addiliojial memuers, was adopted.