WAIPAWA HOSPITAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 152, 15 July 1937, Page 6

WAIPAWA HOSPITAL

- Our Own Correspondent).

General Meeting of Board

(From

. WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. The monthly meeting of the- Waipawa Hospital Board was held' yesterday. ,Mr. W. H. .Rathbone ptesided over Messrs. D. Eddy,-.W.' Matthews, N. G. Hawthorn, D. W. Neild, G. Warren, L. Glenny and C. Thomsen. Mr. P. R. Synjrk (nianaging-secretary), Dr. W. B. Fisher i(medical superintendent of the district hospital) and Dr. F. C. Anderson (medical superintendent at Pukeora Sanatoriuin) also were- present. ■ A letter from the Wairoa Hospital Board expressed apprecialion of the success of the tuberculosis clinic movement' and' suggested a couference of East Coast district boards with a view to apppinting other specialists, Tather thaa sending patients to metropolitan hospitals for specialist treatment. The chairman said that the Finance Committee, which had considered the matter at its meeting on July 6, hau been somewhat in the dark as to what class of specialist the Wairoa board rcquired. Special treatment usually meant treatment not available in sma'll hospitals. The committee , had considered that the proposal might open up a new pPlicy question in hospital board administration, and it would also,' naturally, , mean considerable expense to boards. • Mr. Hawthorne said that es a layman he thought the recommendation was quite a good one. The recommendation of the Finance Committee, as follows, was agreed to: "That the Wairoa Hospital Board be asked to give fuller details and suggestions, particularly as to what classos of treatment the proposals should embrace, to enable this board to form an opinion'. Tho Director-General of Health foiwarded Ministerial approval. of the appointment of Dr. Craig Olay as iesident medical officer at the district hospital, Waipukurau. — Received. The Director-General of Health also forwarded Ministerial approval of the board 's estimates as originaliy submitted. — A member askod if there were any queries, and after the man-aging-secretary had replied jn the negative the chairman remarked that if the member had stndicd the estimates carefqlly he would have realised that there could be no query, boeauso the estimates had been drawn up in a very consorvative mannor. It was decided that a cubicle wall be erected at the women 's, ward side verandah, to separate the sterilising room and the soiled linen receptacle from the accommodation occupied by patients, as recommended by the hospital medical superintendent and also by the Finance Committee.