HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3276, 16 June 1943, Page 5

HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

MEETING OF THAMES BOARD ALL INSTITUTIONS VERY BUSY The monthly meeting of the Thames Hospital Board was held at Thames on Tuesday afternoon, the chairman, Mr P. E. Brenan (Paeroa borough), presiding. Others present were Messrs J. W. Danby (Thames borough), S. H. Brown (Waihi borough), C. Winder (Thames county), W. Madgwick (Thames borough), C. W. Parfitt (Hauraki Plains county), A. H. Sutton (Hauraki Plains county), J. Cornes (Waihi borough), A. G. Davis (Hauraki Plains county) and W. C. Kennedy (Ohinemuri county) and the secretary, Mr A. L. Neighbour. Leave of absence was granted Lieut. M. A. Brook (Coromandel county). Statistics regarding the various institutions under the board’s control were given as under: — A Busy Month Paeroa hospital.—Number of patients in wards at last return, no males, 2 females; admitted, 2 males, 18 females; deaths nil; discharged, 2 males, 12 females; remaining, no males, 8 females; operations, 2 males 5 females; confinements 7. “May was a busy month with both general and maternity work,” added Matron W. Moore in her report. Mercury Bay hospital.—Number of patients in hospital at last return, 2 females, 2 males; admitted, 6 females, 8 males; discharged, 2 females, 8 males; deaths, nil; remaining, 1 female, 2 males; confinements, 1; outpatients, 39 females, 33 males.

“The work of the hospital proceeds smoothly,” added the report from Dr. F. Birkinshaw.

Coromandel hospital.—Number of patients in hospital at last return, 7 males, 12 females; admitted, 13 males, 20 females; discharged, 11 males, 21 females; remaining, 9 males, 11 females; operations, 4 males, 4 females; outpatients, 42 males, 50 females; number of prescriptions, 240.

Staff Shortage

Waihi hospital.—Number of patients in wards last return, 22 males, 25 females; admitted, 33 males, 40 females; deaths, 4 males, 1 female; discharged, £7 males, 43 females; remaining, 24 males, 21 females; outpatients, 22 males, 6 females; attendances, 47 males, 13 females; operations, 17 males, 10 females. “Owing to sickness in the nursing staff and the excessive number of patients we have found it necessary to reduce visiting hours to one hour on Sundays only. In spite of trying to keep the number of occupied beds down to that which the staff could handle we have had an average of 39.1,” reported the resident surgeon, Dr. A. L. Hetherington.

Thames hospital.—Number of patients in wards at last return, 59 males, 43 females; admitted, 64 males, 58 females; deaths, 5 males, 3 females; discharged, 54 males, 55 females; remaining, 64 males, 43 females; outpatients, 48 males, 20 females; attendances, 141 males, 43

females; operations, 25 males, 21 females. Physiotheraphy Department Reporting on the Physiotheraphy Department at the Thames Hospital, Matron K. M. Ansenne stated that inpatients had totalled 227 and outpatients, 303. At the Ma'cmity Annexe of the Thames Hospital, 11 mothers and 2 babies were admitted during the month, 1 mother and 1 babe were transferred, 9 and 9 babies were discharged, 5 mothers and 5 babies remaining at date of return.