OAMARU HOSPITAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 912, 19 March 1879, Page 2

OAMARU HOSPITAL.

The ordinary meeting of the Committee of the Oamaru Hospital was held last evening, when there were presentMessrs. T. H. Brown (President, in the chair), M'lntosh, Headland, Shrimski, Mainland, Townsend, Paterson, Dunn, Lemon (Hon. Treasurer), and Church (Secretary). The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence was approved. A letter from Mr. Montagu resigning his position as a member of Committee was read, and ordered to lie on the table. The following report from the Visiting Committee was read and adopted : Oamaru, March 16 Your Committee have pleasure in reporting that they visited the Hospital tbs day and found everything in a clean an* satisfactory condition. The numher of patients in the building at this date is 9-? males and 1 Thorpe leading from tb-* lath should be openedMp and cleaned out, as it is now completely choked, and one length of spoutin* "replaced on the nfivr ward, it having "fourXnmittee iiave to acknowledge with thanks the flowing gifts :-A quantity of periodicals xnd m»se of apfefrom Mrs. Smnpter; a number of illustrate 1 papers, from Mr*. Clowes ; a quantity of old finer, from Mrs. Ford; a quantity of prize Rape's, from the Hon R. Campbell; a quantity of prize vegetables from Mr. H. °The following accounts'were examined by vour Committee, and having been found correct, are now presented for payment :

G. L. Grenfell, L 4 7s 6d; Bailie and T lur /roy, B5 Is 6d ; Spence and Bee, L 3 4s Sd*; H. FryVL9 Is 6£d ; John Orr, L2l4s; Hood and Sherman, LI 10s Id. A. J- S. Headland. W. Christie. Thomas Dunn.

A number of accounts were passed for payment, and the .Treasurer's statement was read and received.

Mr' Shrimski said that in connection with the statement just read, there' was one matter to which he wished to refer, and with which he wished, the public to be made acquainted through the Press. At their last meeting the County Council had very generously voted L2O of the ratepayers' money to the North Otago Benevolent Society. While he admired their charity he could not help regretting that the Hospital should have escaped their attention. If the Benevolent Institution was deserving of the L2O voted, the Hospital, he thought, should have received at least LIOO. He regretted

that its superior claims should have been passed over by the County Council. The Hospital had a far higher purpose to serve than the other institution ; it was the means of relieving the wants of the sick and.injured. The Benevolent Institution could be relieved by means of private charity much more easily than could those who were stricken down by sickness. He regretted to observe that subscriptions came In much more freely towards the Benevolent Institution than they did in aid of the Hospital, which, he thought, few would deny was the more deserving object. The Chairman asked if Mr. Shrimski wished to bring the matter under the notice of the County Council by means of a deputation. Mr. Shrimski replied that ho had no such desire, but would be quite satisfied with publicity being given to the subject by the Press. The matter then dropped. Votes of thanks were passed to the

ladies and gentlemen who contributed to the Hospital funds, and the meeting terminated with the usual compliment to the Chairman.