HOSPITAL BOARD.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 July 1920, Page 3

HOSPITAL BOARD.

The Palmerston North Hosi .and Charitable Aid Board met at -, merston North on AVednesday. '. ' sent: Sir James ' AA r ilson (ohairnv j Messrs J. K. Homblow, J. D. Vine i AV. Bramweil, AV. G. Pearce, F. P< (■ Broadbelt, H. W. Smart, D. Colliß, M , Moody, Mrs Z. S. Gill, and Dr. E. t 0 AVhitaker. .. -.- ee _ Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., was gran three months' leave of absence, jf account of his Parliamentary dutieE j g The Department of Public Hea ,jj wroTe approving of the Board's c: j mates, and informing the Board tl if a subsidy of 15s i'd in the £ would f granted for maintenance. rji A circular letter from the Pub i Health Department stated that ca: of tetanus were still occurring, f jj lowing inquiries in which no use h been made of anti-tetanus' serum frc ji a prophylactic |>oint of view. The : „i j tchtion of medical practitioners w . • drawn to the fact that stocks of tl v \ serum were held by hospital boarc n . who had directions to issue it free i .«. : cost for use in necessitous cases, ai j. | at cost price otherwise. The secretai ij ' stated that the Department had not t . ; tied'the doctors before the Board ha j received stocks of the scrum, but I believed arrangements had now bee made for a supply. ij . The Public Health Dcpartmcr , I wrote stating that the Defence Dt ! partment had notified they they ii 3 j tended to pay for military patients o. , ' the same scale as that for civilia: . j patients. 1 The secretary of the AVaikanae dis . trict nurse committee wrote inquiring . . if anything had been done to i]XJoffi the appointment of a nurse for the dis trict. ft. was decided to notify th< committee that the nurse they wishec to be appointed could not be given th( position unless she possessed the cer tificates required by the Board. It. was decided to take steps to col lect from the contributing bodies :i levy required for capital expenditure. This would total some £7OO per annum. | It was decided to accept the offer of a motor firm to supply a new chassis to j the Board's Ford ambulance for £230, ' and allow £95 on the old one. Re the big motor ambulance, it was resolved ■ to secure an estimate for certain im- ! provements required to, put it into thorough order. It was stated that the | Board waj pledged to scud one ambulance to but this could not be done until both ambulances were in ruening order. ,