BENEVOLENT HOME CROWDED.
THE CHRONIC INVALID DIFFICULTY. WELLINGTON, January 7. Since February ot last year the number o£ • mmates at the Ohiro Homo has increased from 70 to 101. A number of the inmates are chronic invalids. " Three old men are bedrkjden. One is a mental case. Another, patient is suffering irom internal cancer. One man is suffering from senile decoy, two are subject to fits ? and another is suffering from rheumatic gout. AH these people have to be fed in bed. In .addition there are other inmates who, the secretary stated at a meeting of the Benevolent Trustees this afternoon, are mt>rp~ fit for a hospital than -the home. Of "ata the work at the home has greatly increased, and the secretary said that he did .not see how he could keep up with the work unless the people were to'he neglected. His wife had been working from 7.30" a.m. till 8 p.m. without a break, and her health had broken dcwn in consequence. What wac wanted was a woman well trained/ in doraeotio work. It was agreed to call for applications for an assistant at £50 pet annum*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 12
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190BENEVOLENT HOME CROWDED. Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 12
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