MONTHLY MEETING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 319, 5 September 1932, Page 6

MONTHLY MEETING

^ The following were present ai I the usual monthly meeting of the , : Opotiki Hospital Board: — F. J. Sliort , (chairman), G. Powell, Dr. H. M. Budd (medical superintendent) , C. Black, J. H. Reid, J. J. Moody, and ; G. S. Moody. The chairman extended a weleome to the new member, Mr. C. Black. j ITo said that Mr. Black had had a good deal of experience on other pub- ' lic bodies and he should prove a val- : uable member on the board. ; j In reply Mr. Black said, that this type of work was new to him, but he i stated that if the board would have j patience he trusted he would learn 1 and be of some use to them. He thanked the chairman for his weleome. It was decided not to accept an offer of the Cook Hospital Board to | place the services of the laboratory , staff at the disposal of the Opotiki j Board for the sum of £25 per year, | but to defer the matter for three to , six months until it was ascertained j what the casual charges were likely ! to amount to. I Messrs. Aspro, Limited, wrote adI vising that they had forwarded a I supply of aspro to the Opotiki Hospital and would continue to do so free of charge during the financial stress. A circular was received from the Department of Health referring to the necessity of all electro medical apparatus being properly installed. This was handed over to the medical superintendent, one facetious member remarking: "And if you strilce a short circuit or a shock, take an aspro." The report of the general Confer-enc-o of Hospital Boards was received. The secretary reported that Miss Papanui's services had been dispensed with as she had returned to work two days late. He reminded the board that they had decided at their last meeting to consider the question of payment of compensation for the period for which she had been off work on her return to duty. It was decided that she be paid half her usual salary for the period for which she was off duty. The matron's report stated that the i hospital had been particularly busy during August, and it had been found neeessary to engage Nurse Robertson from Gisborne for nine days. The medical superintendent's report stated that there had been 31 admissions, 33 discharged and there were 10 remaining in the hospital. He expressed the gratitude of the staff to the R.S.A. for a gift of a fracture mattress. This would ensure more comfort for the patients and easier work for the staff. He advised that some of the unemployed under the instruction of Mr. T. Iiitchens had made considerable improvement to the front of the hospital grounds at no expense to the board. It was resolved a letter of appreciation should be sent to the R.S.A. and to Mr. Hitchens. The chairman reported that he had examined the ceiling in Bramley's shop and after obtaining expert ad

vice as to cost had given instructions for the work to be put in hand.