WAIKATO DISTRICT HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 241, 11 February 1888, Page 4

WAIKATO DISTRICT HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

TnE visual monthly meeting of tl is Board wae held in the Borough Council Chambers, Hamilton, on Wednesday Ist m*t. Present:— Messrs W. A, Graham (chairman) Scddon, Primrose, McDonald, B idler, Hatty, Brunekill, Chepmell and Hunter. Rateable V a luo of the Counties.— Letters were received from the eleiks of the Waipa, Waikato and Piako Counties giving their rateable values for the pr<<«mt year as follows : Waipa County, £G2G,BSI ; Waikato, £60)4,996; Piako, £1)31.830. The return from t)io Raglan County and the Boroughs of Hamilton and Cambridge Lave not been foi warded yet. Report of Selcvt Committee.— Tho report of the Select Committee appointed by the Board todiaw up estimates of expenditure and requirements for the year ending 31st March, 18S0, vris read as follows :— " Tho committee have to report that in pursuance of resolution passed at tho last meeting of the Board, they duly mot, and after a lengthened dieeuss>on and "esueful consideration of the past year's tianPiiv't.ons, they unanimously greedthat the sum required for the coming year would be loss than £1330. £2165 of which will bo the amount ro bo allocated by the Board for contributions from contributing local authorities, and £2105 be reeeivablefrom the Govevnnmem as \no\ided for by the Act. Included in these estimates is the establishment; of the present Hcpiial £800, which is at present costing the Board at the rate of neaily 12 per eont. interest or rent and also a sum of £500 to provide for adiii- ■ tions and further accommodation which it is J imperative tho Board should supply as the present building is too limited for geneial requirements. Is is only fitted to accommodate 12 adults including the nursing staff, whereas at one time theie weie in all 16 inmates, and other Hospital ca^es seeking admission had to be refused foi lack of rooms. The committee therefore consider it necessary to calealate for an average of fifteen patients for the coming year, and it is upon this basis $hat they haTe formed their estimates. These estimates do not amount to more than one half of what the distiiet would have to contribute to the Hospitals of Auckland and the Thnmes were they still joined to those disiuets ; nevertheless _ the committee consi 'cr that with careful administration the amount stated, if placed at the disposal of tho Board, will piove sufiirient foi ordinal y lequiroinents, hut as extr.iordinaiy sickness or disircas has not been anticipate d by tho committee, they do nor c insider it would be at all safe to place their estimates tit at an;, thing less than the amounts specified whuh r.ro as follows, viz :— Hospital. — Estimate for ] 3 patient* £2008 IGs completing es taUishnient present hospital, £800 ; nccessaiy ad <itions to provide for 6 additional patients an I tiuxilllaiy waids for fe\er suvl special cases. £500 ;* deficit for curuni year, £180— £1180 ; deduct estimate 1 Hospital foes £100 ; revenue from endowments, £50-CISO-L1330: Chnitabj Aid and In.'uMml Schools €212 —£392 ; to! J, €1330 lfi-, -An Lev rnu-iosc, James Hally, Wilh .m Chcpincl', William Graham, ehaira^n. A long fliac.^sio'i ont-icd on the large increase of the Catnnr.tcs o\er the e\pen'lituio of the past \err, but thi > explained by the chairman to tliero being several important thing* ro be done this yeai ; and they did not wi-h r.t the end to be aua.i I to i->n into debt for the sa\e of spon hnj a fo'.v pomulb ; and if thcie was any balance to their ciedit it wouLl Le earned on to next year. Amon^ the thiag? fo be done thi? 3 er.r wore tho purclir.^e of the Ho'-piial, eroaiug tlv new waul, so us to rui:e tli3 eanac.n of the IL^pitilto 15 and ihe provision of an Old Men = llefiue. On t) c mouon of Mr Donald, seconded by Mr KulUr, the estimates ".ue pa-sd r.s they stco.l. lhG Chaiimin in his report pave the following: — "Abstiait of Expendjtuie on Hospital ami Chant able Aul to Sist Decenibcr, 1897 * —Bread, L 9 9a 8d ; meat L3O 13s 5d ; milk Ll2 Gs 2J: hc[ht, Ll2 11s 11J; fu-1, L 2-1 Us sd; drugs, TjIOO 13s 5d j surgic-il appliances, Ll5 19s 9dj groceries and provisions, L75 4s • Stationery, &c ,Lll 13- 9d ; patients in otlier hospitals, L3G 12s; int?imeut3, L2G 16s 6d ; buggy hire and cartauo, L 9; water supph, L 53 14b 9'l; Industrial School Tharrfc«». L 18; do do. Kohimarania, L5B in.; do do. bt. Mary'? Ponsonby, L 27 10s, washing, L 33 11s Id; printing and advertising. L3l 17»; petty cash, L2i; bank charges, LI la 4d; gahirii-^ and wage 5 , L421 15s 35; snmhics, L 9 Os 7-1; travellirg espenses, LlB 13-< sd; chaiitablc aid relief,'Ll2B Is 7<l; rent LG3 lh 8J; it.uing, &c., L 24 4s 7d. nxpeiiuitiirc foi eight months, L 1275 12s 3d- Cost of aveia^o number of patients— 9— for 12 montLi, L 637 16s Id— L 1913 8s 4d. Estimate for 3 5 pvticnls at fame rate, L3lBy. Allow for difference in proportionate cost of Jargei and smaller number of patients LIBB, of v,huh for hospital patients is estima'Co. L2J73, nn.l for chai itablc aid and mdastrial poneis LG2.r». completi^^ establishment of present, hospital LSOO, necesbary additions to building to pioviflofor additional six patients ard auxillarv for fever end special ca^es, L-100 ; deficit foi cunent jear to be met, LlBO— L4-130, Deduct estimated hospital fees, LlOO, and ibt'matcl revenue from endowments, L j0 — L-1330 ; amount to be allocated for confnbution troui contributing local authorities, L21G5." Belief: It was oyrted to coMimue sick relief to Henry Mis=en of Te Aiuha to ihe extent of five shillings per week. (KiUact iVom Waikato Times report).