HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 192, 16 June 1903, Page 2

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD

The Bjard me', od Monday. Present: Messrs G. Tiseh (chiirmau), McDjuold, Andrews, Liardaf, Brown, Gray, and Hine. An apology was mide for the ab-j eoce if Jlr Mackay, who had goi e to Wellington on County business. Tha Ohai min r.pjrted that the ontrac'or for plinking the Hospi'al I •vasoaakiogsitisfactoryprogefSs. Miss I )oaaldson having resigned, applications wero called for head nurse and assistant nurse. Acting upon the advice of the nndical department he had ippjinted Misa A. Oarmichael, of Dmstan Hospital, as he id nurse, and Mif.a M. Thompson, of Dunedin, at assistant nurse. J. Mitchell, an assistant at the tJome and bandy man about the grounds, had resigned, and as the l undre s rrqnirod as ia'acee the chairman had advertised for a married couple, and recommenced the appointment of Mr and Mrs Pres'on.

With regatd to the Hospital Ball, for the purp se of raising iunds for beautifying the grounds, a committee of ladies, with the Mayoress at the head, had the matter in hand. He had conferred with Mr Green, of the Morehed Nursery, who was wiling to superintend the wo. k. Mr G. 0 jnnett's lease having expired he offered the Boar'cl %i per week for o Jttags, and to en ct repairs at his own ekpens\ The acceptance of this off jr was reommended. —Adopted. W. Edgecome, an inmate of the Hcm°, who is in receipt of a weekly mm from the Accident Insurance Ojmpiny, asked what sum the Board was charging him for accommodation, and . requesting that the balance of money be paid over to hion. Mr. S imuel wrote forwarding a donation of £2 2i to the fund for beau ifying the g-ound. - Received with thanks.

Mr and Mrs Preston were appaintei as gardener and launJress rep o'ively. In reply to en inq ury by the Socretaiy of the Oirring on road Branch of the Farmers Union, he is to be informed that typhoid cases are not an a ru'e isolated,

D\ Whitton wrote stating that •' two de>.d b at», saturate i with alcohol had lcsl; their la-t shilling and did not know where to find any more," and he had referred thun totheßoud, He abided, thifc were they touring through Rossi* they might besmptbyfd digging gravs f.T those more destitute than themselves.

The Secretary reported that the cafes in question had b ea passed on by the po ica.

The names of Mis*s M. Harley, W. Griggs and E. B. White, Were ordered to be placed on the probationers Int. Several applications for time to pay outstanding charges were de tit with. The Wellington Board wrot-', aiking for co-op?ra'ion in securing the importation <f drugs for hospital us ■ (exc=pt those mmu'Hctured in the coljny) free of dir,y, -*Agrted to. Tha Seoretary was authorised to sign orders for admission of patients to the hopiti', At the suggestion of the Board's Soicitors (Me?BM Govett and Qu lliam) a rrs)lution was parsed auhar.s'ng the chairman to s ; go consent* to morig-.ges given by persons holding land from the B;ard.

Th 3 Hiwara Board wrotej declining to recognise a cliim ii respect of W. Bank's treatment in the hospital as he Wits not a resident of that distrio\ Robrt A learn wro f e, thinking the Bjaid for tl.e grant of an arc ficial leg. Dr. Leatham rep jrted that during the*month 27 cases were admitted, 39 jHsnhiU!£fls3| one d6a±h l .ar u * --l*-«MMr-«r

hospital, The cart taker of tin Home, A. E. Farrar, reported one admission, one death, one departure, leaving 27 mile and 3 ft-male inmatus. The general health aDd discipline hid bieo goo 3. Ttie sweeping apparatus hid arrived anl had been used.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIE3 APPLICATION. The Board resume! consideration of the application of the Friendly Societies for a reduction of charges in respet of treatment of members at the hospitd. Correspondence from other Bjards as to their arrangements with the Societies was rtud, from which it appeared that at Auckland half fees were charged to members and their wives, quarter fees to children under 16, and half fees over that age. The matter wap, however, again under consideration. At Hawke's Bay the membsr of any lodge or one of his family was admitted to the Hospital if the Lodge pud £5. This arrangement was to be in fore i for a year, and seemed to work well. The Wellington Bjard had made do arrangements, but were willing to admit members of Lodges for 10s a week if the Societies' Council guaranteed piyment, or to give the Oouuril the right to send in 25 members free in return for a donation of £SO. Other Boards had made no arrangement with ! the Societies. I

Tha Chairman moved that members of Friendly Societies be charged while in Hospital at the rate of 3s par day,— Semuded by Mr Andrew?. Mr Gray moved that the application be not entertained. Seconded by Mr McDonald.

On a division, the amendment was carried by the casting vo'e of the Chairman.—Ayes: Messrs McDonald, Liardet, Gray, and Pigott, Noes: Messrs Tisch, Andrews, Brown, and Hine.

Mr Andrews moved that a reduction of 10 par cant, be granted.—Sacond«d by Mr Brown, and lest on a similar division.

It was then resolved that tha application for a reduction be not entertained. ADJUSTMENT OP ACCOUNTS WITH HAWERA. The committee appointed to confer with the Hawera B>ard's delegates with a view to adjusting accounts between the two Boards reported that for the third time thay hid me> the Hawera committee, and after a s'eit deal of deliberation over the Milmoe bequest, which tha Hawera represontatives emphatically r. fused ti o <nsider as an aeset, the position was that lowing out the Mi'moe bequest tin assets were decided thus:—Ne» Plymouth £8650, Hawera £2500; the Hawera committee claiming £IOOO from tha B.iard as their share of assets. The cjaoniittee contended that the Milmoe bequest should be reckoned nn asjet, so 'he matter cams to a dead-lock. Mr Qiilliam, the Board's solicitor, was present, and finally the following agreement was arrived at su'ijioi to confirmation by the Board : AB ! ETJ. Contingent assets: (I) Thi Taranaki Board to retain tha whole of the contingent assets situate! within the boundaries of its present district at time of separation. The Hawera Board to retain the whole of contingent i assets situate within its district at

time of Bfptration, tog?t v er with tb' Milmoa bequest and subsidy tbsraon. (2) The Taranaki Board to pay the Hawera Board the sum of £SOO in ful l satisfaction of all claim for excess of contingent assets reta ; ti"d by the Taranaki Board. (3) The Taranaki Board Ito take over the lqiid as e's and liability s, and the Hwera Board to p : \y tha Taraoaki Boird the sum of £415 as its proportionate share of' of liabilities over assets, (4) Tse Taramki Boird to pay tho Hiwen Board the sum of £75, being amount lin truit for the Hawera grounds. (5) Oontribu'.ion in due by Hawera J County and subidy thereon, £220 2* BJ, to be treated as in abayince until! proved to bo good, and paid, the. L'aranaki B>ard to pay the Hawera [ Board its proportion according to valu-1 a'ion.

Uuon the Taranaki Board signifying its approval of the above set forth ssttlement, the neccsjjiry lpgia'ation be promoted to effeot thereto, each B)ard to bear its half share of the I COit. OLD PEOPLE'S HOME.

In addition to the Taranaki' Board's rcquirem ;nts for its poor, tbe Home at New Hymouth to be available and us.-d for tbe accommodation of tbe usual class of innutes from the Hawera district ; the Hawera Boird to pay the Taranaki Board the aggregate cost of eaoh inmate who hails from the Hawera district, including present inmates who originally came from within the present Hawera Hospital district bcuudaiies; the Hiwera Boird to make progress payments for suah inmates as from April Ist, 1903, by quarterly instalments at the rate of 10s for each inmate par week; the first of such instalments to be due and p lyabla on June 30tb, 1903, and the final payment to be adjusted at the c'osa of each financial year, when actual cost is ascertained. Such agreement tobe for, say, fivo years. The Ohairmtn s*id that the practical result of the agresment arrived at was that the Taranaki Board kept its reserves and building', and paid the Hawera Boird £85 t of which the Hawera Boird bad to refund £66, the amount of extraordinary expenses incurred by h?m pii)r to 31si March. I He Gray proposed that the report be adopted on the undemanding that chronic cues bo not sent to New PlyJ mouth, as tho Home should not be a 'damping ground for the Hawera chronics. On that unders'anding he ' considered the agreement was an excelI ldn'. one.

Mr Andrew.', in receding the motion, agreed with the proposer's re • muks, and said the stipulation would be set out'in the agreement to be prepared. Mr Liardet thought the agreement very fair, Mr McDonald said this was not fiaal, as a s>h:>rfc Ac 1 ; would need to be passed to give effect to the agreement. : The motion was then put and carried. The Bjard rose.