TARANAKI HOSPITAL BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8142, 26 June 1906, Page 2

TARANAKI HOSPITAL BOARD.

At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Board there wore present '■ Messrs G. Tisch (chairman) J. Burgess, C. Andrews, D. H. McDonald, and 0. O'Sullivan. OIiD people's maintenance. The Hawera Board wrote that the claim for maintenance of their old people at the Home required explanation, and that they should have been consulted in the matter of extraordinary expenditure for drainage, repairs, and building, The Chairman explained that the whole cost of upkeop of the Home had to be considered. The cost was only 12s 6d a week, and ho would rather see the Hawera Board pay regularly 12s per week for each patient, to simplify matters. A WAITABA MATTER. In answer to his letter, Mr Dugdale, Waitara, will be informed that the case referred to by him was hardly ono for the Old People's Home, as the family were in a position to maintain the person referred to. HEQCSST DECLINED.

Nurse E. Millar, who recontly resigned, asked for payment for holidays, as she had been a year in the hospital without having had a holiday.—De> dined.

APPRECIATION. Nurse O'Brien sent a letter of thanks to tho Board for the kind remarks concerning her and the discharge of her duties as head nurse. Mr O'Sullivan said that wherover he had been since last meeting he had heard very favorable comments on tho Board's action in keeping down general | expenses and raising the salaries of their nurses. Mr Burgess endorsed these remarks, and said he had been through the Palmerston Hospital recently, where nurses wer'o better paid thau those at New Plymouth, whereas thoir doctors cost less. Nurses Bayly, Trask, and McAUum thanked the Board for increases in salary. AN INDEPENDENT lAD. Mr D. H. McDonald, a member of the Board, asked if the Board had control of a lad at Inglewood, who had been placed in service by the Board, and was now determined to leave the home provided for him. The boy had been well treated. The secretary said the Board had no jurisdiction over the boy after he had turned 14 years of age. Mr O'Sullivan said the Board should not try to coerce a boy able to look aftor himself.—No action taken. A CCNFIEMED INVALID. The Government Balneologist wroto that an Old People's Home patient sent to the Rotorua Sanatorium for treatment of rheumatism was in a very advanced stage, and it was unlikely that ho could be very much benefited. A further communication was read to the effect that the patient wished to stay at Eotorua after leaving the Sanatorium. He would have free baths. The Board endorsed the action of the chairman, who had telegraphed that the patient could remain, as long as the Board was not made responsible for tho cost.

THE LATB PBESIIEB. Tlio Chairman referred to tho death of the late Premier, and, with a view to placing on record the Board's appreciation of Jiis services to the colony and to the Empire, be moved, " That this Board expresses its sorrow and regret at the untimely death of tho late Eight Hon. Eichard John Seddon, Premier of the colony, and places on record its appreciation of the high qualities of the deceased statesman; and tenders to his wife and relatives its heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement, and that a copy of the above resolution be sent to Mrs Seddon." Mr C. O'Sullivan, in seconding, said ho had probably known the late Premier longer than any other member, having known him 27 years ago on the West Coast gold diggings at Knmara, The motion was carried in silence. OLD PEOPIE'B HOME, Mr A. E. Farrar, custodian of the Old People's Homo, reported that there are now in the institution 39 inmates, 31 males and 8 females. One had been admitted, and one had left during the month. Discipline was good, but general health not good. The Chairman said it' would be nonessiiry 'to paint the buildings this year, but the expenditure would not be moved for till about August.