HOSPITAL BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 16 April 1907, Page 3

HOSPITAL BOARD.

'l'lii! ordinarv monthly meeting of tin". Taranaki .Hospital !i»tV Charitable Aid Hoard was held on Monday. Present: The cliiiirmaii (Mr. <!. Tischj", arid Messrs ■I. IT. Parker, .las. Huigcss, .]. Hrovn, ani U.K. MePoiald. Dv. Valintine acknowledged the Hoard's letter concerning- incurables, and hoped to he able to discuss the mailer further. The Treasury forwarded intimation that .Willi Ills lOtl subsidy had been remitted to the Hoard's account, being for tlie period from January 8 to March. iraVEYANCK OF PATIENTS. .Mr. fiurjps said In had been usked by llie chairman of the Opunakc Town Hoard to empiire if the Hoard would accept the responsibility of the costs incurred in conveying patients to the hospital in the, ambulance recently provided by the two boards and public contributions, i Mr. Tisch said the duty of the board was (o receive patients, and 1o treat and cater for them when admitted to the hospital, but if they started (laying for conveying people to the hospital they would not know where, to stop. .Messrs. Hurgess and Andrews said there was likely to be dilliculty soine- ■ times, for the driver was not likely to . run the ambulance in unless his re- :. numeration was assured. Other members thought that settlers I were generally willing to help a sick or injured person to (he hospital. 11 was pointed out, however, that the . [lawera Jioard had arranged to guarau- - tee the expense of conveying patients t to that hospital.

nU^gHIUHjIIUKBI ■■■■ .'!• Ml'C'lilll'tl to HSU ut till! I' £3 10s for the journey.

CIIAIU.UAYN ItKL'ORT. I The chairman reported that the last month had been ;i busy one for a nursing stall', the accoinmodatinn in tin- hospilal having been severely t a Ned. The daily average number of patients for ilu» lour weeks lin.fl been fit). and the numbers had been up to .u>. There were now live patients in the consumptive annexe, after a long spell. The X-rays installation was now in working order, and the medical "wafi "we'l pleased with ilie apparatus. The tot;'.! cost, including- th.- iiulalhUion of the apparatus, amounted Iv UoO, Mr. Isaac J>ayly had donated C-! 5, this earned a (iovernmenl subr-Hy of ,-C~>s, aii«l the board would pay the balance. The borough foreman nnd stall' had tarred and sauded the roadwav in front of the hospital Mild Olil JVopliis Home, and a pood job had been made of it. Til" medical Miperinlendenl having expressed a de-ire to have electric light installed in the operating theatre, he had called tenders for lighting there and in ; ilie vestibule anl eoriid>r, -i total of fourteen lights. Five tenders were received. and he recommended that the lowest tender, that of Messrs. Smart 1 Hros. at CM 7s (id he accepted. I The report was adopted, i' FIXAXCK li The chairman announced that, afier • |i;i\ ing account:- preseiiled, there \v;w a - credit balance of CllliT.. and that iheiv • were several amounts due and outstanding. He complimented the secretary on e his promptness in collecting inaiiitcn- " since lees, of which ;CH)B2 Is had been gathered in during tin; year, These figures, he thought, were not equalled ,by any board outside the four centres. It >va!j interesting too, to note that

during the past year there had not been a penny paid for interest, the only amounts paid to the bank having' been for keeping the account ami for chequebooks. When he (Mr. Tisch) joined the hoard, interest "had been a very considerable item, the overdraft having amounted then to about £-1000. In l!li)(i-7, up to March 31, the account had not been once overdrawn. The rate, eighteeiipeiice in .-Eloo, was the smallest in the history of the Hoard, and altogether the Board could consider its prospects for the year were excellent, starting with a credit balance of ,CI)81. Accounts were passed for payment: Hospital, .-a2:i ISs 3d; charitable aid, .fcili'S Ills 7d; total, .€452 17s Bid.