AN ECONOMICAL PROPOSAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 290, 30 April 1913, Page 5

AN ECONOMICAL PROPOSAL.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S SUGGESTION. Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At a special meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, called by the Inspector-General of Hospitals (Dr. Valintine) to-day, an important proposal was made by the Health Department in regard to the decision of the Board to engage a bacteriologist for the hospital. Dr. Valintine said that the matter proposed to put before the Board was an important one. He believed that the medical superintendent (Dr Hardwick Smith) had been instructed to engage a bacteriologist in London. The proposal which he had to make was that Dr. Hurley (Government Bacteriologist at Wellington) should be appointed bacteriologist to the Hospital Board, together with his_ staff. The total salaries of the bacteriological staff would amount to £llsO per annum, half of which would be paid by the-Government and half by the Hospital Board. The Board would retain all fees, which would amount to about £2OO. The Department would hand over its present equipment, so that instead of having \two laboratories there would he one, thoroughly up to date in every respect. If this arrangement was agreed to, a similar arrangement would be made with other centres. The Department would have the use of the pathological block at the hospital, and the' Board would be able to call on the services ■of Dr. Makgill (Government Pathologist). The Government would require ito occupy only about two days per month for the manufacture'of vaccines.