HOSPITAL BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 41, 9 July 1914, Page 6

HOSPITAL BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. tlir monthly meeting of the T.ir.v ii!!-.I 1 iosjjit;il and Charitable Aid Boar.l yi there were pi es; ;ii Messrs. V, C. .1. liellrii.ger (chairman), 0. \X. Browne, E. Maxwell, A. 11. Halconibe, M. J. Maeßeyr.olds. D. McAllum, J. R. Ilill, J. Brown. (J. V. Tate, D. IT. McDonald and Mrs. E. Dockiill. INSPECTOR'S REPOR?. The Health Inspector (Mr. F. G. Fielder) reported that during the period Juno 17 to July 7 inclusive lie lui.l visited Inglewuid, Waitara, Kaimiro. Egmont Village. Mimi and Ureirii. Three ca-ies vi inU'iiiinis disease liad l been notified, one of si-arlet fever it [ Plymouth. anil two of chicken pox, one at Kaimiro and one at Mimi. Two di>infecti'-ii< hud been performed and lie had made 28 sanitary inspections. Furthci samples of milk had been taken under the Sale, of Food and Drugs Act. OLD PEOPLE'S HOME. Mrs. Bayly, matron of the Old People's Home, nfp&rtcd that everything -. '.d been sati-facton at tin' home during the month. .Supidies had been goo-1, and discipline excellent. She report.-J four admi.s-dor.-, and .'ili inmates [■?') males and 7 females) now in the i/onr., HOSPITAL REPORT. T!hc medical superintendent (Dr E. A. Walker) reported for the month UO admissions. 54 discharges, and •> deaths, leaving in the hospital 50 patients. The highest number in the hospital during the month was 50 patients. Thirty-one operations had been performed. All the eases of .mi- j teric fever had now left the hospital as ciued. There had been twelve in all. Dr. Home was conducting a course of lectures on medical nursing, and Dr. j Fookes oil physiology. j NATIVE NURSE'S REPORT. j The native nurse (Nurse, Muir) re-j ported for the month thai, she lial treated nine patients at the home and attended ono maternity case. Then.' were no epidemics and no patients it the nurse's own cottage. She had found Parihaka, Waitapa and I'atika pas all free from sickness, but.in the homesteads titer* had been a good deal of sickness among the children. T|he reports were adopted.