S.C. HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2398, 20 August 1892, Page 4

S.C. HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The mollily meeting oc the b.uilh Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held on Tuesday, Present — Mr John Jackson (chairman), am] Messrs Moore, Barker, Gillingham,. Bhorratt, Graham, and McLaren. The chairman reported that all the local bodies had paid all the amounts levied on them, thus enabling the Board to send in their claim for subsidy. The annint of subsidy had arrived, which placed the board in credit that day, after payment of accounts, in the sum of £lOOl Is lid.

Correspondence was dealt with as follows :

The Paymaster-General advised that the sum of £1325 Cs lid has boon remitted to the credit of the board.

In reply to a letter from the board, the Education Department forwarded a lengthy Jotter, regretting that the Minister could not see his way to make the chax-ge t.trtho liidustx-ial School children uniform. '1 he 7a Gd a week which the board paid for them certainly did dot exceed the cost to the Government.

In accordance with the steward’s report which was before the last meeting, a return was laid befox-o the board giving the names of 8 patients who had been in the hospital under treatment for over two months. One had been in 248 days, anot,her 103, and so on down to 70. Dr Lovegrove i-eported in writing on three of the cases :—N o. 1 was still totally unfit to look after himself; No. 2, a wound for which he had been treated was nearly healed, but until such was the case he should not bo discharged ; No. 3., the case was almost well.

After a brief discussion on the by-law bearing on tlie matter, and after Dx-s Hogg and Reid had had interviews with the board on the cases they were attending to, it was decided to make enquiries as to the position of a x-olative before discharging the patient; and that two cases go to tlie barracks, and that the others remain in the hospital. Mr McLaren, after briefly introducing it, moved : —“ That this hoax’d regret to see by the reports of the doings of Parliament now in session that the Government intend doing away with subsidies to local bodies, and as such a proposal if carried out would increase direct taxation without giving any advantage to the rateyayers, this board pi-otest against such proposal, and that other boards be asked to support this Board in their px-otest; that the members of the Hoxxse of Representatives for South Canterbury be written to and asked to oppose the doing away with the subsidies.” Mr Moore laid a return before the members, giving comparative returns of cost of patients, etc. Accounts to the amount of £3OO Gs 7d having been passed for payment, the meeting closed.