THAMES GOLDFIELD HOSPITAL.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1872, 8 October 1874, Page 3

THAMES GOLDFIELD HOSPITAL.

The usual monthly meeting of members of the Thames Goltlfield Hospital Committee was held yesterday, at the Salutation Hotel. Present—ltev. Y. Lush, Rev. J. Hill, Her. J. Crump, Eev. Father Lonergan, Messrs Macnab, liowe, Bagnall, Gudgeon, Prater, Mcllhone, Sims, McDonald, McOullough, Wenshaw, Cox, Power. Mr Bo we, President, took the chair. The minutes of the last monthly meeting were read'tind confirmed, as also the minutes of the last special meeting. Tbeasubeb's Heport.—The report of the Hon. Treasurer was as follows:—To 1 balance, £208 13s; subscription acconnt, £29 2s 3d; donation account, 16s 7d, patients' charges account, £1 ss. By salaries, £51 15s 4d; maintenance, £65 9s 7d; medical comforts, £15 ss; drugs, £3 16s 6d; commission, £14s 6d ; balance at bank, £99 17s lOd; in hand, £118s 9d. Liabilities—salaries, £61 Os 4d; general accounts, £50 17s Bd. Assetscash balance, £101 16s 7d; Provincial Government subsidy due, £250 "leaving a balance in favour of the institution, if the Government subsidy is paid in, of £236 18s 7d. —The accounts for the past month were read over, and ordered to be paid.

. House Committee's Report. — The report of the House Committee for the past month was read. It stated" During the past month the porch to the female ward has been erected at a cost of £9 os Id. Its erection has added considerably both to the appearance and comfort of the building. It is very desirable that it should be painted. With regard to the new cooking apparatus, we recommend the purchase of a Leamington range, as per plan furnished. It is estimated that the cost, including fittings, utensils, and brickwork, will be about £30."—Mr Eenshaw and Mr Sims wished that the House Committee should have leave to get a larger boiler than the one in the oven they had looked at, so as to be able to have 30 gallons instead of 20 gallons of warm water, a large quantity of warm water being frequently necessary in the Hospital. A good deal of conversation took place on the point.—■ Mr Mcllhone thought it would be best to leave the mitter over till next month, when the committee could come to a definite opinion, and then they could call for tenders. They ought to bo careful in going into so large an expenditure as this. He moved a resolution to that effect.—Mr Sims said he did not know where they could get a better opinion than the persons engaged .in the Hospital. —Mr Macnab seconded Mr Mcllbone's motion.—Mr said the matter had been several times referred to the committee. The cooking apparatus to the Hospital was a disgrace to it. He did not see the use of referring the matter back again to the House Committee. The House Committee had no desire to squander the funds of the Hospital, but they wished ,to,'put the Hospital in a workable condition.—Mr Bagnall also pointed out the necessity for the subject being dealt with at onco. It had been delayed too long. Jle moved that the committee's report be adopted, and that tho committee be empowered to purchase the necessary cooking apparatus.—Mr Gudgeon seconded Mr Bagnall's amendment.—The amendment was carried, on a division.

• Kepoet of House Surgeon.—The report of the house surgeon was read, giving the statistics of the month.—The report was received.

Bed Chaihs—Key. Father Lonergan said that some of the patients had spoken to him of the want of bed chairs.—The subject was remitted to the House Committee for the next month.

Usk of i\ooji in Balutation Hotel — It was agreed, on the motion of Air Bagnail, seconded by Mr Macnab, that the sum of £2 2s bo paid to MrDunufor the use of the room on the occasion.

House Comiiitiee.— Kev. Y. Lush and Mr Gudgeon were placed on the House Committee for the ensuing month, the other two members being Mr Ciims and Mr McDonald.

The Jewish Ghronidt has the Mowing " At a meeting of tlie fcteneral Assembly of the Church of Scotland, held at Mnburgk last week, Professor Mitchell submitted the report of the Committee for the Conversion of the Jews, the operations of which Committee are principally canied on at Constantinople, Smyrna, licyrout, Salouica, and Alexandria. £5,241) seems to have been expended daring the past year; bub not a single word was said about even onc Jew having been converted by moms of the said £5.24(5. Collections had been made during the past year in aid of the mission, in 1,099 churches and chapels in connection with tile Scotch Kirk, resulting in the receipt from this source of £3,726, or au average of sometiling under £3 10s per church or chapel; certainly, a most munificent sum, and which ought to have ensured the various donow, if they had only been Roman Catholics, aljs .lufciou for life." In again referring to the subject, the same journalremarks" j U corroboration of tho remarks we made in our last impression on the attempts of the Free Assembly of the Scotch Kirk to convert the Jews— that the amount spent by the Conversion Committee last year, with the above mentioned object could have been better ' applied to the Conversion of certain Scotch heathens froni-let us say—tho habit of Sunday tippling to tho Jewish virtue of sobriety,' we may slate on the authority of the I'M Mali Gazette, that no less thm four Scotch Clergymen have already been expelled from the ministry by tho General Assembly of tho- Church of Scotland, since the commencement of iti sitting, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct."