Thames Goldfields Hospital.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2928, 4 July 1878, Page 2

Thames Goldfields Hospital.

The usual monthly meeting of the committee of this institution was held at the Salutation Hotel at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.- Theire were present—Mr 3. Frater, President, the Revs. J. T. Hinton, Father ChastagnoDj S. J. Neill, K. S. Bunn, V. Lush, Messrs E. H. Power, J. Hudson, T. L. Murray, Gudgeon, MeGowan, Ehrenfried, Bensbaw, Davies. ■'■..-. MIKUUS. : ; . .; The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. HOUSE COMMITTEE'S BBPOBT. The report of the House Committee was read and adopted as follows :— The House Committee for tbe past month beg to report baring examined the account* presented for payment—Salaries, £54 17s, and j general accounts, £43 11s 9d, and reoommend their payment. The store room at back of kitchen has become leaky in the roof, and we recommend that the back of the kitchen be re> shingled. "We hare found it very dark in the passage at the back part of the Hospital leading to the kitchen when; the doors are shut at night, and bare had a gaslight fixed, which ia^great improvement, at a small cost. We hvtSXo report that we have received no complaints, and every thing appears to hare ' been conducted in a satisfactory manner.— W.Davibs, Chairman. ■. '

tbeasubeb's bepobt. The Hon. Treasurer's report was read as follows:—

Balance sheet for the month ending the, 30th June, 1878:—Receipts : Cr. To balance last month, £407 3a sd; subscriptions, donations, &c, £14155; patients' charges account, £2; benefit account (Count de Zaba), £11 Is —£434 19s sd. Expenditure: Dr. By salaries account, £62 16s sdj maintenance aeoount, £30 14s 11; furniture account, £15 Os 7dj medical comforts account, £14 15s j lOd ; commission account, £18s ; advertising, printing, and stationery account, £4 18s; miscellaneous expenses account, 2s 6d ; balance, £305 8s 2d—£434 19s 6d. Liabili-. ties: By salaries, £54 17§ } Dr Perston's estate, £13 7s lOd; general accounts^ due, £43 11s 9d; balance, £443 Is 7d—£555 8s 2d. Assets: By cash, £305 8s 2d j GoTernment grant due, £250—£555 8s 2d. The report was adopted. HOUSE SCBGEOn's EEPOBT. The report of the House Surgeon was read as follows:— * '■■ ■

Gbwtibmbn, — I am glad to be able to state that the general health «f the patients ia the Hespitel jinnjtllfliji iT 'IBliflTfr 1 Tllri^i

the past montUr-The only exception waa one whose system, for ~a>longjime debilitated through excessire use of alcq&olio-B imulants, succumbed at lust to an ucute attack of delirium tremene. The comfort of the patients during the present dark- nights^has been looked to by fixing a new gas jet in the passage leading to the kitchen. The monthly state of sick is as follows . — Statistical nosoiogy.— Zymotic diseases: Remained 3, admitted 1, discharged 2, remaining 2 ; Constitutional : eduiitled 2, remained 2 ; Local: remained 9, admitted 2, discharged 2, died 1, remaining 8; Violent: remained 6, admitted 4, discharged 6, remaining 4; Total: remained 13, od ii at ted 9, discharged 10, died 1, remaining 16; out-patients 70.— F. O'JflAhkbty, L.E.G.S.I. HON. MEDICAL STAEF. A letter was read from B. ft. T. Gilbert, M.R.0.5.E., offering to act as one of tha Hon. Medical Staff to the Hospital, and after considerable discussion it was re•olred that Dr Gilbert's proffered serricea be accepted with thanks, as soon as the Act allows the Committee to do so. APPLICATION FOB BIBE OF BALABT. An application from James Colby, cook,, for a rise of salary to 25s per week, was referred to the House Committee. cotmr, de zaba's lectitbe The secretary read the balance-sheet of Count l)e Zaba's lecture, which showed that £11 5s accrued to the Hospital funds through the lecture. ' ■ . HOOSB COMMITTEE. The following gentlemen were appointed House Committee for the ensuing month: —Messrs Davies, Ehrenfricd, Mulligan, and Murray., This was all the business.