Thames Hospital.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4837, 10 July 1884, Page 2

Thames Hospital.

The usual monthly meeting was held yesterday at which present ; Mr McGowan (President), the JKevs. Barley, Bull; mnd Keill^ ,md Messrs €lark, Deeble.FarreH.Praser,'Greenville, Hall, Kilgour, Marahall, :Hadford^ Stone, ■%ftfi\9£sa(ki .;-|in|dm*n.~The v; pre^ : vidus minutes "were confirmed; The House

Committee reported -to tl(e effect that tke Ipweil tenderer f<» : the itdditiw v; to the hospital .had agreed to transfer his contract to Mr Tirentyinaii; %t the contract price of £429, and the tender had been forwarded to;■ Gdrerament for ap. proral; account! amounting to £82 18a and salaries, £76, were recommended for payment.—A conversationrelatiTe to alleged unfriendliness between the archU tect and the contractor ensued, and the 1 report war adopted;— The £ef. Mr^ Calder wrote relati?e to a sum of £20 ~ sent from England by his friends to par* j: chase a Hospital hearse. It bad been ■ found that this turn would, not effect the / purchase and place a plate on the heane, the latter being deemed esseotial. Mr Wildman had been left the trust, and the latter gentleman stated that he had eon* suited the hearse proprietor who supplied the funeral contractor, and be had agreed to supply a hearse ■ when required, proTided the sum Riren was plaoed at interest, and its proceeds paid to him; A. letter hid been written to the donor, and no reply hid as yet been received from him. —The usual report from the surgeon was receiTed.— 'A>r letter was read from Dr Fayne, which was accompanied by com^ muniMtions from Er Callan and Mr W. Potts, concerning a letter published in a - local paper re a patient naniedL. Peter* sen. The correspondence was* somewhat - Tolumitioais, and on the motion of Mr Wildman it w.as resolTed that it should be receired and no further notice taken of it, as Mr Peterson had not written to the Committee—Dr Kilgour had giTen notice of motion That the resolution passed on the 12th of September, referr* iDg to the recognition of the offices of surgeony idispenser, and:':secretary,"/"••:;'• permanent, be rescinded.^ t; A warm^ discuisipn took place .over'" the coisideration. of this subject. Mr Ead« ford questioned Dr tilgouc/s sUndiog 4>n:tbe Committee, as he htd been rejectei by the publio as a member/but was seat there br the Borough Council—Mr OreenriQe denied that the action was, atthe protest which b«d been read stated, v # without precedent, as in the early days of the. Hospital the dootor was permanently appointed. .. It .was c not vright tha|^ ,thet^ moter of the resolution, should rentilate personal feeUngs and gneyance*s theW' l<^ it would bare been? niore^pwt^ttj|^ii^|x;' Committee had the protestors sent ih«rii complaint to it before publishing it in th* press—Mr Renshtw thouiiht:that vtvrj Opportunity had been giren to opponents of the resolution complained of to object to it —eTerjr publicity: had been giften to it. If . there was any occasion to go back to th« old system of annual election t it waa easy to do so.—Mr Hall did not see the occasion fora EeßidentSurgson.—Thf Ker. C. E. Barley did not object to per* manent appointments, but to the aJßoint. ment of the present officers without «aUm for applieatioos for the dfileiiv~l3|r?Eil«i ,gour,:in:reply,;flaid^he;rhe^||*ir^fr^S'V" practiw,JherafoK : lh«^^^^ for the imputations cast ut«:p^ feelings of jealousy existinfi^fh^ Dr Payne.' had - Qhosen^ilißisl(>i^|^^'!'' •actions oE his in his endeaTors to pl«o* Hospital affairs on a proper baiisVaad^laji apparently taken tliose -effprti i&s&jtf%oif?'<&. KUgour'a) «s meaning hostility to him |Dr ? s Payne). The speaker had no animus against the Surgeon of the Hpsjpitai* and w> per- • sonal feeling actuated him in hi* present U' motion.:, He objepted to jwoh an offiev Q being made permanect in aoy practiiing i surgeon.—The motion; wm jmtimd lost.— The Rot. P. O'Reilly and Messrs Brodie. - Carpenter, and Badford were appointed. House Committef for the month, and the> meeting rose. ,■.^;,;:' ■■ ;■.-.."-v;-:--.:- .;"\i \--."- . :■■ -■