WAIRARAPA DISTRICT HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 28 March 1907, Page 5

WAIRARAPA DISTRICT HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

STATUTORY MEETING. A statutory meeting of the Wairarapa District Hospital Board was held yesterday. There were present —Messrs E. G. Eton (chairman), W. Perry, W. H. Beetham, W. J. Welch, M. J. H. Jackson, W. Fisher, F. W. H. Kummer, A. 0. Considine, D. Guild, J. McCarthy, H. Cornelius, M. Maxton, T. Moss, and J. C. Ewington. The Treasurer reported as follows for the year ending March 31st,. 1907: Maintenance Account dr. balance £l9l 13s 7d, balance of assets over liabilities £79 lis 8d; Infectious Diseases Hospitals Account, cr. balance £1,363 9s, balance of assets over liabilities £1,685. A letter was received from the Education Board claiming £22 10s for treatment of an industrial school girl for scarlet fever in Masterton, as the Hospital was full at the time. A committee, consisting of Messrs Welch,' Ewington, and the Chairman, ■was appointed to deal with the case and all other cases of a similar nature.

Mr A. W. Hogg wrote 'with reference to the plans for the new infectious diseases hospital in Masterton. From a conversation he had had with two doctors, he suggested that provision should be made so that cases of diphtheria, measles, and scarlet fever should be treated it) separate apartments. The doctors thought it would be unwise to have a building with only two wards. It was decided to advise Mr Hogg that the letter had been received too late for the Board to alter the plans. It was resolved to draw the attention of the District Health Officer to the creation of boroughs at Eketahuna, Featherston, and Martinborough, and the necessity for altering the distribution of the levy for infectious diseases hospitals.

The estimates of receipts and expenditure for the ordinary maintenance of the Masterton, South Wairarapa, and Pahiatua Hospitals for the year ending March 31st, 1908, were passed. The estimates were as follow: —Masterton Receipts, £348; epxenditure, £2,643; deficiency, £2,295. South Wairarapa - Receipts, £624 lis 3d; expenditure, £1,357 10s; deficiency, £732 18s 9d. Pahiatua— Receipts, £729 15s: expenditure, £1,448; deficiency, £7lB ss. The requirements for infectious diseases purposes were also passed. It was decided to vote the sum of £2O to Mr J. C. Boddington, Secretary of the Masterton Hospital Trustees, and also to offer him a commission of 10 per cent, to collect all fees owing by patients who were inmates of the infectious diseases hospital.