MASTERTON HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 17 October 1907, Page 3

MASTERTON HOSPITAL.

MEETING OF TRUSTEES. The monthly meeting of the Master ton Hospital Trustees, yesterday morning, was attended by Messrs A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., (Chairman), W. Fisher, VV. Harris, J. B. Keith F. W. H. Kummer, J. C. Ewington and M. J. H. Jackson. The Treasurer reported as follows: —Cr balance at last meeting, £133 Is sd; receipts for the month, £23 18s 4d; disbursements, £232 6s lid; dr. balance at date, £75 7s 2d. The Matron's book showed that '-% fere had been 13 patients in the Hospital at last meeting. Since that date 13 patients had been admitted, 11 discharged, and 2 died, leaving 13 at present in the institution. • A letter was received from the Benevolent Trustees asking the Hospital Trustees to admit an incurable case into the Hospital. The Chairman stated that the Hospital was not an institution for the treatment of such cases. It was impossible to admit these cases. The responsibility in connection with cases of this kind rested with the Benevolent Trustees. Mr Ewington said it was only a few clays ago that a case was turned •out of the Hospital cured to all intents and purposes,but lacking that treatment which would have ' been received in a convalescent home. This showed the necessity for a home where such cases could be accommodated, and it was only matter of time when such an establishment would have to be founded. On the motion of the Chairman it -was decided to inform the Benevolent Trustees that their request •could not be complied with. The Chairman was appointed visiting member for the month. Accounts amounting to £llß Os 8d were passed for payment.