WAIRARAPA HOSPITAL BOARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10278, 5 July 1911, Page 7

WAIRARAPA HOSPITAL BOARD.

FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING. A meting of the Finance Committoo of the Wairarapa District Hospital .and Charitable Aid Board was I held yesterday morning, Mr E. G i Eton presiding. The treasurer's report was as follows :—Balance from May 31st, £l3Bl 17s 9d; receipts, £1215 10s 7d; expenditure, £42-5 7s 2d; balance at date £2175 Is 2d. The distribution of'balances was as follows: —General fund account, cr., £B9B 9s 7d; capital fund account, cr., £1266 lis 7d; St. John Ambulance account, cr., £lO. Accounts totalling £741 lis 3d were passed for payment, including the quarterly supplies for the Masterton and Pahiatua Hospitals. Correspondence was dealt with as under:— From the Wellington Hospital am Charitable Aid Board in reference to the case of Mrs Mills, who was sent down for admision to the Wellington } Hospital by a Pahiatua doctor, :n which it was pointed out that no arrangements appeared to have been made either by the Wairarapa Board or the County Council to meet th" necessities of the case. It was further stated that rather than send her back to Pahiatua the Board would bo prepared, if the Board was willing to pay expenses, to temporarily provide for the woman and her family. The Secretary was .instructed to circularise the various doctors practising in the Wairarapa district, informing them that in no case must oatients I-t receipt of charitable aid be sene if or treatment out of the hospital district without the consent of tho Board. From the Martinborongh Tovn Board, in reference t> the , ;n cha.se of an ambulance wagon for the district. —The Secretary was insructci to write a&king the committee to hand the money collected over to the Board and to forward the names of the members of the committee. From Dr. Dawson, Pahiatua, applying for the admission of F. Mills, who is at present in the Pahiatua Hospital, to the Waikato Sanatorium. It was pointed out that as the patient in question was formerly a resident of Blenheim, the Wairau Board was the proper authority to deal with the matter. From the Akitio County Council stating that it had reduced its estimate for charitable aid for the current year from £SO to £27.—The Secretary was instructed to inform the Council that the_ rate has already been struck.