Proposed Inebriate Home.
At a meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, held at Timaru on Wednesday, Mr McLaren brought up the question of making separate provision for the treatment of inebriates. Ho said that he had noticed in one of the Christchurch papers a report of a meeting of the Hospital Board, held in Christchurch to discuss this question. Magistrates were continually ordering cases of persons suffering from the effects of drink to bo sent to the Hospital, and if the Government were going to insist on this, then he thought that they should be called upon to pay the cost, or part of it, by erecting some place where inebriates could be treated privately. He believed that the Government had offered to erect a jsmall building for the reception of such cases at Christchurch. If that were so, and seeing that at present the cost of dealing with such cases was' thrust upon the Hospital Board, he thought that this Board should apply to the Government to erect a building here, where such cases could be dealt with. The Chairman concurred with what Mr McLaren said, and mentioned that in Waimate they had decided to have a padded ward in the hospital for such oases. They must be attended to, and
to admit them into the hospital with the other patients simply meant making the many suffer for the one. He thought *it would be as well to write to the Government, asking them whether they were prepared to assist in the alteration of the present buildings, or in the erection of a separate place.
Dr Gabites said he still held that the gaol was the right place for such cases; and they had a splendid padded cell at the gaol. The patients could easily be attended to there, as they required very little attention. Mr Gillingham said that making elaborate provision for such cases was simply offering a premium to drunkenness.
It was agreed to write to the Government. asking if they wore prepared to assist this Board in making provision for such chses.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 3
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350Proposed Inebriate Home. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 3
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