HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13241, 17 January 1941, Page 4

HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

MONTHLY MEETING OF BOARD maternity facilities In a letter to the Tauranga Hospital Board at its monthly meeting yesterday the Department of Health, when referring to the maternity facilities at Te Puke, suggested that the proposed additions at Katikati and Tauranga might assist in relieving the position. It was stated by the chairman (Mr A E. Newsham) that the hoard was not building here, but in the event of it being necessary it would be foolish to make additions at Te Puke. . .

Mr H. J. Clarke was of the opinion that no action should be taken until what effect the additions at Katikati would make This course -was agreed upon. Conference Postponed

The secretary of the Hospital Boards’ Association wrote stating that the suggestion to postpone this year’s conference as a wartime economy measure had been approved by various boards, and this it had been decided to do. Creeper To Go

In his report the secretary stated that the creeper growing on the hospital walls was causing trouble. It grew very fast now and apart from the work necessary to keep it out of windows it was getting under rhe tiles’of the roof. He would like to have the board’s instructions about cutting it out altogether. It tended to make the building damp. Members, generally, were of the opinion that the creeper looked very fine, but agreed that if it were damaging the building it would have to go.

It was therefore decided that the creeper be removed. Gifts To Patients

In her report the matron expressed appreciation to the following for gifts to the hospital patients: Flowers, Mesdames Moore and Mason; magazines, Mr O'Hara, Major Scantlebury, the Rev. O. S. O. Gibson and Mrs Scholes; large Christmas stocking, Mrs Scholes; ice cream. Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union; biscuits, Women’s Institute; lamb, Tanner and Co.; chocolates, Mr Johansen; cream. Gate Pa Dairy; vegetables, Mr Brownley, Mr Vickers, and the A.0.F.; Christmas donations, Mr Newsham, Mr Hyde, the Mayor’s Relief Fund and Mr Willcock.

There were present at the meeting Mr A. E. Newsham (in the chair) Mrs Faulkner and Messrs A. W. T. Hyde, J. T. Eccleton, C. McNaughton, G. P. Spratt, and H. J. Clarke.