HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4206, 21 January 1879, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, at 4 p.m. Present—Mr H. Thomson (chairman), the Mayor of Sydenham, and Dr. Torn.bull. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. THE OBPHAVAGB. Certain applications were made by the parents of children for the admission of. their children into the Lyttelton Orphanage. On consideration the Board determined on not acceding to the applications, as they considered it' foreign to the objects of the institution to admit children into it whose surviving parents were able to provide for them. Besides, they thought it wrong in principle to separate children from their parents, unless the latter were unfit to take charge of them, and when that was the case there was another institution to which they' could gain admission. ■ AEABOA HOSPITAI. A letter was read from Dr. Q-uthrie, intimating Mβ intention of carrying out the wishes of the Board with regard to the admission of patients into the hospital, and their maintenance while inmates. BXOHANGB OF PATIENTS. A letter was read from the House Burgeon of the Auckland Hospital, stating tHe impossibility of their receiving patients from other localities requiring change of air, as all the accommodation they had was required, for the local cases of eicknees. THE DISPBNfIBB. A letter was read from Dr. Turnbull, the chairman of the hospital staff, calling the attention of the Board to the regulation as to the duties of the dispenser, and recommending that for the future he shall cease to accompany the house surgeon and staff during their daily rounds of the wards. On the motion of Mr Booth, seconded by Dr. Turnbuli, it was resolved—" That rule 22 of the regulations be rescinded compelling the dispenser to accompany the house surgeon and medical staff on their rounds, and that the recommendation of the staff be avoided." '■- ■ ' DISPENSBB'S ASSIST AWT. .["' The Board resolved thai; Master Lewie Hobbe be admitted into the dispensary for the purpose of assisting in the duties involved■ in connection with it. ~-■■■ '■ . DECEASED PATIENTS. \ ; .. ; . A discussion took place regarding the special" duties of the employes of the-institution, and the Board resolved that for the future it should be an instruction to the house steward - that in the case of deceased patients, where the address of their friends or relatives *as known, he should communicate the fact: to them, or where they had none to make the necessary arrangements for their interment; HOtTSB PjTBeBON'B BEPOBT; . m } The house surgeon reported, that there had. been fifteen admissions during the past week; HOT/8B BTB'WAB.D'e BEPOBT. j "' The house steward reported that there had been seventeen, discharges and, three deaths' during the week ending January 19th. ' THE OBPHANAGB., A variety of matters in connection with the Orphanage were considered and disposed of, after which the Board adjourned. . ~