COURT COMMITTALS.
TO JUBILEE HOME. '•■'■. Should.aged people from outside districts bo committed-by a Magistrate to tho.Christchurch Jubilee Home? This question confronted the North .Canterbury Hospital Board: ab its meeting yesterday morning. The secretary reported that a woman,. 88' year- of age, had been committed, by the Magistrate at Ashburton to the Christchurch' Jubilee Home. • Mr F. Horrell; •We must take up a firm stand,. Magistrates all over the district might do that because we have a Home here. ■ '• • ■■- ' :■ The chairman (Mr 11. J. Otlcy): .Ashburton must pay tor her. . Mr J.' K. Archer:' WVhavo to oh-, ject to'these' committals by Magistrates as wo'have to exercise a'certain'amount of supervision'regarding the .admissions. • • ' Mr W. E. Leadley:>Wo should go for an amendment of the Act. Next week someone may bo committed to the Jubilee Home from the West Coast, and the Home may'be.filled up with people who are unsuitable. It was stated that the woman in question was incapable of looking after herself, and was in.danger of-setting fire to her dwelling, being unable to handle,lights properly. She was committed by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.
Mr Otley said that-* each district should provide for its own people; ."We' require the Jubilee Home for our own residents, and should take steps to have the Act altered." As far as the preeent case was concerned, the Home would have to take the woman if it had the room.
Mr H. H. Holland: We are entitled to hold a bed or two for our own cases.
Mr W. E. Leadley said that the Magtrate should be informed that there was no room at the Jubilee Home.
Mr Otley: -The Magistrate has to send the woman somewhere. The Rev. F. Rule: You can draw the attention of the Court to the fact that this woman is not in our district.
Finally, on the motion of Mr Clyde. Carr, it was decided to reply to the authorities'that there was no room in the infirmary, and to suggest that the woman.should be committed to the Ashburton Hospital.'
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18726, 24 June 1926, Page 6
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