NEW OFFICER AT HOSPITAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19940, 29 May 1930, Page 9

NEW OFFICER AT HOSPITAL.

CONTROL OF OUTPATIENTS* DEPARTMENT. A new office, carrying a salary of £SOO a year, was created by the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. The appointee, who will be known as a Surgical Registrar, will make his first duty the control of the Outpatients' Department at the Christchurch Public Hospital. The report of the Hospital Committee alluded to the proposal of-a month or so ago to appoint a Surgical Registrar. It suggested, however, that the supervisor of the Out-Patients' Department should be left in the hands of the Medical Superintendent and his assistant, as it was thought that satisfactory arrangements could be made. Six months' trial of this arrangement was suggested. ' The chairman (Mr H. J. Otley) said he had been thinking hard about the arrangement and had come to the conclusion that they should appoint a Surgical Registrar of practically the same status as the Assistant-Medical Superintendent. , His primary duty should be the supervision of the Outpatients' Department He moved that such an officer be appointed at a salary of £SOO a year. Mrs T. Green said she was pleased to see such a motion, as she had been the first to put forward the suggestion. - ■• ; Mr H. Horrell was against the motion. They wero preaching economy, but he could not see where economy came in there. The motion was carried.