HOSPITAL BOARD

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21510, 27 June 1935, Page 18

HOSPITAL BOARD

REPORTS AT YESTERDAt'S MEETING The North Canterbury Hospital Board met yesterday. There were present: Mr H. J. Otley (in the chair), Mrs J. A. Bean, Mrs T. Green, Mrs J. Mackay, Sir Hugh Acland, the Rev. F. T. Head, Messrs J. S. Barnett, H. A. Bennett, L. B. Evans, W. T. Foster, H. H. Holland,, D. McMillan, F. J. Monk, F. Rowell, A» T. Smith, W. P. Spencer, and W. J. Walter. ' The hospital committee reported that £3525 19s 8d had been collected in fees since the last meeting of the board. The average daily number of patients " in the Christchurch Public Hospital in ■the month of May was 380.9. It was decided, following a suggestion by the committee, that the amount of the grant for the Akaroa Hospital, for upkeep of grounds and other purposes, should be increased from £75 to £BS a year. Reporting on the expected withdrawal, to t)e placed on sustenance, of a large number of the men employed at tlfe* Bottle Lake plantation, the m chairman of the Public Health Committee, Mr Smith, said that last week there had been employed at Bottle men. Fifty-eight married men and 23 single men had since voluntarily gone on sustenance. The reports were adopted. The personnel of the finance committee was announced as follows: — Mrs Green, Sir Hugh Acland, and Messrs Evans, Holland, McMillan, Otley, Rowell, Smith, and Spencer. The benevolent committee reported , that 846 applications for relief had been dealt With since the last meeting of the board, representing 223ET applicants. There had been 27 applications for admission to institutions.