MEAL SERVICE AT BURWOOD

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29238, 23 June 1960, Page 21

MEAL SERVICE AT BURWOOD

Existing Rooms Overtaxed

A reorganised meal service for patients and staff at Burwood Hospital is being planned by a sub-committee of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. The existing kitchen and dining room were severely taxed and were considered, the works committee _ reported, to be incapable of coping with the larger number of nursing staff requiring meals at the hospital in the near future.

It would take the existing dining room and kitchen to make a decent kitchen, said Mrs J. Mackay.

Elimination Of ‘ Smoke

A tender for a new boiler at the Burwood Hospital has been accepted by the North Canterbury Hospital Board. “Every suitable device for eliminating smoke has been written into the specification,” the works committee reported to the board yesterday. The boilers will be delivered within 12 months.

A specification is being prepared for a new boilerhouse at Christchurch Hospital, where normal coal-fired boilers will be installed. Mr L. A. Bennett (chairman of the works committee) said he was satisfied that pulverised fuel had to be given trials for some years yet 'Hie board had “practically” got the Health Department to agree that electro-static precipitators in the flues would eliminate the smoke nuisance. Miss B. Webb asked if the boilers could be- changed over to the use of pulverised fuel. Mr J. D. Hay: No.

MINIATURE X-RAY UNIT

Siting Discussed

The siting of the mass miniature X-ray unit in the casualty department area, the alteration of which is being planned, at Christchurch Hospital was discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board.

Mr E. P. Shier said he was opposed to the unit occupying space in the department space. “I quite agree with you,” said the chairman (Dr. L. C. L. Averill). The unit would probably be placed outside the building Hie board should not take any space at all from the area set aside for casualty beds. It was important that the unit should be almost ‘‘at the front door” so that patients could be X-rayed as soon as they reached the hospital, said Mr Turner Smith.

“But not at the expense of taking space, from the casualty beds,” said Dr. Averill. Mr L A Bennett said it was essential that the X-ray unit should be in the casualty ward area.