HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 9

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

' o- —— The fortnightly meeting of .the Hospital. Trustees was held in No. 'A Committee Room, Town Hall, yesterday morning, there being ipresent:—Messrs. G. London (in the chair), • itobert .Lee, J. Danks, G. Nash, and J. Trevor. . The statement of finances was as follows General account—receipts, £2058 19s. lid.; expenditure, £1303 19s. 4d;; leav- ■ ing a balanco on the general account of £755 os. 7d. Nurses' account —balance at . ■ bank, £53S lis. Od.; expenditure (sundries), . ;; £19 19s. 9d.j balanco, £513 lis. 3d. . _ , ; The secretary (Mr. R. H. Chinchcn), in his report, showed ) that for * the fortnight' 1 onding October 22, there were 119 male, and 92 female patients. in the gen- . ■ oral hospital; 19 malo and 19 female patients .... in the Victoria Hospital; and 10 malo and ' ' 0 ferhalo pationts in the Seddon Hospital;' : ■ a total of 255 patients at present under the .. . caro of the institution. The fever cases , showed a dccreaso, there being at present l .' 22 patients as against 25 for the fortnight; onding October 8. For the corresponding period, 1906 ,there wero 26 patients. Tho ....... total number, of. patients in the General Hos-. .. pitalwas 201, as against 197 for the corresponding period of 1906. ' The : Chairman ■ (or his nominee) was ap- : • pointed to represent the Trustees at a meet- ■ ... ing of the. Wellington B&ndsmcns' Hospital ... Sunday Committee, to bo held on Wednesday next, October 30. Correspondence was ro- - ■ coived from -the various Borough iCouncils, • nominating' delegates for the election ''of re-. presentatives .to the Hospital Board. The ~ .secretary explained that the number.ofWHecfc- u, ; r ing bodies'-was "in excess of tho number - of • seats'to' be. filled, and an election was. there- ... foro necessary. The following reeommenda-, tions of the House Committee were adopted,: (1) That the proposal of the with regard' to- nurses of Mental Hospitals being'allowed, to undergo': a course of . train-,- t .ing hv-.thc/Woningtpn Hospital be acceded to, . , under certain .conditions) (2) T'ha€V prices bo obtained" l)y tho steward for the repuisito M hu'niturc'for the' New-Shelter, the lowestto be accepted by him;;, (3) That -certain sug-.v gcstcd..rcpairs;-bo : carried ..out. .1. t . y-vJ -. - - i