HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 119, 12 February 1908, Page 4

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

The Hospital Trustees met yesterday. There were pVesent:The, : Kon,,C,-,M. ; Luko,(cliaiyman), Messrs. R. .0. Kirk, (i. Xaplb Jj* !• CjjPearceii'J. W; M'lMynn, i, Bolton, and 3. bank's. v.-' : Tlio I 'r(?tuni. of. isoeli»ta and - l 5?V c the:' fortnight' 'showed ' receipts .Wfi, ,f F '-.('J 1 * eluding l>a!ancc> brpußht I {s'' contribution from Hospital Board Alull 13s. 4(1., Government subsidy j;.sß.j.(fe. I'' - )' dituro. JC'CSG 13s. -1(1.; and credit balance ~-J9O It was reported that the patients in the, main hospital numbered 111 t females, a-'total ofilUG, as •-agauwt 161 lor tho corresponding .last-year. In the Victoria Hospital there were 20 males and 28 females,-and in the Seddon Hospital. 14 males and 7 females, - making a grand total of -a 5 Committee recommended;:inter ivlin: — That Dr. Stanley B. Brown he appointed on the stall' as an additional junior house surgeon at a salary 0f..€150 per annum; that the resignnUoii'*;ot Senior': Nurse. Brooke bo neeejncd with regret; that'the Steward be'authorised to procure additional lengths- of hose ami effect necessary repairs to the fire plant; that, in order to improve the water pressure on tho liiplmr lovbfs at the.. Nurses Home and Victoria ='Hospitals, an-additional two inches eonuectiou be uiaue i i"pui ilie five mum neur Ward 1 •• , ' . The report was adopted. It was decided that .Superintendent Hugo, of tho Municipal Firo Brigade, bo asked to confer willi the Trusteesresiding hro prevention at tho Hospital, and to suggest any additional safeguards that may seem to him • it 'was .resolved to sue for outstanding fees patients who'ure considered to be 111 a position lo iiaj-.