HOSPITAL CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2599, 22 October 1915, Page 6

HOSPITAL CONTROL

MEETING OF THE BOARD, J

The ordinary meeting of the V, elhngton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday. There were present: Mr. H. Baldwin (chairman), Dr. Platts-Mills, Mesdamcs D -h M'Vioar, Revs. Dr. J. K. Elliott, Van Staveron, Messrs. F. Castle, D. Pnmnhp]] B. R. Gardener,. J. »>• fll'Ewan 'F. T. Moore, C. M. L\ike, J. Smith, and W. J. Thompson - Hospital accounts for the month amounting to £4835 were passed for Pa iu™ resolved that proposed alterations and requirements cosung to' las (over and above ordinary hospital SureßiontsHorthoVictonaJmitary Wards should be recommended to tno of Public Health .for au« Medical Officer (Dr. B. Adams) roported that for the month ended September 30 ho had examined 46 "new patients" at the dispensary, and there had been 4a attendances of "old patients." Twenty-two .persons had called or telephoned for inform*tiou and ho bad paid 19 visits to patlente i" their homes. There were twenty-two patients m residence at the Otaki Sanatorium on September 30, • „s against twenty-four for the preceding month. The total number of cases examined for sis montlio was 298, and 144 wero f° un( l su ® erm S rom tuberculosis.