HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Evening Star, Issue 14040, 22 April 1909, Page 7

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Trustees held yesterday afternoon was attended by Messrs S. Solomon (chairman), Tapper, Loudon, Mill, Brown, Callaway, and Dr Batchelor. —Corrcs pond once. From the cccrctary of the St. John Ambulance Aceociatioii, asking that the Trustees continue their grant of £ls a year towards the expenses of conveying patients to the hospital iu the Aeeociation's ambulance.— Dr Batchelor eaid he could not see why the money should be given by the Trustees. The Ambulance Afsodatioii received a very liberal chare jof the money raised by the Hospital I Saturday collection.—Mr Mill agrosd ivvith what Dr Batchelor had Raid.- He ( thought that the Charitable Aid Board were the proper persons to pay the money. —Mr Tapper agred with Mr Mill's suggestion, but if the Charitable Aid Board were unwilling to pay, then the Trustees should do so.—Mr Gailaway thought that the money should be paid. •" If the Arecciation did not grant the use of their ambulance, the hospital would have to tend one.—The Chairman, said that if the money were not paid it would, injure the collection next year.—It wa.s decided- to refer the matter to the Finance Committee, with power to act. From Dr Valintinc, stating that he would be in Dunedin on Friday next.— The Chairman eaid that it hud'been decided to go on with the improvements to the hospital, and they wished to do the work and get the best article at the least possible price. He had therefore arranged with Dr VaJintinc to meet the Trustees at, three o'clock on Friday, and he trusted that as many as possible would be present. —Reports.— The House Committee recommended that the dispenser's salary be increased by £ls per annum. Mies Alice Lindsay had been appointed additional typist, with a salary of .£52 per annum.—The report wa.s adopted. The Finance Committee recommended that the secretary's salary should be in•crcasod to £3OO per annum, and that Gerald M. Silver he appointed collector of outstanding patients' accounts at a salary of £5 per week. The Committee also re"commended that application be made to the Hospital Board for £833 &s Bd. being amount due for maintenance during the current month.—The report was adopted. In connection with the last recommendation, the Chairman said it was quite refreshing to see the way that the Board and the Trustees now worked in harmony. —Rearrangement of Medical Staff.— The following redistribution of the honorary staff was recommended by the House Committee :—Dr Williams* physician in charge of children's ward and out-patiente' department; Dr Fitchett to return to hie position as physician-; Drs Butement and Newlands to be permanent assistant surgeons ; Dr Ritchie, assistant gymceologict; Dr S. Moore, assistant physician: Dr Sydney Allen, anaesthetist. The honorary staff of the hospital would then be as follows :—Physicians, Drs Colquhoun, Macdonald, and Fitchett; assistant physicians, Drs Williams and S. Moore; Burgeons, Drs Barnett, S. Batchelor, and O'Neill; assistant surgeons, Drs Butement and Newlands; gynaecologist, Dr Close; assistant gynaecologist, Dr Ritchie: anaesthetists, Drs Fleming and Hastings • radiologist, Dr Newlands to continue till the end of the year, afterwards Mr Booth to be asked to act.—The recommendation was adopted. —Motion.— The Chairman, in accordance with notice of motion.' moved—"That by-law 162 be altered to read as follows :— ■' The resident medical officer shall not absent himself from the hospital without informing a house surgeon or hall porter where he may be found.' "—The Chairman Paid that Dr Falconer, who was contemplating matrimony, had asked permission to lire not i».t-he hospital but in the vicinity. Dr Falconer had been a valuable officer to the institution, and the custom of having a permanent medical officer was a great improvement on the old' state of things, when they had to depend on inexperienced men. He thought that Dr Falconer should be granted the • permission he asked, but this could not be given until by-law 162 had been amended He had written to Dr Valintine. who had agreed with him.—After a short discussion, tho motion wa6 put and carried.