Admissions to Hospital

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 8

Admissions to Hospital

When he fell from a truck yesterday, a three-and-a-half-year-old boy, James Mitchell Osier, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Osier, 30 Roebuck road, Gisborne, suffered injuries which necessitated his removal to the Cook Hospital. He was reported to be comfortable this morning. Mr Ernest McDowell, a middleaged man residing at Manutuke was injured yesterday, when he fell from a haysweep. He was admitted to the Cook Hospital and was stated to be fairly comfortable this morning. Assistant Sanitary Inspector The appointment of an assistant sanitary inspector for the borough is to be considered by the estimates committee of the Gisborne Borough Council. A report of the sanitation committee adopted at last night's meeting of the council stated that the Department of Health had advised it Was continually receiving complaints concerning insanitary conditions in dwellings. An investigation often revealed defects of an obvious character such as would be shown up in house-to-house surveys. The department suggested that more should be done by local authorities in the way of routine inspections of dwellings and recommended that the council should consider the appointment of an assistant inspector Cor this work.