WAIPAWA HOSPITAL BOARD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 3

WAIPAWA HOSPITAL BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. (Own Correspondent.) The monthly meeting of the Waipawa Hospital Board was held at Waipukurau yesterday. Mr. H. Burnett presiding. The reports stated that the patients at Waipukurau during August were as follows:—Patients m hospital on Aug. Ist., males 13, females 20; total 33. Admitted during August: Males 29, females 31; total 60. Discharged: Alales 20. females 18; total 38. Patients as at September Ist., males 21, females 31; total 55. Isolation cases 3.

I The Deuartment of Health notified that the Department would defray the cost of the treatment of T.B. cases i where the patients had not been domiciled long enough in one district. The Director-General of Health intimated that tubercular cases should be sent to the Sanatorium. The board decided to ask the Department for tents for those T.B. cases which, owing to complications, it was necessary should remain at the hospital. Air. A. W. Cook and the secretary, Air. J. J. East were appointed delegates to the Hospital Conference to be held in Wellington on October Bth. A remit is to be forwarded for the consideration of the conference aiming for more equitable representation on Hospital Boards. Decision re accepting tenders for the new laundry at Waipukurau was deferred pending the receipt of machinery tenders for use in the laundry. Advice was received that it would be necessary for the passing of an Enabling Bill’ before the district could be divided into two. and before that could be done the board must come to a decision as to the allocation of boundaries.—it was decided to hold a special meeting at an early date to go into the matter.