DISTRICT NURSING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 4 September 1929, Page 4

DISTRICT NURSING

HASTINGS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE WITH BOARD, A SATISFACTORY DISCUSSION. A conference, convened by the H.B. Hospital Board, between the Hasting. District Nursing Association and the Hastings and County members of the Board, was held in the Hastings Borough Council chambers on Mon-, day aiternoon when there were present Mr. 0. E. Morse (chairman of the Hospital Board), in the chair, Messrs E. T. Rees (managing secretary of the Hospital Board) C. Duff, G. Maddison, H. N. Hoadley, S. J. McKee, G. Piiest and Williamson, as well as members of the executive of the Hastings District Nursing Association. The chairman, in opening, extolled the particularly valuable work that the Association was doing in the treatment ot the sick, and also in the geiieral welfare work. He assured tho Association that every member of the board highly appreciated the work of the organisation. He wished to apologise for a statement be had mauo at the last meeting of the board, in which ho said that he had not received an invitation to attend the recant meeting of the Association with members of the Hospital Board concerning the remarks made by the managing secretary, Mr. E .T. Rees, that ‘the whole thing was a hopeless muddle.” He now acknowledged that he had received an invitation, but he had forgotten it when he made the statement.

Mr. Maddison repudiated the statement made by Air. Rees that he (Air. Aladdison) had been grossly inconsistent in the remarks he made at the Association meeting. When he said that the Association had never applied to tho Board for financial aid, although he (Mr. Maddison) had moved a resolution at the April meeting of the Hospital Board that the Association receive £lOO towards the expenses of the District Nurse. Air. Maddison reminded Mr. Rees that he (Air. Aladdison) was present at that meeting as a member of the Hospital Board, and not as a member of the Hastings District Nursing Association. and the grant was made in consideration of the services of the nurse in attending to the outpatients of the Hospital in this district. GRANT FOR EXPENSES. The question of the board giving effect to this resolution to grant £lOO t.Avards the Districts Nurse’s ex, penses was finally settled, and it was decided that the grant can be legally made and that it will be available during the current year for the purpose mentioned. It was also resolved, as a recommendation to the Hospital Board, that Messrs S. J. McKee, C. Duff and H. V. Hoadley represent _ the Hospital Board on the District Nursing Association, for the purpose of obtaining fuller co-operation between the hoard and the Association. A further motion was carried that the Hospital Board provide a suite of rooms for the district nurse, the Board io pav the rent and to give any assistance required by the.nurse from time to time. The Association, 1 however, will need to find its own accomodation for its general welfare work, nnd it is intended that this be carried on in collaboration with the Board’s welfare officer. It was decided that the nurse remain under tho administration of th.. Hastings Association. Tho matter of inoculating against influenza was raised, nnd the Board’s officer undertook to supply the nurse with a quantity of serum for this purpose.