HAWERA HOSPITAL BOARD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 4

HAWERA HOSPITAL BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING.

The monthly meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board wns neld on Friday. Present: Messrs R. A. .Nolan, W. Duiis* T. A. Bridge, J. Marx, W. Swadling! W. Goodland, W. T. Wells, C. Tarrant. Leave of absence was granted to Mr G. W. Tayler. ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN. The tirst business was tne statutory election of chairman for the ensuing year. Mr Duirs proposed that Mr Nolan be re-elected. 'mis was seconded by Mr Goodland, and the motion was carried. iVlr Nolan briefly returned thanks. WAIMATE WJErST. CONTRIBUTIONS. The VvaimatQ West County Council advised t^jft f rQm May 1 tne iVianaia Town Board did not ionn part of the County Council and therefoie the Board Nvouia require to bill the Town Board for contribution, and deduct tne amount from the County Coancii s cpntijbu* tion, • , The chairman asked Mr Bridge" if this was so. : Mr Bridge replied in the affirmative. In future tne .uoard would, have to bill tne lovvn Board direct lot rts contiibution. NATIVE HEALTH WORK. Nurse ueetuaw, in ncr ireport, said \ , the month ot April had been a par-1-' ticularly busy one, and that she £ad fully realised tne urgent need of iinmeaiate assistance, 'mere had been a x-ush of sickness, so mucn so that she had most most unwillingly to refuse assistance to several natieuos, Raying urged fch© people to accept theT nursing. scheme it was hard having to refuse them assistance. The number of the patients for the month was fifteen, and some of the cases were very critical. The first death, a child of three years, among her own people, occurred during the month, a fact which she regretted very much. The nurse added that, she had received a welcome from many of the pas, and the people1 had all been most kind and friendly. Miss Beetham spoke enthusiastically of the readiness of the people to carry out her instructions in attending to the sick. The Chairman pointed out that Miss Beetham had really too much to de* and required an assistant. The other members supported the Chairman, and it was decided, on the motion of mr Marx, seconded by Mr Duirs, that the attention of the Department of Public Health be drawn to the extreme urgency of appointing an extra nurse to replace the one wh.gr resigned 1 going time ago s - ( .ADDITIONS TO THE FUNDS. The Chairman said that Mr Duirs had presented the Board with £5 ss, I and Mr Sang Lee had-given £1 Is. j £. hearty vote of fthanks was accorded" l(J J^ ese gentlemen for their I contributions. -\ HEALTH OFFICER'S KbZ ORT'L ; The health officer reported t*»L? two cases of typhoid fever were notified from the Hawera county and on& case of phthisis from the Hawera borough. He had asked all shopkeeper* where he had seen foodstuffs at shopdoors to raise the articles out of reach of dogs. The hotels had" been inspects - ed and reported on for the Licensing Committee. Recommendations had been made in nearly every case. He also reported that no sanitary conveniences were provided at Qkaiawa. i Hall, and made a recommendation on the subject.

The report was adopted. ELECTRIC LIGHT AGREEMENT,

The Chairman and Mr Goodland were authorised to sign the agreement,, on behalf of the Board, with the Hawera County Electric Company with. reference to the installation of tfce? -^ electric light at the hospital. UNPAID ACCOUNTS. The Board went fully into the matter of outstanding patients' accounts,. and decided to place a number in its solicitor's hands for collection. This was all the business .