HOSPITAL BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 8

HOSPITAL BOARD.

The Board met this morning. Present: .Messrs G. W. Tayler (chairman), Hates, Meld on, Marx, Hawken, Linn, Phillips, T. Winks, and Bridge.

Dr Thomson in reporting the convalescence of the nnrses who had been ill with typhoid, stated that he was firmly convinced they had contracted the disease owing to the plague of flies at the hospital. These flies, he said, no doubt came from the rubbish-tip near by and from a pig farm. So far as the rubbish-tip was concerned he thought the nuisance could be abated, but he was not so sure about the pig farm.

The Chairman, however, said he had had a conversation with the Health Officer that morning, and he was going to inspect the piggery and report on th 3 matter, with a view to providing a. remedy.

A letter was read from the Society for the Promotion of the Health of "omen and Children, Dunedin, requesting that when children were discnarged from the hospital the Plunket nurse m the district be notified of the tact, as many mothers were unable to carry on the good work commenced at the hospital.—lt was decided to accede to the reauest.

The Hawera Methodist Church wrote notifying that Mr L. S. Barraclough had been appointed its official visitor at the hospital.

Sister Mercer tendered her resignation on the nursing staff, to take effect a month hence, she having accepted an appointment in the South Island.—Resignation accepted with regret.

The Board went into committee on plans submitted by Mr Duffill and then adjourned to the hospital to further discuss the proposed additions