HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8922, 12 October 1889, Page 2

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

SOUTH CANTERBURY. The South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met yesterday ; present—Mr D. M. Boss (Chairman), Dr Lovegrove, Messrs F. Slee and J. Jackson. A letter from Mr Habens stated that the charge for maintaining children at Burnham was to be reduced by one shilling pep week. It was suggested that the Managers at Nelson be asked to make a like reduction.

No reply, it was stated, had been received From the Christchurch Board, to a query what they wished to be done with two boys, of seven and nine, children of a man named Darnell, recently from Christchurch, who had lately deserted them at Geraldine.

In reply to a claim for five shillings per day for hospital treatment of a patient from Dunedin, the Dunedin Charitable Aid Board admitted liability but thought the charge too high, as they had not charged more than three shillings per day for patients from other districts. A young woman named Legg, with an illegitimate child, whoso passage to Melbourne had been paid by the Board to enable her to join her parents, wrote for advice, as her parents would not receive her, and it was very awkward looking for a situation in a strange place with a child. The Board had no advice to offer. Mr D’Emden, of Waimate, was authorised to arrange for the boarding out of two children, the mother of whom with another child could be got into the Rescue Home at Dunedin. Letters were read from Mesdames Tripp, Fish and Dunlop, Geraldine, undertaking to act as supervisors over children boarded out. Mesdames Fish and Dunlop sent lists of persons willing to take children, ten ia all. , , „ The Chairman reported tnat many offers to take children on the Board’s terms (six shillings per week) had been received at Timaru.

The Chairman and Mr Jackson were authorised to deal with the boarding out or adoption of children, and to get proper forms of agreement prepared for these purposes. A woman with five children, whose huo> band is in gaol, asked for an increase oJ her allowance of eighty rations per month otherwise she would desert her children* It was agreed that this would be very un* desirable as the cost of the children alon 0 would be 30s or 35s a week, while th 0 rations only cost 4s 3d a week, and th 0 allowance was raised to a hundred unti, the case can be further considered.

A. bath was ordered to be provided for the barracks, the caretaker stating it was extremely necessary in the case of many admissions.

Consideration of a complaint by a man name Daly of improper treatment of a child of his at the Hospital, was held over for a full meeting. Dr Lawson, resident surgeon, stated that the ventilation of the main sewer was insufficient, and consequently dangerous. The Chairman, Dr Lovegrove and* Mr Jackson were deputed to enquire into the matter, obtain professional opinion, a w d act as might seem best. Accounts amounting tv v 8552 Os 8d were passed for payment.