HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID HOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12402, 16 January 1901, Page 8

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID HOARD.

SOUTH CANTERBURY. At the monthly meeting of the Board on Tuesday, the Chairman stated that the Secretary bad made out■ returns u? follows: Outers tor '•h.'.ntable aid iu the country during 1900 uunirwrod 460. reprC'Seulimt 115 ya’i'son;-, old juui voting. relieved, at an average, m.uu'dy cost, at £33 2;. (raj. Most of the, country recipients wore widow?- and families. At the- Board’s store in Timaiu 90 persons had been relived, at. a total cost of £2Bl 18s,. but there remained £2O to £SO worth of stock. Thirty-nine children were boarded out, at an average cost of 5s Id per week. Five children at Burnham cost 6s, and three at Neison 7s, each per week. Receipts from hospital patients for nine months had been £l6O 17s lid, and accounts for between £l6O and £l7O had been issued, and most of them would be paid. The Board resolved to extend the leave of absence gta mod to the steward, Major Journey, for another year. An account lor £4 10:-, sepi. in by the police fci the cost of (ho funeral of ; -n indigent person found deed at £:. Arulmvs, was ordered to-be sent back, as i in: Bo.o'd declined lo accept the liabil.ty. it was agivu! io connect tiie. secretary’s house with the Telephone Exchange to facilitate communication after office hours with the Hospital and Old Men’s Home. The Chairman explained that the secretary’s presence is often need-d at the latter institution on account- of obstreperous inmates. A sketch plan for a new operating room, estimated to cost £6OO or £7OO, was presented by the Cha.rmnn, and referred to the Estimates Commit' ee. The secretary was requested to visit Winchester and arrange, if necessary, for a nurse for an incurable cancer patient. Accounts were passed for payment amounting to £520.