HOSPITAL BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14202, 26 October 1906, Page 4

HOSPITAL BOARD.

SOUTH CANTERBURY. The South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board eat on Tuesday. The chairman, Mr J. Talbot, reported that the local bodies had paid their, first half-year’s levies, and the subsidy thereon had been received.. The payments that day would be £644, and the balance in*hand would then be £1825. By the death of a woman named Hayton, atWaimate, a small piece of land which she transferred to tlje Board in 1889, on becoming a recipient of charitable a.d, would become free for Further information had been received regarding the cost of erecting and fitting a new laundry at Timaru Hospital, the total coming out at between £I4OO and £ISOO. A legacy of £SOO . had been left to the Board by the late Michael Dwyer, of Tomuka, and the chairman recommended that this sura and the 10s in the pound subsidy on such gifts, should be devoted to the erection of a new operating-room at Timaru .Hospital. He also congratulated the- Board on the successful issue of the Board’s opposition to v the .Waimate /Hospital District Separation Bill. Resolutions were carried, authorising the architect to call for tenders for the .laundry building; accepting the offer of J. Anderson and Co., Christchurch, to supply Tutlis-machinery for the laundry; devoting the Dwyer bequest to the erection of an operating theatre, and directing the architect to submit a- plan. The resident surgeon reported that there were twenty-pne patients in hospital who had exceeded the regulation stay of two months. Ten of them were tuberculosis cases, six of them phthisical. A discussion took place on the wisdom of keeping consumptives in the general hospital. Dr Unwin said they were safer there than going at large. It was agreed to inquire how stands the proposal for co-operation with North Canterbury in establishing a sanatorium ; and whether one side of the Talbot infectious diseases hospital could bo economically used for the chronic cases. Mr Maslin gave notice to move at next meeting that the “store ” kept at the secretary’s office for the supply of rations to people on the Board’s books in Timaru should be discontinu.d, as unprofitable, the cost being about 13 per cent of the turnover. The secretary was instructed to bring up some information for next meeting. A few applications for charitable aid were dealt with.