HOSPITAL BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14428, 19 July 1907, Page 4

HOSPITAL BOARD.

SOUTH CANTERBURY. The South Canterbury Hospital Board met on Tuesday. The chah man {Mr J. Talbot) stated that he and Mr J. Oraigio had received notice to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the consumption sanatorium at Christchurch next day, and they would attend the meeting. , The necessity for making provision for consumptives was becoming urgent. Tiiey had patients anxious to go somewhere, and it was impossible to get them into sanatorium at Cambridge. Mr Craigia said that the solicitors of the three Canterbury Boards were to draft an amendment to the Hospitals Act to permit the three Boards to 00-operato financially in the establishment of tho sanatorium at Christchurch, and that should be done at once or it would bo too late to do anything during the present session. The chairman stated’ that at a previous meeting the Board had directed that lists of debts duo for hospital treatment and of recipients of charitable aid in the respective districts should be sent to the local authorities'. Most of the local bodies had acknowledged the receipt of tho lists, hut had offered no useful assisttance. He doubted whether it was advisable to scud out these lists. _ ■ The Board decided not to send the lists in future. A claim was received from the Oamaru Hospital Beard for' £9 for the treatment of a Maori boy from South Canterbury. The secretary was instructed to reply that the Board admitted the equity of the claim, hut to state that no claim had been made by the South Canterbury Board for tho treatment of a Maori from the Oamaru district who had cost the institution £2OO. Dr Brett reported that an anonymous donor had given ten chaira for the use of visitors to the wards, and it was resolved that Dr Bett should ba authorised tp purchase two dozen chairs.