DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AFFAIRS.

Mataura Ensign, 19 March 1909, Page 3

DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AFFAIRS.

KX i'A lllvNTS' Di.B'U. . i. i: i.Mitn u<K.-s .u-acet.i mix. DUNEDIN, March 18. I Hie llcsfitui trustees to-day ro-e->i\oU to ask tile Hospital Hoard lor in cover the estimated Maintenance lor tho year li'O'J-10, end also for iIOOO to liquidate tho hank o\erdrait consequent uiiou the ius-ulUeieucy of last year's grant of i.tPOOo. The trustees have resolved j'" complete the following works: -New out-patients' department; X-ray room and equipment; a second operaltng theatre; and improvement of There is also to be provided for an excess ot £7OO on the new nurses' home. It was stated at a meeting of tho trustees that ex-patients' outstanding accounts up to October 1908 amount approximately to £4OOO spread cvu' some nine hundred debtors and incurred during tho last :U« years. AH these oil admission expressed ability and willingness to p.ty. It was resolved to appoint a clerk and cllc-cler for the. purpose of .iscert.uMing the position and whereabouts of debtors and to take the accessary steps to obtain settlements discrimination to be used in the case of bread-winners of families not In a position to liquidate the claims.