HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9048, 8 May 1888, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

I! • y+ *-~ ■ .-,.'! The regular meeting of the Hospital and ' Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday evening. Mr. 0. Maya presided, and Messrs. Niccol, Atkin, Sturges, Ambury, E. Cooper, Isaacs, Dignan, and Crowther were also present. Treatment of Scarlet Fever.—The Charitable Aid Committee reported that, on , the 26th ult., a case of scarlet fever was admitted to the fever ward, when Dr. Hooper was engaged to attend it. The committee recommended that the question of medical supervision in such cases be referred to the honorary medical staff. The chairman said the Board would have to decide whether outside help was to be secured for the attendance of such cases. Ever since the scarlet fever ward was purchased from the City Council Dr. Hooper attended the institution, since the members of the resident medical staff could not attend the scarlet fever cases f because of the risk of their carrying the in- ' fection into the Hospital. The Chairman was certainly opposed to the members of the medical staff attending the cases at ' serious risk to the inmates of the Hospital. Eventually the committee's recommendation was carried. Thb Ellerslie Reserve.— Charii table Aid Committee recommended that a reply be sent to the Government to the effect that the Ellerslie Reserve should be vested in the Board for general charitable aid purposes, whether hospital, [ refuge, or schools. This recommendation was agreed to. i Purchase op a Horse.— considera--1 tion of a recommendation that a horse be purchased for the use of Dr. Bell on i his rounds to dispensary patients, was I deferred until next meeting. I Suggested Alteration in Rules. — Messrs. Hesketh and Richmond forwarded a report upon the case Corbett v. the Board, [ heard at the R.M. Court on Wednesday, I the 2nd instant, and stated that the case i had suggested to them one or two points which they thought worthy of the coni sideration of the Board. In the first place, there was no regulation stating in specific t terms that a patient might be discharged for misconduct, nor was there any regulation stating what should be considered misconduct. In their opinion, there should be a specific regulation on this point, and, without attempting to define what misconduct is, the regulation should state that either of the resident surgeons should be the judge as to what particular act amounts to misconduct— short, that it should be left entirely to them to say what misconduct was. Another point was this : Suppose a patient , was half cured, or suffering from some disease which would preclude him from going outside, but who was nevertheless' guilty of misconduct, was it right that that patient should be discharged ? If it was not right, what was the remedy ? The re* port was referred to the House Committee, who were empowered to confer with the solicitors on the subject. Dental Department.— applications were received for the position of honorary dental surgeon at the Hospital — from Messrs. J. G. Cox and A. Carter. Mr. Cooper thought a statement of the duties should have been drawn up. The fact of there being only two applications for the post was sufficient to show the apathy with which the subject was regarded by the dental profession. He thought the department should not be established, and moved accordingly. The public or the profession did not need it. Mr. Crowther seconded the motion. They should not follow out all these newfangled notions. There was no necessity for the department at least it was not shown until Dr. Eraon had pointed it out, and the fact that those members of the honorary medical staff who had acted before Dr. Erson's advent, had not found it out, showed that no necessity existed for a dental department at the Hospital. Messrs. Atkin and Isaacs thought the subject should be officially reported on by the honorary staff. The chairman moved, "That the applications be referred to the hononary medical staff." Mr. Cooper's motion. "That no appointment be made," was seconded by Mr. Crowther, and carried, the chairman being the only dissentient. The North Auckland Board. — The secretary of the North Auckland Charitable Aid Board wrote, enclosing the following resolution passed by that body:—"That the authorities of the Auckland Hospital be informed, with reference to former correspondence, that this Board, while maintaining the position it has taken up in regard to the obtaining of authority from the chairman of the Board, or of the several counties embraced in the North Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board district, prior to receiving patients, unless the cases are of extreme urgency (of which necessarily the Hospital authorities must be the judges), considers that any authority applied for under considerations of urgency should, when granted, be treated as tentative only, and not involving any absolute claim against the North of Auckland district, until the same has been investigated therein, and the truthfulness of the claim established. Failing this, the Board considers that the Hospital authorities should transfer their claim to the district against which it should properly have been originally made, and request the concurrence of the Hospital authorities therein." The Chairman suggested that the sentence be analysed. (Laughter.) Mr. Niccol thought the motion Should be dealt with tentatively. (Renewed laughter.) The letter was received. The Costley Institute.— Haultain wrote :—" In reply to your letter of the 24th ultimo, I am requested by the trustees of the Costley Training Institution to inform you that they Will apply to the Government to board out at the institution eight or nine of the boys named by you as being maintained from Charitable Aid funds at the Industrial School at Kohimarama. The boys, if found suitable, will be maintained at the institution till they are of an age fit to be apprenticed, the Board paying for them at the rate of £15 per annum. The trustees cannot make any arrangement for taking oharge of any of the young girls, " The letter was received. ■ am .r 1 a aa «m" .