HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8534, 7 April 1891, Page 6

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met yesterday. Present : Messrs. Atkin (presiding), I)ignau, Udy, Kidd, Bollard, Goose man, Lennox, S\ v , and Mays.

The Hospital.—With regard to the question of making arrangements for the medical staff proposed to be appointed at the Hospital, the chairman said he hoped that thy matter would nob be discussed to-day, as the Board would have first to deal with the alteration of rules. At his suggestion, the consideration of the matter was deferred for a fortnight. The question of appointing a successor to the late Captain McKenzie Wilson, the Hospital librarian, who died last month, was referred to the House Committee. Mr. Schofield, House Steward, asked for fourteen days' leave of absence. The matter was referred to the 'House Committee, with power to act. Costley Home.—The manager of the Costley Home, Mr. Moss, reported that the numbers of the inmates at present in the institution were 112 men and 34 women. He had been compelled to isolate one patient in the refractory ward, on account of his violent behaviour. A destitute person named Barnet, who was reported to bo in a bad state from the disease syphilis, applied for admission to the Co3tley Home. Some of the members objected to the application, urging that such a case should not be admitted. It was pointed out that the man could not be sent to the Hospital. A motion that he should bo placed in the cancer ward was lost, and it was then suggested that he should go to the delirium tremens ward. Eventually the Chairman was empowered to deal with the case. A Claim for Rates.Mr. H. Clark, collector for the One-tree Hill Road Board, wrote demanding the sum of £13 lls,Bd, rates claimed upon lot 21a, section 11,' for the year ending March 31, IS9I. The land is that on which the Costley Homo is built. Mr. Gooseman did not think that this was a rateable property. The Chairman said he was not quite certain about it. On the motion of Mr. Lennox, it was resolved that the opinion of the solicitors be taken on the subject. Other Correspondence. — Two letters from Mr. Harrow were laid on the table. The secretary of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board sent £2 2s Bd, a claim of the Board for the relief of two men who camo from that district. He stated that it was sent "without prejudice to any future account for expenses that your Board may be so tender-hearted as'to incur on behalf of able-bodied men who are unsuccessful in their search for gum in payable quantities in your district. I enclose a cheque for the amount, and forward therewith a load of sympathy on account of your much-talked-of gumfields being apparently played out." (Laughter.) The fact is that the men were sent up from Taranaki with a few shillings in their pockets, and sought relief from the Auckland Board as soon as they landed here.