THE WAIKATO HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9026, 3 November 1892, Page 6

THE WAIKATO HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

[By TELEGRAPH.—.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton, Wednesday. At the usual meeting of the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day. there were present : Messrs. Primrose (chairman), Chcpmell, Hemes, Bond, Brown, Coates, Davies, Salmon, McGuirk, Teasdale, Lai);?, and Heaney. Dr. Brcwis wrote stating that he did not see his way to attend at the Hospital to administer chloroform free of charge. Dr. Kerr wrote to the same effect. A letter was received from James Banstable, of Hamilton, complaining that although he had left the Hospital ha was not sufficiently cured to work, and asking to be' sent to the 1 Auckland Hospital for special treatment. The letter was ordered to be received. A tender was received from James Kenney, of Kihikihi, for the lease of lots 138 and 139, town of Kihikihi, offering £2 per annum as rent for the first two years, and £3 per annum for the other five years of a seven years' lease. Mr. Teasdale thought the rent offered was low, and the matter was held over for a month, the tender not being ; accepted. The secretary's report; showed that there were 21 receiving charitable aid since the last meeting of the Board. The state of the hospital was as follows — Remaining at last meeting, 9; admitted, 9 ; discharged, 9 ; died, 2 ; remaining, 9 males and 10 females. In the refuge were 13 inmates. The expenditure for the month amounted to £233 15s, of which the ordinary expenditure amounted to £90 15s sd, Patrick Wheelan left the refuge on the 26th uli;., having obtained a situation at Pukekohe. The Chairman stated that before Wheelan left he spoke in the highest terms of the comfort and diet of the Hamilton Refuge. The balance-sheet showed a sum of £2026 12s 5d to the credit of the Board after the accounts were paid. The Chairman referred to the fact that no examination of the probationary nurses for certificates had yet taken place, though it should have been held in September. He thought they should get an examining Board of their own in Hamilton. He thought they should appoint Drs. Kerr and Brewis, of Hamilton, and Dr. Haines, of Auckland, to form an examining Board. The matter was allowed to stand over until Dr. MacGregor had replied to a motion carried at the last meeting, asking him to arrange for an examination. Mr. Herries said that McLeod's father, of Te Aroha, had expressed himself willing to pay his son's expenses, if the latter were admitted into the Refuge until such time as the Institute for the Blind would be ready to receive him, and moved to that effect. The motion was put and agreed to. It was agreed to leave the advertising of the lease of certain endowments in Hamilton to the House Committee, and that tenders he called for clearing the furze on the land. It was decided that Mrs. Rycroft, of Te Aroha. should receive 5s per week instead of 2s, and Johnson's allowance, at Cambridge, was raised from 4s to ss. The usual money relief was voted. ;• ' .