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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10417, 15 April 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)

The Hon. James Carroll is interesting himself in a project to connect Gieborm with Auckland by a light railway, junctioning with the Rotorua line. The native* express willingness to submit to special taxation to provide the necessary capital, A return just published shows that the number of children attending New Zealand State primary schools last year was 132,361. At the same date 17,600 young persons were at college, and 6352 were being taught at home. The Sunday-school scholars numbered 104,931. In reference to the proposed establishment of u Children's Hospital in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee, the Mayor (Mr. Boardman) on April 13 received from Mrs. Ellen Browning a cheque for £50 as a contribution towards the fund to be opened in that behalf. Notwithstanding the boom which has taken place in the building trade for the past few months, thero is quito a scarcity of good residences for occupation. Many persons in search of houses have been obliged to go to the suburbs to reside, failing to get suitable homes within easy access of the business centres of the city, At a meeting of the Council of the Auckland Institute on March SI, a commencement was made with a project of great importance for the district, that of the formation of a Mineral Museum. The members of the Council were unanimous in the opinion that such a collection would be of great semee, and that the institute should do everything possible to aid in the making of the collection and in the classification and display. It was agreed that the secretary should communicate with the Minister of Mines in order to obtain the assistance of Mr. McKay, of, the Geological Department, who is at present engaged in a geological examination of the Thames Peninsula.

The report of the medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, Dr. 0. F. Baldwin, on the patients treated at that institution for the year ending March 31st, 1897, is as follows:—The number of patients left from the previous year was 111, admitted during year 1229, discharged cured, 1028; discharged incurable or at own request, 65; died, 109; left in hospital at expiration of year, 138. The per centage of deaths was, of cases treated, 8 285; and of cases admitted, 8(869. Thirty . five cases died within 48 houri of admission. The average duration in the Hospital wae 32'32 days, the average duly number in hospital 11866, and the average daily cost per patient a trifling fraction over 4s 4d. One hundred and forty-seven cases of typhoid fever were admitted during the year; these, with 26 left from the previous year, bring up the number treated to 173. The deaths were twelve, giving it mortality of 6*93 per hundred.