AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17457, 29 April 1920, Page 7

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

PATHOLOGIST APPOINTED.

VENEREAL DISEASES CLINIC. USE OF THE ANNEXE, The Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met last evening, the chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, presiding. There were also present: Messrs. P. M. Mackay, M. J. Coyle, P. J. Nerheny, E. H. Potter, G. Knight, F. Dye, J. G. Rutherford, and M. J. Savage, M.P. Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, attended the meeting. The chairman reported that out of eighteen applications for the position of pathologist and bacteriologist, Dr. Walter Gilmour, acting-assistant health officer for the City of Glasgow, had been recommended for appointment by a committee of eminent medical authorities associated with the High Commissioner. The board adopted the recommendation.

" Dr. Valintine said the appointment was approved by the Health Department, Dr. Gilmour possessing excellent testimonials. _ The board adopted a suggestion by Dr. Valintine that the board co-operate 'with the Health Department as far as possible, the Inspector-General indicating that Dr. Armitage would do the bacteriological work of the Health Department. The chairman and Messrs. Potter and Coyle were appointed a deputation to wait ; upon the City Council with a view to the utilisation of the military hospital in the Domain as a temporary building for the treatment of venereal diseases outpatients. It was stated that this structure would be in use by the military medi- , cal authorities for another twelve "months at least. The board contemplated the erection of a permanent institution, and would have.the assistance of the Government subsidy on a £ for £ basis. Dr. Valintine said the Health Department approved the plans of the proposed buildings with minor alterations, and the annexe should be used temporarily for both sexes until the permanent building could be established, which would be provided as soon as possible. ■He added that the Health Department would provide the equipment for the buildingtemporary and permanent. . -. . ' The chairman reported that plans had been submitted for the nurses' home extension, at an estimated cost of £70,000. It was decided to consider this matter at a special meeting. The Finance Committee was empowered to purchase a HawJey fracture table for setting fractures of limbs at an approximate, cost of £150. An application from the New Lynn Town Board for a subsidy toward a di*trict nurse, and also an application toward assistance for a maternity nurse in Waiuku, were referred to the Finance Committee, with power to act. It was decided to inform the Waiuku Town Board that when the land was conveyed to the board, and the £1000 promised paid over, the board would immediately proceed with the erection of the building for the provision of maternity cases and casualties. Remits to the forthcoming conference of hospital boards were adopted, providing for legislation empowering the payment of honoraria to chairmen of hospital boards, and for the formulation of a scheme of superannuation for permanent officials of hospital boards. The number of inmates in the Costley Home was reported to be 261. The chairman said, notwithstanding the large amounts lent in the past throughout the Dominion, the Public Trustee now discovered that be had no power to lend to hospital boards, according to his reply to the board's application fcr a loan of £100,000 for buildings.