HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10417, 20 July 1895, Page 2

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

The regular monthly meetiog of the Hospital Ttuafcees was held on Wedm-sday afternoon, and was attended by Messrs Miller (chairman), Robin, Wills, Clark, Carroli, and Myers.. BErOBTS. ' . The House Committee reported that Mr F. W. Lyders's tender for the erection of an ashpit for £8 5s hid been accepted.' Twelve Heats for outdoor patients had been ordered from Messrs Scoullar and Chisholm, whose tender had been accepted at £2 15s. Ife had been decided to wait for the importation of suitable material for these seats. A.fur&her shipmnnt of drags had been ordered. WiUianTDrjbnrgh;1 doorkeeper, had been laid up since June 30. He had undergone an operation aad was norf1 making satisfactory progress.—Adopted.

The Finance Committee reported that salaries s.nd accounts for June, amounting to £693 3s 6(3, hadT been passed for payment, subjaet to the approval of the trustees; The receipts for June were as follow:—In-patients;-:£53 ■• 19s 6d ; out-patients, £8 6s; sales, £3 ;9s 7d ; students'fees. £14 I*3 ; and -.'donations, £5 7s 6d ;—total. £85 16s 7d. .The receipts for July to date were: In-patients. £53 8s ; out-patients, £3 lls; and sales, £4- 17s 6d ;■—total, £6116s 6d. The bank passbook showed a-credit balance of £237 17s lid, the cash in hand beius £6 ;— totali £?AZ 17s lid. Thesuni of £607 6s lid would ba required from the Hospital Boatd for the payment of salaries, and accounts for, June. The building fund showed a credit balance of £783 8a lOd. A copy, of the balance sheet for the year ending. March 31 was laid, on the table. Application had been made to the Government for subsidy on donations ■■and .contributions amounting to £359 14s. .7d. — Adopted, the Chairman mentioning that; the, large increase in the estimate was due to the winter and the demands being much larger; - : ' ■ , The medical roportifor Jiuno was received. ', correspondence. .'-..; .■-.'...

The Paymaster-general notifying, that £700 had been-remitted to the acconni; of the Hospital Trustees. —; The Ghaibman said, this was the final payment dna in' connection with the new pavilion

Dr Ross,,house surgeon, wrote in connection with a recemmendatipn for the admission of a man into the hospital. , The thsa's ftisnds-. had been told that be had been discharged Vpre? vioualy as incurable, andthe writer could not take upon himself the resptjhsibiiityofadmftting him, and bad said that be must consult the trustees. The chief trouble aeemed to ba/bhat: one of the family, who wight.,be at work, had to star at home to look after the. man. In the writer's opinion he vias, a suitable, piitieut for the Benevolent Institution! — The Chairman said • that this man was taken into the hospital some time ago, and'discharged as incurable. He' was taken. in a Beoond:-time,*<ou' the strong recommendation, of his family that he could be better *nursed in .the hospital than at hohio. The question was, oould he'be'cured in tbe I