HOSPITAL BOARD REPORTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 5

HOSPITAL BOARD REPORTS.

Full nving are th? principal clause# in the roparts of committees to oq submitted at next meeting of the OWgo Hospital Board; The Benovclont Committee reports haAtng dealt with Ofi cases tor relief at a weekly cost of .£-20 12s. Casual cases for rebel amounting to £276 Ms 8d have been approved. During the past month M persons have been admitted to. nine discharged from, and two deaths have occurred at the Otago Benevolent Institution. At present KB inmates teinain. The board’s solicitors have, been instructed to act in regard to obtaining Pa^’ - input, from father, brothers, and staters lor maintenance of an inmate of the Otago Benevolent Institution. The secretary has hern authorised eel regarding the request from the Dilector of Education tor a return or persons, and their degree of feeblc-ramded-nsss, who are being assisted by the board. The Sanatorium Committee reports that the resignation ol Sister Turner c-i position at the Pleasant Valley Sanatorium has been accented, the same to take effect as from .Tilly 7, 1924. Authority has been granted to invite applications for the position at a salary commencing at the rate ot £l-a per annum rising by three annual increments ol £lO, £lO, and £5 respectively to a. maximum salary at the rate ot £1.70 per annum, the to ho received by June 2!, and the medical director to report thereon in time tor the board meeting. The Hospital Committee recommends that Dr 11. Selwyn Kendrick be appointed junior house surgeon, Dunedin Hospital, <at Dio usual terms. That authority be granted for the installation of a wood-working machine in the carpenter’s workshop, Dunedin Hospital. That the architects be authorised to lilt the whole of the clecolite floor in the operating room of Batchelor ward and relay the floor in cement, the work to tic carried out at the same lime as similar work in the ward. That in accordance with the recommendation of the honorary medical staff authority lie granted to purchase a diathermy outfit to be employed in the operating theatre. Dr Barnett, the medical superintendent, and the secretary have been authorisd to act in ,1® gard to cable to Mr J. If. White m connection therewith. That the report ol the medical uancnnlondcnt lecwmniending that » larger stock of insulin be given a-trial, an the matter will be brought up again la'cr u necessary. Dr Drennan has applied for leave of absence t.om .June, 1924, to March. 1927. and has endorsed the appointment of Dr 1 . P. Lynch «s acting pathologist for that period. The Finance Committee recommends that; fresh tenders he invited lor the erection ot electric lift, Miller vard. No. X pavilion, Dunedin Hospital. That the report ot Die medical superintendent that the sum ol £2590 b? raised by private subscription, he handed to the Southland Hospital Board with a view to obtaining subsidy and purchasing £SOOO worth of radium, same to be forwarded on loan to the Dunedin Institute, subject to six month’s notice has been approved, ancl if such take place, the patients from tho Southland district to be charged the same as the patients belonging to the Otago district. In regard to the draft rules submitted by Hit, North Canterbury Hospital Board ot the proposed Hospital Boards’ Association, that the board be advised that the matter should be referred to the next conference to be held of all Hospital Boards in the dominion. The medical superintendent and tin matron, Dunedin Hospital, have been authorised to act in regard to the applications received for the position of «;ster, Tapanui Hospital. The Bub-committee consisting of the chairman of Die board and Finance Committee, and Dr Ncwlands has been authorised to report regarding the charges to be made for maintenance and special treatment of patients from outside the Otago Hospital Board’s district. Advice has been received from the DirectorGeneral of Health that it is considered that the board’s charge is justified to the South land Board for insulin treatment of patient. Tenders have been accepted for the supply of the following turniture to the Wakani iiospital: —Twenty-four bedside tallies, J. J. Marlaw; s<l chairs, A. and J. Watt; four tables, A. and J. Watt: thj-ce fables, A. Taylor; three tables, A. and J. Whitt; one swivcleoated office chair, A. and J. Watt; eight wardrobes on castors, J. J. Marlow; 12 duchoasn chests, A. Taylor; eight bookshelves, A. Taylor; three wicker Jubilee chairs, F. K. Turner; three wicker Berkshire chairs, F. It. Turner; 12 wicker halfmoon chairs, F. Tt. Turner; eight wall mirrors, J. J. Marlow; two wire-seated couches, A. Taylor. The sum of £2OO has been received with ■thanks from Mr W. G. Hay, being portion of legacy in the estate of the late Mrs Susannah Jamieson. There still a further amount to be received in this estate.