OTAGO HOSPITAL BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 5

OTAGO HOSPITAL BOARD

COMMITTEE REPORTS Following is a summary of the reports of the various committees, which will be submitted at the monthly meeting of the Otago Hospital Board on Thursday evening next; — The Benevolent Committee will report having dealt with 26 cases for relief at a weekly cost of £2l 19s 6d. Casual cases for relief amounting to £712 14s lOd have been approved. Twenty-six men received 171| days’ work at the board’s institutions at a total cost of £lO7 3s 9d. Similar arrangements to those carried out in Auckland are to be adopted in regard to the supply of dentures at the Dental School, subject to the same being limited to 15 per month to those requiring the same tor health reasons, who may be certified to by the medical superintendent or his deputy. Intimation has been received from the officer in. charge of the Labour Department that provision is being made to supply Karliac, Kariol, aud humanised milk under tfie Unemployment Board’s ration relief system in necessitous cases to the wives and children of relief workers, subject to; the same applying to men who are registered at the Labour Bureau, Dunedin, and in receipt of scheme No. 5 relief work. During the past month 12 persons have been admitted to, seven discharged from, and five deaths have occurred at the ialboys Home and’infirmary ward. At present 143 inmates remain. The Hospital Committee will recommend that the quotation from Messrs Donald Stuart, Ltd., for repairing the floor covering of the balcony of the Nurses Home be accepted subject to the terms of the specification, and that applications be invited to fill the positions of the two senior house surgeons for the ensuing year. The Finance Committee will recommend that approval be given to the following resolution adopted at the conference between the Otago University Council and members of the board on September o "last: “That in the opinion of tins conference the taking over after reconditioning and extension of the St. Helen s Hospital does not from a satisfactory basis of settlement for the question of the maternity hospital, either from the financial educational, or humanitarian point of view,” and, further, that the chairman, Dr Fitzgerald, and Sir Lindo Ferguson should prepare a statement for submission to the Government, and that this sub-committee should act in forwarding the statement on. The committee will further recommend that (a) the amendments suggested in regard to the options over the site for the maternity hospital he approved. In regard to the treatment in the X-ray and radium department of. patients from outside districts, such patients are to be notified to the board concerned through the usual channels. Tins means that all patients treated in this department will be placed on the same footing as patients admitted to or treated in any other part of the Dunedin Hospital. There is to be no distinction in regard to any patients. TENDERS FOR SUPPLIES.

The Finance Committee will recommend the acceptance of the following tenders for annual supplies: Removal of kitchen refuse from Dunedin Hospital, Nurses’ Home, and ralboys Home; G. A. Brookes. Bread for Dunedin Hospital, .Nurses Home, Batchelor and Infectious Diseases Hospitals. Talhoys Home and Prince Edward Children’s Convalescent Home; F. Tanner. Wakari Hospital: W. Taylor. Pleasant Valiev Sanatorium and Palmerston Hospital; W. J. A M'Kiimey. jun. Milk and Cream for Dunedin Hospital, Nurses* Home, Talhoys Home, .Batcheloi Hospital, Infectious Diseases Hospita , and Prince Edward Childrens Convalescent Home: Otago Co-operative Milk Supply Company, Ltd; Wakari Hospital, D A. MacLeod; Pleasant 'Valley Sanatorium. Ireland Bros.; Palmerston Hospital, Herbert Browne. Meat for Dunedin Hospital, Nurses Home, Batchelor, Infectious Diseases; and Wakari Hospitals, Prince Edward Children’s Convalescent Home, and Talboys Home: G. J. Barton, at schedule prices. The Tuapeka Hospital Committee has recommended that the following tenders be accepted:— . „ k ■ ; Bread: F. Martin and E, S. Landrehe. Milk and cream; A. L. Stokes. Coal; Browne Bros and T. Kean and Co. to have turn about. Removal of ashes: T. Kean and Go. Meat: The chairman and secretary to arrange for the two' local butchers to carry on at the old schedule prices.