OTAGO HOSPITAL BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23223, 22 June 1937, Page 3

OTAGO HOSPITAL BOARD

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES The following is a summary of the reports of the various committees which will be presented at the monthly meeting of the Otago Hospital Board on Thursday night:— BENEVOLENT COMMITTEE The Benevolent Committee will report having dealt with four cases for relief at a weekly cost of £1 17s 6d. Casual cases for relief amounting to £155 Os 7d were approved. During the past month 10 persons have been admitted to, four discharged from, and one death has occurred at the Talboys Home and infirmary ward. At present 117 inmates remain in the institution HOSPITAL COMMITTEE The Hospital Committee will recommend that when an application is received Dr C. R. Burns be granted leave of absence as from July next and that Dr J. Cottrell be appointed locum tenens in his place to take over his duties as honorary assistant physician, Dunedin Hospital, and also the position of lecturer in the massage department. The committee will report that authority has been granted to carry out as opportunity offers the repairs and alterations to electrical equipment, Dunedin Hospital, as required by the chief inspector, Electric Power and Light Department. In the meantime only one side of the wards is to be wired FINANCE COMMITTEE The Finance Committee will recommend that: (a) The basis of payment in the reciprocal agreement between the Waitaki and Otago Hospital Boards be fixed at the rale of £4OO per annum for the year 1937-38; (b) the suggestion of the Wellington Board that outdoor relief cases should also come under the reciprocal agreement between the Otago and Wellington Hospital Boards be approved; (c) the re quests made by the Dannevirke, Waikato. and Stratford Hospital Boards for reciprocal agreements to be entered into with the board under section 92 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1920, be approved. The committee will report that the application from the Dunedin Bowling Club for payment of half the estimated cost for re-erection of dividing fence between the club's properly in Cumberland street and the Nurses’ Homo has been approved, the rail to be on the bowling green side of the fence. Authority has been granted for the completion of purchase of property in Frederick street from A. G. Stott.

Authority has been granted for the employment of the following men on work at the board’s institutions:—(l) Six men for a period of three months in grounds at Pleasant Valley Sanatorium: (2) 20 men for a period of three months for levelling the ground and lowering ashes Talboys Home; (3) 12 men for a period of three months in grounds at Wakari Hospital Subject to the Government supplying men and paying them the full wages, the board is to provide supervision and necessary tools and equipment.