COMMITTEE MEETING.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3997, 22 November 1918, Page 2

COMMITTEE MEETING.

A meeting of the committee was held in the Borough chambers yesterday morning at 9.30 o'clock. His Worship the Mayor, Mr W. J. Towers, presided, and the following- members were present: Councillors Bush, Taylor, Fielder, Brenan, and Balcke, and Messrs Hanna, Gillman, Cullen, Cameron, Lamb, Butler, Hubbard, Blyth, Dean, Gwilliam, Mahony, Nicholas, Harris, Rev. Dobson, and t s he honorary secretary, Mr R. J. Hamilton.

Messrs Cameron, Hlibbard, Parkev, and W. Neil were added to the general committee.

It was decided that the expenses of treating the natives be kept separate, and accounts be sent to the Native Department. -

A committee consisting of Messrs Blyth, Taylor, and L.. E. Cassrels was appointed to see to the food supply for the natives.

The offer of the race-course and buildings from the Jockey Club for the natives, was accepted with thanks.

It was decided to ask the Talisman Company for the use of the ambulance for the conveyance of sick patients.

Messrs Dean, Bush, Towers, and Neil were appointed a building committee to fix up all matters in connection with the temporary hospital at the race-course.

Messrs P. R. Parker and G, Lamb were added to the committee to deal with the .native'cases.

A vote of condolence, proposed by the Rev, Dobson, was passed to the relatives of the late Nurse Maud Manning, and Messrs S. Robson, E. Hart, and L. M. Bell.

and those working in laboratories experience the greatest difficulty in obtaining live cultures. Such difficulty is due to the rapidity with which the organisms die.

This fact easily explains that the organisms that lodge in clothes die so quickly that the clothes of those in contact with patients carry no disease.

A patient in the early stages by coughing and laughing may scatter organisms in an area up to 6ft. Beyond that there is little harm.

Dr. Makgill expressed a great desire that the public should be emphatically notified that there is little danger of infection .through contact with those handling patients. That fact could not be too well and widely known when there was a slight tendency towards panic.