WALLACE HOSPITAL BOARD.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 1281, 19 August 1930, Page 2

WALLACE HOSPITAL BOARD.

11l » « • The monthly meeting- hold on Thurj}iay was attended by " iuessrs J. (|, Johnston (Chairman), L< . J. Dyer, §, L-'owle, F. J. Linscott, jno. .iiorcli, y C. Thomson, T. A. Buckingham arid Miss Hunt. - The Secretary of Southland Hospital Board wrote m regard to a patient .. From Wallace who had undergone treatment m the luvercargill Hospital — Received. - ; , ■ Secretary of. Hospital Boards ■Association, AVellVgton, wrote Btating .■ that the Hospital Board should endea- . your to obtain representation on the . Nurses and . Midwives Registration Board. As the Minister of Health had.-'.-declined to accede . to the request,' Hospital" Boards were advised to take action with a suggestion that- they ask - their members of Parliament to cooperate.;;"; „: '.'•;■■:-. ' ■':;"■;■, -V\.. '^' : - ' J \. '.'\: : ' ■ The Secretary of Hospital Boards Association wrote that it was proposed to make" a presentation; to Dr Valentine m, his retirement from thiis Public i Health iDepartment.2_L^st .jtj> ' . lie on table. " . i? Acclaim was received from th^VOtagpv ■ Board for treatment of Otautau•resident m the Duriedin HospitaL^DecJclr ',!> ed'rto^ay the claim >ai>cl interview -theV' cx^patient Regarding recovery^ ot iee|;^f ■■:■ ■ ■ The'^D eiwrtm^nt^f Health "w^te; ; iij* ■■ regard to subsidy' of TheMitt-;^ i ster^.asked' to. be advised m reject ■- ""- to monies; received" from the Reginald^ '■'*' McKinnon^; trust. -The ISlinisier^aiso^ asked^f^^g,; outline': of ,ahy; agfeeinent-. . "orv.^far^ement between ;the Board and the iDtautUiTNr^rso ■ Gbmmit- .- tee showing the amount to becontri- . buted bx the^oarcT.: - . ' > '; '■ ' The Medicals-Superintendent reported ? s :^-Patients ■;: remaining from previous monlii i^ 20 : males,- 12 females ; admitted during the month, 10 males, 9 females ; total treated,l3o males, 21 females • patients discharged 13 males, 13 females; deaths, 2 males 1 female; discharged, -.15 males, 14females ; remaining m hoipital, 15 males and 7 females. : - ■ ; X . Maternity Hbme-rrPatiehts admitted, "~ 8; discharged 6 ; reniainling 2. " • - The following tenders for: supplies to the hospital \yere accentprl : — Groceries : Helm and Dickson and T. Borland, three Months about; v Millc; r.' '.■butter and eggs : Roland -Etill. Meat: Tweedie and Co.. -I "._'•'. ' -.. ; Drapery .: Geo. Robertson and Mar^ tin and Spear. ; Funerals : A: F, Webb. ' ' .