BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TRUSTEES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 12

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TRUSTEES.

The regular meeting of tbe Benevolent Institution Trustees ou t'.e L7th ult was attended by Mes rrf It Wafc&on(iclii'g chairman), C. Allan, R. Wilson, I. Trcsedor, W. Swan, and II Gouiley.

The arrow ts i)as3 d for payment amounted to £222 4s Bd.

It was re poitei flat the cost of the institution for June was £37l 4* lid, the inmates numbeiing &0S and the averego cost per week Icing 53 10 Id

In the rate of o man wlio bod baen sont down from the Tuapeka IL.»piti] wl ile be was in what, the triutefs coiitideietl a critiral condition of Lealtb, und who bad o'K'd n.t tbe in>titution on the 10th hist., tha day foliovvius that on which lie was scut 1o tirwn, Dr Newall. in charge of the 'J'uaf elca Ifi fpilal, \srote us follows :— " 'Jhn man lml noa-.tl!i>..i curing the tim* 1 1 saw him He was sufficing fi'uin no oiguiic ciief a c, nvA rnigut live foi 1 montho, in- even j cars. H-j wss admitted here on the 7th, and on the Bth he was walking about as usml On tin night of the Bth he v■« talking and unking a ;ioi-.e all J'igK, and would not stay in bed. No one in tha waul f,ot any sleep owing to bi& making inch a di^Uu banco. Ou the Btb he was twice down the road, aud ocly f<ii one of the patients, who was told off to watch him, he would have wandered away. My only other coiusc would have been to put bim hi apaddcd-.cell of a. night, as> I could rot have him another right iv the waid. He walked put of tbe load to tbe station. At Milton, tbe attendant tells me, he walked up aud down the platfoini till the couth train came iv. He tiied seveial times to get out of the tidin ; walking to the door of the cirriage, as be wished to jto to bis hut, he said. When at Cavertham station tbe attendant tells me that he told the Benevolent Institution a sistant that tha man could walk, but tbat it. would take too long. Indeed, he fays the man followed bim about tho stition while he was looking for a trap to come. Tbe man was i.s^isted into' the tiap, as any other old mau would have to be, as tbe steps were li'Rli. but not because he was powerless. Then he walked from the trap to the institution, an assistant walking on each &ide, because it was d.uk. He also walked from one ward to another, aud then refused to take off his clothes. The attendant had to assist toundiess him, as he said he would not go to bed." Sir Aixak did uot think anyone was to blame, and the communication was received. _ Thirty -four relief cases were dealt with.