TIMARU HOSPITAL AFFAIRS.

Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 11

TIMARU HOSPITAL AFFAIRS.

TIMARU, December 7

The Hospital Board to-day had a conference with Drs Mason and Finch re an infectious diseases hospital and provision for consumptives In regard to the former, the- question was the area to be included in the contributing clistriot. Members differed about including Waimate and Mackenzie Counties, and, by the casting vote of the chairman, a resolution was carried that all the South Canterbury district should be included* It was stated that the matter would be closely contested before th-3 magistrate. In '-f-gard to consumptives, Dr Mason recommended that provision connected with Timaru Hospital, and also Waimate as an independent sanatorium, would be too expensive. FinalJy it was agreed that Dr Finch (district health officer) and the resident surgeon should see if a suitable site for an annex at Timaru was available. Three or four consumptives are now treated in "sun rooms" at Timaru, and two in tents at Waimate.

A writer in th© Auckland Star gives voice to a complaint that passengers through New j Plymouth often lose luggage there. "No ' luggage," he says, "ever leaves New Ply- , mouth! They must have the accumulation of a quarter of a century there. I have ' never been there, but I'have .the experience of a score of people to prove what a lug- [ gage trap the place is."