HOSPITAL BOARDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14195, 12 January 1917, Page 9

HOSPITAL BOARDS

m'' ; ( r— t , RESOLUTIONS AT/C^NPIJIRENCE. (Per Pr.ess Aasoctation.J . . WELLINGTON, last iiight. Tlie Hospital Boards.' Conference carried the following resolutions to-day : — : That the view of Obtaining uniformity, this conference considers tVie time is now opportune 1 for the adoption of a classification • schemei' aiid 1 a nihiform scale , of salaries to be paid to the nursing staffs of the various Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards' of the Dominion, and that thia conference refer the matter to the Inspector-General." "That itVbd a .Vecdmnieiidation to the , Government that the Pensions Act be amended to "provide that; where old age) pensions are misused so 'as to become forfeited', »•'■' Stipendiary Magis-. trate may have power to make same payable to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of the district in which the pensioner resides, such board to I ' be authorised to .allot in goods or kind the amount of pension, in weekly grants." "That, with a view of increasing the efficiency of each hospital district, steps be immediately taken by the Government to secure fqr practically every hospital in the Dominion sufficient of tliei -many motor ambulance waggons which will be thrown on the market at the end of the war." "Regarding the recent amendment to the regulations under the Nurses' Registration Act, this conference regards that clause 1 two and three thereof be amended in or<kW that matrons or superintendent of nurses may not be made_ sole abitei* in' dismissing pupil nurses without refereaice to a Board, or it" shall be necessary for the Registrar of Nurses to consent to the termination of the training of pupil nurse's." Respecting the differenoe of opinion between the Education Department and Hospital Cliaritable Aid yßoards on tlie subject, of the Education Department's ' proposal to alter the system. of charging for the maintenance of . indigent children, Hon.' Mr 'Rurcell advised that the Crown Law Office had given him the following opinion : — • ' "Tlie .E/jucatiOn Department is not' authorised ny 1 law to make a charge according to- the actual cost of maintenance of the Children with a. minimum of 10s weekly, nor is- the Department authorised to' retain all ' monies received from parents' of the child until it ceases ,to be an 1 inmate and then only refunds to the' Board the' amount, in excess of ' the cost of maintaining the child It is quite clear froni sections . 3, and 32 of the Industrial, Schools' Act, 1908, that ' the Education Department- must provide in its estimates for the cost of maintaining; and educating children who are inmates of Industrial Schools, lesi any amount* received from the parents or others who arc required- by statute to i contribute to the support of he inmate. It is not authorised to collect the whole cost' of maintenance of any iiimate:"