WAIPIATA SANATORIUM

Southland Times, Issue 23374, 4 December 1937, Page 4

WAIPIATA SANATORIUM

MEETING OF COMMITTEE The Waipiata Sanatorium Committee met at Dunedin this week, there being present: Messrs E. Macdonald (chairman), W. Bryant, J. Rodman, J. Ritchie, T. Golden, T. Dowling, J. H. Smith and A. Rennie, and Dr T. McKibbin, representing the Department of Health. The medical superintendent (Dr A. Kidd) reported that 12 patients were admitted in October, 10 were discharged and one died, while 133 remained on November 1. With the exception of 29, of whom a number were recently admitted and others at present were stationary, all were doing well or improving. He reported on his visits to the different centres since the previous meeting, and recommended as suitable for treatment patients from the following districts: Southland 9, South Canterbury 5, Waitaki 3, Vincent 2, Ashburton 1. The secretary (Mr T. Pryde) reported that at the date of the meeting the associated boards had patients in the sanatorium as follows: Southland 52, South Canterbury 24, Ashburton 9, Waitaki 12, South Otago 11, Wallace 8, Vincent 8, Maniototo 6; a total of 130. Of that number 40 had been under treatment for more than twelve months. Since the previous meeting nine patients from three hospital districts had been discharged. He submitted a waiting list of 20 patients from three districts, and as some of these were already receiving treatment in the Dunstan hospital shelters, and arrangements had been made for the immediate admission of others, the waiting list, excluding those at present receiving other institutional treatment, was reduced to six. The treasurer submitted a statement of the committee’s finances for seven months ended October 31. It showed that the revenue was now practically balancing the amount estimated to date, while the committee’s expenditure was still in excess of the estimate. Before the end of t l 3 financial year he hoped to have the account balanced. The treasurer was authorized to collect the third quarter’s instalment of capital levy from the associated boards so that the committee’s capital expenditure account might be balanced. Mr Ritchie reported on the renewal of the committee’s hydro-electric pipeline. He had conferred with two experienced engineers and hoped, at the next meeting, to report on the probable cost of renewing portion of the Ilin main with special concrete pipes, and with a view to gradually replacing with similar pipes the whole of the steel pipe-line which was now showing signs of deterioration. As it was the last meeting of the committee before Christmas, the chairman took the opportunity of thanking his colleagues for their close attention to the committee’s business during the year and wished them all the compliments of the season.