HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 74, 16 April 1901, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Tiie Board met on Monday. Present: Messr.-. Mackr.y, Oliver, McDonald. McCullum, Li inlet, Sutton, Leppcr, Stoiir, Stewart, and Seott. In the abssnco of the F. P. Corkill) who was granted leave, Mr. Mac'iiay was voted to the chair. The matron (Mi>s Brown) roported that it was impossible to get a trained nurse at present, and sho recommended that two probationers should be appointed instead to the New Plymouth hospital, It was decided to agree to the recommendation. j

The question of insurance of the Board's employees came up, and quotations wero submitted by the Ocean Accident Corporation and New Zealand Accident Company.

The Board's solicitor advised that it was not necessary to insure. The matter was held over.

I The Hawera House Committea's |report was read. A water service bad been laid on. Twenty loads of gravel had been put on the ground, and a farther supply was required. A man named Mannix, who was in tha hospital, had a leg amputated, and it was recommended that application should be made to the Government for an artificial limb, as he met with his accident while in Government employ. The report was adopted, aisd authority given the committee to obtain another 20 yards of metal for the hospital grounds.

Tbe Lands Department wrote in reference to a proposed exchange by the Board of Pfction 1119 for section ■792, now belonging to Mr. F. W, Richmond. Tha Board had already agreed to certain terms on which the exchange wss to be made, and the matter wag referred to the Chairman. Several charitable aid cases were dealt with.

A letter from Mr. LiVer, caretaker (if the Old Men's Home, was referred to the Chairman.

Mr. Stewart reported on two cases of ex-patients, who wore not able to pay their accounts owing to the Board, but one of whom was willing to furnish vegetables to the Hawera Hospital to reduce tha amount.—Agreed to. It was agreed, on Mr. Sutton's recommendation, to transfer a child named Smith from the Hawera to the New Plymouth Hospital. Accounts wtra passed for payment as follows : —New Plymouth Hospital, .£lB4 12s 9d ; Chsritable AH, £124 5s 10J; Hawera H'lppital, .£64 16* 4d ; member.*' fxpecses. £7 10s.

Tbe Chairman referred to the cass of a man named Anderson, which had bten common ted upon in the Pnsi.

After defiling the circumstances of tho coso (vMibl'r hoi ytstc-rday in the Daily News) s'ati g that though writton to by the Bird's solicitor, Anderson bad not been pressed, the Chairman kaic! he had v-.sitsd the man whom ha found in an unfortunate condition. So i fores ho coull seethe man was certainly inades'itute state, but his relatives were liable for his maintenance. He hardly knew what caurse the Bsard could take.

The Board then went into Committee and discu-S'd the matter at some length.

Oa resuming it was decsided on Mr. Tapper's motion, seconded by Mr. Sutton, to refer tho matttr to the local membirs, Messrs. Mar bay ard Liardet. The Beard t,hon adjr.ured.