HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1932, Page 8

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

STRATFORD BOARD MEETING.

UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEMES. The monthly meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board was held yesterday, those present being Messrs W. L. Kennedy (chairman) Max Gemhoefer, J. O’Neill, G. P. Harkness, E. S. Rutherfurd and Mesdames D. Shannon and M. T. Phillips. j . The Health Department regretted in a telegram that the board was not entitled to an advance, but said it had recommended the Minister to approve of a bank overdraft up to £2OO. The technical inspector of the Health Department recommended that the kitchen at the hospital should be renovated. There was no doubt, he said, that the kitchen was in need of repair, and if the renovations he suggested were carried out the kitchen would be brought into a condition that would leave no room for complaint, and would serve the purpose for a number of years without the necessity of making more extensive alterations or additions.

The department will-be notified that the board has the matter in view, but is unable to spend money on the kitchen until the estimates are framed for the next financial year. The Health Department forwarded a circular regarding pre-natal attendance. “That does not apply to us,’ ’the chairman said. \

The Unemployment Board , forwarded a circular regarding the emergency unemployment charge stating that the wages received by any worker in respect of his employment on relief works were exempt from the charge only when the work was undertaken by a local authority or public body pursuant to a scheme whereby the whole amount of such wages was refunded to such local authority from the unemployment fund. In cases where - workers under No. 5 scheme received wages in excess of the amount refunded by the board the total wages paid were subject to deduction of the charge. In a circular appertaining to fanners and relief work under scheme No. 5 the Unemployment Board said there was little doubt that both the farmers’ and the board’s interests would be best served if the (farmer were employed on his own land. Therefore, after December 31, 1932, scheme 5 labour would not be made available to persons in occupation of farm lands irrespective of whether the land was in the name of the farmer or his wife; but every case could be considered for assistance under scheme 4a for work on their own property. ’« / The district nurse at Whangamomona (Miss R. McCarroll) reported that during the month there were 54 visits and 18 patients, the fees collected amounting to £2 9s 7d. The matron (Mrs. J. Hunt) reported on a number of staff movements. The Public Works Medical Association at Tangarakau forwarded a cheque for £5l Ils 2d, including proportion of doctor’s salary and maintenance of 199 members at 2s 2d each. The doctor's report for November showed: Births 1, deaths 0, visits 50, consultations 51 and patients sent to hospital 2. The medical superintendent (Dr. D. Steven) reported that patients admitted during November totalled 40, discharged 45, died 1, remaining 32, outpatients attended 1, admissions to maternity ward 11, births 11, visits to ante-natal clinic 60, admissions to isolation ward 2, remaining 1, operations 13.

ELTHAM WAGES CLAIM.

PLAINTIFF AWARDED £2.

At the Eltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday Leslie Evans (Mr. A. Chrystal) proceded against J. Skittrup for £2 10s as wages alleged to be due.

Evans stated that last Easter he answered defendant’s advertisement for a boy to drive a car. The wages were to be 10s a week and keep. He .put in a fortnight’s work, cleaning an engine, cutting wood at the house, going out to get wood and on the baker’s round. One morning Skittrup said he had another lad suitable for the job and he did not like his (witness’) movements. Previously he said he was suitable. No wages were received during the fortnight. Skittrup said that at the time he was a motor mechanic and used to buy bread and sell it at a small profit. He thought he would put on a boy and advertised for one. Several applied and Evans was selected as a likely boy. He said he would let him know within a few days. The boy said he could not drive but would learn if given the job. He told the boy there would be nothing doing until he had gone on the round. Later he told the boy he did, not suit but he could finish out the week. He had offered to pay £l. The magistrate said he would give judgment for plaintiff for £2 and costs £1 11s.

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Nurses Raven, Taylor and Newton passed the cookery examination of the technical school with first class honours,” reported the matron (Mrs. J. Hunt) to the Stratford Hospital Board yesterday. Compliments of the season were exchanged at the meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board yesterday between the chairman (Mr. W. L. Kennedy), members, and the secretary (Mr. T. H. Penn). Mr. G. P. Harkness spoke appreciatively of the services rendered by the chairman and the secretary, and Mr. E. S. Rutherfurd remarked that the board was very well served by both meh.

Mr. T. B. Crump, Eltham, has suffered a sprained ankle. The misfortune occurred while he was playing tennis at Mangamingi.

GENERAL ITEMS.

A sum of £lO to help provide Christmas cheer for necessitous cases was voted yesterday by the Stratford Hospital Board.

The Christmas dinner competition conducted in conjunction with the shop day held by the Stratford branch of the W.D.F.U. was won by Mr. J. Radich, with ticket No. 10.

Prizewinners at the Eltham Progress Committee’s euchre party on Monday were Mr. C. Martin 1, Mr. P. Martin 2, Mr. Ongley 3; Mrs. Hastings 1, Mrs. Roberts 2, Mrs. Davidson 3. Consolation prizes went to Mr. I. Stanners and Mrs. Walker.

A competition for a cake conducted by the Eltham Women’s Institute was won by Mrs. Skevington, Omoana. One of the prizes at a recent euchre party at.Eltham was a Christmas hamper. Two small boys investigated the proposition and when one of the officials investigated later the hamper was found

to be missing. The boys had sampled the contents but they were so sorry for themselves that they had to be carried home to bed.

Stanley George Norris was convicted and ordered to pay 10s costs at the Eltham Police Court yesterday on a charge of failing to pay his unemployment levies for the previous 12 months. The levies had been paid the day afterdependant was interviewed, it was stated.

Judgment by default was entered by Mr. R. W; Tate, S.M., at the Eltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday in the following claims: C. A. Belcher v. G. Norris, £9 14s 3d (costs £1 10s 6d); same v. A. Tolland, £1 13s 6d (12s); same v. J. Walker, £8 7s 8d (£1 10s 6d); S. E. Carson v. I* Des £1 14s (8s).