S.C. CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2254, 15 September 1891, Page 4

S.C. CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The monthly meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held on Thursday. Present : Messrs W. H. Moore (in the chair), D. M. Ross, J. Sinclair, D. McLaren and M. Quinn. ' The chairman, Mr J. Jackson, was absent through having met with an accident, and Mr McLaren moved that a vote of sympathy and condolence be passed be the board. The acting chairman warmly approved. NON-PAYING PATIKNTS. Mr McLaren remarked that there were not many paying patients. The Secretary said there were not, and there were a number of patients in the hospital, admitted by the doctors, of whom he knew nothing whatever. A conversation took place on the subject, and members pointed out that all orders for admission, save for serious accidents, should pass through the office, in order that enquiries could be made as to the circumstances of the patients. The secretary was directed to draw the attention of the medical men to the regulation in this regard. The House Steward drew attention to the case of one patient, a single man, a member of the friendly society, who had received £1 a week from the society, so that he was actually £7 in pocket by going to the hospital, and he had not paid a cent. TENDERS. Three tenders were received for painting, &c, R. Edwards (accepted) £75 10s ; J. Craigie, £77 ; G. Murdoch, £Bl 17s 6d. Two tenders were received for lease of the old hospital reserve, 2£ acres, Kernohan, McCahon and Co., for one year £2O, for three years £4O; Tyrrell, King ; and Co., £ls 5s a year for three years. The latter was accepted. DIVISION OP THE DISTRICT. At the previous meeting the Board by a majority passed a resolution requesting the member for the district to oppose the bill for constituting the Waimate county a separate hospital district. Several letters and telegrams had passed between the chairman and the members on the subject, the purport of which was that Messrs Rhodes and Hall-Jones would oppose the Bill unless they were otherwise instructed, and Major Steward, on behalf of Waimate, was prepared, in order to facilitate matters, to agree to a compromise as to boundary. The majority of the board decided to demand that the boundary be the Makikihi, the Waimate people were willing to accept the Otaio as the boundary. After a debate a resolution was carried agreeing to Otaio as the boundary. CHARITABLE AID. The circumstances having been explained by the secretary it was decided to send three lads named Johnston—fatherless, mother in prison—to Burnham, i a girl of four to be boarded out if possible. Two children from Temuka were also ordered to be sent to Burnham. A letter was received from Cornwall, England, from the grandfather of '< a little orphan girl of eight, who had at his request, been sent Home by the Board. The writer expressed much gratitude to the Board for the care they had taken of his grand child.

ACCOUNTS. Accounts amounting to £303 17s were passed for payment, and the board rose.