WAIMATE HOSPITAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 1 October 1908, Page 3

WAIMATE HOSPITAL.

Tli- Waimate Hospital Trustets met resterdav afternoon. Present—Meww' AWalker tin the chain. Hardie. Atwill, Miller and Sanders. The surgeon rtpoitctl (hat mic jiatienw in hospital at date of last return were oo admitted 22: total treated 50. There bad been discharged 54 cured and one died; remaining 20. Out-patients had numbered 15—eix new aud nine ie-adinissjon-i. The matron's report ou times of patients* stay, and amounts due and paid, was also read.

The secretarv drew attention to the fact that the finances of the Trustees were not in >i good condition. The Trustees made demand upon "*tlie central Board: for £1474. basing their estimate on the average requirements year by .year. That was for the year end : ng March next. They had already received £IOOO. leaving £474 to be received. After paying the accounts '• > be passed that day. their account would be overdrawn £2/0 odd. to that if they received the balance of the requisition they would have only £2CO to carry on with till the end of Mai eh. There was no legal authority for incurring an overdraft. Mr Atwill said they had had an exceptional year; they had been running two iiospitals. Mr Walker pioposed. and it was agtocJ. that the clerk write to the central Board, stating the "positiou, and asking for assistance-.

Mr Walker thought they ought- to have •i works committee, on whose reeonimenddation work should lie brought licforc the Trustees, aud home of the work* for which accounts were to be passed ought to have been done by contract. —The clerk was requested to bring this suggestion to the notice of the new Board, to be appointed in November. Dr Barclay sa : d there was a good deal of expense to be faced yet. in the furniture for the two new ward*. electric bells, linger plates, furniture for the consumptive shelter shed, and stove for the neiv ward kitchen. Then the old cottage bad had to be need for scarlet fever patients, and it mart have all the paper torn off. be fumigated, and repapered.—The chairman thought these (hinge should have been provided in the estimates for the new buildings.—The chairman and Messrs .Studholme. and Miller were appo : nted lo act with the medical ofticer in selecting furniture for "the new wards. Dr Barclay mentioned that the cook and housemaid had been very much overworked for tome months pa&t, and he recommended that theic extra services be recognised in bvme way.—The *am«; committee to look Into this matter. On the. surgeon's iccoirniendation Miss Akhurst was taken as a permanent probationer.

Accounts amounting to £424 were pa«ed for payment. -