HOSPITAL BOARD.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14328, 19 October 1910, Page 3

HOSPITAL BOARD.

MOXTHLi MXETIXG. - The monthly meeting of the South Canterlm-v Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was i...-!.l yesterday. Present —Messrs l'\ U. Giiiiutrham (chairman), C. X. Orbell. X. Francis, G. Butler, l\ 1",. Hart, \V. S. Maslin. J). Grant, .). llolweli, G. T.yall, Dr. Gabites, and Mrs C. L. Xewnham. CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT. The Chairman reported that the past month had been a very quiet oni; the payments were smaller than usual, and this was a yood thing, i'or the Hoard's credit-balance was ttottiii'j; sinail. The credit balance stood "it JL'7l7 7s Jil, and the inimimts'to he pas-rd I'm- payment that day totalled i'ti'JS.i. Th=> ' tliird quarterly insial-i!!.-nfc of iln- annual levy Was now due from the local Ixjdies, And the receipt of this would keep tiie Hoard well in credit. The receipts i'nr the inoatii had been : Patients' payments, £7l 17< Gd. rent of land £'S I'is -Id, charitable aid refunds £(5 .'vs. Ashhur-en Board (Sanatorium account) L2!U los Id, local bodies' payments t\~>~> los Dd. donation of the collection from Key. Clninple's farewell address at St. Andrews £G 10s, a total of STo-IS los Bd. He had made arrangements with the* next lowest tenderer for tin' Board's land at Wir.scombe to take tip the lease which Mr Julius Siegcrt. the lowest tenderer, had forfeited together with his deposit. The new tenant would pay as much for the flat land as for the re-t. and the Hoard would not 10-e by the exchange of tenants as ..iie reiii-be;ir:i>i; area would be im reased from 41) to .".() acres. The agreement with the Otaejo Hoard in connection with the Palmerston ronsttmption sanatorium had been signed on behalf of the Board, and a patient, sent down. The patients were to he taken first lor three weeks for observation purposes, and if it were found at the expiry of that time that they were receiving benefit they would he allowed to temain. The patient sent from this district had now been there for more than three weeks so it was presumed | that liis was a curable case. CORRESPOXDEXCE.

The Timaru "branch of the Medical Association advised that- the hue Dr. Hayes had left a valuable collection of medical and surgical books for the use of South Canterbury medical nun, aud they asked the Board for u room in the Timaru Hospital in. which to house the. books, and to use as a meeting room. A Committee was set urj to see what ccnld be done. The AYaimate Hospital Trustees wrote that their by-laws had been approved by the Minister, ami asking

that the Hoard should bring them into force. —A motiou to this effect .vas passud.

The Temuka Road Board forwarded its third instalment for the year, amounting to £74. Holmes, Gilkison and White, solicitors of Dunedin, forwarded copy of agreement between the Otago and South Canterbury Boards in reference to the l'iilmerston Sanatorium, and uichisiug their account for £1 12s 6'd in connection with the drawing up of same.—Cheque forwarded. The Inspector-General of Hospitals wrote thanking the Board for so promptly complying with the requests he had made to the Board at its previous meetiiiji.

The Treasury acknowledged receipt if the sum of £o<K> from the Board or investment (together with the übsidy thereon) in Government conols. (I'liis sum is the Jackson beiiiest.) The Chairman said that the Board njukl receive 3J per cent, on the noney. The X.C. Hospital and Charitable Vid Hoard wrote suggesting a cc.nfcr■nee of the various representatives of duspital and Charitable Aid Boards. :o consider moans of combatting conumption. and other matters affectiuE hospital ' Boards. They suggested :hai the conference be held in November. The Chairman said November was a most inconvenient time trj hold a conference. Farmers would be too busy clieh. He thought an agenda paper should have been prepared giving some idea as to what it was proposed to bring before the conference He *o"fc it that the principal business would be in connection with consumption, and ( that did not- affect this Board now as ! it was committed to a definite course j of action, Messrs Orboll and Kaslin spoke on the subject, and it was decidrd to send a representative to the Conference shuuld one lie held. KF. POUTS. The matron reported the resignation of Xurso C.eaney. Mr Lyall reported on a vi<it of inspection he had paid to the several institutions under the control of the Board. Generally he found everything going on well. '.the Caretaker of the Talbot Hospital reported that there were two patients in the Hospital at present. One had been admitted., and two discharged since his last report. Tiie resident medical officer reported that the work of the Hospital was jtoing on as usual, a feature of the month being the reduced number of admissions. The out-patients' visits numbered 13-!. operations 13, patients in Talbot Hospital ;1. There were eleven ! patients in the Hospital who had been there over the regulation two months. CHARITABLE AID. A request was received for assisti ance in sending an old man who is ; ! uifering from sciatica, to Kotorua or ! Ilanaicr. I i)r. Gabites said his experience went i to prove that trips to these places fl'd ino good whatever to sciatica; it was | money thrown away. j It was decided to offer to take the : applicant in the Timaru Hospital, aid '. do everything that could he done for . him. j It was decided to give os a week to I a woman at Temuka" who is in :;oor I circumstances. It was stated that' the j woman has some sons who should help j her. I The ease of a woman in Timaru who i recently lost her husband, and has three children to keep, was discussed, the woman asking tor assistance to Keep her children. It was stated that the woman has a. good house on which she has paid a substantial sum, and does not wish to lose it. The Board resolved to assist the applicant on condition that she makes over her property to the Board so that they can protect her interest in it. ACCOUNTS. Accounts were passed for payment as iollows:—Charitable aid £-->36 ISs ?o, Timaru Hospital .£276 10s 3d. Tal- „ i>ot Hospital £2r, 5s Sd. Old Men's tome £6l los 3d; a total of £OOO Js lid.