HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5570, 20 May 1896, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID.

♦ SOUTH CANTERBUEY. The monthly meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held on Tuesday ; present — Messrs Talbot ('.'hairinan), Moore, Coltman and Clarke. Mr C. N. Orbell, a representative of Levels County, wrote resigning his seat owing to inability to attend the meetings. The resignation was accepted with regret ; the Levels Council to be asked to name someone to fill the vacancy. . The Chairman said" that after paying the accounts for the day (hospital ,£157, charitable aid ,£IS9), there would remain in hand .£326, enough for another mouth's payments on the same scale. , The Secretary stated that the average cost of children boarded out was os l£d per week each, and of the inmates of the Old Men's Home 10s lid. There were at the end of March last fiftyseven children maintained by the Board — forty-four» boarded out, three at Nelson Orphanage, and ten at Burnham. Mr Jowsey, house steward, reported that the hospital was fuller than usual ; there was not a spare bed in, the female ward, and one female was accommodated in one of the male by-wards. Dr Macgregor wrote that the Government promised the fullest consideration to the Board's recommendation that a Central Home should be established for idiots and imbeciles.