WANGANUI HOSPITAL BOARD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 9 January 1908, Page 7

WANGANUI HOSPITAL BOARD.

The- monthly meeting of tho above I Board' was then he'd. The samo^ mem- i be.rs, with the exception of O. Little- • woo:l, were present. Leave, of absence I was grafted to "Messrs. Brittle and Letlibnclge.MINUTES.—The minutes of the last Jk-.€fcti-ng were read and confirmed. BANK BOOK.-Tiiite. Bank book was ! laid on the table, and showed that the i credit, balance, wa.s £2031 Is 9d. ! CORRESPONDENCE.—The correspoiidencJa (inward and outward) was i read. i .SANATORIUM.—It was decided to j &£<nd W. Nicholl. of Mar.tosi, to tho i Rcitoiun. Sanatorium, i>rovid'mg the i Hou.^ Surgeon'of-tho Hospital deemed ' it advk-able. ■ _-J LEASE.—The solicitor's opinion re- i garding Mr. Mcßsth's application for j alteration of tevms of leasa was read.— j Tho Chairman expressed the opinion j that the Board w-o-aJJ. b? unwise to pa.rfc ' with the 1 mihl eccroerned.—lt was" resolved to reply that tho Board-cannot ! sea its way to utter tlie terms of the i leas'". ' . ! ACCOUNTS.—Accounts amounting to £447 13s. 9:T. were passed for payment. STAFF.—The- resignations of NiTres Ida MeMa.'ter and Florence Pattlmore and Sister Wigging were- received Act- , ing-Skiers Maud Jeffries, mad K. Me-t Donald, wh-y had passed the. nurses' . State examination, were appointed Sis-. tors. Mis-e-i Eini'ie Arnold, Anna ! jOierks snd! Jean M. Ferguson were seiocted.cn the usual three, months' trial as probat.ione'-s, vice'Nurso K. McDonald, prom-a-ted .to- Acting-Sister, and-Ida McMafvter and F. Pattimore, resigned. m MAORI PROBATIONER' NURSE.— ; JL'he Inspector-General of Hospitals ', wroto asking the Board if it had a i vacancy for a. Maori.probationer nurse, ■ and stating that a young native- lady, who had; been.- 18 moinths'in the Napier. Hospital. v,v.o anxious to be appointed. | —Tibe- secretary repa-rted that "theno- I tiy'e lady had bosn appointed as a pro-i ttaitioner.oii the usual-terms. «n-d would , relieve Miss Condon till tho bitters-re- I covea-y fwni am accident. I DELIRIUM TREMENS PATIENTS. •! —Tho Inspector-General of Hospitals j wroto ackn-owled'ging the receipt of the i Board's, decision not to admit cases of delirium tremens to the Hospital's padded cell. , .He suggested that 'the De- I partinent bs allowed* to put up a build-.' ing: .0n... the Board's grounds,, in the vicihityvvpif.'th.3 Hospital- and t:ha»t"tho , Hospita^staff should look after the pa- ! tien.ts.^iCh© 'members were* favourable to-i^fe.proposal, and Considered that the ; pro^oged plaeq' v^as i)oifc: <jnitable to.deal '. Av.ifh such patieiits,--as tiie hospital staff ' was composed of woinieb. . It'was decided t:o renly that the-Board" coukT not undertake the care of delirium' tremens J patients, owing -to the Hospital staff 1 being composed' of ladies. ; X R,AY&.—A letter wasreceive'd!fr.cm M=i\ Charles L. Handcoll, _Ashburto*i, offering the Board am X rays plant, at a. price of £17 15s. . The- -price was con- ! sid-srecl ridiculous foi* such a plant, aad j Mo mfimbers did not. think that the ! apparatus would be suitable for the Hrspital, so decided not to entertain the I offer. " ' ■ I