WANGANUI HOSPITAL BOARD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12436, 8 April 1908, Page 7

WANGANUI HOSPITAL BOARD.

The monthly meeting of this Board was held at the conclusion of the above, the same members being present, with the exception of Mr Littlewood. The same leave of absence was granted.

MINUTES.— The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

BANK BOOK.— The bank book showed a credit balance of £1574 15s 4d.

CORRESPONDENCE. — Ordinary routine correspondence was read and received.

ADVERTISING . — A letter was received from Messrs Watkins, Tyer, and Tolan, asking the Board to advertise in the New Zealand Nurses' Journal ("Kai Tiaki"), when there were any vacancies on the staff. — Received.

PATIENTS' RETURN.— A further circular was received from the InspectorGeneral of Hospitals re the new regulations for obtaining full particulars of patients for quarterly publication in returns. — Letter received.— Members again gave vent to their disapproval of the unnecessary work which will be caused by making out the returns applied for.

X RAYS APPARATUS.— Mr Spriggens gave notice of motion for next meeting "That it be an instruction from this Board to the executive to purchase an X rays apparatxis, at a cost not to exceed £100."

COTTAGE HOSPITAL AT TAIHAPE. — Mr Beban moved the motion standing in his name, "That a cottage hospital be erected at Taihape." In doing so he stated that the Taihape people intended to erect a building and equip same at a cost of not less than .£I4OO, of which £700 would be raised by the inhabitants, carrying with it £700 Government subsidy ; also to raise £100 annually for the up-keep.— A petition signed by 21 Taihape residents, and forwarded by Mr Arrowsmith, asking that a cottaare hospital be erected, was handed in. — Mr Beban withdrew his motion in favour of a motion by Mr Carson, seconded pro forma by Mr Spriggens, "That on the residents of Taihape erecting a hospital on plans submitted to and approved by this Board, and entering into a bond to contribute £100 a year towards its maintenance, this Board will take it over and undertake th,e management." — A long discussion ensued, the majority^ of the members being r adVeffiert<>-tb.e pr<&posal,- on the ground that it "would not meet with the patronage to make it pay, as patients would prefer to go to a hospital where every attention that could be got would be procurable; that the petition was not a representative one ; that it had not been proved that Taibape was the best place for such an, institution; the Waimarino and Raetihi settlers being of opinion that their respective districts required cottage hospitals just as much as Taihape; also that patients, by reason of the present train arrangements, were not put te any hardships in coming to Wanganui. — An "amendment by Mr Sicely that the Board defer their decision for another month to enable a fuller petition and more information to be got, was negatived, and Mr Carson's motion was lost by 7 to 3 on being put to the meeting, which means that the Board will not erect the hospital.

ACCOUNTS. — Accounts amounting to £419 3s 7d were passed for payment.

BELL STREET SECTION.— The recommenciation of the sub-committee — "That on the lease of section 133, Bell Street, falling due in June next, the buildings be sol dfor removal, the section divided into two sections, and that these sections be let. with conditions that buildings to the value of i>4oo each be erectedon them" — was approved by the Board.

It speaks well for the popularity of the Wansfanui Hosuital that a large number of applications for probationers for the nurs insr staff are being received from distant places. This fatt was very pronounced af the Board meeting this morning, when tw( applications were received from younp ladies of Auckland, one from Onehunga. and one from Wellington, for places on thf probationers' list for selection. The appli cants wore Misses Emeline Whyte. ElizaV>pth Stanton, Edith S. Frew, and France Gilmour.