NAPIER HOSPITAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2430, 19 February 1909, Page 5

NAPIER HOSPITAL.

THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL’S CO NO EM iM,h f! ON. A MUNIFICENT DONATION. [Press Association.] NAPIER, Feb. IS. _ A. meeting of the-Napier Hospital Trustees was held to-day to meet Dr. Va’intinc, Inspector-General of .Hospitals, and confer with him oil. matters connected with the hospital. Dr. Valintinc said lie had been living at the hospital for the past week, and found that the buildings were insanitary and in disrepair. The interior did not show that scrupulous cleanliness which should prevail, and tlie wards were not clean. The place was overcrowded, and the grounds untidy and insanitary. He found a lack of harmony between tlie administrative officers, due to outside interference, and a. want of definiteness in. regard to duties. Notwithstanding all drawbacks, tbo patients had been well cared for, but 67 were too much for one man. The economic side of tbo hospital had been neglected and mismanagement was rife. -Out of 19 nurses only two were trained nurses, but that there was not that _ absolute disloyalty to tbe matron which some people endeavored to make out was shown by the fact that four senior muses had offered to stay on if required, after they had passed their examinations. The hospital books did not contain enough information, hut this was duo to tho secretary being overworked. ,Hc recommended the appointment of .an extra medical officer at £2OO per annum, and additional help for the secretary. The matron (Miss Florence Edwards) forwarded her resignation. Mr. W. Shrimpton gave £IOOO towards the erection of a new children’s ward, in memory of his son.