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APPENDIX lI.—HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE AID.

A. REPORTS OX INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTIONS. HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE CONTROL OF DISTRICT BOARDS. Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Usual date of meeting : Third Tuesday in month. Chairman : James M. Mennie. Secretary : H. M. Garland. Public Health Inspectors: ('. M. .1. Fogarty, C. T. Haynes, M. P. Furness. Institutions under Hoard's control: Auckland Hospital. Alexandra Convalescent Home. Cost ley Home. Dental Hospital. Anchlanil Hospital. Medical staff, honorary: Helen Constance Frost, M.8., Bach. Surg. (N.Z.)j Alfred Clark. P.1!.U.5., L.R.C.P. (Edin'.); Joseph C. Pabst, Bach. Surg. (Melb.), M.D. (Melb.)j J. Bardic Neil. M.8.. Ch.B. (N.Z.); Ernest Robertson, M.D., .U.K.U.S. (Eng.); Berbert Mayer Goldstein, M.8., Bach. Surg. (Loud.); ti. Gore Gillon, M.D. (Glas.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.); Ernest 11. Williams. M.8., Ch.B. (N.Z.); Claude E. A. Coldicutt, -M.D. (Edin.), P.H.D. (Camb.), Ch.B. (Edin.); C. Tewsley, M.D.. F.R.C.S. (Edin.); Alex. Kinder, M.8., F.R.C.S. (Eng.); Robert Henry Walton. M.D., F.R.C.S. (Edin.); Lawrence Harke. M.8., Bach. Surg. (Cam.); Garrick Robertson, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P.j Kenneth Mackenzie, M.D.. F.R.C.S.; Casement G. Aitken. M.8.. Ch.B. (N.Z.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.); .1. Falconer Brown, M.D., Ch.B. (Edin.). Medical staff, st lpendiarv : C. E. Maguire. M.D.; A. H. Grant, M.8., Bach. Surg.; \\. Abbott, M.8., Bach. Surg'.; A. B. McCutcheon, M.8.. Bach. Surg.; L. A. Spedding, M.8., Ch.B. ; A. S. Addison. MB.. Bach. Surg. Matron : Miss J. M. Orr, R.N. Localities from whence patients came: Rodney County, 18; Waitemata County, Ki-I ; Mount Eden, Mount Roskill, Mount Albert, 390; Grey Lynn,' Ponsonbv. Arch Hill, 526; Parnell, Remuera. Newmarket. 280; Onehunga and Epsom, 89; City of Auckland, 1,332; other contributory districts, 336; non-contributory districts, 113; vessels in harbour, 38. Visited several times. The Hospital was always well filled. The new kitchen block is in occupation, and is very well equipped. There is a staff of five in the kitchen—two cooks and three assistants. The dispensary is now moved to this block. It is proposed to turn the old dispensary, the Hour of which had rotted away owing to want of ventilation, into a massage department. Tin new storerooms are also in occupation, and aie well stocked with hospital requirements. The two new theatres were under course of construction. A large amount of surgical work is now done, each surgeon having two operating days. 'I here were fifty-three operations in one week recently, ten being emergencies. 1 observed very great improvement in the surroundings of the Hospital generally, the grounds and back premises being in very good order. The wards and sanitary blocks were all in excellent order. Alexandra Convalescent Home. EUerslie. Medical staff, honorary: H. \V. Murray. M.B. (Edin.), Bach. Surg. (Edin.). Master : E. J. Thomas. Matron : Miss J. M. Orr, R.N. Localities from whence patients came: Convalescents from Auckland Hospital District. Visited on 29th January, 1914. There were 12 patients, 2of these convalescent enteric cases. A nurse from the Hospital was in charge. The patients spoke very well of the comfort of Ihe Home, and everything was in excellent order. Cost ley Home. Medical staff, stipendiary: A. N. McKelvey, L.R.C.P. and S. (Irel.). Master: A. N. McKelvey. • Matron: Jane Forbes, R.N. Localities from whence patients came: Auckland Hospital District, except three from adjoining districts. Visited on 28th January, 1914. There were 188 men and 55 women in the home. Twelve of these were consumptive cases—B in ihe mail.' shelter and 4in the women's. In the chronic wards then' were two vacant beds. The married quarters do not seem to be very often occupied. There are at present only iwo married couples. Considering the very inadequate laundry accommodation, and equipment for washing for over six hundred individuals, the work is not badly done. Sufficient vegetables are grown for this establishment and the Hospital.