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Kumara Hospital. Medical staff, stipendiary : George Phillips. M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.). Matron : Helena K. Isdell, R.N. Localities from whence patients came : Greymouth, 18 ; Westland County, 26 ; Kumara Borough, 35 ; Hokitika Borough, 2. Visited on 23rd June. There were 5 patients and 12 old men in the outside cottages. This Hospital is very little used for acute cases, and the new wards are practically wasted. The detached cottages for the old men are not well kept, and compare very unfavourably with the old men's quarters at Reefton and Greymouth. Totara Hospital. Medical staff, stipendiary : J. A. Doctor, M.B., Ch.B. Matron : Ada C. Phillips. Localities from whence patients came: Ross Borough, 21 ; Westland County, 28; Westport, 1 ; Hokitika, 6 ; Kumara. 5 ; Greymouth, 2. Otira Cottage Hospital. Medical staff, stipendiary : W. Cairns, M.B., CM. Matron : Jean Muir, R.N, Localities from whence patients came : Westland, 23 ; Canterbury. 22 ; Greymouth, 2. Visited on 25th June, 1913. There were 3 patients. The Sister in charge, Miss Ziegler, has since resigned, and .Miss Jean Muir, from Westland Hospital, has been appointed. Ashburton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Usual date of meeting : First Monday in moTith. Chairman : Hugo Friedlander. Secretary : Arthur Clark. Public Health Inspector : Mark Kershaw, Christchurch. Institution under Board's control : Ashburton Hospital. Ashburton Hospital. Medical staff, stipendiary : G. Hunter, M.B., B.Ch., Surgeon Superintendent; J. Lyon, M.B., CM. (Aberdeen). Assistant Surgeon. Matron : S. E. Morley, R.N. Localities from whence patients came : Ashburton County, 140 ; Ashburton Borough, 70 : Hamp stead Town District, 9 ; Tinwald Town District, 11 ; North Canterbury, 5 ; Timaru, 4 ; Dunedin, I. Visited on 10th October, 1913. During the past year considerable additions have been made to this Hospital, which is capable of accommodating some 43 patients. Owing to the design of the old building it was particularly difficult to devise a good scheme for its extension, but the new buildings have remedied many of the old defects, including the old Memorial Ward, which was insanitary and altogether unsuitable for the purpose. South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Usual date of meeting : Third Tuesday. Chairman : Francis Robert Gillingham. Secretary : H. S. Russell. Public Health Inspector : John Menzies, Timaru. Institutions under' Board's control : Timaru Hospital, Talbot Infectious Diseases Hospital, Old Men's Home, Waimate Hospital. Timaru Hospital. Medical staff, honorary: G. E. Gabites, Mast. Surg., F.R.C.S. (Edin.) ; W. H. Unwin, F.B.C.8. (Eng.), M.B.; F. Ulrick. M.B., Bach. Surg. ; G. H. Ussher, F.R.C.S. (Eng.). Medical staff, stipendiary : A. B. Lindsay, M.B., Ch.B. Matron : Jean Todd, R.N. Localities from whence patients came : Geraldine Borough, 19 ; Geraldine County, 33 ; Waimate Borough, 12; Waimate County, 14 ; Timaru Borough, 360; Temuka Borough, 38: Levels County, 101 ; Mackenzie County, 30 ; Casuals. 13. Visited on 7th April, 1914. There were 47 patients —24 male, 18 female, and 5 children—in the children's ward. The X-ray room near the theatre has been equipped. A new shelter has been built for consumptives. The design is not a good one. The windows are so high that a patient lying in bed cannot see out. It will be necessary to alter them. It is proposed to build another shelter shortly. There were only 2 male consumptives and 1 female. The Hospital was in good order, and the grounds well kept.