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CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. & HOSPITALS
UNITED DISTRICTS OF CENTRAL OTAGO, TUAPEKA. AND OTAGO CHARITABLE AID BOARD. Members:—Messrs. R. Chisholm (chairman), C. Haynes, P. Miller, A. Solomon, J. Hazlett, D. Baxter, W. Wills, H. Clarke, F. Bradfield, C. Samson, A. C. Begg, R. Wilson, J. Green, C. Fisher, and J. Morgan; and Mr. T. S. Graham, secretary. This body is charged with the duty of raising by levy on the local bodies within its jurisdiction, sufficient funds, together with the Government subsidy of pound for pound, to enable the board to contribute what is required for the discharge of the functions of the various charitable institutions. The Otago Benevolent Institution and Caversham Industrial school are the most important establishments maintained by the board, the former receiving about £10.500 and the latter £3,000 per annum. Contributions are als0 allocated to the Auckland, Burnham, and St. Mary’s (Nelson) industrial schools—where children from Otago are trained—and to the Dunedin female refuge. Meetings of the board are held on the third Thursday in each month, at the office of the secretary, 73 Princes Street, Dunedin. OTAGO DISTRICT HOSPITAL BOARD. Members:—Messrs. R. Chisholm (chairmanI, C. Haynes, P. Miller, A. Solomon, H. Clarke, F. Bradfield, C. Samson, A. C. Begg, R. Wilson, J. Green, J. Morgan, and T. S. Culling; and Mr. T. S. Graham, secretary. The duties of this board are confined to raising funds to provide for the local hospital, which requires £4.500 per annum for its adequate maintenance. Under its charter this body levies contributions, payable in monthly or quarterly instalments, on all local bodies, save those that maintain their own hospital; the usual subsidy pro rata being received from the Government. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month, at the office of the secretary, 73 Princes Street. Mr. ROBERT CHISHOLM, J.P.. Chairman of the United Districts Charitable Aid and of the Otago District Hospital Boards, was born at Scotlandwell, Kinross-shire. Educated at the Free Church School, Portmank Parish, he went to Port Chalmers in the ship “Three Bells” in 1858. During the first ten years of his life In Dunedin, Mr. Chisholin served his apprenticeship to carpentering, and afterwards worked at his trade. He spent two years herding cows on the spot where High and Stafford Streets now lie, and remembers the time when the tide banked up to the corner now occupied by his firm, Messrs. Scoullar and Chisholm. • Mr. Chisholm has long been prominent in local politics; for a number of years he was a member of the Roslyn Borough Council, and occupied the Mayoral Chair for three years; he was also chairman of the Otago Benevolent Institution for three years, and was a member for many years previously. He has represented High Ward in the Dunedin City Council since 1895, and has been president of the Otago Rugby Union for a number of years.and is still a member; he is also one of the visiting Justices of the Dunedin Gaol, and chairman of the Retailers’ Association since its inception. Mr. Chisholm married a daughter of the late Mr. T. Thomson, of Dunedin, and has a son and three daughters. DUNEDIN HOSPITAL. This fine institution was originally established in 1850, a sum of £250 out of the customs duties being granted for its erection by Sir George Grey, then Governor of New Zealand. It was the first institution which was in advance of the times, inasmuch as for two years there were no patients; the old building, erected on the site of the present town hall, being made a refuge for three insane persons, and thus became the first lunatic asylum before it was used for the physically sick. At the time of the gold “rush,” there were extensive additions made to the original building first used for the purposes of a hospital, the demands increasing year by year for several years. Until I860, the hospital consisted of several one, two, and three-story buildings, and in the latter year the industrial exhibition building in Great King Street, which had served the purposes for which it had been put up, was granted for the use of the hospital, and was taken possession of by the authorities. Of course, the building has undergone great changes so as to adapt it to the purposes for which it is now used, and very large additions have from time to time been made. The splendid institution which affords relief to large numbers of sick every year, is now under the management of the following committee;—Messrs. P. Miller, (chairman), J. Robin, .T. Green, W. Wills, J. Carroll, S. Myers, J. N. Brown, W.Wright, and H. Clarke. The land occupied by the hospital, which has frontages to Great King, Cumberland, Frederick, and Hanover streets, consists of five acres, completely fenced, all the spare ground being tastefully laid out in lawns, flower-beds, and kitchen gardens. On the ground floor of the main building, to the left of the entrance hall, is the dispensary, which has two sliding windows, one from which to hand out medicines for in-door patients, and the other for the supply of out-patients, whose waiting room adjoins. The out-patients’ waiting room is a large one and well-seated, with a separate entrance from the outside apart from the ordinary hospital entrance. The honorary visiting staff and the House surgeons attend at stated times to treat out-patients, who are supplied with free medicine on the house stewards being satisfied as to their inability to pay for same. The male surgical ward, on the opposite side of the main entrance, contains thirteen beds, special cases being treated in this ward. The stewards’ room and other apartments are also on the ground floor, and also the hospital library, which contains fully 2,000 volumes, and is used as a chapel by the chaplain who conducts regular services on Sundays and on Thursday evenings. The children’s ward, also on this floor, contains thirteen comfortable beds. Ascending to the first floor, there are three wards; the female medical ward containing fourteen beds, the special lock-ward, and a spare ward; the system being to have one spare ward, which can be thoroughly cleansed from floor to ceiling in order to effect regular changing of the various rooms and ensure a periodical process of disinfection of the entire establishment. There is also a store room and the secretary’s bed and sitting rooms on this floor, together with the sitting room and other apartments used by the resident medical staff. On the opposite side to the three wards mentioned, is a large ward for men, containing twenty-eight beds. The new Operating theatre, erected about the end of 1887 to replace the operating-room which had done duty for many years, is a remarkably perfect building, the floor being entirely of marble, the walls of white tiles, and with every modern appliance known to surgery supplied at very considerable expense. The theatre is heated by coils, and there is a gallery so that students attending the hospital operations may have every convenience for study. Opening out from the theatre is the instrument room, where a very large assortment of all the latest surgical tools are taken care of. On the other side of the theatre is a consulting-room for the surgeons in attendance. The Campbell Pavilion is a two story brick structure erected on stone arches to allow a free ventilation of air under the entire building. It has received its name from Mrs. Campbell who left a bequest of £5,000 for the purpose of providing increased comforts for patients of the hospital. This fine new building is divided into two wards; that on the ground floor is known as the Miller ward, appropriately named after the present chairman of the hospital board, the one on the upper floor is called the Hough-ton ward after Mr. Henry Houghton, a former chairman. The Campbell Pavilion is very complete in all respects; on each floor is a small ward, kitchen, and dining-room, with every convenience; and the large, cheerful looking wards, are provided with twenty-four beds. A very fine new kitchen has been built at the back of the main building. This latest addition is a very great improvement. It is built in concrete and brick, and is provided with a larder with tiled floor, vegetable room in concrete, baker’s room and scullery, and is fitted with every modern accessory for the culinary requirements of a large establishment, At the time of the writer’s visit, the foundations were being laid for the “Victoria Children’s Ward,” to be erected in commemoration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Within the hospital grounds there is also a very flue nurses’ home, a two-story brick building completely furnished and set apart for the use of nurses on the staff. It has twelve bed-rooms on the ground floor, and fifteen on the upper story, most of the nurses having separate rooms. The matron of the hospital has her private apartments in the nurses’ home. There is also a very comfortable dining-room, and a large well furnished general sitting-room. The hospital laundry is fitted up with every convenience and has ample water supply; it contains the wash-house, drying-room, ironing and folding rooms. The drying-room is constructed so as to enable the workers in wet weather to dry the whole of the house wash without any inconvenience or delay. The house staff includes thirty-five nurses and probationers, two warders, two porters, a fireman, gardener, three cooks, three laundresses, three ward maids, a doctor’s maid, and two house-maids at the nurses’ home. The resident medical staff consists of Dr. W. A. Logan, senior house surgeon, and Dr. G. Brown, junior house surgeon. The honorary visiting medical staff are Drs. L. E. Barnett, F.R.C.S.. J. S. Closs, M.B., C.M., K. G. Macdonald, M.D., D. Colquhoun, M.D..W. S. Boberts,M R.C.S., J. Macpherson, M.B., C.M. ‘ Specialists: Drs. H. L. Ferguson, F.R.C.S.I. (ophthalmic surgeon); J. Macdonald, L.R.C.P. and S., L.M.R.C.S., Edinburgh (skin diseases), and W. S. Roberts, M.K.C.S., England (pathologist). Mr. A. Burns is secretary and house steward, Miss Isabella Frasor, matron, Mr. G. Hoffinaun, dispenser, and Mr. J. A. Torrauce, chaplain. Mr. PETER MILLER, who since the year 1889 has occupied the important position of Chairman of the Dnnedin Hospital Trustees, was born in 1850 at Ayr. Scotland, and was educated at the Newton parish school. He was brought up to the saddlery business in Ayr, and came to Port Chalmers per ship “James Nicol Fleming” in 1872 After being a short time in business in Dunedin he went to Lawrence, where he was established for ten years. During his residence on the gold-fields he was for several years a member of the borough council, and was also mayor of Lawrence. He removed to Dunedin in 1884 and succeeded Mr. George Dowse, one of the oldest established saddlers in the city. Mr. Miller was elected in 1897 a member of the Dunedin city council, and has also occupied a seat on the charitable aid board since the coming into operation of the “Hospital and Charitable Aid Act.” He is a prominent member of the Dunedin jockey club of which he has been a steward for about six years, and has acted as judge for five years. He was married in 1879 to a daughter of Mr. George Hay, of South Molyneux, squatter, and has three sons and three daughters. Mr. ANDREW BURNS, Secretary and House-Steward of the Dunedin Hospital, was born in 1840 in County Down, Ireland, and was educated partly at national schools and partly at Queen’s College, Belfast. Mr, Burns went through a course of instruction in agriculture, and was prizeman in chemistry, agriculture, science, mineralogy, geology, and experimental physics, and in his second year at college took a scholarship. Mr. Burns came to New Zealand in 1860, per ship “Mermaid,” and for about two years was engaged in agricultural pursuits in the north of Auckland. At the time of the Maori disturbances in the northern part of New Zealand he joined the volunteers and went to the front, was ensign in the Waikato Militia, and subsequently promoted to lieutenant, serving altogether three years. Mr. Burns was afterwards some years on the Thames goldfield, where he engaged in mining and carried on business as a legal manager. Subsequently, he was engaged in mercantile life in Auckland. He came to Dunedin about 1876, and was appointed to the position he now holds at the hospital on the 3rd of February, 1877. ruder his special care and direction a very large number of improvements have been effected in connection with that institution, which owes a great deal of its present state of efficiency to his intelligence and zeal. As a volunteer. Mr. Burns has had considerable experience: in Auckland be was captain in the Hobson rifles, and since his residence in Dunedin became captain in the North Dunedin rifles; be retired from the first battalion of Otago volunteers with the rank of major. Dr.WILLIAM ARCHIBALD LOGAN, Senior Resident Surgeon of the Dunedin Hospital, is second son of Mr. J. K. Logan, Superintendent of Telegraphs. Dr. Logan was born in Dunedin in 1875 and was educated at the Invercargill high school. Otago high school, and Otago university, matriculating in 1889. He gained his diplomas as M.B. and Ch.B. in January. 1898. He acted as junior resident surgeon of the Dunedin hospital from October, 1897, and was appointed senior surgeon in January, 1898. Mr. GEORGE HOFFMANN. Dispenser, Dunedin Hospital, was born in London in 1870. He arrived in Dunedin in 1875 with his parents, and was educated at local schools and Otago university. Mr. Hoffmann served four years’ apprenticeship with Messrs. B. Bagley and Son, chemists, Dunedin, and continued as assistant on the completion of his term. He was appointed hospital dispenser in 1800.
Miss ISABELLA FRASER, Matron of the Dunedin Hospital, was born at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, and was educated at Greenock. Miss Fraser was trained as a nurse at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where she remained for three years, securing a certificate of competency as a qualified nurse. Subsequently. Miss Fraser acted as sister-in-charge of Professor Coates’ ward at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. Leaving for the Colonies in 1890. she was for a few months in Hobart, Tasmania. She was appointed night superintendent of the Melbourne hospital, where she remained for nearly two years, and in March. 1893. was appointed to the position she now holds. Miss Fraser was registered as a trained nurse in London, her certificate being dated the 2nd of February. 1895, and is signed by Her Royal Highness Princess Helena. She is also a member of the Royal British Nurses’ association. Mr. JOHN AINSLIE TORRANCE, Chaplain of the Dunedin Hospital, and of the Gaol and Lunatic Asylum, was born in Edinburgh in 1833, and was educated in his native city. He arrived in Port Chalmers per ship “Ben Lomond” in 1863. Mr. Torrance was first appointed chaplain by the provincial government of Otago. OTAGO BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. This association is the outcome of a meeting held on the 24th of April. 1862. which was followed on the 22nd of May in the same year by a gathering of subscribers, when the first committee was elected. Amongst its officers it is interesting to note, were the names of many prominent men in tin1 early days of the settlement, viz.. His Honour Major Richardson, superintendent of the province (president). Mr. W. Day (treasurer), and Messrs. A. C. Strode, J. Vogel. St. John Branigan. J. A. Douglas. C. H. Street. E. Caspar, and J. Rattray (committee). The first meeting of the committee was held on the 29th of May, 1862. The institution, thus established, has been a power for good in the past, and at the time of writing accommodates upwards of 280 inmates, who are lodged in comfortable wards, and consist mostly of old people of both sexes, no longer fit for work. There is also a maternity ward containing six beds. A new steam-laundry— a very urgent necessity—has just been completed at a cost of about £1.100. From the years 1862 to 1885 the revenue of the institution was derived from voluntary contributions, which were subsidised by the Government at the rate of pound for pound. The “Charitable Aid Act” came into operation in the year 1885, and provided for the raising of necessary funds by rates on boroughs, county councils, and road boards these amounts being subsidised at the rate of pound for pound from the consolidated revenue. Voluntary contributions received a subsidy of twenty-four shillings in the pound, and bequests ten shillings in the pound to the extent of £500 of subsidy. The revenue of the institution for the year ending 31st of December, 1897, was £11,442, made up as follows:—Contributions, £591; interest on mortgages and rents of properties (endowment account), £050; receipts on account of inmates, £203; Government subsidy, £680; Tinted Districts Charitable Aid Board. £9.295: besides other small sums. The trustees for the current year (1898) are:—Messrs. A. Solomon (chairman), R. Watson (treasurer). J. Green, W. Swan, C. Allan, H. Gourley, R. Wilson, J. Hazlett, and P. Treseder. Mr. Alfred Clulee is the secretary. The trustees meet every week at the office of the institution, Moray Place, Dunedin, for the purpose of considering applications for outdoor relief, and for general business. Mr. ABRAHAM SOLOMON, J.P, Chairman .of the Otago Benevolent Institution, which office he has held for ten years, was a member of committee for several years before being elected to the Chair. Born in the world’s metropolis in 1834, and educated in his native city, Mr. Solomon came out to Victoria in 1852, and after nine years in Melbourne he crossed over to New Zealand. In 1869 he established himself as a watchmaker jeweller and pawnbroker in George Street, which business he has since successfully conducted. He has been a member of the Dunedin City Council since 1888 and is a member of the Dunedin Charitable Aid Board, and has held the commission of the peace for several years. In 1856 Mr. Solomon was married, and has one son, the well-known barrister and solicitor, Mr. Saul Solomon.
Mr. JAMES HAZLETT, who has long been a member of the Dunedin Benevolent Society, and is well known in commercial circles in connection with the old established firm of Mackerras and Hazlett, was born in 1829 at Maghara. Londonderry, Ireland. He was educated partly in his native place, and at Belfast, and gained experience in mercantile life before sailing for the Colonies, in 1854. Arriving in Melbourne. Mr. Hazlett was at the Victorian diggings, and stayed for some time in Gippsland. where he was fairly prosperous. He crossed the Tasman Sea to Otago in 1861. and for about four years was mining on New Zealand goldfieids. About 1863. Mr. Hazlett commenced business at the Dunstan. and afterwards at Cromwell, having branch stores in other parts of the diggings, including Clyde. He conducted a large business till 1878. when he came to Dunedin and joined Mr. Mackerras. in Bond Street. During his residence in Clyde, Mr. Hazlett was mayor of the borough for five years: be was also a member of the provincial council of Otago far the Clyde district for some time before the abolition of the provinces. He was also president of the Dunedin hospital for a number of years. Mr. Hazlett has been assiduous as a trustee of the Dunedin benevolent Institution, and latterly he has been a member of the charitable aid board. He takes considerable interest in horse racing, and has been a member of the Dunedin jockey club for fully twenty years, and was some time its president. Mr. Hazlett has at different times owned race horses. He is an unattached member of the Masonic Order. He was married in 1867 to a daughter of Mr. Thomas Coleman, and has five sons and three daughters. Mr. ALFRED CLULEE. Secretary of the Otago Benevolent Institution, was born in 1838 In Birmingham, where he was educated, and brought up in a merchant’s warehouse. Mr. Clulee arrived In Lyttelton in 1861 per ship “Chrysolite,” and came on to Port Chalmers. He was first connected with the wholesale grocery business conducted by Mr. George Whittingham. Subsequently, he was a salesman at Messrs. Mackerras and Hazlett’s, and was afterwards for four years with the firm of Messrs. Dalgety, Nichols and Co. Mr. C hi lee was appointed secretary of the Benevolent Institution in 1884. THE OTAGO BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION HOME is erected on eight acres of land at the corner of the Main South Road and Alexandra Street, Caversham. The grounds are fully fenced and utilised as kitchen and flower gardens, the latter being tastefully laid out. The building is a three-story brick structure with basement, and contains about fifty rooms. On the ground floor are the apartments of the manager, matron, women’s day-room, family hospital ward, and a number of dormitories. The dining-rooms for the men and women are situated, respectively, at each end of the building, and the first and second floors are occupied almost entirely by sleeping apartments. The accommodation of the Benevolent Institution is equal to about 300 inmates, the present number being 281, namely. 221 males and fifty-eight females. The original building erected in 1865 contained but three rooms, and the present structure was found necessary, and it also has been considerably added to since its erection in 1874.
Mr. EDWARD JOHN MEE, Manager of the Otago Benevolent Institution, hails from County Cavan, Ireland, where he was born in 1854, and received his education. He arrived at Port Chalmers in 1868, per ship “E. P. Bouverie.” For some time Mr. Mee followed agricultural pursuits on his farm in the neighbourhood of Oamaru. He joined the mounted police force in 1876, and served in Dunedin, Palmerston, and Lawrence. Leaving the force in 1883, he joined the staff of the Dunedin lunatic asylum, subsequently becoming chief warder. Mr. Mee was afterwards warder in the Timaru hospital for ten months, and became surgical warder in the Dunedin hospital, where he remained for two years. He was appointed to the position he now holds In 1886. Mr. Mee was married In 1884 to a daughter of Mr. William Madams, of Goodwood, near Palmerston, and has three sons and two daughters. Mrs. MEE, Matron of the Otago Benevolent Institution, was born in Goodwood, and was educated at Waikouaiti. For some years Mrs. Mee was head laundress of the Dunedin asylum, and was afterwards head nurse at Ashton Hall, which position she left in 1894, on her marriage. |
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