Excerpt from Dominion Notes published in NZMJ 1911 May;10(38):35-37.WELLINGTON, April 20.The Hospital Board decided yesterday to expend £817 8s. in procuring panel pictures to be used in adorning the interior walls of the new Children's Hospital. Speaking for the Hospital Committee, Mr. R. C. Kirk remarked that at a recent meeting the Hospital Committee had been empowered to make inquiries as to the cost of providing internal decorations at the Children's Hospital. The medical Superintendent (Dr. Hardwick Smith), had strongly urged the Committee to procure Doulton ware panels of considerable size, to be erected over the cots. The panels would illustrate nursery tales, and similar subjects. In Australia and elsewhere these tablets had been installed in children's wards with satisfactory results. Dr. Hardwick Smith was not getting all that he would like, but the Committee had recommended the allocation of the largest sum it thought advisable.____________The Annual Hospitals Conference will open in Wellington on June 14th. The North Canterbury Board, at its meeting to-day received, inter alia, the following draft remits from its Policy Committee:—(1) Consideration of provision for Sanitoria for Consumptives on lines laid down in Dr. Blackmore's report, namely, one sanatorium for the North Island, and one for the South Island. In this connection the Government to be asked, as a step towards stamping out consumption, to bring this disease within the scope of infectious diseases for compulsory treatment, also to give powers to hospital and charitable aid boards of legal detention of all patients in infectious hospitals and institutions during periods medically declared necessary for the recovery of such patients,(2) Necessity of founding a state School for defective girls, similar to that established for boys at Otekaike*, and a State home with powers of detention for women of feeble character, whose proclivities are a source of danger to the community, both from a physiological and moral point of view.(9) Visiting of out-patients at their homes by qualified nurses, and consideration of the question of setting up dispensaries elsewhere than at public hospitals.(Where is it going to end ?—Ed. N.Z.M.J.) * More information on the Otekaike Special School for Boys is contained in the newspaper article entitled For the Sick Mind: Special School at Otekaike (Canterbury) published in Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 46, 24 February 1909, Page 10. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19090224.2.123 (Source: Paperspast website; National Library of NZ).

Excerpt from Dominion Notes published in NZMJ 1911 May;10(38):35-37.WELLINGTON, April 20.The Hospital Board decided yesterday to expend £817 8s. in procuring panel pictures to be used in adorning the interior walls of the new Children's Hospital. Speaking for the Hospital Committee, Mr. R. C. Kirk remarked that at a recent meeting the Hospital Committee had been empowered to make inquiries as to the cost of providing internal decorations at the Children's Hospital. The medical Superintendent (Dr. Hardwick Smith), had strongly urged the Committee to procure Doulton ware panels of considerable size, to be erected over the cots. The panels would illustrate nursery tales, and similar subjects. In Australia and elsewhere these tablets had been installed in children's wards with satisfactory results. Dr. Hardwick Smith was not getting all that he would like, but the Committee had recommended the allocation of the largest sum it thought advisable.____________The Annual Hospitals Conference will open in Wellington on June 14th. The North Canterbury Board, at its meeting to-day received, inter alia, the following draft remits from its Policy Committee:—(1) Consideration of provision for Sanitoria for Consumptives on lines laid down in Dr. Blackmore's report, namely, one sanatorium for the North Island, and one for the South Island. In this connection the Government to be asked, as a step towards stamping out consumption, to bring this disease within the scope of infectious diseases for compulsory treatment, also to give powers to hospital and charitable aid boards of legal detention of all patients in infectious hospitals and institutions during periods medically declared necessary for the recovery of such patients,(2) Necessity of founding a state School for defective girls, similar to that established for boys at Otekaike*, and a State home with powers of detention for women of feeble character, whose proclivities are a source of danger to the community, both from a physiological and moral point of view.(9) Visiting of out-patients at their homes by qualified nurses, and consideration of the question of setting up dispensaries elsewhere than at public hospitals.(Where is it going to end ?—Ed. N.Z.M.J.) * More information on the Otekaike Special School for Boys is contained in the newspaper article entitled For the Sick Mind: Special School at Otekaike (Canterbury) published in Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 46, 24 February 1909, Page 10. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19090224.2.123 (Source: Paperspast website; National Library of NZ).