Norfolk Island Plan To Care

Care For Old People

A meeting of the Norfolk Islanc Council and the Hospital Board, con vened in late September by the Ad ministrator, Mr. R. H. Wordsworth) made several recommendations tc care for Norfolk Island’s old people; The Government Medical Officer the hospital matron and a representa tive of the Hospital Ladies Auxiliary also attended the meeting.

The meeting recommended that the annexe of the hospital should be made available to aged people in need ot attention with no one to look aftei them, and that the accommodation] rate should be “somewhere lower than for normal hospital accommodation”.

Another recommendation was that an attendant, whose salary would be paid from public funds, should be appointed to look after the inmates and to visit elderly people living alone to ensure that they were caring for themselves.

The meeting decided to set up am interim committee comprising repre sentatives of the Hospital Board, the Norfolk Island Council, the Hospital!

Ladies Auxiliary, the Sunshine Clubc and the Government Medical Officen to formulate policy and fix accom modation charges.