NATIONALISATION OF HOSPITALS
AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 14. An interesting discussion on the nationalisation of the pnnMic hospitals took place at the Municipal Conference today, when the following remit was sub-, mitted by tho Petone Council: — "Thiafc the. preesnt method of levying local bodies for the upkeep of hospitals and charitable aid be discontinued, and that hospitals, etc., be nationalised, and the whole upkeep be met out of the general revenue, the whole treatment to be free of cost to patients." The Hon. J. Barr strongly supported the motion, and said he regarded hospitals as purely a national institution. They could have no purely local sphere, because the hands of common humanity compelled their doors to be open to all who came.. Mr McGnath, Napier, said his experience suggested that if thp. hospitals were nationalised there would be ro much red tape that most of the patients would be dead before they could be admitted.
Mr Michael (Auckland) also opposed tho remit, 'because ihe did not believe in. pauperising the people.
Tlie remit w-a,s finally rejected by 29 votes to 20.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20128, 16 July 1914, Page 5
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