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MENTAL PATIENTS. HOSPITAL BOARD INDIGNANT. (Per Press Association). HAMILTON, September 14. Strong indignation was expressed by the Waikato Hospital Board to-day at the request of the Superintendent of the Tokanui Mental Hospital that .lie board should accept a number of inmates of the mental hospital. It was explained by Dr. ;vj. M. Hocking (the superintendent), that he had been informed by the Mental Hospital Superintendent that his institution was overcrowded, and that he had been informed by the Director-General of Mental Hospitals that border-line cases should be sent to the Hospital Board. ! The board decided to inform the Minister of Health and the Director-Gen-eral that the board would decline to accept inmates from Tokanui, on the grounds that the matter was one for the department, and that the board had no facilities or accommodation for them. The presence "of such patients, it was considered, "was likely to upset the general working of the hospital.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 3
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