TUBERCULAR WARD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 84, 21 January 1936, Page 10

TUBERCULAR WARD

ACCOMMODATION AT MASTERTON ■COMPLAINT OF OVERCROWDING. | ("Special to* the “Guardian.”) J ’ MASTERTON, January 18. 1 “The T.B. ward is full,” stated the ■matron of the Master ton Hospital in ■special report presented at the monthly meeting of the AVairarapa Hospital Board. “There are at present 14 (patients in the seven cubicles, and one patient sent in for admission could not Ibo .taken in,” she added, j The superintendent, Dr. Archer Hosting, stated that the T.B. accommodation was overtaxed, and lie had recently refused a patient admission. Dr. Hosting said that the. increase in the number of patients was mainly due to the greater interest now being taken in the Maori race, which was badly infected “We have four Maoris in the ward now,” he added, “and with more, work in this connection now being done among the Maoris we shall probably have more before very long. Something will have to he done to provide accommodation for them. . The chairman (Mr W. Fisher): It is a very difficult proposition. Mrs S. Fletcher: Perhaph Mr Ewington had better increase the amount of the loan which he is going to move next meeting by £IO,OOO to provide-this additional accommodation. . . ' I It was decided that with a view to alleviating the position the finance committee and the medical superintendent, investigate the question and bring, down a report to a future meeting ol the Board.