HOSPITAL INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1926, Page 6

HOSPITAL INQUIRY.

An insistent demand for a full investigation of the affairs of the Auckland Hospital has been voiced throughout the city, from ratepayers, from local bodies, from the Press, from the chairman of the Hospital Board himself, who says that nothing less than a full and open investigation will satisfy the public. The one dissentient voice raised is that of Mr. E. H. Potter, Mayor of Mount Eden, who is also a member of the Hospital Board, and who informed bis council last night that there was no friction among the staff, that all the organisations under the Board's control were rendering efficient service, and that the proposed investiga-

tion was unnecessary

It is doubtful whether Mr. Potter could find a single member of bis own council to support his point of view. There is a settled conviction in the minds of the general public that an inquiry is essential, and that its scope should be a wide one, to include the treatment of patients within the institution, the possibility of cross-infection, the methods of control and co-ordination, and the building policy of the Board. Pile after pile has been added to the aggregation of buildings within the grounds, and the general public earnestly demands an assurance that its money has been wisely spent, especially since recent criticisms of the equipment of some of the new blocks.