HOSPITAL PROTEST.
SUSTENANCE DEDUCTIONS. j (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUXEDIX, this day. A protest against the action of the employment section of the Social Security Department in "reducing the allowance to a man on he entered hospital was lodged at a meeting of the Dunedin Hospital Board by Dr. Xewlands. "When the bread-winner enters hospital,'' he stated, "the sum of £1 i s deducted fiom his allowance, which leaves his family with very little with which to carry on When any questions asked, it is said that the man is in hospital, giving the inference that the hospital is getting that £1 or the benefit of it. That k not so. Quite often the hospital has to provide additional support for the family as well as caring for the j patient." Dr. Xewlands maintained tliati the position was very unfair. | The meeting decided to send a letter of j protest to t-lie responsible department.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 7
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