KATIKATI PATIENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10922, 23 September 1932, Page 2

KATIKATI PATIENTS

Tauranga Board’s Liabik Defined J LETTER PROM HKU/rn department/' ” A letter was read at the nf eetf • of the Tauranga Hospital Board terday from Dr R. A. Shore, fm.,? - Director-General of Health, /w vised that in the ordinary coing* ** tients goings from Katikati t Q hi for treatment could not be m T a liability of the Tauranga Bof* unless it had consented to the Uhi Hospital Board treating such **" tients. That was definitely S [ lQ M ' by the provisions of Section 9< t ? of the Act and the Tauranga BoaJ should communicate with the meet cal practitioners serving the foa kali area requesting them t 0 se -*, all patients requiring hospital alto! tion to the Tauranga hospital,' *" Dr Shore added: "You should communicate with the Secretary At the Waihi Hospital adrfciat' him that your Board will not be sponsible for any cases treated in hj* hospital, unless the previous consem of your Board has been given or an. less it can be definitely established that the treatment afforded was ar gently required and the patient coatd not reasonably be returned to yo w institution.”

The Secretary (Mr Lumley), i a a letter to the Secretary of the AVaihi Hospital Board, advised that tit Tauranga Hospital Board would So , consent to the treatment of Ka& kati patients In the Waihi hospital, A copy of the letter from Dr Shota was forwarded.

Similar letters were forwarded bt the Secretary to the medical practitioners at Waihi.

The Chief Surveyor of the Department of Lands and Survey, Aact land, wrote forwarding portion ot litho showing the boundary of Taaranga County with the town of hi Bea.ch. . .

Mr Sinclair moved—That the cor. respondence forwarded by the Secretary be approved.—Seconded by Si Cuff and carried.