NATIONALISING PUBLIC HOSPITALS.
DISCUSSED BY MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE. (frxss association tm_ora_.) "WELLINGTON, July 15. An interesting discussion on the nationalisation of public hospitals took place at tho Municipal Conference today, when the following remit-was submitted by the Petone Council: —"That the present method of levying on local bodies for the upkeep of hospital and charitable aid bo discontinued, and that the hospitals, etc., be nationalised, and the whole upkeep be met out of the general revenue; the whole treatment to bo free of cost to patients." The Hon. J. Ban- strongly supported the motion, and said ho regarded hospitals as purely national institutions. They could have no purely local spherebecause the bonds of common humanity compelled their doors to be open to all who came along. Mr W. J. llt-Grath (Napier) said his experience suggested that if the hospitals were nationalised there would be so much red tape that most of tho patients would be dead before they could be admitted. Mr Nieholls (Auckland) a"*> opposed the remit, because he did not believe in pauperising the people. The remit was finally rejected by 29 rotes to 25.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15021, 16 July 1914, Page 2
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