BOTTLE LAKE.
# ——- LOCAL DOCTOR'S COMMENTS. "It is certainly a question whether the Board has a right to claim fees at all for incarceration in Bottle Lake because a patient in oompelJed by law to enter, not for his own good but for the public safety, said a local doctor, when a letter criticising Bottla Lake Hosptal. which appeared bTo Press correspondence columns yesterday, was referred to him. ''lt majr 09 urged that parents should not to pay. That has been contended by the medical profession for Mine tuna. As far as the new building proprrnmme referred to in thf wrttw *M concerned, the only additions wert to be three lavatories and a bathroom. "My complaint about Bottle L*K«, be added, "is the site. It is one of the worst sitesi you.could.pick jm to Canterbury and indeed the compilations of scarlet fever aretoofrert to be explained by anything but tba site. It is one of the most depressing places imaginable. The t for a fever would b»np<» the hills. To Bay that infection would spread among the suburbs ii all nonsense. It wffi not spread if toe parents are kept within the building.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 11
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