REPORT ON HOSPITALS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20317, 17 August 1931, Page 5

REPORT ON HOSPITALS.

I A very comprehensive j his, recent tour ot studj ol 1 P England, Scotland, France, Belgium, ( Holland, Luxembourg. Au.;tria, Czechoslovakia, Sweden,_><onw >. ami Denmark, in each ot which com.- J trios he had inspected as many 1 o - , pitals as time uould permit Hospiu.. problems line] been discussed with (a; j both ecntr.il a.ul local eontrol.mg an- , thorities. fiO administrators, (c proiessiona! staffs of public, voluntary, church. :>nd private hospitals wlyle ht; had also met many hospital architects ari l visited manttfactui mg and ] supplv firms in most uf the county to.-. In addition to .visiting the hospitals, lie arranged to do post-graduate moik as the more important ones, and fithers lie watclied the various spemnl dopsrtments at work, e.g., operating j theatres, X-ray, electrical, etc., so was i al'/e to appreciate the standard at- i tained in tiie professional work. Much j ne - ..* construction, eitiier jcccntly com- ; looted or iu the course of erection, was . seen, often in company with the arclu- , tecL. Two internation.il exhibitions > (one at Dresden and the other at Stockholm), both cf which had inter- ! esting modern hospital sections, were j visited. Ho had kept a diary and i'ud notes lof all visits, inspections, etc.. j white a 'arge quantity of hospi&;d I literature, reports, statistics, ptimph- J lois '(official and commercial;, etc., , was also collected. The report, con- • cit'ded the docLrr. was not ait attempt t<> give the di.-'ry of all the various institutions visited, out , contained rather the salient points i from his notes and the literature. '"I tr.ust that the report may be a source J of guidance to the Board and to Now j Zerdrmd h(<spital iiuthorities generally ■ ivi the evolution of their policy. I am pleased to be home ancl at . wotk .