HOSPITAL BOARD AND MENTAL CASES
REQUEST AROUSES STRONG INDIGNATION (PSES9 ASSOCIATION TELZGSAU.) HAMILTON, September 14. Strong indignation was expressed at the Waikato Hospital. Board meeting to-day at the request of the superintendent of the Tokanui Mental Hospital that the board accept a number of inmates of the mental hospital. It was explained by Dr. M. M. Hockin, superintendent, that he had been informed by the mental hospital superintendent that his institution was overcrowded and that he had been informed by the Director-General of Mental Hospitals (Dr. T. G. Gray) that bor-der-line cases should be sent to the Hospital Board. The board decided to inform the Minister for Health (the Hon. J. A. Young) and the Director-General of Mental Hospitals that it declined to accept inmates from Tokanui, on the grounds that the matter was one for the department, that the board had no facilities or accommodation for them, and that the presence of such patients was likely to upset the general working of the hospital.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 16
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