HOSPITAL NOTICES
Refusal Of Board (N.Z. Press Association ) NAPIER, Sept. 20. The Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board today refused a request from the Commissioner of Transport for permission to place notices in the foyers of the board’s public hospitals.
The proposed notices would have given the number of patients in hospital as a result of road accidents, and would have asked people to drive safely when they left the hospital. The chairman (Mr W. E. Bate) said it was not hospital policy to provide "running” statistics about patients. Visitors to injured patients would not need any exhortation to drive safely after visiting them.
Mr H. W. Dowling, president of the New Zealand Automobile Association said that although he was in charge of a road safety campaign, he did not think anything would be achieved by shock publicity.
The North Canterbury Hospital Board would consider a similar request at its meeting tomorrow, the secretary (Mr J. G. Laurenson) said last evening.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30861, 21 September 1965, Page 1
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