HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE
9 STILL PILING IT UP. "Ratepayer" writes:—"Right, oil lop of the receipt of tho largely-increased rato demands (increased solely owing to tho abnormal rise in hospital expenditure), and closely following upon conferences in Uhich the Minister of Public Uealtli (Hon. G. W. Russell) urges economy (vide article in the July '.Public Health journal''), tho Wellington Hospital Board pursues its extravagant course. Yesterday's papers tell us. of tho decision of the board to consider the advisableness of buying a dairy farm (to cost a sum of money which no member of the board appeared capable of even estimating), and a new room is to be .built for the X-ray work at a cost of c£6COO. When it is known that even at to-day's prices a <10roomed building could be erected in brick for ,£GOOO, I would like to know, is it going to cost jCGOOO to house the X-ray expert and his plant? Apparently the board does not care two straws what expense it involves (lie community in. Ratepayers may look confidently forward to another big increase in the levy next year."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 9
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183HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 9
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