HOSPITAL AND HEALTH QUESTIONS
The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, when addressing the meeting at Otaki on Friday regarding hospital matters, declared that, in considering hospital and health questions generally, the desire for economy must not be pushed to the extent of sacrificing efficiency. Under the Public Health Act the Department was equally interested, with the hospital boards, in the carrying out of regulations ensuring the health of the -community. The Minister also emphasised that the time had arrived when the general public must alter its mental attitude towards the doctor. Instead of looking only on the medical man as someone to go to, when sick. In the hope of getting cured, it was more important to keep in touch with the doctor from time to time for advice as to what was necessary. to'avoid disease. It was highly desirable, and infinitely better, to spend money in assuring good health, rather than later on in life to have to face perhaps the cost of. serious operations, which might have been avoided by earlier expert advice.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 156, 29 March 1926, Page 8
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