Proposed Hutt Hospital

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 187, 6 May 1931, Page 11

Proposed Hutt Hospital

Sir, —In to-day’s “Dominion” Mr. F. Castle (chairman of the Hospital. Board), in addressing a meeting at Lyall Bay last night, is reported to have said that “Some patients had £o come ten or eleven miles to the hospital,” and he did not think they would stand for- that very long; therefore he proposes that another hospital should be erected at the Hutt. Has he ever visited the country districts of the Dominion and seen the distances patients have to travel there to a hospital? I know of a district in the Nelson province where patients have to travel 60 or 70 miles to a, hospital, and not on tar-sealed roads either. I think that, before proposing- a large expenditure in.erecting more hospitals close to the eapital city, the chairman of such an important board should either make inquiries or travel into soma of. the country districts and ascertain how 1 things are done there, and what those patients have to put up with in the way of travelling facilities. He would then find that it was not a great hardship to have to travel ten or eleven miles over a tarsealed or bitumen road.—l am, etc.. RATEPAYER.

Wellington, April 30. ' Sir, —As I anticipated, Mr. Bennett has , attempted to cloud the issue by refusing to accept my challenge. He knows that the facts which would be produced would be most damaging to his cause. If Mr. Bennett had. suffered from ill-health he would perhaps be more humane. 'The resistance'of the individual is important in preventing disease. Lowered resistance due to pasteurised milk will simply court disaster. Has it been ever known that pasteurised milk was prescribed for tubercular patients? Certainly not, The only thing for me to do is to continue doing my duty to humanity, and I shall do it at the poll. . . .—I am, etc.; 7. S. FAIRCHILD. Wellington, May 4.