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Mental Hospital Patients
WAIKATO BOARD’S STAND By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, September 14. Strong indignation was expressed at a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board to-day at a request by- the superintendent of the Tokanui Mental Hospital that the board accept a number of inmates of the Mental Hospital. It was explianed by Dr. M. M. Hockin. the superintendent, that he had been informed by the mental hospital superintendent that his institution was overcrowded and that he had been informed It was explained by Dr. M. M. Hockpitals that border-line cases should be sent to the hospital board. The board decided to inform the Minister and the Director-General that it declined to accept inmates from Tokanui, on the grounds that the matter was one for the department, that the board bad 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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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 12
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