HOSPITAL FACILITIES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 139, 12 June 1918, Page 7

HOSPITAL FACILITIES

THE OUT-PATIENTS' DEPARTMENT.

A deputation from the Wellington Labour Representation Committee will wait upon the Wellington Hospital Board on 27th June, for the purpose of urging the board to open branches of the OutPatients' Department for the benefit of people living in the outlying districts of the city. The Labour Representation Committee asserts that Newtown is far too distant for many people. For instance, residents of, say, Wadestown, find it too far to travel to the General Hospital, and it is thought that a branch on Lambton-quay (in a chemist's shop, perhaps, and open once or twice a week) would be a great convenience. Other districts, it is suggested, should be similarly served. In conversation with a reporter, Mr. H. Baldwin (chairman of the Hospital Board) stated that if the proposed scheme involved anything in the way of medical attention, he was very much afraid that it could not be adopted, owing to the shortage of doctors, and the cost of setting up branches, no matter on how humble a scale. The board's idea was to Centralise rather than spread its operations further. ■