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MELBOURNE'S CROWDED HOSPITAL
ACCIDENT CASES TURNED AWAY,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (Received 17th June, 10 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day. Owing to lack of accommodation, victims of accidents in urgent need of attention had to be refused admittance to the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday night. A large number was admitted during the day suffering from fractured limbs and other injuries, and the floor space had to be continually used to accommodate them. By 10 o'clock the superintendent gave orders that it was impossible to receive any more male surgical cases. Among those turned away was a man with a fractured skull..
At the end of last month the Medical Superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital told the Board of Management that so great was the strain on the accommodation that the only remedy lie could suggest was to close the doors, and that he thought would be. necessary. There were then 360 patients'on the waiting list.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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156NO MORE ROOM Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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