WANGANUI BOARD ACTS
BEDS TO BE CLOSED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, 22nd April. Following advice from the Health Do* partment that a reduction of expenditures by £8500 yearly was required, th« Wanganui Hospital Board to-day mado many drastic economics. The Department notified that the subsidy had been reduced- from £43,500 to £35,000. The board decided to close one ward of thirty beds, and dispense with tht» services of seventeen employees, including eight nurses. The economic* will mean a saving of £2428 yearly, which, with £3000 to be deducted froui charitable aid and £2800 of debentures to be transferred to the- maintenance account from the capital account, will mean that the reduction demanded by. the Health Department will be nearly, reached.
A motion was passed that-able-bodied men or their dependants be excluded from charitable aid after Ist May.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 9
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