HOSPITAL FEES
PROPOSAL REJECTED
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
MASTERTON, This Day
The Wairarapa Hospital Board, at its meeting yesterday, discussed at length, and eventually turned down by 17 votes to 3, a proposal by one of its county members, Mr. P. E. "Welch, that fees at all hospitals controlled by the board should be increased from 9s to 12s per day for adults and from 4s Gd to 6s per day for children.
For the motion it was urged that costs had gone up and that all who could afford to pay their fees should do so. Opponents of the motion denied that costs had increased by one-third and maintained that in any case no more would be collected if fees were increased. In the course of discussion, it was mentioned that at the New Plymouth Hospital, where the fees were 12s per day for adults and 6s 6d per day for children, the amount received per occupied bedi was £75.2. as compared with £42.5 at the Masterton Hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 10
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