THE IDEAL—EMPTY BEDS
Speaking at Kiibirnie and Roseneath last riight,; Mr. F. A. Waterhouse (Citizens' candidate for the Hospital -Board) said .that the psychology of the sick must be given prior consideration in any policy decided upon by any hospital board, because this would tend to reduce the length of the sickness of any patient with a consequent reduction in tlie cost of making them well. If costs were to be made the prior consideration,' it followed that the patient and staff would be denied conditions which would tend to irtiprove health and the length of the patient's sickness be increased rather than diminished. The Citizens' policy, with its suggested hospital in the Hutt Valley, convalescent home, and children's hospital, had far grfeatitfr possibilities from the, health point of view than had the :; policy of spending three-quar-ters'Of a million pounds and more ori the extension of the existing hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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149THE IDEAL—EMPTY BEDS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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