HOSPITAL HANDICAPPED

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 8

HOSPITAL HANDICAPPED

( URTA ILM I'X F IN WAIKATO PRUNING KNIFE APPLIED (Per Press Association).. Hamilton. May 9. The Waikato Hospital will be very . riously handicapped if the Government - adheres to ils decision to curtail the annual expenditure of the inathution by £II.OOO. The Waikato Hospital was recently shown by statistics to bo the cheapest run in the Dominion, and last year alone Ihe es imates were cm down by £12,000. Then* is little room for further economy, as -luring the lasi few monihs ihe pruning knife lias been applied \i i.v rigorously. The'curtailment of < x[ : nditure ran only mean a reducion of ilie medical and nursing staff, a reduction of beds by possibly 75 to 100, and ihe closing of spine of the subsidiary hospitals which are administered by the Board. The matter will again be reviewed by the Board next Thursday. Staff salaries have already been reduced 10 po cen