HOSPITALS IN U.S.A.

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1928, Page 7

HOSPITALS IN U.S.A.

AN AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSED.

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

NEW YORK, October 10. A Boston message says that Dr Schlink, the Australian medical man attending the Surgeons’ Conference, expressed, in an interview, his astonish- 1 ment at the great advance and the. unexcelled efficiency of the American hospitals. Dr Schlink said: “Australia must now look to America as the leader in hospital constructions, business organisation, efficiency, economy and administration. America and Canada have opened up a new era, one making the hospital available for every member of the community.” America, he said, had completely solved the hospital problem, as far as the indigent and wealthy were concerned, and she was now attacking the financial puzzle confronting the great middle group of people who were neither wealthy nor indigent. American architects and engineers were making their hospitals beautiful and practical. “Australia,” he added, “has much to learn in the matter of centralising its medical energy which tihe poor now possess in that country to the middle and wealthy classes.”