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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1931, Page 7

The uncontrolled invasion of the Auckland Hospital by relatives and friends of patients on visiting days was discussed some days ago by several doctors, who admitted that the number of visitors had increased greatly in recent years, constituting an awkward problem. There was a disinclination, however, to suggest a tightening of the rules regarding the admission of visitors for fear that unnecessary restrictions might be imposed upon relatives and the wishes of many patients flouted. “It is a well-known medical fact that patients’ temperatures rise all round | after visiting hours,” remarked one doctor, “and it is true that doctors and nurses are put to considerable inconvenience by the fact that practically all work must cease while the visitors are over-running the wards. But the same would be true if the number of visitors were halved, and we certainly prefer to have special hours for visitors and then be done with them, than spread the admission of visitors over the whole week.” The medical superintendent, Dr C. E. Maguire, stated that too many visitors took possession of the wards in visiting hours, and said the nurses were put to great hardship as a result. A year ago he had invited the public to offer suggestions for the abatement of the nuisance, but no practical idea had materialised. ___

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