HOSPITAL RATING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20639, 20 August 1941, Page 6

HOSPITAL RATING

COOK COUNTY VIEWS UNIFORM RATE URGED A brief discussion on hospital rating problems took place at to-day’s meeting of the Cook County Council, but no motion was passed, apart from the appointment of the chairman, Mr W. G. Sherratt, and Mr. M. T. B. I-lall as the council’s delegates to the conference convened by the Gisborne Borough Council, which has invited the attendance of delegates from local bodies in the Cook Hospital Board's area. Mr. F. S. Bowen urged a uniform rate throughout the Dominion for the hospital. The conference, however, should deal with more than rates, lor the health of the people meant more than expenditure. New Zealand had as many unfit people as any country in the world, and there was something wrong somewhere if that was the case, with possibly some neglect early in life, but if there was to be any increase in rates, the rates shoiud be uniform throughout the Dominion. Mr. M. T. B. Hall, one of the two county delegates, said he would urge that the cost of hospitals should be a charge on the social security funds. Mr. Ci. V. Smith said there was no good advocating anything that there was no possibility of securing. The chairman said that the building programme had been going on .tor some time, but the actual hospital was no bigger than it was 26 years ago.