DESCRIPTION OF ELDERLY PATIENTS
A circular letter from the DirectorGeneral of Health. Dr. T. R. Ritchie, forbidding the practice of describing a person as an “old age pensioner’’ or an “age beneficiary’’ when giving information to the press regarding accident cases admitted to hospital was received by the Waikato Hospital Boad. '“ls it true that the Minister has given the board a direction not to give information of accidents to the press?” asked Mrs. Hilda Ross. M.P. The acting chairman. Mr. G. Smith, said that the instruction referred only to the matter of the description of elderly persons.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 6
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98DESCRIPTION OF ELDERLY PATIENTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 6
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