CONTROL OF HOSPITALS.
PRIVATE WARDS. Wellington, April 29. Some time ago, prior to issuing his report on hospitals, .Dr M. T. MacEuchern conferred with the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, the hospital boards, and the Health Department. A report of that conference—which was not open to the Press —has now been released,
and it contains a remark by the Director-Genera] of Health (Dr. Valititinc) that ‘•’the establishment of private wards in hospitals has the sympathy of the Health Department ” When the matter was referred yesterday to Dr. A'alintine, he said that the Department’s sympathy with private wards—and he had made this clear at the conference—was subject to (1) the provision in every hospital of ample room for necessitous cases, and (2) that any private-ward be established out of special -funds, not out. of general hospital finance.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 113, 30 April 1926, Page 7
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