ENGLISH HOSPITALS ARE LITTLE BETTER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 February 1936, Page 6

ENGLISH HOSPITALS ARE LITTLE BETTER.

NEW ZEALAND DOCTOR'S OBSERVATIONS Oix RETURN

(By Telegraph —.Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night.

After a year's postgraduate work at the great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the hospital for women, in Soho, London, Dr. A. D. Anderson, of Christchurch, arrived at- Wellington by the Ruahine to-day. Dr. Anderson said he noticed a remarkable change in the condition of outpatients of hospitals generally since his student days in London in 1914. They were cleaner and better dessed, and the children wore better behaved; the days of the great unwashed were over. Hospital equipment in England, he said, was generally very little better than in New Zealand, except in the case of the Middlesex hospital, St. Bartholomew's and Hollis Street Hospital, Dublin. The last-named was the most elaborate and costly in the British Isles and had been built entirely from Free State sweep ticket money. The best-equipped maternity hospital lie saw was at Belfast. It had cost £200,000, raised entirely by voluntary contributions. The doctor found birth-control practised very widely in England, where there were birth-con-trol centres giving advice to people. There were niothcrcraft centres all over Europe.