HEALTH OF AUCKLAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1719, 3 September 1887, Page 2

HEALTH OF AUCKLAND.

Dr. Girdler, of Auckland, in a recent lecture, dealt with the steady and alarming spread of various epidemic fevers. During the last twelve months we had had 145 cases of scarlet fever, 111 of typhoid, 13 of diptheriu, and 9of measles. The value of the new fever wards was proved by the fact that out of 91 caseß of typhoid this year only 17 had died. The lecturer referred to the excessive mortality of the district, and charged the authorities with being responsible for it by their negligence in the matter of drainage. From this point the doctor went on to trenchantly condemn the Hospital Board for acting in defiance of the skilled advice of the visiting staff. He said that the effect of the appointment of a house Burgeon and the abolition of the visiting staff would be to convert the hospital into a poor law infirmary—throwing the management of the whole of the sick into the hands of two medical residents alone. The staff had applied again and again for instruments, and he declared that there was not another hospital iv New' Zealand where a staff had to work with such make-shift instruments. We had no proper forceps for amputation, no water beds, not a galvanic battery that would work, not a knife that would cut. There was also a want of accommodation tot patients. The cancer hospital was absurdly small, and now the board had given £150 for a building quite useless for the treatment of fevers, and contemplated moving it to the hospital. Could folly do more ? The board also neglected to build a proper mortuary and had closed the maternity ward io the refuge. They were canstantly trying to reduce the number of nurses and the dispensary was to be done away with.

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