N.Z. HEALTH
AN OFFICER’S STATISTICS. (Per Press Association—Copyright). DUNEDIN, March 9. Speaking last... evening on health -jin , relation to town-planning, to members, of the associated New Zealand branch of the Royal Sayiitary Institute noiv ip conference, Mr J. M. Marson, Government. tmvn-pkumine officer in Wellington pointed out that New Zealand’s statistics gave no reason for complacency. There are, he said, 1.435 medical practitioners registered iy New Zealand —one 1,0 everv 1095 persons, the highest ratio in the world, T believe. Til ii.bo last full vears for which statistics are available, there wore 101,021 in-patients in public hospitals, equal to (5.4 of file population, and 118,255 outpatients, eriual to 7.5 of the population, a total of 13.9 per cent, excluding numbers cared for in private hospitals. The total cost of administration of public hospitals for 1935. excluding Charitable . Aid, was £1,341,000. During the same year the total number of mental patients under oversight care or control was 9.227. of whom 7.860 were housed in mental in.-.titutious at a cost of £524/110.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1938, Page 3
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