CERTIFICATE NEEDED
ADMITTANCE TO HOSPITAL .
FARMERS’ UNION ENQUIRY
At the April meeting of the Thames Hospital Board the Coroglen-Whenu-akite branch of the New Z: 2 land Farmers’ Union wrote enquiring whether a doctor’s certificate was needed before a person could be admitted to hospital. The secretary, Mr G. C. Donovan, wrote as under: —
“At a recent meeting of the Coro-glen-Whenuakite branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union I was instructed to write asking you if a person requiring urgent medical attention has to have an outside doctor’s certificate before they can be admitted to hospital.”
! The secretary, Mr A. L. Neighbour, Was instructed to reply that a doctor’s certificate was necessary before a patient could be admitted to the hospital except in an emergency or because of an accident.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3255, 21 April 1943, Page 5
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129CERTIFICATE NEEDED Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3255, 21 April 1943, Page 5
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