CONTROL OF HOSPITALS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 2

CONTROL OF HOSPITALS.

OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN REPORT. For Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 6. An opportunity to obtain a report by an eminent authority o.i New Zealand hospital administration and equipment is presented by the forthcoming; visit of Dr. McEachern, a Canadian who is going to Australia on a similar mission. Dr. McEachern has offered to spend a month in New Zealand, asking nothing for his services, but steamer* and railway fares. The matter has been brought before the Government by leading medical men, but the authorities so far have not accepted the idea with enthusiasm. The president of the New Zealand branch of the B.M.A. (Dr, Carrick Roberston) said ho understood the Government had offered the doctor a freo pass on all railways so that he might visit where he wished, _ but would not officially sponsor his visit. It siecmed a great pity that a man witk such wide experience should be allowed to pass without being asked to report on our hospitals, i Dr McEachern is chief inspector for the ' American College of Surgeons and has to report on ._ nearly every hospital ■in the American Continent, both North and. South.; .•