A NARROW DECISION.
Narrow though the decision of the Palmerston North Hospital board was to make ' provision for a maternity home at Feikling in next year's estimates, it appears to have been the best
reply to the departmental letter stressing the need for this institution, and to the position that would arise at the Palnierston North Home were it not provided. The survey of births and beds available in Eeilding revealed a considerable shortage of maternity beds, and the Department urged the Board "to provide an eight or ten-bed maternity hospital. The Eeilding representative on the Board has long pressed for this amenity, and it was his motion to make the necessary provision in the estimates that was ultimately carried by a margin of one vote. The fact that if a favourable decision were not reached it "would be necessary to increase the accommodation in Palmerston North, and it was not practicable to do so," must also have weighed with Board members. Eeilding has been rewarded for its persistency in this matter, but as the chairman of the Board stated, it might have helped iiself as Palmerston North did by assisting towards the erection of a maternity home.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 22, 24 December 1942, Page 4
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198A NARROW DECISION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 22, 24 December 1942, Page 4
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