More Accommodation Needed for T.B. Cases
NAPIER BOARD PROTESTS. Per Press Association. NAPIER, Last Night. “The Government is spending thousands on the South Island railway and surely it can afford to spend something on shacks for these unfortunate women,” stated Mr F. B. Logan at » meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board this afternoon, in the course of a strong protest against the inactivity of the Health Department in the matter of providing increased accommodation at Otaki for women tubercular cases. From month to mouth, the local board had from six to 20 patients waiting admission to Otaki. The Department was not doing its duty from a national point of view. If the boards took * over the control of sanatoria, it would not be long before compulsion would be brought to bear on them to provide accommodation. “Some of the waiting patients are at present treated in hospital and others in their homes, spreading disease right and left,” he said. The board passed a resolution submitting the matter to the Hospital Boards’ Association for consideration, with a view of inducing the Department to erect more accommodation at Otaki.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7146, 18 February 1930, Page 6
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188More Accommodation Needed for T.B. Cases Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7146, 18 February 1930, Page 6
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