Hospital Accommodation Severely Taxed
WAITING LIST FOR NON-TJRGENT CASES. • ‘The hospital has remained very full since the New Year, especially in the men’s surgical and medical wards and the women’s surgical ward, which have been severely taxed,” stated Mr J. H. North (medical superintendent in the course of his report to the monthly meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday. “It will be necessary,” Mr North continued, to re-arrange admissions and provide for a waiting list for nonurgent cases. For the past year only a short waiting list has been in operation, but in the near future a longer list will be necessary. Overcrowding in the wards mentioned must be reduced for efficient working. I propose to institute this in the immediate future.'' Mr North’s report showed that 281 patients were admitted during January. At the beginning of the month there were 170 patients in the institution, and on January 31, 213, the daily average number of occupied bed 3 being 198.03.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 44, 22 February 1938, Page 10
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