N.Z. HOSPITALS COMPARE WELL WITH AUSTRALIAN
\Per Press Association. Copyright.] PALMERSTON N„ This Day.
“Generally speaking, as regards accommodation and comfort of patients, I would say that the standard of our hospitals, maintained entirely from public funds, is higher than that in Victoria, but very few hospitals in New Zealand have reached the standard of accommodation being provided in. the most recent additions to institutions in Melbourne and Sydney," said Mr A. J. Phillips, managingsecretary of the Palmerston North Hospital, who has returned from a visit to Australia.
,Mr Phillips said that most modern Melbourne hospitals, while perhaps over-Americanised, exhibited many features which would be desirable in our own institutions if they could be introduced at reasonable cost. The hospital system in New Zealand was far in advance of the system in Australia, which permitted two institutions to be developed adjacent to each other, providing service and equipment, which was used only for a limited number of hours a day.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1937, Page 9
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