WEALTHY HOSPITAL PATIENTS
oSTATEMENT BY DR. VALINTINE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] . Wellington, Saturday. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, speaking at Otaki, said that at present there was a tendency on the part of some people, who were well-to-do, to take* advantage of the public hospitals, and by so doing they often occupied beds to the exclusion of poorer patients. There was a section in the Hospitals Act which provided that each patient should pay according to his means. He hoped that Hospital Boards throughout the colony would put that section into operation, and would see that the public institutions of the colony were not abused by persons who were well able to pay for treatment in a private hospital or at their , own homes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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