HOSPITAL FINANCE.
POSITION IN MELBOURNE. NEED FOR MORE MONEY. # A serious view of the financial position of Melbourne public hospitals was taken by Mr. Prendergasl (Labour) and other members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly lately, when discussing the report of the Charities Board, which sot out that not one of the large charitable institutions was living within its income. The speaker contended that people would have to be more generous in their voluntary subscriptions or larger grants would have to be made available by the Government, if the institutions were not to drift into a very serious position. Mr. Prendergast said that people were dying outside the hospitals in poverty, because they could not get in. Quoting from the report, ho said that there was a waiting list of 983. The accommodation would be dangerously insufficient if an epidemic involving 2000 or 3000 cases were to break out. The chairman of the Charities Board, Mr. Atlee Hunt, had said that it was difficult to obtain the concurrence of the Ministry to the recommendations of the board. The whole position disgrace aitd -a.-scapAiL
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19460, 16 October 1926, Page 13
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