SMALLER HOSPITALS.
DAY OF SERVICE PASSING.
OPINION OF DOCTOR.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Monday.
The rising costs of administration and the need for modern equipment would tend to centralise future hospital treateut, said Dr. T. F. Corkill, president ot the Wellington branch of the British Medical Association, at the national hospital day service yesterday. lie said the opinion was held that tho tendency would probably bo for smaller institutions to be superseded by community hospitals giving wider service.
" The cost of hospital administration has increased enormously," he said, " -ind those concerned with tho financing of hospitals ali say that tho smaller institutions simply cannot maintain the standard of equipment that medical science demands to-day. It seems inevitable, therefore, that the general hospital must more and more give service to tho whole of the community, placing at its disposal its varied equipment and special service.".
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 9
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