PATIENTS AT HOSPITAL
NEW PLYMOUTH INCREASE PARTLY DUE TO MALNUTRITION [by telegraph—own correstondknt] Is~EW PLYMOUTH. Wednesday Thero has been a decided increaso in the average number of patients in the New Plymouth Hospital sinco tho beginning of the winter. In tho opinion of the medical superintendent, Dr. G. F. ftich, th' s h as b GGn Partly due to the effects of malnutrition occasioned by the straitened circumstances of many people. The Juno figures presented to tho Hospital Board by Dr. Rich place the daily average number of patients at 179, compared with 165 last year. Dr. Rich states it is quite possible that malnutrition, brought about by tho depression, has lowered the resistance of some pepple. Some of the patients, especially thoso with chronic diseases, have been kept in hospital longer than if they were returning to good homes when discharged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21548, 20 July 1933, Page 12
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