COST OF EPIDEMIC
HAWERA HOSPITAL FINANCE OFFICIAL REPROOF RESENTED [by telegraph OWN correspondent] NEW PLYMOUTH. Monday That the typhoid epidemic in the Otakeho Maori settlement had a ' r f? ? cost the Hawera Hospital Board 8 ?. £IOOO was disclosed during a to-day, when the board took exception to a letter from the Direc * General of Health, criticising board's excess expenditure for the nine months of the year. • The department drew attention _ the fact that the expenditure exce • the estimate and asked that an en C' vour should be made to end the y e with a balanced budget. "The whole thing is too slll^ ((W words," said Mr. L. 0. Hooker. « are carrying the burden of an fP 1 e that has already cost us £IOOU, this is all the thanks we get. Ue caD let the department get away wi sort of thing." . t the It was explained that in spi . extra expenditure the estimate ha exceeded, when everything w* 3 ,g ; into consideration, by only £37.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22346, 18 February 1936, Page 10
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