HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17935, 14 May 1920, Page 9

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT.

TO THE BDITOB. Sm,—l see in your issue of May 7 a paragraph discrediting my statements and figures with regard to the extntviaganc© of the Otago Hospital and ©wnitable Aid Board. In reply, I have before me the official figures issued by the Government Statistician, whioh give the cost per bed of Dunedin Hospital ae £142 10s. Further, I find in the same official statement that Tapanui Hospital undei the management of the Otago BoanL wet £142 129 per bed, and Tuapeba, under the some management, £174 17b per bed while Kiveiton, under eeparation, with 33 beds, hne a total expenditure of £2708—a ooet of £82 Iβ par T Ithi9,1 thi9, *tt ,an y "a* l " , fl»* I appeal to the residents of Bruce and Clutha to pin their faith to separation, ea, judging by IWton, they ootW, wfththeir %™°%J% 7 L-J 9000 '. ,Ogether wth'tto Government aubevdy of total of £18.000 a on rf 38 beds eeohfor about half the money tW ace now paying—l am, eta, Jasfub CnAsic. [What wae pointed out in the paragraph mentioned by cur correspondent was that owing to a clenoal error, th 3 figures relative to the ooet per bod m the Otejo district wore iaaoourete.—Ed. O.D.T.]