HOSPITAL BOARDS' LIABILITIES.
DUNEDIN-SOUTHLAND DISPUTE. (Fhom Ouk Own Cobbesfondent.) INVERCATtQILL, January 11. Many comments were made at to-day's , meeting of the Southland Hospital and j Charitable Aid Board on the judgment given at the Magistrate's Court in Dunedm in favour of the Otago Board. The . claim appears to have been for the maintenance in the Dunedin Hospital of a | resident of Southland, for which it seems j the Southland Hospital is responsible. Tho chairman remarked that a resident of Southland might be taken ill in Dunedtn. j be taken to the hospital, and perhaps lie J there for seven or 10 months before the i Southland Hospital authorities knew any. I thing about it. It was suggested that soma system might be in vogue whereby a patient might be returned to the hospital in his own (district t.hsrever possble and not possible, some means might be takfn to ensurje the authorities • of that hcapital becoming cognur t.t or ' the matter. «
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Otago Witness, Issue 3018, 17 January 1912, Page 9
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