Speaking at the opening of the new hospital at Nelson, the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Public Health, commented favourably on the fact that the hospital contained a maternity ward of 10 beds, and said that it was beyond the ability of the average working man to provide his wife with proper service, and the Government recognised this. The Prime Minister had remarked that the best immigrant was the little immigrant who comes into the home. Mothers should be offered every facility, and the hospital boards should develop the maternity side of their servios.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3763, 27 April 1926, Page 58
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