MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
HOSPITAL BOARD CONCERNED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 23. The North Canterbury Hospital Board, according to the annual report of its medical superintendent (Dr W. B. Fox) which was presented at the annual meeting to-day, has a serious problem to face in the alarming increase in the number of injuries received in motor accidents. The accommodation of the hospital will be taxed to its utmost if motor accidents keep increasing. “ Accident patients, owing to their number,” says the report, “ have gradually absorbed a whole ward on the male side and if the increase of accidents goes on in its present proportion our accommodation will be seriously taxed. Most of the injuries are of a serious nature, involving mutilation of limbs, and in consequence patients are in residence for many months. This leads to economic loss, and is a problem that will have to be given consideration. “ Another of the problems of the motor accident,” added the report, “ is whether the hospitals must not put themselves in some more secure position in reference to obtaining some more equitable share of the insurance payments (if any) for the enormous expenditure that they are forced to incur for surgical and maintenance charges.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3972, 29 April 1930, Page 71
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