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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 8

There was a. feeling among medical men that some patients at the public hospital who could well a fibril to pay did not do so, stated Dr. Id. R. Gimson at) a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board, He wondered if the board bad ever taken Hie opinion of an outside, accountant on Ibe matter---purely as a mutter of business. The chairman, Mr. William Wallace, said lie did not think there were many patients that could pay more, (ban the board" collected, Compared with the £20,000 a year collected in 1920, the board was now collecting £40,000, The finance committee would accept an amount as low as half a crown a month oil' a hill. Dr. Guuson suggested that perhaps the. poorer people were being pressed to pay to Hie maximum nf their capacity, while the people who could well a fiord to pay were not doing so. Tile 'chairman reiterated that the hoard collected every penny possible without inflicting hardship. As an instance of the way some people treated the board, the chairman told of an old man who was admitted to hospital and described as having “no relatives and no means.” He died, and among his effects was found a bank book showing a deposit of over £IOO.