CONTROL OF HOSPITALS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1924, Page 8

CONTROL OF HOSPITALS

SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION. DOCTORS AND BOARDS. "NOT PULLING APART." control of public hospitals, which has aroused considerable discussion in Taranaki and elsewhere recently, was the subject of a brief statement on Saturday by Mr. M. Fraser (chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board) in reply to the statement made in the Daily News on behalf of the Taranaki branch of the British Medical Association. Mr. Fraser said he had no fault to find with the B.M.A. statement. The doctors had put their side of the question with calmness and moderation, avoiding anything in the nature of strife or iIl-feelis^7‘ t *On the other hand,” added Mr. Fraser, “seeing that the Minister of Health approved of the stand i I took up, and in view of the fact that the findings of the Palmerston North , Hospital Commission support the principles involved, I have nothing to withdraw.

“I want to make it clear,” concluded Mr. Fraser, “that doctors and hospital boards stand at the catchment area where a constant stream of human wastage and suffering pass before them from day to day, and it is right that the public should know that although we may not always see eye to eye with the doctors, we are not pulling apart, but, on the contrary, are working together to ameliorate the lot of the unfortunate and the afflicted.” \