PROBLEM OF HOSPITALS
MOTOR ACCIDENT CASES ACCOMMODATION OVERTAXED. PATIENTS REMAIN TOO LONG. By Telegraph.- Ft ess Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The North Canterbury Hospital Board, according to the annual report of its medical superintendent (Dr. W. B. Fox), 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 the utmost if motor accidents keep on 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 stressed. Most of the injuries are of a serious nature, involving mutilation of limbs, and in consequence patients are in residence many months. This leads -to an economic loss, and a problem that will have to be given consideration. “Another of the problems of motor accidents is whether hospitals must not put themselves in some more secure position in reference to obtaining some more equitable ehare of insurance payments (if any) for the enormous expenditure that they are forced to incur for surgical and maintenance charges.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1930, Page 11
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