HOSPITAL’S RIGID ECONOMY
AUCKLAND TO CLOSE 150 BEDS. HIGHER WAGES TO BE REDUCED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, April 27. The Auckland Hospital Board haS decided to make no reduction in wages under £2OO. Above that amount a sliding scale will be imposed from five to nine per cent, up to £OOO and ten per cent, thereafter. It also decided to close 150 beds, to reduce to a minimum the number of days of patients’ stay in hospital, to reduce the expenditure on dental treatment and the sending of TB. cases to the Government sanatorium', to limit the number accepted for the board’s sanatorium and admissions to the infirmary, and to rigidly examine the financial circumstances of patients seeking admission to the hospital. Even with these economies the board cannot reduce its expenditure to the limit specified by the department.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1931, Page 7
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