HOSPITALS CONFERENCE

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13676, 19 August 1908, Page 5

HOSPITALS CONFERENCE

Per Press Association.HAWERA, August 18:; A conference of delegates' representing the New- Plymouth, Stratford and Hawera Hospital Boards met at Hawefa to-day, Dr Valintineand; the medical superintendents of hospitals interested attended.. Their recommendations, which. .: included that patients able to. pay tha ordinary cost of medical and surgical;-attendance shall not be admitted to hospitals,on;thai same terms,, as ordinary patients;,- , we're' adopted with a., provision that the "Boards fix the maximum charge which, may,ibe imposed. The doctors' request to.'be al» lowed to charge -full, fees for. attendance on patients at the hospital was. declined.': Resolutions were: passed that having ini view the fact that every member of theicommunity contributes directly or indirectly or both to the erection anoV maihteh* ance of public hospitals, the conference, affirms that any ' person is. entitled, to claim admission to. such hospitals,-'for treatment as a matter of right aridf-with* out privilege or charity; that the:icoii? : ference approves that patients from/, one' hospital, rdistrict, desirous of •being treated in the hospital of;another district-shall he admitted to such hospital -'on tW recommendation of the board of such, hos«, pital district; that the conference apprpy-. es of the principle that so far as';possible patients should be treated -,in 'hospitals 'in their separate districts; that the delegates recommend to their boards a new scaJa. "of obarges—6s.-per diem for local patients and 7s for those from outside districts. '