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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 16 December 1925, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND HOSPITALS.

DR VALTNTINE ADVOCATES ECONOMY. ! AUCKLAND, December 10. j Dr Yaluiune, at a meeting ol Hie Hospital Board, said the hospitals m New Zealand compared very lavotirablv with anv he had seen in Great Britain and Europe, hut in view ot' the depression he had seen in the Old Country lie had come back from Hie tour preaching economy at every turn. He was at. present against any more i oiintrv hospitals being erected. Some Boards were asking too much in this re-pect. The Auckland Board, to ib; credit, laid concentrated chieily on one large hospital, and had only two country 'hospitals, Waiuku and Waykworth. This was a far-sighted policy which might bo copied by other BoanK. New Zealand was well provided with public hospitals, and G beds were provided for every 1000 of the population much higher rate than under the voluntary hospital scheme, in Britain. They had io reduce the length of time pat in.vs were in hospital. The Department had arranged with Dr. MneEnehoni to visit the Dominion Fospi- ( a!.- • .1 report on them. He would he ijo ro'.intrv about two months, and ii was honed he would he able to attend ihe Hospital Boards' Conference at Dunedin in March. Dr. MaeFaichern had a world-wide reputation, and ho (Dr. Yalintinn) looked on the conference as likely to lead to very important results.

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