The Hospital Inquiry.
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE.
(Per United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, November 3
At the Hospital Commission to-day further surgical evidence was called on behalf of the Hospital Board and Dr. Collins.
Mr Stitchbury, ox-chairman of the Board, said that -in. hi*, term there was always friction with some members oT the. honorary staff, and he said the position of the senior medical officer was created on account of complaints; in the press and amongst! the public, that there* was no 1 properhead at the hospital- He said he believed the senior officers at Wellington, Christehurcb, and' .Dunedinl | occupied similar positions, but Judge 1 Ward said the rules of these institutions showed! that this was not soMi- John McLeod, member of th'd Board, said that from 1898 to. 1903, the sum of £20,000 had been written off hospital fees in respect to indigent/ patients- ____-.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10457, 4 November 1904, Page 1
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