NAPIER HOSPITAL.
SEVERE CRITICISM.
By Telegraph—Press Association.
NAPIER, February 18.
A meeting of the Napier Hospital Trustees was held to-day to meet Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, and confer with him on matters connected the Hospital.
Dr. Valintine said he had been living at the Hospital for the past week, and found that the buildings were insanitary and in disrepair. The interior did not show that scrupulous cleanliness which should prevail, and the wards were not clean; the place was overcrowded and the grounds untidy and insanitary. He found a lack of harmony between the administrative officers, due to outside interference and a want of definiteness in regard to duties. Notwithstanding all these drawbacks the patients had been well cared for, bbuyt y 67 were too many for one man. The economic side of the Hospital had been neglected, and mismanagement was rife. Out of nineteen nurses only two were trained nurses, but that there was not that absolute disloyalty to the matron as some people endeavoured to make out was shown by the fact that four senior nurses. had offered to stay on if required after they had passed their examinations.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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192NAPIER HOSPITAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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