A DISCOURTEOUS HOSPITAL BOARD.

White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 427, 18 February 1931, Page 9

A DISCOURTEOUS HOSPITAL BOARD.

Some time ago the Aratapu-Te K.opu ill W.C.T.U. sent the following resolution to the Kaipara Hospital Boaid: "That tiie accommodation of the North Wairoa Hospital Annexe is inadequate, beds being provided for six patients only, also that a night nurse be engaged, and the sleeping apartments of the nurses be away from the patients.” Dr. Marshall admitted that more accommodation was required, and also that the Annexe had been the whole winter without any provision for heating it. Surely a woman’s society was in order in asking for better treatment, both for patients and nurses? But the Kaipara H. and C.A. Board, knowing it had no case, followed the good old legal precedent "to abuse the other side." The Chairman, in moving that the letter he "not received," asked what right the W.C.T.U. had to interfere. Cr. Hunt suggeste-d to post it back without a stamp, a suggestion greeted vith laughter. Evidently, when these gentlemen went to school, their parents omitted to pay the extra Id. for them to be taught manners! To the honour of our N.Z. manhood. we would say that treatment like this is rarely given to trie W.C. T.U. or any women’s organisation which is seeking to help its sister women. The Wellington Board and Medical Superinti ndent always welcome such suggestions, and treat them most courteously.