THAT HOSPITAL RATE
WHY IT GOES ON INCREASING
THREE TIMES THE NUMBER OW
PATIENTS
The perpetual rise of the local • Hospital Rate, has given rise • time and r again to a genuine grouch, which isl reiaidily understandable, when one compares; the growing burden which it has become, during the past half dozen years. The following details indicating the growing number of occupied beds in the Whakatane Hospital -willi probably cpme as something of a shock to those who consider that the institution has been more or less catering for a stationary number of patients. The greatest increase followed the introduction of Social Security, and the subsequent inflnx of State carried patients. Average occupied bcJs 1936 24 1937 20 1938 36 1939 41 1940 50 1941 • v ; 57 For the present year the average covering the nine months ending December. 3JL last was 61.23, while the average for the month of February a£ remitted at the last hospital meetinjfflJPre 63.86. The annnall average therefore be expected I to show a further 4 or 5 increase cm the previous- year's figures.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 5
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179THAT HOSPITAL RATE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 5
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