HOSPITAL COSTS
SOME DOMINION FIGURES A GROWING BURDEN At the meeting of the Whakatane Borough Council last Monday evening Cr W. Sullivan produced figures shoving the steady increase in hospital costs in the four main centres of the Dominion. Details were: — Cost per occupied bed. 193(5 1940 Auckland 10/- 18/We i',li ng ton 11/(5 10/Christchurch 10/- 13/9 Dunedin 11/- 1-1/3 The total average increase was -18 per cent and the total cost 1935, £1,313,000; 1940, £2,282,000, an increase of 90 per cent. In 1935 the Hospital Board levies totalled £(501,000, and five years later no less than £1,090,000 or an increase «f 80 per cent. To illustrate the growing burden on the individual Cr Sullivan .point- j cd out that hospital maintenance costs on a population basis had grown from an average cost of 8/G to no less than M/o in the same period quoted above. Details in the four main centreswere: — 1935-3(5 1939-40 Auckland 10/3 16/3 Wellington 9/11 18/11 Christehurch 6/5 9/8 Dunedin 7/(5 12/1 It was quite obvious he said that something would have to be done to relieve the strain upon local bodies.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 52, 13 May 1942, Page 5
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