HOSPITALS COMMISSION.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17124, 20 April 1921, Page 6

HOSPITALS COMMISSION.

AUCKLAND SITTINGS.

(FBESS ASSOCIATION TBUSGIUM.) . '<% AUCKLAND, April 19., 1 The advisability of establishing n*,l vatc wards in public hospitals wm w> J cussed before the Hospitals Commissi*. The general trend of the ovidence «ji T /jj against any differentiation of twik \ ment. The question was put to nmb bers of the Commission with a viawfta j elucidating the position of a rotepay»T J in good circumstances who contnbnUA | largely to the. institution, but who it J denied admission; | Dr. Mnguirc, superintendent of the | Auckland Hospital, said the hoapSUJJ did not have enough accommodation fot |1 the population it served. He favoured-|| the development of hospitals in the foW ffl centres as base hospitals, and the out- M Iving districts should be affiliated to'fj them. ; M Mr Donaldson, chairman of the WauM | Board, said his Board would not obtap <| to linking'up with Thames <*f safeguards "| were provided bo that the Waihi H<M> -1 pitnl would not lose its identity. VoU-i untary contributions would be ctteoor* '1 aged if the subsidy were increased. , :| Alexander Smith, chairman of tb» '■ i Taumarunui Board, said the levies on 1 contributory authorities in pioneer dan 3 tricts should bo subsidised by the Oft- % vernment to the extent of 30k to the M, .? and 40s on maternity hospital exponeV ;| ■ ture. , » ( * <s . William Conradi, secretary of 4* 4 Waikato Board, was insistent that ttb* « vernment contributions should bo a flit rate of £ for £. Regarding tho swt-V£ division of the Wnikato district, he »njf "t<& gested.that Hawko's Bay, Lake TaunaY c and Rotorua should be constituted a daV •* trict on its own, to join up with the'lf Bay of Plenty. ' M This concluded the sitting. m