CARE OF THE STOCK

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24913, 28 June 1946, Page 3

CARE OF THE STOCK

INCREASE IN HOSPITAL PATIENTS CRISIS REPORTED AT LANE INSTITUTION (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 27. “With the almost tragic state of conditions, not only in Auckland, nor even confined to New Zealand, there is the strongest need for the public to realise that if they want care when they are really sick they must cooperate,” said the chairman of the Auckland Hospital ’ Board, Mr A. J. Moody, this morning. Mr Moody was referring to the crisis at the Green Lane Hospital, caused by people being admitted as bed patients when they could be treated by outside doctors, or as outpatients. He said the number of patients at the hospital had increased 100 per cent, in seven years, mainly because of the social security legislation. He gave full support to the action of the Acting-Medical Superintendent, Dr. J. S. Hudson, in his steps to reduce the bed state at the institution to a number with which the nursing staff could reasonably cope. Mr Moody said he had heard representations from sisters on behalf of the whole nursing staff concerning the crisis, and he thought their representations were justified.