Holidays Bring Decrease In Hospital Admissions
.During the holiday months there wa3 some falling off in admissions to the Palmerston North Public Hospital but this was less than in previous years hnd a high average in occupied beds was maintained, stated Mr J. H. North, medical superintendent, at the monthly meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday. The maternity homes all had had j busy months, he said. In January the subsidiary schodl .of physiotheraphy at the hospital bega'u' its first year. Five students are atfeiiding the course for the next six months (before sitting their final examinations . in Dunedin. Miss K. Mowbray is tutor physiotherapist. . \;:i' Hospital statistics for the month of j January are as follow: — v ' Patients admitted 395, patients discharged 341; patients died 21; ' daiiy average number of ocOupied beds 294.94. Infeetious diseases admitted: — Pofiomyelitis, 2. Remaining in hospital at end of month: Scarlet fever, 1; poliomyelitis, 4. District Maternity Home: — ^Patients admitted 67; births 64. Attended antenatal clinic 80; daily average number of occupied beds 27.06. Foxton Maternity Home: — Patients, admitted 7, births 7; daily average number of occupied beds 2.74. Otaki Maternity Home: — Patients admitted 15, births 15; " attended antenatal clinic 19; daily average number of occupied beds 6.64. Feilding Maternity Home: — Patients admitted 19, births 16; daily average number of occupied beds, 7.03. =■• •
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1949, Page 6
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