A CONSUMPTIVE CASE.
—: ♦ —: (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) - Hokitika, August 29. In reply to the strictures which Dr. Monson passed upon the lYestland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for refusal to receive into the hospital an aged woman who is suffering from consumption, the chairman of the board (Mr. T. Kennedy) states that so long os ho is chairman of the board ho will strongly protest against an infectious case being admitted a medical or surgical ward. As chairman of ■ the board he is not going to be forced to do what Dr. Jlonson thinks fit to demand regardless of expense, and he goes on to explain that the woman in question "is at the present time costing the Charitable Aid Board between £5 and i£6 per month, that the woman has also a freo house, and is being 1 _nursed by a competent person who is paid XI a week, by the board."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1532, 30 August 1912, Page 3
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152A CONSUMPTIVE CASE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1532, 30 August 1912, Page 3
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