HOSPITAL LEVIES.
Mr. F. T. Moore is submitting the following proposals to Mr. E. P. Bunny for tho consideration of tlia local body delegates on Thursday next, in reference to hospital affairs: — "That the Government, bo asked to so amend the Hospital and Charitable Act that: (a) 'All hospital institutions shall henceforth bo. run upon strictly business lines, by adopting a scale of charges adequate to meet tho cost of the treatment received by each patient.' (b) 'Only persons making a statutory declaration of poverty may be the recipients or free treatment at hospitals or the recipients of charitable aid.' (c) 'The local bodies shall be notified of every , such declaration in order that fraud may be detected and offenders prosecuted for false pretences.' . (d) 'The actual cost of treatment of all alcoholic and venereal cases shall be paid in full by the recipients, which charge shall be enforced under pain of imprisonment. 1 "
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1767, 4 June 1913, Page 2
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154HOSPITAL LEVIES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1767, 4 June 1913, Page 2
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