OVERCROWDED HOSPITALS
* By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, February 21. Speaking at a meeting of the St. John Ambukuce Association to-nigh,. the_ Mayor, Mr. J. Mating, sharply criticised the Government's treatment of returned soldiers in sending them "to hospitals nearest their respective homes," regardless of whether there was accommodation for them. At the meeting of the Hospital Board on Wednesday two doctors, who are members of the board, had spoken of the need for a consumption sanatorium for soldiers in this island, as well as in the north, and generally that crowding returned soldiers into hospitals was unfair to both them and the- civilian patients. • If overtaxed now, what would bo the position when thousands returned after the war? The Mayor also condemned the niggardly treatment ot men who returned on leave, in refusing them pay. after what they had done for us. The neonle wished them to be paid, and would not begrudge the money. The "win-tho-war" cry should not cause local attention to ?oldiers to bo neglected. The Mayor's remarks were applauded.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 133, 22 February 1918, Page 6
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172OVERCROWDED HOSPITALS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 133, 22 February 1918, Page 6
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