HOSPITALS AND THEIR COST
Sir,—The development of public hospitals to meet the modern need of specialised treatment is opposed by the heavy bunion of cost eveVy advance casts upon the ratepayers. 'Die Mayor of Hastings slates tile rate per capita ill his town has grown in six years from Is. lOd. to 2s. 5(1. The crux of the Do-minion-wide trouble is that only alioul a third of the cost of treatment is collected from those, who have been served. In some instances even the wealthiest of the patients are never naked to pay tho full cost of their treatment. Apparently the only. remedy the Minister can suggest is the stifling of compassion in pressing for the payment of hospital fees after the calamity of sickness. Every year accentuates tiie failure of that method. Is the way of reform not obvious?—l am, ctc., n. P. FRENCH. AYaiptikurau.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 243, 2 July 1918, Page 6
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146HOSPITALS AND THEIR COST Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 243, 2 July 1918, Page 6
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