HOSPITAL MAINTENANCE
PROTEST BY COUNTY COUNCILS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Feiiding, October 28. The county councils who aro contributing to tlfe Palmerston North Hospital Board held a conference here to-day, and passed a resolution, of which the following is the substance: —"This meeting protests against the House adopting the suggested schedule upon which a subsidy on levies paid by Government is based as endorsed by the Hospital Commission. The whole system by which land only and not material wealth is charged with the upkeep of hospitals is most unjust. The feeling of injustice is intensified by the proposal to reduce the subsidy in. some cases and to increase it in others, which amounts to one hospital district subsidising another. With a diminishing subsidy the country districts are penalised. While there may bo some justification to Increase the subsidy to main base hospitals there must be some more equitable form of raising funds for hospitals, which will take into consideration patients from several contributing districts, either by return to n. flat rate subsidy or power, to differentiate between outlying districts and centres’ population.”
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 9
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181HOSPITAL MAINTENANCE Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 9
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