DEATHS AT OTAKI HOSPITAL
Board Member Objects To Notices There was no larger i>ercentage of deaths at the Otaki Beach Hospital than for tiie same period of the year at the AVellington hospital, said Mrs. Knox Gilmer in reply to the Rev. F J. Usher at last night’s AVellington Hospital Board meeting. Mr. Usher said that in death notices of patients who died at Otaki, the words “at Otaki Beach Hospital” were being used. AVhen a patient died in the Victoria AVard, the usual death notice stated “at AVellington hospital” and did not specifically state the ward. As the deatli notices of Otaki patients were being inserted, the impression ' was being created that patients were dying because they had been removed to Otaki, said Mr. Usher. This was not the case, and he thought undertakers could be asked to refrain from using the description “at Otaki Beach Hospital” when inserting death notices in the newspapers. Mrs. Gilmer said this suggestion could be looked into.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 6
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164DEATHS AT OTAKI HOSPITAL Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 6
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