OTAKI SANATORIUM
INADEQUATE ACCOMMODATION
(By Telegraph .—Press Association.) NAPIER, 17th February. "The Government is spending thousands on tro South Island railway, and surely it can afford to spend something •m shacks for these unfortunate women," stated Mr. F. B. Logan, at a meeting of the Hawkes Bay Hospital Board this afternoon, in the course of a strong protest against the inactivity of the Health Department in the matter of providing increased accommodation at Otaki for women • tubercular cases.
"From month to month," said Mr. Logan,' "the local board has from six to 20 patients waiting admission to Otaki. , The Department : not doing its duty from a national point of view. If the board took over ',' control of the santatoria it would not be long before compulsion would be brought to bear on them to provide accommodation. Some of the waiting patients are at present treated 'iv hos/'tal, and others in their homes. They are spreading the disease right and left." The board passed a resolution submitting tho matter to the Hospital Boards' Association for consideration, with a view to inducing the Department to erect more accommodation at Otaki. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 12
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188OTAKI SANATORIUM Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 12
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