HOSPITAL RATING
OBJECTION TO INCREASE CO UNTIES’ ASSOCIATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Hospital rating was a burning hot pio-aon amongst all county councils, said Mr. C. .1. Talbot, Fairlie, in his f residential address to the b emv.al conference of the New Zealand Counites' Association. This, lie said, was due to the steep ascent of the financial requirements jf hospital boards. The main causes of an increase in hospital expenditure were:—(l) People were becoming more hospital-minded. (2) An increase in staffs. (3) An increase in the cost of provisions and drugs. (4) The demand for better surgical and medical equipment. (5) The renovations of some hospitals. • County councils wore unanimous that. . too much money was being spent on hospitals and not enough on the roads. They also felt that there was little justification to-day for any increase in taxation on the land to meet the cost of the rapidly increasing social services, especially since the prices paid for primary products were unstable and comparatively low.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 16
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