PATIENTS LIE ON FLOOR
N.S.W. HOSPITAL’S PLIGHT
MINER'’ S ULTIMATUM
I LITHGOW, Aug. 24.
Overcrowded wards and lack of funds have produced a despei-ate position at Lithgow Hospital. The board may have to establish an emergency hospital in a nearby church. The Western Miners’ Federation has informed the Minister for Health, Mr. Primrose, by letter, that if X-ray facilities at the hospital are not improved, it will recommend its members to stop paying subscriptions to the hospital.
The hospital was built for 80 beds, but to-day it contained 84 patients. A six-year-boy has to sleep on the floor in a linen press. Male patients lie on the verandah of the female ward.
When four men, who had been critically injured in a motor accident, were brought in, nurses were forced to transfer patients from the male ward to the verandah of the female ward. The four men lie on beds which are almost touching.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20031, 1 September 1939, Page 13
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