OUR HOSPITAL SYSTEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1924, Page 4

OUR HOSPITAL SYSTEM.

AUCKLAND. March 7. The visiting American doctors to the Medical Conference, have charmed all those with whom they have come into contact, because of their practical way of looking at the everyday things of life. Dr Mayo and bis parly are most anxious to see all they can during the three weeks they will be in New Zealand, and are .specially looking forward to a visit to Mount Cook. The famous surgeon abso expects three weeks in Australia ln-forc sailing home again. Among the tiling's which lone impressed him here are the gloat possibilities of so young a country to start everything c.lf right with the experience o*’ older i-ounirics to guide us. He thinks it is a wonderful opportunity. lie spoke in appreciative terms of the Public Hospital which, for situation. be described as unsurpassed, lb' wants to see its usefulness extended by catering more than it does for the requirements of the great middle class of the community, who lie describes as the backbone of any country. Dr Mayo said lie believed the day of small private hospitals was (loomed. Many of them had not the equipment necessary to do good work. One of the best tilings about our public hospitals system was that the light ol day was 'ot in. Hospitals must be judged by their records, and that was why everv operation should be immediately recorded within a few minutes oi the time it. was completed. Not only that, but other surgeons and doctors should have access to these records and lx* able to pass their opinion upon them. Maternity wards should also bo provided at every public hospital, where, under the best conditions, women could lie confined. In America now full provision was made so that women could go to the public hospitals. II complications set in, there were the skilled specialists just at hand to attend at once to them, and just across a passage was the room where the best attention possible could be got.