AUCKLAND HOSPITAL
RECORD NUMBER. OF PATIENTS
DEGREASE IN TOTAL COST
AUCKLAND, -April 3,
“The record number of 10,075 patients was admitted to the Auckland Hospital during the year just closed,” stated the medical superintendent, Dr. J. W. Craven. Although 800 more patients were admitted, the total cost had been about- £6OOO less, being approxmutely £107,C00, compared with £113,000 in the previous year. From 70C0 to 8000 operations were performed annually at the hospital. Last week eight cases of appendicitis were admitted in one day. The patients now included a large proportion of people who had been r/;ed to luxury, but who had been effected by. the economic depression. . v
Everything in the hospital .'was of the very best and it was equipped with the most modern apparatus. ; The radium stored, and in use and tile X-ray plant were valued at £8000.! The Auckland Hospital now compared very favourably -with those in t-beA other chief centres of.,the' Dominion. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1933, Page 7
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157AUCKLAND HOSPITAL Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1933, Page 7
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