NATIONALISING HOSPITALS.
«. ■ . REMIT REJECTED. [BY TKLEGBATH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington. Wednesday. An interesting discussion on the nationalisation of public hospitals took place at the Municipal Conference today, when tie following remit was submitted by the Petone Council:—"That the present method of levying on local bodies for the upkeep of hospitals and charitable aid he discontinued, an 3 that the hospitals be nationalised, and the upkeep met out of the general revenue, the whole treatment to be free of cost to patients." Hon. J. Barr strongly, supported the motion, and said he regarded hospitals as purely a national institution. They could have no purely local sphere, because lha bonds of common humanity compelled their doors to be open to all who came. Mr McGrath, Napier, said his experience suggested that if the hospitals were nationalised there would be bo much red tape that moat of the patients would be dead before they could b3 admitted. ; ; Mr Michaels (Auckland) alao opposed the remit because he did not believe in pauperising the people. The remit was finally rejected by 29 votfis to 25.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 18 July 1914, Page 7
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178NATIONALISING HOSPITALS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 18 July 1914, Page 7
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