ST. HELEN'S HOSPITAL.
DOCTORS’ WHOLE-HEARTED SUPPORT.
The Palmerston doctors have for
itrded a joint letter to the press tm
publication in connection with the establishment of a St. Helen’s Hospital at Palmerston North: — “It has been represented to us that there is considerable doubt in the mind's of many people as to the real necessity for an up-to-date public maternity hospital in this district, and we have been asked to give our considered opinion on the niatten. In reply, we wish to say most emphatically that we think that such a hospital, for which funds are now being collected, is
highly necessary, and will have our whole-hearted support. An up-to-date maternity hospital, stalled with well-trained nurses, where the less well-to-do expectant mothers can be attended either by the midwife of (he institution or by a medical man of their own selection, and which
will provide an efficient stall of well-trained maternity nurses for attendance upon women in their own homes, will go a long way towards minimising the risks of illness and mortality from maternity that are at present rightly disturbing the public conscience, and which have been for years past a source of trial and anxiety to the practitioners of this and other countries. Just as up-to-date and well staffed general hospitals are an essential to the efficient treatment of medical and surgical cases, so is an up-to-date maternity hospital essential to the efficient treatment of maternity cases among those, where want of room in their homes and -mall means, render efficient treatment*at home almost impossible of attainment. We have no hesitation iti urging the public to subscribe according to (heir means to the very admirable object for which the ‘Help the Mothers’ fund is now being raised. — We are, etc., E. C. Barnett, 11. Bett, H. J. C. Durward, G. A. Forrest, W. F. Godfrey, J. Miller, F. Paget, C. W, Peach, P. T. Putnam, W. R. Stowe, D. Hunter Will, Ivan S. Wilson.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2314, 11 August 1921, Page 2
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326ST. HELEN'S HOSPITAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2314, 11 August 1921, Page 2
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