Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMB, 6, 1921. FEILDING WANTS A MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2325, 6 September 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMB, 6, 1921. FEILDING WANTS A MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

FEILDING, which is within the Palmerston Hospital district, Inis decided to organise an effort to establish a separate maternity hospital for that district. Whether it is proposed to make the hospital a St. Helen’s is not quite clear. If this is so, it will lie under the control of the Department, and it is questionable whether the State will sanction two St. Helen’s Hospitals in the one hospital district. In any case, at least a sum of five or six thousand pounds will have to be raised in the Podding district to provide a site, building and equipment, before the Department; would undertake its administration. If it is proposed to establish a maternity hospital to be administered by the Hospital Board, then the Podding folk are reckoning without their host, for the reason that the district would object to the upkeep and maintenance of such an institution, in view of the. fact that it has abandoned an institution at the hospial in favour of a S. Helen’s the hospital in favour of a St. Helens for the whole district, which, in our opinion, is the wisest course. There is nothing to hinder Feilding or any other community from establishing a maternity home or cottage hospital, provided the locality pays for its maintenance and upkeep.