PATIENTS LIE ON FLOUR
N.S.W. HOSPITAL'S PLIGHT * MINERS’ ULTIMATUM LITHGOW, Aug. 24. —Overcrowded wards and. lack of funds have produced a desperate position at Lithgow Hospital. Jhe board may have to establish an emergency hospital in a nearby church. The Western. Miners’ Federation lias informed the Minister for Health, Mr. Primrose, by letter, that if Xray facilities at the hospital are not improved, it will recommend its members to stop paying subscriptions to the hospital. The hospital was built for SO beds, but to-dav it contained 84 patients. A six-year-old boy to sleep on the floor in a linen press. Male patients lie on the verandah of the female ward. When four men, who had been critically injured in a motor accident, were brought in, nurses were forced to transfer patients from the male ward tot the verandah of the female ward. The four men lie. on beds which are almost touching.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 233, 13 September 1939, Page 1
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152PATIENTS LIE ON FLOUR Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 233, 13 September 1939, Page 1
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