TOO MANY ACCIDENTS
HOSPITAL FACES PROBLEM Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The North Canterbury Hospital Board, according to the annual report of its medical superintendent, Dr. W. B. Fox, presented at the annual meeting today, has a serious problem to face in the alarming increase in the number of motor accident cases. “The accommodation of the hospital will be taxed to the utmost if motor accidents keep on increasing,” states report. . “The accident patients, owing to their number, have gradually absorbed a whole ward on the male side. Most of the cases are of a seri°us nature, involving mutilation of limbs, and in consequence patients are . in the hospital for many months. This leads to economic loss and this is a problem that will have to be given consideration. Another problem is whether hospitals must not put themselves in a more secure position with reference to obtaining a more equitable share of insurance payments for the enormous expenditure that they are forced to incur for surgical and maintenance charges.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 18
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168TOO MANY ACCIDENTS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 18
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