CHAOTIC HOSPITAL CONTROL.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1918, Page 5

CHAOTIC HOSPITAL CONTROL.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Among the lessons taught us ,i>y the epidemic, is the fallacy of the policy of making the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Districts as large-as possible. For practical purpose!- the Wanganui Board has been Don-existent during as far as this town is concerned. The Public Hospital here has been shamefully neglected. I hear that patients ■were lying on mattresses on the floors until the fact was reported to the Epi : demic Committee, which at once sent three stretchers to the Hospital. I also know that the new infectious diseases ward has not been used for patients, and that a case of" measles taken off the express had to be sent idown to Wanganui. The remedy appears to me to be the vesting of the control of the Hospital in the local authority or the creation of a Taihape H. and C. A. District. Something should be done at once, while people's attention is aroused. Wanganui is too far away to be of any assistance to this town in a crisis" such as we have just passed through, and should the country experience such another visitation and things jn the meantime be allowed to as heretofore, the country will Remand the punishment of these responsible for not remedying the glaringly apparent defects of the present system of Hospital control.

trust this matter will not be allowed to drop, but that others will aid a movement for reform of the present pitiably inadequate system.—l am, etc., .. INFLUENZA SUFFERER.