Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 398, 31 August 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1889. The monthly meeting of the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held at Hamilton on Wednesday next, when the queestion of increasing the doctor's salary will be further considered. On every hand we have heard the proposed increase of expenditure condemned as totally unwarranted. The present medical man has evidently ideas too large for the position he holds, and wants £400 a year, together with free apartments for himself, wife and servant. His ideas must be rather expensive, seeing he states his house rent alone, exclusive of rates and taxes, amounts to £85 a year. A pretty good farm can be rented for that amount now a days. If he is not content with his present salary, there are plenty of competent medical men with not quite such high notions who will be very pleased to relieve him of his duties. The Hamil— ilton hospital is one of the four mo3t expensively managed hospitals in the Colony. The average daily cost per pationt is only exceeded in three other hospitals, viz., Patea, Coromandel, and Cromwell, in which the total number of pntients during the past year were 69, 30, and 18 respectively, as against 82 at Hamilton. In fact, the expenses generally in connection with Hamilton hosrital are already excessively high when, compared with those incurred at the other hospitals throughout the Colony ; and we sincerely trust >the Bonn] will not unnecessarily still further increase the burden of taxation the ratepayers have to bear, but rather .seek to mluep the pre«?pnfc very excessive expenditure in connection with the hospital.