HOSPITAL IMPORTANCE
VALUE TO COMMUNITY As evidence of the important place a hospital held to-day in the community, Mr. F. L. Frost, M.P., last night traced the development of the New Plymouth institution from a small beginning to the stage where it treated 2783 patients a year in the general wards and 3353 in the out-patient department. ' Mr. Frost was speaking at the public farewell to Miss B. A. Campbell. There were, he said, 220 beds at the institution the average occupied being 178, and each patient remained for an average of 23.3 days in the institution. Last year, the 2783 people treated were equal almost to one-sixth of the population of New Plymouth. In the out-patients' department the 3353 people attended to received 7837 treatments.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 6
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126HOSPITAL IMPORTANCE Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 6
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