HOSPITAL SYSTEM.
DR. McEACHERN’S RECOMMENDATIONS. ‘By Telegraph—P**css Association. ■WELLINGTON, March 20. Interviewed, Dr. M. T. AlcEuchorn, Assistant Director of the American College (if Surgeons, and Director ol hospital activities, who is now on a visit to the Dominion, referred tentatively to tbc recommendations which will possibly be included in tiie report which lie will lurnisii to the Government upon our hospital system 'as soon as lie has made his tour of the North Island. These recommendations. he said, woti'd be: (1) That the number of hospital districts should b c decreased, through the consolidation of certain existing districts; (2) the retention ol Hie. honorary system of staffing and the ehminnt.ion of Hie present iv-lic'-. u some (listnets of omplovimr full time medical officers, with dual functions; (3) (lie nddit on of Paying wards to public hospitals, so that others than the •necessitous poor would he nb’c to use (i,~ h'-nitids end nay. ns they should pav, for treatment. Dr MeEaehern indicated that these conclusions were nor definite : they were only tentative i.ntil such t ; me as he had made survey of the whole Dominion.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 7
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184HOSPITAL SYSTEM. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 7
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