UNIFORMITY OF HOSPITALS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13933, 11 July 1919, Page 2

UNIFORMITY OF HOSPITALS

CONFERENCE PROPOSED. The New Plymouth Hospital Board fotrvvairded to the local Hospital Board a resolution passed by their , Bowd and fomrardod to the Minister of Public- Health, asking for'the Board's opinion, and if■•'Thames wetnei'symipaithetiio, would they also forward a. copy to the* -Minister. ' The resoluitikm was: "Thaif, ira. fthe opinioni of tihtis Baai-d it -w highly advisable .to approach the Horn. Maniister oif Hospitals with ■& view to spkuoina 1 before him the adviaab- ! ility of calling a. carirfeTWC© of nill i Board-* m the Dominion to, talc© into . \ oomsiidera.tio'n' sKsveral imiportairi't mailfers in ciOTOTiectioinl v"itih tihe weiLfair© of Hosp'itlal and Chairiitobile AJtV "rt^odv. more espec/iailly quenstioinf? eucih as auniform scale of salairieis foa* lv^sitt'.tnil ', ■m.u"sics, a 'sinpen* laininMtaitnoin t=oheme>. ' the ponnohflise of supiplies, amd the adj mini'sfcrationi of epidemic!l widonvs' as- { fiisitaoice." j Mr Hall sand that when he was a. 4:, New Plymoiuitihi thel secn"<3t'ary mientriomed the twaititeir to himl. He (Mr lHaill) thoiughit thaifc tlher© V'ar? ersmc ! lesoluitiioni by the Thames Board oia i the- mailiter 1 aaid to a. question! "wouH the Th'amiGts, Board mwif? a, l-eso'luitiioTir ' suptportiing 1 the propo-siiiil" he hftd ward [thaiti he was sure tihe -Boa-rd would jba omly tioo ptleaeed to do sw. : The Cha.irman': h\. maring toi crive : the.' nwutitett' support I ha.ye cfood 'roar i sons for doin^ so When Mr Rhodes i wag kindly ac^ng E?eeretiairy two yess-rs ago, the Board wrote the 1 Deiptfwtmenit mal^inia sikivom* reipiTesemitiatSoir^ thaib there wa« thy uniiformiitv of raife. i Mr ; Ha.ll was qiiritc rr'prht, »tiho liirtar.^ ; Board had mjovp<l in ihc mflifrter. We ; h'nwe itial«m the ratio in Auokln.T»d a^ a ; guide. If therei had been a iiTiiiforin.it.v j r'atie decn'ded wp&n the Boo,vd- h-nl ' veret been advised- 1 The Thlairpfl* i Board was oin© of the first B'Wird* t<i • mwe in this direictroin amd ' tibis I shciild bo stn/ted when raplyinG: to j New Plymouth. XVI frtiction 1 would Uej ©a^ved if we had a uniform ra.te. Mr Hall seoc«nded..-:-Ca,rriied.