The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1882. HOSPITALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1178, 14 September 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1882. HOSPITALS.

A statistical return lias just been published.of the hospitals.in the colony for -the" - .year funding December 31sfc> 1881/. It is compiled from the state- . ments of.the'local managing bodies', and: it is -very '' questionable whether, it can be taken as at all an t accurate rec6rd,' Though' the Government spent -during; that year, directly and in■directly,; £40,000' on'these institutions,' it did so virtually '•witnonli'cueckingby inspectidii or 'conirol, the distribution ■ of this large suto of money. When we; Me, 'hospital with'.'slx beds" Mcomm'qdates. ,9L, v-patients per annum, and anotJier with thirteen .beds finds Bhelter but for-fourteen, we.'caii' outcome to the conclusim. that the; returns are yei^loose.Or tW management of hospitals. yery/, peculiar. ■* In" ! the .statistics published-there is not the; '■ elightest attempt to 'classify 'hospitals;.! although they,vary from '%s., beds to; ; 6; For the.; sake of convenience'-we ; will divide: them into six classes. :'.';! l£ the first we place hospitals which, dur-' ing .the past ;yearj ';' accommodated,' oyer!. 60.0; patients.; in the .second'.from 200| to 500 ;jn!the, third from 100 to'2oo j in the fourtli fiom : so to 100'; in 1 the fifth from 25 ,to 50"; : andth'e sixth from; 8 to 25; ! ' In the first class the Auckland! surgeon with 720 patients is paid £100! t a year more-' thanthe .Dunedin surgeon 'With:"747, patients.-,'in the second! ;;cl^-; ; gets £3OO jper annum:forJOj patients, whor'eas' jfoe;Sorithland.%Mge6n;gets but £250 ,■ fourth class)! the Grey mouth, surgeon get? £250 for '146, while the: Lawrence surgeon receives but £2oo'for 1 199 patients. : In-'the 1 ; fourtlr.classf'the'' Cromwell surge ; 6nis;v.'eir,6ff!witli £250 for 51 patients'.' 'ln tlio '.fiftli, the c Reef ton medico' luxuriates on tlie same income for 31 ' patients (an average .of something, less' than! 'one' ! per week). : In'the last class the. Charleston doctor, .with'but fifteen gets £l5O. ./it'.isj.eyident that a coii; Bpent ! 'anhunl]y-onjcolom • a M^^ !^9 , ' er '* riie'nt,' wtiich:fcontributes';;-the jlion's!; shar&of the funds, is' ; respo'nsible'-foi v sc'ittfiiring' thein :! without 'the; sHglitest attpmpit'o mstitut'ibnsj'orj to.y.i'.egulat'e ; I W.& ifeeliassured;that!one'.oritwo'thousahd!. 1 p6uttda ! pef 'annum ; spentin ';inspecti6ti;' ,wou]d preyeat ;po^s. ; being!w;B^ted^!,«'yj^r;•,; "*£[ '.- i.i;i'u:!;'. iklimmtmimimimmnyAi! •. *r.ih