The management of public hospitals in New Zealand : presidential address, February 28th, 1905 / by Ernest Roberton.

  • Roberton, Ernest.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The management of public hospitals in New Zealand : presidential address, February 28th, 1905 / by Ernest Roberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The Management of Public Hospitals IN NEW ZEALAND. Hy KRNlfiST biOBEKTON, MJD. PreaUlcutiul Address delivered before the New Zealand Branch of tlie Britislj Medical Association} at the Animal Meeting held in Aucklainl, Feb} 28} 19U5. Ladies and Gentlemen,— I haA'e, as my first duty, to express my hearty thanks to the members of the Branch for the lionour they tiave done me in electing me President. As my position is due to the fact that our present meeting is being held in Auckland, and that I am in a sense more especially the representative of the Auckland Division, I take advantage of this opportunity to welcome tliose members of the Association who have journeyed from other parts of the colony. In a year or two—in view of past disappointments I ought, perhaps, to say in a few years—when railway communication with the outside world is a reality, we hope that the greater facility in reaching our city may increase the number of those wliom tlie combined attractions of meeting their colleagues, and of the beauties of our locality, will bring to future annual meetings. To those who have faced the difficulties and discomforts of present-day travelling to be here to-day, I may say, on behalf of my Auckland fellow-members, that their presence is indeed a gi’eat pleasure to us, and we trust that when they return home they will carry vvith tliem pleasant memo- ries of Auckland and of this annual meeting. 1 have ventured to choose as the subject of my ad- dress “The ^Management of Public Hospitals in New Zealand.” Becent events in the North of New Zealand have led our Division to take an unusually active in- terest in the question of hospital management; and the recent Koyal Commission of Enquiry into the affairs of the Auckland Hospital has been the means of raising many questions in that connection which can be settled only in such a way as will affect also the hospitals of other districts. The interests of our profession arc so intimately connected with those of the hospitals and the status of the profession, and the interests of its indi- vidual memhers may be so readily affected by the action of the State in its methods and aims in maintaining public hospitals, that the subject is one of the greatest
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