The Chairman suggested that the recommendation by the Treasurer and. Controller be adopted, that special Committee be formed to discuss the matter, In expressing agreement with this suggestion, a member asked that the Health Committee should frst give some positive expression of opinion fon the general question of removal of the General Hospital, to which he personally was strongly opposed.
remarked that in its present locality the hospital was of far greater service to wath the shipping and the industrial communities. would be possible if it were moved elsewhere. He also spoke of the Percentage Agures of occupancy for the Country and General Hospital (82 per cent. and 63 per cent. respectively), stating that it was impracticable for a hospital always to be occupied near its maximum capacity. and that he considered the resent percentages to be salisfoctory and reasonable.
Another member stated that England, hospitals were often not only. fully occupied, but also had a waiting list' of patients desiring admittance, He supported the suggestion that a special committee be formed, and further suggested that part ai least! of the present site of the hospit should be retained.
The view was expressed that the percentage -of occupancy at the hospitals proved that a certain propartion of the accommodation was wasted under present conditions. Occupancy was decreas taken oh that portion of the report from the Commissioner of Public Health which related to the appro-nation for other purposes of and which appeared in the Health Depart ment's budget to have been bought for hospital sites, was met by the Chairman, who agreed, and said he would emphasize the point in his report at the Council meeting of the Health Committee's views. and it was recommended:
The Chairman also read a report submitted by the Treasurer and Con loller in which it was Fecommended that a special committee be formed, consisting. of representatives of the Gountey Hospital, the General Hos-'Stal andthe Council to consider ud" report on the question of rela-live accommodation at, and. closer ce-ordination between, the two has (a) That the Councll_ shall express {the General Hospital on its: pre Mei, as savoring retention sent alte, in any way practice Thai a Committee be formed, to car sider and report on the ase Sita a Genera and the ques:
Hes ions of Felstive Sccommodation Stand, closer ce-oreinatian bee ween It and the Country Hospital into future
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