Port Coquitlam, B.C.

The Mayor and Council, . :
Port Coquitlam City Hall, i

Dear Sirss

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the Coquitlam snd

S. Leggatt, thuiriiean of the Port Coquitlam Health
Committee presented ihe views of his group on the
propesed hoasoital. Mr Leggatt stated that "there
was no need for any acute care beds to be built
in this area". As the Port Coquitlam appointee

to the hospital board, my views are in bpposition
to those of Mr. Lerzait and Council shoild be ‘

advised of them.

‘There is a need for some kind of hospital
facility in this area to serve the health care
needs of our citizens. Not only do the waiting lists
for alective surgery at New Westminster hospitals
and the growing population figures indicute this
4s so, but the lack of outpatient services (psychiatric
day care, etc.) and the lack of some inpatient
nervi.ces (acute psychiatric beds) available to
our citisens are evidence of this need. In view
of this situation, I believe most people in our
community want to have such services made available
to them in their own srea.

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1715 Oughton DY oe
Port Coquitlam, 3.C.
September 17, 1972.6

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strict Hospital Board, Mre

I would like to point out to Council that the
Gray Report, which was prepared by a private consultant
at the renuest of the Board, was never intended to
be Board holicy. While it would of course, be one
of the factors that the Board would consider when
determining its policy, such matters as the
duplication and dovetailing of expensive seyvices
are equally important.