HOSPITAL BUILDING
ACCOMMODATION AT LOWER i HUTT. .- - vVi . ' V ' • ADDITIONAL hundred beds. f! ■ - . . •' (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the direction of the Departmentof Health, conveyed by a letter from the Director-General (Dr. Watt) the Wellington Hospital Board to-day decided to vacate parts of the Wellington Racing Club’s buildings at lrentham which have been used for the- accommodation of sick soldiers from Trontham Camp and to proceed with the- erection of the emergency block 01 100 beds at the Lower Hutt Hospital now in the course of erection. This will bring the bed accommodation at Lower Ilutt to 410, including 210 permanent and two emergency blocks of 100 beds each.
In the meantime soldier patients are to be accommodated in Anzac Hall, Featherston. This ball is. not at present equipped for their reception. The Trent ham Racecourse Hospital is to be vacated before the October meetng ol the Wellington Racing Club.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 282, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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