EPSOM CONVALESCENT HOME

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 27 September 1915, Page 11

EPSOM CONVALESCENT HOME

ITCB.BING THE SOUJIISKS. HKLP FROM THE PI~BLIC. Tbo returned wounded eoldiere at jireeent con-vuleacing at the Kpeom Con-vik.4c-.'iu Home are. being nuracd back to health under the comfortable eonditione, and the resident* of the district see that they do not lack of anuisetoent and entertainment. There are now fourteen men aX the home, and all epeak Ttry highly of the careful attention they receive from the nursing staff. The■ Epeom CenvaJeeceut Home, which nrag formerly the residence of Air Thomas liarstow. and which has been •Jtered and equipped to thn convenience of the paticnta and nareing staff, ie Bupported hy the Epeom Nursing Division of the St. -luhn AmbuUncr Association, and provide* accommodation for twenty-four men. Only those men who are not wholly confined to their bed Vβ being troated, the more serious cases receiving attention ot the Aiwlc]»nd Hohpital. The superintendent speaks -with gratitude of the interest ejid generosity displayed by the many people who have made contributions of | comfortti for thu raeti. aud for those who are plating motor core a-t the disposal of the cor.vaJesccutn. Every day useful articles ai.4. provision* «Je received. A piano and a gramophone are amongst the lat«it pifta ftk> 4he home^—two preeenu which arc greatly appreciated | by the mcn —and gramophone records | are received daily, as well a« euch ■warmly accepted donationa as bacon, eggs, fruit, etc. Tie men arc allowed on<- nijjht i in tho week, and leive during the da\ is liberally granted. A departure ie niadr from tlie jjcneral rule concerning "light.- out." the evenings being pro- | longed b> the extenaion of tht houre I irom S p.m. T.i II) p.m. The manage | went hatt experienced difficulty, however. | in that people who hospitably take the i fatirnt, out in the iveninjM the fact that ni™)it leave is limited, and prevail upon their visitors to stay out later that th" regulations permit. The following arc some of* the latest donations which have been received towards the- funds of the home: —i!r j and Mr» Isaac Baily, £."> 5/; Mr* W ! Ifolcman. Anonymous, £2 2/j Epsom! j and Rcmuera Kindergarten, £2; lira I laierbeck, £1 10/; Mm Myers. £1 I 3/; Mrs .lac. Home, Mrs Cropper. £1: j Mrs McDowell. M., K. Egglcetone, 10/; j Anonymous. Mrs Hardy, 5/; Mro | O'Bner! _' C. , j