CHEST HOSPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 275, 20 November 1935, Page 15

CHEST HOSPITAL.

QUESTION OF SITE. . SIX UNDER CONSIDERATION. BOARD AWAITS REPORT. ' The proposed building programme, inclusive of a chest hospital, was dis- ', cussed at a meeting of the Auckland • Hospital Board yesterday afternoon, ■ when a report from the building com--1 mitteo was adopted. ! The report stated that the executive of the honorary medical staff, with the medical superintendent, had been asked ' to co-operate with the board's architect • in suggesting the best means of carrying ■ out the proposal to erect a surgical block, a- chest hospital, and the rearrangement of the main building. , The report stated that Dr. McDowell had emphasised that what was required was ! a block of buildings fully equipped ', radiologioally and surgically for the treatment of all cases which had no [ chance of recovery. He considered that if a chest hospital were in operation, there would still be fully 5 per cent of cases that would require sanatorium treatment. The report added the six sites, at Bombay, Ramarama, Hillsboro, Titi- \ rangi, Mount Wellington and Puketutu ! Island, had been suggested as suitable for a site of a chest hospital and the question had been referred to the medi- \ cal committee to inspect the proposed sites and report further to the board. Delay Urged. Dr. J. P. Hastings urged that the chest hospital should not be gone on with until they got a record of the chest cases in the hospital to-day. The Chairman (Mr. W. Wallace): The board has decided to go on with it. Dr. Hastings: I am here to represent certain people. Mr. E. 11. Potter: You are here to 1 represent everybody. Dr. Hastings said that the architect should be asked to confer with some leading authorities. Mr. G. T. Parvin said that they already had the plans of all the hospitals in the world. Mr. Wallace said that the architect had asked for the honorary staff to confer with him. In the past the board had been blamed for not taking the honorary stalF into consideration, and there was full co-operation at the present time. Outsiders would not be cognisant of local conditions. Dr. Hastings said that the conditions were different as the buildings were so scattered. It would be to advantage if they could get the advice of some great foreign specialist. The Rev. W. C. WooJ said that the proper time for views would be when the report came before the board.