MOVE TO-MORROW
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
TRAINING COLLEGE READY
Final preparations for the use of the Training College as an auxiliary hospital to relieve overcrowding at the Auckland Hospital, were completed to-day. Supplies and equipment are now at the college and nurses have been detailed for duty there. An inspection of the college was made by the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Mr. Allan J. Moody, this morning, and he stated that by noon to-morrow the building will be fully functioning as an auxiliary hospital. The first patients will Joe 'transferred from the Auckland Hospital to the college about 9 a.m. Five St. John ambulances are to be used. The patients to be moved are civilian surgical and medical cases.
No more cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis have been admitted to the Auckland Hospital, but two carriers of the disease, who came in yesterday, are being kept in isolation at the hospital for a period. The 12 meningitis patients are making satisfactory progress, and there have been no further deaths reported. Six patients were discharged today after recovering from measles and mumps at the Ellerslie racecourse hospital. There were two further admissions this morning, one a mumps case and the other measles.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 9
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