HOSPITAL MEALS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 215, 11 September 1945, Page 4

HOSPITAL MEALS

In reply to "One Who Knows," I wish to state that the meals served at Green Lane Hospital are of good quality, with a variety of fruit, vegetables, also cream every day, and eggs all the year round. People in private homes are not so fortunate in obtaining these footstuffs easily. The old people in the chronic section have, under my observations, ample meals for their needs. They get tasty, well cooked meals, the calorific value of which is suitable for persons not doing heavy work, or growing. As for the tuberculosis patients, it is well known that they have difficult appetites to please. Occasions have arisen when patients have expressed a desire for food bought from a shop, in preference to hospital cooked food. When the kitchen staff have endeavoured to satisfy these patients by preparing the same popular line of diet, using the best of materials in cooking, the meal has been turned down by the majority of patients because it is "hospital cooked," and not because of its inferiority. Out of fairness to those, who work hard in the hospital kitchen to please.both very sick and not-so-sick patients, I think it necessary that the public should be aware of the high quality of the meals served to Green Lane Hospital patients.

ANOTHER WHO KNOWS.