FOR THE SICK.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19664, 6 July 1929, Page 5

FOR THE SICK.

WORK OP ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. The good work that St. George's Hospital is doing is shown in the lirst annual report, which state, that an important hospital in Australia hag written asking for details of the work Overseas doctors have asked to be taken over the hospital and have expressed astonishment that so much could have been done in so little a time. The operating theatre and Xray room have won universal praise. Praise is given to the efforts of Mother Alice and her six Sisters and to the matron, Miss Thwaites, and nurses, and mention is also made of 1 lie work done hv Dr. P. E. Allison in the X-ray department. During the last part of the year, it became impossible to cope with all the cases that were sent to the hospital. After attempting to provide for them by opening the second floor, a new ward was built at the back of the hospital. Tho hospital lias not yet the money to pay for this ward, but the furnishing has been provided by Mr Leonard \\ lute. The ward, which will be ready for opening in a short while, will have in it this inscription:— This ward in the Pilgrims' Hospital was furnished in pious memory of William and Elizabeth White by their son Leonard, who, as an infant, arrived with them at Lyttelton in the William Hyde on February oth, 1852 "I was sick, and He visited me." The conversion of the second floor into patients' rooms accentuated the difficulty concerning the nurses' accommodation. A house in Milford street was hired and several neighbours of the hospital gave shelter to nurses. The hospital is issuing debentures in order to procure money for an up-to-date nurses' home. If the building can be erected on hospital ground it will cost £6OOO, if not, then more money will be needed. When the hospital was opened it was equipped with every modern aid to medicine and surgery. Recently an apparatus was added to the X-ray plant, which makes it possible for the radiologist to take stereoscopic views of these. There is now no X-ray work which cannot be undertaken at St. George's. Another addition to the equipment is a diathermy apparatus. It Mas felt that the name of the hospital's first patron should be commemorated, so Mr R. S. D. Harman was asked to draw up plans for a gateway at the Milford street entrance. His work had given a very attractive approach to the hospital from Papanui road. I ======= _