FIRE IN MENTAL HOSPITAL
PATIENTS’ DINING-ROOM DESTROYED U'BE.SS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, July 26. A lire of considerable proportions occurred at the Seacliff Mental Hospital just before 5 o’clock this morning. completely destroying the diningroom used for some 50 patients. It was a wooden building. Fortunately, it was completely detached from the main building, and there was no panic among the patients. It was in the female patients’ dining-room that the fire originated, one of the oldest buildings in the institution, It was situated in the courtyard, and at one stage threatened one wing of ihe main building. The alarm bell of the institution brought assistance from the township, so that, with the warders, there were some 60 fire-fighters available. There is an effective water supply with 601b pressure, rnd the outbreak was under control in 20 minutes.
Some women patients nearest the Are were alarmed, but most of the patients were not aware of the outbreak. This is only the third fire at the hospital in 30 years.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 4
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