Christchurch Hospital
Sir, —Your leading article on the rebuilding of the Christchurch Hospital brings to mind a letter you printed from me regarding hospital ventilation. On April 25, 1936, under the nom-de-plume “Concerned,” I mentioned cases of patients, after operations and doing well, who caught pneumonia, apparently from open windows. You submitted my letter to Dr W. Fox, at that time superintendent, who replied thus: “In England and Europe where the atmosphere is dusty and smoky the air is filtered, washed, and heated before it [is circulated through the I buildings. However, we have ; nothing of that kind in this : country.” Do the plans for i the new hospital provide for |an up-to-date ventilation sysi tern like the one Dr Fox spoke of 34 years ago—Yours, etc., H. H. NICHOLAS. March 15, 1970.
[Dr L. C. L. Averill, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, replies: “Mr Nicholas can be assured that the new buildings to be erected at Christchurch Hospital have been designed in accordance with modern ventilation standards. Special units will be fully air-condi-tioned.”!
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32251, 20 March 1970, Page 14
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176Christchurch Hospital Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32251, 20 March 1970, Page 14
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