Cromwell Hospital

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2287, 4 March 1912, Page 5

Cromwell Hospital

The following is the inspector’s report on the above institution : Hon. Med. Staff: J. G. Hyde, M.B. L.E.C.P.S.; Stipendiary medical staff, George Morris, M.8., C.M, Matron : Annie Elliott. Localities from which patients came— Low burn 5, Nevis 3, Bannockburn 31, Timaru Station 1. Gibbston 3, Tarras 7, Cromwell 10, Pembroke 3. Quecnsberry 3, Luggate 1, Bendigo 1, Pisa Station 3, Queenstown 3. Visited I3th February, 1911. There were 0 patients—l males and 3 females. Of this number, 3 were proper hospital cases, the remainder being more suitable for accommodation in an Old People’s Home. A great change is noticeable in this Hospital since a registered nurse has been put in charge. I wrote to the local committee suggesting that the room now used for a ( linen-room might be conveniently converted into a small operating-room ; that the detached infectious-diseases ward might be converted into a maternity ward, for which some £IOO has been set apart. Such a ward would be a great boon to the district. The present matron {Hiss Elliott) is also a trained midwife. In place of the wardsman to help the Matron with the male patients, a competent woman should he appointed, the institution not being large enough to justify its being used as a training school for probationer nurses. The local committee and all concerned look after the little Hospital very well. There is a considerable decrease in cost per bed in every item.