NEW CAMP HOSPITALS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2954, 14 December 1916, Page 6

NEW CAMP HOSPITALS

BIG SCHEME AT TRENTHAM

ADDITION TO DENTAL HOSPITAL,

A comprehensive hospital-building scheme is oeing carried out at Trentliam on the ground between the hutments and the railway and adjoining the present hospitals. When it is completed, the wholo of the hospital staffs and work will be centralised iii that area.

The largest and most important of the new buildings is the fever hospital, which will consist of two wards, each in a separato building, and equipped with 28 beds. AVide verandahs arc provided for, and the wards will be well lighted and airy, and fitted with all modern conveniences. In another building will be the Nurses Home, wiiich will accommodate six nurses, while accommodation is also being built for from 20 to 25 orderlies. A disinfecting room is an indispensable adjunct, while the hospital will have its own kitchen, fumigating sheds, laundry, linen stores, baths, and drainage. Being a fever hospital, it must bo self-contained, and very thorough arrangements are beiug made to secure this. The buildings will bo finished before the January races at Trenthain, so that when the patients are moved from the racecourse grounds they will go into the new wards and remain there.

Another large ward will be that for which a sum of £1000 has been donated by the "Wellington Racing Club. It will be a separate building situated near the Wairarapa Ward, and will resemble a large hutment in'its general plan. Tho interior fittings will be very complete, and will provide for about 25 patients. There will be three rooms, or wards, and a broad verandah. Each room will have a fireplace. Latrines and lavatories will be provided. A large central ldtchen to serve all the hospitals, except the fever hospital, is included in the plans, while the officer of the P.M.O. and staff will be built near at hand. A zino sulphite inhaling room, where men will undergo the inhaling treatment for sore throats will be built, also a. bacteriological lar boratory for throat swabbing and examination,

The last two buildings mentioned.will greatly facilitate the work of the medical staffs. It may he stated that the inhaling treatment referred to was first successfully used in New Zealand at Trentham under the direction of the P.M.0., Lieut.-Colonel Andrews. The throat swabbing process is also one that occupies a prominent place in the medical system of the camp. Every man who enters camp as a recruit, or on returning from extended leave, has to undergo the treatment, and the resulting examination under the microscope, decides whether he is free from contagion or not. The new block of buildings _ will be in full occupation and working order before next winter. More space is being provided in the Dental Hospital, a new wing 80 feet long being added, in which will be a separate room for, extractions and anaesthetic work, while the cither space will allow of the reorganising and rearranging of the dental hospital work.