H.B. HOSPITALS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 182, 1 May 1931, Page 11

H.B. HOSPITALS

25 Beds at Hastings NAPIER RESTORATION Dominion Special Service. Hastings, April 30. The Hastings Racecourse Hospital is to be evacuated at the earliest possible moment, the patients being removed to the Hastings Memorial Hospital, where temporary accommodation is to be built for 25 extra eases. This decision was arrived at by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board as a result of recommendations which were put forward by Dr. Shore, of the Health Department. The proposal to erect a nurses' home on the site of the late Jellicoe Ward at the Napier Hospital was held over by the department in the meantime, this information causing some concern to the members of the board, which finally decided to express to the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, its keen disappointment at his failure to adopt the recommendations in regard to the home, and to request that he, acompanied by bis departmental officers, visit Napier to go into the whole question of the' re-estab-lishment of the Napier Hospital. The demolition of the damaged buildings at the Napier Hospital and the clearing up of the debris is shortly to be undertaken, the board’s own men being uswi to salvage the materials which are still of use, while the remainder of the work will be carried out under the Unemployment Board's No. 5 scheme.