PORT SAID HOSPITAL COLONEL M'GAVIN*S REPORT.
The Hon. James Allen has received from Port Said, from Colonel M'Gavin, who is in charge of the No. 1 Stationary New Zealand Hospital, information that the hospital has been pitched at Port Said. The site selected is on the sandy beach at Port Said, fronting the sea to the left of the large mole that skirts the entrance to the Canal. There are sixty-five tents, and each tent takes eight patients. There is also a large building adjacent, which is used in conjunction with the tents, and this contains thirtyeight beds, a dispensary, orderly room, operating and sterilising rooms, and officers' quarters.The situation, says Colonel M'Gavin, is one of the best obtainable. There is a fine and constant breeze blowing night and day, and in summer the climate is the best in Egypt. Twenty-nine New Zealand nurses had arrived, and their help was invaluable. During six weeks 700 patients had been admitted. The beach whereon the hospital is placed is the popular seaside resort of the Port Saiders.
News has been received in Wellington that Dr. James Mackintosh Bell, formerly Director of the Geological Survey Department in New Zealand, has been appointed a Ist captain in the 73rd Battalion, C.E.F, (Canadian Black Watch, sth Royal Highlander^
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 5
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213PORT SAID HOSPITAL COLONEL M'GAVIN*S REPORT. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 5
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