PLIMMERTON

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 8

PLIMMERTON

■ After - a grave and anxious three weeks, Plimmerton is now almost free, and the temporary hospital there was closed down on Saturday. ■ Before it was opened, there was much serious sickness in the district, and six Maoris and one white man had succumbed. As soon as the Rev. W. M. Walton, vicar of Pahautanui, became aware of the gravity of the situation, he threw open his church and secured the use of the adjoining school from Mr. W. Barlow, also as a temporary hospital, and immediately organised a staff under the charge of Mrs. M. M. Carpenter. In all, fourteen patients were treated, of whom one died. 11 have been discharged cured, one was taken to Wellington and died there, and another is still in hospital in Wellington. Many critical cases were attended to in privates homes by voluntary workers, and medicines and food distributed. Mr. ■Walton, in his efforts to fight the epidemio left his home at Pjiremata, and went to live in Plimmerton. Most valuable work was also done by the lady helpers.