2000 CASES AT LOWER HUTT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 140, 10 December 1918, Page 7

2000 CASES AT LOWER HUTT

REFERENCES AT COUNCIL

MEETING

After the ordinary 1; of ' tha Lower Hutt Borough Council had been; transacted last eyening, th« Mayjorl (Mivi E. P. Risliwarth) referred: to the noblaj "work'done by'the voluntary ■workers in^ connection with the outbreak of the epi-j demic. Words, he said, failed him toff" adequately thank them. The Sisters of| the Mission of the Convent-did eicelleiitt ■work, and were always ready to visits the siok, regardless of creed. The small-, ness of the death .rate was. due to the* grand work done by the voluntary "work-i era. _ They were all under a debt ow gratitude to His. Cameras, a, trained! nurse," who ably took charge. She was) assisted by the Phmket nurse, who did" faithful service. The ambulance woTk-4 ers, especially Mr. Toswill, stood up toi itheir duty in. a pleasing manner. Ttarel were 2000 cases in the borough and'| Taita district, and all received proper; attention. There were 33 cases admiM ted to the temporary hospital establish-^ ed in the Lyceum HaH, lent free by Mr-* H. M. Fayward. Of that- number, l'fi were dangerous cases, five in, a^sfcate off, . extremis. > Eigh£ deaths took place abi the hospital,'"the total deaths for theif town anil district being 18. He moved :i "That the executive of the Influenza* Belief Committee Oeeiie to thank thef: voluntary anises of the temporary hos-i pifcal under Mrs. Cameron, who so ablyj' took charge; Colonel J. R. Puijdy,,B.A.-« M.C./who attended the hospital andf assisted the efforts of the executive to« give outside advice; Mr». W. H. Rua-». sell, who directed the hospital kitchen' and cooking arrangements; ladies of thef Sisters of'the Miasioh, who paid house-? tojhouse visite and helped; the outeid«| visitors- and distributing- workers aiK»| those who supplied hospital and invalid^ comforts; the voluntary assistance: f mint motor-car owners, donors of food sup-» plies, and other gifts; the Boy Scouts^ the, men who helped with the' ambul-* ance; Mr. H. M. Jffayward for loan o§ Lyceum Hall; Djs. G. E. Anson, C. M. Hector, and G. H. Mirams, and Hon, Dr. Pomare; the efficient medical order* lies under Sergeant Dann, and the manyf others who so williiigly gave their ser-« vifies." ■■' . . . .: y - ■>.. Councillor M'Dougall on bdialf of the counciltorfl conveyed to the Mayor them appreciation of the way he had* carried out his duties during the crisis. The motion, was carried.