LEWISHAM HOSPITAL APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 44, 30 August 1928, Page 14

LEWISHAM HOSPITAL APPEAL

The committees which have been working to raise funds for the building of the Lewisham Hospital will bring thoir efforts to a close to-morrow with a street day appeal to the public and a sale o£ goods from stalls erected in various parts of the city. The hospital is being built on about iYs acres of land in Ilintoul street, and it will be completed by the end of the year and opened early next year by the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, generally known as the Blue Nuns, or Lewisham Sisters. The hospitals already established and conducted by these sisters in Sydney and other cities in Australia, and at Chrißtchurch, have earned the highest praise for efficiency from the medical profession in Australia and Neiv- Zealand, as well as from the celebrated surgeons, Mays Brothers, of New York. They eater for all classes in the community, and among the noble achievements of. these hospitals is the gratuitous services they are able to render to the sick poor by virtue of tho large number of paying patients who take advantage of their acknowledged nursing skill and devotion jto their profession. Tho committee invite the public to contribute .-cenerotislx to thisv-caiifie,.