HOSPITAL VISIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 7

HOSPITAL VISIT

CITY COUNCILLORS In response to an invitation from the chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board, Mr. J. Glover, members of the City Council visited the hospital yesterday afternoon to obtain firsthand information as to the crowded state of the hospital and the need for extensions. . The inspection occupied two hours,; visits being paid to the main wards, the nurses' quarters, the laundry, stores, and boiler-house. The chairman and the superintendent of the<hospital, Dr. A. R. Thorne, outlined the proposals for extending the hospital and the nurses' quarters.. : ' : The overcrowding continues to be serious. In the general hospital yesterday afternoon there were 175 patients in excess of the number who should have been accommodated, and in addition twenty-five patients were accommodated at the Central Park Hospital! (formerly the Ohiro Home) for the time being. The daily number of inpatients for January, 1938, was fifty im excess of that for January, 1937, the average for the month being 694. V Members of the Lower Hutt Borough , Counpil visited the Hospital last week, and a visit is; also to be made by members of the Petone Borough Council.