CROWDED HOSPITAL
PATIENTS IN MARQUEES
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
DARGAVILLE, This Day.
, Accommodation at the Northern Wairoa Hospital at Te Kopuru has fallen so far short of requirements that two large marquees have been purchased at a cost of-approximately £52 and will be erected in front of the main institution within a. few days. The marquees, one of which will be set aside for women and the other for men, will accommodate at least six beds in each; and it is intended to use these for convalescent patients.
The period for which this temporary accommodation will be required is indefinite, but it is hoped to avoid its use durjng the winter months. The marquees will be fitted with electricity, while they will have wooden walls extending to a height of 4ft and wooden flooring suitably covered.
Accommodation at the hospital has now been fully taxed for at least, six months. At least 30 persons have waited for months for operations, and it is chiefly on this account that, the Kaipara Hospital Board decided to provide marquees.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 11
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177CROWDED HOSPITAL Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 11
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