HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—The question of Hospital accommodation is at the present time very much in the public mind, and I feel that the most necessary point is being quite overlooked. There is no children's eye ward and all children, boys and girls of all ages from infants upwards, are housed in the adult eye ward.
From personal experience, 1 can assure the public and the Hospital Board that the situation is impossible for the adults and utterly unfair to the children. It is only to be expected that as the children improve in health, they should also recover their usual healthy spirits, and sick women need peace. Surely a separate room can be provided for the kiddies. There is a room attached to the ward which could with very little expense be made available. That was stated quite openly\ while 1 was in hospital. How the sisters and nurses of that ward carry on amazes me, Adults and children receive the same treatmentall are patients to them, but in addition they have to put Up with -the complaints of adults who want peace, and children whose fun must be restricted in a mixed ward. And I understood that is the only ward in the Wellington Hospital .housing both adults and children. -
The position, Sir,, needs immediate attention, and on that account, I beg
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 8
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