FRENCH HOSPITAL COMEDY
SOLDIERS’ SICK LEAVE. \ • . , PARIS, August IS. A model hospital was recently built in a. small provincial town. It has just been opened, and the opening cere mouy was as “model” as the building i.still—just how much so, liowevcr was only revealed to-day. When the hospital was completed the proudest claims were made for it; in its architecture it embodied t ( he very latest ideas; from the scientific point of view it was perfectly and most modernly equipped. The wards were decorated in colours so'gay that no patient lying in one of them could fail to be cheered. But patients—ah, yes. Somebody realised that, (he opening day was soon Io arrive, and so far no invalids had been brought, to the hospital. A high Government official had promised to come from Paris for tiie ceremony. The hospital authorities grew anxious; it would be awkward, to say the least ,if he found unoccupied all the beds in this so-costly building. But till came right in the end. By the opening day not one or two, but everyone of the beds was occupied The Government official congratulated ' i.he Mayor of the town and the hospital authorities on the carrying out of a
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1933, Page 2
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