AUXILIARY HOSPITAL
TEACHER'S COLLEGE TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC (P«r Pruss Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. To provide additional accommodation for soldiers suffering from influenza. the Auckland Teachers’ Training College at Epsom is to be taken over by the Health Department and equipped as an auxiliary hospital. This was announced by the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Mr. Allan J. Moody, at a meeting of the board last night. Mr. Moody said the influenza at the Papakura mobilisation camp was on the increase and drastic steps had been necessary to cope with the conditions. The emergency wards at the Ellerslie racecourse were becoming overcrowded. It was expected that 200 beds would be provided at the college. The emergency influenza hospital established last-week at the Ellerslie racecourse for the Papakura soldiers now spreads over the main grandstand, the St. Leger grandstand and the tea kiosk. The total number of cases yesterday was 416, of whom 410 were in the Auckland Hospital, the Auckland infirmary and at Ellerslie. It was expected that a further 60 cases would be transferred fronl the camp to-day.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20270, 11 June 1940, Page 4
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