HOSPITAL CARRIES ON
While thousands of racegoers were pleasure bent at the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meeting on Saturday, and the preceding Saturday, there were 180 servicemen patients in the Wellington Hospital Board’s emergency hospital in the main lawn stand. The hospital occupies what was formerly the members’ luncheon room and the downstairs tea-room. The rule in the hospital for the two race days was that all patients remain in bed and the hospital was closed to the outside. Most of the cases are mild influenza, a few only being severe. There are also 34 measles cases. Whatever excitement of the crowds on the course and in the stand above was transmitted to the patients, they are reported to have, suffered, no ill effects, but to those among the patients who are racegoers, and who were well enough to .be interested, it must have been galling to have been so near and yet so far from active participation in the day’s sport.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20836, 15 July 1942, Page 5
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