WELLINGTON HOSPITAL.
NEAV EMERGENCY AYARDS. Per Press Association. AA'EL LINGTON, Feb. 20. 1 ho first stop toward the realisation of the ANellington Hospital Board’s | long deferred building scheme, the I erection ol emergency wards to cost between £1.2,000 and' £13.000, is now in progress. The building is expected to lie ready for occupation by June. Pending the erection of a tiew acute block the wards will be used to accommodate fifty lemale surgical patients, relieving congestion elsewhere. Later they will he used in emergencies and as a change of wards when others are being renovated. Tlie building will he 22.'i feet long by 41. feet deep and will contain 12 four-bed and one two-hod wards. In addition to tho usual services a contract for the erection of a boilerhouse to cost about £20.000 has also been let. The new boiler-house will house the plant generating all the steam required for the whole group of hospital building*.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 21 February 1939, Page 13
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156WELLINGTON HOSPITAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 21 February 1939, Page 13
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