FIRE IN WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY.
100 PATIENTS REMOVED TO SAFETY. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. A fire at West Ham workhouse Infirmary at midnight imperilled one hundred aged and bedridden patients. While the infirmary’s volunteer brigade was fighting the flames, the master of the workhouse, attired in pyjamas, directed the removal of the patients by the nurses, who as calmly as if it were the ordinary routine, removed all to safety.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2715, 24 June 1925, Page 7
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81FIRE IN WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2715, 24 June 1925, Page 7
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