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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1918, Page 1

People are sent to the hospital for many complaints and to have many things done to them, but it is unusual for anyone to be sent there to have a bath. It is reported that this occurred recently at New Ylymouth. A man and his wife, who lived in the country, were reported as suffering from influenza. On investigation it was found that they had recovered and were again well in body, but that the house wanted a thorough cleansing. The inmates also admitted that they had not had a bath for 16 years. They were packed off to the hospital, and thence to a convalescent horns'. At the hospital each was given a bath. A returned soldier took the man in hand—and for the rest of the day went about exclaiming: "You ought to have seen his knees." When the nurse led the wife towards a bath she looked at it and said, "My! This is going to be an experience." This, at least, is what is reported to have occurred.