SICK SOLDIERS FROM TRENTHAM
TO BE ACCOMMODATED AT LOWER lII'TT EMERGENCY BLOCK TO BE ERECTED Wellington, This Day. At the direction of the Department of Health, conveyed by a letter of the j Director-General, Dr. Watt, the Wellington Hospital Board to-day decided to vacate parts of the Wellington Racing Club’s buildings at Trentham which have been used for the accommodation of sick soldiers from Trentham camp ( and to proceed with the erection of an j emergency block of 100 beds at Lover i Hutt Hospital now in course of erection. This will bring the bed accommodation at Lower Hutt to 410. including 210 permanent and two emergency blocks of 100 beds each. In the meantime soldier patients are to be accommodated in Anzac Hall. Featherston. This hall is not at present equipped for their reception. Trentham racecourse hospital is to be vacated before the October meeting of the Wellington Racing Club.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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