SILVERSTREAM HOSPITAL
RETURN TO CIVILIAN USE Wellington, April 16 “Silverstream Hospital, Wellington now vacated by the United States’ forees. is likely to be utilised by the Wellington Hospital Board,” said the Minister 0 f Health (the Hon A H Nordmeyer) to-night. “It will not be suitable for the board’s purposes,” he added, ‘till certain alterations have' been carried out. Plans for these are now under consideration.” The Minister said that Wellington Hospital for some time had been seri ously overcrowded, the children’s health camp at Otaki having had to be made _ available for the use of the board’s long-term patients. The early opening of the Hutt Hospital, the com pietion 0 f an additional block at Wellington, and the acquisition of Silverstream, would mean that the Otaki health camp would shortly return to its Si 1 ?!" 81 pur P° se an d overcrowding in Wellington would be ended.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 2
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