HOSPITAL ANNEXE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17212, 14 July 1919, Page 4

HOSPITAL ANNEXE.

♦ IMPROVEMENTS TO BUILDINGS MATERIAL FROM ENGLAND. — ! UP-TO-DATE APPLIANCES. A number of improvements are being effected to the Hospital Annexe, which will now be known as the Auckland Military Hospital, and to the charge of which Colonel T. Mill, N.Z.M.C, has been appointed. There are at present about 180 soldiers in the hospital. An up-to-date operating theatre has been established, which will be specially well lighted, and is conveniently adjacent to the anesthetic chamber and dressing' rooms. There ie also a special X-ray room and a developing room. Cases of surgical materia! are arriving by every transport and hospital ship from Brackenhurst, Walton-on-lhanies, and other New Zealand hospitals in England. The massage department is being provided with special quarters, and the equipment includes some " Bristowe " tables, which are so designed as to give combined massage and electric treatment. Various new appliances are expected for this department, A suite of rooms is being devoted to the electrical bath treatment, ' and the appliances will be similar to those used in Major-General Sir Robert Jones's | military nospital at Shepherd's Bush, near London. Numerous douche, needle, and whirlpool baths are being installed, with attendant dressing-rooms. There is also a set of three rooms for plaster work in connection with the setting of limb*. A large gymnasium, with special apparatus designed to give exercise to stiffened muscles, is Being arranged. Waiting rooms have been provided for the use of out-patients, and additional accr mmodation has been made for the nursing staff. On the side of vocational training and amusement, a new workshop and general arts and crafts room is nearly completed. This room is the gift of Mrs. K. Burcher, of Remuera, in memory of her youngest son, V. G. Burcher. A tablet states that the room is being provided for out of the proceeds of the art union of Mrs. Burcher's copy of Blair Leighton's study ir oils, " In Time of Peril." Next door there is a comfortable lounge room, with books and periodicals, and a piano and a gramaphone. In another part of the building a small stage is being erected for the numerous concerts that are civen, and there is a movement to establish a bi-weekly picture show. ' ' Miss Avling, who is in charge of the basket-making and general art work undertaken by the patients, states that out of some fifty men who are doing this work ! not more than twelve do it as a part of j their set training. All the other? worked for love of it. and their work compared very favourably with that done bv professionals. " ' i