PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL.
RECORD FOR AUCKLAND.
THE ACCOMMODATION TAXED.
The Auckland Hospital at the week-end accommodated 626 patients, and there were 40 more on the waiting list. This is regarded as a record, although when the military annexe was in existence in the later part of the war period and immediately after the total number of patients, soldiers and civilians, was greater. Admissions and discharges now average 40 daily. The present total includes 49 cases of diphtheria and 31 of scarlet fever.
"The diphtheria patients are occupying space originally intended for only 40 persons," said Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Hospital Board, yesterday. "It is possible we shall have to put patients into the old wooden medical wards, Nos. 11 and 12, which have been out of use for a long time, and which we hoped never to use again."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 8
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