TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.
OPENING IN WELLINGTON.
ROOM FOR 65 PATIENTS.
[Bi TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Monday.
Tho formal opening of the new Ewart Tuberculosis Hospital took placo this afternoon. Tho hospital, which cost £26,800, will accommodate 65 patients. Mr. C. M. Luke, a member of the Wellington Hospital Board, who has been associated, with hospital work in Wellington for .the past 50 years, declared the institution open. , , ...
Mr. Luko spoko in eulogistic terms of the work of Dr. John Ewart, who was for 21 years medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, and who was present at tho ceremony. In returning thanks Dr. Ewart referred to the growth of the hospital from the time he took charge, in 1889 until fiis resignation in 1910. He said that when ho was appointed there was accommodation for only 80 patients. Now there were 600 patients.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20736, 2 December 1930, Page 12
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141TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20736, 2 December 1930, Page 12
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