MATERNITY HOSPITAL
PROPOSAL IN DUNEDIN RECOMMENDATION OF SITE [by telegraph OWN* correspondent] DUNEDIN. Wednesday A recommendation will be made to tho Hospital Board to-morrow night th&t two sections of land in Castle Street be acquired, subject to the approval of the Minister of Health, as a site for the proposed maternity hospital, and that tho Government be asked to erect the hospital on this site. The site adjoins the nurses' home and public hospital and is near enough to the main building to admit of steam, heat, food, etc., being supplied from it. The establishment of the maternity hospital on such a site should admit of a reduction of overhead expenses to the minimum.
It is estimated by the Hospital Board's architect that tho cost of a hospital, with 27 beds, for which tentative plans have been drawn, will not, under present conditions, exceed £25,000. Consequently, it is considered that the Government is afforded an opportunity at a very moderate expenditure of redeeming its promise to the women of Now Zealand in respect to midwifery training.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21578, 24 August 1933, Page 10
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