SIGNS OF SAGGING
FLOORS IN HOSPITAL TWO WARDS AFFECTED WAIKATO INVESTIGATIONS [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday Reports that the floors of the Douglas and Rothwell wards at the Waikato Hospital had shown indications of sagging have been received bv the hospital board. The defect was reported to the Health Department by the board's architects, Messrs. Edgecumbe and White. A technical adviser to the department inspected the buildings, and following his report the Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, advised the board to engage a structural engineer to report on a remedy for the trouble. The board decided to employ Mr. J. R. Baird, assistant engineer to the Hamilton Borough Council, whose services were, made available by the council. The chairman of the board, Mr. J. J. Ryburn, said yesterday that Mr. Baird had not yet submitted his report, and it was not known whether the remedial measures to be taken would involve the evacuation of the wards. The board had been assured that there was no immediate danger of the floors giving way. and that there was no occasion for patients to feel anxious. The Douglas and Rothwell wards were built about 10 years ago.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22616, 2 January 1937, Page 8
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