PUBLIC HOSPITAL
USE AS INFIRMARY
THE BOARD’S DECISION
The overcrowding at the Public Hospital in Dee street, which has been brought up at recent meetings of the Southland Hospital Board, has raised the question whether the accommodation at the new hospital at Kew will be sufficient for the number of patients seeking admittance. It has now been decided by the Hospital Board to retain the present hospital as an infirmary when the new hospital is opened. The question was discussed in committee at the last board meeting, when it was decided to follow out the suggestions embodied in a report by the medical superintendent, Dr L. C. McNickle.
In his report for August, received at the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday, Dr McNickle stated that the hospital had been even more overcrowded than in the previous month. During the school holidays it had been impossible to admit any tonsil cases.
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Southland Times, Issue 22998, 18 September 1936, Page 8
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