HOSPITAL AT ROTORUA
COMBINED SERVICES PLANNED.
CLOSING ORTHOPAEDIC SECTION.
By Telegraph.—Prose Association.
Auckland, Dec. 17.
As soon as finance is available,, action will be taken to. combine the hospital, and allied services at said the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy,, when outlining the reasons for closing the orthopaedic section of the King George V. Hospital at Rotorua.
'Being practically a tourist base, Rotorua ejiould have hospital facilities of an appropriate standard. A scheme had been approved under which an up-to-date sanatorium would be built at Rotorua under proper tourist conditions with hydrotherapy and special baths. It was the one place where a properlyrun institution should be self-support-ing. The King George V. Hospital would not be closed and it was not proposed to close the orthopaedic section -summarily. Some children would remain until their treatment had been completed, others would be transferred to hospitals in their own districts and some would return home.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 11
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