CARE OF THE SICK.
HOSPITAL ARRANGEMENT IN THE LONG AGO. The first public hospital site in the Borough was that square block off North Street, which is bounded on the west side by Craigie Avenue, on the south by Heaton Street, on the east by Rose Street, and on the north by North Street. There was a gully in this block, which was found unsuitable for the hospital purposes, and the present hospital site off High and Queen Streets (which originally formeu part of the block which had been set apart for a public park) was chosen, since which time buildings which have cost, in the aggregate, about £IOO,OOO, have been erected. The building which were first erected must have represented bold enterprise on the part of those who were responsible for their erection. The Public Hospital system of South Canterbury is representative of the general hospital scheme of tne Dominion, and is quite as good here as elsewhere. The administrative body here is the South Canterbury Hospital Board, with offices in Timaru,- and there are subsidiary hospitals at Waimato, Fairlie, and Geraldine, while at the present time the erection of a maternity hospital at Temuka is contemplated. The Public Hospital was founded in the ’sixties. The Board is progressive in its views, and jealous of the standing of the institutions which are under its control. Timaru Hospital has accommodation for about 150 patients, and in addition it has extensive outpatient-, dental, and X-Ray departments. Isolation is provided in a modern brick block in the hospital grounds, and in addition to- this the Board have erected a scarlet-fever hospital of nineteen beds on the outskirts of the town. The Nurses’ Home, in the grounds'of the main hospital, is a fine two-storied building, probably the most up-to-daee institutional home in the Dominion. There is a comfortable Home lor old people, who have , found it impossible to provide for their declining years, this being of brick, situated off Otipua Road. .Tt has accommodation for sixty inmates. - Minor services of the Board provide for ambulance transport; and frceulental treatment for all children attending state schools.
A Canadian farmer who first reached his, present homestead by ox-cart in a journey of 21 days, has made the same journey in an hour and a-half by
CARE OF THE SICK.
Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18008, 13 July 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)
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