The New Zealand Hospital

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 1 July 1915, Page 139

The New Zealand Hospital

War Office Sanction Obtained

House at Walton-on-Thames.

London, 9th June.

The New Zealand War Contingent Association have had to abandon the idea of a convalescent home for wounded New Zealand soldiers, because the War Office has now decided that all such institutions must be under the military administration. The association, therefore, with the consent of the War Office, resolved to open an auxiliary hospital, and, after much consideration, their choice fell on Mount Felix, at Walton-on-Thames, about seventeen miles from London. The house overlooks the river, and is enclosed in beautifully laidout grounds of about twenty acres. It has recently done duty as a depot for the Honorable Artillery Company. The building itself is on two floors, and contains about thirty large and lofty rooms. On the ground floor is a very large recep-tion-room, which will be used for secretarial offices and visitors, and can be turned

into a concert hall when desired. The rooms on the ground floor will contain about forty-five beds. Upstairs is a long central corridor, with rooms on either side. All these rooms lead into one another, so that by taking down the communicating doors there will be practically one long ward on either side of the corridor. It is arranged that here shall be the operating theatre, sterilising room, and X-ray department, etc. On both floo s are bathrooms and lavatories. At the end of the long corridor is attached a building which will be converted into an observation hospital, and contains about five rooms. Detached, and at some distance from the main building, are the stables, over which there are six rooms and two kitchens. This building will be used as an isolation hospital. Miss Tombe (Dunedin) has been appointed matron. — "Evening Post."