Waipiata Sanatorium
The sanatorium, which is under the control of the combined southern hospital boards, has now been started under the new staff, Dr. Kidd being in change, with Sister Elizabeth Wilson as matron and Nurses Annie Aiken and Mabel. Tayler as staff, with two probationers. Sister Wilson writes it was just like active service days, arriving with the array of boxes, trunks, and portmanteaux, and they were back to the early days of candles and lamps.
Nurse Aiken had been out shooting rabbits for dinner. Soon the new buildings will be erected, and a very up-to-date sanatorium will be opened. In the meantime the conditions of living are somewhat primitive, and owing to the cold weather and severe frosts the water is often frozen. The roads are bad and everything is brought up in Lorries, which sometimes get bogged. In spite of disadvantages, the nursing staff look forward with interest to the working xip and organisation of the new sanatorium.
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1923, Page 127
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161Waipiata Sanatorium Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1923, Page 127
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