INJURED SOLDIERS.
GYMNASIUM ADVOCATED. Provision of facilities for a physiotherapy gymnasium and equipment "wms urged in a letter which the Hospital Board received from the Director-Gen-eral of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, who referred to the treatment of injured soldiers when they returned to New Zealand. A suitably equipped gymnasium was stated to be necessary for orthopaedic treatment. Mr. G. T. Parvin considered that the cost should come from the War Fund. Mrs. M. M. Dreaver moved that the matter be referred to the Finance Committee. The chairman, Mr. Allan J. Moody, said the Army Department had been a law to iteelf, but the hospital boards intended to have some say in the treatment of the sick. The proper people to look after the soldiers were the hospital boards. It was necessary to hare an orthopaedic centre in Auckland, and later the men could be sent to convalescent camps, if necessary. If and when the proposed new 150-bed hospital, near the main hospital, wae started it would be a kind of floating hospital. The motion to refer the matter to the' Finance Committee was carried.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 227, 24 September 1940, Page 11
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185INJURED SOLDIERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 227, 24 September 1940, Page 11
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