A NEW HOSPITAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 10

A NEW HOSPITAL.

TREATMENT OP CONSUMPTION. [TIIE PRESS Special Serriee.] WELLINGTON, December 1. The formal opening of the new Ewart Tuberculosis Hospital took place this afternoon. Amongst those present were the chairman (Mr P. Castle), the members of the Wellington Hospital Board, Dr. H. Bayldon Ewen, medical superintendent, and members of the medical and nursing staffs. The new hospital, which cosr- £26,800, will accommodate 65 patients. Mr C. M. Luke, who has been associated : with hospital work in_ Wellington for the past fifty years, in declaring the new hospital open, spoke in eulogistic terms of the work of Dr. John Ewart, who was for twenty-one years medical superintendent, and who. he was pleased to say, was with them to-day as an honoured guest. Dr. John Ewart, in returning thanks for the complimentary remarks which had been made about his services, referred to the growth of the hospital from the time ho took charge in 1889 till his resignation in 1910. When be was appointed superintendent there was only accommodation for 80 patients; now there were 600 patients. In those days there were no specialists and there was no laboratory, and he himself was tho pathologist. The outpatient waiting-room was also the operating theatre.