FOR SICK CHILDREN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 900, 20 August 1910, Page 5

FOR SICK CHILDREN.

TEMPORARY USE OF INFECTIOUS '.■ ;:. . DISEASES'/HOSPITAL. '■ • All the .recent. criticism which, has been . inade'of' .the unsatisfactory condition of the- present' children's ward in connection with the hospital is having a moving effect on the powers that be, who, to do them justice, have been seriously hampered through lack of funds. . The new . Infections Diseases' Hospital is now witbin three -weeks of completion (the contract time is up on September 15), and the question is now under consideration whether part of it, at any rate, should he used for'the purposes of a children's ward. Some- ■ such arrangement will have, perforce,to be made, as the present wooden building will have to be demolished to make way for the '-now one, and the children will have to be accommodated comfortably whilst the building operations are. in progress.. It is suggested to the; hospital committee o!' the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that tho : work of furnishing part .of the now structure be pressed on with, at once, ' in order that, the children may bo given a' fair chalice iii wholesome surroundings in the' strugglu against diseasß and death.