FOR CONVALESCENT CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2210, 24 July 1914, Page 8

FOR CONVALESCENT CHILDREN

PUBLIC APPEAL FOR A NEW HOME. Wellington is to have a new Convalescent Home for At present Wellington lias in connection with the General Hospital an especially. good Children's Hospital and a moclern Infectious Diseases Hospital (where children are treated), but there is no place, healthily situated, .to which children on the road to recovery can bo sent. They still have to sleep in tTie wards •with children who liave not reached the convalescent stage. A special committee appointed by the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to. go into the matter submitted suggestions to the board at its meeting yesterday: That Messrs. F. Castle, D. M'Laren, and the chairman form a, "Literature Committee" in connection with a campaign for raising funds for the establishment of a Convalescent Home for Children, and that the Hospital Saturday and Sunday collections' for this object take place on September 12 and 13 next. The Mayors, and chairmen of the local contributing bodies should be invited to co-operate and have committees formed, to further the cause, and all societies, councils, unions, etc!, circularised and invited to send' representatives on a Central Committee which would meet at least once a week. It was further suggested that a deputation comprising Dr. Platts-Mills, Mrs. D. M'Laren, and the chairman .should wait upon the Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke, to arrange for a, meeting of ladies in the Mayor's roam at the earliest opportunity.

The' suggestions were adopted without discussion. ' ,