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CARING FOR SOLDIERS

TUBERCULOSIS CASES. "During my stay at Waikato," said the Hon. G. W. Russell to a reporier yesterday, "I visited Te Waikato Sanatorium at Cambridge, which is entirely devoted to consumptive cases. The urgent need for making further jirovision for consumptive soldiers has become so clamant that large extensions tj tho building at Te Waikato are now in the course of' completion. A large now ward is liow being furnished, and this will provide for S2O further soldier patients. A smaller'building is about to be erected and will provide lor another "0i and in addition to. this ten, single shelters are being erected in order that those cases which are more suitable for individual treatment may bo provided f° r -.' The work.. is; being 'proceeded; with rapidly, and the intention is that consumptive soldiers not already provided with accommodation should be taken in at onco; I anticipate that we shall be able to place twenty in Te Waikato Christmas. The institution is beautifully situated some five miles from Cambridge on the Maungakawa .Range. Every provision is made for the treatment of tho patients, of whom a number are women. While I was there I noticed with great pleasure women engaged in gardening, and the men in occupations suitable for them At the sanatorium there is an exceedingly line poultry farm, and the institution is run on most modern lines, providing not only treatment, but suitable occupations for the inmates."

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 11

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CARING FOR SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 11

CARING FOR SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 11

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