A TRAINING HOSPITAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3110, 14 June 1917, Page 6

A TRAINING HOSPITAL

AT TAUHERENIKAU RACECOURSE.

A new scheme in connection with the training of men of the New Zealand Aledical Corps will como into operation tc~day, when 40 orderlies from Awapuni will go into camp at the Tauherenikau. racecourse for instruction in military hospital and nursing work. By the generosity of the Racing Club very complete and comfortable accommodation for patients and the medical and nursing staff has been provided. The new instructional camp and hospital will be in charge of Major Little, under tho general supervision of Major Graham Robertson, P.M.O. of Featherston Camp. The patients who will occupy the racecourse hospital will be those from the Tauherenikau segregation camp, fo/ whose use it will be entirely reserved. Among the many alterations which have been mado at tho Racing Club's expense, the totalisator bouse Ims been converted into a ward, containing 40 beds, and a system of hot water heating by radiators installed. Bathrooms and lavatories, duty rooms, aud cupboards havo also been provided. Tho medical officers' quarters are in the stewards' etand, while the nurses' rooms are in a separate building, having verandahs and all conveniences. In the largo grandstand the medical orderlies undergoing training will have comfortable quarters, the u.c.o.'s occupying a separate room. Tho largo dining-room below the stand will be used as a dining 'and lectnire room. The cloakroom has vbeen converted into a dispensary and office. In a smaller building are a pack store and stewards' store. In addition to these appointments the tearooms will lie fitted up for convalescents, when the patients begin to arrive;'at present there are none in sight. Bathroom and lavatories for the staff and men and a telephone connecting with the main camp hospital complete arrangements. The idea is for medical orderlies who have bad a month's training at Awapuni in squad and stretcher drill to proceed to .Tauliereailcan. where they will receive practical training in hospital work under efficient instruction. For this purpose anatomical exhibits and specimens are provided, and lectures and demonstrations will, together with the practical work, make up the men's day. There will be no fatigue done by them during their nionth at Tauherenikau. The first draft of orderlies reached Featherstou yesterday afternoon, and were sent out to their new quarters, l where they will begin their further training tn-day, The siirroiuidings of the new training hospital are most-pic-turesque, the lawns and trees making a picture of winter colourings. In the ward provided in the converted totalisator house, patients should be very comfortable, wliile as a Testfnl place fnr convalescents the hospital grounds would be difficult tn surpass.

"For this relief much thanks."— Shakespeare. Many peoplo of this district are thankful _ for rapid relief from chest and bronchial troubles through taking Baxter's Lung Preserver. Big bottle coste only Is. 10d.—Advt,