Sickness at Timaru.
HOSPITAL NURSES HAVE TO
SLEEP IN TENTS.
By Tolegraph—Press Association,
Timaru, last night. The Timaru Hospital is at present taxod to its utmost capacity. So great has been tho demand for accommodation that some of tho nurses havo voluntarily givon up their quarters, and aro now being accommodated in tents. There is no epidemic, tho cases under treatment being of a miscellaneous nature. Tho Board let a contract to-day for additions and alterations to tho nurses’ quarters and fever wards, to cost about 113500.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 506, 20 August 1902, Page 3
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