PATIENT HONOURED
—Press Association.
First Case at Waikato Hospital in 1887
By Telegraph
HAMILTON, This Day. The first in-patient to be treated: at the Waikato Hospital when it was established 50 years ago, Mr J. J. Daley, of Pirongia, wlio is still hale and hearty, was the recipient of a presentation made by the board to-day. It was on May 17, 1887, when Daley as a young man had two fingers on his riglit hand amputated. There was only one doctor and one nurse on the staff theu. Now thoro are 237 nurses.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 5
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93PATIENT HONOURED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 5
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