THE DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2147, 3 July 1920, Page 2

THE DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

HAD the Feilding Star conferred with its local Hospital Board representative, it would not have published the following:—"The Palmerston Hospital Trustees have in contemplation the expenditure of a sum of at least £2,000 in beautifying the hospital grounds in Palmerston. Before spending money upon the grounds, the trustees should see to first essentials first. To begin with, the X-ray studio is crude in the extreme. There should be a building in keeping with the hospital, there should be an easier and less painful way for subjects and patients to get into the radio room, instead of the present awkward stumbling-block steps, which make it a way of pain for men and women whose bones, are fractured." Our contemporary is apparently unaware of the fact that the present X-ray studio was a temporary arrangement to house the apparatus, pending the completion of the special up-to-date X-ray department in connection with the "Martin Memorial’’ wing of the hospital, now ready for occupation, and which is considered by medical experts one of the best appointed and equipped in the Dominion. First essentials have been first in the Board’s scheme, as will be manifested at the opening ceremony of the new buildings next Wednesday week. So far as the expenditure of £2,000 for beautifying the hospital grounds is concerned, we can assure the Star this sum was not allocated to the exclusion of any essential hospital detail. Any one who knows the unlovely surroundings of the hospital will endorse the Board's action in an expenditure of £2,000 in a beautifying scheme which will help to brighten the life of inmates during convalescence.