ST. HELEN’S HOSPITAL.
CLOSED AT, DUNEDIN. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 23. Established and opened 33 years ago by Richard John Seddon, the Prime Minister, St. Helen’s maternity hospital was officially closed on Saturday afternoon. It had performed valuable service to the motherhood of the city at a time when maternity welfare was in urgent need of improvement, but with the passage oi time and the advances made in the science of obstetrics its usefulness had come to an end and its operations have been taken over by the modern Queen Mary Maternity Hospital. Dr. Paget (Inspector of Hospitals) presided at the ceremony and the principal speaker was the Minister of Health (Hon. P. Fraser). A total of 5500 babies have been born in the precincts of the .hospital and another 1500 in the district during the time a district nurse has been operating, so that the institution been responsible .for the care of 7000 babies, while nearly 200 midwives have been trained.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 11
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199ST. HELEN’S HOSPITAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 11
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