EMERGENCY HOSPITAL.
ACCOMMODATION FOR TROOPS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 6.. To cope with the influenza epidemic which has broken out at the Papakura camp an emergency hospital was created in a few hours to-day at the Ellerslie racecourse. Two residfent doctors from the Auckland Hospital staff, nurses and V.A.D.’s, and a corps of telephonists, clerks, orderlies and cooks will take charge to-morrow, when, the first of the 250 beds being prepared will be- occupied. By 9 aim. it is expected' SO soldiers will. have been" made comfortable in warm and spacious wards provided by , the stewards’ and the members’ diningrooms iii the main grandstand. By the evening about 125 will be accommodated in t-lie racecourse buildings. The Auckland Hospital and the Epsom Infirmary have reached the stage where more men can be admitted only when others have been discharged. The Hotel Cargen. long one of Auckland s leading hotels, was placed . at the disposal of the Auckland Hospital Board to-day for free use as a hospital for the duration of the war. The offer ' vas made by Sir Ernest Davis on behalf of himself and his brother, Hon. Eliot Davis, and was cordially accepted by the chairman (Mr A. Moody.)
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 161, 7 June 1940, Page 2
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201EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 161, 7 June 1940, Page 2
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