WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AT NEW PLYMOUTH. The Taiunaki Hospital Board has received the following telegram from the Health Department:—"The department is advised that by the s.s. Tofua and s.s. Willochra, due to arrive at Port ' Chalmers during the last week in October, there is a total number of 240 eases requiring hospital treatment in the Dominion on,arrival. Please wire collect the number of beds in your Board's institution that can be placed at the disposal of the returned sick and wounded soldiers on or about that date." The chairman (Mr. F. C. .1. Bellrinjferl lias replied as follows:- "The present hospital is overcrowded, hut can cope with normal local requirements. If necessary can. hmvuver. place .at your disposal new hospital unfurnished and imstafl'ed as a military hospital until the end of the war. A number of our medical and nursing stall' are now at the front, and we cannot assist in this direction. If you consider taking over new hospital please send representative to confer with us and to make final arrangements."
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 6
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173WOUNDED SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 6
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