The provision, for acute cases only, of a modern hospital of 200 beds, capable of future extension to 500 beds, is seen by Sir James Elliott as the first and most important step toward solving Wellington’s hospital problem. Chronic, convalescent and other nonacute cases should, he believes, be accommodated in more cheaply built and run institutions, and a wooden hospital of 100 beds, costing not more than £lOOO a bed, should be built in the Hutt Valley. Other suggestions made by Sir James are that the community system should be applied to a section of the beds in the acute hospital, and that the home nursing system should be organised and developed to improve the health of the community and thus reduce the number of prospective hospital patients.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 6
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