EMERGENCY HOSPITALS
ACCOMMODATION FOR SOLDIER PATIENTS. USE OF THE ANZAC HALL AT FEATHERSTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the direction of the Department of Health, conveyed by a letter from the Director-General, Dr. M. H. Watt, the Wellington Hospital Board today decided to vacate parts of the Wellington Racing Club’s buildings at Trentham, which have been used fox’ the accommodation of sick soldiers from the Trentham Camp, and to proceed with the erection of an emergency block of a hundred beds at the Lower Hutt Hospital, now in course of erection. This will bring the bed accommodation at Lower Hutt to 410, including 210 permanent, and two emergency blocks of 100 beds each. In the meantime, soldier patients are to be accommodated in the Anzac Hall. Featherston. This hall is not at present equipped for their reception. The Trentham Racecourse Hospital is to be vacated before the October meeting of the Wellington Racing Club.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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156EMERGENCY HOSPITALS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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