NEW LABORATORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1943, Page 4

NEW LABORATORY

PROPOSED AT MASTERTON HOSPITAL. In reply to a letter from the Department of Health, received at today’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, asking for a statement of proposed capital expenditure for the year, ending March 31, 1944, it was decided/ to provide the sum of £7OO, amongst others, for capital works, for a new laboratory at the Masterton Hospital. Mrs S. Fletcher said that on visiting the'hospital in the past month or two she had looked in at the door of a room across the corridor from the laboratory and had always found it empty. She suggested that the room be taken and used as a laboratory and (he present laboratory used as a writing room as had always been intendMr Trevor Beetham said it would cost money to put sinks, etc., into the room. , Mrs Fletcher: “Sinks are cheapei than a new laboratory.” The Managing-Secretary, Dlr Noiman Lee, said the room Mrs Fletcher mentioned belonged to part of an isolation block. • Mrs Fletcher said she thought the board should investigate the possibility of using the room she had menThe chairman (Mr H. H. Mawley) said the board would have the chance of discussing the matter fully next month, as ratepayers would be taxed for the amount.