MATERNITY SERVICE
PROVISION AT PAHIATUA HOSPITAL BOARD DECISION. NEW BUILDING PROPOSED. At a special meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board recently, consideration was given to a letter from the Department of Health, which advised that the maternity hospital at Pahiatua was being closed down, and asked the board to make urgent arrangements to provide a maternity service at Pahiatua. Miss C. McKenny, reporting on behalf of the Pahiatua members of the board who had inspected the building at Pahiatua, said "it was an old house which had been converted and was not suitable as a hospital to be controlled by the board. Miss McKenny and Messrs F. S. H. Bolton and W. Britland concurred in the opinion that the board should neither purchase nor lease the building. It was decided to advise the Department that the board could not, under any circumstance, purchase or lease the building. In view of the need of some arrangement being made without delay, the board decided to suggest to the Department that the Government erect a maternity hospital at Pahiatua on the board’s land, adjacent to the public hospital, and that the new building should be handed over for the board to administer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1943, Page 2
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199MATERNITY SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1943, Page 2
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