WAIRARAPA HOSPITALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2330, 25 June 1886, Page 2

WAIRARAPA HOSPITALS.

The following is Mr Urabham's rapori on tho Wairar&pa hospital* : GBIYTOTO. I inspected this hospital on the evening of the 2nd March, 1886, finding only one patient under taeatment-naraely, a female suffering from ulcerated leg, On inquiry, I learned that five patients wore occupying beds simultaneously some months ago, These were sufferers from .typhoid fever, During the past twelve months .about thirty in-patients have been admitted. Since my last inspwtlon a now warder and matron have been appointed ; andthe very dean and orderly condition in. which I found the whole of the hospital buildings and premises testifies to their efficiency and industry.. I still adhere to my previously-expressed opinion that this hospital, however well it may be conducted, could well be dispensed.with. 3rd March, 1888. . ' • ' MABIEMON. My annual inspection of this hespital was made on- tho 16th February, 1886, when 1 found two male patients only occupying beds; another will bo admitted to-day, Both cases under treatment are of a serious character, one having sustained a fracture of tlie spinel and req'iired. constant attention, which is "cheerfully rendered, A number of additions and improvements have been' made sinoe my last report, The entrance-hall and passage have been papered, and varnished, the steward's sitting-room and bed-room. papered, seven : new hairpiattraaaeß have been purchased, a good .easy-chair presented, and three mechanical bedsteads procured. In the dispensary is a new portable hot-air or vapor bath; and a number of other useful additions aw noticeable! -An additional piece of ground behind the hospital has been fenced, in and oaltivated, and a large coalshed erected. the steward and matron, continue in charge, their service now reckoning ( some seven years' duration, '. I was rauoh concerned to learn that some probability exists of their reaping their appointments, for I do not hesitate to assert that- the utmost difficulty would be found in suitably replacing them. .The hospital work is to them a "Inb6r of love-i" and the condition of the building, garden, and grounds is maintained in a way which might well serve as a model for other hospitals. To sum up in few words. I could detect no fault, With ■ the Chairman of the Committe, Mr.Boddington, I had a long conversation'. He takes muoh interest in ail that concernsihe welfare of the hospital, of which,he ii, not unnaturally, very proud. : l'fth J ebruary, 1886. •■>■•■■■■