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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary, pro tem.
VOL. XIII. NELSON, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1865. No. 16.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
May 4, 1865.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Reports and Returns for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary, pro tem.
REPORT OF THE HOSPITAL SURGEONS FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1865.
THE HOSPITAL.
THE private house hitherto used as a Hospital, has, up to the present time, been made to meet the wants of the small number of patients from the town and agricultural population, requiring its aid.
Within the last year the natural increase of population, and the influx of gold-diggers to the Wakamarina and West Coast have greatly augmented the applicants for admission, and it no longer provides sufficient accommodation; several very severe cases of fever and other diseases having been lately under treatment; it has become apparent that the rooms of the old house do not contain a sufficient cubic space for the maintenance of pure air for more than one patient in each while none of them contain 1,500 cubic feet, the smallest space allowed for rooms containing one bed, where due regard has had to sanitary precautions.
Some months since, a circular memorandum, drawn up by order of the Duke of Newcastle, was forwarded to this and other Provinces by the Colonial Secretary, defining the standard to which Colonial Hospitals and Asylums ought to attain, and a memorandum in reply was forwarded to his Honor the late Superintendent, in which the deficiencies and requirements of the Nelson Hospital were set forth in detail. To meet our immediate requirements we advise that one large ward should be built at the
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1865, No 16
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🏘️ Publication of Reports and Returns
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government4 May 1865
Provincial Secretary, Reports, Returns, Nelson
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary, pro tem.
🏥 Report of the Hospital Surgeons for the year ending March 31, 1865
🏥 Health & Social WelfareHospital, Nelson, Medical, Gold-diggers, Wakamarina, West Coast, Sanitary