The discussion at Monday's meeting of the Hospital Board ' Bhowed a shocking state of things in the sanitary condition of the Hospital, and one which the members themselves could hardly believe to exist until it was pointed out to them by the doctor. From the discussion it was gathered that in the top floor there is only one place of convenience for the nurses, and that in order to get to this it is necessary to pass by a lavatory and open conveniences in a ward that was formerly occupied by women, but which is now, during the annual cleaning, filled by men. On the main, or middle, floor of the building there is no convenience at all. The nurses here have to go the top floor, and in the circumstances stated this must be little short of revolting to women with the least sense of delicacy. But, apart from this, would it be believed that in middle and top flats of a large building like the main Hospital there is only this merest accommodation for the nurses ? And this is not all. In the fever wards, also, known as the auxiliary

Healthy Invalided Soldiers.
His Fbibnd Smite : What did yon say;- Doctor ? One of New Zealand's invalided soldiers ? He doesn't look sick, anyhow. The Coroner : No, it's rongh on me, too. Bead in the paper as if I Bhould get a job or two when they landed.
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Saturday' September 22, 1900,.
