The Timaru Hospital Grounds in the early 1900s
P.W. Hutton & Co. Postcard 1903
Muir & Moodie Postcard 1905
Hardy Photo - Arthur A. Ware Series. 1907
The old wards one and two. Ward One was a very busy pediatric ward when I did a year, 1981, as a staff nurse. Two was a general medical ward in the 1970s and 1980s. I had plenty of experience there also. Forty beds in each and in the middle, the dirty and clean utility rooms, opposite each other and an charge nurse office, beds down each side with only curtains until the units were altered into pods and CCU in the middle of Ward Two. We even had patient's out on the balcony. Ward Two was also known as the Macdonald Ward and there was a shiny brass plaque at the entrance of the ward. Ernest Macdonald of "Corra Lynn" Sherwood Downs, was very involved in the community. He was Chairman of the South Canterbury Hospital board from 1927-1950, joined in 1923. In 1950 as a tribute to Ernest Macdonald, a surgical ward at the Timaru Hospital was to be known as the Macdonald Ward in recognition of his 28 years on the South Canterbury Hospital Board, 24 years as Chairman.
Arthur A. Ware Co. Series 1907, No.1599.
Cabbage trees are no longer there. The fountain long gone now a
parking lot.
These
buildings
are facing
north. In
1907 the two
storeyed
block with a
single
building
attached to
the west
side of it,
was Ward 3
on the
ground floor
with the
Maternity
Ward above
it, and the
Children's
Ward was the
single
storeyed
building.
The building
on the left
is the main
building
with
resident
Doctors
quarter on
the upper
floor.
In the photo
below the
balconies has
been
enclosed.
Tourist
series
1950
photograph
is taken of
the east
side of the
old Nursing
Home (now
demolished).
The building
on the left
is the main
part of
Children's
Ward with a
great
balcony and
it faced the
tennis
courts which
at at the
bottom of
the picture.
The single
storied
building
further
round is the
end of
Children's
Ward's where
the older
children and
the overflow
of adult
patients
were put.
Note the two
white
pillars,
that was the
entrance,
the steps
down leaded
to Queen St.
In the 1950s
the
maternity
ward was on
the top
floor of the
three
storeyed
building
nearest to
the
Administration
building on
High Street.
Sister Tew
was in
charge of
the
Children's
ward and
that the
matron was
Miss Moore.
Sister Tew
later ran
the Casualty
or A. & E
Dept.
The Old
Nurses Home
(1921) between the
Clinical
block (built
in 1971) and
the new
nurses Home
-Lindsay
wing (built
1958) to the
left. Taken
from Queen
Street, in
1977.
The dinning
room was
below the
balcony. The
main
entrance to
the Nurse
Home was up
the steps. The Matron's
flat is
behind the
tree at the
street
level. There
were steps
out just
behind the
tree.