Hospital Week

Norses' graduation is a time of celebration for the staff and friends of Cook Hospital. But during the ball, the displays, and other activities which make up "Hospital Week", the true spirit of nursing is never forgotten.

Nurses pause to remember Florence Nightingale as the matron, Miss R. Bunt, holds the lamp of service at the prize-giving ceremony.

A nurse snows hospital laboratory to visitors

Dr R.J.B. Hall, medical superintendent, presents a diploma.

Visitors to the hospital were fascinated by a strange world of skeletons, gleaming equipment, bottles of drugs, and complicated electrical gear. Indeed, although the hospital is vitally tied to the needs of the district, it is, in a sense, a community within its own walls, with a population equalling a town of 500 people.

Absorbed visitors are shown instruments in operating theatre. Note mask (right foreground) used for anaesthetics.

The splint department was completed in 1950, and is one of the most recent additions to Cook Hospital. It was built to aid people needing surgical footwear and appliances.

A technician explains the daily routine of the X-Ray department, which last year carried out almost 14,000 examinations.

Visitors study a point of interest in the tutorial department, where skeletons and charts like those shown in the picture help nurses with their studies of anatomy.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 27 : September 20, 1956

Hospital Week