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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1954Vol. XXV, No. 2

Hospital for Honiara

p. 153 · Read in the full issue

miara, BSIP, is getting a

hospital. It needed it. It n worse condition than that

le, New Guinea, which has

ved recurring blasts of pub

since the US Army vacated years ago. ! collection of war-time hut ients which have served oniara during the post-war are being replaced. Con ion of the much-needed new al Hospital should be com- I by the end of October and hoped that it will begin full fcion in early 1955. i iron and tarred paper con ion of the existing hospital is y giving way to well-planned, >us buildings of concrete i, lined with masonite and I with galvanised iron. Of the two TB wards, incor ing an entirely new form of 3r, are nearest completion and i be opened in September.