NURSES COME TO CITY FOR BATH
Patients’ Weekly Tub
SHOCKING CONDITIONS AT SANATORIUM
To get a bath nurses at the Greenvale Sanatorium have to come to Melbourne on their day off.
The 80 patients can get a bath at week-ends only.
All this inconvenience is because the institution has an inadequate water supply– from a tank and a dam.
It would cost £1500 to link up with the Yan Yean main at Broadmeadows.
The week-end baths of the patients are only possible by the carting of water from Broadmeadows at a cost of £3 a day, that is to say, it costs £3 on one day a week to get bath water for 80 persons!
BAD DRINKING WATER
The drinking water, which is from the tanks, is contaminated by birds and animals, mainly opossums. Clean drinking water is almost unprocurable, though pure water is a valuable curative agent in lung diseases.
Suggestions have been made that the sanatorium should be removed to Janefield, but the new Ministry will probably reject the proposal, which might involve an expenditure of £50,000.
For about £5000 the present institution could be sewered, painted and supplied with a proper water supply.
Source: The Herald (Melbourne, VIC); Thu 19 May 1927 (Page 1)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243915248
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