Fever (Ewart) Hospital
This shows the completed Fever Hospital. The Hospital was later renamed 'Ewart Hospital', after the very popular Surgeon-Superintendent, John Ewart With ever growing numbers of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, the Seddon Wards and Shelters became inadequate. A second storey was added to Ewart Hospital in 1919, and tuberculous patients were transferred from the Seddon complex. A new Fever Hospital was built right at the top of the hill to the east. It opened in 1919. Click the image to view detail in a larger version.
	photograph courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of NZ, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa

Fever (Ewart) Hospital

This shows the completed Fever Hospital.

The Hospital was later renamed 'Ewart Hospital', after the very popular Surgeon-Superintendent,
John Ewart

With ever growing numbers of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, the Seddon Wards and Shelters became inadequate. A second storey was added to Ewart Hospital in 1919, and tuberculous patients were transferred from the Seddon complex. A new Fever Hospital was built right at the top of the hill to the east. It opened in 1919.

Click the image to view detail in a larger version.

photograph courtesy
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of NZ, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa