The "Tin Shed"
This building was erected in 1893, as 'temporary' accommodation for typhoid cases. An outbreak of the disease had hit Wellington, and corrugated iron was chosen as the building material to enable a rapid completion. In 1895, it was converted into an Outpatient Department, to relieve the congestion in the main entrance block. By 1900, patient accommodation in the Hospital was generally at a premium, and Dr Ewart, the Medical Superintendent recommended that the Tin Shed be used for housing paediatric patients, thus freeing up the original Children's Ward on the ground floor of the "Matron's Block". However, by 1903, it was used again as a Fever Ward. At this time, infectious fevers were a major problem for the Hospital & conditions in the Tin Shed were not ideal. In 1910, it was emptied out of patients with all varieties of infectious fevers, vigorously cleaned & fumigated, and made ready as a Diphtheria Ward. In 1912, a plan was put forward to use the Tin Shed as the Hospital's first Maternity Ward. However, the Public Health Department decreed that it was unsuitable for this use, as it was 'structurally ineffective'. In 1914, it was proposed to use the ward for delerium tremens cases. In the interim, there was an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Wellington, and the Tin Shed housed these patients. After the infantile paralysis epidemic subsided, the ward was once again made ready for DT patients. Cases of diphtheria were on the increase by 1919, and consideration was given to again housing such patients here. This did not happen, as a new Fever Hospital was opened on top of the hill. Finally, the ward was used as a VD Clinic, and this use continued through until demolition in the late 1930's. Ward 20 was subsequently erected on the site of the Tin Shed.

The "Tin Shed"

This building was erected in 1893, as 'temporary' accommodation for typhoid cases. An outbreak of the disease had hit Wellington, and corrugated iron was chosen as the building material to enable a rapid completion.
In 1895, it was converted into an Outpatient Department, to relieve the congestion in the main entrance block.
By 1900, patient accommodation in the Hospital was generally at a premium, and Dr Ewart, the Medical Superintendent recommended that the Tin Shed be used for housing paediatric patients, thus freeing up the original Children's Ward on the ground floor of the "Matron's Block".

However, by 1903, it was used again as a Fever Ward. At this time, infectious fevers were a major problem for the Hospital & conditions in the Tin Shed were not ideal. In 1910, it was emptied out of patients with all varieties of infectious fevers, vigorously cleaned & fumigated, and made ready as a Diphtheria Ward. In 1912, a plan was put forward to use the Tin Shed as the Hospital's first Maternity Ward. However, the Public Health Department decreed that it was unsuitable for this use, as it was 'structurally ineffective'. In 1914, it was proposed to use the ward for delerium tremens cases. In the interim, there was an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Wellington, and the Tin Shed housed these patients.

After the infantile paralysis epidemic subsided, the ward was once again made ready for DT patients. Cases of diphtheria were on the increase by 1919, and consideration was given to again housing such patients here. This did not happen, as a new Fever Hospital was opened on top of the hill. Finally, the ward was used as a VD Clinic, and this use continued through until demolition in the late 1930's. Ward 20 was subsequently erected on the site of the Tin Shed.