Porirua Ladies
From: Ideas, 9 November 2003
The Porirua Hospital Museum and Resource Centre holds a collection of nursing instruments, patient registers (stretching back to the 1880s) and other artefacts which are on display in the old F Ward of the hospital. F Ward, built in 1909, and now a Category 1 historic place, used to house up to 130 female patients.
All photos (c) Gareth Watkins, used with permission.
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Porirua Ladies follows Ngaere and Rita - aged in their 80s - as they tour around the Porirua Hospital Museum with curator Bruce Shepherd.