The
main hospital museum building was an ex-boys borstal (youth detention center) from Levin which
was built in the 1940's. The
west building (entrance below) was the nurses' recreation room built in 1953.
Autoclave for sterilizing linen
Top table sign: Instruments set for tonsillectomy
Table on right: Anaesthesia machine
Table on left: I don't know
Table on left: I don't know
This was originally built around 1890 and situated in New Plymouth and moved from Taranaki Base Hospital to Taranaki Pioneer Village on 28.2.86. The display is a memorial to Drs Bill and Doris Gordon, both prominent Stratford physicians. Some of the medical equipment was donated by the Gordon family.
Dentist's office