Holds Up Hospital’s Decoration Plans

To and from Torrington Cottage Hospital, in the Christmas rush, went Mr Stork last week.

He made so many calls that he held up the hospital’s plans for Christmas decorations and entertainment.

The recently re-opened maternity ward at the hospital had been so busy that the festoons of decorations, usually put up in the windows of the hospital some time before Christmas, were delayed and had been missed by passers-by.

When a Bideford Gazette reporter called at the hospital at the weekend he found staff members hurrying to decorate the hospital in time for Christmas.
Commented Maternity Sister E Kave “I have been up since three o’clock this morning on duty in the maternity ward. Three babies have been born in the last few days and now four more are expected. So you can see we haven’t had a lot of time for the usual festive plans”.

Gazette article dated 24 December 1958