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The West End News
Frederiksted, Saint Croix County, Virgin Islands
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The Baron Bliss Trust will provide a $30,000 health centre and infant welfare clinic, plus a $5,000 ambulance, to Corozal, British Honduras, after Hurricane Janet destroyed 96% of the town. Construction to start soon on the site of the damaged old hospital.
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The Baron Bliss Trust, (a public trust set up by the late Baron Bliss, benefactor of British Honduras who left an estate of some $1,500,000 has announced that they will make a gift to the people of Corozal, British Honduras' principal district Town of the North, 96 per cent. of which was destroyed by the recent hurricane. The gift is to be a new $30,000 (B$7,500) Health Centre and Infant Welfare Clinic combined, and a $5,000 town ambulance. The announcement from the Baron Bliss said that building operations would be started as soon as a suitable design was approved, and would be built on a site within the compound of the old hospital, which was badly battered by Janet. Features of the Health Centre will be an ante-natal clinic, an out patient department, and headquarters for the Corozal Branch of the Health Department of British Honduras.
(Barbados Advocate)
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Corozal, British Honduras
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Recent Hurricane
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96 per cent. of corozal destroyed by the recent hurricane; gift of new $30,000 health centre and infant welfare clinic combined, and $5,000 town ambulance
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The Baron Bliss Trust announced a gift to the people of Corozal, 96 per cent. of which was destroyed by the recent hurricane. The gift includes a new $30,000 (B$7,500) Health Centre and Infant Welfare Clinic combined, and a $5,000 town ambulance. Building operations to start as soon as a suitable design is approved, on a site within the compound of the old hospital battered by Janet. Features: ante-natal clinic, out patient department, headquarters for Corozal Branch of the Health Department.