A LENGTHY CAREER
OLDEST MATERNITY SERVICE "Please will you be a "Godfather" from overseas to one of these servicemen's babes," concludes a letter from the Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital, London, the .superintendent of which has written to a local resident seeking a donation. I write to you personally after months of raids that have left us the only large maternity hospital in London. We have to care for our soldiers', sailors' and airmens' Avives. These mother?, unable_ for family reasons to evacuate, are as brave as their husbands, while our nurses (in steel melmets) often reach them amid bombs and gunfire, driving with anti-shrapnel mattresses on the roof. Not only do we deliver them in their homes o; in our new building (we were hit in our old), but we aid those bombed out, with blankets etc, and help the newborn child for five years. Very poor, these Service Men's Wives cost us £12 for their two weeks in hospital—they can contribute nothing but a precious New Life—for life must go on. A child is born .... This is the Empire's oldest maternity hospital and in every war since Nelson's days, we have cared for the wives of Britain's fighting men—s,ooo of them in 1914-18.
Her Majesty the Queen —sixth Queen of England to be our Patron in 200 years—lecently visited us. inspected the arrangements, spoke of her own air-raid shelter at the Palace, and had a friendly word for
each mother,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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241A LENGTHY CAREER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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