HOSPITAL NURSES,

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16152, 5 March 1918, Page 5

HOSPITAL NURSES,

they know) whether they care a straw. I will only give one instance, as I am sure you cannot give space for more. A probationer nurse entering tho Hospital works 56 hours a week (seven days of eight hours each), some of which may be night duty, provides the whole of her outfit with the exception that if sho lasts three months at the work sho is provided with two uniform dresses. (To do the Hospital justice, let mo say that the institution generously provides tho caps.) And for this she receives—what? Will it be believed? Barely one penny per hour. Yo gods and littlo fishes! Yo hornyhanded and democratic sons of toil in 1 Canterbury, who are howling for two shillings an hour and a forty hour week, what do you think of it? How do you like the idea of the brow of anguish being soothed by the soft, cool hand of an angel nurse at one penny per hour? It will be a crying shame to the community if such a scandalous remuneration is .allowed to continue. In my youth I was often told that man's inhumanity to man made countless thousands mourn. How about "woman's unhumanity to woman:' 1 I trust "a lady member" will make it her business to see that somo of her fellow women get a better deal from a community that owes them so much. — Yousr, etc., A- PARENT. February 28th. j t I - j ,

Sir, —I was much interested in reading the remarks of Mr fe. Andrews at the meeting of the Hospital Board, reported in your issue of yesterday, and more so in the remark of ''a lady member" to the effect that the cost of living did not affect the nurses. This led me to wonder if the working men and women democrats of this community have the least idea of the conditions under wheih the nurses labour at the Christchurch Hospital, and (if