INDUCING GIRLS TO NURSING
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DANNEVIRKE, Aug. 23. After having -again discussed the shortage of nurses, the Dannevirke -Hospital Board has decided to make representations to the Department of Health, through the Hospital Boards' Association, 'with a view to obtaining exemption for nurses from the payments oi" Social Security taxes as a means of encouraging girls joining the fession.Prevloxisly --the - chairman of the board. Mrr ;-C.- Smith . had jremarkea: 'f'-'li -itlie Ymmbei? of t>ur .occupied heds in the hospitals is on the increase and the number of girls entering the nursing "profession on the decline, the sick will be receiving less attention than they are to-day. I don't think the offer of free stockings and ward shoes will tempt girls into hospitals, but I do think the Government should cohsider the advisability of exempting nurses in training from paying National and Social Security." He added that a nurse in secondyear training had her salary reduced by four per cent. for superannuation and ten per cent. for National and Social Security, and yet could claim only one benefit.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1946, Page 5
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183INDUCING GIRLS TO NURSING Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1946, Page 5
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