TRAINED MILITARY NURSES.
-It is matter of regret', writes a : correspondent, that New Zealand, is so far ba-, hind Australia .iu . the matter of establishing a nursing 'reserve,. to bo drawn on iu timi of war,, the New Zealand Army Nurses' Reserve evidently consisting only of -a matron-in-chief without a staff. After the way the nursing sisters of New Zealand took their share of the woman's duty to her nation in time o£ war, during the campaign in South Af-. Rica, one feels that .there is something lacking at the Defence Department, since we have not :yet a well organised nursing service. The people of this country have asked for' service from our men, ' and therofore it is the bounden duty oto very man and woman to see that the lieoessary care is provided for our soldiers'in time of war. /This caii only' be done by having all arrangements mado. in tiine of peace. • ■ There are maiiy strong reasons for the full enrolment of trained nurses in the reserve. For one . thing, in lime of war every available man would bo required for the field. Therefore,, the nursing must- bo left to women, and those nurses could hardly expect to get the , trained orderlies that are available in the British Armv Medical Department for their field hospital. It is to be hoped that the Defence Department will take the matter up seriously, and see that every .facility is given to form a service worthy of the honour that has been paid the nurses" o! this country, in allowing the New Zealand Reserve to be affiliated to that ' ol tho Motherland.
It may Ira. pointed out that the organisation of the nurses of the British Army is now so thorough., that .only qualified military nurses v.'ijl in time of war ba admitted to the military hospitals. This is ou» of the strong reasons for asking that the reserve, shall bo established ill New Zealand, so that if ever again our soldiers go to tho front New Zealand may also send nurses whoso services will be accepted by the military authorities.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 10
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349TRAINED MILITARY NURSES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 10
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