DISTRICT NURSING GUILD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 938, 4 October 1910, Page 9

DISTRICT NURSING GUILD.

.MONTHLY. MEETING,

• The usual monthly l meeting; of the com-mittee-was held;- yesterday afternoon, when the following members, .were ■ pre-\sent:-Mrs;; S. A, Rhodes, Lady;, of the Order of St.-'John^/presidentJ^^Mrs.^A..A. Corrigan, V.. H. , . Moorhouse,Mrs.H. W.Prestpn, Mrs. L. Balcombe Brown, .Miss,M.: E.vEobjeson, and Mrs.W. ; ;B; Fisher,(hon, secretary . An.apology was.tendered for .tte unavoid-a-bleabsence ofiMrs./W. B. Tripe. The report submitted-by , the senior..■■ district nurse showed that: 19 additional.patients had been registered during September,. 9 ■wore discharged, i sent, to/the General Hospital,. 1 to the!- Convalescent Home, and'that there;had been 3 deaths."The committee acknowledged with tlian&s- a subscription of <£& 2s,' from '.'Home-work-Mrs.- Bakewell), and.'■■■Jβ!:ls. from Mrs. J. P., Luke. -The president intimated' that her Excellency Lady' Islington , - had signified, her. willingness Ho-fill-.the .vacancy, -of patroness,; created^by the retirement of Lady Plunket.' Giffe'.of/old linen, etc.,. were rcV ceived from a number 1 of ladies, and. the . willbe glad -tbreceive further subscriptions, to. the. emergency fund, out of which • comforts ;and medicine' are provided forthe sick poor every month;-.,

Our Cartertbn 'correspondent writes that -the : invitations ■■ are; ; ::yjt : for of Miss Elsie youngest daughter'bf Mrs.' Woplley,.=of- Newj.Plymouth'i to-Mv. Epriald John Gayfer, only, son of Mr.-and Mrs.;.C. , H. '.Gayfer, , of. Carterton. v . •,The. marriage takes place.. at St. Andrew's/Presbyterian Church on October 20...''; ■;/./; ,;- /.;' : ..-.- ; /