SWEATING OF NURSES.
Sir,—lt is with deep and serious concern for, juk! sympathy with, the nurses in St. Helen's Maternity Hospital, I write to endorse the statements made in such a straightforward way by your correspondent "Veritas." It is a crying shame that these nurses art- nothing moro than their country's drudges in the hospital referred to. Rising at 5.30 a.m., lliey work longer than any working man, together with severe nervous and mental strain, doing menial work that very few paid servants do. Following this menial labour, they are expected to nurse mid wait on wailing patients, to pass examinations for which they are too dead tired to study; and for all these "benefits" they receive no pay, no uniform, lifctlo relaxation, but provide everything they rcquiro in their kits for nursing, and pay .£2O premium. . It is time a change was made in the. methods of the hospital in the interest of the nurses. Perhaps as wo have now a change of Government they will make, it one of their first and important duties to inquire into this matter, and bring about a. much-needed change.—l am, etc., KKFOroi. July 18, 1912.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 6
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193SWEATING OF NURSES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 6
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