DISTRICT NURSING GUILD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 2

DISTRICT NURSING GUILD.

ANNUAL REPORT... At a meeting of the'committee of the District'pursing Guild of. St. John, held yesterday afternoon, the report for the year enued October 31, 1912, was adopted. The report stated tlfat effective work had been systematically maintained for the benefit of the sick .poor in their own. homes'during the past year, and the regular income from the vested interests of the guild had relieved the committee of inucn anxiety respecting the question of the nurses', salaries, which existed before the lindowmont i?und was built up thi'QUsh tho foresight of .the president, Mis Nd. A. Rhodes.- The'committee, however, still require on additional .£IOO yearly for the cmergciicy fund, to enable the nurses- to. supply comforts, medicines, and otlier requisites \ for the district patients.' "There |aro indications,'" states the report, "of a demand for/ another nurse 'in South Wellington, and may not be far distant whoii th© question of appointing, a districtnurse for Ilutt Valley ..will also rcquiro attention. "Nurses Se'xton and Macandrew have carried on tih-e district nursing Work in tlioir usual able and zealous way. Sinco the last annual report, 158 additional patients have, been registered, making a total of/1437 since' the inception of the work in Wellington. The committee r< cords with regret that their., Lady Islington, . is' leftviiig.,^e , "'l)omiii- l ' ion. On m'oro than ono occasion her , Excellency has commended the claims' of tho guild to the public' for practical sympathy.,. The,enforced ribssnco of the president . from the',guild meetings lately,.- on account,of serious:illness, has been keenly deplored by officers, and -. members, : and the committee earnestly trusts that Mrs. Rhodes will be restored to good health again in the near future." . Thanks are tendered to a number _of local .-doctors for their professional cooperation in the work; to those ladies and gentlemen who subscribed in money or in kind for the benefit of the.sick poor; to the press for conspicuous publicity to the operations of tho guild; to Mr. Innis for his continued kindness in forward.ing, free of charge, parcels for the district nurses; and to Mr. C. Batten for auditing the accounts. The committee also records a special vote of thanks to Mrs. 'Moorhouse for inviting members to hold meetings at her residemoe. ;