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WORK FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS

A Suggestion is a Seed oown: its Success Depends on the Soil that Receives ib Sir,—One of the topics of the day is the difficulty of finding employment for the returned 6oldier. Everybody seems crazed on putting him on the land, and all men are not fitted for that life; anfl! many who lived that life before they went to the war npw hate it. Before they left school they were engaging in spanking cows and feeding pigs, and it no longer appeals to them as desirable. Suppose by way of variety some of our men were trained to be men nurses for the male -wards of hospitals, or for attending men patients in private families. They would be a great boon to the public. The female nurse, after being trained and just as she has finished her course,'' and is of great use in the hospital, oftentimes gets married, and her nursing oays are over, or alio changes her mind and her occupation after a year's trial, and the time and trouble others have taken to train her is lost. Tn private families where a male patient ha", to be nursed it would bo a great comfort to the anxious wife or mother, 'busy with household and family cores, to know the patient was under the care of a strong, capable male nurse. A woman nurse often wants so much waiting on that she adds considerably to the housohold cares, whereas a man is never fussy, never anxious about his own comfort, ready to accommodate himself to any circumstances, and would rather leno: a hand to help than ask others to wait upon him. During the epidemic we read a good deal in the papers about the medical orderly. We don't know what their duties were, but it sounds like a combination of eoldier-doctor-nuise. Wouki it not be a ,good title for our male nurses? Of course, they would have to be trained, as the women nurses are, perhaps further; and they could take cliargo of the ambulance service, dressed in a becoming uniform, We who have lived in England know well the delightfully handy, ready-to-do-anything—oven nursing— the not previously trained to it 6olo.ier-servant that officers high in the Service have in attendance, and such ;i man in a hospital or attending a patient in a private' family would he invaluable. Hoping my suggestion may be approved and improved by the powers that 'be—l am, etc.,. VERBUM SAP.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 6

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WORK FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 6

WORK FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 6

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