CONVALESCENT HOME FOR NURSES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 251, 17 July 1919, Page 5

CONVALESCENT HOME FOR NURSES

4 A GREAT NEED. At yesterday's nieeting of the Wellington Red Cross Executive Committee;, Miss Hester Maclean, matron-in-chief of the New Zealand Nursing Service, was present to ask the committee's in providing a convalescent home .for sick or overdone nursing sisters._ In \-xplaining tho groat need which existed for such a place. Miss Maclean said that tho Defence. Department had considered the matter of setting aside a home at Devonport (Auckland)," but it was found impracticable partly because there were so many men who had to be provided for and partly because it would be necessary to have a more central place for such a purpose. In Australia there were convalescent homes provided by tho Red Cross in both Melbourne and Sydney. Some of the New Zealand Army nurses had stayed there, and had been made extremely comfortable.

: A rest home for the nurses was really I badly needed, because some of them were | coming back sadly the worse for their ! work abroad, and there was nowhere for ! them to go. Some, of course, had their i own homes to go to; others had not; and , others again had homos in which they might not be able to get the necessary care and attention. Sometimes tho V.A.D.'s became ill, and such a place would do much to restore them to health again. Her idea was that the Red Cross Committee might possibly see its way to taking a house, furnishing it, ami meeting its upkeep, while the Defence Department might sec its way to staffing it. She thought that accommodation for ten or twolve nurses would be sufficient. In reply to a question from Mr. Young, Miss Maclean said that it would be for nurses from every part of New Zealand who were tho worse for their work, not from the Wellington district only. After expressing the opinion that it was as much tho work of the Red Cross to look after sick or worn-out nurses as it was its work to look after sick and wounded soldiers, Mr. Young proposed that ''this committee approves of Miss Maclean's propc.sa.' Hint a. convalescent, home be established for nnrs/js who have .returned from active service and for those who are working in military hospitals in New Zealand." MMip proposal was cirriod unanimously, and U wns decided that! a recommendation to this effect he forwarded from the Welli"glon committee to the New Zen-j land Executive as a matitor which should J come under its jurisdiction. I Miss Maclean told the meeting that there wero already seven or eight nursing sisters who needed such a place to go to after their strenuous war services. For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt.