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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 68, 5 December 1891, Page 3

In nn article in the Fortnightly, for September, Prof. Tjndall giyes some very remarkable figures as to the mortality of nurses in Germany as the result of their liability to tuberculosis. More than one half the deaths of Catholic nurses in thirty-eight Germnn hospitals wore due to tins disease. Nursing is one of the deadliest occupations known to man, or rather to women ; a healthy girl of seventeen devoting herself to hospital nursing, dies on an average twenty^one find a half years sooner than a girl of the same age in the general population. A woman of twenty-four will lire twentytwo years longer m the outside population than what she would do if she were a nurse in a hospital. This rxtreme mortality, Dr. Cornet thinks, might be reduced by the rigorous use of the spittoon. Further novelties have been added to the stock of electroplated ware in tho show case. These include some beautifal designs in butter, sugar, and biscuit jars, cruets, toast-racks, jelly jars, in fact the stock must be seen to be properly appreciated — Eed House, Eimbol. ton Eoad.— Advt. Thkre nre certain customs that seem indissolubly a&sociated with Christmastide, and one of the oldett and most agreeable is that of giving and receiving presents. This time^honoured^precedeut we how follow at Te Aro House, Wellington.