NURSE’S ACCIDENT
LONG TIME UNDISCOVERED
COMMITTEE’S REPORT
A full report on the accident suffered by Nurse O. Newton, of the Kaikotiro Hospital, who .fell from the rocks on Kaiko.ura Peninsula, has been obtained by the North Canterbury Hospital Board in accordance with a decision reached at a recent meeting. Nurse Newton was away 36 hours before she was found.
; The hospital committee’s report to the . board stated that the absence of Nurse Newton would have been detected earlier had a proper system of checking in and out been in operation, arid instructions had been given for this to be carried into effect. Nurse Newton was now in the Christchurch Hospital, as a patient, and would be there for from five to eight weeks.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 16
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123NURSE’S ACCIDENT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 16
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