ATMOSPHERE TOO HOT
Sitting-Room at Nurses' Home CHAIRMAN'S CRITTCISM "Is there a comfortable sitting-room for the nurses?55 asked Mr N. A. Foden. Crown Solicitor, . when questioning the matron of the Napier Hospital, Mrs L. M. Croft, regarding the health of nurses before the Royal Commiesion yesterday. "Yes, there is," repjied the chairman, Mr E. D. Mosley. S.M., "but it is kept at too great a £eat. The morning that we inspected it the heat was dreadful. I was glad to get out of it.55 "What have you got 'to say to that?55 asked Mr Foden of the matron. "Tho question of central-heating is a difficulty,55 sho said. "There are 90 people regulating it, and as it is constantly turned off and on a difficulty is CTeated.5' "It should be possible to control at," said Mr Mosley. "That particular morning the submatron had gone out, leaving the heater turned off, and when she returned shortly afterwards they wero all turned on again,55 said Miss Croft. "Tlie morning I was there certainly did not answer to a healthy atmospliere," said Mr Mosley. "It* was a breeding-ground for consumption when I went there.5 '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 6
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