SOMETHING FOR THE NURSING STAFF.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 4

SOMETHING FOR THE NURSING STAFF.

While on the subject of swimming, it will not be out of the way to draw special attention- to the proposal that was mooted in our yesterday's issue for the provision of a swimming pool for the nursing staff of the Soldiers' Memorial Hospital at Hastings. There will, we fancy, be but very few who will not agree with what was then said with regard to the debt of gratitude which the community owes to those who devote their energies, their skill and indeed their lives to the tending of the sick and the injured among us. It is therefore up to us all to do. what we may to make those lives more pleasurahle and v enjoyable. Beyond this lies the more selfish eonsideration that the maintenanee of the nurses and other attendants them# selves in good robnst health is essential to their being able to give of their best in the performance of their duties. Towards this end it may he said that the medical staff are unanimous in the opinion that the provision of a swimming pool in close proximity to the hospital would make a very valuable contribution. The citizens of Hastings -are quite justifiably proud of the hospital they have succeeded in establishing, largely as a result of their own efforts, and of the high reputation for efficiency it has already attained. Thus, even when so many other calls are being made upon their purses, it should not he askipg too much of them to furnish the comparatively modest amount that is required to round off the many advantages which the institution enjoys by providing what will contribute so effectively to the health and relaxation of those who are so intimately and onerously responsible for the care and comfort of the hundreds of their fellow citizens who are committed to their eharge. It would be a very weleome and highly app'reciated Christmas Box. "j