NURSING IN INDIA.
CONDITIONS OF WORK. A nurse from Sydney, Miss Parkinson, who returned recently from India where she bad been doing nursing work, saw and experienced much that wus of interest. AVliile there she joined the Minto Societv. which was formed by Lady Minto ill order to provide nurses for the Europeans in India. This society supplies nurses for private work and for the hospitals, and it was said that Australian nurse*! and those from the other Dominions were extremely popular because they were so practical.
Salaries for fully trained nurses were about £IOO and £l2O per annum, and in some cases they received very much more. The nurses wore paid by the society, which collected the fee from the patient or hospital. Miss Parkinson was nursing in a civil hospital called the Hindu Ras, in Delhi. Tt had been the residence of Hindu Ras, n famous character during the Indian Mutiny, and later it was a retiring post of an English regiment. The place was peppered with cannon balls, which were still embedded in tiie walls.
A section of Genoa Harbour is to be set aside as a free port for the handling of goods ill transit to foreign countries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 12
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