WOMAN BACTERIOLOGIST

Nelson Evening Mail, 2 October 1916, Page 6

WOMAN BACTERIOLOGIST

3EU EXPERIENCES IN ENGLANDWOMENTS WORK EX/ WAB AND PEACE. T>r. Emma, BiicMey has just returned to Sydney from England, where she had been engaged by the War Office at the Lister Institute discovering preventive medicine, such, for instance, as antityphoid and anti-paratyphoid vaccines, she was also doing pathological work in the interests of the Australian soldiers, -ome of whom suffered from the afteraffects of wounds or illness contracted in Egypt. This bright young bacteriologist-, who is herself infected with what she calls hopeless optimism, is intensely patriotic, and considers all she can do little enough towards winning the war, says the Telegraph. Being seized with war fever, she went off to England soon after the opening of hostilities, and would be there still had not a cable from 'Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart recalled her to her post in the pathological department of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. flDr. Buckley, who is an old Sydney Lfigh School' girl, took her degree of -neaieine at the Sydney University. She that, though women army doctors receive the same pay and have the same status as men doctors, they have not the same rank—that beintr against the British constitution. To all intents and purnoses it is, however, a distinction without a difference. Women army doctors wear a khaki uniform, but are not permitted to don the stars, or the Sam Browp. belt. The .British Women's Medical Association recently issued pamphlets asking for medical women to volunteer for positions in the military at home and abroad, strictly on the understanding that they did not ask for military rank. Dr. Katie Ardell, a captain at Mapsbury, is in receipt of £1 a day, the same as a man in a similar position, but receives no recognition of rank. Dr. Elsie Dalzell is in a hospital near Paris, and Dr. Lucy Gullett is located near MarseillesTHE BEISTv WOMAN WORKER.

J>r. Buckley speaks most enthusiastically of the work being done by both English and French women. In chemistry, she says, they are just doing wonders. What particularly struck her was the business-like manner' of the women 'bus conductors. On one occasion when she was travelling in a 'bus a.- druntaen man made himself very objectionable. When on being politely asked to leave the "bus he absolutely refused, the fa'ir conductor, though anything but an Amazon, seized hold of and removed him to the road with the greatest ease. She then went quietly on collecting fares as though' throwing intoxicated men from 'buses was all in a. day's work. As for the man. the fact of being forcibly removed by a lady- brought him to his sober senses., and he stood in the middle of the road gasping with surprise. Women grocers, both in London and Paris, Dr. Buckley says, have been a great success. She herself prefers to be served! by a woman, who seem to know just what you want. Then women in offices in Eondon spend their' vacations in the country working on farms —harvesting, dairying, or fruit-picking. Dr. Buckley went, to Scotland', where she saw the fleet just after the battle of Jutland. She says there are hundreds of munition factories there, and most of the work is done by women, who put in 12 hours daily and are now entrusted with the most delicate parts of munition-mak-ing. At the Lister Institute girl messengers are employed instead of boys, and have proved themselves more steady, patient, and' dependable.

SIMPLICITY OF CLOTHES. ft is the correct thing- just now in London not to be smartly but to be simplv dressed., and even at a Lyceum Club "dinner given in honour of the doctors who had been in Servia there was. not a "glad rag" to <be seen, though the' ■women looked sweet and dainty in simple gowns. Then the majority to I titled ladies have •given over their own homes, or taken other houses, where, instead of giving/the one-time garden ; parties and going for drives in Rotten Row, they conduct sewing bees and make soldiers' clothes. These erstwhile leaders of society are to be seen going- daily, to and from their work in neat, plain coats and skirts. Nor do the young people spend much money on frocks- They have mostly worn during the summer dainty muslin and voile frocks and large /hats brightened 1 with flowers.