Nurse’s Death Leads to Hospital Inquiry

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 415, 25 July 1928, Page 13

Nurse’s Death Leads to Hospital Inquiry

SEVERITY OF^DISCIPLINE TOLD “NOT TO CODDLE” Press Association* CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Charges that the nurses at the rhristchurch Hospital who report fiSk wer. somet.mes snubbed and told "not to coddle*' themselves vjere made by a member, Mrs. E. D McCombs, at a meeting of the S' Vh Canterbury Hospital Board day On her motion, the board 'resolved that the Hospital Committee should be asked to .n----ouire into and report on the circumstances of the death of Nurse Helen Jones, who died last week. Mrs McCombs said the circumatances called for investigation. ••I want to know why it was that vurse Jones continued on duty until five or six weeks before her death. I have been told that she was ill while duty. She reported that she wanted a rest and would go into the country. She went and became worse, ind then had to come back suddenly to hospital. She received such a reception from the matron that she was exceedingly upset. It was not such a reception as should have been given to a sick person. Three weeks later the girl was dead. “A large number of nurses have the feeling that If they report sick they will snubbed.”