NURSES' RATIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 15 July 1916, Page 3

NURSES' RATIONS.

A large general hospital in France provides its staff of nurses with the following individual rations: lib. bread or %lb. biscuits, %lb. meat and ''4 lb. bully beef (fr'esh meat only when available), 12oz. potatoes or vegetables (fresh or compressed), 5-8 oz. tea, 3oz. sugar, 1-Stin milk, 4oz. jam, 2oz. butter, and 2oz. bacon (or 4oz. of either, as available), %oz. cheese, 1-sOoz. mustard, 1-sOoz. pepper, and %oz. salt. This appears to be a goodly list of provisions for one person per day, and the meat and bread indeed are probably in excess of what would be eaten daily by a woman in civil life. But it is not difficult to realise how monotonous it would be to live on such rations day in and day out, and it is not surprising that the sisters usually run a mess of their own, each paying a certain sum weekly—perhaps ten or eleven francs —whereby they ensure a dainty change in the orthodox menu.