MILK AND EGGS AT THE HOSPITAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 January 1919, Page 4

MILK AND EGGS AT THE HOSPITAL.

(To the Editor)

i Sir, —The statement I made conj cerning the nurses getting the cream | off the patients’ breakfast milk was quite correct; sometimes I have seen the nurses add water to the skim milk to intake it go round. The patients never got any cream, only on one occasion, when some was sent from the Temporary Hospital at the Presbyterian Church. I should like one of the lady members of the Board to examine the milk man’s book and see the amount of milk that •was used every day.) I never had charge of the eggs, the Matron kept them locked up in the store room, and only on three occasions did I get eggs for the patients’ puddings. The Matron never bought any eggs for the use of the Hospital, and there only nine fowls to' supply eggs, all these being kept for the matron’s private use, except a very few which she gave me for the nurses’ puddings, and a plain cake once a week, with never more than three eggs in it. Very often I made a gingerbread cake without any eggs. I defy the matron to produce any grocer’s bill for eggs received f&f hospital use. All the eggs the patients got were supplied by themselves or their friends. I would further point out that the Matron said at the first inquiry that a portion of milk was set aside and skimmed for patients’ puddings, now at the adjourned inquiry she says that she gave me orders to make the puddings of now milk, at least one of those statements must be like others the Matron Iras made, incorrect. —I am, etc., A. S. FLEMING.