ENGLISH HOSPITALS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 379, 3 May 1910, Page 2

ENGLISH HOSPITALS.

To the Editor'. Sir, —From private advices recently receive.! from England, the working regime of tile Dominion, or at least of ■ the Taranaki hospitals, would seem to contrast favorably with the systems m vogue in the London institutions. A Considerable |premium is paid for a young lady at Home to .train for a maternity nurse. She went from the 'North of England to one of the biggest establishments in London. She found the nurses had to work 12, 24 and sometimes 30 hours without a rest, liable to be called up at any hour of the night, with no diminution of the day-time work. They had all the rougi scrubbing of the hospital floors to do. The lady in question had 100 stone steps to go down every time to meals, and 50 to climb to her own room—a close box, whose window would not open. As the young lady had only recovered from a violent attack of typhoid faver in ten days she was completely knocked up, and had to be removed at once by lier relatives, tnough laid up entirely for three days before venturing on the return journey home to the North of Eugland. The parties entertain some liopes of her recovering the premium from the hospital. It would look as if the London hospitals' principal object was the obtaining of the "preiniuifi," and then getting all the work they could out of the nurse apprentices. Such conditions as the above seem unknown here, or would scarcely do. —I am, etc., C.W.W.