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It will be noted that there were 306 voluntary admissions in the year under review, that 228 were discharged, and that 25 boarders, representing 8-17 per cent, of the admissions, had to be transferred to the register of patients (having shown mental disorder in degree sufficiently pronounced and sustained to render it improper for them to be continued as voluntary boarders), while the proportion of deaths on average number resident was 2-6 per cent. The column devoted to " Not First Admissions " records readmissions on a return of illness in those previously treated to recovery as voluntary boarders. The average daily number of voluntary boarders in 1933 was 336.

MENTAL NURSES. In December the usual examination was held for the registration of mental nurses, when the following passed : — Passed top for Dominion : Nurse M. F. Livett, Porirua. Auckland : Attendants—N. F. J. Basham, M. Campbell, J. E. Hoban, C. T. Pilgrim, G. Walding. Nurses —A. E. Allen, E. Franklin,* M. A. Garvin, 0. Grattan, M. E. Lovell, A. P. MacCallum, E. M. Prendergast, M. D. Rankine, C. B. H. Richardson, E. E. Roff, M. J. Smaill,* S. M. Turner, N. N. Wedderspoon. t Te Awamutu : Attendants —G. A. Fraser, A. Grant, H. F. W. Sapsford. Nurses—V. K. Meredith,* H. V. L. Webb. Porirua : Attendants —E. V. Butler, C. B. Field, G. K. Hamilton, J. Harris, E. J. Jeffery, J. C. Leacock, D. C. McDonald, W. T. E. Miles, G. Renwick, H. Trewick, J. A. Wilson. Nurses—A. N. Brown, A. M. Brownlie, R. F. Carroll, N. Chase, M. E. Clift, H. C. Garcia, R. Jameson, M. F. Livett,* E. R. Murch, G. M. Murrow, M. M. O'Connell, M. E. Robertson, T. G. Rodder, A. R. Stewart, E. M. Warren, C. S. Wells, M. G. Williams. Nelson : Attendants —F. B. Aynsworth,* C. E. Hamilton, R. H. Wood. Nurses —C. R. V. Luff, N. A. O'Driscoll, J. A. Rush, E. T. Virtue. Hokitika : Nurses —L. A. J. Martini, E. M. Williams. Christchurch : Nurses —B. R. Bott, E. M. Burns,* M. Buxton,* I. M. E. Campbell, C. M. Condon, L. M. Corsbie*, B. Donaldson,* H. I. Hodder, L. S. Mullan, C. E. Walsh. Seacliff: Attendants —C. H. Dadson, A. McKelvie, A. C. Warnock, W. Watson, J. J. White. Nurses—l. J. Allison, I. E. Baird, E. L. Brown, J. C. Brown, L. Dodds, 0. C. Banning, A. M. McKelvie, E. K. Moore,* E. D. Taylor, D. C. Williams * Ashburn Hall : Nurse —F. M. Short.

* Passed with distinction.

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