Nuns in Hospitals.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 24

Nuns in Hospitals.

In two of the Paris hospitals, viz.,| the Hotel Dieu and the hospital St. Louis, nuns are still in change of tho sick. Tho Municipal Council ofj Paris, at ono of its last sittings, had under consideration a motion requesting the Government to expel tho nuns from those hospitals, and] to entrust the cane of the patients to secular nurses. A long and violent discussion took place on tho proposal, which ultimately was defeated by only one vote — 34 voting for it and 'So against it. The majority considered that it was inadvisable to periodically raise discussions on this subject, and accordingly moved a further resolution to the effect) that the Municipal Council should! not take into consideration proposals for the laicisation of hospitals' unless a referendum of tho municipal 1 electors had been taken on the subject Tli is was carried by a majority of 6, and it is not likely thati wo shall hear, lor l some time to comd of the expulsion of the nuns from the Paris hospitals.