SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8207, 3 August 1915, Page 6

SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

At the Ashburton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's monthly meeting yesterday, the following letter was received from the District Health Officer (Dr. H. E. ' Chesson):—" Your letter of the 7th instant to hand, giving me a list of accommodation offered for invalided and wounded soldiers. With regard to your question as to arrangements for nursing, etc., in private houses, I take it that all cases requiring treatment or special nursing will be dealt with in the general hospitals and in accommodation offered- in private ihospitals, and that, as far as possible,, .only those castes which do not- >heed specM looking, after wilt be drafted into the private homes.- It is obvious that should there be so, many,, cases . .that; the .general and private--hospitals and military hospitals especially set Aip for the purpose are unable to cope with all cases needing special caro, the trained nursing sources of;the country will be so greatly taxed that -we -will;have.ito.^depend, upon unqualified women volunteering for nursing work, or trust -to the womenfolk of the houses which are offering the accommodation. I am awaiting further information from Wellington with regard to the arrangements which it is proposed to make.— The lotfcer was received.