THE PUBLIC, THE MIDWIVES, AND ST. HELENS HOSPITAL.
(To the Editor.) .'• - ; Sir,—"Paterfamilias" may not know that St. Helens Hospital, if continuously full, could not do more than touch' the fringe of the public necessity in this direction. -Twelve beds are a small equipment for a community of SO.OOO, to say nothing of the country. The St. Helens Hospital is a good institution. It is my faith in the teaching value of these institutions that urge's me,to plead in the interests of the poor who cannot afford a doctor, that midwfves should he allowed ■to attend the lectures as before. We have reached a "nurse famine." I hear the hospital. department is considerinj the necessity of importing' nurses from England "and ;/tne Y t Commonwealth. ; Let us train our. ownl This hospital is now a close preserve.— J- am,-etc., • ■' : ■"';".'■*' : '■■ .ABSACiES.' ! ■ ■■• -'•■-' ■■ •- : ■■- ■ - \ .
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 76, 28 March 1908, Page 6
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139THE PUBLIC, THE MIDWIVES, AND ST. HELENS HOSPITAL. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 76, 28 March 1908, Page 6
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