DEATH OF A NURSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 5

DEATH OF A NURSE.

CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL CASE.

INQUIRY TO BE HELD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Charges that nurses at Christchurch Hospital who reported themselves ill were sometimes snubbed and told not to "coddle" themselves were made by a member (Mrs. E. R. McCombs) at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day. On her motion the board resolved: "That the Hospital Committee be asked to inquire into and report on the circumstances of the death of Nurse Helen Jones, who died last week." Miss McCombs said the circumstances called for investigation. "I want to know why it was that Nurse Jones continued on duty till five or six weeks before her death. I have been told that Nurse Jones was unwell while on duty. She reported that she wanted a rest, and would go into the country. She went, became worse, and then had to come back suddenly to the hospital. She received such a reception from the matron that she was exceedingly upset. It was not such a reception a* should have been given to a sick person. Three weeks later the girl -was dead. A large number of nurses have the feeling that if they report sick thev will be 'snubbed.'"