LOSS TO NURSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 13

LOSS TO NURSING.

The recent death of the late Miss M. Stewart removed from the nursing profession of New Zealand one of its mM beloved and outstanding ft™wbtiM. During the many yearsi while she was matron of the Thames Hospital she became endeared to both patients and nurses and to all those who were intimately assoc ated with her. It is otten hard for a woman acting in a capacity in which the strictest discipline has of necessity to be exercised to combine with tWs the qualities which make her loved by one q and all, but Miss Stewart possessed this rare combination of Ch Mfcs Stewart was a tireless worker in the interests of the New Zealand Nurses Memorial Fund, the funds of which were considerably augmented by • her effoita. She was also a life member of the New Zealand Trained Nurses Association, with which she had been intimately associated since its inception Her last years were saddened by a long and depressing illness, during which she was for a long time confined to her bed. During this illness one of her Thamestrained nurses for a time nursed her.