London Correspondent EGGS TOR PATIENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 15

London Correspondent EGGS TOR PATIENTS

TF she were alive to-day I am sure Florence Nightingale would approve the efforts made hy the nursing staff at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital to help their patients. With the assistance of the hospital's gardener, they established some months ago a poultry "block" so that they might have eggs for use in the hospital. The scheme has been a great success, thanks to careful feeding and routine attention. Even in December, not an easy month so far as egg production is concerned, their records showed a yield of over 250 eggs each week. i Apart from its utilitarian value, the henkeeping scheme has provided endless interest for staff and patients. Mother of Nursing The Princess Royal, who has been enthusiastic about nursing since she was a child, and took her training at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in the Great War, possesses a number of books and other small mementoes of Florence Nightingale. When the Princess was in Edinburgh recently she was shown, at the Royal Infirmary there, a brick which came from Miss Nightingale's old home. She talked for some time of Florence Nightingale's wonderful work and, on her return, sent to the infirmary, from her own personal library, a book containing notes on nursing by Miss Nightingale, with the suggestion that it might be kept in the nurses' home. Furs for Canada For nearly an hour Lady Willingdon, Sir Cecil Weir and a large party of other people interested in Britain's export trade watched a mannequin parade of fur coats to be sent to Canada. Most of. the furs had come from the British Commonwealth— Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Labrador and the United Kingdom— and had been "processed" and made up in London. It was good to learn that Canadians thoroughly approve our British moleskin coats, which are capable of various attractive treatments. Few other furs, I

imagine, would readily lend themselves to being beautifully worked in pattern or being dyed an attractive dark green shade. This country's contribution of moleskins, I heard, is up to expectations. Instead of throwing the skins away, farmers are now making national assets of them.