DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13102, 29 April 1908, Page 3

DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION.

The anneal meeting of subscribers to the Qforistchurch i>istriot Nursing Association was liieid yesterday. aißternoon, (there 'being present:—ArdhdeaWjn. Averill (in the dhair), Mrs 11. H. Rhodes, Mrs J. Palmer, Mrs Wardrop, Niirse Maude, Messrs C..E. Godfrey, J. Slater, *nd CShas. Bean (hen. secretary). , • - , • The a-noiuaJ report wae as folbtre::— "The Associarfiion ibas been, in'existence for a number of years, and Ibas done, and ts' doing, a..- greet deal of so Md, useful work amongst the eick poor of Greater Christoluirch . and neighbourhood. ' Nurse Maude, the head-onrrse of ;-fcho Association, reports as follows conoorxiing rtihe nature of the, -work done during the past year: — 'Wo are now entering upon *ibe thirteenth year of our! district nuraitng, and still matny do not event know of our existence;, irauph ihae-.been done, and mudb Temadne -to-be done. I ' started alone tweSve" years ago and ended tihe first y.ear of-any work, h»v- - ing paid 1100 vdsite on foot; now we have two 'assratwuit' miureea.,•■.«nd during • tods: year 6000 ■jtobjb.'.- to ' Most of, Ates© have/beep • cases of ca.neer, ulcerated 1«&, rfwtnnatism, parajjsie, tand tubercusa.T diseaeG. : One special part. pi onfr work is the caje of -tibe old people, * -who "iha.Te, owing to oH age, all the ihelptessnesG of childhood. , We are grateful to -those doctors who *hiave made. tus© of our , services, ami should Bβ viery' it more of the medical iniea wooiM 'let us : know of tibe cases where we are needed. M-any of tifoe patienite are sen* put < of the hospital before ihej are quite weR, owing to scarcity of room, atod come Tinder our oare. A greatdeiil of work -that oanaiot be speoiaHsed takee. pkoe in ithe office, euch ias teJepfcone messages <to answer, - letters to afafcend to, amewering enquiTiee from people ; •who oome for tail r eorte orf help aoid advioe, and the Borting of ctotihang sC-nt in; afl this takes _up time, *na | with the outside Tisitiog ' itlh© thx«e I nurses and the asenstant iare easily employed arl day. When iiigh* nursing is required we employ certain capor ; ble women •w i hom we know sometftung of. If »H siok folk and ojdfdk need- , ing our bare in Greater, Qhristclrorch' to know of the I>istrict NtrreLng Associa/tion/ five or six nurses could . be ueefutlly employed. '"> Ouf .thanta β-re due to itihose , who Jhrnve ; , assisted our work by donatdons of money, .dotinkjg, bedding, and books, β-lso for old! Iraea, of which we use a rory large quarufcitr. , . The committee desire to emphasise the fact th<at ithe work of tike mirees is coiifined to .the sick poor, no attempt being made to indriietex in'any way whatever to those" persons who are in a position to make use of th© excellent inujsrng homes which exist in Ohristdnirch. From c financial point of view ibe yeaT just, dosed has been a very tra.tiafactory one, and ends with a credit Jralunce of £94 os-sd. Apart from the sum (£100) received from the execuitoTs of the late Hon. J. T. Peacock, whnch sura ihas. been.invested to form the rructeus,,.of \wx endowment fund, several other large amounts have come in Awards •fiHe.^wprk'of the Aseocia.tion, and , ., the'" * aitubual meeting may possibly decide to edd some portion of the present orediit balance to tih;e endowmiOTit fund. The committee are sn-tisfied of the neceraHy that exists for this OCTiTijiced that valuable and -nobie work is done by the nwrses in alleviating suffering among the poorer oSaes _of the oommunity and in xenderin' , ' assistance in various ways to t&oee in need of their services." Mr Bea-n- moved, and .Mr SHater seconded the adoption of the ireport, aad this was carried. It was decided to send copies of. the report to the Medical Society, with a lequest thai the Society endeavour to -assist tihe Association. The. old committee wsas re-elected, with the_ substitution of *he Bey. J. Mackenzie for the seat on *he commiittee formerly occupied by Nurse Maude. On the motion of Mr STateT and the chairman, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the secretary and staff of nurees for t&e mamn«r in, wftich tW bad discharged their duties during the past year.