IMITATION NURSING UNIFORMS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 7

IMITATION NURSING UNIFORMS.

Tho imitation of nmrsing uniforms is at present agitating hospital authorities. in England. T_e uniforms'of Queen Alexandra's military or naval nurses and of the Queen's Jubilee nurses are safe from imitation, as they aro cover_d by tho Uniforms Act, and tho nurses of other hospitals protest, that their own. particular striped priots, special caps and aprons, should be protected in the same way. -. ; Butj though it must bo most annoying- '„ to nurses, who, by special training and study, hay© the right toy wear a certain uniform, to see that unaform imitated by untrained rrurse gjrls, and even canvassore, stfll the nurse may always lay tho flattering unction to her soul that no or.© -with eyes to -see could ever mistake the maid of,;allwork' dressed up ins cloak and bonnet for the real thing. Ih© hairdressing jajo-no always shown up nurse, 'aM^it

has bo©-, said by an authority on tho _u_jecfc t&at"it is an absolute fact that tbero is no good rvurs© who overdresses hex barr, and there is no bad nurso who does not overdress her hair." Pearl necklets, bangles, and high-heel shoes,, though dreadful incongruities when worn with collar and caSs, aro useful in helping to show the di_ti_&. tion •between tho false and tho true for no nurse with any sense of the dignity of her calling would over b» guilty of such, "errc__ of taste.