ST. HELENS HOSPITAL NURSES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20563, 3 June 1932, Page 13

ST. HELENS HOSPITAL NURSES.

SO TUX EDITOR or THE I'RSSS. Sr.—To-day's news of the fire tt St. Helens Maternity Hospital pM, and the loss of personal tlttU incurred by the nurses in fatting should surely arouse the jppathy of the public. It is not Kindly known that these nurses, alttagh in many cases completing train- % (KBnmenccd in the Public Hospital, fcnt receive any pay while at St. Mk The work is by no means less MgMsible or arduous; so it is surely &N that measures were taken to put llMse:. in training on an equal footsL bolh as regards pay and hours of Hfcp-Yours, etc., \ JUSTICE. Sfaj 31st, 1932. uuraes in training at St. »fat liuspital receive no pay, and jtflw to provide themselves with *Hub equipment of a value of about j<£ said Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, •foi Officer of Health at Christ•wfc, when this letter was referred *Km yesterday. "Certain special as, for example, mackintoshes flema boots for wet weather and for work in the district are JjlwL Nurses receive this specialtraining for nothing. Formerly * jKamnm of £2O had to be paid by y* at the hospital. In the Kari"■l Baby Hospital, where the trainVjPvcs is also to be regarded as •«i work, the trainees have to pay jjMßiaa: before being admitted. gmtb oo pay is given at St. there are many girls on the gMg list. On the completion of training the nurses almost withJf etteption pass on either to disy.Tork or to some other maternity S*N- 11»e training period for those jp™ to qualify as maternity nurses * jj; Months. and for those training g*piw», two years. Where a nurse g SBMfly received general training training to qualify as JWw is only six months. It is ? wme of the Hospital Boards yiwg maternity hospitals pay F***nj{>loyed in them, but only ?*» tare already completed their * Bea l training."]