NURSES AND KITCHEN MAIDS
Sir,—The Hospital Board offers £4 a week for kitchen maids, while the nurses receive £1 3s. Nurses are selected for their particular qualifications, good appearance, personality, and education.. Their work is exacting and frequently unpleasant and they work six days a week. Among the cases these lovely young girls contact are septic abortions, venereal diseases, and drunks, for whom they have to perform the most intimate duties, often receiving impudence, and abuse. Although their rooms are very comfortable, they have absolutely no privacy. Most of them have given up good positions; and if they have no parents at the back of them have to practise the most rigid economy and are denied* all pleasure. Why should such advantage be taken of girls with high ideals, because they don't complain. We read of certain workers claiming dirt money. • How much dirt money is due to nurses?— Yours, .etc., PRACTICAL. December 12, 1945.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24748, 13 December 1945, Page 6
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