APPEAL FOR NURSING AIDS
WORK AT KAIKOURA UNTIL CHRISTMAS Six nursing aids are required at the Kaikoura Hospital until Christmas to help with the nursing of patients admitted with typhoid fever. This was announced yesterday by Sir Hugh Ac]and, chairman of the hospital committee of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, who visited Kaikoura this week. While it appeared that the epidemic of typhoid was petering out, the board’s policy was to get all patients under control to avoid the danger of cross-infection, he said. Proper nursing was the best method of preventing cross-infection. Even if V.A.D.’s could go to Kaikoura for a fortnight it would be a big help, Sir Hugh Acland continued, and he appealed to employers to release voluntary aids. For severe cases six weeks’ nursing was necessary, three weeks being devoted to close observation, and three weeks to convalescence in hospital. Any women who volunteered to go to Kaikoura would be inoculated before they left, would live in a comfortable hotel, and would be well paid.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25328, 30 October 1947, Page 8
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