CHILDREN’S CRECHE AT HOSPITAL

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27051, 28 May 1953, Page 2

CHILDREN’S CRECHE AT HOSPITAL

PROPOSED AMENITIES IN CHRISTCHURCH

A children’s creche may be included in the visitors’ entrance to be built at the Christchurch Hospital. At a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday, the hospital committee recommended that the board’s architect be asked to see if the provision of a creche was possible. The report said that on a recent Sun-' day afternoon, 52 children had been in the waiting-room and on the seats beside the house surgeon’s room. Mr J. J. Brqwnlee asked if it was essential to have a creche when there was such a shortage of space for essential hospital services. It was certainly not going to cost twopence, he said.

They would be going backwards if they cut out the creche, said Mrs R. M. Maciarlane. It was too much to expect mothers to leave children out In the courtyard. The report was adopted.

Women are now serving or have served in the past in Government Cabinets for eight nations, according to a report of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Those countries Include Chile, Cuba, Israel, New Zealand, Panama, Sweden, the Utiited Kingdom and the United States. Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby, chosen by President Elsenhower to be Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will be the second woman who has held Cabinet rank in the United .States.