NURSES’ PAY
Sir, —In answer to “Be Fair” I stated in my letter I had no quarrel with nurses or their salaries. I would ask “Be Fair” the same question as she asks me: why did she not take up domestic work if the wages and conditions attract her so much? I gave an example of one girl who would not do domestic work in a hospital who is now nursing. There is not enough glamour in domestic work for some girls. Some people think they cannot be done without. We seem to manage, somehow. It is good we still have a choice. Nurses know the conditions before they start. I would like to have been a nurse. I think I would have had the physical and mental capacity for hard work, but as I left school at 13J I did not have enough education.—Yours, etc., AN ARMY MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH. June 2. 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27985, 4 June 1956, Page 16
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