TRAINING OF NURSES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 4

TRAINING OF NURSES.

' CpnRESPOCTENX.f Auckland, April 9. . Thp Auckland : branch of ■ ,tho Liberal ,1111? Labour. Federation, jlias ■ dccidod. to. urge; tlpor the' Government the .necessity, of having tlio . lectures at St. Helens Hospital, open to. mid•\rivcs who. can produce a'.cratifiqate frojn ... two . doctors .of their fitness?, to bo taught, ,r and also to probationers. of registered , trie homes ■ with fun annu'sil prastico: of at ;•..; feast; ten\caaM,;':the''''fee for such "course .of . locturcs not to excced /thrco' guineas.'; It liaa . also been ■ resolved to , recommend totho • 'Government rthat. thesq' outsido students ill ; regularVattondanc'o bo : permitted;to 'sit k for ; examination >t' St. Helens Hospital, .'and that tlio examiners bo; appointed annually and chring«l evrry year. •. , Tho mover'-'of;, tbeso; resolutions (Mr; T. Harlo Giles) otated. that for. tho .'first, twelvo'. months nurses \woro permitted:to attend tho . lecturcs .at; St. .Helens' Hospital, but .since ' ,thon this ..privilege had boon withdrawn, and onfr theso-students iii'thc institution-were now allowed,to attend:-/ What he wanted to see was tbeso lectures, reopened,- to those; Vho .wished to attend. ' : -*V,; v'Tho Coroner-(Mr.'T. Grosh'am)' said'ho.was . informerl .that a .largo number, of'registered 1 midwives in ; Auckland: desirod\to becomo ~ nioro; intimate with ; their dutiesV. aiid; would willingly attend .tho, lcotyres.;, if.-; once : they ; wero started, again. --At •present."only;a.'comparatively few. iwero becoming qu'alifiedi ;with . ■ tho result that thp;jxipr- -man--found'-it : diffi-' quit to.got a competent nurso; into, his home . at' a- reasonable figuro when .occasion' arpse. ■Cm TEIXGR.VTII—raE3s association.) Auckland, April 9. . Prior to,the Premier's doparturo for/Wel-.-lingtoni .' tlio '.mombor. for ; . City Central - (Mr. , . A.; Kidd) anterviewpd'him .with;.reference' toV ! , the. working, : of tho S|. .Helens Hospital and the. apparent curtailing, of. it's sphere pf,"iisofulness in. conncotiQn withi'tho iiistructipn and . /oxamihation'. of probationers ' from registered homes, and .'midwives who;-;,desired to ' go up - for examination 1 iiuder : tlio . new Act-. Since ' tlieii' Mr., Kidd; has .written to; tlio, .'Minister :" ,'fpr Public Health' oil; thp subject, pointing out; that ■'.tho 1 ,'intbiition .of tho' founder,''of these ; hospitals . (tho • ;tnat they should bo' the-;means of; increasing nuniber 'of qualifipd 'iUu'sos'-ih 'this-par-1 ticijlar, branch, ;ep. that tho" poor imght';haveimproved 'attention..;.;' Mr. Kidd went 011 -to state, that,, it had- be(!i_i:.commimicatbd to.vhim, •that thp Jectyres prpviously givcn r at the.hos- , ■pitalvhad bepn. stopped to outsiders,..and wore .limited to thp President probationers, ,who|' he'.'--; understood, were four in 'number.- This Would not carry.- out the .-indention, of. jtlip. founder, ■'■■■ and-hi? had asked the Premier, and the Minister of Public'Health;.to.see;tliat:tho old. order of affairs was once more enforced;' v';'