GOOD WORK AT THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 2

GOOD WORK AT THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE

Wondorful work is being done by the surgeon-dentists at the Americal hospital at Ncuilly, and from every point of the field of action they get cases .which, without their skill, would get smalt clianco of recovery, states the Paris' correspondent of "Tho Queen." Broken jaws and otherwise injured faces are treated in such a'way that it may ba said, new faces are built upon the originaLframe. A friend of mine, an Englishwoman. is nursing there, and sho tolls me that both doctors aaid nurses aro working with fine energy and selfsacrifice. It may bo en passant, that almost all tho professional nurses in this hospital arc giving their services for nothing, and when wo remembor what an ill-paid profession nursing is as a rule, we may well look upon this gift from working women as surpassing any other, for it is their all, and it may be a final sacrifice, as the risks they take have been proved to be of ,110 small consideration. American, English, and French women aro working together, and liko all work of the same kind, as times goes on, the hardness of it is proving to be a touchstone for true metal. Only a few English soldiers, are in tlio hospital at tho present moment, but there arc over 400 Frenchmen of all ranks,and my English friend tolls mo they liavo all that modical science can give them, and a regular visiting priest and French Protestant pastor. In the little chapel of the hospita] Mass is celebrated regularly, and beautiful music is given for the consolation of those who are well enough to go to hear it. All nurses tell tho same thing about the French soldiers in hospital.' They aro courageous, sensitive, uncomplaining, but rarely gay j whereas our men joke to the very last. Some people think this trait a proof of our lack of imagination, but it is much more likely to be a ease of " auglung to avoid playing tho womaJi. •

Under date of June 23, tlie London" correspondent of the Christchurch "Press" writes: "Mr. F. G. B: Waldegravo, formerly Under-Secretary for Justice in New Zealand, lias consented to undertako the duties of honorary secretary to the New Zealand War Contingent ssociation in London, to relieve Mr. Norman Dalston, who has acted in that capacity since tlio inception of the movement, and is now going to Walton-on-Thaiues as honorary secretary, to the New Zealand Hospital there/ Nurse Tombe, formerly of the Dunedin Hospital, will he matron, and the nurses' home will be controlled by the Misses Jessie and M. Thomson, also of Dunedin, daughters of the late Mr. Jw W. Thomson, M.P. A pamphlet will bo issued to-dav em titled "The Truth About the War—a Crushing Indictment." Proceeds aro in aid of tlio Nursing Sisterhood. Tho price of the pamphlet is one penny. (Continued on next page 4