TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 29, 2 February 1917, Page 2

TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL

BY A BRITISH CHAPLAIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDBNr.)

LONDON, 15th December. Rev. H. K. Bros, Chaplain to the 17th' Hussars in France, after spending three weeks as a patient hi the New Zealand Stationary Hospital at Amiens, writes to. the Oxford Times: ....

"The New' Zealand contingents are not j ■always in the. filing . line, and so it ] conies about that the majority of.;wounded in the hospital atv'Amiens are British.. The hospital is the Convent of'the Holy; Family, and is-situated close-to-the railway station; in fact,;it is rafljer .too l close, because the railway station'is the j object of frequent air raids, and a bomb aimed at the station may easily fall on j ths hospital. The staff.. consists of a | matron, eight medical men, and 12 nurses, j with orderlies, together with three chap- I lams; and a more efficient and capable, staff it would be impossible- to' find. New Zealand has, indeed, given; of her best in the medical profession.. During the month of August the staff j was taxed to the utmost of its powers;; i frequently 160 wounded would come in daily from the casually clearing stations. ; During the first few weeks' of the great j. advance in the late summer, one of the j surgeons was operating continuously j for three days and nights, so great was ]. the number of serious cases. To such | devotion many will owe it that they are i probably not crippled for life. Of the ; nursing sisters I must say" a word. tSmypathetic, kind, efficient, they seem, to fulfil what one has always regarded I as the pattern of a perfect nurse. No- j thing seems to be able to destroy their i capacity for cheerfulness and unfailing i attention to every detail which can make ! their patients more comfortable con-!: tented.. "Anyone .who.has had the fortune h to be nursed in, the" New Zealand hos-1 pital will, I-feel sure, recognise that I am not' over-painting the picture of what, these, devoted women of. this very virile colony: are doing It is. because', ' perhaps, we do not realise what a debt! of thanks and gratitude we English owej to the devoted work of the Ney Zealand | medical and nursing profession that I have thought well to piece together this short account of their work in Trance." I