HOSPITAL PATIENTS
NEW FORM OF ADDRESS (Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day. In future patients in the Palmerston North. Hospital will not be greeted merely by their surname when staff members have occasion to speak to them. Instead they will receive the title of Mr., Mrs., or Miss, as the case may be, as a preface to their name. This was decided at a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday. The question was raised by a remit from the Cook Hospital Board. "What do they want?" inquired a member when the remit was read.
The chairman, Mr. J. K. Hornblow, explained the. usual practice, and outlined the objections, adding that he considered the use of the surname ill mannered.
Mr. J. Boyce said he thought the matter could be rectified without delay. Some of the men were old enough, to be grandfathers, let alone fathers, to the girls. Some of the probationers were very young, and for them to address their elders by the blunt surname was rude.
Mr. Hornblow: If any complaints are received the probationer concerned will be reprimanded. The board unanimously decided that henceforth it should be obligatory on the nursing staff to use the new form of address.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1937, Page 11
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