NURSES' HOURS
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l thank you for the reply given in "The Post" to my previous letter, but my query was not meant to be taken as referring to St. Helens. I was really referring to private hospitals, i.e., after the nurses have graduated from St. Helens, In some of the private maternity hospitals I understand that nurses come on duty from 5 to 6 a.m. and continue until 9 p.m., ard later if necessary. This appears to go on seven days a week in busy times. Though the patients do not ki.qw whether they are working the whole time, the fact that the nurses are in the wards, in uniform, for well over 12 and 14 hours a day, with perhaps half a day off in'seven, seems to call for an explanation. In other walks of life few girls will, work more than 51 days a week, and many would protest vigorously if they were asked to do more than eight hours a day. In the case of office girls 7i hours daily is the limit, and yet the latter secure far greater remuneration, plus time and a half if they do even two hours' overtime. —I am, etc., FATHER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 8
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