POOR "MRS. BEDFORD."
« There is a skeleton in the cupboard, £L too—a real one for demonstrating pur- ££ poses, and a "patient" whose pallor {* has reached a degree of whiteness that *'~ is intense, owing to her long sojourn - in. hospital, the doses of medicine ad«f ministered, but never taken, and the *g iiumber of times her bed is made. Her *f name is Mrs, Bedford, and she was t(~ once a beautiful wax figure, but she lias lost some of her hair, and all her complexion through the rigours of her present life. When the eight weeks* training is finished and a theoretical and prac- ; tical examination has been passed, the girls leave behind them their butterfly caps—squares of linen pleated into jg. a butterfly bow at the back, and enter jgi'the wards wearing the neat headgear fa of the first-year nurses. J§ The patients who catch a glimpse of ||th.em call them the Flying Squad be-1 * cause of their caps. They are taken ;• on frequent visits of inspection through the hospital, so that they will know the general layout of the wards, and be familiar with hospital routine,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 14
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