WORK FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1942, Page 3

WORK FOR WOMEN

SURVEY FOR POST-WAR

SERVICE

(PA.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 14.. The problem of the reabsorption of women now serving in the military forces into the civil life of the country has not been neglected by the Rehabilitation Board, according to the chairman, Mr. Moohan. He said today that plans for the employment Of women were under consideration and a report would be prepared by a small committee" under the chairmanship of Mrs. Mac Donald; of Wellington, a member of the board who served as a nurse with the American forces in the Great War. This would be ,in effect a survey of the whole position as far. as the employment of women after the war was concerned. Referring to nurses, Mr. Moohan said that work in their own particular profession would be found for all of them who needed employment. The survey that would be. made would include a schedule of all. equipment, available at military camps with a view to this being utilised in forestry camps and in other directions. It was visualised that a, scheme, of cottage hospitals would be inaugurated, one to be established in every centre of population \where there were 1000 people. Skilled nurses would be used in country districts for midwifery and for visiting the sick. The farming community would not be overlooked and provision probably would be made for an extension of the district nursing service to farming areas. In industry also it would be necessary to have nursing services and nurses attached to factories where there were large numbers of workers.

"What we aim at is to provide nursing services wherever they are required," 'said Mr. Moohan. "Nurses have played a sterling role in the war, and when peace is proclaimed we want to see every nurse who wants to continue in her profession able to do so."