OLD PEOPLE’S HOMES.
BAD COOKING AND SERVING. [BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 20. There is an old saying that God sends food and someone else sends cooks. The truth of this was illustrated in the course of a discussion at the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board meeting last week. There had been some complaints as to the way in which the food was served at Turangi Home, Ashburton, and Mrs Cunnington, who had with some degree of boldness, as she herself admitted, practically tested it, said that-: the food was excellent, but it was badly served and cooked. Dr Valentine said that this was a general complaint in the institutions of the Dominion. The food was of the best, hut it was spoilt by bad cooking and bad serving. “What I would like to see,” said Dr. Valin tine, “ would bo that throughout the Dominoin the homes of old people should be in charge of trained nurses. Those in charge now are excellent people, hut they are not expert at dealing with people like trained nurses are, who from their education are specially fitted to do so.” These opinions ehcted a sympathetic chorus of “ Hear, hear ” from the members of the Board
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1911, Page 6
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