SUPPLY OF HORSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 February 1913, Page 5

SUPPLY OF HORSES

THE SHORTAGE DISAPPEARING, REASSURING FIGURES. (By Telegraph—Special to the Star.) j WELLINGTON, This Day. ' A shortage of nurses lias been for some years the anxiety of doctors and hospital authorities in the Dominion, but a much more satisfactory position has now been ; reached. The ideal proportion of nurses I to the population, as indicated by the reI port of the Public Health and Hospitals | Department, is one nurse to every 1000 ! ' inhabitants. The actual position to-day is as follows : Trained and registered nurses ... 1326 Untrained midwives 685 Trained widwives 494 To show bow rapidly the demand for trained midwives has been met. the total | for 1907 was only 102 while on March 31st 1 1912 the number was 415 and no fewer j than 77 more were added last year, 55 ! of whom were trained in the Dominion at ! the St. Helens Hospital, the Towley * Maternity Home, Gisborne, Alexandra Home, Christchurch, and Forth Street Home, Dunedin. I Some of the New Zealand candidates achieved the distinction of earning 100 per cent, of the possible marks both in written and practical tests at the recent examinations.

Thus the supply of nurses is steadily improving and the scarcity which once caused real anxiety is now disappearing. “Therfe has been a considerable influx of nurses from the United Kingdom and we don’t find the same difficulty in filling hospital appointments now,” explained the Inspector-General of Hospitals to the “Star” representative. “As regards midwives, though we have been short and we feared that when the Midwives Act came into force we could not get sufficient trained women to take the place of the old unregistered midwives, there is not much risk of a shortage. We admitted 57 trained midwives recently.”