BRITISH NURSES
MENTAL HOSPITAL STAFFS LEFT (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 9. Five British mental nurses, members- of a party which arrived from the United Kingdom recently, ■ have already left their employment at the Kingseat Mental Hospital after only a few weeks’ work. Two of them are trained nurses. None of the British nurses has left the Avondale Mental Hospital. The Acting-Director-General of Mental Hospitals (Dr. John Russell, of Wellington) said in a telephone interview that throughout New Zealand about 12 of the 1000 nurses brought from Britain had left the mental hospital service. Those who left Kingseat had been . working about a month, but others had been in the country .about four or five months. British nurses had left Seacliff, Nelson, Tokanui, Porirua, and Kingseat hospitals.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 February 1947, Page 3
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