DEATH OF A NURSE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 11

DEATH OF A NURSE.

HOSPITAL BOARD TO MAKE INQUIRY.

IVIES. E. It. McCOMBS’S ALLEGATIONS,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) / CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. Charges that nurses at the Christchurch Hospital who report sick were sometices snubbed and told not to “coddle” themselves were made by a member, Mrs. E R. McCombs, at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day. On her motion the board resolved that the hospital committee be asked to inquire into and report on the circumstances of the death of Nurse Helen Jones, who died last week.

Mrs. McCombs said that the circumstances called for an investigation. I want to know why it was that Nurse Jones continued on duty till five or six weeas beiore her death,” she said. “I have been told that Nurse Jones was unwell while on duty. She reported that she wanted a rest and would go into the country. She went and became worse, and then had to come back suddenly to the hospital. She received such a reception from the matron that she was exceedingly upset. It was not such a 'reception as should have been given to a sick person.. Three weeks later the girl was dead. A large number of nurses have the feeling that if they report sick they will be snubbed.” *