ST. HELEN'S HOMES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 5

ST. HELEN'S HOMES.

AUCKLAND, April 9.

Prior to the Premier's departure for Wellington the member for City Central (Mr A. Kidd) interviewed him with reference to the working of the St. Helens Hospital and the apparent curtailing of its sphere of usefulness in connection with the instruction and examination of probationers from registered homes and midwives who desired to go up for examination under the new Act. Since then Mr Kidd has written to the Minister ,for Public Health on the subject, pointing out that the intention of the founder of these hospitals (the late Mr Seddon) was that they should be the means of increasing the number of qualified nurses In this particular branch, so that the poor might have improved attention. Mr Kidd went on to state that it had been communicated to him that the lectures previously given at the hospital had been stopped to outsiders, and were limited to the resident probationers, who, he understood, were four -in "number. This would not ca^'-y out the intention of the fouv£ eFj an^ he had asked the ?7emier and the Minister for PnViic Health to see that the old o» 01 i o f a ff a irs was once more enjoyed.