NEW ZEALAND NURSES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17285, 28 September 1916, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NURSES.

LOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION.,

[Per Press Association.] . \ WELLINGTON, September; 277 The Minister of Public Health/has' received from the Deputy Director Of Medical Services, New Zealand ExpAcliiionary Forces, a memorandum as t*> the location of nurses of the ?New Zealand . Army' Nursing Service aps at August 10. The distribution of nurses was as under:— M'v ; XC.Z. General Hospiial, No. X, Brockanhurjt . . . . • ’.K 58 N.Z. general Hospital -No. 2, Walton-oa*' Tham-sa. - , . . ' . _‘..0:80 N.Z. ,\o. i Si-atiouary Hospital, France, .VUWAotea Convalescent Home, Heliopolis ; Z 3 Hospital ship Maneno ~ . . . i Hoauital ship Alaruna . . . ' « Pick m England ./ >V, i:• • '*.:*• ltiturned to Now Zealand on duty < 528 He turned .0 i\evc Zea.aaid flick . »» Awoitmg duty in England . • '. -yr es Total under New Zealand command,. -2MS ■British- hospitals in Egypt . . ,<j. • Entisli ho3piui ’ thips . • • • rintish hrspilai trains ;n Egypt . • ~ Hiit.sh iictji.a.s in Hngatua • • • * ' Total under. liritißh command 10401 . In -addiuoiri 11 nave died, and tneea location or 3± is unknown (possibly firstJa' charter iViiihend and some auabnea.tooo Austi aiinn noopitnisi, lurking a grand bi total ol 357. >' . The total numbsr of New Zealand in nurses now s availauie lu 8, whiie the ' liuuiber requiied d ;§4. .* The *st.df has not jvt been appointed 1> to New Zoataud-Hospital, No. VCpd- -j ford (.3-0 beds), ! huh the full U number 14;-also at the New Zealufid t Convalescent Hospital, i3.orncnus.lsh - (IU4O bed,) no appointments have jet 1 been made,- but the ful|'staff will bo 0 12. -■ . •/ -Y- '*" : “It is proposed,” states the memo- * randum, fill existing, vacancies * from small drafts which arrive with reinforcements from New Zealand, arid * to enrol New Zealand nurses as their contracts with .the .War O&ce expire* wnotber in British, hospitals or hospital ships. . ..... . . . “ Tlie position on the_ arrival of, th« Deputy-Director of Medical Services iff England was that ol of the New Zealand nurses had arrived by tho. Maheno under arrangement of the \\ ar Oince with headquarters, and five others.uip dor tho matron in chief, Egypt,-RW Had been sent to England. >.OF thw number, 24 had been posted to Walton Hospital by consent of tlio matron, in chief,‘War Offibe. She-has reluctantly agreod to transfer 27 to;, With they New Zealand- ExpedititmfHj Forces, but owing tor. the serious kftffirtage, declines to release five additional ouco until tlie completion oft their Contracts with the Imperial Service, lo enable tho staffs to.he completodi-how-ever, the matron in chief has complied with the Deputy-Director’s request.and has ordered thirty New Zealand nurses To bo released from Britiah hospittlfiitt Egypt, also hospital ships. number availuble, he will bo provided working staffs of qualified nuvses for all our hospitals. . The Deputv-Directbr P o! '^ s ’ it would not be necessary the rolls of the New Zealand Army Noting Services nvirses to meet requirements if those employed in British hospitals and hospital ships were available, but t-h* matron in chief firmly ‘declines to n> lease them uptil thdir contracts with the War Office expire.