SISTERS' CAPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 6

SISTERS' CAPS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —"Mere Male" has seen fit to criticise the , "mid-Victorian" caps which the sisters of the Public Hospital are now wearing. He has seen fit to remark on the magnificent growth of the Hospital, but he has-not realised that the authorities have also grown in their ideas on the matter of hygiene and general health. While, in my opinion, the old veil was a much more picturesque form of headgear, it is obvious that it could become a germ carrier. Furthermore, since the veil headgear Appears to have been adopted by the majority of young women employed by dentists and in doctors' offices, surely the sisters, who have only reached their . position through years of study, should, be permitted to wear something different. 1 would also point out that since the veil has been adopted as uniform by the army authorities, it is only fitting that 'those nurses who are "doing their bit" at home equally as well as those who have gone overseas should have a distinctive headdress, which has been attained in the new caps. —I am. etc., HYGIENE. Palmerston North, 25/3/41. A similar letter defending the new cap has been received from "A Patient."