SNUBBED BY MATRON WHENEVER REPORT SICK

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 11

SNUBBED BY MATRON WHENEVER REPORT SICK

CHRISTCHURCH NURSE’S DEATH. INVESTIGATION DEMANDED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Charges that the nurses at the Christchurch Hospital who. report sick are sometimes snubbed and told not to ‘‘coddle’' themselves, were made by a member, Mrs. E. R. M‘Combs, at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day. On her motion the board resolved that the hospital committee bo asked to in-, quire into and report on the circumstances of the death of Nurse Helen Jones, -who died last week. Mrs., M‘ Combs said that the circumstances called for an investigation. ‘‘X want to know why it was that Nurse ' Jones continued on duty until live, or six Weeks before her death,” stated the member. “I have been told that Nurse Jones-was unwell while on duty. She reported that she wanted a rest and would go info the country....‘‘She wont and became worse, and then had to come back suddenly to 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 tile girl was dead. ‘‘‘ A Targe number of nurses have the feeling that if they reported sick they would be snubbed.”