Another Florence Nightingale

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6788, 20 February 1932, Page 7

Another Florence Nightingale

One who has been called “another Florence Nightingale” was .nearly buried in a pauper’s grave in England the other day. She was 77 and penniless when she died, but a charitable fund paid for her funeral when the truth was discovered. Only four people followed the coffin, which . was covered with a Union Jack on which a row of medals rested. Such was the end of Sister Borlase. Sister Borlase was boru at Helston, where her father and grandfather had been doctors. Lovo of healing was in her blood . The little Cornish girl could think of no other destiny except to be a nurse. When she was nearly 60, and had a lifetime of nursing behind her, the war broke out . She volunteered, and was told she was too old for active service, at the front, but she eventually was allowed to join a nursing unit, and served in Flanders, France, Serbia, Russia and Gallipoli. She nursed in Russia during the revolution period and in Serbia during the great typhus epidemic.