The District Nurse

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 2

The District Nurse

A country nurso stationed up north in 1927, who later married a farmer in Auckland at the New Fear, told of some of her experiences when country district nurses Had to do their travelling on horseback. The horses had to be shod as frequently as once every three weeks, for the shoes were often pulled off in the stiff mud of the clay roads. On one occasion she brought to the city a patient who was an urgent case. She had not time to change from a rigout which was familiar enough in the country districts during winter time, but* caused a sensation in the city streets. She had on a sou’-wester hat, a waterproof outfit which she had oiled and made herself, leggings and heavy boots. Now district nurses ride in motor cars, and are little exposed to the weather.