GIRL ATTENDANTS.
IX PUBLIC HOSPITALS. * l ABOMINABLE'' DUTY. (Special to "Northern Advocate.") WELLINGTON, This Day. The Hon. A. S. Malcolm expressed his opinion in tho Legislative Council yesterday regarding the employment of young girls in hospitals. "I think it an abomination," he said, "to have "iris of 18 and 19 who have come out of cultured homes attending upon delirium tremens eases. It is an abomination that they compel these girls to go and hear the disgusting, foul and loathsome language of brutes and hear it in the presence of young men."
Mr Malcolm's reference to hearing the language in the presence of young men had regard to the fact that the house surgeon or the porter might be called in to assist in quieting the patient. "I think," concluded Mr Malcolm, "it is shocking."
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1924, Page 8
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