VIOLATION OF SECRECY

Northern Advocate, 27 November 1928, Page 4

VIOLATION OF SECRECY

NURSE REINSTATED,

(Special to “ Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day.

Strong comment upon the violation of secrecy ordinarily observed regarding letters placed in the post for delivery, was made by members of the Auckland Hospital Hoard last evening when Nurse E. A. Blackie —recently dismissed by a Special Committee of the Board for writing to a prisoner in the Mount .Eden Gaol after ho had been a patient at the hospital—appeared before the board with a request that her case be reconsidered.

After hearing the contents of Miss Blackie ’s written explanation, members declined to take the responsibility of punishing her. This attitude was adopted on the ground that the document forwarded by her to the prisoner should never have been placed in the hands of the Medical Superintendent, Dr C. E. Maguire, and is was unanimously decided that provided Nurse Blackie made an apology to the Matron, Miss A, Taylor—'about whom she admitted making rather an indiscreet statement—she should bo reinstated in her former position. “I am sony that the nurse was dis missed without a hearing,” said the chairman, Mr W. Wallace. “I thought the Matron and Dr Maguire had spoken to her and that she had explained tha position, but it appears she had not made any explanation at all.”