NURSES WHO SMOKE
ROOM MAMI DAT lIOSI'ITAI. j Wanganui, Sept. I A plea for a room at the Wanganui I Hospital where nurse.- may smoke was J made by Mrs .1 .1 Scott at the monthly j molding of the board when reporting j on an interview she had had with the! matron. Miss M. J. Hunter, on the sub '• .met. The question was referred to the House Committee. Mrs Scott said she was a non-smoker, | but believed that provision should be j made for a room whore nurses could j smoke. The matron, however, objected j to girls smoking. "1 told the matron," j Mrs Scott added, “that it would be far; better for the girls to smoke openh than do it behind her back and be dcThe matron had also said there was j no room which could be used for this 1 purpose, but Mrs Scott suggested that ! it would be a good idea if one or two j of the senior sisters coukl live out, and j thus make more accommodation available. P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 3
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