AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15141, 4 November 1912, Page 8

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

THE NEW . MATROX, _ CfllOH OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London*, September 27. The responsible position of matron of the Auckland Hospital has been filled by the appointment of Miss Jessie M. Orr, matron of the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Taunton, since 1907. Miss Orr will leave England to take up her new duties on November 15, sailing on the steamer Athenic. The Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has made a wise selection, for Miss Orr possesses high and thorough professional qualifications extending over a period of 15 years' active service. Her departure"" from Taunton is a matter of ; keen rocrct. Miss Orr was trained at Guy's Hospital, and obtained a first-class three years' cer- ' tificate in 1900, also a certificate for six months' fever training. She remained on the private staff till 1904, when she returned to Guy's Hospital to qualify for a matron's post. She served with distinction as ward sister, surgery sister, night superintendent, and hospital housekeeper,* her duties including the ordering and superintending the cooking for upwards of 500 patients, 35 sisters, and 95 servants. From Guy's, Miss Orr was appointed matron of the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Taunton, in 1907, a position she has held to date to the unqualified satisfaction of the authorities and the medical and nursing staffs. Among the certificates -which Miss Orr holds are those for maternity nursing from the British Lving-in Hospital. London, and for massage from the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses. As a member of the Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland, Miss Orr is in favour of the organisation of nursing by statutory registration, and she is looking forward to tho privilege of registration in New Zealand. "Of her personal characteristics." writes the British Journal of Nursing, " it need only be said that her very excellent testimonials bear witness to strength of purpose, devotion to duty, and. kindly relations with fellow-workers in every degree—the national characteristics, wo may add, of Scottish women. In the honourable position she has been elected to fill, we wish her all success, and that her relations with her fellow workers in the land of her adoption may be as happy as they have been at home. We feel sure she will do all in her power to make them so."