DEATH OF A NURSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 6

DEATH OF A NURSE.

I ARCHDEACON'S ALLEGATIONS. ! CLAIM AGAINST DEPARTMENT j ONLY PUBLICITY SOUGHT. | [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] | CHEISTCHURCH. Wednesday. j Under date of November 24, ArchI deacon Ensor writes as follows to the ! Press : — "Very reluctantly I write to remove an impression that may be made by the report in your issue of this morning that I am making a money claim against the Department of Public Health in revenge for the death of my daughter. My reasons for taking legal action against the DeI partment are as follows : — i •■ Correspondence between the Waiapu j Hospital board, copies ot which the board ; have agreed to furnish me with, convince i me that some such action is necessary, I because appeals, protests, personal deputations, etc., have hitherto produced little ! beyond promises, and the state of affairs j is hidden from public knowledge in the ! pigeon holes of the Departmental Office,; I because from Hick's Bay to Gisborne. I j was implored by people, who made it their business to interview me, to take some steps to awaken the public to the state of things that his gone on for years, and still obtains; and lastly, sir, because after the evidence of my own personal investigations, I promised, by my child's grave, that I would force aside all thoughts of the hatefulness of dragging personal affairs into the public gaze, and would take such steps as will make it impossible that any nurse shall be exposed to conditions which caused the death of Mrs. Wingfieid and her daughter in the last epidemic of typhoid at Te Araroa. which have now claimed Nurse Ensor as a victim, and are responsible for Nurse Jewiss lying, when I left, in a critical condition. " Should my claim be successful no one who knows me will need the assurance that the money -will go intact to some worthy object, as a memorial to a brave woman, of whose record her loved ones are proud.''