LONG WALKS BY NURSES
Nurses at. the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton, wanted to know how many miles they walked a day. So a probationer :nurso fitted a pedometer, and found tiiat she walked ten miles a day. Another nurse covered fifteen. An official at the hospital said to an interviewer after the experiments: "The nurses take thousands of steps each day between the wards,, kitchens and tho bathrooms. All nurses have to be strong. They start duty at 7 a.m. and work until 8.30 p.m. They have three houra off and two hours for meals."
unlike tho founder, with a long board and other similarities that made many people take him at times for tho lato General Booth." Colonel Roberts, in point service, was the oldest officer of tho Salvation Army. Fifty-nine years ago he became an evangelist in the Christian Mission — two years before it was converted into the present world-wide organisation. To him more than anyone else was due the children's work of the Salvation Army. He held the first meeting for children only. This was in tho north of England, and General William Booth immediately transferred him to London to establish the juvenile organisation that now has hundreds of thousands of members, and to conduct a special journal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22100, 4 May 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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