BRAVE DR. FLORENCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22985, 12 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)

BRAVE DR. FLORENCE

There has gone from our midst, a woman who should surely have decorated with the V.C., states an English journal. , ■ • ... , She was a Manchester doctor, a founder-member 23 years ago of the Duchess 'Of York Children's Hospital at Burnage. Everyone who knows anything about this hospital 'remembers Dr. Florence Robinson, f<fr aho gave her life to the care of urimen and children, helping them to health' of body and cheerfulness of spirit. Two years ago she diagnosed her own illness. She knew it to be an extremely rare nervous disease which is at preiienfc incurable. It meant giving up the work she loved and in which for so long (she was 65 when she died) she had been wonderfully successful. She had nerve-racked patients hope for the future, but for herself sne had no hope, and in her last two years she carefully and systematically noted the progress of her own disease, believing that by so doing she might leave behind data which would be of use to the medical profession. How terrible those last two yoarj were none of us can ever know. Suffering in silence, brave Dr. Florence waited calmly for the end.