NURSES' ESCAPADE
PATIENTS LOCKED IN WARD Three nurses who left a' fever hospital at Clatterbridge,_ Wirral, Lancashire, without permission, to go to a dance, have been dismissed, following a meeting at Birkenhead of the Wirral Joint Hospital Board. It was stated that one of the nurses put a dummy figure in her bed so that her absence should not be noticed. Another was on night duty at the time siie left the hospital. She smuggled her dance clothes into the ward and dressed in full view of the patients, afterwards going out aud locking the ward door behind her so that no one could get in. If there had been a fire, said the chairman, it would have been a very serious matter. This girl might have infected outside people, including her dancing partners, because she left a fever ward. The girls had to scale high railings to leave the grounds. As soon as the escapade was discovered the girls were suspended.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22259, 11 May 1934, Page 7
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