PROBATIONARY NURSES
TUBERCULAR INFECTION AN ASSERTION DISPUTED (Peb United Press Association) BLENHEIM, March 17. “That is too sweeping an assertion,” declared the Marlborough Hospital Board’s medical superintendent, when commenting on a circular from the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union requesting hospital hoards to investigate the cause of so many young probationary nurses contracting tuberculosis. The medical superintendent maintained that local experience definitely proved that nurses who contracted tuberculosis had a T.B. family history. All nurses wore instructed in the necessary precautions against contracting the infection. “There is less chance of contracting tuberculosis in hospital than out of it,” the superintendent asserted, adding that throughout the Dominion there were numerous cases of this disease that were never notified.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22833, 18 March 1936, Page 9
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