NURSE’S DEATH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 11

NURSE’S DEATH

AN INQUIRY ORDERED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Charges that nurses at Christchurch Hospital who report sick were sometimes snubbed and told not to coddle themselves were made by a membei, F 1 s E R. McCombs, at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board tod'l(j'n her motion the board resolved that the hospital committee be asked to inquire into and report on the circumstances of the death of Helen Jones w o died last week. Mrs. McCombs said the circumstances called for an investigation. “I want to know why it was that Niusc Jones continued on duty till five or six weeks before her death. I have beon told that Nurse Jones was unwell while on duty. She reported that she wanted a rest, and would go.into the country. She went and became worse, and then had to come back suddenly to the hospital. She received such a reception from the matron that she was exceedingilv upset. It was not such a reception as should have been given to a so * person. Tluee weeks later the girl was dead A large number ot nurses aie. feeling that if they report- sick they wid the snubbed.” ______