SERVICE IN CHINA
DOMINION NURSES BACK ILLNESS Ol’ MATRON (Pur Trass Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Miss V. Bargrove, matron of the Church Missionary Society's hospital in Hangchow, and Miss E. Parkinson, of the Shanghai Municipal Hospital service, arrived by the Wanganella to-day. Miss Bargrove became ill in China and travelled from there on a stretcher, accompanied by Miss Parkinson. She will go into the Welling i ton Hospital for a while, and. will then stay with relatives at Otaki. Miss Parkinson will go to relations in Christchurch. Both were trained as nurses in the Christchurch Hospital. Miss Bargi'ove has been 15 years in Hangchow and Miss Parkinson three years in Shanghai. Both have had a full share of the increase in hospital work as a result of the Sino-Japanese conflict with its attendant problems of refugees, cholera and typhoid.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 11
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