NURSES’ REVENGE

Southland Times, Issue 22465, 28 December 1934, Page 5

NURSES’ REVENGE

DUCKING FOR YARDMAN. Melbourne, December 15. The ducking of a man, fully clothed, in a bath by ten irate young nurses, who claim justification for their action, is to be investigated by the Echuca District Hospital Board on Monday. The victim, Thomas Adams, a yardman at the hospital, has complained of his treatment to the management of the hospital. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the nurses, after explaining the reason for their action, described to a representative of the Herald their method of exacting vengeance. Ten of them, she said, awaited their opportunity, and pounced on the man while he was having his tea. He struggled, so was tied up and treated as just another refractory patient, said the nurse . . . “well, less gently, perhaps. . . .” They carried him some distance to the bathroom, and dumped him bodily into a bathtub which was nearly full of water.

“We held him under just long enough to say that we’d seen him in the bath,” the nurse added.

The matron of the hospital declined to-day to discuss the incident beyond remarking: “The girls gave the man a bath, and had very good reasons for doing it. Either he will have to leave the hospital or the nursing staff will leave,”