HOSPITAL MATTERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 13 May 1912, Page 3

HOSPITAL MATTERS.

c —i —— \ I'IIICTION AT AUCKLAND. (per Press Association.) Auckland, May U. Tlic trouble at the Auckland Hospital between the matron and the medical and nursing staff is to be inquirocl into by a committee. On Monday tin.' iiK-dical staff formulated coin plaints to which the matron submitted ! replies. The mcdic.il staff allege thai the matron does not commence Avori till 10 a.m. The matron replies that she begin?-; at 6.15 a.m. and finishes at 11. p.m. The next charge is on< !!i : insolence and impertinence to sup oviors, three cases hoing cited, tin first of which is that the ISiatror satiically replica: "it is really ver\ nice of you to take sue';! interest i'. nurses." Tiic Matron replies fulh Lo each charge, denying any intentioi ni satire or insolence. She adds th;vl there is nothing in the by-law to indicate that the medical staff are her supsuperiors. A rurther charge is that the charwoman was left in charge oi i two cases in the scarlet fever ward. ' The Matron replies that.the case war one in which a maid was lefl in charge of two children who had been convales- ' cent for a month, while the nurse wa: out, instructions being given that the sister in the adjoining ward be summoned if necessary. The placing of probationers in charge of gonorrhoea! and apthalmic cases was another ac--53 cusation. The Matron replies thai when she joined th'e institution she round a junior in charge of a tetanus ease. She was informed by the assistant superintendent that it was cunffi tomary to place special cases in charge 17 of a junior, under supervision of the ward sister.' This was always done ! under supervision of a sister. In . conclusion, the Matron says that she did not believe the Board desired hei , to be at the berk and call of the hon5. orary staff.