A LONDON PRIDE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3750, 1 May 1936, Page 12

A LONDON PRIDE

ANOTHER GOOD THING GROWING MORE NURSE WHO WILL COME FOR AN HOUR Four years ago London’s Hourly Nursing Service dealt'with some 30 or 40 calls a week. To-day it handles from 300 to 400 a week. It soon outgrew its first small flat; it then outgrew its middle-sized flat, and recently it opened its handsome new headquarters at 6 Pembridge Place, where 15 of the nurses live, with a few rooms set aside for the use of their patients it needed. In addition to the hourly nurses who answer calls from any part of London, giving expert nursing for a small fee, the service is in touch with 500 other nurses who are available for private duty in the ordinary way. Thanking Lady Bledisloe for opening the new centre, Dame Beatrix Lyall urged everyone to tell their friends about this most useful charity. “It is not a charity in the sense of giving free service to the very poor,” she explained, “but it is charity in that wider sense of helping to bear each other’s burdens.” She referred to the work as one of London’s prides and one of the finest schemes in the Empire. If there is a patient who needs to be made comfortable every day, as only a hospital nurse knows how to make him, a nurse will come to him every day for 5s an hour.