A NEW ZEALAND NURSE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 5

A NEW ZEALAND NURSE.

SERVICES TO THE BELGIANS

i. service, and the thrilling hours when on the German approach it became neces- '" I sary to carry off all the sick and wound- | ed—all make a very fine and exciting story, and one hopes that it will ultimately be told at length, for it is one of which colonists may well feel proud. Miss Dormer Maunders part in this was complicated by^ the fact that she was at the same time directing the affairs of the hospital in the Hotel Continental, where there had also been a sudden urgent need for a- resourceful woman's help. She was so successful in both undertakings that when she returned to England she was asked to establish a hospital for Belgian soldiers in Rouen. The request came especially from General de Selliers, the Inspec-tor-General of the Belgian Army, the man they call the Belgian Kitchener, because of his strength and discipline and his success with the new Belgian Army. General de Selliers takes the I greatest interest in the progress of the I hospital and visits it whenever he has an opportunity. The hospital was opened on Boxing Day by M. de Brocqueville, the Belgian Minister of War, when General de Selliers, Dr Deltenre (Head of the Belgian Military Medical Service), and various representatives of the municipality were present, all of them subsequently inspecting the building. The whole hospital is arranged on the most solid basis, run under the command of the Belgian War Office, which has an administrative office in the hospital itself. Dr Damm, a very skilful Belgian surgeon, is head of the staff, and he has two other Belgian doctors as assistants. Mists Dormer Maunder, who holds the position of organiser and directress, has the help of a London solicitor, who acts as her secretary, and she has at present a staff of four trained nurses—including to her satisfaction, another New Zealander, Mrs Patterson, who was trained at the Nanier Hospital, who is doing a great deal of massage.

DECORATED BY KING ALBERT.

Paris, March 17

King Albert, at Havre, decorated Nurse Maunder, of Rangitikei, New Zealand, with the Order of King Led pold for her services in the Belgian

Maunder, of Rangitikei. Miss Dormer Maunder went over to Ostend with a party organised by Lady Paget to open a hostel for Belgian refugee women and children in the Kursaal, and it was immediately found necessary to receive wounded Belgian soldiers instead. The story of that hospital, of the work done against overwhelming odds, of the everincreasing rush of wounded, the ingenuity and energy which met the most desperate demands, the splendid service of doctors and nurses, the hearty help given by a party of Canadians, whom Miss Dormer Maunder pressed into her

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Army

An account of Nurse Maunders work at< the Anglo-Belgian Hospital at Rouen was recently given by a correspondent of the "weekly Press." Her, hospital is the only one- at Rouen secur- j ed by an Englishwoman. ' It* was a great gratification to a New Zealand visitor, says the writer, to find that the successful Englishwoman was a compatriot—Miss Beatrice Dormer