MATERNITY HOMES AND NURSES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13672, 10 April 1908, Page 2

MATERNITY HOMES AND NURSES.

AUCKLAND, April 9. Prior to the Premier's departure for Wellington the member for City Central (Mr A. KMd) interviewed him with reference to the working of the St. Helen's Hospital and the apparent curtailing of its sphere of usefulness in connection with the instruction.' and examinatibn itf probationers. Since then Mr IKidd has written to the Minister for Public Health on the subject, pointing out tb;at,.the intention of the founder of these 'hospitals (the lat^ Right Hon. R. J;'Seddon) was' that they should be the means of increasing- the number of qualified nurses in this particular branch, so that the poor might have, .improved'' attention. , Mr Kidd went on to state that it had been communicated to him that the lectures previously given at the hospital had been stopped to outsiders, and. were limited . to the resident probationers, who, he understood, were four m number. This would not carry out the intention of the founder, and he , had asked the Premier and the Minister for Public Health to see that the old order of affairs was once more enforced .