NURSES IN PLENTY

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 660, 13 January 1933, Page 9

NURSES IN PLENTY

Girls Prefer Hospital Work ... - toAnyOther. i.; LONDON, December 2. Nursing, once the Cinderella of women’s professions, is attracting increasing numbers ot girts. •• A year ago the medical profession was concerned over the shortage of girls willing to train as hospital probationers, but now the supply is in excess of the demand. The matron of a big London hospital said to a correspondent yesterday- — “ The idea that nursing meant drudgery, iron discipline, poor food and no freedom has, fortunately, been dispelled,- and there is no lack of young women to-day who think that nursing as a career is worth the three yesrs of training. “ Hospitals get applications from girls of all classes: those who have tried shop-Vork and clerical work, and those who. have never been out to business. “ Nursing calls for fine individual qualities.” The Right Type. The matron of St Thomas’s Hospital, 4/&mbeth - Palate/ Road,- -5. E., . - said “ There is no lack, of girls of .the'right type. • . \>Y . - “ Of the thousands of applicants we have to weed out those who are suited to the work. It is- encouraging to. see so many'anxious to try the lifje.” The assista&t-niatron at Charing Cross Hospital said:- — “We get applications from girls- in all parts of the, world, although we naturally give .'preference to British girls. Girls of s ev.e£y type* from; sjnall villages and from -big industrial towns, are equally keen on entering the profession.”