INQUIRY ORDERED INTO NURSE S DEATH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 175, 26 July 1928, Page 7

INQUIRY ORDERED INTO NURSE S DEATH

BOARD MEMBER MAKES SERIOUS CHARGES f Per Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, July 28. Charges that nurses at the Christchurch Hospital who report sick are sometimes snubbed and told not to “coddle” themselves, were made by a member (Airs E. R. AlcCombs) at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day. On her motion the Board resolved that the Hospital Committee be asked to inquire into and report on the. circumstances of the death of Nurse Helen Jones, who died last week. Airs AlcCombs said the circumstances called for investigation. “1 want to know why- it was that Nurse Jones continued on duty till five or six weeks before her death,” she said. “I have been told that Nurse Jones was unwell while on duty’. She reported that she wanted a rest and would go into the country’. She went, became worse and then had to come back suddenly to the hospital. She received such a reception from the matron that, she was exceedingly upset. It was not such a reception as should have been given to a sick person. Three weeks later the girl was dead. Numbers of the nurses have a feeling that if they report sick they will be. snubbed.”