WIDE NURSING SERVICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 425, 17 November 1930, Page 2

WIDE NURSING SERVICE

KARITANE HOME MATRON. DEPAIiTUBE- I'OB SYDNEY. After long service with the New Zealand Health Department, including a remarkably line war record, Miss A ida AlacLean who has been matron of the Karitanc Home in Auckland for the past three years, will leave this evening for AVellington, on route to Sydney, where she is to take charge of the large home controlled by the Australian Alothorcraft Society, Plunket System, says the “New Zealand Herald.” This society, adxisod by Sir Truby lying is enlarging the work in Australia outlie lines already followed in New Zealand. Aliss AlacLean who was born in AVanganui, received her training at the Wanganui Hospital, being later attached to tin- Cambridge Sanatorium and the St. Helens Hospital in Wellington. At the outbreak of the Great. War she was sent by the Health Department with the Samoan Expeditionary Force, attached to t<ie New Zealand Aledica] (’erps. returning to New Zealand in 1915, she was shortly afterwards sent to Englund with a. contingent of sii nurses. After a year’s service at the New Zealand general hospital at Abassieh, near Heliopolis, in Egvpt, Aliss AlacLean rerun.c-d to England in .191(>, and was appointed charge sister at the No. 1 New Zealand general hospital at Brockenhurst, later being apj>oinle-l matron of (he. New Zealand convalescent hospital at Hornchurch. After returning as matron to the Brockenhurst general hospital, Aliss AlacLean came back to New Zealand in .1919 and was appointed matron of the general hospital at Trent ham.

In 1920 Aliss AlacLean left Trontham. and after conducting a private hospital in Wellington for four years, interested herself in the Truby King system of baby nursing, and in 1925 took a course at the Karitanc Home in Dunedin. After being in charge of the 'Truby King Alothercraft Centre and antenatal clinic in Kent Terraco far sonic time, Aliss AlacLean was appointed in .1927 to the position of matron of the Auckland Karitanc Home. At the end of last year she was given leave of absence, by the courtesy of the Auckland committee, to take control of the Australian Alothercraft Society’s Svdncy home for two or three months, and while in Australia she visited other centres. Aliss AlacLean has always maintained her interest in the Armv Aledica! Corps, and she has been matron of the Army Nursing Service for ’he Auckland Province since hei arrival hero three years ago. Miss AlacLean, who was mentioned twice in despatches, holds the Royal Rod Cross Medal for her war services. Aliss AlacLean expressed great appreciation of the co-operation she had always received from the eoinmitteo, thpeople of Auckland and the parents, and pnid a tribn’o to the work of the advisory board. * I have been very happy here and I have always found the work fascinating,” she said.