A MOST WORTHY OBJECT

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8018, 26 September 1906, Page 3

A MOST WORTHY OBJECT

The children's plain and fancy dress ball in aid of the funds of the Waikato Hospital, takes placa in the Hamilton Town Hail on Friday evening, i here i 3 no institution in the wide world which deserves such unstinted support, and for this reason everybody should make a point of a way towards the financial success of the function. Nursing as a profession has, of course, advanced very materially since the days of Sairey Gamp, and the superiority, intelligence, devotion and general cipaciry of modern nurses is in marked contrast to the slipshod and uncertaia character of those of a few decades ago. In marked contrast to the backwardness dispUyed until recent years, England is now indieputably the home of hospital organisition and trained nursing Nowhere else is there to be found the same high standard of training, and the same exquisite cleanliness and neatne?s in all departments. It is small wonder that Mr Quilter was moved to write of modern nurses that "they remain, when all is said and done, useful and honourable members of the community, habitually effluent and working hard and bonesriy for a fair, hut by no means exaggerated wage. There are no financiers among them. " Wo are sure no one will accuse us of untruthfulness in saying that here at our doors are an institution and a stall' upholding the English reputation, and tho least tbe publiccaa do is to make some sacrifice to aid tbe meritorious work.