Convalescent Home for Children, Governor's Bay, Christchurch

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VI, Issue 3, 1 July 1913, Page 121

Convalescent Home for Children, Governor's Bay, Christchurch

By the geneiosity of a gentleman, Mr. Cholmondeley, the Christchurch Hospital is to be provided with a beautiful Convalescent Home for children, at Governor's Bay ; a spacious house standing in large and beautiful grounds is to be altered and adapted to its new purpose. Mr. and Mrs. Cholmondeley intend to see that everything to make happy the lives of little children recovering from illness or of those in the city who have not actually had an illness, but who need fresh aa, change, and good feeding, is provided. Later Mr. Cholmondeley intends to endow the Home with an adequate income for its upkeep. This will be the first Home of its kind established in the Dominion. The appointment of a nurse to work in the country districts was recommended to the North Canterbury Hospital Board, yesterday morning, by the Public Health

Committee. Her duties would be to act in conjunction with the tuberculosis dispensary, the Government Inspector of Schools, and where necessary to advise people on hygiene and health matters. The suggestion was agreed to.

The attention of registered nurses and registered midwives; also of the matrons of hospitals, is called to the following extract from the first biennial report of the Society for the Health of Women and Children published by recpiest of the Society.

' ' That a register be kept of nurses available as Plunket nurses and those willing to be trained at the Karitane — Harris Hospital as such; also that matrons of hospitals be notified of such register for the benefit of nurses wishing to take up this special training. The first clause was agreed to, and it was suggested that the second clause could be met by a notification in this effect in the nurses' magazine, "Kai Tiaki."