Extract from a Nurses' Letter from China

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VII, Issue 3, 1 July 1914, Page 140

Extract from a Nurses' Letter from China

There is not much to relate about the work here. Ever since we came home from our August vacation, the in-patients have been fewer than last year. We really have more out-patients I was out at a midwifeiy case the other nigbt with the doctor. You would enjoy a midwifery cage put here. If we did not carry everything with us from the Hospital, even the basins we wash our hands m, I do not know what we would do. Then we take old linen with us to strain all the water that is boiled for us. If we didn't we would have flies galore, etc. In the corner off the patient's room, some-

times pigs repose. They seem part of the family m China. The second last midwifery case I was at we had to stick candles m the mud well to get enough light, and there was so little space between the woman's bed and the wall that my hair was m danger every time I bent back. I have to give a demonstration on poulticemaking, invalid cooking, etc., (very week, I have had so little experience myself, and it means a good deal of work for I have to read up the English as well as get it into Chinese. Just now all my time is spent m language study, so I have not yet had much experience of nursing m India.