Notes from the Hospitals and Personal Items

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 April 1915, Page 111

Notes from the Hospitals and Personal Items

Wedding Bells

On January 19th, 1915, at InvercargilL by the Rev. J. W. Shaw, Neil McEachran Dickson, youngest son of the Rev. T. J. Riddle, Victoria, to Jean Robertson, daughter of the late John Jenkins, Esq., " Ringwood," Wallacetown. Miss Jean Allen and Miss Emma Williams, both trained at Dunedin Hospital, left m the Ruahine for England. They mean to offer their services during the war as volunteer nurses. * * * * * * Miss Dora Gill, Miss Dobson and Miss White, all Christchurch trained nurses leave m the Rotorua for England. Miss Dobson has for a long time been working as Dr. Acland's special nurse. Dr. Acland has also left via Sydney for service at the front. * * * * * * Nurse Archer Wells has resigned from her position on the staff of the Dannevirke Hospital, and intends to take a holiday for a month or two before recommencing work. Nurse D. H. Birks, who was for a time m New Zealand, is now on the staff of the Broken Hill Hospital, New South Wales, m charge of the operating theatre, and had a very strenuous time on New Year's Day, as a result of the attack on an excursion train by a Turk and a Hindoo. * * * * si; * Nurse Tylee has returned to New Zealand after her stay m New South Wales, where she acted as Matron of the Braidurreg Cottage Hospital, for seven or eight months. Her friends will be glad to hear her health had much benefitted by the long change. * * * * * * Miss Christian Maclean has been appointed District Nurse at Palmer ston North. She has been acting sub-matron at St. Helens, Wellington, m the place of her namesake, Miss Vida Maclean, now on active service m Samoa, for the past three months, and we much regret losing her services. She intends to have a cottage at Palmerston, where her aunt will keep house for her.

The Nursing Staff of the Wellington Hospital has undertaken to give one day and, m some cases two days, pay each month for six months for the British and Belgian Relief Funds. The nurses have also done a great deal of work m connection with the war, sewing and making garments for the Expeditionary Forces. * * * * * * Letters have been received from Nurse James, whose interesting account of the Military Hospital at Rouen was published m our last issue. Nurse James is now at Havre, but as strict orders have been given that nurses m Military Hospitals are to write nothing for publication m newspapers or magazines we cannot give any extracts. * & * * * * The St. Helens Hospitals have also done a great deal of work m providing material for sewing shirts, pyjamas, socks, etc. In the Christchurch, Wanganui, Greymouth, and we are sure other hospitals, the nurses have devoted part of their pay to the War Funds, either patriotic or relief. * * * * * The Trained Nurses' Association (Wellington Branch) has raised subscriptions towards the equipment of beds m the Trentham Military Hospital, amounting to about £30. Sister Ingram, from Napier, on her depart - ture from the Hospital for active service had some very nice presentations. A Bible from the sisters, home, sister -in-charge, and her ward patients, who needless to say were men, presented her with a silver brandy flask, presumably for use for her future patients. She had also many presents from her friends m Dunedin ; case of instruments hypodermic, and tabloids, etc., and eiderdown cushion and thermos flask. ****** Dr. Agnes Bennett lert m March for Sydney, en route to England, whence she goes to France for service under the Red Cross.

Miss Benjamin, of the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium is going to England to offer her services during the war. Nurse Falconer, also of Christchurch Hospital, and later of the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium, is going to England for the same purpose. *P *P *l* T* T* The good work done at the Women Doctors' Hospital m Paris where even British women doctors have been working hard for the wounded for many months, has been very favourably mentioned on several occasions. These women are operating sometimes day and night and with the assistance of a staff of British nurses have had a most successful time of service. The work is so strenuous that it cannot be undertaken for long at one time. ****** Nurse Bilton, trained Napier Hospital, and the pioneer nurse for back-block district nursing has gone m the Rotorua for service during the war. H= ***** Miss Thurston, Matron of Christchurch Hospital and President of Canterbury Association, has arranged that during her annual leave she may be m Wellington to say farewell to the nurses leaving for the front.

Nurse Afflick, trained at New Plymouth Hospital, and for sometime a sister there has been appointed home sister at the Christchurch Hospital. Hi ***** Miss May Logan is now training at St. Helens Hospital, Auckland. ******