Canterbury Branch

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 3, 1 July 1918, Page 119

Canterbury Branch

A lecture was given by Dr. Maud Fere on March 30th, at the Y.M.C.A. rooms, on the subject of ' Women's position of the present day. The lecture was most interesting from every standpoint, showing what great advances have been made,

especially of late year?, by women in every walk of life, and what future possibilities there are to be attained, providing they aim at the very highest ideals, before hoping to gain the goal for which they seek.

Dr. Simpson gave a very instructive lecture on June the 6th, on the " New Methods of Treatment and Observations on their Application," giving full proof that a new era has been opened up, and the old methods, once considered so effective, discarded in favour of simpler and much better methods, thereby causing less suffering to the patient and much less work on the part of the nurse. The doctor showed the new douche, or irrigation, " can " — now so much in use at the front. It looks like an ordinary thermos flask, with a number of rubber tubes attached to the top, into these tubes are fitted fine rubber

catheters, with numerous perforations, which allow the fluid to percolate into every part of the wound. A continuous irrigation can be given in this way with very little attention, as the thermos keeps the lotion the required heat , and the flow regulated by the stop-cork attached to the tubes. A wire is passed over the " can '' which enables it to be hung wherever desirable. Several new members have joined during the last few months, and a marked improvement in the attendance, which is encouraging to those who are good enough to lecture and give up so much valuable time.