Nurses' Memorial Fund

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1927, Page 110

Nurses' Memorial Fund

To our nurses, but more especially to those who have sent me their subscriptions each year to our Nurses' Memorial Fund. I thought it might interest you to know how the money is being used. Some time ago, there came under my notice a nurse who was completely broken down in health. She had to go into hospital to have an operation, and the surgeon told her sister she must have complete rest for six months or longer. What was to be done ? Her parents both being dead, she had no home, and only her younger sister to help in keeping her. A friend suggested putting her case before the Nurses' Memorial Fund Com-

mittee, with the result that she is to receive some help for six months, and I am sure longer if it be necessary. The nurse herself was very much against taking help, but when it was pointed out that anyone might be in the same position, and that the fund was to help the helpless, she was more satisfied. I hope this little bit of information will be interesting to you, and that you will go on, as Charles Kingsley says " helpinglame dogs o'er the stile," remembering that one never knows when they may be one themselves, but I sincerely hope you will not be, as the hardest cross to carry is "not to be able to work/' JEAN TODD.