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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1988.

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in the operating theatre, dress their wounds, with fatch and carry for them. She good has to see that everything in the sterilising room is clean and in its proper place. She has to Like countless others who

bins re- keep the cotton-wool have had to rely on trained plenished, cut gauze for dress- nurses for comfort during hours ings.

of pain, I have for them the She must be always ready for greatest respect and admiration. unexpected visits by surgeons doctors. She may, at a Not only for their competency and

at their jobs, but for the un- moment's notice, be called upon quenchable high spirits and the to prepare a patient, and the a minor devotion to their profession that patient's room, for

operation, get a patient ready they manage to maintain in spite for a blood transfusion, give a of the appalling conditions under difficult intravenous injection, do which they have to live and do a delicate and painful dressing. their work.

Take my day nurse. The daughter of a Welsh came into the nursing profession straight

Hongkong Telegraph. minister, she

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1038.

IMITATION NOT RIGHT FORMULA

Cultured Canadians have seen

regret

tendency

with

on

to imitate the customs and

She also has to know how to hold the nervous patient's hand tact- fully, and be able to arrange the aesthetic patient's flowers taste- fully,

She lives in the Nurses' Home attached to the hospital. From She had to spend the outside it looks like a dis-

from school. That was seven

yours ago.

four years as a probationer. For used warehouse, gaunt, grimy,

four years she scrubbed floors, drab.

emptied slops, caried trays, Twenty-nine other nurses live housemaided. She also had to in the Home with her. There is queue

for the bathrooms, in Last December a private

48-hour municipal hospitals a week was rejected by the House of Commons on the ground that

the part of some of their people study- and study hard a small sitting-room, furnished which she has to take her turn member's Bill to give nurses in anatomy, physiology, hygiene, with a suite upholstered in lea- after she has come off her ten manners of their great neigh Had to learn enough about ther, a radio, and back numbers hours' duty.

of the Medical Journal. This is Her salary is £5 16s, 8d. a room for the month. She gets free her board and lodging; her uniforms; a limited amount of laundry;

them in two years to pass the State Preliminary Examination.

During her last two years as

and

an inter-departmentul Committee appointed by the Ministry of Health was considering the

bour to the south. Many now hold that Canada's true policy

the recreation thirty nurses. as a nation should consist in .Comedy Harmonists. following the example of the

They eat in a long narrow United States. It is argued a probationer she had to pre room in the basement. The any medical attention she may working conditions of nurses and

hospitals staffs. need, that the history of the American pare for and pass her State Final solitary electric light has to be

Her expenses are: black duty chairmanship of the

That Committee, under the people is sufficient proof of the Examination. This meant study. lit for every meal. The room is

Earl of brown. The stockings 4s. a month; gas for soundness of such a course; and ing medicine and medical nur- distempered dull

tables are covered with linoleum her fire 48.; superannuation and Athlone, has been sitting since that it pays to speak well of aing, surgery, surgical and

to save the laundering of table- health insurance 12s. 4.; clothes November. The Nurses Guild and the Association of Nurses one's seif, as it not only streng-¦ gynaecological nursing.

£1 10s.; toilet articles stamps thens one's own morale but im-

and other necessities 168.; fares have put before it certain de- presses others favourably. And

and amusement on her days off mands: for minimum salaries; yet this is a policy and course of

159.; miscellaneous 6s. Out of reduction of hours; relief from Her bedroom is ten feet by her month's salary that leaves restrictions; better living con- life which has not hitherto re-

ditions. It is furnished with a $1 10s. 4d.; 7s. 7d. a week. Out commended itself to the majority

But I don't think my day of Canadians. In the opinion of j

Her first proper nursing was wooden single bed, a washhand of this she is saving for her mid-

stand cum chest of drawers, a wifery examination. That, with nurse would mind

the long this majority imitation would be done in a provincial cottage hos-

cane-seated straight chair. The the personal expenses it will en- hours if once in a while she could likely to prove detrimental to pital. After two years and three walls, distempered belge, are tail, will cost her, she reckons, have a free week-end to herself; the proper development of the months there she came to Lon- spotted with dirt and damp. One about £35.

I don't think she would mind the

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national character.

"It is surely a mistake to suppose that a man can attain to anything worth while by such a device as mechanical imitation. It is not by putting off one garment and putting on another in accordance with the fashions

Passing her State Final gave her the dignity and title of train- ed nurse. She was registered as Buch.

don and to her present job.

in vogue in foreign lands that at 7.20 a.m.

cloths.

seven.

naked electric bulb gives her light. There is a shilling-in-the- For years now hospitals have small salary if she could have an slot gas fire. The shillings for complained of the shortage of attractive and comfortable room nurses, said it was impossible in which to live; I don't think it come out of her salary. Her day begins at 6.30 a.m.,

to reduce hours because there she would mind the hard work Every nurse is required by

were not enough nurses to do if only she did not have to face when she is called for break- hospital regulations to take a fast. She reports to the Sister bath each day. There are two the work as it was. The Asso- 4 sour and suspicious Night Sis- in charge of her floor for duty bathrooms in the Home. Both ciation of Nurses recently esti ter to ask for the front-door mated that out of every 100 key to the Nurses' Home, locked Her working day are served by the old-fashioned girls who start training 38 leave precisely at midnight, if she hap- type of gas geyser that has to during the first year, only 50 pens to be a few minutes over a man or a nation achieves ends at 8 pm.

During that he run very slowly to get hot complete their full training. Is time on one of her two nights greater moral stature." A wise time she is allowed half an hour water. There is always a long it to be wondered at?

out a month. man has said that if people could for lunch, two hours' rest period. only contrive to be, not too un-She gets two half days and two obtrusively, their simple selves full days off a month. they would be both delightful In other words, she averages and original, whereas if the a 68-hour working week, foreign polish and plating wears off, as it is likely to do at points, they become liable to suspicion ag to the quality of the metal underneath.

lines and in accordance with the native tradition.

come

Canadian traditions The institutions and customs down from a remote past. From that serve the needs and assist their earliest beginnings in the in the development of one coun- Motherland there has been no try do not necessarily prove break in their continuity, and beneficial to another. It is true because they have been influenc-. that a social custom, a cultural ed by the French culture of Old idea, or an educational device Canada, and of course by the may be imported, and after environment in which they have modification and adaption sur-rooted, they have created al- vive in a new environment. The ready national characteristics significant point, however, is which are unique. It is not that no importation of the kind necessary for Canadians to look can survive unless it is capable abroad for any pattern. The of being adapted and domesti- influences of their neighbours

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COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS”

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Bense agree that the most sclous imitation would only spoil natural and healthy development the natural development of a and improvement of the institu-people who have reason to be tions of any country aro those proud of a lusty and vigorous that proceed upon the native nationhood,"

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Shucks I saw this at

I don't think she's asking for much, do you?

Christiansen Diana

PROFESSOR FREUD nhd. daughter photgraphed at their new Hampstead home