A grave shortage of nurses for the hospitals is rapidly developing, and the British Government is sharily to be asked to try to make their lives more attractive, so that secondary school girls will be Induced to take up the work, The Trades Union Congress inlands 10 put forward a pro-oral for increasing the present pay of nursing staffs, for reducing their hours, and for providing them with
ges, "Many men prominent in th? mere freedom and of duty "peivimedical profession believe that the martinet manner of some of the matrons has a lot to do with the refusal of girls to become nurses," said a hospital surgeon, "It also has a lot to do with the decision of hundreds of probationers who give up their task and become typists or factory workers after their first few months' experience in hospital." He said that in most hospitals the' probationers, instead of being allowed to concentrate on learning their profession and becoming efficient in tending the pat-fonts, were obliged to spend long per-ods' scrubbing floors and polishing brasswork. 'Many hospitals find that the girls will not stay more than 8 few months at a time, Most institu tions have now provided comfortable nurses' homes for their staffs, but there are some where the nurses rarely get a moment away from the atmosphere of work,
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