Ongoing turnover of Nurses (1916)

Post date: Jan 26, 2014 2:37:50 PM

Extract from Parish Magazine of May 1916.

WATERINGBURY & NETTLESTEAD DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION,

1914-15.

Once again it, has been thought well to hold no Annual General Meeting of the Nursing Association but to publish the Balance Sheet in the Parish Magazine, with a few notes as to the events of the year as we did in May, 1915.

At that time Nurse Parasiers was working amongst us, and had already endeared herself to her patients, but, being the ''Emergency Nurse " of the Kent County Nursing Association, she could not be spared by the Association after August. Nurse Porter came to take her place, and, after doing excellent work at the Little Hoppers' Hospital, settled down to the regular district work; but alas! by the end of October she found the hilly district too much for her strength, and sent in her resignation. Nothing daunted, Miss Jacobs, our County Superintendent, found us Nurse Fricker, who is working among us now ; and it is hard to say which of all our devoted nurses has been the most beloved. It seems, however, as if a 'game leg' were going to deprive us now of Nurse Fricker, for her doctor says she may do no bicycling, and must have a long rest. We shall all regret her departure enormously. She has been untiring in her work and sympathy, but under the circumstances it would not be right to ask her to stay on ; and we can only trust that our good County Superintendent has another 'treasure' whom she will produce when Nurse Fricker has to leave. Nurse Keat¹ is still at Lincoln. She has been vaccinated and inoculated for foreign service, but has not yet been called up.

As regards finance in respect of the deficit our balance sheet is a great improvement on last year's ; but it is disappointing to find that there has been a falling off in Benefit Members' subscriptions both in Wateringbury and Nettlestead. Will every family try, when October 1st comes near, to see if they cannot join the Association? The yearly subscription is 2/-, 4/-, or 7/6, according to wages, and it would be a great

encouragement if the Benefit Members, for whom the Association is primarily intended, would take a larger share in the support of the Nurse.

[accounts are not reproduced here but show subscriptions of£66 ( from 31 individuals plus Yalding Manufacturing Co.) whereas Members only contributed £17. ]