THEIR DAY OFF
NURSES HAVE A BATH
Complaints at Hospital
MELBOURNE, Thursday.– Once a week nurses from Greenvale Sanatorium come to the city for a bath. They are unable to have one at the hospital and take the opportunity of coming to the city on their day off every week.
They are more fortunate than the patients. The latter are unable to leave the Sanatorium and all the chance they get to have a bath is at the week-ends. There are 80 of them and many have to go without.
The trouble is that the institution has an inadequate water supply, depending on a dam and a tank. As it is, baths for patients cost money as the water has to be carted from Broadmeadows at a cost of £3 per day.
Birds and oppossums contaminate the water, and it is almost impossible to get a drink of pure water. No wonder the tuberculosis patients are complaining, and no wonder there is a shortage of nurses.
Source: Daily Telegraph (TAS); Fri 20 May 1927 (Page 5)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/153868501
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