Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-02
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and duty. There were cases in which
the wounded men. aroused half dozen
times boo succession by these meddle-
some ntruders, turned from them at
last saying Good heavens. shall ! ever
get amy peaceY
I'm another instance. a certain mcdi-
cal officer complained that II was al
ready late In the day and he had notseen
one of his patients professionally owing
TO the horde of busybody women who
had made his hospital the show place
for the day.
These are the women 20 whom Sir
Alfred Miner referred. and OF whom
have spoken as plague--women who.
are making the scene OF war and suffer
in a place In which TO satisfy morbid
curiosity and find new eujoymPnts
For the woman who Is giving every
thin. in the cause OF tenderness and
compassion I have "A profound admira-
ton for the other sort / have only dis
gust
with regard to the remarks about $50
clal influence and promotion Mr
Treves has been very generally sup
ported The Westminster Gazette for
example, says
mo military officer employed at the
base would have had the courage To-
speak out IN this fashion. for the very
simple reason that such an act would
have most certainly enectualIy blightrd
his military career In this there IS no
eXaggeratlon. This social influence
this 'pettlcOat patronage. Is the canker
which for years, and more especially for
the last few years has been sappng
the vitality Of the British army II Is
q notorious fact that the surcst meth
Cd Of obtaining a good appointment
is for an officer 10 get his name noted
on the list Kept by certain lady OF
tile, the good word Of the dame will
more effectually secure the advance
ment OF her nominees than any amount
Of mertorious seryeice or hard
work without such a backing II Mr.
Treves has done anything to expose
this scandal he well deserves the gratl-
tude Of an Englishmen."
Here are some extracts from a letter
written by a bona fide army nurse at
the 'front.'
THE lady amateur crops up every
where when military excitement Is GO
ing on. Lord Kitchener himself took
most stringent measures 20 keep her
out or the Soudan, but she has sue
ceeded beyond all precedent in this
South African campaign The society
ladies' who shipped as nurses-many OF
them thus escaped paying their own
passages--all wear SILK gowns and the
ilimsiest caps and aprons, and look like
the nurses Of fancy fairs.
IF amateurs came as 'additional
nurses they could play around brow
smoothing and not do much harm. but
In many instances the war office au-
thori2es only certain number Of
nurses In hospitals and on transports
When society women with no techni.
cal training take these posts they
MI posts which ought 20 be- hlled by
certiiicated nurses Real nurses as
consequence, are too few In number and
terribly oyerworked by doing their own
and the amateurs duties
No end Of trouble has been caused by
these masquerade nurses 10 doctors.
nurses, and poor. sick wounded Tom
mics. They get In eyerybody's way and
have no intention OF working Their
idea is 10 take posts OF authority and
hos the trained nurses, who have borne
che heat and burden of many years in
hospital
I'VE don't grudge them going round
the wards In fancy dress, distributing
flowers. and petting Tommy Atkins.
They can do this plcturesquely enough.
But Interference with the nursing Of the
sick soldier Is too serious a matter.
Many Of these amateurs were actually
sent TO the front Somebody I'm author
ity had the courage 90 send several Of
them back 10 the headquarters respon-
slble for their appointment Social In
huence has no right 20 count when it
comes 20 war nursing IL would as
tonIsh English people did they know
how many Of these nurses, without
one days hospital training 10 their
lives, are trying their 'printice hands on
Tommy sick. Aud IL ever patients
called for good nursing 10 Is these poor
fellows from the frOut-With terribly
shattered wounds. enteric and dysen-
terry.
Meanwhile hundreds OF South Atri-
can highly trained nurses are out Of
employment owing 20 the war Nurses
from Kimberley and johannesburg and
Capetown sit with idle hands, many al
most destitute while the amateur
nurses take salaried positions Some
OF them give their services others have
government posts and receive govern
ment pay Very often they spend IL In
cologne and cushions for the patients:
but that does not make IL easier for
the trained certiicated colonial nurse,
who has got no work 90 do
There are many ways IN which the
leisured society woman may help the
sick soldier. but the sooner she realizes
that her province does not Die In the
wards Of a military hospital the bet
ter"
The Daily News Australian CORE
spondent sends some characteristic
Kruger anecdotes, which he heard
while a prisoner In the hands Of the
Beers
AT one time he was very fond Of
riding on horseback, as nearly an
Beers are. once when out for a ride he
met an old woman h0bbling along with
a bundle She looked at the strapping
young fellow rather wistfully as 10 she
enyied him his comfortable seat on the
saddle lie passed her. then looking
over his shoulder noticed that the old