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British Visitor Tells AboutTraining Nurses in JamaicaJamaica is one place in the western world that has no shortage of girls desirous of becoming nursen, Only limitation there is education of required standard, said a British visitor, Ethel L. L. Thorpe, Friday. Miss Thorpe went to Jamaica to organize mental hospital nurses’ training. There are 114 native girls now- in various stages of becoming nurses, “educated to the British standard.” said Miss Thorpe.On six months vacation. Miss Thorpe flow to Winnipeg Friday to have a look at Canadian hospitals. “After the exotic color of lhe Island, this did look dreary. I realize it’s between seasons,’* she added politely.Her hospital at Kingston has 1,400 female patients and 1,200 male patients. Big hospitals are not new to Miss Thorpe: 1,400 beds was the si/e of the Foonah hospital where she was principal matron.She’s been a British army nurse. Persia, North India, China she has worked in. “I was sent to Shanghai in June. '47, to rehabilitate avery luxurious hospital, after the Japanese had cleared out. I’d just about got It in good running order , again w’hen in November, ’48. the Communists came and the British were ordered home.”Luxurious hospitals, she explained, were “like the London Clinic, where each patient has a room, a bathroom, a balcony — all very private and very expensive.” ''British hospitals, volunteered Miss Thorpe, “are at present too much like hotels. We’ve made a mistake. People check in for a rest. If they have no other means of support, they get 5 shillings a week* pocket money. If you live in trying circumstances, it’s a temptation to stay. It isn't the older people coming. People of 65 and 70 stick it out as long as they can, pride keeps them up. But they do suffer breakdowns. The pension isn't too generous, and they try to manage as they djri uh^n they were working.”
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Apr 28, 1954
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