Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-12-11 | Page 2 | Smoking Cause of Nurses Quitting

SMOKING CAUSE OF NURSES QUITTING DETROIT Dec By 11 11 By The Associated smokIng smokIng Ing among nurses a as a moral Is- Is Issue issue Is Issue sue was not In the con con- controversy con controversy that led bed to the resignation resignation resignation tion or dismissal Dl of two executives executives executives tives and two nurse Instructors of the Henry l Ford ord hospital here ac- ac according according ac according cording to Miss Katherine G Kimmick who resigned as U super super- superintendent superintendent of o nurses of the Institution institution Institution Instead she said Mid Friday It was wasa wasa a hospital rule rube forbidding smokIng smoking ing log anywhere on the grounds ShA Sh ten tendered ered her resignation resignation resignation nation Miss Kimmick said after having been told to reinstate two nurses who had been discovered smoking In tho the nurses home This she sl said she refused to do hold hold- holdIng holding ing that the morale of the hospi hospi- hospital hospital tal tat would suffer It if Infractions infraction ot of the rule were thus condoned Miss Mils Emma Jones and Miss Bertha Bennett Instructors Instructor of nurses nurse resigned with her MIss Kimmick said