Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-06-20 | Page 13 | How some Nurses Are Abused Section

ilour some are A young nurse of my acquaintance was found early one morning ancon on the entry floor upon inquiry the doctor learned that from monday morning till thursday night blie bad tk en without deep or even enough time off to bathe and change her clothes of course she was extremely foolish to permit such a thing on the patients account aa well as own it was her first case and feeling shy about obtruding personal wants in a time of general stress she had relied on coffee and determination to pull her through the stale joke why do you have to sleep I 1 thought you were unfortunately con bains not a grain of exaggeration I 1 have gono to a house where after a days nursing a night spent in ing a typhoid patient at 10 on the morning of tha second day the curse was still la charge no one had given her lunch breakfast or i even a cup of coffee she had been on E duty for twenty six straight hours working strenuously all the time not a member ot the household seemed equal to taking her place or indeed dreamed of the necessity of doing BO later it was rumored that this girl had become Intemperate Mary moss in atlantic