Polynesian Nurses
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Training School at Suva
COMPLEMENTARY to the renowned Central Medical School at Suva, where Pacific Islanders are trained to become Native Medical Practitioners is the Native Nurses’ School attached to the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Fiji.
There, young Fijian and Gilbert and Ellice girls receive a three years’ course of instruction to fit them as Native Ob stetric Nurses.
Growing from an idea conceived by Miss M. C. Anderson, former matron of Suva Hospital, the School now is under the Supervision of Miss M. Cleary, who underwent special training in USA before taking up her post as tutor. Miss M. Lea, present matron of the Colonial W. m!
Hospital, takes a keen interest in the girls and their work —mainly through her efforts the School last year was enlarged and the course broadened.
In August, Sir Harry Luke (Governor of Fiji) made an official inspection of the School and presented a Cup for annual award to the best “all round” graduate.
The students, in native dress, entertained him at a concert.