HOSPITAL ALMONERS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is somewhat strange at this time of day that there should be a shortage in the supply for any kind of attractive work for women, yet the fact is that the number of women coming forward to train for hospital almoner work is less than the demand. It is true that the qualifications required are fairly high, if a good education, some capacity for organization and the ability to get alongside of all sorts of people can be so reckoned, and the length of training—two years—though all too short may stand in the way of some.
The demand at present is in excess of the supply, but that demand is likely to be increased very greatly in the near future, when the various county and borough councils have taken over the poor law hospitals and realize that a qualified almoner is an essential to good work.—I am, Sir, &e.,
A. CHARLES GRAY, Chairman of Council, Hospital Almoners' Institute. 3.1 Lower Sloane Street, S.W. 1.
[The work of a hospital almoner consists in securing co- operation between the various organizations to whose help a patient may be entitled—co-operation often essential to the success of treatment. This is an essential branch of social work, offering wide contacts and responsibility, and should be attractive to more people, especially to women.—En.. Spectator.]
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