V.A.D. NURSES : A COMPLAINT.
[TO TUB EDITOR or TDB " SPECTATOR"] Sin,—We venture to ask for a space in your columns to voice what we feel to be an injustice. Like many members of Volun- tary Aid Detachments, we signed on, as soon as the opportunity was given to us after the outbreak of war, for a year's service at home or abroad, and we were sent, in June last, to a military base hospital in England. We are naturally anxious to work wherever we are most needed, but we have been hoping that a chance might be offered to us to serve abroad, and have volun- teered again for foreign service since we have been working here, and specially for the further theatres of war, where we are told by the men who have been in hospitals out there that nurses aro badly needed. We hear constantly of members of Voluntary Aid Detachments and St. John Ambulance Brigades who have only just signed on, and who have had no practical training or experience, being sent straight out to hospitals abroad. Wo ask—would it not be fairer, both to our soldiers and to the often overworked trained nurses abroad, to send out members of Voluntary Aid Detachments who have had six months' experience in a military base hospital and who have proved themselves strong and ready ?—We are, Sir, &O.,
'DIRER RED CROSS BROBATIONURS. [Some one has got to do the nursing hero, It is a great mistake to suppose that the best nursing is a monopoly of the front. We suspect that the stories of untrained women being sent abroad by the British Red Cross Society in preference to trained are grossly exaggerated.—En. Spectator )
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