11 MAY 1912, Page 18

[To THE EDITOR • OF VIZ "SPECTATOR."] ‘,' ,, ka—When so ,much

attention is being paid to working .;hours in many lines of industry, it seems strange that Am voice should be raised in protest against the terribly long hours (and poor food) of hospital nurses, and yet stranger that physicians, who know best the result of these long hours, offer no objection. Eleven and twelve hours a day are by no means uncommon. I asked a doctor some time ...ago why a well-known London.hospital habitually overworked ate ,nurses, and his answer was a shrug and the word