25 YEARS AGO

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SIR,- Does the public know the present state and conditions of salaries for district nurses? A State Registered Nurse with special district training, resident in a nurses' homes, receives approximately £9 a month; a non-resident nurse living in her own home £20 per month, less deductions for meals on duty. Yet a staff nurse in hospital, carrying much less responsibility, begins at £26 10s per month, rising by yearly increments to £35 per month.

The public should be aware that the district nurses have been very patient and they now have cause to believe that they are not getting just treatment. Unless something is done in the near future the whole service of district nursing may collapse. - Yours, etc, SRN

125 YEARS AGO

ON Easter Monday, the annual show of entire horses was held in the Cattle Market, Orlando-street. There was a large attendance of spectators, and the show was much superior, both in numbers and quality, to previous years.

ON Saturday night, a young man respectably dressed walked into a telegraph office near the Liverpool Exchange, asked for a telegraph form, and then wrote the following tragic message:- 'Emma, I love you. This affair has been my ruin. I commit suicide.' Probably this is the first time any one ever 'wired' to an acquaintance or a lover an intention to commit suicide. It is impossible to say what result the love-sick youth expected from such a proceeding, but the effect it did have was to terribly alarm the telegraph clerk to whom the message was handed in, but without betraying emotion, he detained the young man until a policeman was brought, and then gave him into custody. He was brought up at the police-court on Monday, when he gave the name of Frank Boucher, and it transpired that he had been paying his addresses to a young lady in a good position in London, but on account of his dissipated habits her parents rejected him. He now stated that he had been drinking since Friday last, and had no recollection of what he had been doing. - The magistrate discharged him with a caution.

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