Elsie May CALDICOTT [7863]

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1888 SA Birth CALDICOTT Elsie May Robert Sanders CALDICOTT Elizabeth HAYWARD Adelaide 419/108
1971 SA Death 127A/3752 CALDICOTT Elsie May undefined Norwood

The Register (Adelaide) Wednesday 24 May 1916
ROYAL BRITISH NURSES.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the South Australian branch of the Royal British Nurses' Association was held at the Nurses' Home, Kent Town, on Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Cecil Corbin presided over a good attendance. Lady Galway, who is Vice-President, was to have occupied the chair, but the presence of the Governor-General and his party in Adelaide prevented her from acting upon this arrangement. She sent a letter of apology, in the course, of which she said that she had read the report of the year's work with great interest. At the front and at home nurses had had an anxious and strenuous year, yet both morally and physically the added strain had only shown that the profession was ready to meet it in the bravest spirit. She desired to be air allowed to express the gratitude and appreciation of the onlookers, and her best wishes for another year of equally successful work. The annual report stated that since March I, 1915. 24 nurses had been registered, and 23 recommended for registration. Of these 18 had paid their subscriptions for life membership, and 37 their annual subscriptions; and four previous subscribers had become life members. The home staff had been increased by seven of the new members joining, and the emergency by eight. During the year 285 calls had been supplied by the home staff, and 87 by the emergency. Many calls were supplied by the other nursing homes when their own nurses were not available. They now had 20 nurses on the home staff and 11 on the emergency. They regretted to have to record the death of Mrs. Farrent, better known as Nurse Coombes. In spite of the extra strain which bad been thrown on the nurses generally there had been remarkably little sickness. Only two nurses had been on the sick list. Sisters Herring and Chapman had returned from the front. Of those of the association's nurses who went to the front several had returned, and were now on duty in Adelaide, but not yet available on the staff. They brought reassuring messages of good work being done by members, and here again the number on the sick list was most satisfactorily small. The new home was steadily assuming a more comfortable aspect, and this was materially added to by the many gifts which had been presented by members in the shape of comfortable chain, and so on. Members should bear in mind how every little contribution towards the provisioning of the home relieved the funds and set free money to reduce the liability, and so bring nearer that |greatly-to-be-desired position when they would be free of debt. The balance sheet showed that there was a credit in the bank of £54 6/5. In moving the adoption of the report and balance sheet, the Chairman mentioned that a communication had been read from the parent body in London intimating that it had decided to alter we regulation regarding the length of time the nurses were required to train, and saying that the hospitals in which they were trained must have a minimum of 100 beds. Considering the sparseness of the population in South Australia, the committee had decided that for the present the proposed alteration was not practicable. As an alternative, it was proposed to raise the number of years of training from 3 to 4. Dr. Corbin also commented on an advertisement emanating from, a certain maternity home, offering partial training for nominal fees, as well as tuition by post, and warned probationers against being deluded by such absurd baits. The motion was seconded, and carried unaminously. The following new members, passed by the registration board, were approved:- Nurses Eva Allen, Gertrude Mary Almond, Doris Annie Hayden Brinslet, Mary Elizabeth Barry, Margaret Ida Baker, Elsie May Caldicott, Myrtle Eunice Carr, Enid Joan Spower Cherry, Alma Ethel May Furnnis, Constance Marion Hussey, Violet Cecily Debonaire Haggard. Florence Mary Kugelman (nee Turner), Agnes Lowe, Winifred Catherine Liddy, Clara A. Lott, Selina Rose Nankivell, Ivy Jessie Rogers, Julia Mary Shillabeer, Rhoda Turner, Beatrice Alice Walker, Daisy Jane Wright. The election of the committee resulted at follows:- Dr. Cecil Corbin. A. O. Magarey, Helen Mayo, A. V. Benson, and Halley, Matrons Hancock, Morris, and Rinder, Mrs. Martin, and Sisters Ingleby, Harrold, Herring, Turner, and Creasy.