Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 064   Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)

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1915 November 30 - Westminster Hospital
Matthew ward has been frantically busy lately; only thoughts at night are bath and bed, skips bathing when her shift runs late. Typically:
2 or 3 men dying;
3 or 4 coming-to from anaethetics;
2 or 3 recovering from "horrible operations" the day before;
a couple of accidents coming up from the surgery on stretchers;
"It's SOME corridor!"
Currently washing a chimney sweep, broken tibia, fell down chimney;
still isn't clean after 30 years of chimney sweeping.
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 064   Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)