§ Mr. William YatesI beg to ask leave to present a public petition. It concerns Staff Nurse Howells, of 11 James's Way, New Donnington, Shropshire. The petition is signed by 187 constituents of The Wrekin division of Shropshire.
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To the honourable Commons of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of we, the undersigned, showeth that we beg for Staff Nurse Howells, of 11 James's Way, New Donnington, Wellington, Shropshire, to be reinstated in the nursing profession.Wherefore your petitioners pray, and we do so because we have each experienced as patients, the quality of her splendid nursing ability, her care for the patients, and the correctness of her conduct. These admirable qualities, so necessary and desirable in a nurse, endeared her to all her patients without exception.This encourages us to express our firm opinion that there can have been nothing wrong in her conduct at any time to warrant her dismissal from Wellington Cottage Hospital.We are further of the opinion that all the circumstances concerned with her dismissal should form the subject of an inquiry by the Minister of Health, and for such an inquiry we, your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.To lie upon the Table.