Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 11 February 1922

The Death of a Wath Nurse.

“It was the Matron and the Medical Superintendent who were ‘ slanged ‘ about it, and very badly ‘slanged,’ and I personally feel it very much because I did everything I could for her. I should Like the Board to pass a vote of confidence in the Matron and myself.”

In these words, at a meeting of the Wath and District Joint Hospital Board at Swinton, the Medical Superintendent, Dr. T. Crowley, commented on rumours which had been in circulation respecting the death of Miss May Stanley, a member of the nursing staff at Wath Wood Hospital, who died at that institution on December 24th after contracting typhoid fever.

Mr. J. L. Stanley, brother of the unfortunate nurse, wrote complaining of the way she had been treated at the Hospital. The House and Finance Committee reported: “After fully investigating the matter the Committee are satisfied that every attention was given to Miss Stanley by the Medical ‘Superintendent, Matron, and Nursing Staff at the Hospital, to whom no blame whatever, is attached.’

The vote of confidence asked for by Dr. Crowley was proposed and carried with unanimity.