| Personal Details |
| Name: | Nurse Kate Buckley |
| Type: | Staff |
| Born in camp? |
No |
| Died in camp? |
No |
| Gender: | female |
| Race: | white |
| Nationality: | British |
| Camp occupation: | nurse |
| Notes: | 26/8/1901: Telegram: CSRC to Secretary for Permits, Cape Town: I am sorry to have to bring to your notice the following matter, with reference to a nurse selected by you and sent to one of my RCs. These copies of wires will explain themselves.
30/8/1901:Secretary to HC to CSRC: Encloses wires in reference to Nurse Kate Buckley, for your information I may state that this person was for 6 years employed as assistant nurse on Robben Island and was well recommended as her papers will show, she was also approved for by Dr Waterston, from these facts you will perceive that this office is not to blame for this person's acts, & I may further mention that at the time she was engaged there was a great want for nurses. |
| Unique ID: | 9952 |
| Camp History |
| Name: | Kimberley RC |
| Date departure: | 24/08/1901 |
| Reason departure: | drunkenness |
| Notes: | 24/8/1901: Telegram: SRC Kimberley to CSRC: Nurse Buckley suspended today for drunkenness and incapacity shall I send her back to Orange River or discharge her. She is not trained.
24/4/1901: William Woodward, MO to SRC Kimberley: Having received certain information I this morning made investigations and find that Nurse Buckley (who was on night duty last night) drank the patients' brandy, neglected the patients, and exhibited symptoms of intoxication las night. I examined her this morning, and believe her to be weak minded & unfit for duty. Can she be removed at once?
24/8/1901: Statement by Sister Heather Grey: I had just gone on duty when Nurse Taylor (seeing me in the ward) asked me if I had noticed anything peculiar in Nurse Buckley that night, and also instructed me to note anything out of the usual happening in Nurse Buckley's ward and at once report to her at her tent. I made many visits to the ward when Nurse Buckley was working, and noticed nothing peculiar save a taciturnity of manner in the nurse up to 4.20 am, when on paying a further visit I found Nurse Buckley asleep in one of the patient's bed, when I had to rouse her, to try and obtain some brandy for one of my patients, when I met with considerable hindrance from Nurse Buckley, and became convinced she wished to conceal something from my view, which I later on became convinced was a bottle of liquor, and although I did not see the bottle, I distinctly heard the liquid gurgling as Nurse hurriedly passed me out of the ward. / On asking the patient, on whose bed I found Nurse Buckley, whether she had invited the nurse to sleep on her bed, she replied in the negative; and (inter alia) remarked 'why she is not nursing us she is killing us.' |
| Sources |
| Title: | SRC 12 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 12 |
| Dates: | Aug-Sept 1901 |
| Notes: | RC4434, Re Nurse Buckley |
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