"MARY'S" REFLECTIONS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3439, 17 September 1913, Page 7

"MARY'S" REFLECTIONS

JOVIAL HOUSEMAID MOVES WITH KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Among those who presented purse 3 to the King and Queen on the inauguration of the new King’s College Hospital at Denmark Hill was “Mary,” who -has been housemaid at the old hospital for 23 years. ■ . Everybody knows “Mary,” for she is ‘the “Mark Tapley” of the hospital, but no one knows her surname. Indeed, she declared to a “Daily News” representative recently that she bad forgotten it herself. “I’m just Mary,” she said, “and, like Topsv, T growed.’ ” It was difficult to realise that this merry, brown-eyed little woman had over a score of years of hard service behind Jier, and. she looks forward to completing another twentythree years in the now hospital at Camberwell, beating the present record of thirty odd years’ service of Mr George Till, the operating porter. “Mary” considers that doctors are “something different’ from ordinary men; they are much finer.” The close of the career of the hospital at its old site in Portugal Street was marked' by a big supper of the entire staff in the big ward, and the event of t>.e ; evening was tlio toast of “Mary,” proposed bv Dr Robert Lee, one of the visiting physicians.