WORKHOUSE NURSING:
THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1867.
The accompanying account of the Improvements introduced by the Select Vestry of Liverpool into the Workhouse Hospital Wards under their control, may perhaps be interesting to you, and possibly might prove suggestive and serviceable, if similar improvements should be required in your district.
As the time and strength of the Lady Superintendent of the Nurses employed in the Workhouse Hospital are very fully occupied, enquiries or requests for further information should not be addressed to her, but to the Chairman of the Workhouse Committee of the Select Vestry (and of the Hospital Sub-Committee),
T. H. SATCHELL, Esq.
48, Lord Street,
Liverpool;
Or,
H. J. HAGGER, Esq.
Parish Offices,
Liverpool.
WORKHOUSE NURSING:
THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
The following pages contain a brief account of the experiment successfully tried by the Select Vestry of Liverpool (the guardians of the poor)—the introduction of trained Nurses into the male wards of the Workhouse Infirmary. That experiment having resulted so successfully as to induce the Vestry to extend the system to the remainder of the infirmary, it may be interesting to those who are concerned in the management of workhouses elsewhere to learn something of its history and progress. It is the writer’s object to explain—