2. The head-nurses, on an average, receive about £50 a-year and no board, or lower wages and partial board; the use of one or two rooms, generally unfurnished, and an allowance of fuel and light. Sometimes uniform outer-clothing is included. Sometimes two pints of beer daily are added to the above.
Nurses or Assistant-Nurses.
Day Nurses.
3. The day-nurses, on an average, receive about 12s. a-week and no board, or lower wages and partial board; lodging, with the use of some furniture; sometimes an allowance of fuel and light apart from the use of both in the wards. Sometimes uniform outer-clothing is added to the above; sometimes they have also an allowance of one pint of beer daily.
Night Nurses.
4. The night-nurses, on an average, receive about 10s. a-week and no board; lodging, with the use of some furniture; sometimes an allowance of fuel and light apart from the use of both in the wards. Sometimes they live in their own lodgings, near the hospital, receiving the same wages.
Retiring Pensions and Payments at St. Bartholomew’s.
5. I am informed that St. Bartholomew’s Hospital has no fixed scale of pensions, nor is the term of service defined. But pensions have been granted to worn-out sisters of from £15 to £25; as also pensions of smaller amount to some worn-out nurses.
At St. Thomas’s.
6. St. Thomas’s Hospital, in like manner, has given, without any fixed rule, pensions to worn-out sisters, of from £30 to £50. A gift in money has been granted on the retirement of a sister; and the same has been done in the case of nurses who may have received injuries in the discharge of their duties; and in a very few instances of long and faithful service they have been pensioned.