First. Granting free pensions to efficient and well-conducted sisters and nurses, under fixed regulations.
Facilities for Saving.
Second. Providing sisters and nurses with a secure channel of investing their savings; giving them thus the important assistance of saving their time, trouble, and expense, in obtaining information as to such secure investment.
Additions to Savings.
Third. Combining, with the second, a certain proportion of pecuniary aid.
As to the first. It would be wise economy if the endowed hospitals, who alone could do it, were to grant such pensions; but whether they are likely to do more than they do now I am quite ignorant.
Whether our labours in this field should take the direction of the second or third, is one of the most difficult questions with reference to a thing which is rife with difficulties. Towards solving it, I submit that it would be expedient to employ an able and honest man of business to procure—
Information and Advice to be procured on the Subject.
I. The rules, working, and results so far of the Servants’ Provident Society.
II. Of several of the various partly self-supporting and partly assisted provident societies of the different trades’ and city unions.