I think it perhaps might be open to the St. John’s House nurses and to those of any institution which does not provide its servants with a pension. The Nursing Sisters’ Society, I believe, have recently decided on granting their sisters £20 a-year, after twelve years’ service, a wise, generous, and, if properly worked, economical measure. We must avoid the very appearance of disfavour to other nursing institutions.
Objects to be sought.
3. With regard to objects.
Shall the objects be
- Material?
- Sanitary?
- Moral?
Or shall they be restricted either to the first only or the first and second? Here, again, I submit that we should consult hospital authorities and a few men of business and of experience, as to the feasibility, often a distinct thing from desirability, of these things.
Upon the whole, and weighing many opposite difficulties, my impression is strongly in favour of attempting to combine the three.
Material objects.
Material Objects to be sought.