Head-Nurse to each Ward.
22. Every ward, or set of wards, should be under a head-nurse. Discipline is always defective under other arrangements.
Religious Influence.
23. This turns greatly upon a previous question. Every endeavour should be used to bring the women under the influence of religion, God’s instrument for saving, strengthening, and comforting souls. So far as this work depends on rule, system, and superintendence, great things may be done at any rate—so far as moral influence is concerned, it can only be hoped for in the channels appointed by Him who turneth all hearts whithersoever He will.
III. Nurses in Her Majesty’s Hospitals.
Two kinds of Hospital Service for Females.
1. If their introduction is eventually commanded by the Queen’s Government, it will be advisable to consider that their service admits of two distinct kinds.
The one: its Advantages;
2. “Their chief duties” may be “taking charge of the linen and superintending the issue of extras.”