Sisters of Mercy, as regards the ward service, are decorous and kind, and sometimes inefficient and prudish. Nurses are careful, efficient, often decorous, and always kind, sometimes drunken, sometimes unchaste.
Misconduct of women is far more pernicious in a Military or Naval Hospital than in any other, as regards the result of things—the crime is, of course, equally crime everywhere.
Condense numbers as much as possible.
7. It appears to me desirable to simplify and condense, as much as possible, female service in these Hospitals. Let there be as few women, and these few as efficient and as respectable as can be. Let all that can really be done by men be so done.
Only Head Nurses.
8. Head-nurses are alone, I think, desirable to be employed; I mean persons of the character, responsibility, and efficiency, of head-nurses in other Hospitals.
Classify the Patients.
9. The patients should be distinctly classed, though, of course, this is not the Female Superintendent’s business.
There are many pros and cons to the formation of convalescent wards.