E.g., in one Hospital, where there are quadruple wards of 44 patients, 11 in each compartment, though the average number of patients is 48, the number of attendants is 7.
In exceptional cases extra Night-Nurses, sometimes extra Day-Nurses serve particular patients. The labour, both of cleaning and of night-nursing, is much increased by the wards being four, separated by a large lobby.
In another of the large London Hospitals, where there are to each ward,
| Patients. | Attendants. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 24 | ⎫ ⎬ ⎭ | there are | ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ | 1 Sister. 2 Nurses. |
| 30 | there are | ⎧ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎩ | 1 Sister. 2 Nurses. 1 Scrubber. | |
| 34 | there are | ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ | 1 Sister. 3 Nurses. | |
| 40 | there are | ⎧ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎩ | 1 Sister. 3 Nurses. 1 Helper. | |
In the Lariboisière Hospital at Paris, where the wards hold 32 beds, 1 Sister, 1 Nurse, and 2 Orderlies on the Men’s side, 1 Sister, 2 Nurses, and 1 Orderly on the Female side, serve the ward efficiently.
(6.) Same Number of Men will not do same amount of Work as an equal Number of Women would.
(6.) One woman does the work of more than a man in a Hospital, speaking of the duties discharged by Under Nurses in Civil Hospitals; for men are not accustomed to these duties in England, as women are from their childhood.
From this it is by no means to be inferred that women of the class of Under Nurses in Civil Hospitals should be employed in Military Hospitals, which unquestionably they should not. But it is to be inferred that the work will not be done efficiently, with a smaller number of men than would be employed of women.
(7.) Hospital Attendance an entirely new subject in the Army.
(7.) The question of attendance has scarcely been intelligently considered in the Army at all. And hardly any practical answer has yet been given to such questions as the above.