(10.) The question of Hospital floors will be fully discussed farther on. An Orderly should be trained to be the frotteur to each ward. He should also be the porter to fetch and carry every thing to and from the ward.
(11.) Comparison of Cost of Nursing with larger and smaller Wards.
(11.) The plan of Netley, with its wards for 9 sick, is by far the costliest for administration, as the following facts will prove:
I. It is proposed to provide the Hospital with Orderlies and Nurses to conduct the nursing in wards of 9 sick, as mentioned.
II. On sanitary grounds wards may safely be large enough to accommodate 25 to 30 sick.
We may therefore choose the larger wards, being guided only by the cost of the nursing.
III. A ward of 9 sick would require 1 day and 1 night Orderly, and a-third of a Nurse (that is, a Nurse could superintend three such wards.)
A ward of 30 sick would require 2 day and 1 night Orderlies and 1 Nurse = 4 persons in all.
Or if two such wards were on one floor, 1 Nurse could serve both.