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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 421
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Notes On Hospitals. By Florence Nighting...
is firs "With t debated regard to whether Children it ' s is Hosp desirable itals , the that preliminary such should question exist
and the advantages , and disadvantages of separating children , from adults in sickness , are fairly set forth sufficient . The decision number rests of
suitable chiefly on nurses the groun can d be , of obtained whether , or the no authoress a observing- on this subject
that" To have the best religious order as nurses does not at all guarantee the some child-patient ' religious from ' that at least it is indifference better for , the since children there is to die tacit than idea to among live .
Indeedmore tenderness-has been shown ... to them sometimes among the commones tient , with t hosp sick ital children nurses . . There It is not must enoug be a h real to be genuine merely vocation conscientious and love and
for pa the work ; a feeling as if your own happiness were bound up in each there mat par as t often e icular rnal only and feeling child mus jus t ' s the t recovery may as good seldom be nurse in . the among * for girl children and mothers ** the be old looked as ** maid among It for ; . is " nurses to t wherever be . found The it true just is ,
various If sep conditions arate children which ' s hosp should itals be are observed to be maintained in establishing , the
them are laid down at length ; and we learn that one is about while to be erected it has in a- double Lisbon interest which will for fulfil us , apart all these from conditions , its being ;
devoted to the benefit of suffering little ones , from its having been our departed own planned Prince queen by , Albert and the late from , the king p the lan of s anxiet at Portugal every y to stage perfect as a having memorial it shown all of been his by
submitted to him and continually modified by his suggestions concluding By no mean appendix s the , least in which valuable Miss part Nightingale of this treats book of is the the
resul in vexed distinguishing t from question committi of - " the Sisterhoods proportion the management , " and of good shows of Hosp or no ill smal itals which l more acumen may or
lessto such communities ng . Where there is a distinct , and secular , administration ; when the " sisters " are really qualified
nurses and not merely attempting- to exert a moral influence ;" d and evote when their they whole , with attention their to head itMiss , reside _Nihtingal in the e hosp is decidedl ital and y
in favour of the system of nursing , by g sisterhoods , whether Roman Catholic as in the Paris hospitalsor Protestant as in
of King a rel ' s i Colleg ious order e Hosp the ital head , London of which . But administers wher , e the both nurses order are
and hosp g ital , as in , many Roman Catholic institutions all over Europe and in Protestant lican Kaiserswerth establishments , the she Bethanien at
Berlinand many Ang , quite as wors decidedl t , of y all condemns systems the prevalent system in as many only military less bad hosp than itals that , in
which the nurses are all men and under a secular male
Notices Of Books. 421
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 421
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/61/
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