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THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. 109
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1 The Council.—C. H. Bracebridge, Esq.; ...
public resolved meeting that the at proceeds which , the should subscri be ption placed was at determined the disposal on , of it Miss was
Ni tendants training ghtingale , sustenance , At to the enable same , and her time protection to trustees establish of were nurses an appointed institution and hosp in for ital whose the
at-. , names the funds were invested , and by the trust deed , which was executed for the purpose of carrying- out the intentions of the
subscribersa council was appointed on the nomination of Miss Nightingale , , whose duty it was , in the first place , to assist her by
their advice , and in the next place , should she desire it , to take upon subscribed themselve were s invested the management in the Government of the Funds Fund . * and Tlie 5 with moneys their
, accumulations , produced in the past year a net income , after deducting For some income time - after tax , of Miss a little Nihtingale over £ 1 ' s , 40 return 0 . from the Crimea ,
she was unableboth from ill g -health and the pressure of other avocationsto mature , such a scheme as appeared to her worthy of
the intentions , of the subscribers , still less to undertake personally the execution of it . Eventually , at the close of the year 1859 ,
finding her health still unequal to the task , she made over the entire control of the Fund to the council , at the same time
suggesting the course of action which she desired to be pursued . The councilin their subsequent proceedingshave had the benefit of
Miss Ni , ghtingale ' s advice and suggestions , , and , in fact , all the important details of the plans adopted have been prepared hj
her . The first object sought to be attained was to afford the means of
acquiring a thoroughly practical and scientific training to women desirous ofworking as Hospital Nurses . This class of nurses was
selected , in . the first instance , for obvious reasons . It was the object most prominentlput forward in the resolutions of the subscribers ,
and properly so ; y for while , on the one hand , it is to hospitals and infirmaries that those patients resort who are most in need of
hosp assistance itals , more on the than other in , it other is on position the efficiency that a of larger the number nurses in of
cases are , dependent for any successful treatment , . Moreover , the want of a school for training nurses to supply the metropolitan and
provincial Certain hosp advantages itals and infirmaries afforded by was St deep . Thomas ly felt ' s . Hospital pointed it
out as well suited for the purpose . An agreement was entered into Sidney Josh * The uJ H ori erbert gin K C ; m B Sir James Sir ers John of Clark _MaaHTeill the , counc Bart . il Gr ; w T C he B , D The Mr ean . C Ri of . H ght H . Bracebrid ereford Honourable ; ge Sir ;
Mr . William a , Bowman ... ; ; and Dr . Bence Jones , . ... ; Sir Th Harry e comm Vern ittee ey , Bart f the ., counc M . P . il ; Sir w John consists _MadSTeill of Sir , J G oshua . C . B . J ; Mr , . K William . C . B . ;
Bowman ; Mr . John Forbes Clark ; and Mr . Wm . Spottiswoode .
The Nightingale Fund. 109
THE NIGHTINGALE FUND . 109
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/37/
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