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THE NIGHTlKrGAiE FUND. 413
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England , iii no country are they so neglected , leffc to shift for themselves to a degree which the other customs of social life are very
- ditions far It from is pf npt warranting famil possible life . to are lay too down subtle prescri too diverse ptions to wholesale be included , the under
concertain stiff rules y ; the one thing that , wants mending , is the _^ habit of mind in which English fathers exist * with regard to their girls ,
Somehow they are morally bound to provide for them ; if it be _practically useless and hurtful to attempt to make " breadwinners honor in their "
of the fair and dainty maidens nurtured in peace and ancestral hallslet them have secured them in every case a life of honorable independence , in , regard to money ; let them be spared
the public insult of such" discussions as have recently sullied the London of such press facts , so and clearl let us a say % this with time Rachel broug , that ht before " under their the eyes pressure , we
cannot but pity the < y Bel _. gravian mother / however great her sins beand would entreat that she lose no time in doing whatever
may , lays attending in her upon power a life to avert of dependence from . her upon innocent marriage children for existence the sorrows . "
The Nightlkrgaie Fund. 413
THE _NIGHTlKrGAiE FUND . 413
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• • • — : . . _* — The Committee . of the Council of the Nightingale Fund desire to mak The e the Committee following was report appointed of their at proceedings a meeting the to of the time the Council Council Arthur : — held
on the 19 tn December , 1859 , and at same Mr . - Hug In h accordance Clough was with appointed the desire Secretary of Miss to the Ni Council ghtingale .. , which was afterwards
then communicated to the Councilthe Committee shortly , and _] rat agreement Governors themselves with of into St . them communication Thomas relative ' s Hosp to with ital , lan and the for ultimatel President training y , entered Treasurer Nurses into in ,
an a p that Hospital . •• • • . first TJrid fifteen er this ) probationer agreement Nurses it is provided shaU . be that receive a certai d into n the numb Hosp er , ital ( at ,
the all ; extra Probationers expenses , shall thereby be provided caused being with board charged and to separate the Fund lod , g that ing
Instruction in ; the Hosp in ital the , wards under from / the the charge superintending of a Sister Sisters , and , shall the Matron receive , allowed to
_sfcnd : the Resident Medical Officer , all of whom are to be receive remuneratioa dfrom the Fund for so doing .
The agreement was to remain in force for two years , and be terminable at six months ' notice
. The following regulations were laid down by the Committee as
to the admission and training of the Probationers : — .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/53/
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