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NURSING, PAST AND PRESENT. 389
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Liverpool and Bath represent work already begun , and that for Training Bristol a p School lan about and to Home be immediatel for Nurses y carried is attached out . The to the Liverpool Royal
Infirmary , which contains 240 beds , and is the largest and most comprehensive hospital in the town . A house capable of
accommoveorner dating of the the lad airing y superintendant ground ; it will and be thirty read nurses y for is occupation built on in a
the course of the spring , and in the meantime the superintendant is located , with a few probationers , in a small house in the
nei Infirm 1 . ghbourhood To ary provide . 2 . . To thoroug The provid object hl e y s district educated of the or sch professional missionary eme are thus nurses nurses defined for for the : the
where poor are em . p also 3 loyed . To meals provide or in will training sick be nurses provided in the for hosp . privat The ital e will district families sleep nurses . in Those the will hom who be e ,
located in different parts of Liverpool , each in her district ; some such alreadare at workbut these have not been trained under
the superintendant y , havin , g been engaged previous to her arrival . Each district nurse willhoweverregard the Home as head
, , the quarters erintendant , will come will there of to course receive be her fully wages engaged , and in to the rep Home ort . and As
nurse hosp sup ital by , a a lad practical y resident surve in illance and responsible will be extended for the district to certain each , who district extent will
also Prob provide ationers necessaries are being for soug the ht for sick in poor all parts to a of the country . . Several trained nurses have been draughted from St . Thomas ' s ,
o thers have come to be trained from Manchester , Edinburgh , and for Liverpool being draug itself . hted None into are other as public yet available institutions for private as it is nursing not con or
-, sidered desirable to part with them under a twelvemonth ' s training , and those from St . Thomas's are of course required for training the
new comers . 'h . The been Bath made plan differs with considerabl the trustees y from and the committee above . Arr of angement the Bath s
United aye Hospital , by which young women are instructed in the hosp who ital have wards themselves , under the been direction trained of at the St . superintendant Thomas ' s under nurses the ,
Street Nightingale Bath Fund under . The a lad Home who for is Nurses a member is established of the at Church 7 , Duke of y
. Eng as in land , Liverpool , and , gives responsible her services head gratuitousl of the hosp y , ital but nursing this lad . y is There not ,
.. . is , however , in , Liverpool , ( Soho Street , ) an institution very similar ± o that of Bathwhich has done good servicebut has been found
inadequate to the , needs of the population . The , young women from Soho Street attend daily at the _hosjDital for three monthsafter
, which they are sent out as nurses ; those at Bath are trained at the hospital for a year , and are then bound to serve their
institution for two years .
Tho proposed plan for Bristol is similar to that of Bath . Its
Nursing, Past And Present. 389
NURSING , PAST AND PRESENT . 389
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/29/
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