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gratuitous objects are nursing to provide 1 to tlie trained sick poor nurses . A for home the public will be , and provided to supp for _ly
the pupils under the direction of a resident lady _superintendent , and they will be educated at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and
the-Bristol Hospital . It is proposed to begin with six pupils and to add at least that number annually . Candidates will be engaged for
three years , after a month ' s probation . They will spend the first year in trainingafter which they will be eligible for hireas
members of the Home , , to which their earnings will be paid . , At the end of the term they will be free to work independentlywith
, the advantage of a certificate and recommendation from the Home , or they may renew their engagements on improved terms . The Hon ..
See . is Miss Edwards , 5 , Cambridge Place , Clifton . Of courseeach of these prospectuses embodies a code of
regulations which it , is needless to detail here , but there are two points which require special notice ; the age at which probationers are
received , and the wages to which they will be entitled . In Liverpoolthe age considered desirable is from twenty-five to
thirty-five , ; in Bath it ranges from twenty to thirty-five ; at Bristol it will be extended from twenty-one to forty . Now it must be
observed that in the first scheme the nurses are more nearlv conneeted with the hospital than in the other two ; they will live in a-
house within the enclosure , and during the time of their instructionboth in the house and hospitalare under the immediate
superintendence , of the same lady , herself , the responsible head of . the whole nursing department . For such immediate connexion
with the wards , a woman of twenty-five is more suitable , both in regard to health and to maturity of character , than one younger _.
But where the probationers live away in a separate home , and only attend in the wards for a fixed number of hours as pupilsthere is
less objection to the earlier age mentioned , and which , has theadvantage of securing the best of their classwho mightin the
other case , already have taken up a different emp , loyment . , For district nurses it is evident that older women , if not engrossed by
family ties , are the most suitable . As to wages , at Liverpool a probationer will receive during
year of probation £ 14 14 s . ; for the two following years this sum fee will is be required increased and according every expense to individual is defrayed merits including . No washing entrance * '
tea and sugar . , At Bath , a premium of three , guineas is required , with each candidate _; the institution provides everything during
the year of probation , including outer clothing to the value of £ 4 . and the committee propose to give a gratuitynot exceeding
two ; guineas , at the end of each quarter , according , to the probationer ' s merit . After the year of training at the hospital is over _,,
the institution will pay £ 12 per annum to each nurse . At the end of the first term of three yearsthe nurse may enter on a fresh _,
engagement with the institution , on an increased scale of wages
_according to her merits and the , funds of the institution . At
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/30/
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