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NUHSING, PAST AND PRESENT. 391
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Bristolan entrance fee of £ 2 will be required , £ 1 of which will be returned , on signing _tlxe agreement at the close of the
probationary month , and £ 1 at the close of the three years' engagement . The institution will give wages on the following scale , — £ 10 the first
board year , , £ washing 12 the , second clothing , £ , 15 -to the the amoun third t ; of and £ 2 will and provide medical a attend home - ; _,
ance during the whole term of -the agreement . At the expiration _,, nurses renew their engagement on improved terms .
In regard may to these terms , the lady superintendant at Liverpool considersthem le for the period of training * She does not wish to
emp good loy upper , a hig servants her amp class , able of women to rea _^ than L and such write as , would and possessing make eventuall a little y -
general information . But when a nurse has proved herself intelligentand is thoroughlfurnished for the good workthen it is only
just hold , to servants pay them . The as report y well or of better the Ni than ghtingale the first Fund , class fixes of house £ 20
-p reall er . annum eincient as nurse a minimum . She ; is £ however 25 or £ 30 most is anxious not too to much see for some a
scribing plan y arranged towards . : by pensions which nurses for , their could old , age themselves ; such security assist in against
subwant and the risks of a wearing profession would do much to attract the most , respectable women of the class . In reg * ard to
scrubbing , and what maybe called the housemaid ' s work of the hospitalthat is at Liverpool done by servants . It should never
, be added to the inevitably arduous duties of a nurse . Dry as may seem the details of hospital management , they
refer to scenes which are more full of deep human interest than any other kind of institution can present . Day after day the
mostextraordinary , the most touching stories find their close upon the hospital beda strangefleeting phantasmagoria of human
existencevirtue ; and vice , love and hatred , joy and grief , reviving ; life and , inexorable death , , pass before the eyes and impress the
imagination . If there is one place in the world more solemn than anotherit is the ward of a great hospital at nighfcwith the solitary
lighffc half , turned down , the long row of beds , each , tenanted by a motionless fithe deep silence only broken by a groan of pain ,
by a call to gure the , nurse , or by the heavy labouring breath which tells of mortal sickness and approaching death . And each
returning daylight brings its fresh quota of misery . Accidents are frequent in the large seafaring towns , such as this of Liverpool _*
including a rough population of mingled races . Accidents from machine _^ and fearful attempts on human life under the influence
of drink and , evil passion , tinge the ordinary catalogue of diseases with darker lines ; all the ills that flesh or spirit is heir to , concur
to create the need of nurses , and to require that no detail shall be omitted for securing their wise selection and careful training .
Bessie H . _Parkes _.
Liverpool Training January School _, 1863 and . Home tor Nurses ,
Nuhsing, Past And Present. 391
NUHSING , PAST AND PRESENT . 391
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/31/
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