The Hospital\ Dec. 19, 1891. Extrx Supplement. HfoglHtal" iluttftttg ffltvvQX. Being the Extra Nubsing Supplement of "Tiie Hospital" Newspaper.
Contributions for this should be addressed to the Editor. The Hospital, 140, London, and should have the word Supplement " " Strand, W.O., Nursing plainly written in left-hand top corner of the envelope.
j?n passant. TTeNBY TITTLE-TATTLE.?"This Nursing Institute at Tenby is a very cliquey affair," said Dr. Lock to the CURE FOR HYSTERIA.?A nurso, whose name wo Pembroke Board of Guardians at their late meeting ; and the Board Dr. who is one of their shall not give, has been had up before her Board for agreed with Lock, Medical an hysterical patient with a wet towel. The Board Officers, and decided that he was not forced to have pauper pickingfound attended district nurse. Then the charge of ill-usage not proven, but asked the nurse patients by the Dr. Lock n?t to resort to the same method of treatment again. We complained that the nurse had been two days in the town Consider the nurse got off easily, for such violent treatment before he heard anything about her, and that she prescribed ^?uld certainly never be used except under medical direction, for the patients. All this savours very much of provincial nere are no caBes which need Buch?careful nursing as those jealousy and petty Btrife ; but there is one serious point? hysteria ; there are no cases' of which nurses comprehend did the nurse really prescribe for the patients ? This is an ess- Perhaps when asylum training is open to nurses as a accusation so serious as to need the immediate attention ?0tnpletion of their education, we may hope that they will of the Institute, and an authoritative and conclusive answer. etter understand how to attend to nervous, hysterical, and Certainly aomeone ha3 been wanting in tact, even if nothing Cental cases. worse has happened. HORT ITEMS.?Miss to whom the OF ST. VERONICA.?As many of the readers Josephine Wake, success of the of The Hospital have asked for information about the Brighton District Nursing Society is is abroad for her health.?The . of St. Veronica, the following short account mayibe of largely due, goiDg gross at the Preston Doll Show were ?105 the nurse V^erest them. Its objects are three in number : I. To takings ; rin a dolls were much admired.?The the Midwives' bond of union among those who are engaged in the Secretary, ^ork would be to of nursing the sick. II. To aid the spiritual life of its Institute, 12, Buckingham Street, Strand, glad send blanks to midwives or nurses them under the peculiar and special difficulties of their monthly who will fill ^mbersties. In with answers of mothers to the : "Inhow IIJ. To help its members to realise that nursing the question many 18 of confinements have been attended a a and should be as your you by doctor, a j properly religious work, performed abour his a medical a or a of love. The rules for the members are f9W, but assistant, student, midwife, neighbour ; and what did ?"?Sister Harriet Rose has received a NJt, an(j are 6peciaiiy formed to help nurses in their you pay Pltitual life, the founder of the Guild having had practical grant from the S.P.C.K., towards the Cottage Hospital at ^Perience of a nurse's difficulties during his connexion with Mortate, to which she is shortly going out.?Dr. Little con- Petals. Further particulars can be obtained from the stantly employs a blind Masseuse.?We hope to give as usual ??retary, Miss F. Robcrtson-Macdonald, 9, Great Bedford this year brief accounts of how Christmas was kept in the tteet, Bath. hospitals all over the kingdom. Will Matrons and nurses please send us these accounts as early as possible, written NEW HOME AT GLASGOW.?Mr. John Wilson on (2\ briefly, and on one side of the paper only ? a new home in ??Vk ^ecem^er 4th, opened nursing connection LASGOW SICK POOR NURSING ASSOCIATION.? ^ Glasgow Western Infirmary. By the additional A course lectures on is delivered uings forty-seven new bedrooms have been provided, systematic of Nursing the to the nurses of the above and etehty-seven separate bedroomB for the cursing during winter, Association, staff1*1^' to which all ladies are invited. The course on ^he building,'which is oblong, comprises three flats, began Tuesday the 10th of November, at p.m., and will be ?roun<* ^00r are "tuated the Sisters' drawing- evening, eight at the same hour. The room?n nursea' recreation and rooms. continued every Tuesday'"evening Th d sitting-room, reading is a list of the lectures to be after and are a following given ?r sitting-room richly furnished, " ^rawing-ro?m Christmas 5th?Dr. R. Cowan Less, The Pulse. *)lano*or'e being iQ the former and a cottage piano in the :?January sittfo External Treatment of Fever." r??m* AN the rooms are The Respiration. January *0 d large and airy. Mr. Wilson, 0^ and Rsst in some the home said 12th?Dr. R. H. Parry, "Position of t, aring open, that it long been the desire e Affections." 19th?Dr. R. H. man?gers to have the Nurses' Home large enough to Surgical January Parry, acco " them te the whole Wounds and some of the causes which prevent heal- at*d of the nursing Btaff on the premises, jj.m? R. H. and be observed that the home was detached from ing." January 26th?Dr. Parry, "Operations the " 2nd?Dr. H. St. Clair General ."^hey could easily understand how beneficial,this Shock." February Gray, n Rules for Patients to Accouchement. Rules the interests of the patients and the nurses, Health. prior ^he* l,0 their and Wou^ k? com- for Nurses. Antiseptics meaning fort ti?6 found replete with every necessary Monthly ro?ms and bedrooms had been furnished application to Monthly Nursing." February 9th?Dr. H. ^ith *G " St. Clair Choice and preparation of a room. ?at ma^xnS the nurses feel thatithey were indeed Gray, Lying-in homVleW6 Diet of Patient. Care of Patient Feb- ^>ro^essor Buchanan said that there was no wonder during Convalescence." good " 16th.?Dr. H. St. Clair Gray, The Child. fC?om?0^ation was required, because the type of ruary Newly-born ^irse a Diseases of the and their c^ange(i somewhat to what it used to^be. Nowa- Newly-born Treatment. Artificial day8 th of Infants." Extra lectures Were talented and ol Feeding if necessary : Dr. aild highly great intelligence, " car6'0111868?Ut t^? Caldwell of and Oot ^oct?r'8 wiehes to the utmost. They could Smith, Hygiene Infancy School Life." Dr. extrie^ R. Cowan "Foods and Drinks. a nursea that calibre and upbringing could Lees, The necessity for acc(fCC^ mixed Diet. Dr. R. H. on USC(* *n ^ays *? con" Digestion." Parry, "Symptoms sideredT^w^atWhen Cerebral and Diseases. How to observe and 't Was c.'ent- the patients enjoyed these benefits Spinal report ^ them." Dr. St. Clair "The Incubator?methods of nurses should have them. Pro- Gray, ^ssor Premature and Sickly Infants. The Choice of a Wet Mr. raising -^derson, Dr. Paterson, M'Ewen, and Both the nurses and consider others ' ais ? Nurse." ladies of Glasgow may SP?^?? ftnd then the were tea. company provided with themselves privileged to be able to attend such a complete course of lecturrs, Ixviii THE HOSPITAL NURSING SUPPLEMENT. Dec. 19, 1891.
form praotical utility. Some are made to be used with any ^Lectures on Wart) Morft a of dressing Surgical of needle, e.g. (fig. 2), which represents pair a being an& murstng. forceps, which may also be used as needle holder, the needle fita. Alexander M.D. F.R.C.S.E. adapted with a longitudinal groove into which By Miles, (Edin.), used Figures 3 and 4 represent two forms of needle holder can Lecture XXXIX.?NEEDLES AND TREPHINING by ophthalmic surgeons. The Hagedorn needle holder INSTRUMENTS. only bo used with the flat-bladed needles employed by that Needles are employed to sew up wounds, whether made by aurgeon. accident, or by the knife in the course of an operation. Some Instruments1 used in Trephining the Skull.?The con- an skull surgeons prefer a straight needle, which differs from ordi- operation known as trephining or trepanning the nary sewing needle, in having the blade [somewhat flattened
Fig.Tig. 1. from side to Bide, and the eye considerably larger. Many t?se the half-curved while the most needle, perhaps frequently 3333 on account of the ease employed ia the curved needle, greater S. Fig. 6. Fig. 4. Fig. and rapidity with which sutures may be inserted by it (fig.l). in sista in the removal of a circle of bone from the vault, or to order to obtain access tojthe contents of the cranium, the facilitate the elevation* of depressed fragments when skull has been fractured. The instruments used in the suc- the cessive steps of the are these: (1) A razor of operation to ordinary kind, with which to shave the region of the head
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to be operated upon ; (2) a scalpel, or small bistoury, the incision through the tissues overlying the bone; (3) with which to raise the pericraniu111* periosteum separator, U as the covering of the skull bones is called (fig. 5); (4) . hooks to retract the of the wound ; (5) disse edges scalp ft8? ing forceps (fig. G) may be found useful in this operation,
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^ are a*moa' every ordinary surgical operation; Fio, 3. be needed fG) ^e"8' or Pesn'a) will, of courae, as a incision. Needle holders are, rule, dispensed with by ordinary to seenr tu*?uF300(^ ves8e^8 cut in making the scalp some are u- to saw outthe surgeons, but by they found to be of (7) ThpT ,ne* ^is is theinsfrument used advantage, con- have been , f?P name. It and many patterns introduced, characterised, how- ^ 0> ^rom gets its operation to one more the of their nf from } ever, by ingenuity mechanism than by their sistq a small^ round saw, varying in diameter 19, 1891. THE HOSPITAL NURSING SUPPLEMENT. lxix
c i mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft, about 3^ or 4 68 is attached at a str ^?n?' right angles, thick, the hollow of the sh Running down through , !8 a movable centre-pin, which may be made to project ^0Qd the level of the saw teeth, or be entirely withdrawn, ^ *3 *n desired a screw on the e^U^e<^' position by of th kf6 s^a^* some instruments only the free edge *S and in others the serrations ate . serrated, 6-0- (fig* ?)? tie C^.rt^e^ along the outer aepect of the blade (fig. 7a). In using 1-8th6' centre P*n " ^rst projected from l-16th to fitu] aQ inch beyond the level of the saw, and there fixed is then fixed into the centre of the area t P?'nt ?f it ne and in this the saw is ateadi ^ removed, way has made a for itself in the bone. So Soon u groove is com- pletejy ? ^as keen accomplished the centre pin pare ^'^^rawn? lest it should interfere with the onward iiijure saw? or? perforating the bone before the saw, 'ft,0' membranes of the brain underneath. The saw is then p wor^e(l through the bone with a rotatory "lotion as .^y 4ccoUn? *n using a bradawl, great care being necessary on ?* the is not of same thick- 1e8g ai, fact that the skull the of the ??Ver' and tbere ia consequently a danger of one part that pa'f0^6 '3eiDg through early, and of the saw opposite *Uch jL ^maging the membranes underneath: To prevent accident the trephine must be frequently removed and
THE FADING YEAR. The year is fading, and we look regretfully on the withered leaves at our feet which hung so lately in rich profusion and varied hues upon the trees. Their glory has departed never to return. It is well at times to remember that our life too ia short. But a few years ago we were young and bright and strong ; with hope high within us, we imagined all sorts of possibilities for the future. Now our castles in the air have crumbled into dust, our great aims have been prevented in their fulfilment, and everything seems slipping away from us ; first our youth, then our health and strength. Mayhap even our lives will soon be gone, and we shall have to confess that we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, happy if we need not add that we have done those things which we ought not. Oh, blasted hopes ! oh, lost the opportunities ! the waning year warns us to gather up fragmenta of time and opportunities so that everything be not lost. riG. the 9. Fig. 10. Fig. 11. ft But though we bring so little to perfection, though and very best among us, those who havo the highest aims, those who work hardest in their callings, feel their hearts efforts sinking as they realise how unsatisfactory are all their ; The remove the bone dust frotn the groove. bon 6 v?- these facts to another life the grave, "e*ng "awn all the circle has now yet very point beyond through round, " is there." and The life that hath no the deathless life f^ploy^ ?^? for this purpose the Trephine forceps are ending, , se are our will be amended, all f.0rc?pa, A made on the same principle as dissecting In that blessed life all shortcomings ? blades are bo has us this T? curved'"6 rounded as to adapt themselves our tangled threads smoothed out. Christ given ? ?bject An instrument called the us that in Hia reticular (fig. 8). (9) blessed hope in various forms. He tells sL4lle the 8ometimeB used at this step of the operation to for them ?* Father's house there are many mansions prepared ? P ^e hole in the It has a stem with e
? well. He asked to look at the chart, pointed to it wit ?ur 3nbian better. " ' superior air to a brother officer, Nothing much wrong ^er6. le November 1891. temperature down." Another officer comes round, 10th, & Dear Mr. Editor,?Here I am at a station all alone, pulses, studies the charts and examines the tongues, a H several fever cases, one enteric case has been in constant ice- criticises the treatment. He even occasionally gives was packs for four days, the temperature of the patient's body instruction. He told me one day that the tongue I never condescending to come below 103 deg. It is dispiriting "index of the stomach," and farther asked if the do after rolling a patient in a sheet wrung out of iced water, This morning two officers came into the ward, The ^ r and smoothing him down with lumps of ice till your own going round. They never apologised, or asked leave. " are to find he is after an 104 tain felt the remarked to me, This fingers numbed, still, hour, deg. 4; patient's pulse; ? " think80P*^6^, but such is life in the tropics. November's fogs have pulse is very slow." I remarked quietly, Do you " it was 105 a few minutes he answered, probably set in in England, but here I trudge to my work in ago.'' Ah, yes," what was a large grey pith hat, under an umbrella, a white pulse is just about the same." He then asked He nainsook uniform, and the thinest of under garments. I matter with the man. I told him enteric fever. He ' have a good deal of consumption to nurse, and have lost aBked how long he had been ill. I said thirty days. " two cases of tubercular disease of the the last Then it can't be enteric fever ; that lasts lungs, during only 0 twenty*^has it six weeks. So far my enteric cases are doing well. Even the days ; and I have always heard that if a man ^ him 1 good salary of an Indian nui'sing Sister melts quickly away twenty-one days he is bound to die." I told when she lives alone, and has nine servants to keep, and one nursed a great many who had been ill longer than twen^y*^ a a and had I have a case in the now, wk? and half rupees to pay day for her food. Four days, lived. ward ^ Sisters can live cheaply in India together, but one cannot; three relapses before I came ; is not well yet, and I have tefflP and much as I have looked forward to pastures new and here six weeks, and this was a case where the man's to fresh experiences of life, I look regretfully back on the ture was over 107, and I don't think he is at all likely j me steady-going life of an old-established station with two or Indian ideas of nursing are amusing: One lady asked three others to join at the work and expenses. I shall have sat by the patient's bed all day. of a a warm and not altogether disinterested welcome for the An apothecary here performs the functions g exe Sisters who will me from surgeon, a ward sister, and a dispenser. He also join shortly England. 111 We had a sad case here a fortnight ago. A corporal fell discipline in the wards ; they felt our coming very down some steps and fractured his skull. He was brought An apothecary in a sister's ward sinks entirely 0{ into hospital, and died in five days ; at 11 p.m. the next day dispenser. His military rank, with a few excepti?110 he was and a few hours afterwards his wife arrived and buried, honorary apothecary captains honorary apothecary ^ ^ from England to join him. Had the authorities known, the tenants, is that of warrant officer, that is equivalent _ the Ar funeral might have been delayed, and she would have had bandmaster, sergeant-major, and schoolmaster in g of at least his Ear?P the melancholy pleasure seeing face. They are they are chiefly Eurasians; there are very few ^e prompt in the army?dead one day, buried as quickly as among them. They do great a deal of the medical w0T^ere possible the next. This week, the widow was told a passage much looked down upon, and are badly paid- b had been taken for her on H.M.S. Serapis, and she had to are splendid men here, and they work like Trojans ; j leave for England that day ; a few hours' notice to settle her past experience of apothecaries has been the reverS.^'stjc affairs and take a last farewell look at the grave. She came found them most difficult to work with, and not enthu to me in her sorrow I her as I ?nd in their work. 9 ; helped could, suggested t, is her taking up nursing. She is young and strong and The military orderly out here is]"a mistake gijgbt pleasant looking, her four children are dead, and she has voluntary worker. In some few cases they ^ reccijeof acted as maid to at least two ladies, if not more, who would pay; they do this, which is lighter work, instead recommend her. She will be home about December 4th or duty, and are, as a rule, most unsatisfactory. ^ by be nura< 6th. Would any Lady Superintendent of private nurses, Though comrades, the patients don't care to ^ tno reading this, kindly send their forms of application them as a rule. They are not properly trained, ^ to Mrs. K., The Hospital Office, 140, Strand, W.C. ? few hold certificates of training. After atten l0^gry I would like particularly to recommend her to Miss Wilson, ambulance class, they go through an ^ examination-^are for the Workhouse Nursing Association. I woull write, but, elementary one?they are nearly always passed and ^ unfortunately, I have not her address. This woman has been an ambulance certificate. One, [whom I know, , so used to in a man ^ twice in India, is travelling. passed, declared his examination that > PoSSe^uCbtoo Lately, the newspapers have been teeming here with livers. In India most people find ono rather for a ^jjge- a battle between "the Non-Combatant" and "the don't think anyone wants two out here except j.e, " and Combatant Officers on the subject of the new medical In the old days the orderlies gave medicines fit > a deal of as to titles. It has created good ill-feeling or drank the latter themselves, they thought ^0 before out here, and for weeks there have been a succession very little surpervision over them. Just ^ jje of abusive letters on both sides. I enclose two this station the Padre asked one of the orderlies^ ^ " " said? poems from the Pioneer on the subject. One combatant liked the idea of Sisters coming ; he promptly ^orpse> " officer styling himself Captain," wrote a very puerile all, we had hoped to form the knuckles of an 'Orapita of ungentlemanly letter, and stated that he felt up till now that but these Sisters coming has put us all out joint. his title at least had given him an attraction in the eyes of N.B.?This story is vouohed for by the principa gelJg?l in , to the fair sex, but now he had to share it with vets, and There is a really authentic case of a nurse . rose D doctors ; he even ventured to raise a sneer against the lady Presidency whose temperature this summer that play? * nurses, which sneer we have all been too dignified to notice. 119?. Five doctors sat round the bed to see The most amusing thing is that these " combatant officers," fair: It is said that the,rroom thermometer to e as have do not hesitate to clinical one could not it. She lives they styled themselves, interfere, register ^ ^oCtor3 vaunt their was it done 1 and knowledge in medical matters. One Major and is not much the worse. How came into a ward one " lancers in the day, Any seriously ill, believe temperature. for#1 f o Sister 1" I remarked that one was in great danger. An Army Hospital Corps is much needed the irreguher?'^ Ha;morrhage had set in profusely, and he had pneumonia as of Europeans vr? tave only, except Dec. 19, 1891. THE HOSPITAL NURSING SUPPLEMENT lxxi soldier orderlies, the Native Hospital Corps to assist us. alluded to the medical men who gave their services to the Cholera has broken out at Lucknow and Lahore, though this Hospital, and said there were few things grander in our 18 Dot the cholera season. At Lucknow one poor man who, memories than a recollection of the way in which medical laBt winter, was safely piloted through a long enteric case, men gave their services to the poor of London. aQd had returned to duty as a gunner full of health and A PUPIL FROM CYPRUS. strength, has fallen a victim to the fell disease. Mrs. Nurse writes : I am Meecham, wife of Colonel Meecham, the officer commanding Christian, Niconia, Cyprus, very the anxious to obtain sufficient funds to send home to a Scottish Rifles, succumbed at Jabbulpore of the disease England f?ur young Greek girl in order that she may obtain training as a days after leaving Lucknow. Allahabad was the scene of monthly nurse. She is a highly respectable girl and a promis- terrible cholera this summer. Among the troops, many had some teaching in the Government recovered,but out of the South Wales Borderers alone,32 died. ing pupil,having already The want of a trained nurse is a Hospital, Niconia. monthly Within year at that station they have lost nearly fifty men and greatly felt, there at present not one in Cyprus. The one officer, Major Bromhead, V.C., the remainder being native women now acting in that capacity are absolutely having died of consumption and fever. Consumption and chest ignorant of their work, fatal cases of peurperal fever occur diseases are very common there. for want the most The An Old Fogey. almost daily of ordinary precautions. cost of passage to and from England, and her training there I estimate at about ?50, and should be very grateful if by Even>bot>E'0 ?pinion. making this letter public any of your readers would help me Mpondence on all subjects ts invited, but we' cannot in any way to supply this much felt want. The girl is of good education ?''esponstbl* the our correspondents. No for opinions expressed by and in addition to her own she Turkish, ^unications can be entertained if the name and address of the language speaks wpondent is not given, or unless one side of the paper only be French, and a little English. Contributions would be grate- fully received and all enquiries answered by B. Christian, Esq., The Bank, Baldock, Herts. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. " 'Brisbane" writes : I ask you to take notice of the MORAL BACILLI." May " E. M." ?writes: Reading your comments upon an article l>y Mrr? behaviour of the (or the Com- ^??irteous Secretary possibly Lynn-Linton made me thiik that what the Rev. B. Waugh has done, of the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin ? I answered their and is still doing, for the poor little children, has been done for many children, who cannot feel too grattful for the chance t'ley low bavo ^'tee)Vertisement in for a big September Lady Superintendent, of looking forward to an independent and honourable old age, thanks copies of testimonials, and up to date (December to all who s# kindly helped to start our R.N.P.F. We are upheld by ^?lo8ingI the most gracious President in England, and ne^hing could so well fill ) have not heard a word from them. I have written the lives of lovtely and sympathetic) wcmen as the care of the sick and ICe to u the work thus for thousmds of women, know if the post was filled , the last time sending suffering. Through provided a the axe is laid at the root of one source of domratio misery. I mean for a and that if it was nor reply, requesting not, the marriage whioh, years ago, women rushed into for the sake of a li^mPto Now that c*use is removed for and the full effect will be be soon, my name might be withdrawn and testi- home. ever, |y seen in the next generation, and erase the future Mr?. Lynn-Lintons Dials " returned. Women who have to earn their living to find a better subject to discuss than Moral Bacilli." not afford to wait in this way ; and if the applications e too numerous to be answered by post, at least a noti- l0n fy that the post was filled might be inserted in The appointments. Blackburn Workhouse Infirmary.?Miss Millicent Toft is filled We have had no at Blackburn a Rotunda appointment up. has been Nurse lCe appointed Superintendent of the appointment either.] Workhouse Infirmary, at a salary of ?40 a year, and uniform. Miss Toft has been on the staff of the Carlisle Workhouse Infirmary, from which she has been promoted to Blackburn SICK NURSES. was at A Infirmary: She formerly Withington. *NlE Kemerton writes : I inform Beatrice of Sfc. y Mercies, Rectory, May Indian Service.?Miss Cann, Mary's ?W Sick are for a of has been Sister in the Indian re S^dly Nurses welcomed period Hospital, appointed Nursing ^ and sailed on December 12thinH.M.S. "Crocodile." fcient? ?^?ome Rest, Malvern Wells (see advertise- Service, where a than every advantage is given them at lower fee in a fine 0n ,,to ^he general public ? The Home is position Hmusement0 anb TRelajation. side; the house is large and well warmed, and the ar? ^0oc* are a NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. a lib though simple. There drawing-room, SPECIAL rar^? a can commenced arr piano, and everything that the Committee Fourth Quarterly Word Competition nge for the comfort of visitors. October 3rd, ends December 26th, 1891. but no can enter for all quarterly competitions, Competitors or two can take more than one first prize prizes of ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL. competitor COTTAGE kind the year. any during words of less than four Sister names, abbreviations, foreign words, Katherine writes : I regret that no notice of the Proper and and letters, and repetitions are barred; plurals, past present par- opening 0f this Standard, to be 0 Cottage Hospital and Nurses' Home was sent ticiples of verbs, are allowed. NuttaU's dictionary only your used. periodical. Press of work is excuse. Dur- the author with his or n8 the my only N.B.?Eachpaper must besigned by her real name month if the of in addition to the sale of work and address. A nom de plume may be added writer does not desire November, In the case of of to be referred to by us by his real name. all priia- winners ?Pening both sixteen were admitted hn t0 the Homes, patients however,the real name and address will published. the TWELFTH Cottage Hospital, over 700 visits were paid to ma- The word for dissection for this, week of the 4cmarter '? ?r?ity Ca8eBj and over being ere goo to district cases, including several "GOODWILL." cases of Six nurses cases for two Dec. 10th. Totals, Namaa. Total*. 8 typhoid. had lasting Names. Dec. 10th. 1 70 ... 495 Wren ... 417 ee> which are not counted in the cases. Lightowlers Jenny 78 district lg ... 495 from Bonne 52 Darlington 71 ... 491 St. 80 ... 566 Pupils Mary's Home were sent up to the examina- Morico NurgeG-. P ... 99 ,of the L. 0. S. in Hetty 69 ... 407 and all The doctor ? October, passed. Dulcamara 76 ... 509 Janet ? ... ? to ... 7 ? ??? corf-j001181 ^"ty forty every Tuesday, Psyche Jackanaces out-patients ? 99 u efable 80 ... 538 Ex Name ... number attended for etc. and^ae Agamemnon 6 daily dressings, 67 ... 474 a<^ six Norse J. S cases of burn within the laBt fow days. e ^ at 140, is All letters referring to this page which do not arrive a^rCBtQ hosPital the West Ham a mile are notao- a half Cottage Hospital, Strand, London, W.C. by the first yost on Thursdays, and away. The Bishop of St. Albans in his Bpeech dreeBed PRIZE EDITOR, tviLl in future ba disqualified amd disregarded. lxxii THE HOSPITAL NURSING SUPPLEMENT. Dec. 19, 1891.
[Gbrlstmas Competitions. rSvw., s Parcels have been received from Miss McEwen, M'ss Mabel White, Maud Pound, Edith Price, Mabel Gllian, Mabel Eageas, Lily Baugh, Beatrice Stocks (these last six all scholars of the British School, Melton Mowbray), Miss G. Frems, Miss Edith Ford, Miss Ellen Wayte, Nurse S. E. Barker, Nurse Lowe (with such a kind letter we are going to pin itto the socks, for we are sure it will double their value as a gift/r Gbe Hap of a Combatant. Nurse Baxter, Miss Edwards, Miss Roche, Nurse Barbara, " for (See our Indian Letter," page lxx.) Nurse H. Stork, Nurse Steer, Nurse Lee (a special gift the Victor Ward at the London), Nurse Turner, Nurse Little, Nurse Miss Coates, Nur>e M Nurse He was very much a soldier Firth, Reeve, Ayrton, Anna and 0. G and C. W., St. Albans. The awards And his uniform was blue, Lena, will be announced next week. We could do with many With tons of lace upon it more flannel and shirts if of our readers could And buttons not a few. petticoats any send us some to this office next. Warm clothing His sword was burnished brightly by Monday is such a to a from And spurs he wore of course, precious gift patient juat recovering " " or and forth to work You might take him for a Gunner pneumonia bronchitis, going again. When not upon his horse. I wrote to him a little note, presentation. Just some lines to say, " hasty Dear Doctor, come and look me up There was an interesting gathering at the Royal Free I've had all the the fever day." Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, on the 10th inst., when He wrote across my letter nurses invited the members of the Committee and medic? In the goriest of ink", with their to afternoon the occasion " staff, lady friends, tea, I'll beg you to address me being to afford an opportunity for bidding adieu to Miss As Lieutenant-Colonel Jinks." Eugenie Barton, the Lady Superintendent, who is leaving " to be married to North, How many did you kill," wrote he, Captain Ludlow. Mr. Edward Ford the Chairman of the a "In your last little fight? Weekly Board, in few appropriate for Mi0 Now mind you don't exaggerate, words, expressed the best wishes of his colleagues an en- Give me the total right." Barton's future happiness, and presented her with Full I answered him grossed and framed copy of a resolution passed by truthfully tn|o (I'm full of truth you see) Board, in which they expressed the high appreciation "When last I stemmed the battle's tide the valuable services Miss Barton has rendered to the Roy? have My bag was only three." Free Hospital during the past four years, and which resulted in the high standard which at; present characterise Full scornfully he smiled on me, h? " the nursing department of the institution. Miss Barton So you think that you can kill. ^ been the recipient of many valuable including For my sword I've but a lancet, presents, handsome clock from members of the Committee, For my bullet but a travelling pill. and a silver tea service from the nurses. Miss Henriet Yet you're distanced in the ^ running who has been for a Sister at King You're not in it in the race, Wedgwood, many years and has been Miss I've stocked a little College Hospital, appointed o Why graveyard successor at the Free was also Barton^ In this Royal Hospital, present very healthy placo." the occasion.
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So now we're taunted every day On the 11th inst., Nurse Lottie M'Lay, in faithful By popinjay or paltry scribe to duty. Nurse M'Lay was a valued member of the Hiltn With our presumption ! Yes, they say, Nursing Institution, Glasgow. With pointless jest and senseless jibe, That Doctors, whose mere work's to save, Are all unfit, of course, to bear IRotice. Titles that erst proclaimed the brave We are asked to state that from unforeseen And, eke says one, allured the fair. circumstance^i? the Membership Examination of the of Operators So be Let warriors bold who Society it. fight and Medical is 'Ihedateo Attract the fair ! We ask- Massage Electricity postponed. mad only the examination is not yet decided but will be we demand it as a upon, Nay, right? known as soon as Room to fulfil our nobler task. possible. But if by titles you acclaim Duty 'mid danger bravely done, Botes a ut> &uerte0* A record spotless, free from shame, Then in our claims we yield to none. Answers. The Nurses Bed.?2a. receivea from P licy 291. t0 pro- Our no craven a . calling grand breeds, Miss /.?Guy's Hospital gives a ce t ficAto at the end of y0B* And a Hosp? every hour, unknown to fame, balioners who pay gninea a week, s j dues hp Middles* join, Are quietly performed such deeds Nurte Lily.?KarUwcod Asvlum, or the H?nvernment swordlees men are Hou'tl0Uaiexsey By whose coats plain, bay. We cannot answer queiies. privat ly, exoept under Who nobly duty's calls obey, stress of circumttanoar. And grappling with diiease and pain, Face death and danger day by day. TKHants anD xmorftcrs, Nor lack they aupjht the warrior claims, The *' of A. P keen, brave the fearless answers to the wants eye, hand, " Ac&nowledgmtnls.?Several have been to The Q" forwarded them. . , purpose high, the aims a fHrdiff. glorious ll>'d Jackets.?Miss Mnn> G. and M. ? tbi (Things possible without Wilson, Irfirrn^ ^rea jn command). May I plsid 'or soo'B rtd jackets for the w som0tlll.?5 Thev pose not for or ho'pital ? there ltdin- who would ' applause praise, Surely aremtny op porta111 Yet not more braves for th? suffering ones at Otiriston'.s time, and "ere high 'mong England's m* O^owardoo he who wields the ?which would give much pleature and comfort to T* {or Stmds sword that r:a Vf__on