20. Apart from raising the wages of good nurses after every ten years’ service, I think it would well answer to establish a graduated scale of pensions, for both head-nurses and nurses; beginning with a small pension after ten years’ good service, increasing every five years afterwards. Many women are quickly worn out in this life; and it is equally undesirable to turn faithful worn-out servants adrift without any provision, or to retain them in duties for which they are become unfit. It is a question whether there should not be a compulsory stoppage from wages, in order to entitle the nurses to pension under conditions. [Sidenote: No occasional Wards.] 21. Have no occasional wards, or wards for accidental and peculiar patients. [Sidenote: Head-Nurse to each Ward.] 22. Every ward, or set of wards, should be under a head-nurse. Discipline is always defective under other arrangements. [Sidenote: Religious Influence.] 23. This turns greatly upon a previous question. Every endeavour should be used to bring the women under the influence of religion, God’s instrument for saving, strengthening, and comforting souls. So far as this work depends on rule, system, and superintendence, great things may be done at any rate--so far as moral influence is concerned, it can only be hoped for in the channels appointed by Him who turneth all hearts whithersoever He will. III. NURSES IN HER MAJESTY’S HOSPITALS. [Sidenote: Two kinds of Hospital Service for Females.] 1. If their introduction is eventually commanded by the Queen’s Government, it will be advisable to consider that their service admits of two distinct kinds. [Sidenote: The one: its Advantages;] 2. “Their chief duties” may be “taking charge of the linen and superintending the issue of extras.” They will thus contribute materially to the comfort and well-being of the sick; the real difficulties which undoubtedly beset the introduction of women into ward service will be avoided; and, an important consideration, not lightly to be discarded, their exclusion from the ward service will materially diminish the opposition of adverse masters, some of whom are also unscrupulous masters. [Sidenote: The other: its Advantages.] 3. On the other hand, I suppose, the experience of every woman, admitted to ward service in hospitals where women were not before, is that many lives are actually saved by such admission, which would otherwise, humanly speaking, be lost. In time of war some ciphers may be safely added to the many. Any other great emergency, I suppose, but do not speak from experience, would give the same result. That the experience of many surgeons is identical, their conduct has proved; no other testimony, under present circumstances, can rationally be expected from them. [Sidenote: Both to be Weighed.] 4. It is often right to begin with the smaller and less-opposed good, and to introduce gradually, and, as it pleases God, the remainder. It may be our duty to do this, as to this matter.