Note as to Teaching Nursing 22, 23 ILLUSTRATION. Plan of the Lariboisière Hospital at Paris p. 63 DIGEST. PAGES THOUGHTS SUBMITTED BY ORDER 1–28 CONCERNING I. HOSPITAL NURSES. II. NURSES IN CIVIL HOSPITALS. III. NURSES IN HER MAJESTY’S HOSPITALS. I. Hospital Nurses 1–9 Twenty Observations on how to improve Hospital Nursing. II. Nurses in Civil Hospitals 9–14 Twenty-three Heads for Regulations as to Nursing in Civil Hospitals. III. Nurses in Her Majesty’s Hospitals 15–19 Twenty-two suggestions in the event of the introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals. Various systems of Female Nursing during the Crimean War in the Military Hospitals 19–28 Of the French and Sardinians 19–22 Russians 22, 23, 26–28 English 23 Proposed Duties of Female Nurses in Military General Hospitals 23, 24 The Hospital Serjeant, or Ward Master will not be superseded--he will still have too much to do for any one man properly to perform, and part of his duties must be given to another officer 24–26 NOTE IN REGARD TO THE RUSSIAN NURSES EMPLOYED IN THE WAR-HOSPITALS OF THE CRIMEA 26–28 SUBSIDIARY NOTES AS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF FEMALE NURSING INTO MILITARY HOSPITALS IN PEACE AND IN WAR 1–133 I. Five Conditions essential to this service 1–3 II. Our Nurses were of four kinds 3 Absolute subordination to the Medical Officer as to Medical Orders essential and practised by us 4 III. 1. Qualified subordination essential of Superintendent-General to Director-General and Principal Medical Officer 4–6 2. Also of Matron and Nurses to Principal Medical Officer and Staff-Surgeons 6, 7 3. Female service can only be introduced gradually, and introduction regulated by Director-General 7–9