1. A Nurse desiring to be trained in District Nursing must have previously received at least two years’ training in a large general Hospital, approved by the Committee, and bring satisfactory testimonials as to capacity and conduct. 2. If considered by the Superintendent likely to prove suitable for District Nursing, she will be received on trial for one month. If at the end of that time she is considered suitable, she will continue her course of training, with technical class instruction for five months longer. 3. The Nurse will, at the end of her month of trial, be required to sign an agreement with the Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute that she will, for one year from the date of the completion of her District training, continue to work as a District Nurse wherever the District Council of the Queen’s Institute may require her services. 4. While under training, the Nurse will be subject to the authority of the Superintendent of the Training Home, and she must conform to the rules and regulations of the Home. She will be further subject, as to her work, to the inspection of the Inspector of the Queen’s Institute. 5. If, during the time of her training, the Nurse be found inefficient, or otherwise unsuitable, her engagement may, with the consent of the Inspector of the Queen’s Institute, be terminated by the Superintendent of the Training Home, at a week’s notice. In the case of misconduct or neglect of duty she will be liable to immediate dismissal by the Superintendent of the Training Home, with the concurrence of the Inspector of the Queen’s Institute. 6. During her six months’ training she will receive a payment of £12 10_s._, payable, one-half at the end of three months from admission, and the remainder at the end of six months; but should her engagement be terminated from any cause before the end of her training, she will not, without the consent of the Queen’s Institute, be entitled to any part payment. She will be provided with a full board, laundry, a separate furnished bedroom or cubicle, with a sitting room in common, as well as a uniform dress, which she will be required to wear at all times when on duty. The uniform must be considered the property of the Institute. 7. On the satisfactory completion of her training, the Nurse will be recommended for engagement as a District Nurse, under some Association affiliated to the Queen’s Institute, the salary usually commencing at £30 per annum. CHAPTER XXIV _LATER YEARS_ The Nightingale Home--Rules for Probationers--Deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale--Death of Lady Verney--Continues to Visit Claydon--Health Crusade--Rural Hygiene--A Letter to Mothers--Introduces Village Missioners--Village Sanitation in India--The Diamond Jubilee--Balaclava Dinner.