“The moral influence of the trained nurses by precept and example must in time diffuse itself through the medium of the pauper nurses to the paupers in hospital, the workhouse, and thence to the parish at large.” I regret my inability to obtain fuller testimony to-day, but professional men are busy, and their visits to the hospital only on stated days. If I can be of further use in any way, pray command me. I am, Sir, Very faithfully yours, (Signed) M. J. _Superintendent of St. John’s._ After collecting and considering all the information within their reach, the Sub-Committee reported as follows:— The Sub-Committee appointed on the 14th ultimo to consider and report as to a suggested alteration in the Staff of the Workhouse Hospital, report, That the superiority, as nurses, of trained, experienced, and responsible women to the pauper women upon whom, under the present system, the actual nursing of the sick inmates of the workhouse devolves, is so apparent, that they conceive it to be unnecessary to offer any further observations upon this part of the subject. The points which have mainly occupied your Committee’s attention are the following:— 1. The cost of introducing a staff of trained nurses into the Workhouse Hospital, or any portion thereof. 2. The practicability of providing sufficient accommodation in the Workhouse for such an increase of officers. 3. The supply of trained nurses.