Dr. Hamilton's

nursing

presidency.

intendent, imported

from

hospital at

and

division,

to serve

officer

subject geon-General. for

Brigade-Surgeon J. B. Hamilton has of

subject

with the tenor and

phlet,

in entire accord.

interesting

an

of which

object

pamwe are

He shows what benefit has

been conferred upon the British soldier, in times both of peace and war, by the services of which have beeu organized for the purpose of attending upon the sick and wounded. In these days it does not the

nursing sisterhoods,

need

argument is

nursing man

is

a

illustration

or

prove that ; that

to

function of

special

woman

nature and habit unfit for the deli-

by

cate and assiduous offices which

and

the

and of sick-rooms

military,

established this truth

are

available in the

are

are men

of

uutraiued

native

corps, from the ranks to

the

occasion, and nurses picked up anyhow under on

He

gency.

gives

equally successful nursing agencies

this country not

delicate duties

for sick

satisfactory. The the army hospital

orderlies

summoned

sick-room hospital of a nondescript kind or

pressure of an emerillustrations in reasons and

of the unfitness of these

proof

have

of absolute

basis

a

that the

officers and soldiers

agencies

on

everywhere,

Dr. Hamilton is

certainty.

in his contention which

nursing entails, hospitals, civil and

of

experience

appertaining

agencies to

for the

nursing

the

The present, he urges, is an opportune sick. time for raising and dealing with the question,

inasmuch for

as

the

ministering

beeu

so

warmly

material for

a

question

of

training

women

to the sick in

this country has and vigorously taken The up. service of female nurses for

is procurable both in this from England country, and the matter merely requires organization and attenIndian

as

follow:?A

to

the

A

Lady Superto be attached

England, head-quarters

the

of each

under the senior medical

authority

of the

Deputy

Sur-

These ladies would train sisters

general service in the presidency. Recruiting nursing service would be carried on iti

for this

HOSPITALS. made this the

are

established for each to the station

NURSING IN INDIAN MILITARY

proposals

branch of the medical service should be

military hospitals and

tion for its satisfactory realization.

India and

under

orders of

the

Surgeon-General,

the agency iucreased and improved, its members would be allotted to hospitals for both as

and women, while supernumeraries might be These available for emergent duties. and of necessity vague suggestions are general, men

held

but the

subject

is

one

of extreme

and the movement deserves the

couragement, value of

adaptation medical had

en-

and support of all who know the nursing and the preeminent

skilful of

man

for this work ; and what is there in these days who has not

plentiful

women

and strong

tion of both these ment

importance;

sympathy,

complete

experience in affirmapositions? We wish the move-

success.