Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War

A practical manual of recommendations for introducing and managing female nursing in military and civil hospitals, offering rules on duties, supervision, pay, pensions, discipline, and training. It compares nursing systems used by different nations in wartime, sets staffing ratios and orderly responsibilities, and proposes relations between nurses, matrons, medical officers, and hospital governors. Detailed appendices advise on pavilion ward layout, sanitation, ventilation, laundries, meals, night duty, management of contagious cases, classification of patients, and recordkeeping, and include proposals for a nurses’ provident fund and for teaching and counting nursing personnel.