On board the Rhona was all the! Jequipment, supplies, and personnel required for setting up a field hospital, Besides the medical officers, assistants, and nurses, there was the fall quota of orderlies, water-carriers, hospital cooks, including Hindu and a Mohammedan cook for} the Indian staff, washerman and] ward boys and the regular form of] strict discipline associated with the: medical service was observed! throughout the voyage The presence of the nurses here, calls to mind the fact that the British Tommie receives the best that there is to receive along: medical lines. The high standard of the medical and surgical service of the army is well known and fg no exaggeration to say that the lofty purpose of giving to the British soldier the best that is known to medical science, applies to the nursing branch of the service also. The army nurse, carrying out the ideals laid down by the pioneer in such work, Florence Nightingale, submerges her personality entirely into the corps of which she is a niember, and which it is her sole intention to represent creditably. She is under the same discipline which applies to the army in general and shows by her bearing Jand personality that her main to preserve always the attached to the wearing of ing's uniform, Tndging from the nurses which made up. the unit for Shanghai's [Defence Forces, these ideals are entirely justifiable. It would be difficult] to find a group, bearing more visibly the character of the service which! they represent,
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