No Foundation for Charge of Being Understaffed and Badly Treated: Student Nurse's Career in Shanghai 'A. dispassionate survey of the facts pertaining to the organizatic and administration of the Country Hospital of Shanghai, its Nurses" 'Training School, and' the general standard of efficiency focally as compared with institutions in other parts of the world, leads one to suspect that the: general public, when launching into creeping unfavourable eviticisms of this institution, is "going off the deep end," a not unnatural hot weather tendency.
The following facts are brought to! Tight by careful investigation. The nursing staff of the Country Hospital at the present time comprises, the matron, Miss G. Beane, who has held this post since the opening of the institution more than two years ago; oan operating room sister; an operating room probationer; two hydrotherapy sisters; two dieticians 12 nursing sisters for floor duty; 14 probationers; four nurse-boys and tone amah, Without reference to the special departments such as operating, hydvotherapy, ete, it can be een that there cre actually 26 nurses for floor duty. The ration accepted in England for the number of] patients per nurse is three or four patients to one nurse; in America the accepted ratio is four to one, ix to one,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.