The serious decrease in the number of girls who choose nursing as 0 profession, objecting to its long hours, hard drudgery, starvation pay and general dragooning, has inspired the West London Hospital to start a training scheme which Will watched with much interest. Girls Usually leave school at 17, but ean-not become probationers under 18, To All in the gap, and secure nurses later, the West London Hospital. will give girls training as students for a year. "They will live at home, but et their meals at the hospital, and in special cases. bursaries of "£20, Mornings will be spent in lectures on anatomy. physiology, first aid, chemistry and invalid cookery; the afternoons in practical demonstra tions. "Those who pass the examination at the end of their year will then. be taken. as. probationers, on much better terms than are usually given to those maids-of-all-work, The stu dents will wear overalls, not uniforms, and it is specially emphasized that they wil be all allowed. within reason to use cosmetics, the ombargo on which in the case of nurses 9 bitter and fust_ grievance, Undoubtedly the hardships of a nurse's life are exaggerated and in recent times conditions have much improved, The late Lord Knutsford recalled that when he took London Hospital under his wing a day nurse got into a bed when the night nurse of out of it and vice vers. Beds were never cold and conditions all round were intolerable, But with so many openings now available for' girls, the meagre pay and many restrictions of nurse's life mot' unnaturally put girls off, Apropos of work for girls, an ex: traordinary ease came to my know ledge recently. A parlourmatd. who had been ina house in our neigh: bourhood for two years, decided that she would like to go to London, She wave notice and went up to a big registry office in town where she wat known, They told her to come bad here and withdraw her notice to eave. They said that they had nothing for her, not a single application on their books by any. mistress, and had not had any for some weeks, That many people are cutting down expenses "isa fact, But it gems more probable that mistresses begin to realize, as I know several who have, that with the help of a daily to do the roughest jobs it is quite easy to do the work themselves and on the whole much more comfort. able, So the revolt of the maids of which we have heard so much leads to the revolt of the mistresses. _Emferson's law of compensations' once more.
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