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Title: Florence Nightingale : a biography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Matheson, Annie, 1853-
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Evatt, George Joseph Hamilton, b. 1843 Nurses
Publisher: London Edinburgh New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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oved into its present palace at Westminster,of which the Nightingale Training Home is apart. In those first early days an upper floorwas arranged for the nurses in a new part of theold hospital, with a bedroom for each probationer,two rooms for the Sister-in-charge, and a sitting-room in which all shared. As the result of theadvertisement for candidates in i860, fifteen pro-bationers were admitted in June, the first super-intendent being Mrs. Wardroper. The proba-tioners were, of course, under the authority of thematron, and subject to the rules of the hospital.They were to give help in the wards and receiveteaching from the Sisters and medical staff, and ifat the end of the year they passed their examina-tion, they were to be registered as certifiednurses. Thanks to Miss Nightingale and other pioneers,the fifty years that have passed since then havemade Mrs. Grundy a little less Grundyish, butin those days she considered the whole businessa terrible venture, and was too much occupied
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oo O 2 X X -en ^ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 305 with the idea of possible love affairs between thedoctors and nurses to realize what good workwas being done. The first year was a veryanxious one for Miss Nightingale, but all theworld knows now how her experiment hasjustified itself and how her prayers have beenanswered; for it was in prayer that she foundher quietness and confidence through thosefirst months of tension when the enemy waswatching and four probationers had to be dis-missed, though their ranks were speedily filledup by others. At the end of the year, from among those whowere placed on the register, six received appoint-ments at St. Thomass and two took work ininfirmaries. There was special need of goodnurses in workhouse infirmaries, and there wasalso throughout the whole country a crying needfor nurses carefully trained in midwifery : lack ofknowledge, for instance, had greatly increasedthe danger of puerperal fever, a scourge againstwhich Miss Nightingale was one of the fir

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