_London:_
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1867.
The accompanying account of the Improvements introduced by the Select
Vestry of Liverpool into the Workhouse Hospital Wards under their
control, may perhaps be interesting to you, and possibly might prove
suggestive and serviceable, if similar improvements should be required
in your district.
As the time and strength of the Lady Superintendent of the Nurses
employed in the Workhouse Hospital are very fully occupied, enquiries or
requests for further information should not be addressed to her, but to
the Chairman of the Workhouse Committee of the Select Vestry (and of the
Hospital Sub-Committee),
T. H. SATCHELL, Esq.
_48, Lord Street_,
Liverpool;
_Or_,
H. J. HAGGER, Esq.
_Parish Offices_,
Liverpool.
WORKHOUSE NURSING:
_THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT._
The following pages contain a brief account of the experiment
successfully tried by the Select Vestry of Liverpool (the guardians of
the poor)—the introduction of trained Nurses into the male wards of the
Workhouse Infirmary. That experiment having resulted so successfully as
to induce the Vestry to extend the system to the remainder of the
infirmary, it may be interesting to those who are concerned in the
management of workhouses elsewhere to learn something of its history and
progress. It is the writer’s object to explain—
1. The grounds on which the Vestry were led to undertake the experiment,
as stated in the preliminary report of Mr. Carr, the governor, and that
of the sub-committee of the Vestry appointed to consider the proposed
scheme; and the replies received to inquiries addressed by them to
institutions and persons connected with the training and employment of
skilled nurses in London and Liverpool, with letters on the subject from
Miss Nightingale and Sir John M^cNeill.