II. During its continuance they require to live well _i. e._, to have a
sufficiency of good plain food.
III. They are obliged to put out and pay for either the whole or nearly
the whole of their washing, making, and mending (and most properly
obliged).
Thus apart altogether from the consideration that many nurses are
widows with families, and many others burdened with helpless or infirm
relations, and that, in many of these cases, the smallest saving out
of their wages is impossible, I doubt whether it can be reasonably
expected that, as a class, hospital nurses should lay by out of their
unassisted savings a provision for their age.[21]
[Sidenote: Persons to be assisted.]