Note 13 — Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War.

If the Surgeons are for the men doing it, I would not overpress this point. But, in the case of weak patients, it requires extra care, and it would be much better to leave it as the duty of the Nurse. At all events it will not answer to leave the enema and its administrator unspecified. The Medical Staff Regulations assign it to the Ward-Masters. It is a simple thing enough, but one by the careless or ignorant administration of which many a man (and woman) has been injured for life; and either the Ward-Master, the Assistant Ward-Master, or the Nurse should be responsible for it. I should prefer, as above stated, charging the Nurse with it; but if objected to by the Surgeons, I should at once let them assign it to whichever Non-commissioned Officer they chose.