Note 9 — Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War.

With regard to children we might look forward to a time when a school might be formed for the children, if any, of such of Her Majesty’s Nurses as are widows. This would be an additional bond to the Service for the mothers. The children, of course, are not to be admitted into Hospital; and strict rules must be made (and kept to) as to when the mother should visit them. I do not anticipate that it would be possible ever to have married women in the Service. And it is hardly necessary to add, that no women but of unblemished character can ever be admitted.