results of their industry to the lady
superintendent, at least once a quarter.

Such is the kind of effort made in London
for provision of trained nurses for the sick.
We should be better pleased if good women
of every sect were asked to share in it; but,
on the other hand, it is indisputable that the
Church of England has, or ought to have, a
power within itself for organising practical and
wholesome work of this kind, and that she is
never less to be reproached as narrow and
sectarian, than when she makes a wise use of
her strength for the bettering of help to the
sick and sorry, of all ranks and of all creeds.

At Kaiserswerth, the Training School in
which the nurses live, is the hospital. The
Saint John's House is an hospital, and the
probationers used to go from it daily to be
put to rough training in doubtful association
with the nurses of the old school, in this or
that one of the hospitals of London; there
they, of course, had to fight with many a
prejudice in single fray, detached from the
support of the main body of their little force,
and beyond hearing of its captain's voice.
But, in due time what might have been
expected, happened. There is in London one
great educational establishment connected
with the Church of England, through which
active leaders in the Church, labour
indefatigably to associate a religious principle
with the supply of whatever want of the day
a college and a hospital can meet. They
train young men in arts, in medicine, in any
science that begets a business of life. When
military education was demanded, they were
ready with a military department; when
the arrested cultivation and the ill-spent
evening of young men at work all day in
offices and houses of business became felt,
they opened for them evening classes in
which they could receive the aids and
privileges of a systematic college education.
When the counsel and example of Miss
Nightingale prompted much talk and some
action towards the improvement of the
character of nurses, they had not far to look
for a good practical idea. King's College
Hospital wanted a set of nurses equal to the
requirement of the day, and capable of being
maintained in distinct connection with the
Church of England. On the other hand, the
sisters of Saint John's House were in want
of a hospital alive to their own purpose.
Between the two institutions marriage was
contracted.

There was a second fact which made
the match very eligible. The hospital is
breaking down its old home in a cast-
off workhouse, and building up a new home
as wholesome and convenient as wit and the
zeal of friends, who in about fifteen years
have already provided eighty-five thousand
pounds towards the building fund, can make
it. It hopes to be the best-appointed
home for the sick poor, in London. Now,
while it is building and fitting, it can easily
adapt itself to the accommodation of a class of
nurses who, except in regard of obedience to
all medical orders, claims to live as an
independent colony within its walls. It seems to
have been provided in the marriage settlement
that the master of the nurses' house
should also occupy the post, which was then
vacant, of chaplain to the hospital. He
lives, therefore, in the hospital, with sisters,
nurses, and patients, alike placed under his
spiritual care. Rooms are provided, also, for
the lady superintendent; and an entire corridor,
or section of a corridor, with the rooms
opening upon it, has been given to the sole
use of the nursing staff.

In London, therefore, King's College
Hospital has, for about the last two years, been
doing, for all practical purposes, what
has during many years been done at
Kaiserswerth. The effort to supplant Mrs.
Gamp, with a trained nurse who understands
and likes her work, and who has the best
motive for being faithful in it, is being made
in the central hospital of the metropolis;
and the influence of kind and skilful nursing
is there freely enjoyed, not by the poor of
one parish in London, or indeed of London
only. As many as one-fifth of the patients
received into that hospital, come from the
country, while its central position, near the
city and the river, brings within its walls
the sick from beyond the bridges, from
every part of London and the suburbs, and
from the city unions. They come freely.
Four-fifths of those who come, produce no
letter of recommendation; their disease is a
sufficient passport. How much they enjoy
good nursing when they come, we need not
say. Let any one who cares about these
matters thread the narrow maze of streets in
which the hospital and the New Rolls Office,
and one or two other noticeable structures,
patiently wait for the promised thoroughfare
on which their architects have reckoned
(the handsome frontage of the New King's
College Hospital now forms one side of
Grange Court, an alley very few feet wide),
and let him find at their work the lady
superintendent, and the six lady nurses,
and the staff of busy, handy women,
who are there comforting distress and
easing pain. What is to be the future of
these handy women? They are here, under
careful oversight, to receive education in
the duties of a nurse, and when they are
perfect in the work they will be written
in the list of nurses, and will be ready
to come, even to our own homes, when
we shall need their services. Each of them
will have been trained to the strict military
obedience essential in one who is set as a
sentinel over disease. She will have learnt
how life may be saved through steady
nursing, which will not grudge patience to
the half-hourly administration of medicine
or food; how it may be saved also, through
skilled observation and a shrewd report