And I will add that the
experience of the (first-rate)
Administration of the Assistance
Publique at Paris is so exactly
the same that, for many
years, no Paris Hospital
except the "Necker", admits
"Soeurs de Charite" as Nurses.
The Augustinans & Soeurs de
St. Marthe are entrusted
with the Nursing of all the
(Civil) great Paris Hospitals - &
them alone - to which
distinction I give my most
emphatic concurrence.[This is not to say that
"Soeurs de Charite" are not to
recieve English gifts. It is
only to say that English gentlemen
taken by their nice white capes
good manners, & orderly
apperance know very little
of what is going on
in the Patients' region].
I have seen the best French doctors, "tearing their hair",
et pour cause, at the Soeurs doings - exactly as the
"tearing the hair" at the Johanniter's doings is here
described.