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V. On the "duties" question: (Dr. Bridges' proposed "letter")
If the above pages be at all acknowledged as true,
must not these "duties" be recast?
Will all that mixing up on authorities & "aidings"
do?
Is not the first thing they wanted:
a common-sense set of rules
putting every body's saddle on every body's
own back?
At present they have one saddle for the
whole household: and it is expected that
every one will put it on when so disposed.
Is it possible to ingraft a really good
Nursing system on these Rules?
Do as you will - will not every body with
any authority interfere with Matron & Nurses?
If the President does not see his way to
alter this - would it not be better that
he should, by attacking the enemy in detail
& carrying one fort after another - introduce
the Nursing element completely & successfully?
Florence Nightingale