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(7) Were I the General, I would "go in for"
Female Head to appoint, dismiss, suspend, pay
all Female Servants: of course reporting to
Committee & with (formal) sanction of Committee
of Managers. There is absolutely no other way of
obtaining or keeping good female servants or
Nurses.
[In our - Workhouse Infirmary - case: we are
at this moment waiting for the nod of the Lord of the
Local Government: on this very subject: on which
really depends the future of good Nursing:
during which period (of waiting) I - as all the
gentlemen on the Guardians' Management are on my side, -
do as  Ilike: wh: is of course the right.
But how it would be if I were not alive
enough to 'intrigue' & 'lay about' me - like a
furious old pauper (as I am): unless the
Imperial nod comes soon:  - I do not like to think.
[Without such a condition, it is quite impossible
that we should send our Trained Matrons, who
are gentlewomen, into Workhouse Infirmaries].