Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-04-24

campment. The thousands of British soldiers
who at midnight "kissed her shadow as il
passed" along those dreadful Scutar hospital
corridors, sleep soundly by the banks of the
ever flowing Bosphorus and she who sooth.
ed many weary moment of the dying-look-
ing comfort and whispering words OF hope
suffers but complains not strength fails, but
she will work John Howard, in his day, Wis
lted all lands to seek out the miserable objects
OF social ignorance and civil tyranny he re-
moved the telon's chains, c.eansed the fetid
prisons, anne lorated the condition of the sick
and mentally suffering, received the thanks OF
Parliament, earned the abiding gratitude OF
the civilized word-and died. That which
John Howard did in his day cannot die. That
which Florence Nightingale has done and is
DONG viii in its effects also be eternal.
,on Engand's annals, through the long
Ign. ITS ray shall cast
,o, flVi,i pT ,ls . une past
In the Great hi,toryP If fhe iamJ
4 noble type # eood
4i'.OiO "0ii'''HOOu
Our pfinelpai PURPOSE however, Is as we
naFG il,li'lia'eu iess 10 Slio" WHAT MISS Nlgnt
lpsaie mas uone t,i"" 'it'' sue Is uoihS' lie
one Is patent " 'lle "ho'e WORM OF the other
very niue Is Known.
III .t.''V"s ane eI'J e the LOW oi the pen is
s.nsous,5 ",, S.,,1 nuo"ieuse tnat 10
wll'e ,iiuIl "Uu'u pG tllan
- VIC et''i ra s i"uy "Hose u@Ss a.
nsns axe u"y Vi e 4.'l', iaool' we are
"l'ileiu Ho'li any MUGS concerning inc
woIh sue 10 uo.ls' no. "iohe iol t'ie military
anu ciSii hoSpittie vi E"slanu' out Ior tliose Oh
gu. coioules anu iiiIiHi, VI nef consultations
VIZ P"3 e,1i""e mei me- 'ie" anu dIcii =
.ectsIoi uHS flst's % nospia' eoii'iiii'tees-ol
enouS"' a'Iu W. ~ O"i "ch !'hPioNeInehl'
ior married soiulers quarters improvement,
ior hospi'a' Improvement III many ways, 1or
improvement connected WIN the army medl'
cai department llie ambulance ana iahd trans
port department. anu tHe coi,ihissar'at III
oIlel, ior al t'''t comcerns tEe eIhclehcy,
heaith' comfort ana "el-oelng OF our soldiers,
VI i'ools' inueeu' tuy one Vi "hich Wouid De
NAV !" PeIsoh III sllO'ie iieai'hi put all OF
miiGn are performed uhder circumstances that
;rs,if HE hut almost duty.
If we are precluded from touching on these
no;nts-on tuiIs that must be known in dine
time from the results that will follow them
,ra ,anpotNie forbidden the record of n wish tn
tha hoslo3l of ST. Thomas. where the nursing
svs,em Is in onprat;on. and where the seed IS
nIanted of that Constitution for the training.
snhstena6ce and nrotection of nurses and hos.
Dital attendants y promised bv Miss Niuhtin.
oale and which society. in all lis ranks and
classes earuestlv anxouslv. honefnIlv and
tasteiuilv looks for at her hands.
Whv Miss NIGHTINGALE selected the hosnital
Of 81 Thomas in nreterence TO other hosnitals
. we cannot saw no doubt she had her reasons
>> -ond No dnnht thev yare sound and wiso I'm,
40 i,no,T ttot tho cIo,ca Iras not ,noJe
,E;,h n,In,,,o ;nn1irv and yarv n,aturo oons;J.
arat;,',,
T,1,, CI,p,ors ,.,sropv n, TUE uosp,r,, or
ST ruoMAs
rrh;s bosn;+ol ;s os ali orr Tordo, roodors
l,,o,y sitmata on the Survey side of London
Rridge A few words CONCERNING il NAV mt
I've on,iss Tn ,he year 12i8Nsiy Inndre3 and
fifty.aioLt wears a9owit was first astabishaJ
nc nm 6Almonrv tor Indecent children and no
cresitous nroseIvtes" Sin earlier howavar
sam after tl,e contest "a convent was erect.
ad close IN its present site II was the work
of a MINIS moo,dn-a yirgin-who had accnmu.
lated large fortune by the beritagn of boat
to convey nossenoers across the Thames he.
fora INV h,iduo woe huilt Uor non,o ,,os
Mar and from her vocation she bore The
Savon annellation of Over'r;o tha+ is over
the river II was desirovod Nv fro a n
1919 cood Risbon of W;nnhostor Loy.
eyor tool, small ori;fco Which Lad hoon
erecied Inv the monks ot s. savior anJ ,vLirh
I'LL, stood ~, tha ovo,t srnt 80 H. ,,nos
ont e. Tnon,sjs Hnsn;toI no,, sta,d H.. r. =
al ~ have ,Irata,raJ ~ Co.. ny th 80
ba oi md th. nuritu of t,e ,uatorI No,,r;tl,
stnnd;,a tha nrosa,,t as,,aNt oe So,,.l'so'Ii !,
,sos in ibe GOOD hishon tino most ,,,aasa,t ~
" s,nate reference to anninnt Dpa,IS
fiat il was surrounded Inv hioh frees and that
on the side of the Thames the meodows were
sweet and abundant. The hosnital then and
there founded. consisted of a Master and
Rrethren there were also "Sisters" TO nurse
ond at,ond IN the nonr
THO Losnital that feared FIR" moor nilorims
in the vear 1919 still cares for "noor nilorims"
in the wear 1851
The offs and leracies Of good men and
women aided and ENLARGED # from time to
time. AS resources increased the means of
ministerinp relief auomented and now St.
Thomas HosnitaI contains 900 beds for ma
tients and seventy for Sisters and nurses :.
having admitted the enormous nnmber of 4367
in-nntients in 1850 and relieving ~ e44 ont-
natients durin0 Thar wear
pEouIprMpxrs
After a conversation with MrS wordroner
(,he matronl in whnse hirh worth ond lor,,o
evneriencp Miss Nioh,inoela has n,,nh oouI.
6.pce nroceeded IN ;nsnac, ,So ,'o'.,,s and
tha "hand nj fifteen" oiraod, H. .r";',;n "''1i
i,od ohtained two naners Ir.,r, ~ so I,,' MI
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. - rade Of s.I,an,idtt;',y a 90
,i,e ,raie;ng Of nnrses urdar to SN;J.;. "s
Tnndn. ,He other list Of s.tl,o n',';es y,
praha,ioners nnder the Ninhtngale Emil ;;
10 imnoss;IJn to imaoine docnmerts noro