The accompanying account of the Improvementsintroduced by the Select Vestry of Liverpool into theWorkhouse Hospital Wards under their control, mayperhaps be interesting to you, and possibly might provesuggestive and serviceable, if similar improvementsshould be required in your district.

As the time and strength of the Lady Superintendentof the Nurses employed in the WorkhouseHospital are very fully occupied, enquiries or requestsfor further information should not be addressed to her,but to the Chairman of the Workhouse Committee ofthe Select Vestry (and of the Hospital Sub-Committee),

T. H. SATCHELL, Esq.
48, Lord Street,
Liverpool;

Or,

H. J. HAGGER, Esq.
Parish Offices,
Liverpool.

WORKHOUSE NURSING:
THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.

The following pages contain a brief account of theexperiment successfully tried by the Select Vestry ofLiverpool (the guardians of the poor)—the introductionof trained Nurses into the male wards of theWorkhouse Infirmary. That experiment having resultedso successfully as to induce the Vestry toextend the system to the remainder of the infirmary,it may be interesting to those who are concerned inthe management of workhouses elsewhere to learnsomething of its history and progress. It is thewriter’s object to explain—

1. The grounds on which the Vestry were led toundertake the experiment, as stated in the preliminaryreport of Mr. Carr, the governor, and that of thesub-committee of the Vestry appointed to considerthe proposed scheme; and the replies received to inquiriesaddressed by them to institutions and personsconnected with the training and employment of skillednurses in London and Liverpool, with letters on thesubject from Miss Nightingale and Sir John M^cNeill.

2. The results of the experiment, so far as hithertoascertained.

The Liverpool Vestry had previously made considerableefforts to improve the workhouse infirmaries.The medical men had been encouraged to make requisitionfor every material appliance that could facilitatethe cure of the sick; and paid female officers wereappointed at the rate of one to each 150 or 200 beds,to superintend the giving of medicines and stimulants,and so forth: but of course so small a number, evenhad they been trained nurses, could do no realnursing, and could exercise little supervision over thetwenty drunken or unreliable[1] pauper nurses whowere under the nominal direction of each paid officer.An appeal was made to the Vestry to consummatethe good work they had thus partially commenced,and it was urged that Liverpool should assume thelead in the task of workhouse reform. The followingconsiderations were submitted to the Select Vestry:—

“That Liverpool could commence this movementwith great effect, and with the certainty that herexample would be widely followed.

“That she had in times past taken a leading part insuch reform. The introduction of the New Poor Lawproduced little change in Liverpool; so many ofits

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