Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
The Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute took its origin from the jubilee of the Queen's reign, when her Majesty was pleased to devote 70,000 pounds of the women's offering for the special object of training nurses to tend the sick poor in their homes. A Royal Charter was granted, by which the master of St Katharine's Regent's Park, for the time being was appointed president. The Duke of Westminster, Sir James PAGET, and Sir Rutherford ALCOCK were nominated trustees for the fund, the capital of which may never be touched, and provision was made for the appointment of a council.
The work has grown rapidly, a large number of nurses having been trained, and are employed all over the United Kingdom in district work. In many places nursing institutions have been started where they did not previously exist, by means of a small grant made by the institute, and associations already in existence have been affiliated to the institute with the object of maintaining as high a standard as possible in nursing work One of the most important features of the work which is carried on from the central office at St Katharine's, Regent's Park, and which has led to other associations to seek affiliation to the institute, is the system of inspection of the nurse's work, which is a condition of affiliation that inspections should be made. The inspectors are fully trained nurses with considerable experience and they make regular reports to the council of the work that has come under their notice. At present there are only two, but the work has become so large that it is essential that the staff should be considerably increased, in order that the inspections may be more completely carried out. The importance of sending nurses to the sick poor in their own homes cannot be questioned, for in fulfilling her duties she also teaches many things connected with hygiene and sanitary matters which are of vast consequence to the health and happiness of the poor.
It must however be manifest, according to an appeal issued by the institute, to carry out the work adequately, to keep the ground gained, to help other places set up nursing associations in the best manner, to cover the country with nurses who understand their work, requires a larger income than the interest on the money held in trust, about 2100 pounds a year. The work never would have attained its present propositions had it not been that 11,000 pounds was placed at the disposal of the council by three donors, who desired it be spent over five years in training nurses and making grants where it was thought necessary that a good system of nursing work might be commenced.
During the 6yrs the work has been in hand 293 associations have been affiliated to the institute and 539 nurses placed on the roll of Queen's nurses, working in various places in the United Kingdom. The total amount received by associations from the institute in aid of their work has been 5128 pounds, while the total local expenditure up to the end of 1894 amounted to 47.417 pounds. This was largely increased in 1895, in which year 47 new institutions were affiliated. The demand for the extension of the work, with which the institute has hardly been able to keep pace, is the best proof of how much it is wanted.. The 11.000 pounds referred to was exhausted last year, in order that the work, may not be seriously crippled, 3000 to 4000 pounds a year is needed beyond the interest upon the original investment. In a large number of cases local energy will be sufficient to secure continuance of the work, but there are a number of cases where a small annual grant from the institute is needed, so that the work begun may not fall to the ground. Her Majesty has given fresh proof of her interest in the sick poor by receiving at Windsor the Queen's nurses who work among them in their own homes, of whom 395 were present. If the generous sympathy of those should be excited who know the untold blessing of having the advantage of trained nurses in their time of suffering and sickness, so that they would desire to extend those benefits to the poor by aiding financially the work of the institute, information will be most readily given by the master of St Katharine's upon the subject.
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Liverpool Mercury May 1st, 1897
Liverpool and the Commemoration
The Lord Mayor's Appeal to the citizens
The Lord Mayor [Alderman Thomas HUGHES] has, on behalf of the committee having charge of the arrangements for the commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in Liverpool, issued the following appeal to the citizens of Liverpool :-
Loyalty to our beloved Queen, and regard to the honour and credit, as to the welfare of our city and sympathy for the suffering, combine to recommend to us the scheme which as been chosen to commemorate in Liverpool the 60th year of her Majesty's reign. The idea of providing skilled nurses for the poor in their own homes originated and was first carried into operation in Liverpool in 1862. It became a Royal and national undertaking in 1887, when the Queen devoted to the foundation of the Queen's Institute 70,000 pounds out of the Jubilee gift of the women of England. Thus our Sovereign and our city have both special claims upon this work, and a special interest in its extension and perfection.
In 1860 the Liverpool Royal Infirmary consented to train nurses for the sick poor, a few years later every district in the then town of Liverpool was under the care of a trained nurse, superintended, and to a large extent supported, by a lady or committee of ladies, and this system has continued ever since. The work was found so beneficial that it spread rapidly to Manchester, London and many of our large towns, the foundation of the Jubilee Institute gave an extraordinary impetus to it throughout the United Kingdom, not only in cities, but in rural districts. Much, however, needs to be done in the country at large and in our city. It has been estimated that there are not in the United Kingdom more than one-fourth of the number of district nurses necessary for perfect efficiency, while Liverpool, the pioneer of the movement, has scarcely kept her place in the van, at least if we judge from the number of our nurses and the proportion it bears to our population. While Manchester has one nurse to every 10,500 of its population, Liverpool has only one to every 21,400. In asking for a sum of at least 30,000 pounds for the extension and improvement of our system of district nursing, it may be borne in mind that the area to be covered is considerably more than double that within the old city boundaries, to which the work has been so far in the main confined, and that the population has increased by nearly 50 per cent, since it was first started. Further, the increased value set upon the services of the nurses, both by the medical profession and the people, has created a very heavy demand which it is impossible, with the present staff, adequately to cope with. The existing districts are in themselves too extended, and a complete rearrangement of their respective boundaries will be requisite. New districts will also have to be formed, covering areas hitherto unworked, and for these it is proposed to adopt with necessary modifications, the organisation which has been carried on hitherto with such satisfactory results. Hence provision will have to be made for new homes in which the nurses attached to new districts will, under like superintendence to the present, be located. It is impossible at this early stage to estimate exactly the number either of nurses or of homes for their accommodation that will be necessary. If we assume, however, that at least the new homes will be required to accommodate from 14 to 18 new nurses with their superintendent and that one of these is to be a central home, containing besides accommodation, nurses offices in which the work of the organisation, which is not light, can, under the head general superintendent, be carried on, it will readily be seen that a considerable sum will be required. All premises should be permanent and owned by the suggested new nursing association. If we can count upon the support of the lady superintendents being extended to the new districts on the same scale as hitherto, the additional cost of acquiring, building, adapting, enlarging, and maintaining the entire organisation new and old will require at least 30,000 pounds.While each of these homes would be a memorial, the central home would more prominently serve as a permanent visible commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee, which will find its greater and more lasting monument in the hearts of thousands of sufferers and their families, who will have cause to bless the Queen's Nurses for generations to come.
The work of the district nurse is so quiet and unobtrusive, that before concluding the appeal it is perhaps necessary to explain in a few words what are the benefits which it confers on the people. Anyone who has had experience of sickness in their own homes, knows the value of trained nurses even there, when everything that affection and wealth can supply is at hand, can imagine the greatness of the need for it in the houses of the poor, and the misery, confusion, and helplessness which prevail without it, especially where the breadwinner or the mother of the household has been struck down. The district nurses are carefully selected and specially trained, both in hospital and district work. Their hospital training gives them experience, discretion and discipline, the district training teaches them how to make the most of the limited appliances of poor homes. Their work is to nurse the sick poor in their own homes, visiting each case once or more every day as may be needed. District nursing is a necessity, because it is physically impossible that all or even the larger part of the sick of the working classes can be admitted into hospitals. Even if it were possible, in many cases it would not be desirable. When it is the mother of the family that is sick, she is often able, aided by the nurse, to superintend from her bed the household, which would fall into confusion and wretchedness if left altogether without care. And, more than this, experience shows that these visits of the nurses to poor homes result in much more lasting good than in merely helping the patient back to health.
In a paper entitled what the Queen's Nurses do for the poor." the Commemoration Fund Committee say - "Wives and daughters are shown what nursing really is, they learn a little elementary sick cooking, and sanitary precautions against the spread of disease are taught. Cleanliness both of the person and of the surroundings of the patient, which may be ordinary to some, but which is new and extraordinary to many, is insisted on, and the example set is not forgotten when the work of the nurse ceases. The good moral influence, too, of these visits of sympathetic and devoted women to the houses of the poor cannot be overstated."
Many cases are recorded in the poorer class of homes, in which the object lesson of the nurses work has effected a change which no amount of schooling on the lines of sanitation and hygiene could have produced. The benefit to health and happiness of cleanliness, neatness, and method in the home having once experienced, they are not let slip when the help of the nurse is withdrawn.
The words used by Miss NIGHTINGALE in 1865 are as true now as when they were written - "The work in Liverpool requires greater extension and more support, before all the fruits of it can ripen. But, so far as it has gone, it has proved its own future possibility by its past success, and promises to be one of the most important agencies for coping with human misery which the present day has put forth."
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Liverpool Mercury, Jan 5th 1892
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
Her Majesty has graciously approved the following nurses being placed on the roll of "Queen's Nurses" for nursing the sick poor in their own homes.
Superintendents
South London, Jessie Buchanan GRAY
East London, Dora CARTER
Nurses
Bolton, Florence KIDD
Mortlake, Mabel Winifred CROSS
Bloomsbury, Agnes Mary Cecilia BURKETT, Charlotte REEVE, Emily Kate HEYGATE
Bermondsey, Abigail WRATTEN
Camberwell, Lillie STEELE
Chelsea, Ellen Frances WOOD
Haggerston, Winifred NOBLE
Alfreton, Hannah ROWLEY
Cardiff, Edith Helen YATE
Harlow, Lucy GARDNER
Manchester, Mary E. MARTIN, Annie BARBER, Jane GLASS, Mary TROTTER
Hamilton, Harriet SMITH
Edinburgh, Ellen RAE, Ada Annie DONALDSON, Sarah KEAY, Emma Catherine NICHOLSON, Adelaide Louisa EYRE, Annie Stewart CAMERON, Mina THOMPSON, Florence May SMITH
Glasgow, Jemima MACDONALD, Elizabeth PITTENDRIGH, Agnes BRYDON
Dundee, Jessie Blanche MONCKTON, Marian Singleton BURFORD, Constance Jane WOODROW
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Liverpool Mercury, Feb 20th 1892
Guardians and Outdoor Nursing
A document of great importance in the history of nursing is the circular and order just issued by the Local Government Board to all the boards of guardians throughout the kingdom. The attention of the board has frequently been drawn to the absence of suitable persons to attend on the sick poor who are in receipt of outdoor relief, and the order just issued empowers guardians to appoint properly-qualified persons to act as district nurses. The provisions as to the mode of appointment, remuneration, and tenure of office are the same as those now in force for workhouse nurses. At least one years training in a hospital or any training school is insisted upon as essential for these district nurses, who are to work under the directions of the district medical officers. The scheme seems, on the whole, practical and well thought out, though the new poor-law nurses will have to be very careful not to interfere with the existing societies, or to let their work overlap that of the Queen's nurses.
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Liverpool Mercury, Jan 3rd, 1893
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
Her Majesty has graciously approved the following additional names being entered on the roll of "Queen's Nurses" for nursing the sick poor in their own homes.
Superintendent, Maria COX, Manchester
Nurses
Ashton-under-Lyne, Mary Kate WHEATLEY, Martha MAYOH
Darlington, Kate Annie THORNE
Liverpool, Mary Ann CORR
Manchester, Katherine BOOR, Elizabeth Annie DAVIES, Mary Catherine HAYES, Harriet PEHEMANO, Gwen TICKELL, Marion URE
Wolverhampton, Margaret Mary WATT
Cardiff, Ella Constance COLE
Denbigh, Frances Elinor MORRIS
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Liverpool Mercury, July 6th, 1894
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the following additional names being added to the roll of "Queen's Nurses" for nursing the sick poor in their own homes.
England
Bolton, Amy P. SHAW, Theresa J. LEESER, Elizabeth J. OLIVER
Darwen, Mary H. MORTON
Darlington, Jane BARNES
Liverpool, Ada ARROWSMITH, Florence W. LETT, Alice Ada SEED
Manchester, Emily BAXTER, Rose E. DALY, Zella JOHNSON
Wales
Cardiff, Elizabeth T. PLATT, Sara PODMORE
Llandovey, Alice A. BOWLES
Merthyr Vale, Eleanor M. FRANKS
Pembroke Dock, Annie MICHIE
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Liverpool Mercury, Jan 1st, 1895
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the following additional names being entered on the roll of "Queen's Nurses" for nursing the sick poor in their own homes.
Superintendent, Charlotte E. YOUNGMAN, Manchester
Nurses
England
Battersea, Helena CROFT
Chelsea, Sara MILROY
Hammersmith, Frances A. GROVES
Manchester, Lilian WARE
East London, Frances E. MANSELL
Manchester, Alice HARDCASTLE
Liverpool, Martha BEASLEY, Alice BUCHANAN, Catherine THOMAS, Alice WALL, Gertrude L. QUAYLE
Windsor, Katherine M. CHILD, Edith SAYERS, Ethel MANLEY
Garston, Isabella I. WATSON
Addlestone, Sarah KYLE
Coventry, Mary M. TAVERNER
Woolwich, Bertha BODLEY
Bath, Edith MITCHELL, Eleanor L. FEAST
Torquay, Ellen WESTCOTT, Agnes De FROISSARD
Darlington, Elizabeth ARMSTRONG
Binbrook, Mary DOLE
Wisbech, Mary I. RATLIFFE
Wales
Cardiff, Ada M MAGRATH
Llandaff, E. R. RUTHERFORD
Berrington, E. I. BESWICK
Bradford,Peveril, Kate EDWARDS
Burnham, M. H. MARSHALL
Finedon, K. D. FORSTER
Alton, Lily HAMES
Gainsford, A. E. DAGG
Ireland
Aughrim, Agnes SHAW
Dublin, Alice WALSHE, Kathleen ROGERS
Londonderry, Eileen HAUGH, Amy SHANNON
Scotland
Edinburgh, Agnes G. SMALL, B. I. SCOTT, M. H. THOMSON
Aberlour, Isabella JENKINS
Pollockshaws, Janet DICKIE
Larbert, H. R. MAXWELL
Dalbeattie, H. B. GEIKIE
Forfar, A. I. WARWICK
Troon, Janet WHITE
Lochwinnoch, S. E. HUTTON
Blairgowrie, M. H. FLEMING
Aberdeen, A. MACKENZIE
Kilmarnock, C. E. COPELAND, M. S. FROST
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Liverpool Mercury July 6th, 1896
The Queen has approved of the following names being placed on the "Roll of Queen's Nurses"
Superintendents, Charlotte TENNEY, working at Woolwich, Whilhelmina DOW, working at Portsmouth
Nurses
England
Camberwell. S.W, Jessie COLEMAN
Droylsden, Agnes JAMES
East London, Harriet A. CREES, Emma PICKERSGILL, Elizabeth C. AYLWARD, Amy H. BARCHARD
Rochdale Ada M. BEVAN
South London, Birdsall HOBKINSON
Kensington S.W, Alice BRIDGFORD
Rotherhithe S.E, Emily J. TIPPING
Paddington W, Elsie H. HOLLOWAY
Haggerston, N.E, Florence STEELE, Annie S. DUNNE, Amy B. HILL
Rawtenstall, Sarah A. ANDREWS
Southampton, Alice A. BROWN
Hull, Agnes TYSON
Leeds, Ellen E. GERRING
Hebden Bridge, Mary A. GRAVERT
Malvern, Florence L. BUTLER
Tunbridge Wells, Hilda GOADBY
Bath, Eleanor PURTON, Sarah E. HUTCHINSON
Windsor, Caroline M. S. REID
Trevor, Annie OWEN
Leamington, Beatrice DRAYTON
Rochdale, Mabel L. ORGIAS
Warwick, Annie HANDLEY
Clutton, Agnes McCALLUM
Bognor, Clara URRIDGE
Manchester, Ann H. CLOUGH, Florence J. HARRISON, Emily RIDSDALE, Elsie M. BOSS, Elizabeth EVANS, Elizabeth J. S. HAZELTON, Florence GRUNDY
Salford, Agnes L. ROSS, Emily TRAIFOROS, Mary BULL
Cardiff, Blanch E. HANCOCK
Haverfordwest, Amelia JOHNSON
Bangor, Alice E. PENNINGTON
Scotland
Edinburgh, Mary McGUFFIE, Lucy J. CAREY
Glasgow, Mary LINDSAY, Hughetto E. TENNENT, Mary A. HILL, Janet CARMICHAEL
Aberdeen, Jessie CRAN
Paisley, Helen LARGUE, Mabyn ARMOUR
Arbroath, Mary M. EASTON
Motherwell, Jane C. ROBERTSON, Margaret A. FYFFE
Ballantrae, Isabel JACK
Musselburgh, Mary MURRAY
Slateford, Bertha LAWTON
Ratho, Margaret J. NESBIT
Collinton, Helen BEECHIE
Alyth, Rachel TAYLOR
Port Glasgow, Adelaide THACKERAY
Lossiemouth, Mary KELLY
Ireland
Dublin, Annie FLEMING
Londonderry, Florence R. GARDINER
Cushendall, Jane McCOTTER
Newbridge, Mary O. FITZSIMON
Mayne and Kiltoom, Annie Walsh COOKE
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Liverpool Mercury, Jan 1st 1897
Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the appointment of the following as "Queen's Nurses"
England,
Superintendent Eliza J. RAE, working at Liverpool
London, Nurses Georgina MACLEAY, Elizabeth C. JONES, Mary E. THOMAS, Margaret L. COSTELLOE, Maude E. JACOCKS, Nellie O. BORHAM, Jane HORSLEY and Maude B. SLATER
Warwick, Dora MOHUN
Grimsby, Jane GREIG
Liverpool, Margaret G. JONES, Ruth PARKER, Helena LENTON, Charlotte SMITH
Droylesden, Annie LEAN
Wisbech, Aveline B. MANTELL
Kettering, Edith MILNE
Brighton, Emily FORSTER, Margaret JAMES
Eastbourne, Annie G. FORSTER
Blackburn, Lily HAUGH-BROWN, Nora CAVANAGH
Gateshead, Agnes M. C. A. WHITE
Bingley Florence APPLEBY
Spalding, Jessie RIDLEY
Rawtenstall, Winifred M. POOLER
York, Janet BLACKROCK, Ethel DIXON
Southampton, Elizabeth A. JONES
Leeds, Martha M BUXTON
Coventry, Janet Rait DALL
Manchester, Margaret JACKSON, Marion H. PURCHASE, Emily TINDLE, Caroline A. BUTLER, Catherine M. IRWIN, Rosa J. HORTON, Kate C. MILLIGEN, Jane BURROW
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Gertrude CHADWICK
Birmingham, Alice PRICE
Windsor, Alice Marion PRIOR
Wales, Nurses
Cardiff Margaret A. HODGSON
Llandovey, Maggie PRYTHERICK
St Brides, Anne TURNER
Roch, Mary WARRINER
Llanbradach, Eliza A. SPENCER
Scotland, Superintendent Mary Jane LAMONT, Glasgow
Nurses
Edinburgh, Mary Hannah BOWLERWELL, Hecterina GILLANDERS
Glasgow, Mary WEIR
Aberdeen, Janet H. BORTHWICK, Annie WISHART
Mauchline, Jane ANDERSON
Elgin, Helen H. ANDERSON
Blantyre, Catherine MACKINNON
Inverness, Marion SHERIDAN
Wick Jean McIVOR
Dalkeith, Clara BURNETT
Tobermory, Isabella JARRON
Ireland
Nurses
Dublin Sophia PRATT, Mabel W. NUNN, Eleanor M. MOORE
Enniskerry, Ellen M. PARSONS
Buncrana, Margaret E. CARDEN
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Liverpool Mercury, July 7th, 1899
Queen's Nurses
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve the appointment of the following, Queen's Nurses, to date July 1st 1899
Blackburn, Lizzie LINEHAM, Zoe Mai BROOKE-JONES, Florence Elizabeth NASH
Rochdale, Mary Adela Flora PATTERSON
Droysden, Coral ARCHER
Warrington, Florence Marion LESHAW, Lottie HARVEY
Liverpool, Kathleen Synge TOWNSHEND, Minnie CANNING, Gertrude LUCAS, Emma SYKES, Mary E. S. A. HIRST, Frances BRADBURY, Emily Maria FARRAR
Manchester, Sarah ROBINSON
Milliom, Annie Elsie Gerloff PRINGLE
Barrow-in-Furness, Mary Agnes JEFFERSON
Ellel, Frances Rachael WALTER
Haydock, Amy GRAHAM
Rusholme, Maude OLDACRE
Shrewsbury, Edith Augusta BELLAMY
Cardiff, Mary EVANS
Rhayader, Jeanie WILLIAMS
Harlech, Shennie Roger LEWIS
Conway, Emma Wilhelmina IRBY
Amlwch, Annie Elizabeth GILL
Nantile Vale, Lillian Genetta NEWCOMB
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Liverpool Mercury, April 3rd 1900
District Nursing in Liverpool
The Queen Victoria Institute
Gift of Mr John HENDERSON
There was held yesterday at the Town Hall, under the presidency of the Rt Hon, Lord Mayor [Mr L. S. COHEN] who was accompanied by the Lady Mayoress and the Countess of Derby, the annual meeting connected with the Liverpool Queen Victoria Nursing Institute. The attendance of ladies and gentlemen was numerous and representative.
The report of the year was read by the honorary secretary, Mr Herbert RATHBONE, had, by way of preface, an interesting account of the work of the staff of the institute. It is, remarks the compiler of the report, very difficult for anyone who has not received professional training to appreciate the immense value which a trained nurse can be to the sick poor in their own homes, and it is not only by making a round with one of the nurses that one can realise the amount of suffering she is able to alleviate, and the extent to which she can prevent the spread of disease. A criticism which will no doubt occur to some is, that many of the patients would be better treated in hospital. This, no doubt, is the case and wherever it is desirable and practicable the case is removed to hospital. Unfortunately, want of accommodation in the hospitals, the break up of the home, which would inevitably follow the removal of the patient, the incurable nature of the illness, the danger of attempting to remove the patient, or some other reason, often makes it impossible to take this step, There are also many cases in which the sickness, although accompanied by great suffering and hardship has thanks in no small measure to the assistance of the nurse, done much good indirectly to the friends and relations of the patient. The family and neighbours have been taught the importance of fresh air, cleanliness, and sobriety, while they are enabled to realise to some extent the beauty of self-reliance, unselfishness, and courage in facing adversity. Of the wonderful goodness the poor, as a rule, show to each other in times of trouble and sickness, the matrons and nurses all speak in the highest terms, and it is no small satisfaction to them to feel that they are often able to encourage it, and to point out how a kindly and generous-hearted neighbour can be of real use in helping the sufferers.
Miss ARMSTRONG, the inspector of nursing for the Queen Victoria Nursing Institute, inspected the work of the nurses in the four homes and wrote to the secretary as follows :-
"So far as the nurses and their work is concerned I am glad to say that I am satisfied that the Liverpool Association is doing as good work as any I have seen. The nursing is all round good. I question if any better work is being done anywhere by "Queen's Nurses."
In the course of the year 131,009 visits have been paid, 5939 cases have been nursed. Of these 565 were patients nursed after childbirth, 317 suffering female diseases, 233 from wounds, 158 from scalds, 309 from different forms of abscess, 209 from ulcers, 115 from cancer, 230 from typhoid, 175 from rheumatism, 227 from inflammation of the brain, 1067 from inflammation of the lungs, 413 from bronchitis, 153 from pleurisy., and a large number of complaints of a serious character.
In the districts connected with the central home work this year has been somewhat lighter, which may be accounted for by the fact that in this part of the city large areas of insanitary properties have been demolished and warehouses have been erected in their place, the population in these districts have migrated to the already over-crowded north end. The building of the new central home, I Prince's Rd, which is being presented, furnished and equipped throughout by the David Lewis Trustees, is progressing, and it is hoped will be completed early this summer. Mr LEVY has taken a very great personal interest in the matter, and has spared neither time nor money in making the home as complete and as comfortable as possible.
During 1899 five new districts were added, No's 20, 22, 14A, 14B, 16B, making a total of 26 districts nursed. Further extensions are in contemplation, until the whole of the city area is covered, and districts made of workable size, the expenditure will continue to increase. A considerable sum of money will also be needed to put the older homes in a state of good repair, and in alterations. It is intended to do this during the current year, and to partially meet this expense the treasurers have made some provision during 1899. The Chief Magistrate in moving the adoption of the report, alluded with gratification to the presence of the Countess of Derby and Mr William RATHBONE, and with regret to the absence of Mr Charles LANGTON.
Mr William RATHBONE in seconding the motion, hoped that note would be taken of the circumstances that the area of the operations of the institute in Liverpool had greatly increased of late, and that the nurses had now more to do. Their work, again, was added to in consequence of the number of persons who had ascertained the benefits which were conferred by the institute. From time to time he communicated the progress of district nursing in this city to Miss Florence NIGHTINGALE who ever expressed her wish that Liverpool should, in this, continue to keep well in the front [Applause]
Mr John HENDERSON, who supported the motion, suggested there had been a failure to make provision for the nurses, and he urged that something like a superannuation fund should be established for their benefit. In order to start such a fund he was prepared, so soon as the committee undertook its formation to contribute 500 pounds as a nucleus. [Applause]
Mr Herbert RATHBONE explained that at present there was a National Pension Fund, but that the regulators were rather stringent, the benefit derivable by the nurses so small, and the postponement so late that this fund had not received much support from the nurses. The offer of Mr HENDERSON would assist the committee in the formation of a superannuation scheme, one that would include the giving of aid to nurses who might be incapacitated through illness.
The motion was carried unanimously.
On the proposition of Mr H. B. GILMOUR, seconded by Dr A. DAVIDSON, the following gentlemen were elected as Council representatives of the subscribers, Sir Thomas HUGHES, Colonel G. H. MORRISON, Mr J. Hope SIMPSON, Mr WOODALL, Mr Herbert WATTS, Mr H. Sutton TIMMIS
Mr A. WILLIAMSON, moved the re-appointment of the honorary auditors, Messers W. H. WALKER and Company, this was seconded by Mr H. Sutton TIMMIS and passed.
A vote of thanks having been conveyed to the Lord Mayor, Mr John HENDERSON and Mr William RATHBONE, the meeting came to a close.