One hundred years ago: Nurses for the middle classes

摘要

A correspondent writing to us on the occasion of the presentation of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Nurses, remarks that "the whole scheme of nursing appears to have been developed to the advantage of two classes, the very rich and the very poor," and goes on to point out the difficulty of meeting the nursing cost of a severe or long illness with a moderate income. We quite agree with the writer; the middle classes are in this as in many other points at serious disadvantage, but we confess that we do not see from whence a remedy is to come.