not  to  see  may  be  admitted — because  the  person  in  charge  has  never
asked  herself  this  question,     What  is  done  when  I  am  not  there  ?  t

At  ail  events,  one  may  safely  say,  a  nurse  cannot  be  with  the

•  That  excellent  paper,  the  Builder,  mentions  the  lingering  of  the  smell  of  Lingering
paint  for  a  month  about  a  house  as  a  proof  of  want  of  ventilation.     Certainly —  smell  of  paint
and,  where  there  are  ample  windows  to  open,  and  these  are  never  opened  to  get  a  want  of  care,
rid  of  the  smell  of  paint,  it  is  a  proof  of  want  of  management  in  using  the  means
of  ventilation.  Of  course  the  smell  will  then  remain  for  months.  Why  should  it  go  1

f  Why  should  you  let  your  patient  ever  be  surprised,  except  by  thieves'?  I  do  Why  let  your
not  know.     In  England,  people  do  not  come  down  the  chimney,  or  through  the  patient  ever
window,  unless  they  are  thieves.     They  come  in  by  the  door,  and  somebody  must  be  surprised  i
open  the  door  to  them.     The  "  somebody"  charged  with  opening  the  door  is  one  of
two,  three,  or  at  most  four  persons.     Why  cannot  these,  at  most,  four  persons  be
put  in  charge  as  to  what  is  to  be  done  when  there  is  a  ring  at  the  door  bell  1

The  sentry  at  a  post  is  changed  much  oftener  than  any  servant  at  a  private
house  or  institution  can  possibly  be.  But  what  should  we  think  of  such  an  excuse
a3  this :  that  the  enemy  had  entered  such  a  post  because  A  and  not  B  had  been
on  guard  ?  Yet  I  have  constantly  heard  such  an  excuse  made  in  the  private
house  or  institution  and  accepted:  viz.,  that  such  a  person  had  been  "let  in"  or
not  "  let  in,"  and  such  a  parcel  had  been  wrongly  delivered  or  lost  because  A
and  not  B  had  opened  the  door  !


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NOTES   ON  NURSING.
