LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Nonconformists look at the exclusive nursing arrange- ments of the University College Hospital from another point of view to yours. A Nonconformist lady, no matter how great a talent for nursing she may have, nor how devout she may be, cannot become a probationer for nursing at that hospital. "No Nonconformist need apply." This is surprising in a public institution of the kind ; and are we to understand that the Spectator defends it? That would be more surprising still. I can speak from personal experience of the kindness and atten- tion of hospital nurses. They deserve admiration and gratitude for the noble way in which they often do their work ; and all the more honour to those, be they Catholic or Quakers, who are also "ministering angels" in a spiritual sense. But let us not have in our public hospitals the injustice of a creed test inflicted on those who desire to enter them for nursing experience.—I
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