NURSES AND THE WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OP iltE ''SPECTATOR."1
Sig,—We wish to draw the attention of all who are grateful for the work of our nurses to a scheme -which will add comfort, effi- ciency, and happiness to the lives of these heroic women. The Majority of nurses have no home near at hand in which to spend their free hours. A small Committee has been trying to meet this -need in London, and has organized and started the Imperial Nurses' Club, which was opened in November last by Lord French. 'It has already over three hundred members. Many whose homes are distant or overseas have found here a resting-place on their way to or from France, Canada, Australia. 6;e. Many from our military sod civil hospitals have been refreshed in body and mind by sleeping in restful surroundings on their "efkluty " night. The need for such a Club was so pressing that we were urged to take premises without waiting for the full sum required for the enterprise. Obviously the payments of members cannot meet the heavy initial expenses. A sum is therefore moded whiell pill enable the Club to continue and enlarge its work. We ask the public to establish it as firmly that further appeal may be avoided, and we appeal specially to those who owe life and limb to the devotion of a nurse and to the friends and relations of these. The enterprise is not a "charity "; when once set going it will be self-supporting. The sum of .9.4,000 is necessary for this. Dona- tions can be sent to the Treasurer, Major W. McAdam Eccles, R.A.M.C.T., 124 Harley Street, W. 1.; or to the Hon. Secretary of the Club, Mies C. H. Mayers, 137 Ebury Street, London, S.W. 1.— We are, Sir, Ac.,
SYBIL DE V. BRASSET, AIWA II. CODRHOSTON, W. ff.
Down (Lord Mayor of London), Essex, Femme, A. F. LONDON, KATHARINE LITTELTON, MART MINTO. ALICE S. NORTHCOTB, MAUD SeLBORNE, MAZE SPENDER—Vice-Presidents of the Club.
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