The financial needs of the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for
Nurses are eloquently enforced in an appeal which appeared in Tuesday's papers. The movement, which had its origin in Miss Florence Nightingale's appeal on behalf of district nursing some thirty years ago, was estab- lished on a sound basis in 1887, when Queen Victoria placed the women's Jubilee offering at the disposal of the nation to form a nucleus for the training of nurses to attend the sick poor in their homes. But the funds available, though increased by the Women's Memorial to Queen Victoria of 1901-2, are inadequate to the ever-growing needs of the Institute. "At this moment there are fifty-three places where Associations are organised ; the money is provided to pay the nurses ; the suffering poor are waiting to be nursed, but the Institute, for want of funds for training them, is unable to supply the nurses." The appeal is powerfully reinforced by a message from Miss Nightingale testifying to her unabated sympathy with the work of the district nurse. We may add that all remittances should be crossed Glyn, Mills, and Co., and be sent to the Honorary Treasurer, Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses, 120 Victoria Street, S.W. Miss Loane's new book, reviewed by us in another column, shows incidentally the useful and self-sacrificing work done by the district nurses.
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