WHO SHALL NURSE THE NURSES T HE following correspondence in regard
to Hartsleap, the V.A.D. Convalescent Home near Camberley, has passed between the Editor of this paper and Sir Arthur Stanley, the Chairman of the Central Joint V.A.D. Com- mittee :—
" Newlands Corner, Marrow, Guildford, 12114 January, 1920. DEAR STANLEY,-I have beard so. much about Hartsleap and of the splendid work it is doing that I cannot help feeling a special and personal interest therein. I venture, therefore, to write a line to you on the question of its continuance. Please, however, don't think I am one of those people who imagine that because a thing is good per se it can be done. One must, I fully realize, &1st apply the question, which Cromer us:N:1 to ask the reformers : 'Where is the money to come from ' Still, if Hartsleap is to continue, even only temporarily, I have thought of a possible way in which I might help. if it should be necessary to find a new llom3, I could insert in the Spectator an appeal asking for the loan of a country house free, or else at a low rent. I think there must be readers of the " Spectator who have suitable country houses, and it is quite possible, though of course by no means certain, that we might find one available.
To me the appeal Caro for those who care for others ' has always been specially moving. I have always thought that
the spectacle of the doctor in bad health, and half broken down, going about his practice as usual, or of the sick nurse who is herself almost sick unto death, is the most pathetic of all sights.—
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