19 the first year, with an annual
increase of L1 up to L35. Free board, lodging, washing, medical
attendance, are also supplied and uniform after three months' trial.
The hours on duty are from 6 A.M. to 8 P.M., with two hours off for
meals. Nurses get leave from 8 P.M. to 10 P.M. daily and one day
weekly; they also have fourteen days' holiday after the first twelve
months, increasing subsequently to three weeks a year.

The duties of the nurse in an asylum consist of the care of the
patients, the supervision of the cleanliness of the wards and
linen, and also of the work done by the patients in the various
departments--the needleroom, laundry, kitchen, corridors, etc. It is
obvious that in view of the number of patients, individual attention
is practically impossible. Entertainments of all kinds are provided
for the help and amusement of the patients, and nurses are expected to
assist in arranging these. Consequently any one with a gift for music,
acting, singing, or other accomplishment is an acquisition to the
staff.

(2) _Registered Mental Hospitals_.--These, owing to their different
circumstances, vary much in their conditions of service. Most of them
are training-schools and receive probationers of good education, from
twenty-two years of age, for a course of training. This consists of
lectures by the Medical Staff and Matron, the subjects receiving most
attention being Elementary Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology; and
there is, of course, practical training in the nursing of mental
cases: in some hospitals a course of Massage and Swedish Drill are
added in the fourth year.

Salaries are on the whole lower than in the County Asylums, beginning
at anything from L15 rising to L19 in the third year with a bonus of
L3 on passing the final examination of the Medico-Psychological Board.
There must, however, be set against this lower rate of remuneration,
the fact that these mental hospitals are often situated more centrally
than the county asylums, thus making less expenditure necessary for
travelling to and from the hospital when out on leave. The usual free
board, lodging, washing, medical attendance, and uniform are also
given after three months' satisfactory service.

The hours of duty are from 7 A.M. to 8 P.M. with two hours off for
meals, etc. Leave during a month varies with the different hospitals,
but is usually two whole days, three half days, four evenings from 6
P.M. to 10 P.M., and four evenings from