712
65- 2,542 369
70- 1,568 204
75- 746 101
80- 311 25
85 and upwards 147 16

TABLE B.

AGED 20 YEARS, AND UPWARDS.

NURSES. Nurse (not Domestic Nurse (Domestic
Servant) Servant)
Great Britain and 25,466 21,017
Islands in the
British Seas.
England and Wales. 23,751 18,945
Scotland. 1,543 1,922
Islands in the
British Seas. 172 150
1st Division.
London. 7,807 5,061
2nd Division.
South Eastern. 2,878 2,514
3rd Division.
South Midland. 2,286 1,252
4th Division.
Eastern Counties. 2,408 959
5th Division.
South Western
Counties. 3,055 1,737
6th Division.
West Midland
Counties. 1,225 2,283
7th Division.
North Midland
Counties. 1,003 957
8th Division.
North Western
Counties. 970 2,135
9th Division.
Yorkshire. 1,074 1,023
10th Division.
Northern
Counties. 462 410
11th Division.
Monmouth
and Wales. 343 614

NOTE AS TO THE NUMBER OF WOMEN EMPLOYED AS NURSES IN GREAT BRITAIN.

25,466 were returned, at the census of 1851, as nurses by profession,
39,139 nurses in domestic service,[1] and 2,822 midwives. The numbers of
different ages are shown in table A, and in table B their distribution
over Great Britain.

To increase the efficiency of this class, and to make as many of them as
possible the disciples of the true doctrines of health, would be a great
national work.

For there the material exists, and will be used for nursing, whether the
real "conclusion of the matter" be to nurse or to poison the sick. A
man, who stands perhaps at the head of our medical profession, once said
to me, I send a nurse into a private family to nurse the sick, but I
know that it is only to do them harm.

Now a nurse means any person in charge of the personal health of
another. And, in the preceding notes, the term _nurse_ is used
indiscriminately for amateur and professional nurses. For, besides
nurses of the sick and nurses of