ning, ought to
report to the Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, every Man's Name who
was found to be absent at Roll-calling; and whether he found every
Thing regular and in good Order in going his Rounds.

Every large Military Hospital ought to have one Head Nurse, and a
sufficient Number of other Nurses, to attend and take Care of the
Sick.

Orders to the following Purport, hung up in every Military Hospital,
would serve to shew the Nurses and Patients what their Duty is, and
to maintain Regularity and good Order through the whole Hospital.

_Matron, or Head Nurse._

Every Matron, or Head Nurse, is to go round all the Wards of the
Hospital at least twice a Day, Morning and Evening; to see that the
Nurses keep their Wards clean; that they behave themselves soberly and
regularly, and give due Attendance to their Patients; and to examine
the Diet of the Patients, and see that it is good and well dressed;
and if she finds any Thing amiss, to report the same to the Physician,
Surgeon, or Apothecary, of the Hospital.

_Common Nurses._

1. The Nurses are to give due Attendance to their Patients; and to
keep them always as neat and clean, as the Nature of their Distempers
will admit of; to give them their Diet regularly; to be particularly
careful to see them take the Medicines ordered by the Physicians,
according to the Directions given; to report to the Physician,
Surgeon, or Apothecary, any Faults or Irregularities which any of
their Patients may have committed; and to acquaint the Ward Matter and
Head Nurse of the Death of any of their Patients as soon as it
happens, that proper Care may be taken of their Cloaths and Effects.

2. They are to keep their Wards extremely clean, to sprinkle them
every Morning with Vinegar, and to fumigate them with the Smoke of
wetted Gunpowder, or of Frankincense, or any other Aromatics that may
be thought proper; in fair Weather to keep open the Windows of their
Wards, twice or thrice a Day; for a longer or shorter Time, as the
Weather will permit; to attend at the Steward's Room for the
Provisions of the Patients at the Hours appointed for that Purpose;
and to pay implicit Obedience to the Matron, or Head Nurse, in what
relates to their Duty; and punctually to obey all Orders they receive
from the Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, of the Hospital.

3. They are to keep themselves clean and decently dressed, and to
observe the strictest Rules of Sobriety; remembering, that if a