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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
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