Harmony is restored at Guy's, by the adoption of a
system of regulations for the nurses approved by the medical staff, and embodying the few changes in the nursing regulations for which the medical staff contended. Neither the matron, who has throughout shown her complete efficiency, nor the trea- surer, who made the mistake of not submitting the nurses' regulations to the medical staff before promulgating them, but who has otherwise discharged his duty very well in reorganisiug the nursing system of the hospital, has resigned, and we trust that the medical staff will co-operate with them cordially for the future. No sincere friend of the improved training of nurses has ever wished for a moment that the matron and ward-sisters should be made independent of the medical staff, who are, of course, quite as responsible for the efficiency of the nursing as for any other part of the system. And it is quite right to require, as is to be required for the future, that "probationer nurses, after serving one year, will need to have certificates of efficiency, signed by the medical officers as well as by the matron." As the war is at an end now, we will not indicate whose fault it was that it was not ended long ago ; but we will say that wo can see no reason why this peace should not have been concluded in July, 1880, instead of in March, 1881.
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