DHAR SIR, —If, as seems to be the ease from the
numbers of letters we have received and from those that have appeared in the Press, the public feel that it would be fitting to associate the Memorial to Edith Cavell with her old training school, the London Hospital, I would like to suggest that, instead of endowing beds to her memory, the Nurses' Rome in which she lived, and for which we have to find £10,000 in extending and improving, should be called after her. Our other Homes are called the Alexandra, after our President (Queen Alexandra); the Luckes, after our matron; so her name would be in good company. The advantage of this form of memorial over the endowment of beds would be that her name would be continually on the lips of generations after generations of nurses, whereas a bed once endowed is only one of many, and only seen by those in the ward where it is placed.—Yours truly,
KNIITSFORD,
Chairman, Loudon Hospital."
On Wednesday the following announcement was pub- lished :--
"Queen Alexandra has given readers of the Daily Mirror a noble and inspiring lead. Her Majesty sent for Lord Knuteford yesterday and told him that it was her wish that the new Nurses' Home which is being built at the London Hospital, and to which she had given her name, should be called, instead of the 'Alexandra Home,' the 'Edith Cavell Rome' This she thought a more fitting memorial to Miss Cavell than the scheme first suggested to the Daily Mirror, which was only the addition to an existing home."
—ED. Spectator.]
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