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The shortage of adequately trained nurses and of candidates
for training as nurses is becoming acute, and in view of the increased
number of sick people who are now seeking institutional
treatment, it is in my opinion urgent that the conditions of training,
the prospects and remuneration of nurses and of midwives
should be investigated and revised.
Though during the past few years tremendous strides of
progress have been made, and numerous Acts and schemes put
into operation, there still remains unsolved the most important
and most difficult problem of overcrowding and housing, a problem
which until solved will continue to act as a check upon almost
every other scheme for the promotion of public health.
Your obedient Servant,
Town Hall,
West Ham.
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