ABSTRACT
While the object of a soldier’s study is how most conveniently to deprive people of their lives, it is pleasant to find that soldiers’ wives are educating themselves in the line of those worthy ladies who assist us in the very earliest moment of our existence. In Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, Dublin, there is a training school for army midwives, in which these women are instructed in all the mysteries of their important craft, and where, on passing an examination, they receive the diploma of the hospital. Since the school has been started, through the exertions of Dr. Sinclair, upwards of a hundred soldiers’ wives have received their certificates. The school is an undoubted success, and the Duke of Cambridge has fully recognized the important service rendered by the hospital, for he has addressed an official letter from the Horse Guards to the governors of the institution conveying in warm and cordial terms his thanks for their zealous and liberal conduct in establishing this useful training school, which it is to be hoped will be heartily supported by the army.
