ABSTRACT
The ward workers were a small number of men whose function it was to keep the ward clean and in order, etc. In the beginning they were a haphazard selection of men who often did not even know each other. They were either Sister's favourites or the opposite, or patients who pretended to be ward workers when they were found on the ward at the wrong time. Now they were a group of men who worked as a team, and the ward community knew quite well of them and of the value of their function to all. As a matter of fact, the ward repeated its success a few months later, when all the original patients had long since left the hospital. It was already a tradition and a myth. The morale of the new patients rose by 200 per cent, merely by joining its community.
