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cincuLAK,)            SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE,
    No  7    j"                   Washington, D. C, July 14,1862.

  In order to give greater utility to the acts of Miss D. L. Dix as " Sup-
erintendent of Women Nurses" in general hospitals, and to  make the
employment of such muses conform more closely to existing  .aws and
arden of the War Department, the following announcement is made íor
the information and guidance of medical officers and of all concernen
  Miss Dix has been entrusted by the War Department with the duty
of selecting women nurses and assigning them to general or permanent
military hospitals.   Women nurses are not to be employed m such hos-
pitals without her sanction and approval, except in cases of urgent need
   Women nurses will he under the control ánd direction of the medical
 offlcer in charge of the hospital to whi£h they are assigned, and may De
 discharged by him if incompetent, insubordínate, or otherwise unfit  loi
 their vocation.                                                ^ ,
   Miss Dix is charged with the diligent oversight ot women nurses, and
 with the dutyof  ascertaining by personal inspection whether or not
 they are properly performing their duties.  Medical officers are enjom-
 edmreceivehersuggestions and comiséis with  résped, and  10  carry
 them into eífect if compatible with the hospital service.
    \sit will he impossible for Miss Dix to supervise in pereon  all  ti».'
 military hospitals, she is authorized to delégate her authority, as herein
 deflned, to subordínate agents, not to exceed one for eack city or mili;

 ta Women  wishing employment as nurses must apply to Miss Dix, or to
  her authorized agents.
    The araiv regulations allow one nurse to every ten «atiente (beds m
  a -eneral hospital.  As it is the expressed will of the government that
  a 'pkrtion of these nurses shall be women, and as  Congress has given to
  the Surgeon General authority to decide in what  numhers women shall
  be substituted for men,itis ordered that there shall he one woman nurse
  totwomen nurses.  Medical officers are hereby required  to  organize
  their respective hospitals accordingly.
    Medical officers requiring women nurses will apply to Miss Dix oí to
  her authorized agent for the place where their hospitals are located.
     Sisters of Charity will be employed, as at present, under special m-
  structions from this office.
                                  WILLIAM A. HAMMOND,
                                                   Surgeon General. 


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