Board of Management Minutes: Nov 1859 – Jan 1865 NHNN/A/4/1
We [Sub-Committee for appointing a Matron] recommend that an advertisement be at once inserted in The Times, The Athenaeum, The Record, The Patriot, and the Christian World, viz.
“Matron wanted for the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy in Queen Square Bloomsbury, a well-educated and competent protestant lady of evangelical principles, age from 30 to 45 to act in the above capacity. She will be required to take the entire charge of direction of the establishment, its nurses, servants and domestic affairs. Preference will be given to one who has already filled a similar position. Salary commencing at £50 per annum besides apartments, board, lodging and washing. No lady need apply whose character will not bear the strictest enquiry. References and nursing qualifications may be addressed to the Deputy Chairman J. Parker Esq, 18 St Paul’s Churchyard EC.”