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'THAT THEY NURSE THE SQUALID ONE-ROOMED HOMES AS WELL THE PATIENTS': Florence Nightingale on the essential qualities required of a district nurse and their training at "the Central District Home at Bloomsbury Square", model for the present-day Queen's Nursing Institute. Although, as a valetudinarian, she was unable to practise district nursing herself, she held the threads of the movement, founded by the Liverpool MP William Rathbone in her hands, and he consulted her on every point, declaring 'In any matter of nursing Miss Nightingale is my Pope and I believe in her infallibility' (E.T. Coke, The Life of Florence Nightingale, 1913, ii, p. 357).