beds and tucked in so comfy we all thought it the loveliest world ever.

But one night there was great confusion in the hall, a loud voice said come into the nursery, babies tell no tales."

Several nurses came in and talked to each other in a way babies would never dare begin. It all seemed to be about some soiled dishes left in the kitchen and melons (whatever they are I am sure they must be horrid). They could have washed all the dishes in the house while they were quarreling. The night Supervisor stamped her foot, and I am sorry to say one of the nurses actually swore. I am sure their throats were sore next day, such terrible rasping noises came out of them.

I wonder if they know how sensitive little babies' ears are, and how loud harsh noises make us so terribly frightened.

Anyhow we all got so nervous and excited that we had the colic, so they had to fuss with us all night, and I for one think it served them right. A MAN, JUNIOR.

Voicing Censure in Print

Dear Editor:

For an unknown reason some-the number is small-physicians seem to be obsessed on the criticism of nurses. The article in the September issue of THE TRAINED NURSE, under the caption: "The Abuse of Privilege," by a physician longing for "the old-fashioned nurse who made nursing her chief occupation," prompts me to say a few words about those who are prone to find fault. None of us are perfect, unfortunately; we are all apt to make mistakes but the petty fault finders imbued with the conviction that they are infallible; who delight in holding up to view the trivial weaknesses of others, making a mountain out of the mole-hill and so on ad nauseam could do a little good and be taken more seriously if personal reproof were given the delinquent one instead of voicing censure by the printed page. There is no objection to comment upon a universal shortcoming-in fact it should be encouraged-but the particular error can be eliminated by the method suggested above. Time is too valuable to be wasted upon trifles and one should not overlook the rose though the finger be accidentally pricked by the thorn.

As regards the "old-fashioned nurse "-she has gone the way of the tallow dip; the modern disciple of Florence Nightingale, like the light that emanates from the electrically heated tungsten, are both the result of progress. If we become retrospective at times we should appreciate

this fact-with nothing to cause regret and much for which we can be thankful.

MARGARET A. KANE, R.N. +

Boarding Children Out

To the Editor:

Whatever the reason may be there has never been a time within my recollection when so many parents, in larger cities especially, were giving up the idea of keeping a home and looking for a boarding place for their children. In looking over the "Want" columns of the newspapers there is rarely a day but one sees an advertisement of a boarding place wanted for a child, and the children are of all ages from three months up. Most of them, however, are able to walk before the parents decide to put them out to board. A great many of the older nurses who for one reason or another are unable to continue to nurse, could render a useful service that would not be so very exhausting and might be quite remunerative, by providing an attractive home for some of these "boarded out" children. In most cases both parents wish to go to work and they can afford to pay a reasonably good

I note with interest in the September number the article entitled "Some Practical Problems of Hygiene in the Hospital Ward," especially that part relating to the custom of nurses of inflating air-cushions, etc., by mouth. I would like to say that I bought a 25-cent tool-bag pump, such as boys use on bicycles, and which can be carried in every nurse's kit. It worked perfectly, and was small enough to go in the nurse's pocket which she usually wears under her apron while in training. Whether these pumps will fit all cushions I do not know, but the one I had fitted the cushion I used on a long cancer case. There should be a demand for these pumps created by nurses themselves and endorsed by physicians.

A PRACTICAL NURSE.

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Navy Nurse Corps

The work of nurses in the Navy in connection with the Hospital Corps training schools has received an impetus due to increased enlistments in this branch of the Service and the possibility of establishing a more defined policy with regard to the length of time the students of a Hospital Corps will remain in the schools.

The Newport Training Station was the first to receive qualified Navy Nurses in the capacity of teachers. Since that time nurses have been assigned to the Pharmacist's Mates' School at Hampton Roads, and recently to the Training School of Goat Island, California. Enthusiastic reports are received from the last named school, and the following excerpt from a Chief Nurse's letter will be of general interest to those who are not cognizant of the type of young men required for this important work in the Navy: "All of our co-workers in the Medical Department are deeply interested and there is a splendid esprit de corps. Our pupils are fine types of American lads who are entering the work with great enthusiasm. Their weekly examination papers show that they are not only deeply interested, but they give such unusual attention to details that their professional progress is regarded as most encouraging. Our school is literally growing like a mushroom, and we expect there will be three hundred students in the near future, averaging about fifty lads in each of our six classes."

Certain Departments of the Government have recognized that prolonged service in isolated or tropical stations is not beneficial to the individual, and it is only in response to a personal request that the period of duty of nurses at such stations extends beyond two years. That the Government does not treat all employees the same may be noted from the following quotation from the letter of the Chief Nurse in Samoa: "A new American Consul came down in July for Upolu to relieve

who has

been there eleven years. The new Consul is very young; he was entertained at our Government house for forty-eight hours before going to Upolu, and when the U. S. S. Fortune took him

over to the island the Governor invited me and Miss to go at the same time in status of duty. The trip was very rough, but we had a delightful time after arriving, and we were entertained at afternoon tea by the Administrator from New Zealand, who lives at Vilema, Stevenson's old home, so beautifully situated on a mountain commanding a wonderful view of the surrounding country."

At a time when a general unrest seems to affect the nursing profession and those who are laboring for higher ideals are somewhat discouraged, there may be found a message in the following quotation from the letter of a Government pioneer nurse: "The transition from pay at $30 per month, 16c. ration, expenses for laundry, and twelve hours duty daily, to $72 pay per month, liberal subsistence, comfortable quarters, paid laundry expenses, and less than eight hours daily duty, mark some progress, and when I hear nurses complaining I am apt to lose all patience and to question: 'Are you sufficiently concerned with what you give to the Government which really repays you liberally?'"

The following nurses, U. S. N., have been appointed and assigned to the Naval Hospital at the stations indicated: Ellen Ethel Drisko, from Somerville, Mass., to Chelsea; Leah M. Janson, from Brooklyn, N. Y., to Washington; Ella V. Parrott, from Reserve to Chelsea; Josephine Rugg, from Berkeley, Cal., to San Diego; Bessie A. Van Winkle, from Philadelphia, Pa., to Quantico.

The following reserve nurses have been appointed and assigned to the station indicated: Maude F. Essig, New York to Annapolis; Lucy E. Howard, Chicago, Ill., to New York; Signa E. Linquist, Los Angeles, Cal., to Mare Island; Roselee Rochon, Brattleboro, Vt., to Newport; Carolyn O. Speas, Pfafftown, N. C., to Washington.

The following nurses have been transferred: Anna C. Davis, Chief Nurse, from Annapolis to League Island; Nell I. Disert, Chief Nurse, from Mare Island to Canacao, P. I.; Carrie H. Lapin, Chief Nurse, from New York to League Island; Edith N. Linquist, Chief Nurse, from

Parris Island to New Orleans; Eva B. Moss, Chief Nurse, from Parris Island to Washington; Sara B. Myer, from League Island to Fleet Supply Base, New York; Emily M. Smaling, Chief Nurse, from Aircraft Dispensary, Philadelphia, to Parris Island; Frances L. Winkler, from League Island to Annapolis; Bertha A. Adams, from Great Lakes to Guam; Kathryn Marie Bonner, from League Island to Newport; Nellie C. Boothby, from Great Lakes to Guam; Josephine Croghan, from Washington to Quantico; Agnes Distler, from Great Lakes to Guam; Bessie M. Dunlap, from Quantico to Mare Island; Katherine M. Gallagher, from Marine Quartermaster Depot, Philadelphia, to Annapolis; Violet S. Gass, from Aircraft Dispensary, Philadelphia, to Parris Island; Frances V. P. Haines, from Key West to New Orleans; Estelle Harding, from Guam to Canacao, P. I.; Ellen M. Hodgson, from Newport to League Island; Olive M. Houghton, from League Island to Newport; Julia T. Johnson, from Annapolis to Guam; Margaret E. Jones, from League Island to Newport; Elizabeth J. Keavey, from Guam to Canacao, P. I.; Marie E. Kelly, from Norfolk to Great Lakes; Mary A. Kief, from San Diego to Puget Sound; Josephine Knight, from Washington to Newport; Annie Leighton, from Washington to Fort Lyon; Catherine McNellis, from Guam to Canacao, P. I.; Mary Mahoney, from New York to Newport; Anna E. Mears, from Newport to League Island; Mary Moffett, from Canacao, P. I., to Pearl Harbor; Anna M. Moran, from Newport to League Island; Mary Agnes Mulcahy, from Mare Island to Washington; Mary E. Northrop, from Great Lakes to Guam; Mary T. O'Connell, from Fleet Supply Base, New York, to New York; Mary Peoples, from League Island to Newport; Dorothy W. Pierce, from Norfolk to Great Lakes; Lena A. Richardson, from Chelsea to Mare Island; Edna S. Smith, from Newport to Chelsea; Mary A. Snyder, from Newport to League Island; Elizabeth Steiner, from New York to Newport; Mary Towney, from Mare Island to Guam; Madeline E. Wall, from New York to Newport; Margaret M. Welsh, from Mare Island to Canacao, P. I.; Ada L. Wood, from Mare Island to Puget Sound; Mary P. Young, from New York to San Diego.

Honorable Discharges: M. Ada Allen, Mare Island, September 20, 1920; Mary P. Nicholls, Parris Island, September 8, 1920.

Resignations: Mary E. Eskridge, New York, September 30, 1920; Mary F. McCarthy, Chelsea, September 15, 1920; Delia B. Mead, Mare Island, July 20, 1920; Edith A. Shilling, League Island, September 30, 1920.

Reserve Discharges: Blanche Allen, Wash

ington, September 11, 1920; Ruth Courtney, New Orleans, September 9, 1920; Ella V. Parrott, Chelsea (transferred to U. S. N.); September 30, 1920; Elizabeth M. Thomas, Fort Lyon (Medical Survey), September 22, 1920; Thea Thomsen, Mare Island, September 26, 1920;

Reserve, Inactive Status: Alice E. McGuire, Parris Island, September 10, 1920; Alice M. Roach, Chelsea, September 9, 1920; Nellie F. Treuthart, Charleston, August 8, 1920.

U. S. N. R. F. Disenrollments: Dorothea Esterly, Mare Island (Medical Survey), September 2, 1920.

Promotions to Grade of Chief Nurse: Louise A. Bennett, Hampton Roads, September 1, 1920; Edith N. Linquist, Parris Island, August 1, 1920. LENAH S. HIGBEE,

Superintendent, Navy Nurse Corps.

Spanish-American War Nurses

Twentieth annual meeting of the SpanishAmerican War Nurses opened September 28, 1920, at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, Ohio, with the president, Rebecca Jackson, in the chair. Among the members present were: Mrs. Frank W. Allen, Emma Ahring, Mary J. Barry, Lucy May Bushey, Mrs. F. M. Crocker, Frances A. Groves, M. Isabel Harroun, Rebecca Horn, Rebecca Jackson, Miss Jones, Anna Laws (honorary member), Elizabeth McCoy, Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, Mary M. Silcott, Mrs. Lyman D. Simms, and Isabel J. Walton. The usual routine business was transacted.

Rebecca Horn, of Arizona, reported for the Pension Committee, that the Spanish-American War Veterans did not consider it feasible to include nurses in the original Pension Bill, but stood ready to do everything in their power to secure old age pensions for Spanish-American War Nurses at the first opportunity. A legislative committee was then elected to take up the matter of pensions, with Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, of Washington, as chairman.

The special feature of this Annual Meeting, was the delightful hospitality of the women of Cincinnati, with Miss Anna Laws, one of the Honorary Members, at their head. On Tuesday a luncheon at the Hotel Gibson was presided over by Miss Jackson. The after dinner speakers included Hon. John Galvin, Mayor of Cincinnati, who not only expressed hearty greetings and appreciation of nurses' work, but remained to hear Dr. McGee's story of the early days of Army Nursing. Colonel Traub, Commanding Officer of Ft. Thomas, and several representative members of Women's Organizations,

also extended welcome. Following the luncheon the members, escorted by the D.A.R., were taken for an automobile ride over the city.

Wednesday the members were entertained by the Woman's Club, with a luncheon at their beautiful Club House, following which was a visit to the Cincinnati General Hospital, where they were entertained informally by Miss Laura Logan, Chairman Local Nursing Service Committee, A.R.C., and her staff of nurses.

Thursday the members were taken in autos by a committee of women of Cincinnati, to the Altmont Hotel, near Ft. Thomas for luncheon, after which they were escorted by Col Traub to Ft. Thomas where "Escort to Colors," and a Military Review was held in their honor. A visit to the Rockwood Potteries and the Art Museum was also much enjoyed. Return to Hotel Gibson, and a final business meeting, including a report by tellers, ended one of the most delightful meetings in the history of the S.A.W.N.

Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee of Washington, was elected president by unanimous vote. Other officers elected were: Recording secretary, Isabel Harroun, Toledo, Ohio, corresponding secretary, Rose M. Heavren, New Haven, Conn.; treasurer, Anna M. Charlton, New York; vice-presidents, Rebecca Jackson, Philadelphia, Dr. Ermina Bingham Davis, Idaho, Isabel Walton, New York, Virginia I. Parks, Pasadena, Cal., Alice Lyon, Pittsburgh, Julia May Leach, Gloucester,Mass., Mrs. William Minteer, Toronto, Canada, Elizabeth McCoy, Cleveland, Ohio, Joanna Casey, Dorchester, Mass., and L. Agnes Hirtle, Roxbury, Mass.

All American Conference of Venereal Disease The All-American Conference on Veneral Disease will he held in Washington, D. C., December 6-11, 1920. It is the purpose of the administrative committee to bring together recognized authorities in their respective fields, and especially to make possible a comparison and evaluation of the methods now being employed in various parts of the world for the control of veneral disease. As far as possible the presentation of set papers will be avoided it being felt that full and free discussion will be far more helpful to those who attend.

The program will be so arranged that it will be possible for any delegate to attend all the meetings. The Conference will be preceded by special addresses on topics allied to veneral disease control, in some of the churchs of Washington, on Sunday evening, December 5. The following is but an outline of the program. Conference of Delegates (Morning Sessions). The

Scientific Basis of Control Measures. Problems Relating to Medical Investigation. Problems Relating to Education as a Means of Controlling Venereal Diseases. Problems Relating to Law Enforcement and Protective Social Measures With Individuals. Problems Relating to Social Influences in the Control of Venereal Dis

ease.

Conference of Delegates (Afternoon Sessions). Administrative Measures in the Control of Venereal Disease. Problems Relating to Administrative Control Measures. General Sessions (evenings), Authoritative Summaries of the Work in Veneral Disease Control.

Canada

Exercises were hold in the Munroe Room of Dalhousie University, on Tuesday evening, September 21, at eight o'clock, on the occasion of the Presentation of diplomas to those who had completed the course in Public Health Nursing. This is the first class in Public Health Nursing to be graduated in Canada. An address was made by Miss Eunice H. Dyke, Director of Public Health Nursing in the Department of Public Health, Toronto.

California

The Lane Hospital Nurse's Alumnae will hold a bazaar on Thursday, Oct. 21, to raise funds to assist in the furnishing of the new Nurses' Home to be erected by Stanford University Hospital.

It is the hope of the alumnae to raise about $3,000, which will enable them to completely equip the reception room in the new building, where the nurses can receive their friends and relatives.

The bazaar is to be held at 2286 Jackson Street, near Webster, in the building that was formerly occupied by Miss Murison's school. Visitors will be welcome all afternoon and evening. The bazaar will open at 11 o'clock in the morning and close at midnight.

Miss Myrtle Chandler is president of the alumnae and has selected an enthusiastic group of graduate nurses to assist her in making the bazaar a success.

Connecticut

The opening exercises of the Middlesex Hospital Training School for Nurses of Middletown for the year 1920-1921, were held at Hendley Hall, September 27. The Superintendent of the School, Miss Hyde, outlined the plans for the work of the new year and for the recreation as well. She also read the new rules as

to scholarship, marking, and prizes, and suggested the possibility of self-government by the pupils in the near future. She announced, moreover, that a tentative arrangement had been made with Wesleyan University, whereby the nurses should receive their instruction in science at the college, thereby having a closer affiliation with the university than heretofore.

Following Miss Hyde's announcements Dr. Frank K. Hallock, chairman of the training school committee, made a short address, referring to the fact that he had fathered, mothered, and nursed the hospital and training school from the beginning, and that nothing short of the highest possible scholarship and physical well-being of the nurses would satisfy his ideals.

After the formal exercises an informal reception was held for the class of 1923, followed by vocal and instrumental music by members of the school.

District of Columbia

The Nurses Examining Board of the District of Columbia, will hold an examination for the Registration of Nurses on November 17th. Apply to M. T. Flynn, Secretary and Treasurer, 1337 K Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.

+ Kentucky

The Kentucky State Board of Nurse Examiners will conduct semi-annual examination at the J. N. Norton Memorial Infirmary, Louisville, November 16-17, 1920. Further information and applications may be received by applying to Secretary, Flora E. Keen, R.N., 115 N. Main Street, Somerset.

+ Maine

The members of the 1920 graduating class of the Trull Hospital nurses' training school, Biddeford, were entertained at dinner at the hospital Wednesday evening, September 29. The dinner was attended by a number of invited guests from out of town. It was a very pretty affair and members of the local training class were present and added much to the pleasure of the evening.

Elaborate preparations had been made for the dinner, and a splendid menu was served in the dining-room of the hospital. The decorations of cut flowers and green made a very pretty sight.

Following the dinner the graduates and friends made up a theater party and taken all in all, it was a most enjoyable evening.

Massachusetts

A regular meeting of the G. N. A. of Waltham, was held at the Cutler House, Tuesday evening, September 7, Mrs. Jenness in the chair. The reports of the Secretary and of the Treasurer were read and approved. The Misses O'Brien, Bolger, Leonard and Thommen were elected members of the Association. Mrs. Jenness announced that the Association must leave the Cutler House the first of October, as the hospital had bought it for a Maternity Ward. The meeting adjourned, and a social hour with refreshments was enjoyed. The G. N. A. will move into the Daniels House.

The Household Nursing Association of Boston has recently purchased a house at 222 Newbury street, which will be its new headquarters and will officially open on October 18, when the new class will begin its work there. Larger quarters, more central location and the need of greater comfort for the women who enroll for the nursing course were the reasons given by the officers for the change of quarters.

With the opening of the new home the Association hopes to broaden its scope of activity and to bring to the attention of the thousands of families in Boston, the real value of the attendant nurse, and the opportunity for securing her services by applying at this association.

The training that the Household Nursing Association gives fits the attendant for care of the sick and also care of the household and the home, at the same time.

The length of the course is six months. The first six weeks is given entirely to household training, which includes invalid and home cooking, marketing, food values and dietetics, and all of the other hundred and one things that are necessary for the proper conduct of a home.

Four months' training at the Henry Heywood Hospital in Gardner or the Norwood Hospital in Norwood follows the six weeks' course, and this is a thoroughly supervised course in bedside nursing with all its attendant classes and lectures.

After the four months comes a six weeks' course in maternity and after maternity care, either at the Talitha Cumi Hospital or the Rufus Frost Hospital. This completes the six months' training course, but the attendant nurse works then for another six months or longer under the direction of trained supervisors. She is given her diploma when her work is of such a character that Miss Katharine Shepard, the superintendent, is convinced that she merits it.