New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-09
TRAINED FEMALE NURSES.
GRADUATING A CLASS OF TwENTY-sIx.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL, IN coNNEc
TIoN WITH BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.

TloN WITH BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
Two rows OF brght-faced young women, in plain,
neat dresses. each wearing white cap and fragrant
bouquet, made the graduating class last night OF the
Training School for Nurses attached TO Bellevue Hos
pia. There were twenty-sx members of the class,
and during the exercises tho old yellow house-cat
moved anxlousy about among the favortto members,
II doubtful OF these special proceedings. Tho re
ccpIon room was filled with friends OF the school and
of the graduates william H. Osborn presided and
read the trcasurcr's statement
In the sixteenth annual report of the secretary
Mrs. Theodore Cuyler, IT was stated that 1,203 april
cations were made to the school by letter last year
and more than 200 personal applications. but only
slxtyfour the full number Of the schools capacity
could be taken The graduates number 800
Three moro of the nurses have recently gone to St.
PauPs Home I'm Rome: several have taken positions
in Western and Southern hospitals, and there have
been than fifty applications from different
hospitals for Of this school to NIL respohSDie
positions Two nurses have gone to China in the
last year, and four volunteered their services ana dd
admirable work in Jacksonville, Fla, curing
the recent ycllowfcver epidemic. Dr. Soils Mitchell
wrote that their trained knowledge had been OF the
greatest value and had saved the lives of mshy fever
patients six of the graduates are TO be placed In
the wards of Bellevue to aid in the instruction OF
the nurses In the school for training male nurses
1t is desired TO employ trained nurses In all the
wards OF Bellevue, but this cannot be done until
the school has been enlarged and its maintenance
provided for The financial report for the year shows
slight deficit and the gifts and subscriptions for
the year have decreased The report says In con-
cluson
is this right Arc there not many this great city
to whom have mnstered either to themselves
their ones and by their tender care and inel
gent nursing been the under God OF their restoration
to health9 These we are confident will be grieved to
lpou hat l. auunfV krll
not only to continue our present work. but to eAtend us
blessings
The president of the Board of Managers, Mrs
William Preston Griffin, read the names OF the grad
yates and awarded them their diplomas The fol
lowing the names of the class: Mrs. Irene W.
Moody, Mrs. Ella L. Carroll, Penn; and Misses
Lillian o. Webster Fannie Warburton, Ida " Carver
Margaret p. Wright, Nettie j. Perry, Eva l. Stannard
Emma b. Thorburn Estcllo Valentine, Alice Autisdale
NJ. Irene Russell, Fannie f. Buxton, Rosa j. Penney,
Cora Chase, Mary G. Moore, Catharne Dunn christine
c. Hess, Florence NJ Smith, Grace Nevlns, Gertrude
Farmer, Emma G. Voes, Harriet a. Chichester,
Florida Fairbanks, Susan s. Chichester and Mary ..
Thompson.
DR.. " p. Gibney, who made the address to the
class dwelt with emphasis the valuable work
trained nurses might have done in the Civil War.
Statistics Of the war, he said, give us little idea oil
the number manned and crippled for LIE py inc lack
Of competent nursing, adding:
The cultivation quite necessary for the nurse
for the physician At all times you must remember that
all your energy must be directed to the comfort ana re-
coyery Of the patient Your training OF course mas Deeh
such that you will all times recognize the physician
in charge your superior officer whether he commands
your respect In the discharge OF your dutles'
you can command his respect and by skfu nursing may
save a patient even when the physician is incompetent.
Ii may surprise you learn that in city so enlightened
az Paris campaign against trained nurses has been begun
and that return to old system Of nursing by Sisters
OF Charity has been strongly advocated From leader
in a recent number Of 'The British Medical Journal
find that NJ Depres alleges that the mortality IN MS
bospa service before the left It only per
cent while 1t cent since the introduce
ton OF trained nurses
The Rev. DIR. Henry V Sattcrlee pronounced the
bencdicton which closed the exercises. Among those
present were Mrs. william H. osborn, alrs Theodore sl
tuylcr C. c. Cuyler. Mrs. f. j. Perkins, Mrs. Mex
ander Hamilton. Mrs. James W. Pnchot. Mrs White
law Reid, Mrs. Henry {. Taylor J4hn raIoh' N Srs'
Robert Huntington Mrs 5. n. Ben1aman; MIS-.
Custer, Mrs. c. Griswold. Mrs. Lanman Bull. Miss
Cunningham Mrs J. f. D. Lanicr, Mrs. James H.
Benedict and Miss Rachel f. Sherman Miss Agnes
Brennan. superlntenuen anu MISS iielch NJ "dI-
ner, assistant OF the school,