Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-10

ing school open to colored women of educa-
ton and ability, put on firm foundation.
1t will also be my constant aim to afford
the Howard medical faculty and students
every facility which large and well equip
ped hospital can furnish. In order to do
this some changes in methods of work
have been considered necessary. These
changes either have been made or will be
made as soon as practicable. The Secre-
tary of the Interior and the District Com
missloners take very lively interest in the
hospital They are thoroughly In accord
with my plans and have given me every
thing asked for. Both the Commissioners
and the Secretary are very favorably i'm
pressed with the nurses training school
and VIII aid In its maintenance In every
way In their power.
Few medical schools anywhere have the
facilities we have here. With more than
Is obstetrical cases year, surgical cases
In endless number and of every description
and thousands of medical cases, we think
this claim can be verified We shall follow
the most approved methods in aseptic sur
gerry. The chart system to be kept by the
trained nurses will enable us to exhibit a
complete history and record Of each case
surgical and medical. The patient will get
the benefit Of the very best treatment and
the most skillful nursing. The student can
study TO advantage any case In the hos
pitaL The advantage Of the trained nurses
to Howard Medical College Is obvious
A New Department..
The nurses training school has just been
organized by Miss Hilyer. who comes to
this work well equipped by a course Of
training at Provident Hospital, Chicago.
Besides her hospital training. Miss Hilyer
has had considerable experier &c in outside
nursing and at other hospitals.
The training school. aside from its man
ifest advantages to the hospital and the
TO the educational facilities of the colored
people 1t is the intention TO have about
forty pupil nurses IT, the training school
1t Is to be national in character, the pupils
being selected from the most eligible ap-
plicants from all sections of the Union.
The rumber already received is twenty,
but there are 200 applications yet to be
acted pom as soon as quarters can be pro-
ytded for the add tional twenty.
Miss Hilyer will introduce the most ap-
proved methods In scientific nursing. The
course extends over eighteen months, and
includes practical nursing in the wards.
ths care OF the sick room, etc., besides lee
lures and examinations in physiology,
anatomy, hygiene ana the nurses materia
medtca. They are taught to read prescrip-
lions and to know the l sual effect of med
knowledge of aseptics disinfectants and
the bandaging and crossing of wounds. In
the wards these trained nurses have taken
the places OF the .'e> psrienced" nurses
heretofore employed there. Some of these
"experienced'' nurses had been at Freed
mems Hospital since its foundation, but
they nave had to give way to the trained
nurse The pupil EIrses will receive their
board and costumes and a small cash pay
ment while in the hospital. The opportun-
fly thus opened TO coiored women has been
eagerly seized by some Of the best-known
colore1 women, including Mrs. Fleetwood,
Miss Antoinette Kicks of Cleveland Ohio
Miss Waugh Of Spellman University. At
lanta, Ca; Miss Annie Simms OF Haeers-
town, Md, and Mrs. Jennie Cook OF Nash
Vile, Tenn.
Some of the improvements
past1e, ba aatobIteb,on.