The Washington times., 1895-05-05

is universally acknowledged the most
successful hospital superintendent Wash
ington has ever known, and Providence
Hospital, with its national reputation,
owes Its existence and success to the wis
dom, energy, and skill OF this one woman,
who is now seventy years of age, and has
been, for nearly half n century, behind
convent walls. This Institution at nreSent
enjoys the distinction of having tie only
wands in the city available for the recep-
tion Of contagious diseases.
GARFIELD TRAINING SCHOOL.
The training school at Garfield Hospi
tai is the largest and most popular south
OF Baltimore. 1t is under the direction
of the famous Johns Hopkins school, the
methods of which she is following as closely
as possible in her efforts to make the work
at Garfield creditable alike to her own
excellent training and the city OF Wash
iBgton.
Among her thirty pupils are a notable
number OF young ladies who have entered
this calling more as a matter of vocation
than as business, aud more than one of
these will upon her graduation do charity
work among the poor, either in connection
with some sisterhood or in district mn rising
of the kind indulged in by Mrs. Humphrey
Wards "Marcella.'
Miss NeYins was a most successful nurse
in private practice and is especially
qualified TO deal with contagious diseases.
She is most disappointed in the failure to
secure the outside pavilion for the treat
ment of scarlet fever and diphtheria at
this hospital.
The Homeopathic Hospital also has its
own training sbcool under Miss EIyson, and
il may confidently be expected that
the future graduates of the Washington
schools VIII take theirplace among the best
taught of the trained nurses OF the country.
EMERGENCY.
There is no nurse IN Washington entitled
TO greater consideration than Miss Roberta
M. West of the Emergency.
Miss West, who is Pennsylvania by
birth, came to Washington less than two
years ago, after long and arderous duty at
Rlockley Hospital in Philadelphia. This
Philadelphia school is famous as having been
the creation of that celebrated English
nurse Miss Alice Fisher, who came toAmerica
10 introduce the English methods aud dis
cipline into the Biockley school.
Miss Fl sher had for her assistant much
younger nurse, typical English girl, who
had adopted this protest. on in a spirit of
zeal and charity, which carried her through
years OF training and labor. The assistant
was Miss Edith Horner, BOW the wife OF
SenatorHawley ,ofCoDnecticut.
Mrs. Hawl ey is still an enthusiastic
bel lever in trained nurses of high social
and intel lectual attainments, and keeps
up her interest u the wei fare and advance
nlent OF the pupils OF her old school, one of
the dist nguished OF these being Miss West,
who succeeded to the vacancy in the
Bl ockley School on the marriage of Miss
Horner to the Senator from Connecticut.
The Emergency being a small hospital,
there is no trai ming school attached, but
the services of graduates from other insti-
tUtions are accepted for short courses of
three or six months. No compensation is
allowed for the shorter course, but nurse
remaining for six months is paid a small
sal airy. The experience to be derived from
a six months stay at the Emergency Hos
pitaI S of ofunspeakable value, yet so irregu
ar is the work that an Inexperienced nurse
coming Dto such an institution would re-