New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-15
FOUR HUNDRED NURSES.
EXAMINATIONS ONE MUST PASS TO BE
COME RED CROSS SISTER

yAruAer1p INFORMATION GIVEN FOB WOMEN
FIELD WORKERS RY DR. LESSER OF THE
HOSPITAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL
We are prepared to go at any moment and are
only waiting for our orders" said Mrs Bettina A
r1orker Lesser Chief OF the Red Cross
Hospital. yesterday All day the little hospital had
been besieged with applicants for service until the
list Of women anxious TO serve their country mere
or undertake the relief work in cuba reached four
hundred To each applicant two blanks were gwen
TO be dlled out one a certificate OF former service
aligned by the physician or surgeon FOR whom the
applicant has nursed and the other the following
application for enlistment:
nurses? 2 Name the school . Is a hos,ai 80, yC
nected with the school, 1 Have you nau P.@tt go
knowledge OF emergency cases o II So 49, -
6 Have you personally assoc IL. - -; ~ co. 90
roou,7 Have YOU personally ASSISTED 1T ihijvl
onerations? . Have you personally assisted n pre-
pairing handling INSTRUMENTS ana -. q. s7iy
assisted In such operations? 09Uestions 10 70 -
1efer 70 antiseptic aad aseptc work. IL Wnati
nurse what has been your occupa non ~ a.. 49,
You ;s II Of HS Stendng the sick il Is this application
sanctioned ty your parents -, .ossa-y ,,al,-
acations and requirements was also gwen 70 each
woman who wished become a Req ross il rs.
In order 70 become SisITt % HE coaracter
the applicant must be 81 CI'4uTs MS AK ne
s,1ane AZ the Red cross Hospital or present
Sor n,1rsss and take q six months post-grad iate
course in methods specially apphcable 70 VIZ ~
other National CALAMITY. A. me tAl.tl. -
CSrsA upOn giving satisfactory evidence OF re4-l,
s.e etr4es the candidate s. graduated as a IstI
Cross Sister ard can thereafter act a. sue" ''''''
at home abroad - 80 o.,i,s,oa ,o-
In cases OF emergency nurses may "
-ba soecial need upon presentation o. lil-lT CO.
,iAcaIss and " hout taking the tx months coutSo
rnentiored but should De understood IN. d,
nioes ~ he service IN sOrL their relatO WIN
,b. Rtd Cross ceases. until they can De graduated
IN he regular way. In this connecticut mower,
-r-.Ss. VII he given for charao--r u work zone
Sursne The enlistment The certificates aooNt mn
-toref are: certificate % heatn al- ma 49,
eSr.,scata for true COPY thereof OF graduation
from training school ard the incioseG bank prop
e'2 andtdates must have idea that mere Is any
,ornonrlc or sertirneutal attract!VeIeS7 II re stI
aa-rards - war pest!lence or tdnln" ~" rHl'i-
oen~iee Of he service often mos TYNE SON.
$50 ,rvoll;ng prfvatiOn and danger. and Only
tbnss ready for such Work can be OF yea use &c
SISTERS are required % 10 within can az 81 tl"Jas
readI, m resD0ud 10 any Orcer apthor!z~u Dy 'ile
president OF the American Na0,pnA t.@u = -
.a-san nc- in The sense Of ignoring. hut OF r.
soectinR every natiCIa ity ana al Ir4.g. ~
RED Cross Is volunteer institution. gtlltd ey n'l
Practising regular military tacHcs l. 49,,
tns the period o. heir serice 20 tAe WORK 10 ~NSn
,hev q - ASSUMED and must cheerfIily Op~S INC
irsfr11c,ions u thcr directors , 49,
No sala-y Is pad but during sc 1AI se'ELvS ~.
ard requirements of the Sisters information Whea
and wte.c examinations for ranks may De -
WI he sen, upon receip. OF signed apiIcaLlpq..
shnud p, any tiIne one be found unfit for service
These regulations made by order OF we ii s
Hon Clara Parton. president OF me Anlerlc,n aSs
tonel F4d C-0ss and Bett.na 4 Ho,K er l-efs ,r
s,sts--in chief Red Cross Hospital. for me pui