New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-13
NURSING IN INDIA.
DIFFICULTIES NET WITH IN TREATING
PATIENTS OF DIFFERENT castles.
,,crp THE SISTERS AND THE COUSINS AND THE
Au.rs" MUST BE RECEIVED AT HOSPITAL
r,oGprHER WITH THE INVALID.

HOW THE SlSIEfSS AM AMI NO>
Ar,,rs" MUST BE RECEIVED AT A HOSPITAL
TOGETHER WITH THE INVALID.
IN. interest in hospital nursing OF all KINDS IL
much augmented now by the Work which is peihs
orsan,zed and done for the Army. letter from
Neyoor India. which gives an account OF the way
IN which the nurses profession is regarded anc
nr,csed NAV be of interest at this time as snow
;nr INV a remote country has come TO regard TINS
humanitarian movement. The following iet'er
from a missionary now in India was received by
friend in New-York a few days ago;
"rravancore is a State in the extreme south OF
India and a most conservative State. 100 Nurs-
inr az we know it. is here unknown In the cap
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the next largest 'o""
Quyon-there good government genera en-
maternity hospitals. under the control OF european
doctors with East Indian matrons. who prooapN
had some training in one or other OF the Maoras
bosnitals few Hindoo women are found WILING
70 70 70 these hospitals to work not SO Inuch ior
the sake of being trained as nurses as lor 'ie SAM
Of the good wages offered: but these women lower
their social standing by taking up such "oih an.
are considered by their men relations 10 De Do''
and forward: Hindoo new women" in fact
During the last fifteen or twenty years the 'oV-
crnment--that is. the native government u"N''
the Maharajah-has been putting UP small nos
ps.als all over the State. II has pressed on 10 90
40 IN opposition TO little mission dispensarles'
,r,,cb our medical missionaries endeavored 10 es-
tabl,sh In the most needy outlying places. Ihey
do not Ike II 10 be thought that the foreign Chfs
tan will DO more for their poor SICK thaA theS VIII
DO and also they see what powerful Hi"ue''0e "'
medical mission has. The Brahmn element does
no. ike TO see H. -,
"va arc plad 10 have these hospitals built. as
there is plenty Of money for them 10 spend ana
our means are limited. To supply these hoSP'"'S
with nurses the Government now oners 4De'''i
scholarships TO women 70 tram I'D one Vi INC"
maternity hospitals, and gives them good salaries
fhepf y
able women.
"Nevoor whore the headquarters OF our medica!
mission is placed is a nights journey iro'" inc
cap,tal-only about thirty-eight miles Dut lou"
miles an hour is considered good speed-ano "he"
I came here FIVE and half years ago only a Re"
OF the more advanced men had ever heaTu oI SUI"
a thing as hospital nurses. For European
woman 10 come and spend all her time al the Nus
pta waiting on and attending TO men anu "o'"e'''
hrh caste and low caste alike. ana Also ~ 20 o"s
into their homes 10 serious cases. was pe'iec'
nine days' wonder TO them, many ana CURIOUS
being the con1ectures 10 what sort OF creature
an, co,,;d POSSIBLY be one OF our dressers-the
name given TO medical evan6ehs's 'aheu W
our doctors for medical mission work-salo 20 me
one day after ne had stood by ana ""'o"'u IA.
clean and dress wretched' poor o'"
woman: -, ~
madame. TO see you do such work with your
own hands is a perfect revelation 10 US. We nave
never known Of such a thing before -,
Yves that was Just how matters stood, al'housh
medical mission had been AT WORK heIe 80.
many wears Until was appointed. no attempt H''U
been made 10 bring me wcmens pnft On = TIRE i"
with what had been done IN training men ~ ~
were good hospital ara t.ntee'' ~ ci,eyded TO
BY their own friends. Medicines Were given mo
the friends hands BY the Gressers. and they ea.e
II or not just as they chose II any poor des4ia,e
patients came TOO wear 10 at,e,,u 70 ronIood FOR
the trne being 20 attend TO them, and so the loea
seemed TO prevail among all our Christian "nlit
hnf Orfr Gf1ch owl
entity wait on the sick In the hospital; theieiolc
found II exceedingly difficult 10 psrSq be1e me
and be trained to go out and hoip me dresseis
III was only after six or eight months that got
two to venture, they were tod mai u lhey ~"
They did not at first take kindly TO the duties
After many weary months they were won over 10
Degrading myself they might well o. Once the he
ee known that IT not such dreadfuily degrading
but to have good Christian women at our dlsI
Rsssarss with kp9wedge Of nursing, ns, we ea Of
Their time to be given to reading to and teaching
pom vo,n N and out patients While win us they are
lamentations pouItices preparations Of economical
Hlessings etc. Although we have a most comfort a.
Sn Reg have s"S two to- FIVE
has as0 nS S %pen s
y v,,rd and deyl dancing and astroiogers CON
80 me how much some Of these women are
az q suffer and yet i've. -, -.
S1,sss' training Tor the simple reason that there
mao ~ Bedding TO make There IL an Iron frame
sn sss When ' ca%s that te was all We have
the S Rl9 gs and quit folded a, a ,ns 0St
sof ana blankets for fever patients also Jackets
e ana odns q SSs neatly. The
sisanintsss msslyes have no idea OF neatness or
ssd stay Nth the patient. ana each self supporting
Susas INST have Kitchen to herself. 50 that the