Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-27

those limits. The reserve nurses, when en-
ployed on active duty are to receive the
foregoing pay with 10 per cent additional"
Chief nurses shall not receive more than
$50 above that Of the subordinate nurses.
In addition to their pay the nurses Of the
active list of this corps will be allowed
quarters, subsistence and medical attend
ance when on duty. The subsistence will
consist Of the hospital ration when ashore
ana the navy ration when at sea on hos
pttal or ambulance ships.
When travelling under orders, the men,
bers Of the corps will receive Transports
tion ana necessary expenses. Anent the
rations: the navy ration is daily allow
Communication, while the hospital ration-the
result of a scientific analysis and synthesis
OF units Of energy-is more expensive and
enough to satisfy anybody able to 'sit up
and take nourishment"
Their Field Of Usefulness.
The field Of employment of these women
in the navy will be essentially that of hos
pital practice-they will not be detailed to
fighting ships of any form, and part Of
their duties will be that Of instructing the
hospital apprentices who shall not have
enjoyed the professional educational ad-
vantages Of these women 1t requires no
elaboration to make plain the advantages
of thus employing trained women. Their
natures make them peculiarly fitted to min
istering to the seriously sick where tender
ness and touch of sympathy mean even
more than medicine: while being Of the
softer sex they can lend themselves more
successfully to letter writing and listening
to the little helpful condolences that mean
SO much to the sick-things to which an
other man would seldom listen, even if the
heart were opened to him. Professionally,
trained women nurses need no better testi-
monialS than their general records of duty
faithfully and skillfully done.
What the Corps Offers
1t has been asked, What does the Hos
pital Corps Of the navy offer for a young
and ambitious Americana" The answer is
either a warrant billet, which will carry
with it good pay during the years of service
and a comfortable competence in old age
and retirement; or a commission as a navy
doctor and the possible climax of surgeon
general of the service.
The pharma cists must be trained men at
the time of their appointments, and at once
they are paid $500 year when employed
ashore and 81 200 when at sea. After their
first three years service their pay is in
creased $1CO, and after every succeeding
period of three years up to twelve years
their pay is increased. After twelve years
get $1,000, and at sea $500; and after re-
tirement al sixty-two years Of age they get
three-quarters Of their highest pay.
Hospital Apprentices.
Hospital apprentices enlist from the age
Of eighteen to twenty-five years, and the
term Of each enlistment is for four years.
Hospital apprentices classified as seamen,
second class, special branch) receive $40
month and the usual allowance of clothing
and one daily ration. Upon evidences of fit
ness, hospital apprentices will be promoted
to the grade Of hospital apprentice first
class; and, being classified with petty Off
oarc niNra L, 1,
allowance of clothing and the single daily
ration
From these f1rst-class apprentices will be
drawn, when qualified, the hospital stew
petty officers, will be paid $50 month, with
allowances Of ration and clothing. To be-
come hospital steward, however, requires
something more than mere facility in rou-
tine work. The candidate must have quail
fed professionally to a considerable extent
and must pass examinations in materia
medfca, the botanical name of preparations,
and dose of the drugs recognized by the
pharmacopic pharmacy, the various phar-
maceutical processes employed in the man
ufacture of officinal and official prepare lions,
and the relative proportions of the more
important drugs entering into their COM
position, hemistry-chemical symbols, the
formulate of the more important officnal
chemicals. and the reactions produced by
the combinations Of chemicals, soXicology-
symptoms. toxic doses and antidotes of
pOlSOnS, recognition or crude drugs, making
ordinary pharmaceutical preparations, COM
pounding prescriptions, and criticising pre-
scriptions incorrect by reason of pharma-
ceutical or chemical incompatibiity; ban
daging. minor surgery, application of spints
and Of dry and wet cups, and the treatment
of hemorrhage.
Every Encouragement Held Out.
Every facility Is given the apprentices to
improve themselves. The libraries Of the
hospitals are at their disposal, and in their
off hours day or night they are encouraged
to attend such medical schools as offer
them opportunity for instruction. The bu-
reau Of medicine and surgery and the de-
partment intend to recognize merit among
these men. and they will be given permits
sion to present themselves for examina-
ton for admission to the medical corps
Of the navy when their qualifications are
matured. 1t will not be necessary for them
to have been graduated from any other
medical school than that of practical ex-
perience in the service-a degree is not an
essential, and they will be adjudged entire
ly by their proved fitness for the RESPONSE
BILE Office Of doctors in the navy. The navy
does not intend to conduct school of med-
cine, but the men that fit themselves in this
atmosphere will certainly have an advan-
tage, for they will know at once the needs
of the service Certainly this is an open
ing for any young and ambitious American,
and success will be all the more credHable
for what it means of pluck and persever-
ance.
Margaret-"Have you any plan or system
for being an agreeable gueSt?"
Katharine-"YeS, indeed; l always go