New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-30
NEW NURSES HOME.
Women's Committee Of HGhnemGnR
TO Hold Bazaar for Its Benefit.

The Christmas bazaar at the Waldorf-Astoria on
the afternoon and evening OF December for the
benefit OF the proposed nurses home IN connection
with the Hahnenann Hospital Park-ave, Sixty
seye-th and Sixty-eghth SITS. has aroused current
,+es. In The work Of the hospital itself which for
more than thirty years has quietly and steadily
been filing an important place among the needs Of
g great city
Poouia- interest in the daily details OF nurses
LIE also is awakened by the fact that hundred or
more of the cfrv's prominent women are just now
working DAY and night TO make this initial effort
for the establishment Of adequate home signal
success financially and otherwise. Despite its size,
growing needs and many departments (children's.
maternity graduate nurses. National Guardsmen's,
e-ereu's poIicemer's and saleswomen's wards and
outdoor Department. its regular stan Of nurses
cannot be increased IN proportion as they should
be because the hospital accommodations are so
rreagre The five rooms OF the ground floor annex
have 10 be occupied by Two and three nurses each,
and in the ght rooms above the maternity hospital
the conditions are the same. Rooms that should
really be occupied by patients have 70 be given Up
10 Ire use u attendants even now. while the stan
IS larnerrahlv insufficient and patients must in con
Eeo5,e,ce be turned from the doors. The present
dining room too Is o. all proportion 10 the de-
ulsnds upon IL and the nurses are forced TO take
their meals IL relays Il is under the pressure OF All
these circumstance that the need OF The new
nurses home Is 50 f-aperatively felt
Not only must the nurses have more actual
Epace but also place Of real rest where, when
OF duty they may enjoy freedom from restraint
and relaxation which viii return them TO thei-
trying work ready q meet cleerfuIly and capably
the demands made upon them In the new home,
which VIII be entirely separate wing Of the
hospital. fronting on Sixty-eighth-st between the
present maternity building and the Baptist Home
the west of IT, there viii he ample provision for
rest and relaxation and the thirteen hospital
rooms into which the thirty or more nurses are
now crowded can then be turned TO the
patients whom they rishrfuIly belong. So many
Patients rec 1i-e individual that the
securing o. these outside OF the regular staT Is
constant drain on the hospitals resources.
Any one who knows what is required Of a hos
pitsl knows how necessary il is that her
few hours or duty should be made restful as
possible. From in the morning till night
with two hours break in the middle OF the dav
there IS an almost constant demand uDon her
physical endurance. her tact, patience and SYM
patty There is much in the nursing profession
that makes its appeal 70 true womanlness and
more and more women are entering 1t for love q
tne wcrk. over and above all financial corsi6era-
lions The remuneration continues practically the
Urdertaken ~ feminine asprs-ts zion. So - ~ e.
week and ambition keeps the standard Of the
Ing school Is an important feature Of this hospitals
work IN April last the first class Of The rH~la
year course OF instruction was graduated IN ada
ton 70 TIE 1sua- training in practical work al ne
bedside. The theory Of nursing, IN rendering en-
Gent service in surgical cases. the Hahnemsrn
,s-Si,z, - . --, ~ 49, - 80 ~oTk N ne ma
9. acJusI experience u that interesting branch OF
tfEelr professional work
Among those especially interested in tie pro-
Tcseo uazaar are Mrs Howard Carroll Mrs. Arthur
Z. Root MIS-. j. f. seymour Mrs J. II. Flagler
Airs. Z. J. Eheever Mrs De CfUeryile Miss Flor
elle Guernsey, Mrs.. Clinton L Bagg. Mrs Ralpb
-raErnlarr, Mrs Clarke Bel. Mrs Mary /. Dey
Mss Orton. hrs. Mccain, Mrs J. Hal Browning
Mrs George W. Powers. Mrs 8 S. Blood. Mrs
= Nc-rhTop, Mrs George I. Ia wton. Mrs A =
Pisa, Mrs s J Drake. Mrs. John r. stanton Mrs
: G. Durton. Mrs. ". 3. De Haven. Mrs Alex
e-c-r Chc1C E-eth Mrs. John u. Barrow Mrs I
s-e1ei Mrs ! Hedges Crowel. Mrs. Ambrose Tav-
lor AIRS Charles 2urchsrd. Mrs. Arthur Cossaart
Nrs. y. A. Budd. Mrs J. g. Wentz. Mss Mary F.
Goy- Mrs. Robert n Koilock. Mrs Fiske Wood
Hrs CarCrer Wetherbee. Mrs o. ,. Bridgenar,
Ers. John "a. Barrow. Mrs. ". K Honan. Mrs @
y Ro1erls. Mrs G. Hallett. Mrs. T. Townsend.
Ars- Z. q. Tuttle. ldrs- = D. Stevens Mrs. J. L
Wilson. Mrs 7. T. sherman. Mrs A. 2. Norton
Mrs. =. J. Crump Mrs Dihenbach. Mrs G r
lsidsw. Mrs y. + Mills. Mrs J. Garrison Mrs
e. Carleton Mrs. J. v Allen Mrs. A Il. Bing-
han, Miss A. =. Pierce, DR.. SCheele. Mrs. Charles
Eelt-ch Mrs p. g Thomas and Mrs. ". ..