New-York tribune., 1903-03-01
WTHINHOSPITAL WALLS
What the ConUaIescent Patient SatC
and Heard.

"Oh, I've got such q splendid typhoid easel" eS-
claimed the pink checked nurse enthusiastically,
as she unrolIed her best prayer rug and began
trying it in different parts of the corridor. The
great reception room to the right and the halls
and corridors and classroom showed other nurses
similarly engaged. for the graduating exercises OF
the class Of 'Os the New-york Hospital Train
ing School for Nurses. IN West Sixteenth-st, took
place last night and alt day the nurses spent
what leisure they could snatch in decorating their
quarters for the supreme moment. As usual. the
governors OF the hospital were there. and one OF
them made address, and the class nIed Up, one
by one. to receive their diplomas. What was quite
unusual occurred this year, however, in that the
entire class graduated.
After the diplomas came a reception and dancing
when happy graduates who had for a year borne
the responsibility of ward full OF patients, two
stersed and waltzed with staff doctors and ex-
starF doctors and other adrniring men friends: sat
out dances in palny thickets, and ate salads and
ices-quite like giddy young things who couldn't
take temperature to save their lives ana hao
never so much as heard Of typhoid tubs or draw
sheets.
So that was why the pink checked nurse was
Waiting around with her best prayer rug trying
it here and there to see where it should CO.
Just. think OF me-quarantined for six weeks In
the children's ward with chickenpox! the fair
haired nurse was saying. dismaly-the one with
eyeglasses and a dimple in her. chin.
wasn't that frightfrI luck? NOT single new
case nothing interesting. for six wecks!
And
the flower lampshade in her lap 10 rehect Oh Ine
injustice OF her lot
WHERE THEY ARE BAKED.
.vvou I've spent ny last fortnight here over the
baking machine" remarked a small. angelic look
ing nurse who had just corqe up with an armfui
of trihes You know that's where we paKe the
uatients suffering from rheumatism. she aooeo'
turning 70 the ConvaIescent Patient. who had crept
oyefRfrom her ward in the great wing opposite to
help THE theory is that the uric acid In the
blood forms crystals at the joints. BY suo)ecuhs
the patient to high temperature the crystals are
dissolved and carried away through the SKIN we
have two machines for baking leg or arm
another for the entire person. With the latter
the patient in the machine. with his head out
side on a pillow, and an icebag or H. ~stn plenty
of Ice water within reach A while ago we useo
IN bake with a temperature cf 80 degrees but that
r-.s round to he somewhat exhausting to the pa
.,o,t an now we use only ESQ., The baking lasts for
twenty minutes. Oh. no. 1t doesn't nurt' In Iact'
the patlents rather like y.
..rhsre.. hardly q girl in the graduating class
.ba. Isr,t worn out" remarked a head nurse from
- - .hs surxtcaI wards. "A girl who enters one
NJ the great training schools OF the citysay new
York St Luke's. the Presbyterian or Roosevelt
1,ust make I'D her mind to work ike dog be-
fore she earns the right to wear her ehilOr" I'll
the rest OF her Hfe-on duty, mean.
..7rbe HeU-York uniform-you see 1t Is very SIM
rIs hut Il is as dear the nurses OF this nos
pItaI as his uniform IS TO the soioler' II Ds ln ~
of a gingham which has TOT years Oee o''~
Exclusively for the New-York Hospital by mouse
in ScotIand-a sott, pale biee' heeAeu WIN 80 80,
ard checked with a darker blue. You see' It's quite
an ordinary affair but nobody on earth can BUY or
wear this particular Gingham unless she Is New,
York Hospital trained nurse or graduate ualheu
nurse Women who sell their clothes and wome"
,,bo give theirs away sometimes have the merthea-
tt ~ meeting them On the street or in the cars
the New-York nurse never When a unifoFm ls
outworn It must be torn into shFsds and tnen
burned. - o,,,
This hospital" continued the hesd nuFse' ".-
.-.tss~ ,hs greatest care In the selection of Its
candidates. Not every girl who fancies sne wouIo
ike TO be a trained nurse tS accepted. Sne mus'
bring TO the work education good family :eennec-
tions ability moral eArnestness. persona! Fenne-
1rsrt and an untieruishea' character. EYen sster