The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-23
trained nhrse al Panama ~

~ "a
trained ntrse at Panama n
ut is not an easy one and it is poorly
paid" was the reply. We nurses came
here on the understanding that we should
have all our expense s and $50 a month
We get $50 but there are so many Incl
adentals that there is very little Of our
pay left at the end Of the month"; We
live at Ancon and have to have u a. cab
every time we go to Panama to shop
This costs us about a dollar a time. and
1.-THE result Is from IS to $40 a month goes
| iii cab fares And then the washing
Only the uniforms can be done up q t
the hospital laundry, and all the small
articles that n woman must nave, SUCH
as handkcrchiefs, laces, fine dresses, etc..
must be washed n outside This costs on
1.-THE average about SIS per month. In
addition there are many other expenses.
so that all told, one makes much less
There than a home. z & s33 33$
"The truth is, the salary OF a trained
nurse at Panama, should be $75 or 81 90
per month. everything included. think
the nurses would be satisfied with $780,
but. considering the work, the risk 70
lSliealth and the4distance from homo. 81 90
a month Is little enough Such q salary
would raise the standard Of the nurses
here, and would bring the hest. AS 4
is now we are paid too little. Indeed.
we get sos per week when we nurse In pri-
waite families In the United States, and
that usually In rich families where tho
comforts arc far grcater than here v
"IIow many nurses are there at PAM
ama?'' h, ,3.,s q ss4.
81 should sayabout forty, and OF these
two thirds are Americans and the rest
Canadians. They are all fairly good,
hut It is claimed that the salary Is SO
low that the very best American trained
nurses will not come. We hilye no
r>t ,t,,t,t 4I,<> Tf,,jt T..
Nv Of Pennsylvania or the I'lockleS Train
ing School Of Philadelphia. We have
some from Bellevue Hospital New York.
hut none from the other large and we'll
known hospitals Of that city or, WASH
ngton Some of our nurses hay served.
In Cuba and the Philippines, and NO
have one who went with Dr. AMI TIA Mecca
10 Japan md nursed in the hospitals
there The nurses are al constellation
and they all earn their salaries several
lrtimesi over III
Jamaica Negroes as Patients.
.Giye me some idea Of the character
of your patients .9i
II don't like to speak about that
| said the nurse THAT Is a sore sub
l9iect with us. AM al southern wVman,
land while I might possibly not object
Ito eating dinner With Booker i, WASH
Isington, would object to nursing a he
II DlaCk dlNNitSisS ~ tyN''-'N'
n Washington's back yard, Most Of
the wards here are filled With the ordi'
nary canal lnborors, men who rereive
| from as cents to N dollar n day.. They
are largely Jamaica negroes, i.s black
3as Il stove, aud native Panalnans. many
I az whom 5mulattoes We have ten wards
there. and Of these only one is deyotstl
la the American enpl Dyes IN the canal
athe other nine are oecupled by the peop'o
III have Described, They rre OF 5a lower
sclass than can he found In = e. charity
wards NJ our ~ hospitals Some OF
\ thnm have diseases iWhichSare lpathsonle
Eta an extreme, l5patlents, arc !. ~,
most men, and many of mem m y " y,
such that n woman should met be B ked
| TO touch them. i3 !. III ,.s
I'M ore Money Needed for Santa
4 ton,
understand tina I more none y needed I,
hers for SAM tia ton, The sanitary otily
4 GERS ask ed for S q 100000 to clean M he
Ifisthn,ps but they were given. only so y !.
fourth that amount They estinated
lkthatsit would take ss76, 900 to- clean Pan
4 anna and about one third that SUN WAS