The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-06-22

/ TRAINED NvRsEe IN TURKEY.
II was nimcult ut FIRST to Gee A.
Girls Tor the wsrl<.
DR., Thomas Specs Carrinstoa. thu
founder Of the first training school for
nurses in Marsovan, Turkey, who n
About to return to found another
Jchool in Constantinople, tells an inter.
estinS story of the first girl to take
up the work Of nursing, says the New
York Times. She was the pioneer.
and it was through her example that
ether girls came and the work, q great
innovation In the far east, was made
| possible. III
| Lusaper was the girls name, and
she was young Armenian, belonging
to wealthy family. Nurses were need
ed In the hospital, native women would
be invaluable, and DIR. Darlington
urged Lusaper to enter the hospital.
The objections offered by the girls
family were much the same as those
made by the families of Americans
girls when they first took up business
life. 81
In Lusaper's case the first objection
was that the work was mental, there
fore degrading, and q girl doing any
thing Of the kind would not find q
husband, a disgrace and a calamity
for a girl In Turkey.
Lusaper having passed much time
around the hospital reading to and as
sisting the patients in various ways,
concluded to give herself to the work.
But even then she was not to be de-
pended upon. On every visit home pres
sure was brought to bear upon her, and
she would return with her resolution
shaken, and It was only by appealing
to her sense of helpfulness to her suf-
fering fellow country women that she
was persuaded to keep on. Now she
has been graduated, and no better
nurses are graduated from western
training schools Of long standing.
An interesting feature Of Lusapers
case was that after she had begun the
hospital work and was earning q good
salary her family lost good part of
their money and for a time she was
their chief support, as SO many girls
on this side Of the water have been In
different ways.
1t is five years since the training
school In Marsovan was started. and
The results have shown the wisdom
Of the step. Only girls who have been
and speak English are admit
TED to the training school. These are
and trustworthy and dis
prove the general opinion that the east.
srn woman is helpless and frivolous.
Since the school opened more gi-ls
ave applied for admittance than
'oufd be accommodated and the work
las only been limited by the money
md accommodations. Girls have been
ent from other hospltals-there are
our under American Supervision IN
from the girls schools
where a trained nurse In attendance
J invaluable
women in Turkey are greatly in
eed OF medical attention and nursing.
me youthfulness of the child wives.
he large families, lack of proper cara
4 illness, lack of cleanliness. and
roper sanitary conditions make them
ften terrible sufferers. Their seclu-
on ana refusal to be attended by men
hysicians has made their cases prac-
cally hopeless.
Native-trained nurses mean a ravo.
ldon in the lives of the women. Thu
urses give not only care In iIlness.
1t disseminate knowledge concerning
lnitary conditions, which is greatly
eded in a land where annually so per
mt OF the children died from imnronar
ct and conditions,
Or. Carrington's visit to this coun-
was to raise money for the Con-
anunople Training School, From
at city a good school would he abIa
send nurses to the whole country
le work also provides employment
eastern girls which, now that It in
lderstood, they are glad to under.
re. The educated girls have. many
them, become teachers heretofore.
Whatever little village they settle
ter leaving school, they gather the
lidfen together and form small CEN
3 OF civilization, and do much good
men, as trained nurses, they will be
lie to increase.