The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-22
TRAINEDNURSE TURNS HEALER
SLEET iND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
no CURE MEASLES.
Doctor says He Finds That His Medicines
We're secretly Thrown Away-LittIe
Girl Patient Very Low After This
pc,clopmen NJ C%ertIncated Nursing.

been sont here 70 live with her grand
mother and her uncle, r. TyrTell Marsh Of
Al West Il5th street, and to attend the
Barnard School, was taken i'll with pneu-
morla two weeks ago. The case was not
severe rrd she was beginning to get better
when measles developed. That was last
Saturday,
The chi,d's mother is dead and her grand
mc'her Insisted upon doing the nursing
herself until she was worn out. When the
me- sles appeared on Saturday it was
thought best to hire a trained nurse. The
Marshes family physician is DR.. Frank +.
Shaw Of 400 West li5th street. DR.. Sha W
agreed with Mr.. Marsh that the child had
better have a trained nurse, and on Satur-
day evening Mr.. Marsh called up the Wash
irgton Heights Registry for Trained Nurses,
AT 'c8 West 145th street, and asked Mrs.
Dorothy Frown, who runs the agercy, for
a nurse.
II 80 happened that all the nurses living
al the agency we're out on cases, but Mrs'
Brown said that she would get a nurse that
had registered with her, but was living else
where. TIE woman, she said, was a gradu-
uate nurse.
In about an hour the nurse appeared.
She was a woman OF about 40, with hair
just tinged with gray and a rather deter
mined and businesslike look about her that
impressed both the doctor and the family.
She called herself Mrs. Rowell.
The child by this time had developed a
high fever. The nurse put on her uniform,
got out her chart and assumed charge Of
the sick room, DIR. Shaw leaving some fever
powders and other medicines for the nurse
10 give the child during the night,
The following morning DIR. Shaw noticed
That the child did not show the effects
expected Of the medicine. He also noticed
that tire quantity in the different glasses
did not seem to nave diminished. He asked
the curse about this and she said that she
had misunderstood his orders and hadn't
given some of the medicines. DR.. Shaw
wa Q bit put out, but he started her all
over again and went away.
On = ,nday night DR.. Shaw got a tele-
phore message from the nurse.
Il Just wanted to tell you" she said over
the phone, that the child has a tempera-
ture Of los. but I'm not at all ner vous and
thers is no reason for you to be alarmed"
That struck DR.. Shaw as an odd way for a
nLrss to. talk to- a-doctor about a p tient
with temperature at los. He told the nurse
this aver the telephone and fastened to the
house. He found that the fever powders
he had left hadn't been given atallan that
the child was very sick. When he spoke
to tire nurse about the medicine she replied,
according to the doctor:
"Oh. you're ewfully particular about
your medicines. aren't you? I didn't think
the child needed them"
T. an she asked the doctor just when
SHE should give the medicines and said
that she thought the child would pull
through. The doctor had left several other
PRESCRIPTIONS in glasses. 1t seemed to
him again that the quantity in the glasses
wss the same as when he had left them,
but the nurse insisted that she had given
the medicines. although the child did not
show any effects Of the treatment.
On Sunday night the child grew worse.
The nurse would have none OF the family in
the sickroom. On Monday DR.. Shaw made
five visits and saw to it himself that the
medicines were administered. The family
tried 70 see the child that evening and
they report that the nurse replied:
You are interfering wit h me, just when
/ have brought the child under control.
How 32n you expect her to get better? II
you leave her entirely to me I can make her
we'll"
Mis-. harsh. ths child's grandmother,
hca I'd The cries OF Che child on Monday night
asking .ha nIrse 10 shut the window"
and she went into ths room. 1t was the
nieir OF the storm. Thu nurss had pulled
TIL nod c,o3e beside thu windows. both of
winch "ern wide open. She had removed
a kimono that the child had on and many of
the bedclothes. The little girl was lying
withthe cold air pouring in on her and sleet
coming in the window. Beside her knelt
the nurse as IL in prayer. Mrs. Marsh asked
the nurse what she meant. She says that
the nurse replied:
Your child is all right. She would
be just as well in a snowbank as she is here.
as long as her mind is in the proper con-
dition, You just lea We her TO me-"
1hc family was called in then and forced
the nurSe to close the window. Finally
she admitted tha she was a Christian
Scientist.
The next morning she was told to go.
DIR. Shaw found that the child had taken
cold in both lungs and that the measles
had gene n The child was very low.
The nurse wanted to know IL she should
come back. When Mr.. Marsh told her
that they were through with her she seemed
surprised. According to Mr.. Marsh she
e8id.
very well, YOUR child will die. Anyway
you love her too much, and God will take
her a way for that reason
Mr.. Marsh let her 60 after giving her
SIS, which sine demanded. After she had
gone they found most OF the fever powders
behind the chifonier. DR., Shaw also con-
WINGED himself that none Of the other medi-
cinrs had been given to the child. He
remained with the child all day, Yester-
day she was a trtie better, but her recovery
Is still uncertain.
The nurse. after being discharged, went
back and asked Mrs. Brown II she was going
to follow the matter up
Il think l had better 20 away. for few
days. che said when she was leaving.
Mrs. Brown did not know what she meant.
According to Mrs. Brown. the woman had a
diploma showing she had been graduated
from the Post Graduate Hospital i've years