The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-06-22
TRAINED NURSES IN ruRk,x

, IL was DiMcult At First to Get A.
Girls for the Work.
DR.. Thomas Specs Carrinston ~.
founder Of the first training schoo, -.
nurses In Marsovan. Turkey, who !.
about to return to found ,not,..
jchool In Constantinople, tells an inter
estfng story Of the first girl to tah.
up the work Of nursing, says the Nev
York Times. She was the nior.o"
and 1t was through her example th..
other girls came and the work. q pro..
innovation In the far east. was ma.
possible.
Lusaper was the girls name. ma
she was young Armenian, belsn9,n,
to a wealthy family. Nurses were noos
ell III the hospital, native women wor,.
be invaluable, and DR.. Carrinoton
urged Lusaper to enter the bosnito,
The objections offered by the oir1..
family were much the same IA tbos.
made by the families of Amer;con.
girls when they first took I'd cuisines.
life.
In Lusaper's case the first obIect,o,
was that the work was mental, tbera.
fore degrading, and a girl doing anv.
thing Of the kind would not find
husband, disgrace and a calam,tr
for a girl in Turkey.
Lusaper having passed much finn.
around the hospital reading to and %.
sisting the patients in various wavs
concluded to give herself to the worL
But even then she was not to no d.
pended upon. On every visit home nros.
sure was brought to bear upon her end
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 sbe
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 Lusaper.
case was that after she had begun the
hospital work and was earning a good
salary her family lost a 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 to Ave years since the training
school in Marsovan was started, and
the results have shown the wisdom
Of the step. Only girls who have been
educated and speak English are admit
ted to the training school. These are
conscientious and Trustworthy and dis
prove the general opinion that the east.
ern woman Is helpless ana frivolous.
Since the school opened more gi.a
have applied for admittance than
could be accommodated and the work
has only been limited by the money
and accommodations. Girls have been
sent from other hospitals-there are
four under American supervision In
Turkey-and from the girls schools
where a trained nurse in attendance
il invaluable.
Women in Turkey are greatly In
need of medical attention and nursing.
The youthfulness Of the child wives
the large families, lack of proper care
In illness, lack of cleanliness, and
proper sanitary conditions make them
often terrible sufferers. Their seelu
sion and refusal to be attended by men
physicians has made their cases prac-
tically hopeless.
Native-trained nurses mean revo-
luton in the lives of the women. The
nurses give not only care in illnesa.
but disseminate knowledge concerning
sanitary conditions, which Is greatly
NEEDED in land where annually 30 per
cent of the children died from improper
diet and conditions.
Dr. Carrington's visit to this coun-
try was to raise money for the Con
stantinople Training School. From
that city a good school would be able
to send nurses to the whole country.
The work also provides employment
for eastern girls which, now that It y
understood, they are glad to under
take. The educated girls have, many
of them, become teachers heretofore
In whatever little village they settle
after leaving school, they gather mo
children together and form snaIl cen
ters of civilization, and do much gocd
which, as trained nurses, they VIII D
able to increase.
Still Smiling.