The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-03-14
French Hospitals Want Their Sis
tiers to Return.

In The excitement of the general up
h8yal caused by the crisis i'm France
much Of the significance of the extent
| Of the revolutionary measures going
into operation have escaped the notice
Of the people. 1t has been found that
The association of the parish priest
from the communal life has created
certain lacunas which are hard to fill:
| the expulsion Of historic teaching or
dars has had the effect of forcing par
ents to send their sons and daughters
abroad. The most important void re-
|sulting from the law, Mn the life of the
| French people. is now forcing its at
| enton upon the authorities.
It is found that the hospital and in
Urinary regime fails to work as of old,
he simple cause being that no ,sys-
EN- can be found to adequately re-
place that in which the nuns played
he nursing role.
According TO La Croix (Paris). the
| ity Of Alencon. for example, is entire
without proper nursing arrange
lents for the hospitals and infirmaries.
'ecently the project of the depart
nent in which Alencon is situated,
rote TO a local physician, DR.. Bau-
ouin. pointing out the serious posi-
on in which the city was placed from
ne point Of hygienic consideration.
no suggesting that the doctor should
axe such steps as would lead to the
'rnation Of a municipal! nursing
| o!pS OF women.
Now the project of a department
Tesponds in the matter Of official
'sldop and consequence, to something
same parsonage as the governor
one Of our American states. He
-o1ot therefore. have been very
ased 10 receive from the physician
d Alsncon a letter in which the real
auses Of the lamentable state of af-
ms were categorically euunciated.
Ut. Baudouin had the courage of his
Ficuons and die not mince mat
rs. He pointed out that the gov
mental authorities Of France had
.snt Systematically TO eXpel a large
" OF nurses whose experience was
meet and whose devotion in their |
,Ih OF benefcence was unexcelled. He |
erred, he said, to the hospital sis /
~ whose main duty was that of |
Isils the sick In their homes.
ne municipality las. indeed, the |
saea to act upon the principle of |
Jung the ladder, from under their |
H. Without knowing what reserves
aao TO draw upon in order to re-
age The expelled sisters, they had |
sea The convent of the Infant Jesus.
uut'es Of whose members consisted |
renewing poor women in their days
yonhnement. With them went the
, s..llnlties Of La Providence, mostly
olessed religious infirmarians
IT any wonder, asks NJ. Boudouin.
me hospitals and inf1rmaries are
llatea In numbers and see voca-
~ TO their institutes dwindling
ssys the physician: Your admins
4on is now apparently becoming
S5u.eiled at its own work. In Tndo-
- at Toulouse, at Toulon and at
IDoufg, panic-stricken at the cpl
ms o. leprosy, plague and small
+ oelore which the official nurses
Vigorously stampeded, you find
|, so, ..ioEtlcs compelled to appeal TO
rle'ous whom they had expelled
ana carry on the work of
|r,7 toi me stricken. In our neigh
- - where. thanks to God. there
nia,Iei Ieprosy nor plague, this adj
~. .-@tion has none the less had to
~, J." ''n anxiety the gap left behind
min; e expelled and prescribed COM
r,..sS' Yet you now come forward
y. ana ask for means Of filing I'D
- A very simple expedient is
you DO not widen the gap. but
|n6rs. sup 10 persecution: place no
o a,.ces in The way of chose who !
si aileo TO serve God by caring Cor =,
nc Va. ana the infrna, and then the I
viii till themselves. The
ana, arc done 10 death: the evil
IL 10y NY worked, and yet you invite
| MI, mp YOU to build Up anew. This
-" endeayor to do without aid