The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-26
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Head of Nurse Corps.


of Washington as head of the new Womans Nurse
Corps of the navy This corps which authorized
by the last congress, is similar that which did
such effective work during the Spanish-Amercan war
in hospitals and on the Relief and its permanent
establishment in the navy is of great graft
fcation to the medical officers of that service who
realize that there many times in peace and war
when the hand of woman especially trained wo-
man nurse is indispensable to the sick and wounded
Although Miss Hasson was notified OF her appoint
ment only few days ago, she is already installed IN
a newly created division of the bureau of medicine
and surgery at the navy department. and at the naval
medical school and has begun preparations for a
series of examinations of candidates for eligibility
to the corps These examinations will be held about
September 80, and twenty young women will be
selected to take preliminary course at the naval
medical hospital school After taking the there
for six months, they will again be examined and
those who pass will be sent to one of the eighteen
naval medical hospitals on the coasts of the United
States From time to time thereafter other examina-
will number about hundred and fifty highly trained
women nurses who will be under the command of the
surgeon general and prepared for any sort OF duty
Several of these women will be sent to the United
States naval hospitals in Yokohama, the Philippines
and Honolulu, while others will be stationed in the
United States.
Miss Hassons selection to head the new corps IS
wholly due to her record of exceptional merit and
almost lifetime spent in the of the sick. Her
record during the Spanish American war and since
that time is equaed by few other women in the
annals of the department. and so strlk1ngly
did she perform her duties during that time that
hers was practically the only name considered in
the appointment of head for the Woman's Nurse
Corps
Although a Baltimorean by birth, Miss Hasson
has since her early childhood been only short time
in any one city, her family for generations has
been connected with the army and was constantly
travelling. In 1895 she graduated from the Con-
necticut training school for nurses and until the out
break of the she stationed at several hosp-
tails in New York For more than three years she
served in the war; first in the camps in this country
and later on the hospital ship Relief, in Cuba and
Porto Rico After the close of the she was
sent to the Philippines where she remained for two
years at the First Reserve hospital in Manila and at
a hospital in Luzon Since that time she has been
gagged in private nursing Her army training has
made her enthusiastic the prospect of building
up a nurse corps for the navy. She is a great be-
lever in the efficiency of women nurses even on
the field of battle and, although she is extremely
reticent concerning her record officers who served
her in the tell that many American soldiers
owe their lives to her and perseverance. At
present she is the highest paid woman in the navy de-
partment, her salary being $1,000 year. Before
her appointment she compelled to take rigorous
examination at the hands of board of surgeons
and her high marks demonstrate that she is fully
capable of bringing the corps to the highest
state of efficiency.
An unusual feature of Miss Hasson's genealogy
is the fact that relatives of hers have served in
practically every war which has been undertaken
by the United States. A great-great- grandfather
on her mothers side was one of those who fought