The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-15
PHILANTHROPIC WORK OF
 GRADUATE NURSES.

The Graduate Nurses association of Birmingham held their annual meeting at the Hlllman hospital the last week, 1t was gratifying to note the number of new members enrolled ando the prosperous condition of the association.
 Thanks are due the many friends of the association for contributions received during the year for district work and the interest they have shown in many ways.
 The thanks of the association are also due Mrs. T. G. Bush for the reception given to the Graduate Nurses association and friends of district work.
 Papers were read during the year on the following subjects;
 District Nursing
 History of Nursing
 Life of Florence Nightingale
 History of Anaesthesla."
 History of Surgery"
 ''Typhoid Fever and Its Nursing"
 The following new officers were elected;
 President, Miss Stay; first vice presi- dent Miss Daniwood; second vice presi dent Miss Zurken. Miss Helen Mclean was reelected secretary and treasurer. Miss Nichols was elected corresponding secretary.
 The membership committee is as fol- lows: Miss Blair Miss Taylor, M"'a Denny.
 Ways and means committee: Miss Phaus, Miss Richardspn, Miss Armstrong
 To revise constitution and bylaws; Miss Hamilton, Miss Phaus, Miss Walker.
 Sick committee: Miss Barry, Miss Washington. Miss Eula Smith.
 Before the meeting adjourned Miss Daniwood offered the following:
 We have now been organized three years. From a small organization we have now 53 members. Instead of its being a question as to whether or not we can succeed, every nurse wno comes to Birmingham, if she expects to accom- pllsh much and have any professional l standing with the people or physicians of this community, she must become member. "Instead of depending on personal and i professional friends for calls, we now have a registry that is being more and more patronized, and if a new nurse is being employed by a family or physician the question asked is: Are you on the
 
 registry? We have by our efforts raised the standard of professional work until the incompetent nurse is at last being elim- mated. After the organization was assured as success, it then became necessary to have some definite work to do, and about 1 May Il, 1906, Miss Hamilton suggested l that we put a district nurse in the field. | The enterprise seemed a large one, the | fact that no other single association in the south had done anything in this line made many feel that it would be impos- sble. By much planning, organizing aux Hilary societies, interesting the different charity organizations in the enterprise We were enabled to employ a. district nurse in November, 1906. She started to work in i December of the same year. Now we ! have two district nurses. white and l one colored. who are accomplishing great good for the poor of our city. While this has been done under the auspices Of the Nurses associa tion, we 1 all know that to Miss HamL1 on the great 1 CT part of the credit should be given. ''To accomplish anything is well, but | to be the leader in and do the greater part of the planning and work in bringing 1 about such an organization as We have now is indeed very well.
 From the prominence given to the importance of the organization of the nurses in other cities. and the placing of district nurses in the field by such organt- zation, since this has been accomplished l in Birmingham makes us feel more keenly the credit due Miss Hamilton for the work she has originated and carried out. Realizing the great efforts that our re- tiring president has made for the Nurses association, and how much of what we have accomplished has been due to her | untiring efforts, constant thought and | ..s.zpz.ss ssszEsJ azs a.zsssss sz.s..sSzsl