The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-02
NURSES BODY IS
SAVED FROM The
DISSECTING TABLE
Pathetic Story of Penniless
Orphan Girl Who Died a
Martyr to Her Duty.

New Haven, May miss Grace
Jeal. the graduate nurse Not L.
Dwight, who died of scarlet fever
at Grace Hospital Saturday evening,
was buried yesterday in Evergreen
cemetery, the Rev. w. w. McLane
officiating at the single service which
was held at the grave. There was
a large attendance of nurses and at
taches of Grace hospital.
The case of Miss Jea1 is most pa
thetic. She was an orphan and came
to New Haven to study to become
nurse and sought instruction at Grace
hospital. She was graduated from
that institution last June Business
did not come to the young woman
in such q manner as to afford her a
comfortable living and from the time
of her graduation she suffered many
hardships. Without parents or close
relatives and with only few frlends
that she made during her residence In
New Haven, the young woman had
hard struggle to get along.
The need of money compelled her
to take the case which was the d.
rect cause of her death A phys1-
street house where there, was a bad
case of carIet fever. She was not
sent there by the authorities OF
Grace hospital as reported. AS a
matter Of fact, Miss Jeal never was
employed at Grace hospital after her
When she fell i'll of scarlet fever
contracted in the performance OF her
duty she was without funds. practi,
cally destitute Of clothing and mad
no place to go. Rather than see
the Young woman Improperly cared
for. the directing heads of Grace hos
pftal agreed to let the i'll nurse into
that institution, she being taken to
an isolated part of the building and
an outside nurse called in to care for
her.
Although the hospitals do not make
it a practice of admitting those SUI
| fering from contagious diseases an ex-
ception was made Of this case and the
action of the Grace hospital authorl-
ties is amply defended when one
reads of the facts in this distressful
case. Decency Christianity and res
pect for a coworker would have made
any other course unjust and cruel.
The authorities at Grace hospital
tives of the deceased, but were un-
able to do so before the burial, which
under the law. had to be made within
, 36 hours It Is said that Miss Jeal
had relatives in Rome. n. Y, and an
| effort is being made to communf-
cate with them.
Had II not been for the interest
that was taken in the girl at Grace
hospital her body would have been
turned over to the town unclaimed,
the experimental rooms at the Yale
Medical school, The hoApital would
not stand for. such treatment and
through its humane offices a grave
was purchased for the dead nurse and
also vouched for the payment of the
funeral expenses In addition, nurses
raised an amount sufficient to buy
uniform for the girl which served the
purposes of a shroud. The outside
nurse who was called in to care for
the scarlet fever victim will also be
paid by charitable effort
In such destitute condition was the
nurse at the time of her death that
even the trunk at her boarding house
which contained few valueless eff
fects, was being held for the nom
payment of room rent.
The Grace hospital authorities re-
greet keenly that they should be rep
resented as forcing the woman to as
sumo q precarious duty, the truth be-
ing that she had no connection with
the institution at all except as a
graduate of its school for nurses.
At the grave DR.. McLane spoke
most feehngly of the sad end Of this
brave young woman of 26, who gave
aid to others at the risk of her own
life, and herself lived long in distress
and misery.