Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-08
BIGGEST CLASS
Get DIPLOMAS.
Annual Commencement Ex-
ercises of Perth Amboy City
Hospital Held Last Night.
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM
Dr.. Gordon Dickinson Gives
Interesting Address About
OIden Time Institutions.


City Hospital were graduated with
entertaining and attractive COM
mencement exercises in Simpson M.
E. church last night. They were
the Misses Bessie Blair, Anna Olson,
Agnes M. Duff, Clara c. Petersen and
Marie Nielsen. Following the eXeT-
clses, during which the presentation
of diplomas and gifts took place,
there was a delightful dance In hon
or of the graduates at the Raritan
Yacht Club house.
DIR. Dickinson Addresses.
Dr. Gordon Dickinson, of Jersey
City, who Is chief surgeon of hos
pitfalls in Hudson county and presi-
dent of the New Jersey tuberculosis
Society, made the address of the ev-
ening. He spoke concerning hos
pitfalls and hospital work. President
South r. Harrington, of the Hospital
Association, presided at the eXer-
cises and gave a talk on the institu-
ton and the proposed nurses home.
An excellent musical program was
carried out In which Harry Wash
burn and Miss Olive Archer, vocal
lists, featured. The Sunday school
orchestra of the Simpson M. f.
church rendered several pleasing Sc
lections. Miss Augusta NJ. Earring
ton accompanied on the piano and
Mrs. w. H. Hesser, presided at the
organ.
The presiding officer, speakers and
others who took an active part in the
exercises, including all of the grad
yates of the city hospital, occupied
places in the choir loft, behind a
row of potted plants. In front sat
Messrs. Harrington and Dickinson.
Behind them and to the right sat
the five members of the graduating
class and on their left and in the
rear were other graduates of the in
stitution, members Of the medical
staff of the hospital and Superin-
tendent Beatrice M. Bamber. The
class members wore blue striped uni
forms and the other graduates were
dressed in white. All of the nurses
wore small white caps. The mem
bers of the medical staff are DR.. ].
c. Wilson, DR.. f. G. Henry, DR..
William E. Ramsay, DR.. ]. L. Lund,
DR.. F. w. Kitchel, DR.. M. s. Mein-
zer, DR.. G. w. Tyrrell and DR.. c. |,
Silk.
The program opened with March
Militaire" by the Sunday School or
chestra. In the absence of Or. W.
E. Palmer, Rev c. w. Hansen, pas
tor of the Danish M e. church, lead
the assemblage in prayer In the
first number of the musical program,
Harry Washburn rendered two bass
solos, (a) "Bedouin Love Song, by
Pinsuti, and (b) "Luyictus," by
HUM.
Tells About Hospitals.
DR.. Dickinson gave an address on
hospitals from earlier times up to
the present and spoke of the value
of nurses. He said in olden times
there were no hospitals and the mat
ter of treatment was but an expert
ment. The first hospitals so-called,
were made up by having patients out
doors in public places where pass
ers-by might stop and prescribe If
they happened to know of a remedy
for certain ailment, he said. Lat
er, DR.. Dickinson related, came the
closed and dangerous hospital in
which patients were bottled up In
air-tight rooms and many died as
result. The speaker maintained
the War of Rebellion did more for
humanity than anything else in his
tory of hospital work, for 1t taught
the lesson that persons should not
be confined IN alright rooms, but
in well ventilated and light places.
The physician said he admired the
type of womanhood brought out
through hospital training. He de-
clared nurses were usually the high
est type of woman. He spoke of
their many good points and referred
briefly to the hard training school
they went through.
Diplomas Are Presented.
Miss Olive Archer, a sweet-voiced
vocalist, next entertained with So
prano solos-(a) May Morning
and (b) a Norwegian echo song.
DR.. M s. Meinzer next presented
diplomas to members of the gradu-
ating class. He spoke on hospital
work and lauded the nurses. He
said the first training school for
nurses was started in 1872 in Belle
vue hospital and that now there
were thousands of them. He main
tanned there were $4,000 pupil
nurses and 5000 graduates a year
and he declared more were needed.
The physician touched on the varl-
GUS kinds Of nurses for special work
and emphasized the value Of pub
lie school nurses to care for children
in public schools. He said where
such were employed there was min
imum of tardiness and less communi
cable diseases.
Miss Archer and Mr.. Washburn
next rendered a duet, Come With
Me-" by Campana. S. r. Harrington
concluded the speech-making with a
talk on the progress of hospital work
In this city and afterwards present
ed the graduating nurses with class
pins and with the assistance Of DR..
Dickinson handed them bouquets
and other gifts from relatives and
friends.
President Harrington Speaks.
Mr.. Harrington said 1t was the
seventh commencement of the hos
pital and 1t was the seventh time he
served with the participants. He
declared that during the existence of
the institution more than 5000 pa
tients had been housed and cared
for, that seventy-fve per cent of that
number were surgical cases and sew
enty-five per cent we're treated abso-
lutely free OF charge. The speaker
declared the medical stan was prac-
tically the same as during the first
year and he referred to DR.. J. G..
Wilson as the dean Of the stan. He
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