Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-06
URGENT NEED FOR
 NURSES TO ENROLL
Miss Gosling Speaks to AIumnae As
 sociation of Raekus Hospital.

The annual meeting of the Nurses Alumnae Association of the Backus hospital was held at the Nurses Home on Wednesday afternoon. with large attendance. Miss Sullivan, president of the association, presided.
 After prayer, the usual business re- ports were read, and it was voted that the graduating class of 1918 be ad- mitted into the association.
 Miss Mackenzie. spoke on the UT gent need for nurses in Red Cross work. New London county is expect ed to furnish 40 nurses before Jan uary, 1919. There are three kinds of nurses, the hospital, Red Cross and public health, and until the close of the war, the number of private nurses will, of necessity. grow less and less, as they are needed by the govern ment. That, being the case. this work will fall on the shoulders of the public health nurses. on whom there is an ever increasing demand. The New Haven Visiting Nurses Association, in cooperation with Yale university. of- fers course of nine months -four months of lectures and five of field work) which are most valuable. as extra training for any nurse who is going to place herself at the service of the Red Cross.
 Mrs. Witter K Tingley, as a dele gate to the Nurses convention recent ly held in Cleveland, then gave a most interesting resume of those meetings, stating that there has never been such responsibility and opportunity for the nursing profession. since the days of Florence Nightingale, as this world var affords now. when our govern ment is sending out a special call for volunteers.
 Miss Sullivan then introduced Miss Gosling, the speaker of the afternoon. who has just come home after doing her bit. for ten months in the hospi- tals on the eastern front, ten months cut off from any news of ArRtIea. Fra nee or England, by letter or even cable
 Miss Gosling spoke in. a delightfully."- reminiscent way, telling of life in Roumania. with side lights on weeks spent en route. in Japan. Moscok. Pe- trograd and Siberia, which latter she described as a place of great and many surprises. fertile and hich in wheat and timber lands
 Following her interesting talk. The Star Spangled Banner and Our Flag My Flag. were sung by the audience after which delicious coffee and sand wiches were served.
 Miss Gosling. speaking in the in- i terests of the Red Cross enrolment drive for nurses which began June l 3rd stated that the pioneer nurses | have had a harder experience than that which will fall to the lot of those volunteering for service from now on 1 Conditions are different: hospitals are
 better equipped. It is planned now
 to have all the big base hospitals sit
 uated in England, and the wounded men, after receiving first aid ir
 France. will be shipped at once across @the channel for treatment.
 Whether to enroll in our country's
 service for Red Cross work is mat
 ter which each nurse must decide fol
 herself So emare needed here al
 home, and Red Cross service does not
 mean necessarily going across the
 ocean. There is q big field right here
 ns well as abroad: we must back UT
 the rear of our army. It helps the
 men to realize that conditions are al
 right at home. Many nurses on tht
 western front are sitting idle. We r1''st mobilize and do our bit wherever
 called: that is the first and wholc duty Of the nursing profession