New-York tribune., 1918-09-20
Student Nurses
Begin Training
At Army Camps
Young Women Being Sent
to Twenty-Five Military
Posts for Instruction

In twenty-five United States army
camps at widely separated parts of the
country, there will arrive every few
days for the next several weeks. groups
Oh women who are going to remain
with the army either here or in France
tor the duration of the war, according
to The Associated Press. They are
student nurses members of the first
training units of the Army School of
Nursing that has been established to
help solve the problem of nursing the
sick and wounded that will be in action
by next spring.
Already more than 1000 women be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and
thirty-tive, all graduates of high
schools or colleges, have been accepted
IN this branch of the military service.
If the country's womanhood continues
to respond to the appeal for student
nurses now being sent broadcast by
the Red Cross and the womens com
mittee of the Council of National De-
fence, there need to be no fear as to
the care that will be given to our boys,
say the women leaders.
For Army of 100000
The Army School of Nursing, to-
gether with the Red Cross enrolment
of the civil hospital schools through
the United States Student Nurse Re
serve, is the answer to the great nurs-
ing question that confronted the coun-
try when it was decided to put not less
than 100000 men under arms.
Figures received here by Miss NJ.
Adelaide Nutting, professor of nursing
and health at Columbia University and
chairman of the nursing committee of
the Council of National Defence, show
that more than 1000 young women had
applied to enter the army nursing
school by September 10 and that up
ward Of 1000 actually had been en-
rolled.
The first thousand are beginning
their training by helping to take care
of casualties" in the camps to which
the training units are attached. AS
soon as they have reached suitable
stage of training they may be sent to
France if it is found necessary to sup
plement the force of graduate student
nurses there. In any event, they will
receive two years training in army
hospitals and obtain the degree of reg
istered nurse by taking the third and
last year of their course in a civil hos
ptal.
10000 Letters Received
Interest in this opportunity for
women to help in winning the war is
so widespread that nearly 10000 let
ters of inquiry have been received by
Surgeon General Gorgas.
Training units of from thirty to
forty students each have been assigned
to eighteen army camps, from Massa-
chusetts to California. Each unit has
a director, an instructor in nursing
and dietician. The students receive
everything free and in addition, an
allowance of SIS a month. A recrea
tonal director sees that they are pro-
vided with entertainment and sports
for their off duty hours, and there are
chaperons. The central headquarters
of the school is in the office of the Sur
geon General, at Washington. The
dean is Miss Annie M. Goodrich. chief
inspector of army nurses, who is as
sisted by large staff.
Including the 10000 already in act
ual service, more than $1,000 graduate
nurses have been enrolled in answer to
General Gorgas's plea for $4,000 by
January 1. If it becomes necessary to
supplement the graduate nurses abroad
with less completely trained women, it
is expected that a sufficient number of
the army nursing school students will
be ready in time