New Britain herald., 1918-09-18


 sweaters.
 . pairs of socks.
 undershirts.
 To finish the allotm ent of the local chapter which is now far from com pletion it is necessary that more Wo- men take up the work There are several hundred refugee cut garments to be sewod. This work may be done at the rooms of tho local chap ter or at home
 Milan-One of the many Italian women of prominence now co-operat- ing with the American Red Cross in it's work in Italy is Signora Sita Meyer Camperio of Milan. At the present time S7Snora Camperio is particularly interested in the establishment Of Creches, or nurseries, for the children of Lombardy whose mothers are at work in tho rice fields. Two of these lIindergartens or nurseries in the rice district about Milan now in running order are entirely under the direction of this energetic Milanese, who has personally planned and looked fter the smallest details in connection with them-the uniform of the women in charge, the furnishing and decora ton of the schoOlrooms. the food, play and dress of the children. Twice each week and som etimes ofteHer she visits them to see that they are kept up to the high standard she has set.
 It was Signora Camperio who first sOwed the seed that bore fruit in the training and organization of Red Cross nurses in Italy, ad it was through her untiring efforts and unflagging ethu- siasm that the first school for the pur- pose of training young women of Italy for this profession was instituted as late as in 1908 in Milan. The idea first came to her in 1904 when, a young wife, she lay ill in an English hospital waited upon by an English Red Cross nurse. Grateful for the kind and efficient care she received at the hands of this young woman, Sig nora CampeTio questioned her as to her training. The nurse told her of the hospital nursing course she had taken and 9Xpla ined that she was also a Red Cross" nurse whose duty it was in times of war to administer to the wounded on the battlefield and in times of disaster to aid the injured
 SignOra Camperio listened with growing interest. It was then that the plan for som ething of the same wind for her own country came to her. Returningto Milan she interested a few few friends, and a small class was who received lessons in anatomy and banda ging, or a First Aid" course from pr. Scipione Losio, a colonel of the Italian Red Cross, who volunteered 1o3 they were acquiring the theory but not the practice most necessary in a training of this kind, Signor Camperio in 1906 made a trip to Paris to visit institutions in France where such nursing was taught The she visited the hopital at Ateuil, considered the most modern of its kind. where nurses received instruction and volunteers from the outside were taken in. After an inspection of several other institu- tions, including the Nurses School at Plaisance under Mile. Genin. who has since been decorated in the present war. SignOra Campero retuned to Italy more than ever imbucd with the idea of a nurses training school for her countryWOm to he established at Milan. Interesting Conte della Somaglia, then ce-president now President of the Italian Red Cross, and other influential citizens of Milan, a committee with Dr. F. Grandi at it's head was formed to take up plans for the new school.
 Just at this time F'ilppo Campero, the brOther-in-law of Signora Cam perio, returned to Italy from Man churla, where he had been military attache to Russia during the Russo Japanese war, and where he had been instrumental in organizing 5000 Rus sian nurses for service with the troops. He willingly and enthusiastically lent his aid to hts sister plan for the or ganization of Red Cross nurses in Italy and imm ediately gave a series of lectures to interest the people III the new project This lecture tour brought them to Rome, where the queen mother granting Signora Cam perio an interview, congratulated her on the splendid work and herself do- mated five hundred lire toward the founding of the school at Milan.
 With sufficient funds at length se- cured and the interest of the people aroused Signora Camperio made a second trip to Paris taking with her the woman directress whom she had selected to be in charge of the new