The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-01
TO TRAIN HOSPITALS
Girls From 10 to 35 Years of Age Are
Sought in This Most Important of
Woman's Work to Aid in Winning
War Wide Crusade On.

The Woman s Committee Of the
County Council Of Defense today be-
gan the work of recruiting young
women for the students nurses reserve |
and it is expected that in the next
two weeks somewhere between twenty |
five and fifty young women in Kenosha
will respond to the call for this gov
eminent service. The Kenosha quota
is fixed at twenty-five but the mem
bers of the Woman's Committee are
hopeful that at least fifty young women
in Kenosha will respond to the cali.
The call is to young women between
the ages of nineteen and thirty-fve
years who promise to hold them
selves in readiness to take training
whenever they are offered an assign
ment in training school, up to April
1, 1919 'funless in the meantime they
have entered other government war
service" The recruiting station is to
be on Market Square and will be open
every day from 10000 to 1900 in the
morning, 300 to 600 in the afternoon
and 700 to 500 in the evening. The
Importance of this work, which is es-
pecially woman Is work, cannot be over
estimated. The terms of training will
run from two to three years but the
important fact is, that as soon as a
student nurse enters training in a hos
pital she releases some one higher
up in the profession for service
at the front.
The government is asking woman S
committees Of the Council Of Defense
throughout the nation, to supply the
twenty-five hundred student nurses it
now needs. This means that every
county and local division must feel
its responsibility and that every
member of the Woman S Committee
though she cannot go herself, must nse
her influence to assist in securing
a qualified candidate.
Mrs Otis L. Trenary, chairman Of
speakers for the Woman's Committee,
has a corps of speakers ready for the
campaign to enroll nurses.
TO obtain admittance to military
hospital young woman must have
attained the age Of twenty-onc years.
All students below that age will be
assigned to civilian hospital when
they enroll The age limitation has
Ebeen set at nineteen, although girls
eighteen years DID, who have complet-
ed high school course, are eligible.
These students will be stationed at
the local hospitals.
The committee ON nursing of the
National Council of Defense, which is
promoting the drive, points out the
advantages offered by the course III
q communication issued on Saturday:
''The training itself is quite varied
and provides chance to test one S
self out along many lines When The
course of training is completed there
are large number of attractive and
promising fields of work to choose
from, according to the interest AMI
ability of the student. If woman is
interested chiefly in administrative and
educational work, she may start as a
head nurse or supervisor IN hospital
as instructor, superintendent of the
hospital or training school, or specialist
in one of the many branches of scien-
tifc and technical work One may IN
,terest herself especially in hospitals
for those afflicted with contagious, men
ltal, surgical or obstetrical diseases.
Still again one may prefer to enter
the army or navy service, or to take
up hospital work in mission fields or
In frontier settlements.
"When the war is over there will
be many openings for nursing service
in the devastated countries of Europe.
Anyone interested primarily in people
will find an almost unlimited scope
in some of the many forms of public
health work and social welfare.
School nursing is another new field.
Industrial welfare work in factories,
mines and department stores is devol-
oping rapidlyy particularly at present
in munition factories Social service
work IN hospitals and dispensaries Is
another attractive field.
s'The salaries of nursing work COM
pare very favorably with the salaries
of other trained women. Opportuni-
ties for advancement are many and
steadily increasing. A woman Of real
ability has better opportunity of