The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-05-14
A CALL TO THE YOUNG
WOMEN OF MARYLAND
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE CEN
TENARY BEING CELEBRATED
IN BALTIMORE THIS WEEK.
Under The Auspices OF The Maryian
State Association OF Graduate
Nurses.
GRADUATE NURSES ARE ALL
HELPING.

/ derful contribution toward allev1atlne
| suffering by her nursing and her revo
| lutionizing Of the care Of the sick, the
Maryland State Association Of Grad
uate Nurses, in the celebration this
week of the centenary Of this remark
able woman is hoping to stir up such
interest throughout the state in the
nursing profession as will react to-
ward increasing the number of young
women who will take up this profess
sion as their life work. Wednesday,
May 18th, is the anniversary of Flor
ence Nightingale's birth and 1t Is on
this date that the celebration is to
take place. 1t will be held in Balti-
+ more and representatives of the nurs.
| ing profession In every county of the
state as well as OF the various nursing
| institutions of the city will participate.
Throughout the counties the super
intendents Of the hospitals and train
| ing schools, are taking keen interest
| in the celebration and in the effort to
pay fitting tribute to the memory Of
the first trained nurse" while at the
same time bringing home to the young
women of their neighborhoods the ad-
vantages as well as the opportunity
for real service to humanity to be
found in nursing.
The Graduate Nurses Association
has sent out invitations very general
ly for the celebration which takes
place in the Associate Congregational
Church, Preston street and Maryland
avenue. DIR. William H. Welch will
preside, DR. Howard A. Kelly will
make the address and other members
of the Medical and Chirurgical Facul.
ty Of Maryland are to participate, in
addition to the members of the nurses
organizations The church is to be
decorated for the occasion, and fea-
ture of the observance will be the
showing of lantern pictures of scenes
and incidents in the life OF Florence
Nightingale and in the life and duties
Of nurses.
In charge Of the arrangements is
committee representing the Nurses
Association, the officers of which are:
Miss q. M. Lawler. of Johns Hopkins
Hospital president; Miss Jane E
Nash, Church Home and Infirmary
and Miss Eleanor Evans, Union Prot
estant Infirmary, vice presidents: Miss
Sarah F. Martin, secretary, and Miss
Bernice v. Conner, treasurer.
The graduating classes-the grad
uates-the Public Health Nurses
Army Nurses and as many other nurs.
Ing groups as we may have from the
schools of nursing throughout the
state will attend in uniform and form
In procession, which will be one OF
the most interesting features of the
celebration.
The idea Of those in charge of the
arrangements for the celebration is
that both the training schools and the
nursing organizations need primarily
better public understanding OF their
work. The training schools through
out Maryland have second vital in
terest which is particularly important
at the present time-which is to bring
before the public Nursing as Pro
fession", and to urge young women to
see the opportunities in the field of
nursing.
1t is felt that the returns from the
Nightingale centenary can scarcely
fail to be considerable, both In the
shape of a public better informed con-
corning the work of Schools of Nurs-
ing and Nursing organizations, and
therefore more responsive to appeals
for larger numbers of desirable re-
cruits to the training schools.
Florence Nightingale was born at
Florence Italy. At the age of thirty
two she began her nursing career,
studying hospitals and nursing meth
DDS in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Belgium and Italy, and was appointed
superintendent of private hospital in
London in 1853. At the outbreak of
the Crimean War she was selected by
Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War,
to superintend hospitals at the front.
In October, 1854, she went to the
Crimea taking charge of 38 nurses. In
two months she had transformed the
hospital. secured supplies, established
sanitation, and reduced the death.
rate from forty-two to two per cent.
She returned to England at the end
of the war, July, 1856"
It was from this beginning that
Florence Nightingale went forward to
her wonderful life of organization and
teaching which finds its ultimate fruit
In the day to day nursing in the hos
pitfalls and sick rooms of the world to-
day; and has its echo In the praises
and blessings which the countless
number Of sufferers as well as the
soldiers of the Wars of more modern
times shower upon the followers of the
Lady with lamp"
She died in 1910, at the age of nine
ty years.
Honor to those whose words or deeds
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