The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-12-21

tribute to the community, rendering SER
vices many times for which they receive
no remuneration, and she urged that all
take cogniZance of that fact.
Each department Of service must have
an effective overlapping with other de-
partments of service.
Touching on the financial side of hos
pltal work, the speaker said practically
every hospital in the United States is
handicapped by financial stringency. The
average cost of carrying on the work of
hospital is from $500 to 81 100 year
a bed. THE Memorial hospital has 80
| beds. which would call for the enpendi-
ture of from $4,000 10 $4,000 yearly.
| We want, not only TO be able to have it
| to pay each year, but we want TO de-
velop each year. Miss Brian told of
some changes in methods which doubtless
| Will mean more in the way Of financial
receipts to the local institution yet will
not lessen the service rendered the pa
| tients.
| In speaking of the training school for
/ nurses. she called attention to the fact
/ that a larger number and more desirable
/ Applicants are seeking training, that they
are coming from better homes and with
] a better education. lit is q handicap, she
| added. TO enter the school without high
school education. Without hospital
there would be no trained nurses, and
without the doctors and nurses a hos
pital would not function; they work to-
gether side by side TO care for the sick
The ideal training school is TO have q
money. The rudiments used to be taught
but now rs studies have to be taken up
! and she mentioned some of the subjects
which are included. The training sehoo
must be recognized as an educational fac
/ tor IN the community as Well as ans
, school where tuition is paid. To train {
nurse for three years costs from 81 ,JOt
{ to $4,000. From Oct. l to June j they
] attend an average of three classes weel
and during the three years have from 3322'
to $50 periods of class work.
We shall Introduce as soon as possible
! said Miss Brian, the elght-hour system
With the studies and the arduous w0rl
5 eight hours should be the limit. TIL
! women do not want the legislature {
+ control them, but want to adopt the sys
! tenn in hospitals voluntarily. In Cal
= forna the legislature has enacted a
d | eight-hour law.
!. Another thing which we want to do 70
e he safety of the patients is 70 inaugural
II a fire drill so that each nurse will kno'
II what she should do in such an emergency
i Miss Brian spoke in appreciatiye term
Of tho nurses home, the gift OF Mr.. an
Mrs George l.. Durham, which Is To |
built IN the spring. and outlined brIeti
the plans of the building. which she d
clared would help in the health OF q
nurses. the work of the nurses and IN u
+ general service that everyone would g
-e at the hospital.
\ The health activities of the town WEI
, not ignored in the talk. While It IS N
n possible for the superintendent OF no
r. pital to be active in outside interests. 81
!, aid one should have sympathetlc III
= derstanding and interest in atl health q
- tivities of the community. but It IS III
= possible for the superintendent TO orgal
= lie the health activities.
n With lines of communication as the
are the hospital should draw all possib
"a rom the outside. and the Ladies a
nc would be a factor in bringing this abo,l
le SO that there would be an increase IN y
as ,ize of the hosnital and the number
natientS cared for.
te To bring about all these things nee,
I'd cooperation and interest Of the peopl
70 was the declaration of Miss Brian IN clio
81 'ng