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
pital 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
a hospital is from $500 to $1,000 a year
| a bed. 1.-THE Memorial hospital has 30
| beds. which would call for the enpendl-
ture of from SIS, 600 TO $4,000 yearly :.
/ We want not only to be able to have 1t
to pay each year, but we want to de-
Iyelop 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 larger number and more desirable
applicants are seeking training, that they
are coming from better homes and with
better education. 1t is handicap, she
i added, to enter the school without a high
school education. Without n hospital
there would be no trained nurses, and
, without the doctors and nurses hos
pital would not function; they work to
gether side by side TO care for the sick
1 The ideal training school is TO have {
special instructor, but that requires
money The rudiments used TO be taught
but now l6 studies have to be taken up
( and she mentioned some of the subjects
which are included. The training schoo
must be recognized as an educational fec
q tor in the community as well as an.
! school where tuition is paid. To tram
p nurse for three years costs from 81 .0us
f to $4,000 From Oct. 1 to June / the;
: attend an average of three classes wee
and during the three years have from 81
to $50 periods of class work.
!. We shall Introduce as soon as possible
II said Miss Brian, the elght-hour system
e With the studies and the arduOus wor
= eight hours should be the limit. III
u women do not want the legislature
&c control them. but want to adopt the sy'
n tenn in hospitals voluntarily In Cal
N | foPnia the legislature has enacted q
d eight-hour law.
4. Another thing which we want to do f.
ne The safety of the patients Is TO inaugural
err q fire drill so that each nurse Will kno
IN what she should do IN such an elnefgeilc
IL Miss Brian spoke in apDreclatlye tern
of the nurses home, the gift OF Mr.. al
Mrs. George l.. Durham. which IS TO
built in the spring. and outlined DrIei
the plans of the building, which she q
| clared would help in the health OF g
nurses. the work of the nurses and in Z
IL general service that everyone would
We at the hospital.
~ The health activities of the town. we
~ NOT ignored in the talk While it IS II
~ POSSIBLE for the superintendent of nc
10 10 pital to be active in outside interests, 5
:. aid one should have a sympatheue Il
~ dprstanding and interest IN ah health I
~, tivities of the community, out IL y
ne nossibIe for the superintendent 10 orga
= re the health activities. -,
m With lines of communication as IN
lare. the hospital should draw all possit
ild rom the outside. and the LADIES' ~
he vonId be factor in bringing tins abe
he ca that there would be an increase IN I
ms ize Of the hospital and the number
natients cared for.
lte To bring about all these things nee
ed cooperation and interest q me pe"1'
BRO was the declaration of MISS BRIAN IN "a
lid NC.