Evening star., 1939-07-09
Miss Duuser Directs Nurses
In Keeping Navy Healthy
Corps Superintendent
Saw Service
Overseas
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.
Tops in her unique nursing field,
ashore or afloat, is Miss Sue Dauser,
R. N, superintendent of the Wom-
ems Nurse Corps, U. S. Navy.
Uncle Sans doughty sailors and
Marine Corps men can hold their
own with the best of 'em" in any
port Of the United States or the
world around when they are physi-
cally fit. But when injury befalls
them or sickness lays them low, they
are grateful for the skilled ministra-
tions OF the Women's Navy Nurse
Corps. Authorized by act of Con-
greSs in 1908, these Florence Night
lngales of the sea, under the direc-
ton OF the Navy's medical depart
ment, are specifically charged with
the responsibility for the care of the
sick and injured of the Navy and
Marine Corps.
From her Office headquarters in
room 1904 of the Bureau of Surgery,
the Navy Building, on Constitution
avenue, Miss Dauser directs the
corps of more than 440 Navy nurses
who today constitute its personnel.
Teach Hospital Corps Men.
This means" she said. that
wherever there is a Navy nurse
throughout the United States, it's
tropical stations and insular posses
sions, she is either caring for the
critically ill, giving public welfare
instruction to native women or
teaching and demonstrating nursing
methods to the some 4600 Hospital
Corps men who will later be re-
Sponsible for the nursing care of
those who need medical or surgical
| care upon the vessels of our Navy"
Women Navy nurses are assigned
to base hospitals and hospital ships,
but not to Navy vessels.
The sick and injured on Navy YES
sells are cared for by the men of the
Hospital Corps. Therefore" Miss
Dauser emphasizes, their care in
time of emergency and illness de-
pends on the skill and pains with
which the Hospital Corps men have
been instructed by the women's
corps of Navy nurses"
Tact dignity and executive abil-
| ltv as we'll as nursing skill" Miss
DauSer amplifies, 'are necessary for
the success of the Women's Navy
Nurse Corps. Of especial Importance
are these qualifications in those as
signed to our tropical stations and
1nSular possessions in Guam. Samoa.
HAWAII, Guantanamo Bay. Cuba.
the Panama Canal Zone and the
/ Philippines, where the prestige of
our Government IN many instances
depends upon the maintenance of
mutual goodwill and understanding
upon the part of each and every one
of its representatives.
Spread Gospel of Sanitation.
In the Navy schools of nursing in
Guam and Samoa, members of the
Women's Navy Nurse Corps. in addi-
ton to their own nursing duties, are
/ responsible for the instruction and
supervision of the native women of
these islands, who are made adiuncts
OF our Government public welfare
policy. Not only do they give them
/ special training in midwifery, but
by actual demonstration they help
them to spread the gospel of clean
llnesS and sanitation among their
/ own people. AS result of the CO.
operation that is thus being
achieved, smallpox and typhoid
and many other public health
menaces are being greatly minimized
/ among native peoples in addition to
the vast improvement of their health
standards.
Members of the Women's NAVY
Nurse Corps also are assigned to
duty as instructors in the Hospital
Corps Training Schools for Men
which are maintained at San Diego
Calf, and at Norfolk, Va. After
the completion of this course. the
hospital corps men are detailed for
duty at one of the several large
naval hospitals for further practical
work and the continuance of their
theoretical instruction.
Twelve nurses from the women's
corps are attached to the U. S. s
Relief, assigned to the Pacific Battle
Fleet. The only hospital ship built
as such from the keel up, it has a
dubbed capacity, the finest operat-
ing room af1oat. and with its X-rav
! ana laboratory equipment, spacious
eye, ear and throat departments, It
Is as Well-equipped as any first-class
shore hospital.
Navy nurses from the Women's
Corps are likewise assigned to naval
transports on which the personnel
OF the Navy is being transferred
from coast to coast through the
Panama Canal.
Served Overseas in War.
The quiet-voiced woman execu-
tive, who under the direction of
DR.. Dallas Sutton. assistant to
Surg. Gen. Ross Mcintyre, has mo-
tivation over the Women's Corps,
earned her chevrons in grim nurs-
ing duty with troops overseas dur
ing the World War.
Born in Orange County, Southern
California, and graduate of the
Fullerton High School, Miss Dauser
was student at Leland Stanford
University for two years previous
to her training in and graduation
from the Nurses Training School
of the California Hospital at Los
Angeles. Here she was on duty as
surgical nurse until she enlisted
in one of the Red Cross units Or
ganized for foreign service. when
the United States entered the Eu-
ropean conflict in 1916
Assigned almost Immediately to
hocoito1 d,1tv OF tho pbi1o So1pI,io