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The Canad ian
Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of Canada
Published by the Canadian Nurses Association
Vol. XXX
No.1
MONTREAL, QUE., JANUARY, 1934
THE CANADIAN SCENE
In the December Issue of the Journal,
there appeared the first of a series of
editorials dealing with the contemporary
nursing scene in Canada and based on
observations made during a recent tour
which took the writer into eight of the
nine provinces of the Dominion. It was
made clear at the outset. and is repeated
here, that no attempt will be made to
report upon the specific undertakings of
the various provincial nursing associa-
tions. Official channels exist through
which such information is made available
from time to time. The purpose of these
articles is, in the first place, to reflect and
to integrate the general trend of nursing
thought and, in the second place, to dis-
cuss that trend in the light of some out-
standing studies which have recently been
made of the present status of nursing.
Before proceeding further it may be wise
to review the principal points of the
initial article, and a hrief summary oi
them follows:
As Things ATe To-day
I. Nursing morale is still good. Nurses
have not lost faith in themselves nor in
their organizations.
2. Artificial distinctions between nurs-
ing groups are less apparent. Hospital
nurses, private duty nurses, public health
nurses are beginning to seek common
ground and to make common cause.
3. More attention is being paid to the
economic than to the educational aspects
of nursing. This change of emphasis is
due to the growing distress caused hy
prolonged unemployment.
(This is the second of a series of editorials dealing
with nursing conditions in Canada )
JANUARY, 1934
4. This distress is being felt more
acutely by private duty nurses than by
any other nursing group, but it affects :iIi
groups indirectly.
5. Private duty nurses admit the ne-
cessity of sharing their burden with the
other nursing groups and these groups in
turn are beginning to admit a common
responsibility.
6. Nurses generally are slowly ceasing
to look back. and are beginning to face
the necessity for constructive thinking lI1
a time of social and economic change.
Where to Begin
Nursing does not exist in a vacuum but
is part and parcel of community life. It
is, indeed, a public utility for which the
community itself is. or ought to be, re-
sponsible. Before constructive thinking
can begin, we must proceed to further
analysis of the factors which have given
rise to the existing situation and must
answer some searching questions such "is
these:
1. To what extent dre the present mal-
(l(.lJustments the result of economic forces
which are completely beyond our control?
2. To what extent are we. as nursQ,
responsible for some of these maladjust
ments?
We are at least fortunate in that we
have at our disposal an abundance of
authoritative information which sheds
considerable light on our problem. Our
own Canadian Survey is a mine. the rich-
ness of which we are just beginning to
appreciate. So far we have given more
attention to its educational findings than
to its economic implications, but from its
pages we may learn that in 1929, before
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the depression had begun to make itself
felt, unemployment was severe, especially
in the private duty field. The National
Joint Study Committee is now guiding
the various provincial committees in an
intensive study of the Survey and, there'
fore, a recapitulation of its findings need
not be made here. It might be of interest
however to note how closely these are re'
lated to those of another and even more
comprehensive study, made in the United
States, under the direction of the Com'
mittee on the Costs of Medical Care.
The Costs oj Medical Care
The Committee on the Costs of Medi,
cal Care was formed in 1927, and com'
pleted its five'year programme of study
and research in 1932. Never before, in
any other country, has such a far'reachin
study of the economics of medical care
been undertaken. On the Committee were
represented all the professions, vocations,
and institutions concerned with the pro'
motion of health and the care of illness.
Its chairman was Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
himself a physician and. at that time, Sec'
retary of the Interior under the adminis'
tration of President Hoover. Two nurses
were included in its membership: Mary
M. Roberts. editor of the American Jour'
nal of Nursing, and Elizabeth Fox, Ex'
ecutive Director of the Visiting Nurses
Association of New Haven. Miss Katha'
rine Tucker. director of the National
organization for Public Health Nursing,
prepared certain reports on nursing for
the Committee. The writer, at that time
nurse associate to the American Commit,
tee on the Grading of Nursing Schools,
gave some assistance in preparing the
chapter on nursing which forms a part of
Publication No. 27. 'The Costs of Medical
Care; this volume constitutes a summary
of the findings and recommendations of
the Committee as a whole.
Angle oj Approach
It must be kept clearly in mind that
the approach of this Committee was
purely from the economic angle. The
question under consideration was: What
are the costs of medical care? The Com'
mittee did not concern itself with educa,
tion except when, as in the case of nurs'
ing, education affected costs. It dId not
concern itself with the well,being of any
professional group. Its primary interest
was in the cost to the public of the various
medical services. of which nursing is one.
What the Committee Found
It should be remembered that these
findings apply to the year 1929 when
"prosperity" was supposedly at its height.
and that in view of this fact. their present
importance is greatly enhanced. The in'
vestigators reported that at that time the
situation was as follows:
1. The nursing needs of the commu'
nity are far from being met because, Ull'
der existing economic conditions. the
large majority of its members cannot af,
ford to pay for the nursing service they
require.
2. The supply of graduate nurses
greatly exceeds the actual though not the
þotent:al demand for their services.
3. Of 213,800 graduate nurses, 55.2
per cent are in private duty service and
similar fields. 8.8 per cent in public health
work and industrial medical service. and
36.0 per cent in institutions such as hos'
pitals and clinics.
4. Nurses, like physicians, tend to con'
centrate in the larger cities and in the
more populous states. where wealth is
most concentrated and where hospitals
are most numerous. Thus. rural commu'
nities. with no local hospitals, suffer
greatly from a shortage of trained nurses.
5. Private duty nurses are employed
only from twenty to thirty'seven weeks
per year. In some instances the number
of weeks of actual service was as low as
five.
6. In spite of widespread unemploy'
ment, graduate private duty nurses are by
no means willing to accept all types ot
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cases. Their hospital training has been
limited to practice under conditions of
rigid routine and maximum convenience.
Especially when the patient lives in the
country, in a house with few modern con-
veniences, is it difficult to find a graduate
nurse who is willing to adapt herself to
primitive living and working conditions.
In a study made in Shelby County, In-
diana, the following figures, obtained from
a registry in Indianapolis, indicate the
types of cases likely to be refused by
graduate private duty nurses:
Total nurses registered 300
Willing to take any kind of case - 86
Refusing obstetrical cases 56
Refusing contagious cases 100
Refusing mental cases 35
Refusing night duty 25
Refusing all but city calls 60
7. Although a high degree of skill,
based on training and experience, is neces-
sary to the practice of bedside nursing at
a professional level, much of the bedside
service required is of the type which can
be provided either by some member of the
family or by some person who has the
knack of making patients comfortable.
For this reason subsidia ry attendants, or
so-called prdctical nurses, who antedate
the graduate nurse histarically, offer com-
petition to the trained nurse, and through
their willingness to combine housework
and domestIc tasks with bedside care,
meet a very real need in households where
the family routine is disrupted through
the illness of the housekeeper.
Is This True of Canada?
It may well be that all nurses wIll not
agree with the statements of the Commit-
tee on the Costs of Medical Care which
are quoted above. The Committee plainly
sa ys that, in its judgment, there is a need
for a subsídiary nursing group. Further-
more, it accuses the nursing group of dis-
crimination against certain types of ill-
ness, against night duty, against work In
the rural districts. Did these conditions
ever exist in Canada? Do they exist now?
If so, why? Even though we can give
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proof that none of these sins maybe laid
at our door we are yet faced with the
economic impasse so ably outlined in the
Committee's summary quoted below. <-
The Crux oj the Situation
Briefly stated, the central economic
problem is as follows: a large number
of hospitals very naturally seek to re-
duce their heavy operating expenses by
conducting schools of nursing and utiliz-
ing students, instead of graduate nurses,
as a working force. Upon graduation
th
majority of these students engage in
pnvate practice because no other avenue
of employment is readily open to them.
he field of private duty nursing is
hIghly competitive because of the num-
er of nurses already engaged in it, and
IS further limited because the only per-
sons who can afford to pay for the ex-
clusive services of a single nurse belong
to that restricted group who fall within
the higher income brackets. Meanwhile
In so far as the great mass of the popu:
lation is concerned, the need, as distinct
from the effective demand for nursing
service, goes unmet and will continue to
do so until some system of distribution
of nursing costs can be devised which
will bridge the economic gap between
patient and nurse. If the community
were in a position to pay for adequate
nursing service for all its members, the
present apparent surplus of nurses might
be transformed into a shortage. Under
existing economic conditions such a con-
tingency may seem remote but never-
theless it must come to pass if good
medical care is to be made available to
all the people.
The Need for Thought
Though the time may not be ripe tor
action, at least we can do some hard
thinking. The Committee on the Costs
of Medical Care has made a diagnosIs
which is worthy of the best thought we
can give to it. Once we know where thl:
trouhle lice: we can seck a remedy. Tn
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our own Survey, Dr. Weir suggests cer- sound and equitable economic basi').
tain plans; the Committee on the Costs These should be examined with an open
of Medical Care suggests others. Nurses mind.
themselves ne trying out new ideas, Nobody thmks that we shall reach the
some of them limited in scope, but desired goal next week, or next month, or
useful as actual laboratory experiments. next year. It may be that our generation
In the February issue of the Journal may never see the Promised Land. Yet
mention will be made of some of the we shall have set our feet on the right
steps which have been recommended by path. There will be deserts to cross and
competent authorities, Canadian and mountains to climb. What is that to
American, as likely to lead to the estab- Canadians? We are pioneers and we
ìishment of the practice of nursing on a march to the horizon.
(7'0 be continu.ed)
UNIFORMS AGAIN
J. M.
Somehow I suspect a twinkle in Dr.
Atlee's eye as he gently drops us in a bed
of Scotch thistles and sits back with a
chuckle to watch our reaction. There are
always two sides to every question, so
allow me to air my views as a nurse, in
the sequence of probationer, student, pri-
vate duty nurse, instructor and superin-
tendent. The steam gauge is set at dan-
gerous and the safety valve must blow off,
whether the resultant blast wIll ever be
heard or not. So here goes.
Utility! Well, perhaps short s
eeves
are best from the aseptic point of view,
but has the doctor considered, as ..1.11
aesthete, what those short sleeves would
reveal to his delicate sensibilities? As for
the oper
ting room, most hospitals have
a special dress, meeting the requirements
of Dr. Atlee, hut not popular with th
students for reasons not known to nh'.
The twill horror! How I would love to
see it, for apparently my twenty years
have led me in pleasant paths beside fresh,
dainty colours in gingham and cottons.
The bib and apron, as every nurse knows,
cover those parts of the dress in most
need of protection from the accidents met
with in their work. They can be changed
easily, whereas a one-piece uniform, be-
ing unprotected, usually necessitates a
change almost to the skin, and at times a
bath. Presumably the doctor has never
viewed the garments below the twill hor-
ror. Tell it not in Gath, but too often
they are almost a minus quantity in hot
weather-a fact not lightly to be brushed
aside in making the change to a dress
conforming to all the requirements of an
aesthete.
Cleanliness! 0, man, great was your
faith when you laid down your premises
there. Go you and do likewise. Nurs
s
cannot afford to be clothed thus and the
hospital laundry would be overwhelmed
if the uniform of white were kept as it
should be.
Those caps! Do not dare to blame poor
old Alma Mater nor the superintendent.
Even in a school with rigid rules, each
student manipulates "the little blob or
hird's wing': to her individualistic slant,
with disastrous results so far as the en-
hancement of her charm is concerned.
Those .shoes! A chance to talk about
footwear will relieve my pent-up feelings.
You may lead a horse to water but you
cannot make him drink. Reams could be
written and hours consumed in talking
feelingly on experiences in this connec-
tion. Tell probationers that shoes will be
purchased after arrival, on prescription
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by an orthopaedic surgeon, give them a
shoe scientifically correct for their feet
and conforming to aesthetic principles,
and what is the result? Each student ar/
rives with shoes already bought and in/
sists these are the only kind she can wear.
Insist on the correct type and it entails
daily, yes, hourly watchfulness on the
parf of the instructor, the superintendent
or whom you please, to prevent the stu/
dent from appearing in anything and
everything from a dainty evening slipper
to a sport brogue. And the graduate
nurse shows even less sense. This poor
superintendent has shed tears of rage,
gnashed her teeth and stamped her feet
at the stubborn stupidity of silly children.
And what did it avail? Absolutely
nothing, except a row with the hospital
authorities (men) over her interference
witn the personal liberty of the students
and the prerogatives of the Board.
White shoes or black? The arguments
for and against seem to go in favour of
black. White should be immaculate and
therefore are impossible for the general
duty or student nurse. Besides, as all fed
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are not beautiful nor shapely, black shoes
prove most flattering in line and are more
easily kept in a well/polished, attractive
condition.
Man, since the time of Adam, has
blamed everything on woman. If super/
intendents of nurses ever dared to throw
back on the shoulders of hospital boards
and medical staffs their criticisms and
fault-finding about training school ad/
ministration, when the superintendent !5
really carrying out their dictated policy,
it is greatly to be feared that the death
rate from shock among the male sex
would amount to astounding heights with
ama4Ïng rapidity. Just as long as men are
as silly as sheep in their attitude towards
their own clothing, it ill behooves them
to point the finger of scorn at the poor,
feeble, stereotyped-minded female. Let
us have a real Irish free/for' all fight on
this question of clothes in general, and
nurses' raiment in particular. Sadly, how,
ever, I resign myself to the inevitable. It
will never happen, for . . . who dares
to throw the first stone?
THE ONTARIO ANNUAL MEETING
MATILDA E. FITZGER.l\LD, Secretary-Treasurer, ReRistered NursE's Association of Ontario.
The Canadian Nurses Association is cele-
brating its twenty-fifth anniversary from June
26 to 30, 1934, and every province wishes to
make this meeting an outstanding one. The
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario is
particularly anxious to do all in its power to
help, because the National Association was
founded, and its anniversary is to be cele-
brated, within their own Province of Ontario.
JANUARY, 19'14
The Provincial Association has therefore de-
cided to withdraw its usual Easter week Con-
vention in 1934, and to substitute for it a one-
day session of the Registered Nurses Associa-
tion of Ontario on Monday, June 25, 1934,
immediately prior to the meeting of the Can-
adian Nurses Association. Let the nurses of
Ontario plan to make this a real Convention
Week.
PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA
EDWARD S. MILLS. M.Sc., M.D.. the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal.
There is no finer example of what the
combined efforts of the laboratory and
the clinician have accomplished towards
the conquest of disease than the last-writ-
ten chapter in the treatment of pernicious
anaemia. Let me paint for you very
briefly the picture as I saw it as an interne
ten years ago and as it is to-day. I can
best do this by citing two caseS, one of
which was admitted to the medical wards
in 1924 and the second in 1929. Both
patients were young men of forty. The
first was a dry goods clerk who fir.-;t
noticed, in the year 1920, that he could
not get about the store as readily as for-
merly. His legs kept going numb and h
would stub his toes on climbing stairs.
He no longer en joyed his food because of
indigestion. Fatigue overtook him long
before the end of the day and he became
breathless on slight exertion. Later his
friends began to comment upon his pale
yellowish colour. He strove for a few
months to provide for his young family
but one day he was found in a faint and
was taken to the Montreal General Hos-
pital. Examination revealed a profound
anaemia of the pernicious type. He was
placed upon a diet of lettuce, beets, spin'
ach and red undercooked meat and was
given three Blaud's pills a day with as
much arsenic as he could tolerate. This
did little but aggravate his digestive
symptoms. Finally in desperation he was
transfused a couple of times and dis-
charged - "condition improved." Six
months later he was re'admitted paler and
weaker than ever. He was no longer able
to use his legs and could not entirely
control his sphincters. Transfusions were
again resorted to until finally friendly
death came to the rescue.
Contrast this for a moment with the
second man of forty admitted in 1929.
This young man, a submarine commander
in the American Navy, began, in 1925,
to notice difficulty in maintaining his pos '
(Abstract of a lecture delivered before the Quebec
Dietetics Association. October 2
, 193:\.)
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ture in the tossing ship. He further com'
plained of numbness of his hands when
at the controls. He was losing his nerve.
Reporting sick, he was found to have per-
nicious anaemia and discharged as incur-
able. He obtained a position as engineer
in a power corporation and carried on
s
best he could for two or three years,
eventually being driven to and from his
work. Finally grave anaemia supervened
and he was forced to take to his bed be'
cause of the weakness and loss of control
of his legs. In this state he was admitted
to the Montreal General Hospital in
1929. He was not placed upon a diet but
was prescribed two small vials of a
brownish powder daily and sent home
with a promise of hope rather than de-
spair. That powder was liver extract. In
six months he walked into the laboratoïy
with the support of two sticks but
stronger and a good colour. A year la
er
he had discarded his sticks and was play'
ing a little golf. To,day he controls the
company of which he was engineer, walks
to and from work. dances, and when he
can find time. plays eighteen holes of
golf. And he is only one of many men
with this disease who have been given
back to their families and to their busi'
ness through the magic of this extract.
Now I propose to trace briefly the
various steps which led to a better recog'
nition of the underlying defects which
predispose to this dread disease and to
show you how it has been all but mas'
teredo In order to observe strictly the
sequence of events it will be necessary to
speak first of the development of liver ex'
tract and then work back to a discussion
of the probable modus operandi of the
disease.
Some ten years ago Dr. George Whip'
pIe of Rochester and his associates, as a
result of rather exhaustive experiments
on anaemic dogs, discovered that liver is
far superior to most other foodstuffs in
what we call the anti-anaemic factor. It
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PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA
is a long way from dogs wIth a post-
haemorrhagic anaemia to pernicious an-
aemia in the human species but the gap
WåS bridged rather rapidly through th
co-operation of Minot of Harvard. Per'
haps . they bethought themselves of the
story of Hiram Richer of Poland Springs.
A much'pri
ed cow was ill of some ob,
scure disease. Placed in a new pasture
the cow was observed by Hiram to drink
long and deeply of the waters of a eel"
tain spring. Contrary to expectations the
cow got well, and arguing that what is
good for beasts must be equally good for
men, Hiram founded the celebrated spa
at Poland Springs. In any event, Minot
gave liver a clinical trial in pernicious
anaemia and found that his patients rap'
idly got well. He at once put his entire
laboratory to work on the problem. It
was not long before Cohn was able to
extract from the liver a dry powder
which contained practically all the active
principle effective in arresting the dis'
ease. The credit for further purification
of this active principle belongs to many
laboratories. At the present time the ex'
tract is given intramuscularly once a fort'
night in the form of a clear brown liquid
which has forty times the potency of the
original extract and at one,tenth of the
cost to the patient. To,day the patient
with this disease can keep well at a C05t
of about fifty cents per week and very
little pain or inconvenience.
Why is liver extract effective in the
control of pernicious anaemia? Many
years ago John Hunter, a student of the
disease, was impressed by the fact that
patients with pernicious anaemia never
had any hydrochloric acid in their gas'
tric contents. Gastric acidity performs
several important functions. It renders
pepsin effective, splits disaccharides into
glucose, and acts as a disinfectant to all
kinds of micro,organisms ingested with
the food. Hunter conceived the idea that
the absence of hydrochloric acid from the
gastric secretion allows certain pathogenic
JANUARY, 1934
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micro,organisms to gain access to the In'
testinal tract from which they enter th-::
body and poison the blood, forming tis-
sues. However, he was unable to prove
his theory.
After the advent of liver and liver ex'
tract, Castle, of Harvard, took up a study
of this problem in a rather novel fashion.
He availed himself of an adequate supply
of patients suffering from pernicious an'
aemia and a goodly number of medical
students. From the latter he obtained a
copious supply of normal gastric juice,
by the simple means of passing the
stomach tube. He then supplied this nor'
mal gastric juice to the patients with per'
nicious anaemia along with their meals.
It soon became evident that the patients
reacted to this treatment in the same
manner as they did to liver or liver ex'
tract. His next experiment was to mix
normal gastric juice and Hamburg steak
in vitro, incubate it and give it to other
patients by means of the stomach tube.
Again the patients reacted favorably.
The next experiment consisted in mixing
gastric juice obtained from one pernicious
anaemia patient with Hamburg steak, in'
cubating it and feeding it to anoth'
r
patient with the disease. Improvement
did not follow. The conclusion was th:tt
normal gastric juice contains some sub,
stance which, acting with food, liberat
another factor which is responsible for
the improvement noted in the patients ill
with this disease. He called the factor in
the food the extrinsic factor and the.. one
in the gastric juice the intrinsic factor.
It was not difficult to prove that it was
not hydrochloric acid but its exact nature
still remains somewhat of a mystery.
You may ask why liver e.
tract cures
this disease when the defect is one of
gastric secretion. The explanation is that
the unknown factor which in some W3.y
stimulates blood formation is actually de
veloped in the intestinal tract but is
stored in the liver. You \VilJ recall that
other substances resulting from digestion
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
are also stored in the liver. Glucose or
its isomer glycogen is a good example.
Hence results the efficacy of liver and Its
extracts in the treatment of pernicious
anaemia. In further support of Castle's
explanatIOn of the pathogenesis of this
disease are his observations on tropical
sprue, a disease in some respects similar
to pernicious anaemia. He has repeated
the experiments already enumerated on
cases of tropical sprue. In this disease
the anaemia is like that of pernicious an'
aemia but the gastric secretion is norm:l.l.
The intrinsic factor is present but the
food lacks the other necessary substance,
the extrinsic factor. There is further evi'
dence that this extrinsic factor may be
Vitamin B 2. Thus the pernicious an'
aemia patient lacks the intrinsic factor
present in the gastric secretion, whereas
the patient with sprue lacks the other
necessary substance derived from the diet
-the extrinsic factor. Both of these mU5t
be present to prevent an anaemia of the
pernicious type.
This brings to an end a chapter if?- the
history of pernicious anaemia, but this
does not complete the book. It is true
that we have robbed the disease of many
of its terrors but it is not cured. This
beneficial effect of extracts of liver in
pernicious anaemia may be compared
with those of insulin in diabetes. Medi'
cine cannot give immortality but it should
enable us all to live out our full lives,
"Death, coming in due and not undue
time, is shorn of all his terrors, when
every man and every woman shall come
to his grave in a full age, like a shock of
corn cometh in, in his season."
"OUR BIT"
Elsewhere in our columns will be found
references to "Our Bit," the war memo'
ries of a Canadian Nursing Sister, by ex'
Nursing Sister Clint, A.R.R.C., which it
is hoped, will shortly be published. This
book has been read, in manuscript, by
Matron,in,Chief Margaret Macdonald,
and she has been kind enough to allow
the Journal to publish her impressions of
it:
The publication of this volume, which has
been prepared by Nursing Sister Clint,
A.R.R.C., promises a red,letter day for
members of the nursing profession. Sister
Clint has aptitude for observation and
vivid description. The reader embarks at
Quebec in 1914, and after a voyage unique
in the history of Canada, landing is made at
Plymouth and so on to London, to tarry im'
patiently until the war hospitals of Northern
France are reached. Henceforth active service
presents a continuous passing scene. Work is
unceasing. duty never falls to the level of rou'
tine, pathos battles with humour, and all the
while something higher transcending all. As
in army life nothing ever seems permanent
but change, sooner or later the poppy,laden
fields of Picardy are left behind. Incidental
contact is made with the land of the Sphinx,
the voyager continuing to the Near East. Here,
upon the classic shores of the Ægean Sea, Can-
adian hospitals spring into being under unusual
and unforeseen conditions. A spectacle not
easily forgotten is presented. Scutari comes
to mind and the faithful adherents of the
Lady with the Lamp reflect, as they ever must,
her gentle radiance. "Our Bit" should be in
every hospital library. Reading it one may
fancy one's self as occupying an orchestra
chair; for those who viewed war nursing from
afar the tremendous unrehearsed panorama
will prove absorbing and enlightening, whilst
to those who were of the cast, memory will be
stirred to its depths.
VOL. XXX, No. 1
THE EDITOR'S DESK
The New Year
Even though winter lies heavy on the
land we have passed the turn of the year.
The winter solstice is over and the sun 1S
coming north again. We shall not realize
for quite a long time that the days are
lengthening just a little. But they are.
and before we know it, it will be spring.
It cannot be denied that, in some ways,
the last three years have been uncomfort-
ably like a long, hard winter. At this
season, we have said to each other: per-
haps it will be better this year. And we
say it again today, but with a little more
confidence. Signs are not wanting that
we have passed the solstice of this winter
of our discontent, even though we yet
may have to face some equinoctial gales.
After all, we have much to hearten us for
the coming year. We are a united pro-
fessional group. We have faith in our
calling, in each other, in ourselves. Not
to be too solemn about it, let us take as
our motto for 1934 the popular refrain:
"Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" and
whistle to keep our courage up.
The Journal in 1934
This month 'The Canadian Nurse en-
ters upon the second and concluding year
of its experimental period. It is gratify-
ing to find that circulation shows a steady
upward trend. The number of new sub-
scribers has considerably increased; the
lapses are fewer. Without incurring ad-
ditional expense it has been possible to
improve the format as well as the content
of the Journal. None of these things
could have been done without the sym-
pathetic direction of the members of the
national committee on publications, Miss
Florence Emory and Miss Jean Browne,
who have done all in their power to assist
the editor. The conveners of publIca-
tions for the sections have rendered valu-
able service: Mrs. Agnes Ha ygarth for
the public health section, Miss Mildred
Reid for the nursing education section.
JANUARY, 1934
and Miss Jean Davidson for the pri-
vate duty section, have all sent in
material which has added greatly to
the interest and the value of the
Journal. The attitude of the provin-
cial associations and of other nurs-
ing organizations has been most kindly
and co-operative; at a time when funds
were low and demands many, they made
it possible for the editor to visit and ad-
dress them. All over Canada there are
individual nurses who have been untiring
in their efforts to help the enterprise
along. These women are found in every
field of nursing and two of the very best
(no, they do not want their names pub-
lished) are private duty nurses.
Taking it by and large, it looks as
though nurses are coming to believe in
the Journal and to regard it as a possible
asset rather than as a hopeless liability.
They are beginning to see its potentiali-
ties as a medium for dignified publicity
concerning the work of their national and
provincial nursing organizations. They
realize, more clearly than they did, how
it might be used to link the provinces to-
gether, and to integrate and interpret
nursing thought the country over. Its
function in binding together the three
sections of public health, private duty
and nursing education is better under-
stood. Perhaps 1933 has been a pretty
good year after all. In view of present
conditions, however, undue optimism is
certainly not justified. The coming year
will tell the tale. In January, 1935, will
the two-year experiment prove to have
been justified by its results, or not? The
answer to that question is yet far to seek.
Canadian nurses themselves must answer
it and on that answer hangs the fate of
the Journal. In the meantime we have
three hundred and sixty-five days. Quit
a lot can be done in that time and we
expect to do it, the big bad wolf to the
contrary notwithstanding.
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REMEMBRANCE DA Y
On November 11, 1933, an event of interest
to all Canadian nurses, and particularly to
overseas nursing sisters, occurred at the
Nurses Memorial in the Hall of Fame, Par'
liament Buildings, Ottawa, following the
service at the Cenotaph. The laying of a
wreath at this Memorial was, for the first time,
made the occasion of a very simple and in'
formal ceremony. A large number of over-
seas nursing sisters were present. The Prime
Minister of Canada, Hon. R. B. Bennett,
spoke briefly as follows: "V our services were
magnificent. More than anyone else you knew
what the war meant. I thank you for asking
me to join you in paying tribute to your com'
rades."
This year was also marked by the large
number of lovely floral tributes, a list of which
follows: Canadian Nurses Association: Post
162, American Legion, St. Paul, Minnesota:
in memory of Jean Templeman; London Unit,
O.N.S.A. of C., London, Ontario; Miss Flora
Scrimm, Ottawa, in memory of Janet William'
son; Ottawa Branch, Nursing Sisters of The
Canadian Legion; Alumnae Association, Ot,
tawa General Hospital; Alumnae Association,
Lady Stanley Institute, Ottawa; Ottawa Unit,
Overseas Nursing Sisters Association. Ottawa
nursing sisters feel that this informal ceremony
should create a precedent, and that arrange'
ments must be made each year to have the
placing of such tributes done with a simple
dignity befitting the occasion.
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COUTU.'V of the C'tltllIdllltl PltCiJic Railwtly.
vor . XXX, No. 1
ALL ABOARD
It IS not too soon to begin to make
plans to attend the Biennial Meeting of
the Canadian Nurses Association which
is to be held from June 26 to June 30,
--
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LAKE LoUISE
Courtesy 0/ the Canadian Pacific Railway.
in Toronto. This is the time of year when
each Alumnae Association,. no matter
how d
stant from the place of meeting,
should decide to have at least one reprc'
sentative in attendance. There will not
be another Jubilee until 1959, so let us
attend this one in order that we may give
glowing accounts of it, from our wheel'
chairs, to the youngsters not yet born
who will rule the roost a quarter of rt
century hence.
The president of the Canadian Nurses
Association, who is incidentally the con'
vener of the programme committee, wish,
es it made known that several outstand,
ing eJucators have already consented to
he present. On June 26, President
WalI.Ke of the University of Albertd
will aJdress the convention at an open
meeting, and at the banquet to be held
on June 27, DC(U1 Ira Mackay of McGill
University will he the speaker of th
evemng.
Under thc cdption of J..{otes [rum tire
\lational Office the executive secretary
of the Canadian Nurses Association giv
s
much interesting information about th
programme itself anJ also refers to such
prdctical consiJernions as hotel rates.
This is the sort of thing to read at meet
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ings when Jelegates are being selected
and costs considered. It is possible to
combine a vacation with attendance at
the Biennial without incurring great
expense if careful plans are made well
in advance. If you are coming from
British Columbia, think of all the won"
derful mountain resorts you may Viòlt
at a time when the season is at its height
and the Alpine meadows at their lov
'
liest. Or perhaps you are coming from
Quebec or from the Maritimes. Why
not see the picturseque Gaspé Peninsula
dnd explore the Saguenay? Any anJ
every countryside in Canada is beautiful
in early summer.
There may be those who question the
wisdom of holding national meetings in
times like these and perhaps there is some'
thing to be said for the point of view (,f
the more cautious among us. On the
other hand, there has never been a greater
need for mutual understanding and for
united effort than there is now. We neeJ
each other as never before. A great deal
can be done by corresp
mdence but all
too often the vital spark is wanting. It
is in the impact of discussion that a new
flame is kindled. I f our strong sense 0i
national unity is to be preserved we must,
from time to time. sit in council and talk
to each other face to face.
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Department of Nursing Education
CONVENI'R OF PUBLICATIO"JS: Miss Mildred Reid. Winnipeg General Hospital. Winnipeg, Man.
THE TEACHING STAFF CONFERS
AGNES J. MACLEOD. M.A., Reg. N., Instructor of Nursing Practice, the School of Nursing
of the VancoU\.er General Hospital.
Heretofore in the Vancouver General
Hospital, staff conferences have been held
weekly and the full graduate staff, with
the exception of the general duty group,
has attended. During the past year, how-
ever, due to the need of revision of the
nursing procedures, it was felt that time
should be set aside for the discussion of
teaching problems by those members of
the staff primarily concerned with the jll
struction of the students. As a result,
during the spring term, teaching staff
conferences were arranged to alterna:e
weekly with the regular staff conferences.
These meetings took the form of round
table discussions and the group was com-
prised of all the department supervisOi"s
and instructors.
Objectiyes
The objectives of these conferences as
outlined at the first meeting were as
follows:
1. To establish between the superVisors and
instructors a closer link of understanding; to
promote co-operation in the teaching of nurs-
ing practice to the student nurse; to build up
a common understanding in regard to prin-
ciples, aims, methods of teaching and of judg-
ing the efficiency of procedures and the quality
of student demonstrations.
2. To survey the Vancouver General Hos
pital nursing procedures, with the purpose of
determining just where they fail to carry out
the basic principles, to meet ward require-
ments, or to measure up to the demands of the
Stewart score card.
3. To revise the present nursing procedures
in the light of the findings so that they may
check favourably with the following factors
suggested in the Stewart score card: Safety;
therapeutic effect; comfort of patient: economy
of energy, time and material: workmanship;
simplicity.
4. To devise an uniform set-up with re-
spect to definition, purpose, equipment, pro-
Ledure, and precautionI', <;0 that the procedure
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will be pre
ented concisely, and exactly as it
is carried out on the wards.
5. To outline a few new procedures which
hdve come into use recently.
Besides considering the above purposes,
the first meeting provided for the CO'1"
siùeration of a plan of work, and the set'
ting up of a basis of criticism which
would bring to light the difficulties being
encountered by the supervisors and in'
structors in carrying out their present
teaching plan. Discussion of the word
þrinciþle in relation to nursing practice
took place and also of the Stewart score
card for the purpose of procedure
anal ysis.
Methods of cledning, disinfecting, and
sterilizing from the view of physical,
chemical and bacteriological principl
s
were the first topics to be examined. In-
quiries had been made regarding the
means of disinfection being used for vari-
ous purposes in several Canadian hospi-
tals. With this as a basis for comparison,
our own methods were discussed fully,
and several recommendations were made
in regard to the methods of cleaning of
beds, instruments and gloves. Subsequent
discussion dealt with difficulties encoun'
tered in many of our nursing procedures
with the result that safer and more uni-
form methods were recommended.
The time available during the term
yroved all too short for the many prob,
lems requiring attention. However, at the
last two general staff conferences in May,
a report from tne teaching conferences
was presented. Some of these I am citing
to give an idea of the nature of our
recommendations:
Uniformity
That a uniform method of aseptic
perineal care he introduced, whether it h("
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THE TEACHING STAFF CONFERS
for ordinary catheterization, post,opera-
tive care, or obstetrical cases.
That a uniform method of caring for
the patient be adopted, in so far as it is
possible, for morning, evening or admis'
sion routine care.
That a uniform method of bed,making
be established which will be the basis for
any of the beds, open, closed, or anaes'
thetic.
Economy
Using aseptic syringes for alcohol, mer'
curochrome and iodine.
Using shaker stoppers for green soap
bottles.
Using lumbar puncture towels with a
hole rather than having to use two towels.
Simplification
Introducing simplifications of method
which are safe bacteriologically by dis,
continuing the formalizing of beds and
rubber goods and using airing and soap
and water.
The use of gloves by nurse preparing
gloves for sterilization rather than disin-
fectant solutions.
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Discontinuing the use of individual
container of biniodide for douche nozzles.
Impro'Ved Technique
Greater precautions were recommend,
ed to insure better technique in the use
of forceps on hypodermic tray; the use
of mercurochrome sponge to area of mea'
tus in catheterization; the use of indi-
vidual bath blankets rather than using
blankets on patient's bed; the use of
solution for passing forceps on dressing
carnage.
As the reader will understand, each of
the above topics aroused considerable dis,
cussion, so that in the available time this
spring we did little more than survey the
difficulties. It now remains for us to
check and revise all of our present proce,
dures, incorporating the recommenda,
tions and then setting up our procedures
so that they can be carried out, exactly,
in the ward. The whole series of con-
ferences has been very interesting as we
have uncovered so many points needing
adjustment, and we hope that the fall
term will prove sufficient time to com'
plete the revision of the nursing proce,
dures in a satisfactory manner.
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A DIAMOND JUBILEE
The first school of nursing in Canada will
be SIxty years old in June. The Mack Training
School, which is associated with the General
Hospital in St. Catharincs, Ontario, is plan-
ning a celebration of this important occasion
and all graduates of the school are requested
to get into touch immediately with Miss Helen
JANUARY, 1934
Brown, the General Hospital, St. Cathannes.
Efforts are being made to gather historical
data and it will be much appreciated if any'
one having any information bearing on the
early days will communicate with Miss Brown
as soon as possible.
Department of Private Duty Nursing
CONVENER ÐF PUBLIC^TIONS: Miss Jean Davidson. Paris. Onto
PRIVATE DUTY AND THE I.C.N.
ISABEL M. MaciNTOSH, Reg. N., Chairman, Private Duty Section.
Canadian Nurses Association.
It is not remarkable that an Interna
tional Congress of Nurses should be an
event of tremendous importance. Its pas'
sibilities for intensive and broad educa,
tion of the individual or of the crowd
render such importance inevitable. In
presenting my report as one of the official
representatives of the Canadian Nurses
Association I find that much has already
been covered by the comprehensive and
excellent reports of other de!egates. Men'
tion should however be made here of the
striking similarity of the private duty
problems arising in the various countries,
and referred to in the summary given by
Miss Isabel MacDonald, of London, Eng,
land, who presided in her capacity as
chairman of the Private Duty Committee
of the International Council of Nurses.
In the following paragraphs excerpts are
given from this summary which reflect
the present trend in many parts of the
world.
The Chairman's Report
Naturally, at this time of economi:
crisis, all reports reflect the difficulties
arising therefrom and possibly no branch
of the profession has been so much affect'
ed by the present condition of affairs. In
less difficult periods a trained registered
nurse, during convalescence or some
minor illness, was a luxury well within
many a patient's resources. Now this
must all too often be dispensed with, and
this applies frequently in cases of serious
illness Too often the nurses are called
in at a stage when it is no longer possible
to do their patients justice. In almost
every report the difficulties arising from
the economic position of many who, in
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the past, readily called upon services of
the nurses, is strongly stressed.
A comparison of reports would indi'
cate that the standard of fees charged by
the private nurses is fairly uniform, espe'
cially where consideration is given to the
cost of living in the respective countries,
but it is not on a scale of charges that we
can judge of the economic position of
private nurses. It is on the degree of
certainty of employment. In some coun-
tries a higher scale is made for night
duty. This system is frequently advo,
cated but is difficult to establish, chiefly
because the nurses themselves refuse to
reduce their fees when on day duty.
In several countries it would appear
that more nurses are being turned out of
the hospitals than there are appointments
for and that the tendency is for the sur'
plus nurses to drift into private nursing,
not always from inclination, but from
what appears to them to be necessity. In
many instances this leads to their being
exploited for the benefit of private enter'
prises. In England and, we gather, in
other countries as well, they are fre'
quently employed at a salary which rep'
resents an income far below that which,
through their services, they bring to the
institution to which they are attached.
Again, owing to economic complications,
many patients who, in former years, were
nursed in their homes, now enter the pri,
vate wards of a hospital. France alone
would appear to be exempt from the
problems of unemployment so far as this
branch of nursing is concerned.
In most countries the unregistered or
unqualified nurses appear to enter into
competition with the registered nUrsE'
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engaged in private duty nursing. No
country seems to be able to state with any
degree of acucracy the number of those
so employed but that they do compete
with the registered nurses is an undoubt-
ed fact. The most serious aspect of the
situation arsies when they become attach-
ed to some private enterprise purporting to
send out nurses qualified to care for the
sick at a lower fee than that recognized
as the charge for the services of a regis-
tered nurse. This system of "undercut-
ting" as it has been termed. gives rise tv
most unfair competition. -
There appears to be no lack of effort
to offer to private nurses opportunities
for post-graduate lectures and courses.
On analysis, these opportunities do not
appear to be widely taken advantage of,
owing to the fact that it is so rarely pos-
sible for private nurses to he free for cer-
tain definite periods. Nevertheless it is
to be hoped that the opportunities given
for post-graduate instruction will con-
tinue for, when the nurses can and will
use them. they are of very dcfinite value.
In many countries there are systems
estab!ished for providing sick benefits and
insurance and members of certain associa-
tions must join such schemes. When such
schemes are not compulsory, very few
nurses take out insurance.
The chief difficulties of private nursing
would appear to have their root in the
inability or disinclination of this branch
of the profession to organize in any effec-
tive manner. This is not definitely state.:l
in reports, but it is usually indicated.
There is probably no branch of the pr')-
fession in which organization is more dif-
ficult of achievement and the reasons for
this are too obvious to call for recapitula-
tion. It should be one of the first duties
of this Committee to keep constantly
before private nurses the necessity for
retaining professional control in their
special branch, whether in the more do.
mestic aspects as instanced in the matter
of administration of their co-operati\'cs
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19
and registries by registered nurses, or in
protecting this branch from driftmg into
avenues where it will receive interference
from unprofessional bodies. That there
is need for vigilance in this direction is
shown by the fact that only quite recently
in England we had to t
ke measures to
oppose a Bill dealing with hours whi.::
,
had it been passed, would have shattered
private nursing practice and wou!d in-
..
.
MISS hABEL MAcINTOSH
as she appeared at the International Congrcss
costumed as "Jeanne Mance:'
deed almost have compelled nurses to>
come off the Register in ordcr to do thcIr
duty to their patients. This was undouht
edly an extreme case, but we hope for
support from the Council m m
int.IÙ1Ínc:
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
professional authority in all matters re-
lating to private nursing.
Hourly Nursing
The subject was introduced by Miss F.
Meyboom, of Holland. and her study was
prefaced by the remark that hourly nurs-
ing is interpreted differently in various
countries but that unorganized hourly
nursing, as it exists in Holland. is all too
prevalent elsewhere. Furthermore, pri-
vate duty nurses have no economic safe-
guards, and Miss Meyboom set forth a
plan for an organization having on its
Board representatives of existing societies
and others selected by the nurses it em-
ploys. The principal duties of this Board
would be:
1 To fix a scale of salaries for the nurses
belonging to the organization which would
enable them to live in reasonable comfort.
2. To make arrangements whereby the pub-
lic could insure themselves against the need
of nursing care by paying some definite annual
premium. A conference between representa-
tives of the public, doctors and nurses might
be helpful in this connection. It is probable
that the premium agreed upon might not be
sufficient. To meet such cases it is suggested
that there be a scale of additional payments,
at much lower rates than the fees ordinarily
asked by fully qualified nurses at the present
time.
3. The Board either through a selection
committee or by other means should be re'
sponsible for choosing efficient nurses, and
should have full control over them. with power
to terminate their employment without notice.
The right should be reserved to the nurse,
however, of stating her case and showing, if
possible, why her engagement should not be
terminated.
There was a great deal of detailed dis-
cussion at this meeting, which resulted in
the following resolution: "That the Com-
mittee on Private Duty Nursing of the
International Council of Nurses be asked
to study the question of hourly nursing,
and to assist the various countries in
working out schemes which will be ap-
plicahle to their condition."
Health insurance is very much in the
mind of the world at present and it be-
hooves us to be ready to see to it that any
Health Insurance Act in any country
protects both the sick and the nurses
themselves.
Supply and Demand
Two meetings of the Committee were
held during the Congress, when the pre-
vailing questions of supply, demand and
superannuation received attention. The
importance and need of some form of
compulsory insurance was stressed. There
was also the feeling that it would prove
helpful in many countries if there should
be a concerted effort to educate the public
and convince the medical men of the ad-
visability of employing only fully quali,
fied registered nurses in cases of serious
illness. Action was taken to the end that
the International Council of Nurses will
make a comparative study of the question
of supply and demand based on examina-
tion of the definitions of a trained nurse
and her duties as existing in different
countries.
A Pri'llate Duty Dinner
The social side of the Congress was
exceptionally brilliant and colourful, com-
bining formality and informality in vary-
ing and delightful proportions. An event
of personal interest and pleasure was a
dinner given, in Paris, by the chairman of
the private duty section of the Canadian
Nurses Association. The guests were all
private duty nurses, representing each
one of the Overseas Dominions. Miss
MacDonald, the chairman of the Private
Duty Nursing Committee, International
Council of Nurses, was the guest of hon,
our. Her re-appointment as chairman for
the next quadrennial period was greeted
with many expressions of gratitude, ap-
preciCltion and satisfaction.
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Department of Public Health Nursing
Co
vn;E.R OF PUBL:CATlONS: Mrs. Agnes Hayganh. 21 Sussex St.. Toronto. Onto
ESSENTIALS OF SUPERVISION
MARY B. MILLMAN. Reg. N., Sup'-t"mtend('nt, Riverdale District, Division of Public
Health Nursing, Department of Public Health, Toronto.
The ultimate purpose of supervision in
public health nursing is the improvement
of the service given to the community,
and to accomplish this, the nurse, who is
the actual instrument in this service, must
be improved. This is the objective of the
supervisor, and she must certainly bear
in mind that she can only attain to that
end through the effects she can produce
on the efforts and activities of other
people. Her responsibility is not just to
work through the nurse to the patient;
she is also responsible for the growth .;)f
the nurse herself (which is an end in
itself) for, until the nurse has increased
her ability and knowledge, her service to
the patient cannot reach the desired
maximum.
In drawing up a programme for super-
vision, the supervisor must remember cer-
tain underlying principles:
1. The supervisor should herself have
had considerable experience in the given
field, and should have both the ability
and the desire to teach. She also needs a
certain amount of administrative ability.
In short, democratic supervision demands
a well-rounded personality.
:2. Supervision must proceed upon a
basis of definite well-understood stan
dards.
3. Supervision must supply a means of
enabling the nurse to live up to the stan-
dards set and to carry out the programme
planned.
4. Supervision should encourage the
good nurse to study and to prepare for
more responsibility.
5. Supervision should be planned to
help the mediocre and eliminate the POPf
nurse.
(An adùress given at a staff mecting of the Division of
Public Hcalth Nursin
f)('partm('f\t of Pu\->li, H('i\hh.
Toronto.)
JANUARY, 1934
6. Supervision should be conducted in
an impersonal way, but should not lack a
kindly and sympathetic spirit.
7. Supervision is essentially a co-opera-
tive procedure in which both supervisor
and supervised must share.
8. The supervisor must encour<1ge the
initiative of the nurse.
9. The administrative aspects of the
work of the supervisor must always be
secondary to the teaching aspects.
The first essential for a nurse who
wishes to become a supervisor is to ex-
amine her own qualifications and, if pos-
sible, to prepare herself before under-
taking the work of supervision. If she
has had experience in the field, even
though she is lacking in specific training
as a supervisor, she may be successful by
means of careful study and conscientious
effort. If however she has had no experi-
ence, it would be wiser to refuse the posi-
tion, for much harm to the organization
and to herself can be done by <1 n attempt
to supervise without specific experience.
Definite standards of work must be set
up for all nurses to follow, and if the
nurse has not sufficient training to attain
these standards, it is the responsibility of
the supervisor to try to help her to
remedy this lack. As the standards of an
organization are constantly being raised,
continual education of all nurses, includ-
ing the supervisor, will be essential. In
planning educational work the supervisor
should consider not only the marginal
nurse, but also the keen capable woman,
and assist her to fit herself for supervisory
or administr;:ative work. The supervisor
must never be autocratic but should be a
democratic leader, encouraging the initia-
tive of the nurses and making them feel
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
that they share in the thinking of the
organization.
Criticism, if made in a constructive
and impersonal way, is a real part in suc-
cessful supervision, but if personalities
enter in. or destructive criticism without
commendation is made, the supervisor will
fall short of her true objective. The nurses
must never be allowed to feel that super-
vision is spying, but must be made to
realize that it is advice and guidance that
is offered. The supervisor must bear in
mind that supervision is best when given
in response to a felt need. and therefore
that she must proceed warily and. if the
nurse is unaware of her need, awaken her
to it before offering advice. The last
point and one never to be forgotten, is
that the supervisor must not let her ad-
ministrative duties crowd her teaching re-
sponsibilities. She is always a teacher, her
administrative work making possible such
smooth running of the organization that
her teaching will be effective.
To discuss the principles of supervision
is comparatively easy, but the actual ap-
plication of these principles is a real prob-
lem. How is the supervisor to be a good
teacher? What definite plan of work can
she undertake? It need hardly be stated
that the initial teaching and experience
of a nurse undertaking new work is most
important from the standpoint of her fu-
ture attitudes and work; therefore it )s
essential that careful thought be given to
the introductory programme. In the Di-
vision of Public Health Nursing of the
Department of Public Health in Toronto
we have the peculiar advantage of re-
cruiting about a hundred per cent of our
new staff from among those who have
been our students. The training of our
students is therefore the equivalent of in-
troducing nurses to a new field. The long
view should be taken in all our contacts
with these students, not just considering
them as students, but as our future fel-
low-workers, and arranging their field-
work with great care. There should
always be time for careful teaching and
helpful conferences. The supervisor must
realize that a definite introduction to each
phase of the work must be made and that
specific information regarding it must be
given to the nurse. The supervisor must
also take into account the varying per-
sonalities of these new nurses and adapt
her plan of introduction to the needs of
each. If the supervisor guides the nurse
in a satisfactory way during this time, she
is usually glad of such supervision, and
is ready to ask for it and accept it
throughout her public health nursing
servIce.
The supervisor is faced with another
problem than that of the new nurse. She
has also to accept responsibility for super-
vising the nurse already on the staff. If
this nurse has been initiated in the way
indicated above she will probably wel-
come supervision; but, if she has been
with the organization for some time and
has not had organized supervision, she
may resent it. and the supervisor wIll
need great patience and tact in order to
persuade her that supervision can really
be helpfuL
Supervision of home visiting is most
difficult to carry on and in bedside nurs-
ing organizations is probably easier than
in organizations where the work is purely
educationaL In either case there is the
constraint of the third person, and neither
nurse or patient is quite at ease. The
supervisor must take this into considera-
tion when judging the nurse's ability.
After these visits are made the super-
visor talks them over with the nurse spe-
cially noting her approach, adaptability,
and technique, and her ability to secure
data for records, to recognize problems
and her capacity to teach. Constructive
criticism and commendation are offered
and the nurse has an opportunity for ask-
ing for suggestions and of eXplaining any
doubtful point.
Some supervisors use the "substitute"
visit as a means of supervision while
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others condemn it emphatically. If the
substitute visit is made in a natural way,
when the nurse is off duty for her half-
day, or is ill or is at a conference, she
will not resent it, but if she feels that the
supervisor is a spy, it will serve little
purpose. If time permits, a satisfactor>'
plan is for the supervisor to substitute in
the various districts while the nurse is on
vacation. Although she will not actually
see the nurse's work, she will -find the
results of it and, from the attitude of the
family toward herself and the organiza-
tion, can judge of the efficacy of the pre-
vious contacts. By talking to the family
she can learn something of what the nurse
has taught and she will get some insight
into the problems which she has to meet
in regard to types of families, housing,
health conditions, facilities for transpor-
tation and distances to be covered. This
knowledge makes the supervisor's advice
more worthwhile than if it were based
only on what the nurse tells her of the
district. The nurse feels that the super-
visor is speaking not just from theory
and previous experience, but from an un-
derstanding based on a real knowledge of
the particular district.
Supervision of work in schools, health
centres and clinics is less difficult. In the
school the nurse feels that she is the hos-
tess and the awkward element of the third
person is not as noticeable as in the home.
The children and teachers are accustomed
to supervisors and visitors and the nur&
is accustomed to doing her work in the
presence of others. The supervisor is
more apt to be free from interruptions
and can have a more satisfactory confer-
ence with the nurse. In the health centres
and clinics the presence of an added per'
son is not noticed and, if the supervisor
makes herself useful with some clerical or
other routine work she can observe much
of what is going on. Reading and study
of the daily records and case histories af,
fords the supervisor an opportunity of
learning more of the work done by each
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23
nurse, getting a hint as to her thorough-
ness, and ability to -plan, and of the
amount of work covered. Discussion.Jf
these, and of statistical summaries of
work done during a certain period, will
aid the nurse to realize the value of accu-
rate records.
A supervisor may do much by so plan-
ning her own work that she is free for
conference with the nurses while they are
in the office. She must make herself ac-
cessible and invite discussion. She must
never seem too busy to discuss at length
any problem, but she should learn tact-
fully to limit the time of the garrulous
in order to save time for others. She
should be interested and sympathetic in
any trouble in the district and back the
nurse up if it be wise, or else endeavour
to guide her into less troubled thinking.
These individual conferences are valu-
able; from them she learns of the nurse's
attitude to her work, and to public health
in general. They also give her an op-
portunity to direct and encourage the
nurse in right channels of thought and
action.
Group conferences of all the nurses in
one station. or larger staff conferences,
allow the individual nurse to discuss her
problems and get the opinion and advice
of other nurses as well as of the super'
visors. These conferences also afford op-
portunity for the broadening of know,
ledge by the introduction of speakers f)f
note, or by discussion of new develop
ments in public health. In all these con-
ferences the supervisor should encourage
the initiative of the nurse by urging her
to contribute. She should never scoff at
any suggestions but if they seem impos-
sible, explain the reasons for their im,
practicability. She should try to make use
of any wise suggestions that would benefit
either the nurses or the work.
The plan of assigning a nurse to a dis-
trict and leaving most of the planning of
the work to the nurse herself makes for
the development of initiative. But the
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supervisor will need to watch the work
done and, if need be. offer suggestions re'
garding the re-planning of it. The super'
visor may lose close contacts with the
families and patients, but surely the de-
velopment of the nurse's ability and in-
itiative is more essential to the ultimate
improvement of the work than that th
supervisor should have her finger on each
case.
In order to have the nurse appreciate
and understand the administrative aspects
of the organization and the problem of
supervision, supervisors should arrange
for each nurse to remain in the office or
to substitute for her at certain periods.
Seeing the work as a whole. and not
merely from the standpoint of her own
small district. makes for greater unity. As
Mary Gardner says, ..It is generally con-
ceded that to see the other man's point of
view is the secret of co-operation, but in
the course of daily work to make him see
yours is certainly not of less importance."
True supervision will not overlook the
welfare of the nurse herself. She must
be well and happy to do effective work,
and a public health nursing organization
has no right to teach health and to dis,
regard the health of its employees. Pre-
ventive sick-leave should be advised if
necessary, but this is not as important as
the arrangement of the work so that the
hours, the facilities for a noon meal and
rest, are such that the work will not over-
tax strength or jeopardize health. It will
mean much to the nurse if she is free of
a sense of hurry and strain due to over'
work. The supervisor should do all in her
power to help her cover the necessary
work with the minimum of effort and
within the allotted number of hours. The
supervisor should be aware of the peculiar
personal demands, permanent or tempo'
rary, made on each nurse on her staff, S0
that she may feel there is a sympathetic
understanding on the part of the super-
visor. If the nurse's relationship with the
other nurses is good it will do much t.)
make her happy in her work. and a well
conducted office will contribute to gener3.1
efficiency. It is therefore the duty of the
supervisor to try to avoid friction. and to
be efficient herself in her office adminis-
tration.
A definite standard of supervision for
an organization such as this department
might be as follows:
1. In the office. a short daily consulta-
tion with nurses should be possible. A
study of records should also be planned
at regular intervals and an uninterrupted
conference with each nurse should be ar-
ranged twice a year.
2. Each school should be visited and
the nurse supervised at least once a term.
This supervision should include records,
class inspections, complete physical ex'
aminations and conference with teachers,
and should allow for unhurried confer-
ence on present work and future plans.
3. In health centres nurses should be
supervised at least once in every three
months and the health centre records
should be studied and discussed with her.
4. The hospital, social and health ser'
vice nurse should be supervised within
the hospital at least every two months.
5. The supervisor should visit in the
homes with the experienced nurse at least
once a year and more frequently with
new nurses.
6. The supervisor should give the new
nurse, or one recently transferred to her
district, the advantage of immediate su-
pervision and should introduce her to her
new field.
No report on any nurse should be sent
to the director without the nurse being
fully aware of all of the content. The
supervisor should find the time of sending
in the regular reports an opportune mo-
ment for an impersonal discussion with
each nurse regarding her particular quali-
ties or weaknesses, noting her improve-
ments or retrogressions, thus making the
nurse aware of the supervisor's opinion
of her and her work, and allowing her
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an opportunity to correct these opmions
if she feels they are a misinterpretation.
If a supervisor and a nurse do not work
satisfactorily together it is probably wise
to separate them. Not all people, no mat-
ter how fine they may be, can work to-
gether congenially. Let both nurse and
supervisor feel free to suggest that a move
to another district be made and let the
latter be sure that she does not prejudice
the new supervisor. There is nothing
more despicable than to allow the attitude
of "give a dog a bad name and hang him"
to arise regarding any nurse. The super-
visor must be impersonal yet kindly anj
understanding in all her contacts with her
staff. She must not let prejudice or per-
sonal likes and dislikes tinge her attitude
toward a nurse or her work. At all times
she should endeavour to display a calm
and unirritated attitude, avoiding any-
thing that hints of the temperamental. In
our department in Toronto the district
supervisor has the peculiar advantage of
having the district medical officer, and
the special supervisors as well as the di-
rector and her assistant to call on for help
: 5_
or direction. From the district medical
officer she expects leadership in matters
medical and the bringing of new informa-
tion, on his own initiative, in regard to
preventive medicine. She looks to him
for impersonal and helpful criticism con-
cerning the abilities of her nurses and for
help in developing those abilities so that
the nurses may co-operate with and be of
assistance to him. From the special super-
visors she anticipates helpful teaching in
those specialties for which each is respon-
sible and, of course, the director and the
assistant director are always there to ad-
vise and help the supervsior and to direct
general policies.
The details of a supervisor's work may
vary, but the principles remain the
same. She is a teacher, seeking to improve
the services given by her organi 4 ation.
But she must not be content merely to
teach the details of the work. She must
by her own enthusiasm, interest and de-
sire for service inspire the nurses to give
of their very best to the community, if she
is to claim that she is providing good
supervision.
ECHOES OF THE CONGRESS
R. M. TANSEY, Reg. N., Supervisor, Verdun Branch, Victorian Order of Nurses.
In the wee small hours of the morning when
many a nurse watches her patient carefuUy for
fear the candle of life will flicker out, we Can-
adians, about one hundred strong, landed in
Paris after being catapulted through the Nor-
mandy countryside. I use the word advisedly:
no other could fittingly describe our passage,
it had been so swift that it hardly seemed as
if we touched the rails at aU. There were
eleven V.O.N.'s: Miss Gardner from Vancou-
ver, where all 'year round there is a gentle
climate; Miss Burns from St. John, where it's
never hot; Miss Beauchamp from Kenogami.
where snow and ice reign supreme seven
months in the year; Miss Greenwood from
Toronto, whom we knew quite well; Miss
Railton, who wondered while in the Paris train
if there had been any new babies in Barrie
since her departure; Miss Sheridan from Ham-
ilton, who had visited us three years ago. Miss
Valiquette from Ottawa and the four of liS.
JANUARY, 1934
We thought we had really quite a good reprc-
sentation.
The first day we passed in getting oriented.
Traffic seemed a bit wild. and on the wrong
side of the street, but surprisingly, there are
few accidents; and we finally found out where
to eat and where to go.
Four sessions of the Congress went on at
the same time, and you rushed from one to
another in a hurry, feeling that otherwise you
were sure to miss something valuable. Mental
hygiene occupied a very prominent place on
the programme, it being the first object of dis-
cussion. Miss Effie Taylor stressed the neces-
sity for its knowledge in order to enrich ollr
service and to provide a key unlocking a dool
to broader fields of opportunity for the wel-
fare of the people we serve.
A luncheon for public health supervisors
gave us some idea of public health ways in
Czecho-Slovakia and [atvia. two countrit's
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
which to us are hardly placeable as yet on
the map of Europe. Miss Anderson. of the
East Harlem Health Demonstration Centre,
gave a short talk and it seemed quite a jump
from the little three'roomed flat in Latvia run
by the Red Cross, and its tiny centres, some'
thing like miniature health units, to East Har'
lem with its well'defined instruction, its highly,
trained staff and its very unusual pooling of
agencies. The Pasteur Institute also claimed
our interest. and we listened to the merits and
uses of the B.C.G. vaccine and paused thought,
fully at Pasteur's tomb and remembered hùw
much we really owe to this French genius.
Going home in the soft Paris night, with the
Eiffel Tower ablaze before us. the fountains
playing and the parks full of lights, we found
it hard to realize that it was Paris and not
fairyland.
On this high note, we left Paris, for the
next day the Congress moved to Belgium, and
for some reason or other, Brussels captivated
our fancy at once. Maybe it was the signs all
over the place, in the two languages, that
caught our eye, for French and Flemish are
both spoken, or maybe because Belgium is such
a tiny country, we fell in love with her. There
were dozens of nurses down at the station to
meet us for as we had come en masse, customs
rules and regulations were laid aside. The
hotels were delightful, only it did pour rain.
However it seems to do that a good deal in
Brussels, so no one minded. We learned that,
while nursing education had a late start in
Belgium, it is now in full swing. The presi,
dent of the National Federation of Belgian
Nurses gave us some idea of its progress, and
Miss Hazel Goff, of the Health Section of the
League of Nations, gave a report on her work
and urged that public health principles be sO
interwoven with the basic course as to make
them the warp and not the woof on which the
curative and clinical instruction is given.
There was considerable discussion as to how
this should be done, and many and varied
p 1 ans were suggested. Mrs. McWhinney, from
the Irish Free State, presided and made us feel
that we are already marching on new road$,
and that nursing is stilI an adventure. In Ire'
land they make an attempt to correlate their
hospital training with public health work.
When a student has had experience in a chil,
dren's hospital, she goes to a chlld welfare
clinic in order to gain knowledge of the pre'
ventive and social aspects.
In the American Hospital in Greece, they
carry the mother right through the pre'natal.
natal, post' natal and infant welfare periods,
and as it is a comparatively small school there
is a continuity of interest. England was rather
interested in finding out how Greece was doing
this work and if every nurse had it and if it
did not mean curtailment in other lines. Bel,
gium and Ireland contended it could not be
done in the three years and our own Miss
Lindeburgh gave some idea of the practical
requirements in the basic course.
As a finale, the Burgomaster gave a grand
reception for us in the Town HaiL There
were flowers everywhere and much excellent
refreshment and a gay orchestra and under
the sombre eyes of many an old Flemish digni'
tary we felt very young and that we had come
from far away.
And so the Congress ended. Did we learn
anything new? Perhaps not, concretely, but
that we were stimulated by the people we met
from other lands cannot be a matter of doubt.
At one time it would be the matron of a hos'
pital in Cairo where, due to malnutrition and
pellagra, splenectomies are an every day oc'
currence; then it would be a young nurse from
India, having only native help, where at cer-
tain seasons there is a great deal of cataract
work; or again it was Miss Rosenberger from
Korea, where Our bags and uniforms are still
in use, but where the ones for everyday work
had to be made smaller because ours are a
bit too heavy for the Korean nurses who are
all built on smaller lines than we are.
Paris and Brussels will always be two bright
spots in Our memories. Weare only begin'
ning now to sort things out, for at the time,
there was so much going on that we could not
absorb half of it; the beauty of the Paris boule,
vards; the masterpieces in the Louvre where
you could spend days on end; the Sainte Cha,
pelle, where the windows made you silent with
awe at their glorious colourings; the charm of
the Belgian capital; the grandeur of the Palace
of Justice; and the simple human friendliness
of their people will linger long in our minds
as souvenirs of a very wonderful week in our
everyday lives.
VOL. xxx, Nu. 1
Correspondence
Tributes to Miss Sni"el"
Dear Miss Wilson:
I have just received your letter telling me of
the passing of Miss Mary Snively. Will you,
on my behalf, convey to the Canadian Nurses
Association my sorrow and sympathy for them
in their loss. In the passing of the Foundress
of their Association they have lost a great
leader. In my message of sympathy I would,
if I may, beg that they, and we, should ever
in our own work have before us her example
of dauntless enthusiasm and her magnificent
efforts for the highest ideals in our prolession,
and in the giving of herself to all that is
noblest and best for the work's sake.
Yours sincerely,
ALICIA LLOYD STILL,
President, Interna.tional Council of Nurs
s.
Dear Miss Emory:
I have learned with deep regret the sad
news of the death of Miss Mary Snively. In
the name of the French Trained Nurses Asso-
ciation, I beg to offer to you and to your
National Association our very sincere sym-
pathy in these sad circumstances. We all know
what your beloved Founder has done for the
nurses in Canada and we feel with you in
this loss.
Yours very sincerely,
L. CHAPTAL,
President: Association des I nfirmières Diþl:)-
mées de I'Etat Francais.
Reg. N., or R.N.?
The following excerpt from the Renfrew
Mercury was received by the chairman of
District 8, R.N.A.a., and presented by her
to the executive committe of that district. It
is forwarded for the consideration of the read-
ers of 'The Canadian Nurse:
"In Renfrew and district we have several
young ladies accustomed to place the initials
R. N. after their names. or at least somebody
does it for them, which initials stand in high
official circles for Royal Navy. After the
names of some nurses appears the affix Reg.
N., but why anything at all? It may be adver-
tising, but apart from that there seems to be
no occasion for it when so many men and
women go through life with nothing attached
to names to indicate vocation:'
A. G. TANNER.
Sec'y Treasurer, District 8, R.N.A.O., Ottawa.
Letters bearing on the question raised by
the Renfrew Mercury will be welcomed. -
Editor.
JANUARY, 1934
A Human Document
I am a student nurse. I belong to the
nursing profession and I am sorry. I love
my work. It delights me when I straighten
a patient's pillow and she leans back with a
grateful sigh. It thrills me to know that when
I have worked over a patient very hard, one
morning to have her wake up better and on
the mend at last; to overcome some crochety
old man's ill-temper; to win a smile from a
complaining chronic; to comfort the depressed;
change a dressing, watch an intravenous, and
feel the pulse grow stronger as the strength
giving solution goes into the vein, to bath
a crying infant and take it to its mother to
be fed and comforted.
I am interested in my work, and yet I wish
I were out of it all. Why, just because a
human being wants to be a nurse. is she
forced to work beyond all human strength,
expected to do it cheerfully, and demanded
at all times to present a happy countenance to
the patients, be polite to the doctors, and deal
tactfully with harassed relatives of the sick?
I do not think these conditions are peculiar
to my training school: I have enquired of
graduates from other schools and find that
much the same conditions exist elsewhere. We
are expected to be intelligent and ready for
all emergencies. Weare asked to attend
lectures, to copy reams of notes, and study
them, and yet we are so tired it is almost
beyond our physical strength to keep awake,
because seven days of the week, fifty weeks
of the year we get up at 6 a.m. (no week-
ends to our rescue!) with the penalty of spend-
ing our much-needed rest time on the ward
if one minute late for roll-call. And yet I
am going to try and struggle through, because
I want to be a nurse.
I realize that supervisors and superinten-
dents are overworked, and that too much
responsibility is placed upon them, but why,
oh why, cannot we have an eight-hour day
so that we could all have some rest and reCrea-
tion-a little time to live!
A... SnJDFNT.
Very Much Alive
Por many years we received a copy of your
excellent Journal. 'The Canadian Nurse. but
for some time past this did not come to hand
and I was under the impression, until today's
reading of the September issue of 'The British
Journal of Nursing, that you had ceased to
publish the magatine. May we be restored
to your mailing Jist as we find the Journal of
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great interest and, without it, have lost touch
with the nursing movements in the Dominion
of Canada?
E. P. EVANS.
Secretary, Australian Nursing Federation,
Sydney, Australia.
What This Patient Needs
Enclosed find two dollars for a þrescriþtion
of 'The Canadian Nurse for one year. Thank-
ing you.
S.H.L.. Alberta.
Book Reviews
HOSPITAL MEDICAL STATISTICS, a brief
description of the system used in the
Department of Hospitals in the City of
New York, by Caroline R. Martin,
M.D., Director, Central Medical Stat'
istical Bureau, New York Department
of Hospitals. Illustrated; 88 pages.
Price, $1.50. Published by the J. B.
Lippincott Company. Canadian Office:
525 Confederation Life Building,
Montreal.
The keeping of complete and accurate
medical records is considered one of th
functions of all well-organized hospitals.
So important is this function held to be
that the standing of any institution is
judged to some extent by the character of
its medical records. Nurses in general
have a considerable share in record-keep-
ing, and those who are the heads of hos-
pitals require a thorough knowledge of
modern methods in order that they may
guide the installation and maintenance of
an efficient system. The publication of
Dr. Caroline Martin's handy little volume
will be welcomed by those who are con-
fronted either with the task of putting in
an entirely new record system or of
making an old one up-to,date. Dr. Mar-
tin is the director of the Central Medical
Statistical Bureau of the New York De-
partment of Hospitals and, in that cap'
acity, is recognized as a national auth,
ority on the whole question. Her book is
far more important than its small size
would indicate for the simple reason that
it presents its subject matter in a highly
condensed form.
The book begins with a brief guide for
obtaining a clinical history, and reference
is made to the unit history system and to
standardization of forms and nomencla,
ture. The use of a code system which
permits of ready and inexpensive tabula-
tion is described in some detail. The im-
portance of properly trained historians is
stressed and it is suggested that compe,
tent graduate nurses are acceptable in
this capacity.
Any superintendent of a hospital who
is faced with the problem of installing a
modern record system would do well first
to study the book herself, and then to
draw it to the attention of the members
of the attending medical staff. Such ac-
tion will not only save time and avoid
controversy, but will ensure getting the
new venture away to a good start in a
workmanlike and scientific manner.
E.].
VOL. XXX, No. 1
Notes from the National Office
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
A Royal Recogllitioll
Canada's nursing service and nurses
were notably honoured recently when
Their Majesties King George V and
Queen Mary graciously received in infor'
mal audience, Miss Priscilla Campbell,
Superintendent of the Chatham General
Hospital, Chatham, Ontario. Miss Camp'
bell was a member of the C.N .A. Con'
gress Tours following which she spent
five months in study and observation of
nursing in Great Britain. While in Lon'
don, Miss Campbell had the pleasure of
meeting Miss Catherine Black, a London
Hospital Sister and nurse to His Majesty
the King. Miss Black, who is in residence
at Buckingham Palace, invited Miss
Campbell to tea with her at the Palace
and later Miss Campbell received an in'
vitation to the Palace in order that sh.::
might be presented to Their Majesties,
and to see the Changing of the Guard. In
a letter to the Executive Secretary, Miss
Campbell writes in part: "It was a truly
delightful experience, and a great privi'
lege, all very informal of course. I W1.S
presented to Their Majesties by Miss
Black. They chatted very informally
about my visits to English hospitals, and
talked about Canada and CanadiaD
nurses. The King is a most charming and
noble gentleman in whose presence one
readily feels at ease. The Queen is a very
dignified and gracious lady and a beauti'
ful queen. I feel that this experience has
been a great personal privilege and an
honour to Canadian nurses and has been
brought about through Miss Black's
f-
forts and contact with His Majesty:' A
note expressing sincere appreciation of this
recognItion of Canadian nurses througn
the delightful courtesies shown Miss
Campbell has been sent to Miss Catherine
Black by Miss Florence H. M. Emory,
President Canadian Nurses Association.
Miss Ca
pbell will return to Chatham ,Ill
JANUARY, 1934
January 1, and while en route from the
seaboard will visit the National Office.
The General Meeting
It is appropriate and opportune that
the Canadian Nurses Association should
assemble in the City of Toronto in 1934
for the General Meeting and the obser-
vation of the twenty-fifth anniversary ()f
the founding of the Association. At the
same time Toronto itself will be in festive
mood and array celebrating its centennial
of incorporation as a city which, within
the century, has become one of the lar-
gest, most beautiful and progressive of
Canada's metropolitan centres.
The management of the Royal York
Hotel has allotted ample space in that
palatial building for the convenient ac-
commodation of the Association during
the convention period. The fact that the
C.N.A. has accepted the cordial invita-
tion of the Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario to meet in the largest hotel in
the British Commonwealth of Nations IS
a challenge for a record-breaking attend-
ance: the present record goes to the meet-
ing in 1926, held in the Château Laurier,
Ottawa, when the General Meeting and
the Ceremony of the Unveiling of the
Canadian Nurses' Memorial in the Hall
of Fame of the Federal Buildings brought
together over eight hundred nurses.
The Programme
There has developed a conscIousness
among those responsible for the planning
of programmes for national meetings that
when representative groups of the mem
bership from scattered areas throughout
the length and breadth of the Dominion
make an effort to attend national assem-
blies of nurses, the programme offered
must be capable of stimulating thought,
interest and discussion which will bl>
heneficiaI to the welfare of all groups.
Already the plans for next June are well
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advanced dnd one may venture to fore'
cast that the "convention appetite" of
even the epicure will be fully satisfied
during the week. June 25th to 30th.
Among the speakers will be represen'
tatives of Canada's Universities; educa-
tionalists of repute whose interest in
community needs and welfare are well
known
It is customary at biennial meetings to
review the past. to report on and discuss
present activities and programme and also
to give thoughtful consideration toward
future development and policies. The
programme for the June meeting reflects
these three eras: The past is to be depict-
ed in an historical tableau and oration;
the present will be emphasized in the re-
ports, with discussion, of the sections and
various committees, especially the Joint
Study Committees. national and provin-
cial; the future of nursing will be pre-
sented and studied from the point of view
of public health and private duty nurs-
ing, and nursing education. Necessary
time will be allocated to the more practi-
cal but essential responsibilities of the
organization, while the social events
already planned by the Arrangements
Committee are in keeping with the occa'
sion and with Old Ontario's established
repu
ation for hospitality.
Members of the Programme Commit-
tee are: Convener. Miss Florence H. M.
Emory, president; Miss Nora Moore,
honorary secretary; Miss Isabel MacIn,
tosh, chairman, private duty section; Miss
Margaret Moag, chairman, public health
section; Miss Grace M. Fairley, chairman,
nursing education section. and the chair-
man of the Arrangements Committe
,
Miss Mary Millman. Other members of
the latter committee are: Rev. Sr. Jean,
Misses Austin, Beamish, Buck, Maud
Campbell, Greenwood, Gunn, Heffernon,
Mickleborough and Matilda Fitzgerald
(secretary) .
H olel Rales
As expense is a determining factor to
the individual member who wishes to
attend the General Meeting, the rates for
accommodation, comfortable and conve-
nient to convention quarters, are publish,
ed herewith. Except where indicated,
rooms with a bath are quoted, also the
quotation given for double rooms is per
person (S., single room; D., double room).
Royal York Hotel: S. $3.50; D. $3.00.
King Edward Hotel: S. $2.50, $3.00,
$3.50; D. $2.00, $2.50, $3.00.
Westminster Hotel: 210 Jarvis Street-
S. $2.50; D. $2.00 (European plan, tea room
and dining rOom in connection).
Hotel Waverly: 488 Spadina Avenue-
S. $2.50, $3.00, or with hot and cold water
only, $2.00: D. $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, or with
hot and cold water only, $1.50, $1.75.
Y.W.e.A.: 76 Pembroke Street and 18
Elm Street-Bed and breakfast, $1.00, $1.50;
Room and meals, $1.50, $2.00.
Those wishing convent accommodation
should write to Rev. Sr. Superior, St.
Michael's Hospital, Bond Street, Toronto.
Survey Reports
Copies of the Report of the Survey of
Nursing Education in Canada (1932)
can be obtained from the secretaries of
the Provincial Registered Nurses Asso-
ciations. The address of each of these
officers is listed in the Official Directory
under provincial associations. Also. to
aid in studying the Report, there is a
limited supply of reprints of addresses in
discussion of the Report by four out-
standing authorities. These reprints are
available at the National Office at twenty-
five cents a set. The cost of the Survey
Report is $2.00, postage included.
VOL. xxx, No. I
News
NI..\\.$ itt.ms Intended tor publication in the ensuing issue must reach the Journal not later than the eighth of the
preceding month. In order to ensure accuracy all contributions should be typewritten and double.spaced.
Notes
ALBERTA
CALGAR Y: The Calgary Graduate Nurses
Association held a very successful bridge and
sale of work on November 28, when a goodly
number of nurses and their friends were
present. The guests were received by Miss
P. Gilbert, president, and Miss A. Casey,
convener of the entertainment. The sale of
work under the able convenership of Miss
D. Mott was well patronised. A successful
raffle was also carried out, the winner bei
g
Mrs. M. Blunden, of the V.O.N.
LETHBRIDGE: Nurses in this city will
benefit by a decision reached at the meeting of
the Lcthbridge Graduate Nurses Association
held recently, when it was decided to place a
copy of 'The Canadian Nurse in the local
Public Library for their use. The problem of
unemployed nurses also came up for discussion
and suggestions for remedying the situatiJn
were forwarded to the registrar, Miss Kate
Brighty, secretary of the Alberta Registered
Nurses Association.
MEDICINE HAT: The regular meeting of
the Medicine Hat Nurses Association was held
at the home of Mrs. J. J. Hewitt on November
6. Reports from the Convention recently
held in Calgary were read and after the busi.
ness meeting an hour of bridge and refresh.
ments were enjoyed. The Medicine Hat Gradu.
ate Nurses Association held a successful bridge
party at the home of Mrs. (Dr.) F. W. Ger.
shaw on October 18. Fifteen tables were
played, after which a dainty luncheon was
served. The proceeds will be used to assist
the General Hospital.
MANITOBA
BRANDON: The Brandon Graduate Nurses
Association held their monthly meeting on
November 7, forty.one being present. At the
close of the business meeting the mental hos.
pital group took charge, Miss Anderson intro.
ducing the speaker, Miss Kathleen Condello
The subject was pioneering in mental hygiene
in Manitoba. The history of the development
of the mental hospitals at Selkirk and Bran.
don was made most interesting and instructive.
Lunch was served, bringing to a close a most
delightful evening.
WINNIPEG: The regular monthly meeting
of the Manitoba Association of Registered
Nurses was held on November 17, the evening
meeting, which took the form of a debate be.
tween the public health and private duty
,>ections, brought out a record number of mem'
hers. The subject of the dehate wa'i:
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"Resolved that the M.A.R.N. requires the
services of a training school advisor." The
affirmative was taken by the public health
section represented by Miss Emily Parker,
Miss Cory Taylor, and Miss Lynette Gunn
and the negative by the private duty section
represented by Miss K. McCallum, Miss Ellen
Banks and Miss Mary Lang. The judges were
Miss Webster, formerly of the Montreal
General Hospital; Miss Esther Thompson,
Director of the Home Economics Extension
Services of Manitoba; and MIss Christina
Macleod, superintendent of nurses in the
Brandon General Hospital. After commending
all who took part the judges gave their deci.
sion in favour of the negative. A debate is
apparently a very popular form of entertain.
ment and instruction and certainly was most
successful in bringing members out. In addi.
tion, two excellent papers were given by Miss
E. A. Russell and Miss E. A. Wells of the
provincIal public health nursing service on
their experiences while attending the Inter.
national Congress of Nurses. We are hoping
to hear more from them at a later meeting.
NEW BRUNSWICK
FREDERICTON: At HallOw'een the Nurses
Home was the scene of gaiety and merriment.
Ghosts and witches traveled the corridors,
jack.o'.lanterns smiled merrily from the win.
dowse The most interesting feature of the
programme was the initiation of a probationer
who was forced to undergo an appendectomy,
a lusty sausage offered itself as the appendix
and spirits of peppermint proved to be good
anaesthetic. The patient is convalescing
rapidly.
MARRIED: On June 29, Miss Ella Sands
(V.P.H.), to Mr. Robert Carson, of St. John,
N.B.
MARRIED: On July 18, Miss Miriam M:ic'
Donald (V.P.H.), to Mr. John Bird, Inspector
of R.C.M.P. stationed at Ottawa at that time.
MARRIED: On August 29, Miss Dorothy
Coates (V.P.H.), to Mr. Garnet Vail, R.C.
M.P., Campbellton, N.B.
MARRIED: On September 29, Miss Elizabeth
Groom (V.P.H.), to Mr. S. McKim.
SAINT JOHN: The monthly meeting of the
local chapter of the New Brunswick Registered
Nurses Association was held on Nov. 20, with
a large attendance. Miss Ada Burns prf'sided,
and the business session was followed with the
reading of a carefully prepared paper: "The
Care of the Mentally Deficient," by Mrs. Van
Dorser, chairman of the public health section.
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During the past year the activities of this sec'
tion included study and discussion of the
chapters of the Survey which deals with public
health nursing, and visits to various welfare
and correctional institutions. Lectures were
given by Dr. Emerson, Dr. Mabel Hanington
and Miss Eileen Keefe. New scales were given
to the clinic at the Health Centre. The officers
for the year are: Chairman, Miss Martina
Wallace; vice,chairman, Miss Alice Guilford;
secretary'treasurer, Miss Alice Hegan; con'
vener of programme committee, Miss Sarah
Brophy. Dr. C. W. MacMillan addressed the
section on Nov. 7, and following the meeting,
Miss Margaret E. Anstey, director of the
Children's Aid, together with the members of
the section, entertained in honour of Mrs. E.
Phyllis Pettit, who recently resigned as execu'
tive secretary of the Family Welfare Associa'
tion. Mrs. Pettit was made the recipient of
an amethyst necklace.
The Committee on Curriculum of the N.B.
A.R.N. met recently and made recommenda'
tions for the improvement of instruction.
Those present were: Miss A. J. McMaster.
Moncton: Mrs. Woodcock. Fredericton: Miss
E. Tulloch, Woodstock; Rev. Sister Kerr.
Campbellton; Miss M. E. Retallick, Miss A.
Burns, and Miss Margaret Murdoch of Saint
John.
Congratulations are being extended to Miss
Estela Hayes, of the Moncton City Hospital,
who led the province in the recent Reg. N.
examinations: Miss Helen Crockett. of the
Fredericton Hospital, came second, and Miss
Elizabeth McAlary, third.
The S.J.G.H. Alumnae Association met on
Nov. 4 with the president, Mrs. Dunlop, in
the chair. The regular business meeting was
followed with sewing in aid of the V.O.N.
The student nurses of the School of Nursing
of the Saint John General Hospital entertain'
ed on Nov. 9. It being the eve of Remem'
brance Day the effective colour scheme for the
decorations was red, white and blue. The
guests were received by Miss Murdoch and
Miss Wilson. Sympathy is extended to Miss
Hazel Myles in her recent bereavement.
MARRIED: On Nov. 20, at Springfield, Mas.
sachusetts, Miss Marjorie Driffield (Miramichi,
1931) to Mr. M. J. Byford. Mr. and Mr!\.
Byford will reside in Boston.
WOODSTOCK: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the L. P. Fisher
Memorial Hospital was held on Nov. 21, with
Mr!\. Harry Dunbar presiding. Dr. N. P.
Grant gave an interesting lecture on cancer.
The organization of this Association took place
last May, when officers were elected, annual
fees decided upon, and a penny fund taken
up for sick nurses.
The graduating exercises of the Fisher
Memorial Hospital School of Nursing were
held on Dec. 1, when addresses were given by
Judge Carleton, Rev. W. C. Moore and Dr.
J. F. L. Brown. The graduating class recited
the Florence Nightingale Pledge and the class
prophecy was read by Miss Marjorie Stoddard.
The valedictorian was Miss Jennie Belyea. The
class included the Misses Marjorie Stoddard,
Mary Simonson, Jean Bellis, Jennie Belyea,
Leota Tompkins.
MARRiIED: On Oct. 9, Miss Marjorie Malloy
(F.M.H., 1932) to Mr. Melburne Currie.
NOVA SCOTIA
HALIFAX: At the November meeting of the
Halifax branch of the Nova Scotia Registered
Nurses Association, two very interesting
addresses were given, one by Miss Pepper,
nutritionalist for the Canadian Child Welfare
Association, and one by Miss Gertrude Mac'
Kenzie on the International Congress.
On Nov. 9, the School of Nursing of the
Victoria General Hospital held its graduating
exercises and fifteen nurses received their
diplomas. The diplomas were presented by
Dr. F. R. Davis, Minister of Health for Nova
Scotia, and the address to the graduating cl.lsS
was delivered by Dr. H. F. Munroe, Superin'
tendent of Education. The prize winners
were Miss Davida York and Miss Roxy Ford.
Following the exercises a dance for the gradu,
ating class and their friends took place at the
Lord Nelson Hotel.
On Oct. 25, the School of Nursing of the
Children's Hospital held its graduating exer-
cises in the beautiful new residence. Niile
nurses received their diplomas. The president
of the Board, Mr. O. E. Smith, in his open'
ing remarks, gave some very sound advice to
the nurses. Certain landmarks of progress
during the training of this class may be noted:
a new residence, a new class and demonstra'
tion room, the appointment of a qualified
instructor and a dietitian, as well as the
establishment of a central lecture course in
conjunction with the Victoria General Hos'
pital and with the Halifax Infirmary. The
address to the graduating class was delivered
by Dr. Grant, Dean of the Medical School
of Dalhousie University. Dr. A. E. Doull
gave a brief appreciation of the work of the
nurses. A delightful social evening followed
the exercises.
Mis!\ Evelyn Walsh, B.A., a graduate in
household science of Acadia University has
succeeded Miss G. Gwit1im as dietitian at the
Children's Hospital, Halifax.
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DISTRICT 1
CHATHAM: The Alumnae Association of
St. Joseph's Hospital sponsored a dance. the
proceeds of which are to be used for the per-
manent education fund. A bridge party was
also held recently.
MARRIED: On Nov. 13, at River Carrard,
Essex, Miss Angela Blonde (S.J .H., 1924) to
Mr. Frank Driscoll, of Chatham.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRANTFORD: An interesting programme for
staff conferences has been arranged by the
nursing staff of the Brantford General Hos-
pital. One meeting each month is devoted to
a non-professional topic. In November, Mr.
W. G. Raymond spoke on the subject of
"Public Speaking." In December, Mr. E. T.
Sterne took as his subject "Some Aspects of
Chemistry:' Both addresses were greatly en-
joyed. The monthly meeting of the Alumnae
Association of the Brantford General Hospital
was held Dec. 5, when Rev. Dean Johnston
gave a splendid address on "The Political Situ-
ation in Europe." Miss Rae Isaac (B.G.H.,
1924), who is on furlough from Kong Moon,
China, has registered at the Brantford General
Hospital for postgraduate study. Miss Dorothy
Franklin (B.G.H., 1932) has registered for
postgraduate study in special subjects. Miss
Amy Adams (B.G.H. 1932) has returned to
her home in Trail, B.C. Miss Hilda D. Muir,
operating room supervisor, and Miss Rae Isaac
attended the refresher course at Toronto Uni-
versity.
The annual meeting of the Brantford
Branch of the Ontario Red Cross was held
recently. Mr. R. E. Gunther was re-elected
president; Mrs. J. N. Mitchell, of the Victorian
Order of Nurses, was appointed as chairman
of the Home Nursing Committee; Mrs. Fred
Unger will direct the organitation of the
classes again this year. Miss Beulah Scott, Red
Cross Outpost Hospital, Apsley, attended the
meeting, and received a shower of books and
toys for Christmas at the Outpost Hospital.
KITCHENER: The monthly meeting of the
Kitchener-Waterloo Chapter R.N.A.O. took
the form of a supper. Covers were laid for
ixty and the tables were gay with Christmas
colour. The speaker was Miss Rosenburger,
who interestingly outlined public health in
Korea. The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: Chairman: Miss A. E. Bingeman; vice-
chairman, Miss H. Wilson; secretary, Miss
Ida Brubacher: trea
urer, Miss W. Knell.
Kitchener student nur
es of the Kitchenel
Waterloo hospital arc enioying an affiliate
JANUARY, 1934
course with the Riverdale Isolation Hospital,
Toronto. They are also privileged to spend
some time with the Kitchener Public Health
organization. This is proving to be eminently
satisfactory. At the November meeting of the
Kitchener- Waterloo Alumnae Association an
instructive lecture on intestinal intoxication
was given by Dr. Whaley. Plans were made
for a Christmas social
MARRIED: Miss Olive W. McArthur (K.W.
H. 1931) to Mr. Howard Latsch.
MARRIED: Miss Gladys L. Guenther (K.W.
fl. 1928) to Mr. Fred Cords.
MARRIED: Miss Margaret E. Muir (K.W.H.
1932) to Mr. Briceton Palmer Waugh.
MARRIED: Miss Violet Ballantyne (K.W.H.
1932) to Mr. Howard Christner.
DIS TRICT 4
HAMILTON: A Christmas charity bridge was
held on Nov. 30. The committee included the
following: Miss L. McElhone ( convener),
Misses H. McMann amy, M. Kelly, E. Mc-
Kenna, K. Dowling, A. Melody, M. Mettger,
H. Fagan, A. Williams.
DISTRICT 5
TORONTO: An interesting event took place
on Nov. 12, when the graduates of Miss Mary
Agnes Snively, for many years superintendent
of the Training School for Nurses of the
Toronto General Hospital, and a renowned
pioneer in nursing, gathered at a dinner in
memory of her. Had she lived, she would
have reached the age of eighty-six on that day.
Several speakers eulogized Miss Snively in
loving and heartfelt terms and in humoT"O
ls
anecdote. A generous letter of hig!. praise
from Miss Jean 1 Gunn, the present superin-
tendent of the training school, was read, and
was much appreciated as coming fror'l one
whose hands hold a great many more respon-
sibilities than existed in the old d:!yc;, a
HI
whose Own achievements and excelJen:e w.'n
such signal honour in Paris this past summer.
Miss Gunn's letter was as {ol1ows:
"Dear Mrs. Aubin:-I regret very much
that I am unable to accept your invitation {or
dinner. In previous years the twelfth vf Nov-
ember has always been a special day for the
Toronto General nurses, when we al1 reJTIer
-
be red Miss Snively's birthday, and althouJ?'h in
recent years she did not feel able to mec-t the
nurses in large numbers, stilI she enjoyed to
the fullest extent the birthday greeting.. that
found their way to her quiet room in this busy
hospital. She always spent a happy day, {ull
of memories of birthdays long past, and blessed
with loving greetings {rom those who were
privilel!ed to claim her ;t<: a friend. So I hot'
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
this evening will not be a sad one, but will
sound a note of triumph for a life that brought
guidance and inspiration to each one, and
whose influence did much for the profession
which we all hold so dear. The graduates of
our school have a great heritage from a great
woman, and teacher, whose life so closely fol,
lowed the text which was the last written
message I received on the Saturday before she
went away: 'My verse for today, Saturday,
September 23, 1933, I wIll instruct thee and
teach thee in the way thou shalt go....
Miss Snively time and again spoke to her
nurses of the unfailing kindness of the great
and good woman who has followed her as
superintendent of nurses at the Toronto Gen-
eral Hospital, who in the midst of a multi,
plicity of exacting duties was chiefly instru-
mental in making Miss Snively's last years the
happiest of her life. Miss Snively's graduates
decided that, in future 'years, they would set
aside the evening of November 12 for a
gathering in her memory and honour.
TORONTO: A general meeting of the Public
Health Alumnae Association was held at the
School of Nursing, Toronto University, on
Nov. 28. Amalgamation with the hospital
teachers and administrators alumnae was
heartily endorsed, and it was decided that the
executive should take the necessary steps for
the merger. It was decided to make a small
levy as a means of raising money for a gift
to the School of Nursing and it is hoped that
there may be some graduates who are not
members but might like to contribute. The
hospital, teachers and administrators group
later joined with the Public Health Alumnae
in holding a reception for the public health
classes of Courses 1 and 2, and the new class
of the teachers and administrators. Miss Kelly
sang several de1ightful numbers, and Miss
Greenwood gave an excellent informal talk on
the International Congress.
TORONTO: Community Health Association
of Greater Toronto: A valuable and reassuring
address on "The Prevention of Heart Dis-
ease" was given b'y Dr. John Oille, assistant
professor of medicine at the University of
Toronto, to about eighty members of the Com-
munity Health Association of Greater Toron-
to on December 1. Miss Laura Gamble, presi-
dent of the Association, introduced Dr. Oille,
and a vote of thanks was moved by Miss Ruby
Hamilton and Miss Irene Hedges.
TORONTO: Grant MacDonald Training
School. On Nov. 17 the Alumnae Association
gave a children's party to help raise funds for
Christmas cheer boxes. The patients' annual
ale of work was held on Nov. 25, and the
proceeds from the tea served by the Alumnae
Association will also be used for this purpose.
MARRIED: In October, at Toronto, Miss
Kathleen Murphy to Rev. B. Smyth of Tunis-
fail.
MARRH:.lJ: In October, at Toronto, Miss
Beth Crawford to Mr. Keith Gordon, of To-
ronto.
MARRIED: In October, at Orangeville, Miss
MarjorIe Clark to Dr. Thos. Kirkpatrick, of
New Hamburg.
MARRIED: At Toronto, Miss Helen Tucker
to Mr. John McCallum, of Alton.
MARRIED: In September, at Toronto, Miss
Rita McDougall to Mr. Lang, of Toronto.
MARRIED: In September, at Toronto, Miss
Muriel Reid to Rev. Mr. Forte, of Horning's
Mills.
DISTRICT 6
LINDSAY: The regular meeting of the Alum-
nde Association of the Ross Memorial Hospital
took place at the home of Miss K. Mortimer,
with sixteen members present. After a short
business meeting the remainder of the evening
was spent with music and bridge, Miss Hard-
ing, operating supervisor, being the winner
of the first pri
e. Mrs. Morrison (nee Miss
McNevan), a recent bride, was presented with
a flower bowl and candle holders. A number
of the members took advantage of the presence
of two ladies gifted in reading teacups to
look into the future. At the close a delectable
lunch was partaken of and the evening was
such a pleasant one that it was unanimously
decided to hold a similar meeting in the near
futur
.
DISTRICT 7
BROCKVILLE: Miss Cornelia Sheridan (B.
G.H. 1916), who has been director of the
V.O.N. in Hamilton for the past five years.
has returned from Europe, having attended
the LC.N. Congress and visited hospitals in
Great Britain and on the Continent.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
CHARLOTTETOWN: The regular quarterly
meeting of the Graduate Nurses Association
of Prince Edward Island was held in the
Prince County Hospital, the president, Miss
Pidgeon, in the chair. Routine business was
taken up. There was a large attendance from
Charlottetown. At the close of the meeting.
afternoon tea was served.
MARRIED: On September 7, at Milton,
P.E.I., Miss Lillian Moore (P.E.I.H. 1932),
to Mr. Wm. Seaman of Charlottetown.
MARRIED: On October 25, at Cornwall.
P.E.!., Miss Mary Florence McKenzie (P.E.I.
H. 1930), to Mr. Daniel Livingstone, New
Dominion.
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NEWS NOTES
MARRIED: On November 9, at Moncton,
N.B.;Miss Ida Jane McLean (P.E.I.H. 1932),
to Mr. Harold Heartz, Charlottetown.
MARRIED: On November 10, at Cornwall,
P.E.I., Miss Annie McPhee (P.E.I.H. 1929),
to Mr. Stewart Moore, Charlottetown.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: On Nov. 10 Miss Isabell Mc-
Connell (M.G.H. 1925) visited the School of
Nursing of the Montreal General Hospital.
Miss McConnell is on furlough from the
Presbyterian Mission Hospital, at Jobat, Cen-
tral India, where she has been engaged in
missionary work for the last five years. Inci-
dentally, Miss Bessie MacMurchy (M.G.H.
1931), having recently joined this mission
station, made it possible for Miss McConnell
to take this respite from her arduous duties.
A missionary's furlough is not all play, but
Miss McConnell was kind enough to spare
some time for us, in the midst of a busy week
in Montreal, addressing numerous meetings
and attending functions in connection with
her work. Fifty preliminary students greatly
enjoyed the informal talk that Miss McCon-
nell had with them, and much interest was
shown in the Indian souvenirs displayed. At
a well-attended meeting of the Alumnae As-
sociation, Miss McConnell, looking most at-
tractive in a charming blue sari, gave a de-
lightful description of her work. Her intense
interest in the uplift of the people among
whom she lives was manifest, and with Our
admiration was blended a touch of envy of
one whose life is such a real blessing and
whose influence is so far reaching.
Friends of Miss Mary S. Mathewson (M.
G .H. 192 5) will be interested to hear that she
has been appointed part-time instructor for
public health students in the School for Grad,
uate Nurses, McGill University. Miss Mathew'
son has, for the past few years, been associ,
ated with the Child Welfare Association of
Montreal, and has been in charge of the Wel-
fare Centre on St. Hubert Street. Miss E. M.
Sykes (M.G.H. 1932), who has been a mem-
ber of the staff of the Laurentian Sanitorium
at St. Agathe des Monts, is returning to Eng-
land, and her position has been filled by Miss
Mary Hamilton (M.G.H. 1932), who has
resigned from the Protestant Infants' Home,
where she acted in the capacity of night super'
visor. Miss Hamilton has been replaced by
Miss Lilly Burri (M.G.H. 1933).
M"'RRIED: On Nov. 8, at Hamilton, Ont.,
Miss Marion Roberta MiI1er (M.G.H. 1927)
to Dr. Evan Vere Shute. Dr. and Mrs. E. V.
Shute will reside in London, Onto
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MARRIED: On Nov. 8, at Montreal, Miss
Marian E. Cooke (M.G.H. 1933), of St.
John's, Nfld., to Mr. Cecil G. Rowe. Mr.
and Mrs. Rowe will reside in Montreal.
MONTREAL: Miss Marion McNaughton
(R. V .H. 1933), is taking a post-graduate
course in psychiatry at the Ontario Hospital,
Whitby, and Miss Margaret Goldie (R.V.H.
1930), i
taking a course in psychiatry at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Misses
Jean MacLaren, Catherine Scott, Helen Reid,
Norma Jamieson and Ruth Ross are taking
postgraduate Courses at the School for Gradu-
ate Nurses, McÇill University. Miss Esther
Robertson (R.V.H. 1933), is taking a post'
graduate course in tuberculosis nursing at
Ste. Agathe. Miss Grace Vanderwater and
Miss Florence Jamieson (R.V.H. 1933), have
taken staff positions at the Alexandra Hos-
pital, Montreal. Miss Elizabeth Lyster
(R.V.H. 1932), has joined the staff of the
King Edward Institute, and Miss Constance
Lamontagne (R.V.H. 1932), the staff of the
Victorian Order of Nurses, Montreal. Miss
Margaret Brady and Miss Margaret Carey
(R.V.H. 1932), have taken positions in the
Child Welfare Association, Montreal.
MARRIED: On November 6, in New York,
Miss Annie May Sutherland (R.V.H. 1928),
to Mr. Leonard Augustus Fairbanks.
MARRIED: On November, at Montreal, Miss
Constance Moule (R.V.H. 1932), to Mr.
Thomas Dickison.
THREE RIVERS: On Nov. 20 and 21 a re-
gional conference for Metropolitan nursf'S in
the Province of Quebec was held in Three
Rivers. Twenty-two Metropolitan nUrses and
three supervisors attended, representing nine-
teen nursing services. Rimouski was the only
service not represented, as the nurse there
had some very ill patients whom she did not
want to leave. The International Paper ('('IfT1'
pany was also represented, as were the Child
Welfare League and the Anti-Tuberculosis
Association. The Metropolitan nutrit;onist,
Miss M. McColl, contributed a valuable part
of the programme. This Institute was hf'ld in
th
classroom of St. Joseph's Hospital Sct100l
of Nursing, kindJy lent for this purpose by the
Reverend Sisters who, with several pupil
nurses, attended conferences and demonstra'
tions. ^ banquet was held on Nov. 20, at
which were present, in addition to those at'
tending the Institute, the manager, assistant
manager, agents and their wives. There wa!; a
musical programme and Dr. Tetreault and Dr.
de Charette addressed the nurse!'!.
OBITUARY
SOUTAR-An interesting and lovable per-
sonality Miss Mildred Soutar, Reg. N.,
Superintendent of the M. G. Abbey Memo'
rial Children's Nursing Home, Arnkut,
Central India, passed away on November
19, 1933, at the early age of thirty'two.
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MISS MILDRED SOUTAR
She was born in Toronto and later came
to Hamilton to live. After a successful
course of studies she proceeded to prepare
herself for her life's work as a nurse 'in the
School of Nursing of St. Joseph's Hospital,
Hamilton, graduating in 1928. After a few
years of professional practice, culminating
in a special missionary course in the Pres'
byterian Deaconess School, Toronto, she
set sail for her field of labour in India. Miss
Soutar was held in high esteem by all con'
nected with St. Joseph's Hospital, and will
remain a pleasant memory of a young life
spent in sacrifices for others.
COUSINS.--Friends in Saint John were sad,
dened to learn of the death of Miss Alice
Cousins which occurred at her home in
West Port, N.S., on December 1, 1933.
Miss Cousins graduated in 1926 from the
School of Nursing of the Saint John Gen'
eral Hospital and, in failing health, return'
ed to her home only two weeks before her
death.
McCULLOGH.-At the Montreal General
Hospital, on Nov. 13, 1933, Jane (Jeanie)
McCullogh (M.G.H. 1925).
ONE OF CANADA'S PIONEERS
In the death, at Toronto, on November 27,
1933, of Miss Jessie M. Sheraton we, in the
Maritime Provinces, have lost one of our early
nursing leaders. Miss Sheraton was the eighth
nurse to graduate from the School of Nursing
of the Saint John General Hospital, then
known as the General Public Hospital, and
shortly after completing her training about
1889, was appointed lady superintendent of
Prince Edward Island Hospital, Charlotte'
town. In 1895 she resigned this position and,
for a year, was superintendent of nurses .in
the.New York Polyclinic Postgraduate Medi-
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cal School and Hospital. In 1896 she was
appointed superintendent of the Aberdeen
Hospital, New Glasgow, N.S., and held that
position for twenty' five years. After her re'
tirement she made Saint John her place of
residence. Her many friends, of whom the
writer is privileged to be one, knew her as a
woman of sterling worth. Interment took place
in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, - and the
funeral service was conducted bV the Rev. T.
Hudson Stewart, rector of St. John's (Stone)
Church, Saint John. Contributed by Agnes
Douglas Carson.
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OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
MONTREAL: The Overseas Nursing Sisters
Association of Canada was officially repre'
sented at the funeral service of the late Sir
Arthur Currie, on Dec. 5. 1933, by Nursing
Sister Nell Enright, the president of the Mont.
real Unit. Sixteen of our members were ac'
corded a position of honour in the funeral
ceremonies by being given places in the open
quadrangle, immediately behind the gun-car'
riage, on which were the remains of the late
Commander.in.Chief, and past which, for one
hour and twenty minutes the garrison and
veterans marched, making their final salute.
.Our greatest yet with least þretence.
Great in council and great in war.
Rich in saving common'sense,
And. as the greatest only are.
In his simplicity, sublime.
OTTAWA: The following ex. Nursing Sisters
had the honour of representing the Nursing
Service of the C.A.M.C. at the funeral of
General Sir Arthur Currie: Ex.Nursing Sister
Muriel Armstrong (Mrs. B. 1. Wickware),
ex,Nursing Sister Annie McNicol, ex.Nursing
Sister Mabel Hamilton and ex.Nursing Sister
Ruth Dawn (Mrs. H. 1. Taylor). Other ex'
Nursing Sisters who went to Montreal from
Ottawa for the funeral WE're: Gertrude Hal.
penny, Jean Bowie and Emily Schryer.
CALGARY: The members of the Calgary
branch of the Overseas Nursing Sisters Asso.
ciation attended the Armistice Service, held
in the Armories, and a wreath was placed
on the Cenotaph in memory of those of our
number who gave themselves for King and
Country. The Club were entertained at tea
by Nursing Sisters Ann Gee, Marion Lavell
and N. Gunn. Twenty,three members were
present. We enjoyed seeing everybody and
hearing of each others' troubles and joys. We
were glad to welcome Mrs. Stanway (Nan
MacLeod), No. IX Unit. We lost one of Our
members in July, Sister Allison, of Belcher
Hospital. Our sympathy goes out to her aged
mother.
ESSEX COUNTY: The Armistice DaY dinner
of the Essex County Branch of the Overseas
Nurses Association was held on November
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17 at the home of the president, Miss Caroline
La Rose. The tables were fittingly decorated
with flags and flowers. After dinner a short
business meeting was held following which the
nurses sang some of the old war,time songs.
Those present were: Misses Caroline La Rose,
Frances McNally, Fielder, Bailey, Johnson,
Bull, Shand, Jackson, Mmes. W. J. Elliott,
Bates, Ritchie, F. Bowen, G. C. Storey.
MONTREAL: On Remembrance Day, the
Montreal Branch of the Overseas Nursing
Sisters Association of Canada, held their
annual reunion dinner. Nursing Sister Nell
Enright, president of the branch, received the
Sisters. Mrs. Gibson (N. S. Couillard), wife
of Brigadier.General Gibson, Officer Com.
manding District No.4, was the guest of the
evening. As the years pass our group increases.
This year we numbered seventy'nine, nine
being French sisters. We were delighted that
Matron Decarmie of St. Cloud Hospital was
also with us. We felt honoured to think
that even a train was persuaded to wait for a
sister who was delayed at the hospital in
Grand'Mere. The president proposed the
toast to the King. Mrs. Roman (Nursing
Sister Sedgwick), in a few quiet words pro'
posed a toast to the absent sisters, especially
mentioning Sister Connie Harrison, our treas.
urer, who through illness was unable to be
present. A renewal of our memories of those
who are forever silent was brought to us by
the clear notes of the Last Post. played by a
bugler from a Highland Regiment. After the
silence he sounded the Reveille. A telegram
was received during dinner from Matron.in'
Chief M. MacDonald which read: "So long
as memory holds a seat in this distracted
globe, we shall meet in spirit this night, con.
secrated to so many memories. Love and
cheerio," A letter was also read from Nurs.
ing Sister Clint, to which she personally added
a few words asking for the support of the
nursing sisters, in the publication and distribu.
tion of her book, entitled "Our Bit," written
on the Nursing Services during the war. The
entire group expressed their appreciation of
Miss Clint's effort by promising their support.
At the dose of OUr delightful reunion Sister
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Upton proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. J.
Rice and his artists, Mr. Jack Vanderstraten
and Mr. J. Schafe, who had entertained us
by singing the old familiar songs. Time was
to us no more. We were flooded by those
memories that we forever hold; precious and
secure. Weare linked together for all time
by an unbreakable bond, revived at the Ceno,
taph, surrounding us at our dinner, and car'
ried in our hearts till our next meeting on
Remembrance Day.
OTTAWA: The Ottawa Unit of the Over'
seas Nursing Sisters Association held their
second Memorial Day dinner on November
11, when twenty,five members were present.
The president, Mrs. H. J. Coghill (Eva Ham'
bley), presided. The table was attractively
decorated with flowers sent by Miss Georgina
Pope with regrets that she was not able to
be present. Regrets were also sent by Matron'
in,Chief Margaret C. MacDonald and Miss
Edith C. Raeside. An honored guest was
Mrs. Barefoot (Dorothy Winters), who re'
turned from India early in the summer and is
spending the winter in Ottawa. A short busi,
ness meeting was held and Mrs. Coghill's
resignation as president was regretfully
accepted and a hearty vote of thanks tendered
her. Mrs. C. A. Young (N. S. Gratton),
was unanimously elected president for the
coming year. In view of the interest shown
by the members, and in order to help main,
tain that bond which was formed between all
nursing sisters overseas, it was decided that
the Armistice Day dinner be an annual event
with the Ottawa Unit.
OUR BIT War Memories of a Canadian Nursing Sister
by ex-Nursing Sister Mabel Clint, A.R.R.C.
The manuscript of this vivid and moving recital of a tremendous
experience has been read and endorsed by :\Iatron-in-chief :\Iargaret
:\Iacdonald. Though not an official history, this book is an eye-witness
account of events in the war zone in France, England, Belgium, Egypt
and Lemnos and thus constitutes an authentic picture of actual con-
ditions not aR yet available in any other publication.
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Directory
International Council of Nurses:
Secretary, Miss Christiane Reimann, 14 Quai des Eaux- Vives, Geneva, Switzerland
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Officers
President.... ................... ..............Miss F. H. M. Emory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Onto
First Vice-President................ ..........Miss R. M. Simpson, Parliament B1dgs., Regina, Sask.
Second Vice-President............ Miss G. M. Bennett, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Onto
Honorary Secretary..........................Miss Nora Moore, City Hall, Room 309, Toronto, Ont.
Honorary Treasurer ..............Miss M. Murdoch, St. John General Hospital, Saint John, N.B.
COI.;!'JCILLORS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITfEE
.YulIli'ml" 1}I'ecn/in" '1IamfS -mdicnle f
(fìCf' It/-[ft 1'"iZ: (1) I'Tf"l
idf'1!t P7'm'l1lC'ial /I'lITSCS .As""CÎu/ÙI71: If) rhninllan
/I'ltrsi71Y Edumlirl1l :'fectiun: (5) Chairman. Public Health &climt; l
) Chairman. Private Duty Section.
-\lherta: (I) :\Iiss F. Munroe, Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2) :\Iiss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal, Cah!ary; (3) Miss B. A. Emerson, 604 Civic
Block, Edmonton; (4) :\liss,J. C'low.l1138-82nd Ave.,
Edmonton.
British Columbia: (I) l\
iss M. F. Gray, Dept. of
Kursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
(2) Miss L. l\litchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Yic-
toria; (3) Miss M. Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
Yancouver; (4) Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft Nurs-
ing Home, Cook St., Yictoria.
Manitoba: (I) Miss Jean Houston, Manitoba Sana-
torium, Ninette; (2) :\Iiss M. C. Macdonald, 668
Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg; (3) Miss A. Laporte.
St. Norbert; (4) Miss K. McCallum, 181 Ellfieid
Crescent, Norwood.
New Brunswick: (I) MiBB A. J. MacMaster, Monctoll
Hospital, Moncton; .2) Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) Miss Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saint John; (4)Miss Mabel McMullen,
St. Stephen.
'1ova Scotia: (l) :\Iiss Anne Slattery, Box 173,
Windflor; (2) Mrs. l\lurray :\lacKay. Nova Scotia
HO
'Jital, Dartmouth; (3) Miss A. Edith Fenton,
Dalh I1Isie Health Clin;c, :\Iorris St., Halifax; (4)
:\Iiss Christine MacLeod, 97 South I\:Jine St., Halifax.
Ontario: (I) Miss Marjorie Buck, Norfolk Hospital,
Simcoe; (2) Miss S. M. Jamieson, Peel Memorial
Hospital, Brampton; (3) Mrs. Agnes Haygarth,
21 Sussex St., ToroIlto; (4) Miss Clara BrowIl, 23
Kendal Ave., Toronto,
Prince Edward Island: (1) Miss Lillian PidgeoIl,
Prince Co. Hospital, Summerside, (2) Mis(l F. Lavers,
Prince Co. Huspital. Summerside: (3) Miss I. Gillan,
59 Grafton St., Charlottetown; (4) MiBB M. Gamble,
51 Ambrose St., Charlottetown,
Quebec: (1) Miss C. V. Barrett, Royal Victoria Hos-
pital, Montreal; (2) Miss Martha BatsoIl, Montreal
General Hospital, Montreal; (3) Miss Marioll Nash,
1246 Bishop Street, Montreal; (4) Miss Sara Mathe-
SOIl, Apt. 24, 2151 Lincoln Ave., MontreaL
Saskatchewan: (I) Miss Edith Amas, City Hospital,
Saskatoon; (2) Miss G. l\1. Watson, City Hospital,
Saskatoon; (3) Mrs. E. :\1. Feeny, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament BldgR., Regina; (4) Miss 1\1. R.
C'hisholm, 805 7th Ave. N. Saskatooll.
CHAIRMEN NATIONAL SECTIONS
NURSING EDUCATION: Miss G. M. Fairley, Vancouver
General Hospital, Vancouver; PUBLIC HEALTH: I\liss
M. Moag, 1246 Bishop St., Muntreal; PRIVATE
DUTY: Miss Isabel MacIntosh, Queellscourt Apt.,
75 Queen E:t. S., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary: Miss Jean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
Montreal, P.Q.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
NURSING EDUCATION SECTION
CHAIRMAN: Miss G. M. Fairley, Vallcouver Gelleral
Hospital, Vancouver; VICE-CHAIRMAN: MiBB M. F.
Gray, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
SECRETARY: Miss E. F. Upton, Suite 221, 1396 St.
Catherine St. West, Montreal; TREA8URER: MiI'B M.
Biallche Anderson, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa,
C'OUNCILLOR8-Atberta: l\'1iss J. Connal, General Hos-
pital, Calgary. British Columbia:
'1iss L. Mitchell,
Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria. Manitoba: Miss
:\1. C'. Macdonald, 668 Bannatyne Ave.. Winnipeg.
:"IIew Brunswick: Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel Dieu,
('ampbellton. Nova Scotia: Mrs. Murray
lacJ{ay,
ova Scotia H( spital, Dartmouth. Ontario:
liss
f'. 1\1. Jamieson, Peel Memorial Hospital, Brampton.
Prince Edward Island: Mi!'s l\1. Lavers, Prince
Co. Hospital. Summerside. Quebec: Miss Martha
BatllOn, :\Iontreal General Ho!'pital, Montreal. Sas-
katchewan: Miss G. M. Watson, City Hospital,
askatoon. C'ONVENFR OF PUBLICATIONS: l\liss M.
:\1. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital, Winnipeg.
PRIVATE DUTY SECTION
('HAlRMAN: :\Iiss Isahel l\>lacIntosh, Queenscourt .-\ pt.,
75 Queen
t. S., Hamilton; VICE-('HAIRMAN: Miss
vlabel McMullen, Box 338. St. Stephen; SECRETARY-
TREASURER: Mrs. Rose Hess, 139 \Vellin!!:ton St.,
Hamilton.
('Q{.NCILLORs-Alberta: :\Iiss J. ('low, 11138-82nd
Ave.. Edmonton. British Columbia: Miss M.
\Iirfipld. T!p8chcroft NursinJl: Home, \ïctoria.
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:\Ianitoba: Miss K. McCallum, 181 Enfield Cres.,
Norwood. New Brunswick: Miss Mabel McMullen,
St. Stephen. Nova Scotia: Miss Christine MacLeod,
97 South Kline St., Halifax. Ontario: Miss Clara
Brown, 23 Kendal Ave., Toronto. Prince Edward
Island: l\lisfl M. Gamble, 51 Ambrose St., Charlotte-
town. Quebec: Mifls Sara Matheson, 2151 Lincoln
Ave.. Montreal. Saskatchewan: Miss M. R. Chis
holm, 805 7th .A. ve. N., Saskatoon. CONVENER OF
PUBLICATION8: l\fiss Jean Davidson, Paris.
PUBLIC HEALTH SECTION
CHAIRMAN: Miss M. Moag. 1246 Bishop St., Montreal;
VICE-CHAIRMAN: Miss M. Kerr, 946 20th Ave.. W.,
Vancouver; SECRETAR' -TREA8URER: Miss Mary
Mathewson, 464 Strathcona Ave., Weatmount, P.Q.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: Miss B. A. Emerson, 604
Civic Block, Edmonton. British Columbia: Miss
M. Duffield, 175 Broadway East, Vancouver.
Manitoba: MiBB A. Laporte, St. Norbert. New
Brunswick: Miss Ada Burns, Health Centre,
Saint John. Nova Scotia: Miss A. Edith FentoIl,
Dalhousie Health Clinic, Morris St., Halifax.
Ontario: Mrs. Agnes Haygarth, 21 Sussex St.,
Toronto. Prince Edward Island: MiBB Illa GillaIl,
59 Graftoll St.. Charlottt tOWIl. Quebec: Miss
Marion Nash, 1246 Bishop
t., MOlltreal. Sas-
katchewan: Mrs. E. M. Feeney, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament BuildinJ!s, Re,t:ina. CONVENER
OF PUBLICATION8: Mrs. Agnes Haygarth, 21 SUSSP"I[
St., Toronto.
VOL. XXX, No. I
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
41
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of Reßistered Nurses
President, Miss F. Munroe, Royal Alexandra
Hospital, Edmonton; First Vice-President, Mrs. de
Satge, Holy Cross Hospital, Cal2ary; Second Yice-
President, :\fiss S. :\lacdonald, General HOllpital,
Calgary; Secretary-Treasurer-Registrar, :\lillll Kat. S.
Brighty. Administration Building, Edmonton; CHAIK-
MEN: Nursing Education Section, Mise J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Public Health Section, Mis.
E. A. Emerson, 604 Civic Block, Edmonton; Private
Duty Section, :\liss .J. C. Clow, 11138-82nd Ave.,
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses' Association of British Columbia
President, :\1. F. Gray, 1466 W. 14th Ave., Vancou-
ver; First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-
President, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Van-
couver Block, \'ancouver; Secretary, 1\1. Kerr, 516
Vancouver Block, Vancouver; Conveners of Committees:
Nursing Education, L. :\litchell, Royal Jubilee Hospi-
tal, Victoria; Public Health, :\1. Duffield, 17.'> Broad\\ay
East, Vancouve
; Private Duty, !\Iiss 1\1. Mirfield,
eachcroft Nursmg Home, Cook St., \'ictoria; Coun-
ctllors, M. P. Campbell,
1. Dutton, L. :\lcAlIister
K. Sanderson. '
EM AI\'ITOBA
ÌII Manltoba-A..'nlof Re
ll'Itered NlJrses
Pr
sideIlt,. Miss
eall Houston, Ninette, Man.;
1st Vice-President, MI88 M. Reid, Nurses Home W G H
WiIlIlipeg: 2nd \'ice-President, Miss Christine' Me-:
Leod, General He spital, BrandoIl; 3rd Yice-Presidellt
Si
ter !{rause, St. Honiface Hospital Board Members;
MISBE;s
1. Lan!!:, K. W. Ellis, C. Taylor, 1.
McDiarmid, M. Meehall. E. Shirley, E. Carruthers
. McLeam, Sister Superior, Misericordia Hospital;
Sister
t. Albert, St. Jo
e'ph'e Hospital; Mise
J. PurvIS, PortaJ!e la Prame, General Hospital.
C
nveners of SectioIls: Nursing Education SectioIl,
l\f188 M. C. Macdonald, Central T. B. Clinic 668
B8: nnat yne Ave., WinnipeJ/:; Public Health Se
tit)n,
MIss A. Laporte, St. Norhert, Man.; Private Duty
Section, Mills K. McCallum, 181 Ellfieid Crescellt
Norwo
d, Man.. Conveners of COf!lmittees: Legislativé
C
mmlttee, MIss C. T
ylor; Directory Committee,
ISS E. C
rruth.e,:s.; Social and ProlO'amme, Mi88 C.
n'U:yard; SICk VIsltmg, !\frs. J. R. Hall; Treasurer alld
R
J/:Js
rar: Mrs. Stella Gordon Kerr, 753 Wolseley Ave.,
Wmmpeg.
l\EW BRUr\SWICK
New
runswi<<:k Association of Rc
istered Nurses
Pre!'lldent, 1\1ISS A. J. Mac:\laster, :\loncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First Vice-President, :\liss :\larltaret
l\_lurdnrh; Second Vice-President. l\fiss :\lyrUe E.
Kay: nonor
ry Secretary, Rev. Sister Kenny; Counc.l
.'If embers: :\llss Florence Cnleman, :\lisB H. S. Dvkeman,
l\lrs. A. G. \Yoodcock, !\Iiss Elsie M. Tulloêh; Con.
vef!ers: Publ1c /l.ealth .
ection, "liB8 -\da A. Rums;
Pnvate. Duty S
chon
. :\llss !,Iabel !\Ic:\lullin; Nur!ling
E,luc'l.hon Sectzon, Sister l\_f'rr; Committee Conr'eners:
Tht; Canadi'l.n Nurse, :\Iiss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tutIOn and B,:,-La\\s, :\
iss S. E. Brophv; Secretary-
Trea'lurer-Re!/:JRtrar, :\l1s8 "laud!' E. Retallick 262
Charlotte St. WeRt, Saint John, N.R. '
NOVA SCOTIA
Re
istercd Nurse..'1 Association of Nova Scotia
P
ef>jdent,
Iisll
nne .Slattery, Wind!!or; First \'il"e-
President, MIs8 VICtoria Winslow Halifa"l[' Recond
";""-Pr
..irlppt. Mis!! II.farion Ro
New Gla"..ow'
Third Yice-PrCf1ident, Ristf'r Anna' RetoIl, H
lifax;
l}ecorrlm.Q' Secrptary. Mre. Donald Gillis, 123 Vernon
St., Hahfax; Tre"\surer and Regj"trar, Mias L. F.
Frallf'r, 10 Eastern Trust BldJ!., Halifax.
ONTARIO
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1925)
President, Miss Marjorie Buck. Norfolk Gelleral
Hospital, Simcoe; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Percy, Rm. 321, Jacksoll Bldg., Ottawa; Secolld Vice-
President, Mi88 COIlBtance Bre\\ster, General Hos-
pital, Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Matilda
E. Fitzgerald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman,
Nurse Education Section, Miss S. Margaret JamiesoIl,
Peel Memorial Hospital. Brampton; Chairman,
Private Duty SectioIl, Miss Clara BrowIl, 23 Kelldal
Ave.. ToroIlto; Chairman, Public Health SectioIl, Mrs.
Agnes HaYl!:arth, Provincial Departmellt of Health,
Parliament Bldgs., ToroIlto; District No.1: ChairmaIl,
Miss Priscilla Campbell, Public General Hospital,
Chatham; Secretary Treasurer, Miss Lila Curtis, 78
Forest St., Chatham; Districts e and S: Chairman,
l\liss A. E. Bingeman, Freeport Sanatorium. Kitchener;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Edith Jones, 253 Grenwicb
St., Bralltford; District No.4: Chairman, Miss COIlB-
tance Brewster, General Hospital, Hamilton; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Eva Barlow, 211 StiIlBon St.,
HamiltoIl; District No.5: Chairman, Miss Dorothy
Mickleborough. Provincial Dept., of Health, Parlia-
ment Bldgs., ToroIlto; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss
Irene Weirs, 198 Manor Road East, Toronto; District
No.6: Chairman, Miss Helen !\.1. Anderson, 709 Water
St. Peterborou
h ;Secretary- Treasurer, :\1 iss Dorothy
MacBrien, .:\Iicholls Hospital. Peterboro; Distrirt No.7:
Chairman, Miss Louise D. Acton, General Hospital,
Kinl!:8ton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Olivia Wilson,
General Hospital, KinltstoIl; District No.8: ChairmaIl,
Miss Dorothy Percy, Rm. 321, Jacksoll Bldg., Ottawa;
Secretary-Treasurer, Mi88 A. G. Tanner, Civic Hos.
pital. Ottawa; District No.9: Chairman, Miss Kathe-
rine MacKenzie, 155 Second Ave. W., North Bay;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Robena Buchanan, 197
First Ave. E., North Bay; District No. 10: Chairman,
Mrs. Marion Edwards, 226 N. Harold St., Fort Wil-
liam; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Ethel Steward"on,
:\lcKellar General Hospital, Fort William.
District No. 8 Rl'
lstered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman: Miss D. M. Percy, Vice-Chairman; Miss
M. B. Anderson; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss A. G.
Tanner, Ottawa Civic Hospital; Councillors, Missee
E. C. McIlraith, 1\1. Graham, M. Slinn, A. Brady,
M. Robertson, R. Pridmore; COllveners of Committees,
Membership, Miss E. Rochon; Publications, Miss
E. C. McIlraith; Nursinlt Education, Miss :\1. E.
Ac1and; Private Duty, Miss J. L. Church; Publir
Health, Miss M. Robertson.
District 10, Re
istcrcd Nurses Association
of Ontario
President, Miss \T. Lovehce; \ïce-PrCFidf'nt. 'Ii
s :\1.
Hamilton; Secretnry- TU88urcr, :\1 i!'s E. Ste\\ arrls,'n,
:\1,'Kellar General H08pital. F, rt "ilIiam; C'ouncilkrs:
:\Iiss .Jane HOJ!arth. "liBs :\1. Wallace, :\Iiss C. Lemon,
I\fiils C. Chivers Wil8on, l\Iiss Flannigan, :\liss Irene
Hibditch.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Rc
istcred l'iurses
As...ochtion
Prel'ident. Mi!'!!! Lilian Pidj!'eon, Prince Co. Hospital,
Rummerside; \ïce-Pr!'8ident, :\li!'!'1 :\1. J,inll. C'harlc>tte-
town H osnital; Secretarv, 1\1 is.. :\1. CanH bpI!, 8 Grafton
St.. C'harlott!'tO\\n; Trea8urer and Registrar. Miss
Erina Green. 2:)7 % QUf'!'n St., Chnrlotteto\\ n; .Vursing
Education. :\li8S 1\1. J averil, Prinrf' Co Hnspital,
Summer8ide; Pllblic llealth, I\1i8s I. Gillan, 5!> Grafton
St., Charlottl'to\\n; Pri
ate D,l'", :\Iiss :\1. Gamhle, 51
AmbrOl\e St., Charlntteto\\ n; Rpprcsl'ntative to Tht'
('f1nadian .Vur!lt', :\Iies Anna :\Iair, P.E.I. J-Io8pital.
Charlotteto\\ n.
QUEBFC
Association 01 R
lstpre.t Nur8t''' of the Province
01 Quehec (Irlcorr>orated 1910)
Advis()ry Boarc1,
fi88PS Mary Samuel, I.. C. Plullips
M. 1". Hf'rsl'Y. Bertha Harmf'r, 1\1. A. Mabt'l \lint.
Rev. Mere 1\1. A. Allaire, Rev. Roeur Aup;ustine;
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
President, MiBB Carolille V. Barrett, Royal Victoria
Montreal MaterIlity Hoepital; Vice Presldpnt (English),
MiBB Mar:zaret Moag, V.O.N., 1246 Bishop Street,
Montreal; Vice-Preaidellt (FreIlch), Rev. S06ur Allard,
Hotel-Dieu de St. Joseph, Montreal; HOIl. Secretary,
Miss Elsie Allder, Royal Victoria Hospital; HOIl.
Treasurer, Miss Marioll E. Nash, V.O.N., 1246 Bishop
Street, MOIltrf'al. Other members: Miss Mabel K.
Holt, The Montreal Gelleral Hospital, Mademoiselle
Edna LYIlch, NursiIlg Supervisor, Metropolitall Life
Insurallce Co., MOlltreal, Miss Sara l\1.athesoIl, Apt.
24, 2151 Lillcoin Ave., Miss Charlotte Nixon, 2276
Old Orchard Ave., MOlltreal, Rev.
oeur St. Jean-de-
I'Eucharistie, Hopital Notre Dame, MOlltreal. Con-
veners of SectioIls: Private Duty (English), Miss Sara
MatheBOIl. Apt. 24, Haddoll Hall Apts., 2151 LincolIl
Ave., Montrf'al; (FreIlch) Mile l\lice Lepine, Hop:tal
Notre Dame, MOlltreal; NursiIlg Education (English)
Miss Martha BatsoIl, The MOlltreal General Hospital,
(French) Rev. Soeur Aultust.iIle, Hopital St Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, P.Q.; Public Health, Mil!s Mariall
Nash, V.O.N., Bishop Street, MOlltreal; Board of
Examiners, MiBB C. V. Barrett (CoIlveIler), Royal
Victoria MaterIlity Hospital, MOlltreal, Mme R. D.
Bourque, Universite de Montreal (Ecole d'Hygiene
Appliquee), Melles EdIla LYIlch, Apt. 3, 4503 rue
St-Denis, Montreal, Laura Sellecal, Hopital Notre
Dame, Misses &"ita Sutcliffe, 4635 Queell Mary Road,
MOlltreal, Marion Lilldeburgh, School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, MOlltreal, Olga V. Lillv.
Royal Victoria Montreal Matemity Hospital, Mont-
real; Executive Secretary, Registrar and Official
School Visitor: . Miss E. Frallces Upton. Suite 221.
1
96 St. Catherme St. W.. Montreal.
SASK\TCHEWAN
Saskatchewan I{e1!lstered Nurses Association
(Incorporated March, 1917)
President, Miss Edith Amos, City Hospital, Saska-
tOOIl; First Vice-Pre
idel1t, Miss Ruby M. F:impson,
Dep,!-rtment of Public Health, Regina; Second Vire-
PresldeIlt, Miss Helen B. Smith, General Hospital,
Regina; Councillors, Miss Jean McDonald, 1122 Rae
St., Regina, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
Moose Jaw; Conveners of Standing Committees:
Nursing Education, Miss Gertrude M. WatsoIl, City
Hospital, Saskatoon; Public Health, Mrs. E. M.
Feeney, Department of Public Health, Regina; Private
Duty, Miss M. R. C'hisholm.
0.5-7th A ,,'e. N".,
aska-
toon; Legislation, Miss R. M. Simpson, RelÒna; Secre-
tar,}<-Treasurer and Registrar, l\1iss Margaret Ross,
45 Angus Crescent, Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Calgary Association of Graduate Nurses
Hon. President, Dr. H. A. GibsoIl; President, Miss
P. Gilbert; First Vice-President, Miss K. Lynn; Second
Vice-President, Miss F. Shaw; Recording and Acting
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. V. Kennedy. 1
07
First St. W.; Treasurer, Miss M. Watt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate Nurses
President, Miss Ida JohnsoIl; First Vice-President,
Miss P. ChapmaIl; Second Vice-President, Miss E.
Fenwick; Recording Secretary, Miss Violet Chapman,
Royal Alexalldra Hospital, EdmoIltoIl; Press alld
CorrespoIlCling Secretary, Miss Clow, 11138 Whyte
Ave., Edmonton; Treasurer, Miss M. Staley, 9838-
108th St., EdmoIltoIl; Registrar, Miss Sproule, 11138
Whyte Ave., Edmollton.
Medicine Hat Graduate Nunes Association
Preeident, MiA M. Hagerman: First Vice-PreaideIlt,
MiBB Gilchrist; Secolld Vice-President, Miss J. Jorgen-
son; Serretary, MiBB May Reid, Nurses' Home;
Treasurer, MiBB F. IrelaIld, let St.; Medicine Hat;
Committee Convellers: New Memberehip, Mrs. C.
Wright; Flower, Mrs. M. Tobin; Private Duty Section,
Mrs. Chas. Pickering; CorrespoIldeIlt, "Th.. Crmadwn
Nurse", Mil!l! F. Smith. Regular meetiIlg firøt Tuesday
in month.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Nelson Graduate Nurses' Association
Hon. President. Miss V. B. Eidt. Acting Superinten
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital;1 President.
Miss K. Gordon; First Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Mad-
den; Second Vice-President, Miss S. Archibald; Secre-
t
Treasurer, Miss Edna Fraser, Box 1l05,!Nelson,
VaDCouvt'1' Graduate Nurses A88odation
Preeident, Mia K. Sallderson, 1310 Jervis St.,
Vancouver; First Vice-President, Mia M. D. Mac-
Dermot, Prevelltorium, 2755-21st Ave. E., Vancouver;
Second Vice-PreeideIlt, Miss J. DavidsoIl; Secretary,
Mil!l! F. H. Walker. Gelleral Hospital, Vancouver;
Treaeurer, Mil!l! L. G. Archibald, 536-12th Ave. W.,
Vancouver; Council, Mieees G. M. Fairley, M. F.
Gray, M. Duffield, J. JOhIlStoIl, J. KHburIl; COIl-
vellers of Committees: Finance, Mrs. Farrinll'toIl;
Directory, MiBB M. I. Teulon; Social, Miss M. I. Hall;
Pro
amme, Mil!l! G. Archibald; Sick Visiting, Mil!l!
C. Cooper; Membersbip, MiBB M. Mirfield; Local
Council of Women, Misllell M. F. Grav, M. Duffield;
Press. Mrs. D. K. Simm.. .
Vlctnl'la Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. Presidents, Miss L. Mitchell, Sister Superior
Ludovic; PresideIlt, Miss E. J. Herbert; First Vice-
PresideIlt, Miss D. FramptOIl; Second Vice-PresideIlt,
Miss C. McKenzie; Secretary, Miss I. Heiltesell ;
Treasurer, Miss W. Cooke; Registrar, Miss E. Franks,
1035 Fairfield Road, Victoria; Executive Committee,
Miss E. B. StrachaIl, Miss H. Cruikshanks, Miss E.
McDoIlald, Miss C. Kenny, Miss E. Cameron.
MANITOBA
Brandon Graduate Nurses' Association
HOIl. Prea.ideIlt, Miss E. Birtle!!; HOD. Vice-Presideu t
Mrs. W. ShilliIlglaw; President, Miss E. G. McNally;
First Vice-President, Miss Janet AIldersoIl; Second
Vice-PresideIlt, Mrs. Lula Fletcher; Secretary, Miss
Jessie Munro, 243 12th St.; TreasLrer, Mrs. M. Long;
COllveners of Committees: Social and Programme,
1\Irs. Eidoll Hannah; Sick and Visitinlt, Mrs. Rowe
Fisher; Welfare, Miss Gertrude Hall: Press Reporter,
Miss Helell Morrison; Cook Book, Mrs. J. M. KaiIlB;
ReJl:istrar, Miss C. M. Macleod.
ONTARIO
Graduate Nurses Alumnae, WeUand
HOIl. President, Miss E. Smith, Superilltendent,
Weiland General Hospital; Hon. Vice-PresideIlt, MiBB
M. Hall, Weiland Gellera] Hospital; President, Miss
D. Saylor; Vice-President, Miss B. Saullders; Secretary,
MiBB M. RiIlker, 28 Divisjoll St.; Treasurer, MiBB B.
Eller; Executive, MisBea M. Peddie, M. Tufte, B.
Clothier and Mrs. P. Brasford.
QUEBEC
Graduate Nurses AS80ctßffon of the Eastern
Townships
HOIl. President, Mies V. Beane; PresideIlt, Mia H.
HetheriIlgton: First Vice-President, MiBB G. DwaIle;
Second Vice-President, Mil!s N. ArguÏIl; Recording
Secretary, MiBB P. GustafsoIl; Correspollding Secre-
tary, Miss M. Mason, VHa Londoll St..
herhrooke,
P.Q.; Treasurer, Miss M. Robins; Representative,
Private Dutv Section. MiBl! M. Morri"sette; Repre-
eentative, "The Canadian Nurse", Mi8I! C. Hornby,
Box 324, Sherbrooke, P,Q.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses' Association
Honl President, :\Iiss L. C. Phillips; President;
:\tiss Christille Watling, 1230 Bishop Street; First
Vice-President, Miss Sara Matheson; Secolld Vice-
President, Mrs. A. Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and
ight Registrar, Miss Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop
treet; Day Registrar, Miss K
thleen Bliss; llelief
Rel!;istrar, :\Iiss H. M. Sutherland; Convener Griffin-
town Club, Miss G. Colley. Regular :\feeting, Second
Tu('Sday of January, first Tuesday of April, October
and Decf'mbpr.
"t3
SASKA TCHE\V Al'\
l\loose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. 'president, Mrs. 1\1. Young; President, Miss R.
I ast; First Vice-President, Miss C. Kier' Second Vice-
President, Mrs. W. Metcalfe; Secret
ry-Treasurer
Miss J. Moir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; Convener
of Committees: Nursing Education, Mrs. 1\1. Young,
Sr: Mary Raphael,. Miss E. Jensen; Private Duty,
MIss E. Wallace, !l.l1ss E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds
MiBB J. Casey; Public Health, Registrar, MiBB C. Kier:
Programme, Miss G. Taylor; Sick Visiting, Miss L
Trench; Social, Miss M. Armstrong; Constitutions and
By-la\\s, Miss E. Lamond; Representative "The Cana-
dian !V
rse", Miss
1. Gall; Press Representative,
1rs.
J. Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
A.A., Royal Alezandra Hospital Edmonton
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss F. MUIlroe; PreøideIlt, Mrs.
Scott HamiltoIl; Firet Vice-President, Miss V. Chap-
man; Second Vice-PresideIlt, Mrll. C. Chillneck;
Rerording Secretary, MiBB G. AIlYIl; CorreepoIlCliIlg
Secretary, MiBB A. Oliver, Royal Alexandra Hoepital;
Treasurer, Mi8ll E. English, Suite 2, 10014 112 Street.
A.A.. Holy Cro88 Hospital. Calilary
President, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-PresideIlt, MiBB
A. WillisOIl; RecordiIlg
ecretary, MiBB E. Thom;
C'orrespoIldiIlg Secretary, MiBB P. N. Gilbert; Treasurer,
MiA S. CraiJZ;; Honorary Members, Rev. Soeur St. Jean
de l'Eucharistie, MiBB M. Brown.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Hon. President, Miss F. E. Welsh; President. :\frs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Secretary. Miss F. E. Reid. 1009 20th Avellue. W.,
Calgary; Convenor. Social Committee: Mrs. R. Shears.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.A. St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
HOIl. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, MiBB B.
Geddes; Vice-President, Miss R. :\lcKernan; Secretary,
Miss F. Treavor, Assistant Secretary, Miss V. Dyer;
Treasurer, Miss B. Muir; Executive. Misses 1\1. Mc-
DOllald. E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, S. Christie,
R. McGillivary, K.
lcDonald.
A.A., Vancouver General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss G. Fairley; President, Miss
Mary McPhee; First Vice-President, Miss Lunan;
Second Vice-President, Miss Erskine; Correspollding
Secretary, Miss Melneczuk; Recording Secretary,
Miss Collier; Treasurer, Miss Geary, 3176 West 2nd
Ave.; Committee Conveners: ProJZ:Y'amme, Mrs. Gillies;
Sewing, Mrs. Gordon; Sick Visiting, Miss Shaw; Mem-
bership, Miss H. Campbell; Mutual Benefit, Miss
Maitland; Refreshments, Mrs. BIankenbach; Represen-
tatives: Local Press, Miss Cotsworth; V.G.Nu-\., Mrl!.
Wilsoll.
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
Hon. President, MiBB L Mitchell; PresideIlt, MiBB Jean
Moore; First Vice-PreøideIlt, Mre. Yorke;
econrJ Vice-
President, MiA J. GraIlt: Secretary, Mre. A. Do\\ell,
30 Howe St.; Assistant Secretary, Mi88 J. Stewart;
Treasurer, MiBB C. Todd: Entertainment Committee,
MiBB I. Goward; Sick Nuree. MiBB E. Newman.
MANITORA
A.A.., Children's Hospital, Wlnnlpe
Hon. President, Miss M. B. Allan; President, l\tise
Catherine Day; First Vice-President, Mi88 Edith
Jarrett; Secretary. MiB!! Elsip Fraser, Chiidrell's Hospi-
tal. WinIlipeg; Treasurer, MiBB 1\1. Hughes, 15 Mnunt
Royal Apts., Winnipeg; Sick Visiting Committee, Mis!
M. Atkinson; Entertainment Committee. Mrs. Geo.
WilBon.
A. A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Kraul\e,
t. BOlli face
Nurses Home; President, Miss Clara Miller, 815
Broadway, Wpg.; First Vice-President,l\tiBB H. Stephen,
15 Ruth .\pts., Maryland St.. Wpg.; Second Vice-
President, Miss M. Madill, F. -\shford Blk., Wpg.;
Secretary. Miss Jeannie Archiblad, Shriners Hospital,
Wpg.; Treasurer, Miss Etta !:'hirley, 14 King George
Ct., Wpg.; Social Convener, Miss K. McCallum, 181
Enfield Cr., Norwood; Sick \Ïsiting Convener, MiBB
B. Greville, 211 Hill St.. Nor\\ood; Rep. to J ocal
Council of Women, Miss 1\1. Rutlpy, 12 Eugenie Apts.,
Norv.ood; Representative to Press, Mrs. S. G. Kf'rr.
753 Wolseley Ave., Wpg.
A.A., Winnlpe
General Hospital
Hon. President, :\frs. A. W. Moody, 97 Ash bt.;
President, Miss E. Parker, Ste. 25 Carlyle Apta., 580
Broadway; First \'ice-President, :\Irs. C. V. Combes,
530 Dominioll St.; Second Vice-President, Miss J. Mc-
DOllald, Deer Lodge Hospital; Third Vice-President,
IiBB E. YUBBack, 867 Malwus Ave.; Recording Secre-
tary, MiBB J. Landy, Winnipeg General Hospital;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss M. Graham, Winnipeg
General Hospital; Treasurer, :\1iBB M. C. McDonald,
Central Tuberculosis Clinic; Membership: Miss I.
Ramsay. Celltral Tuberculosis Clinic; Sick Visiting,
Miss J. 1\Ior
an, 102 Rose St.; Entertainment, Mrs. C.
l\fc
mlan, Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of Journal,
Miss R. Monk. 134 Westgate; BusiIlesS Manager, :\fiBB
E. Timlick, Winnipeg General Hospital; Specuú Com.
miUee, MiBB P. Bro\\nell, 215 ChestIlUt St.
NEW BRUNSWICK
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. Prp!!ident, :\Iiss E. J. :\Iitehell; President, :\1r!l.
G. L. Dunlop; First \ïce-President, :\Iiss E. L. Hen-
derson; Second \ïce-PrPBident, :\1rs. F. :\1. :\Ic Keh ey;
ecret8ry, Mrs. J. E. Beyea. 121 {'ninn
t., :-iaint John,
.B.; Treasurer, Miss hate Holt; .\dditional members,
:\Ir!!. J. H. Vaughan, :\1 nil. II. H. :\1 eLellan, Mrs. A.
G. Clinch.
A.A., L. P. Fisher :\1emorlalllospltal, Woodstock
Hon. President, :\1 ills Elsie Tullneh; President, :\1 (8.
Harry Dunbar; \ ice-President, :\liBB Gladys Jlay\\ard;
e('retary-Trea!!-urer, Miss Pauline Palnlt'r; ß..Rrd of
Directors: Miss G. Tams. :\Irs. B.
utton, :\frs. Fulton,
:\Iiss :\1.
amphier, :\Ii!ls :-;. \ f'neflS; C()mmittl'
Con-
reners: Prollramme, :\Irs. P. Cald\\ell, :\Ii!ls E. Kerr,
:\tiss E. Dunbar, l\1ifols B. Bellis; Sick Visiting. :\1i!l!l II:
C'ummi n
s. l\t iss D. Peahody, :\11l1li-' :\1 f'rSf'reau;
Editor. l\1 i!J8 1\1.
amphier
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A..A., Belleville Gen er.l I Hospital
lion. Pn'l\ident, :\tiss Florf'nce :\Idndoo; Prf'sideIlt,
Miss Retfl FitzJZ;erald: \ ic('--Prf'..idf'nt, :\Irs. J. Andrew.;
Sccrptary, :\Iillll! L.
mith; Tre'lfolurer. :\Iill" ;\1arion
lacFarlane; Flo\\pr C'ommittee. Misø Betty :\lrF\'8n;
Representativp to Th,. ('l1nndian Nur",.. :\liflf\ H.
Thompson.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
BRANTFORD
A..\., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. M. McKee; President, Miss
K. Charnley; Vice-Preòident, Miss G. Turnbull;
Secretary, Miss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
:\fiss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
Mrs. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
Miss W. Laird, Miss M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
fills J. Edmondson, Mrs. E. Claridge; The Canadian
Nurae and Press Representative, l\liss H. Diamond;
Chairman, Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole;
Representative to Local Council of \'" omen. '-liss R.
Cleave
.
BROCKVILLE
A. A., Brockvllle General Hospital
HOIl. President, MISS A. L. Shannette; President,
Mrs. H. B. White; First Vice-President, Miss M.
Arnold; Secolld Vice-President, Miss J. NicholBoIl;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
Miss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Vandusen. 65 Church St.;
Representßtive to "The Calladian Nurse", l\fiss V
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A. A., Public General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss P. Campbell; President, Miss
D. Thomas; First Vice-PresideIlt, Miss B. Pardo;
Second Vice-President, Miss H. Simpson; Recording
Secretary, Miss K. Crackel. 12 Duluth St., Chatham;
Correspollding Secretary, Miss R. Willmore; Treasurer,
Miss E. Mummery, 35 Emma St.. Chatham; Repre-
selltative "The Canadian Nurøe," Miss M. McDougall.
A. A., St. Joseph's Hospital
HOIl. PresideIlt, Mother Mary; Hon. Vice-President,
Sister M. Consolata; President, Miss Mary Doyle,
Vice-President. Miss Marian Kearns; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Letty Pettypiece; Executives, Misses
Hazel Gray, Jessie ltoss, Lena Chauvin, I. Salmon,
Representative "The Canadian Nurse", Miss Ruth
Willter; Representative District No.1. R.N.A.O.
Miss Jeall Lundy.
CORNWALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. J. Boldick; President, Miss
Mary Fleming; First Vice-President. Mil's Kathleen
Burke; Secc.nd Vice-President, Miss Bernice Mc-
Killop; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss C. Droppo, Cornwall
General Hospit!1l; Representative "The Canadian
Nurse", Miss H. C. WilSOIl, Cornwall General Hospital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. Cleaver; President, Miss
S. Mitchell; Secretary, MiBB L.
facNair, 91 Victoria
Ave.; Assietant Secretary, Mifs T. Rainey; Treas'Jrer,
MiBB A. MacDonald; Flower CO:Ivener, Miss Ruther-
ford; Representat.ive to "The Canadian Nurse" and
Press Representative, MiBB M. Vandyke.
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss S. A. Campbell, Supt. Guelph
Gelleral Hospital; President, Miss C. S. Zeigler; First
Vice-President, Miss D. Lambert; Second Vice-Presi-
deIlt, Mil's M. Darby; Secretary, Miss N. Kenney;
Treasurer. Miss J. Watson; Committees: Flower, Miss
R. Speers. Miss I. Wilson; Social, Mrs. M. C'ockwe!l
(Convener); P.rogramme, Miss E. M. Eby (Convener);
Representative "The Canadian Nurse", Miss Marion
Wood.
HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss E. C. Rayside, HamiltOll
General Hospital; President, Miss Helen Aitken,
Vice-President, Mrs. Hess, 139 Wellington St.; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss D. McRobbie, 9 Olltario Ave.;
Correspondinlt Secretary, Miss E. Gayfpr; Treasurer,
Miss Helen Buhler, 549 Main St.; Secretary-Treasurer
Mutual Benefit Association, Miss D. Watson, 145
Emerald St. S.; Lel!;al Adviser, Mr. F. F. Treleaven;
EXlicutive Committee, Mil's M. Buchanan (Con-
T.ner), Mra. M. Barlow, Misses J. Souter, Hannah,
LiTÌIlg.tone, Helin; Programme Committee. l\tiss
Dixon (Convener), 1\1isses Murray, MacIntosh,
Galloway, BenIlett, Pegg; Flower and Visitinp: Com-
mittee, Miss M. Sturrock (Convener), Misses Squires
and Burnett; Representatives to Local Council of
Women, Mise Burnett (Convener), Mrl'. Hess, Miss
E. Buckþee, Miss C. Harley; Representative to R.N.-
A.O., MIss G. Hall, Representatives to Registry Com-
mittee, Missses A. Nugent (Convener), Burnett, I.
MacIntosh, Florence Leadley, E. Davidson, Margaret
Clark,. I. Buscombp, H. Aitken, Binkley, Pegg; Repre-
sentative to \Vomen's Auxiliary, l\lrs. Stephen;
Repr.esentatives to "The Canadian Nurse", Mil'sPS
ScheiBe, E. Bell, R. Burnett.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother Martina; President, Mis8
Eva Moran; Vice-President, Miss F. Nicholson
Secretary, Miss Mabel Macintosh, 48 Locomotiv
Street; Treasurer, Miss M. Kelly, 43 Gladstone Avenue;
Representative "The Canadiall Nurse", Miss B. Cronin,
103 Au
usta Rtreet; Representative R.N.A.O., Miss
J. !\Iorin.
KINGSTON
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kingston
HOIl. President, Rev. Sister Donovan- President
Mrs. W. G. .Eldpr; Vice-President, Mrs: A. Hearn;
Recret
ry, MIss Ohvp McDermott; Treasurer, Miss
G
nevle
e Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
Misses. K. Mrqarry, 1\1. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
CommIttee, Mlss
s N. Sppagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. W.
Clarke. Misses N. Hickey, R. Watson.
A.A., KinQ,ston General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Louise D. Acton' President
Miss Ann Baillie; First Vice-President, t.liss Carri
Milton; Second Vire-Pre8ident, MisR Olivia M. Wilson
T
ird Vice-Pre!"ident, Miss A. Walsh;
ecret8ry:
MIl's Anna DavIs, 464 Frontenac St.; Treasurer, Mrs.
C. W. Mallory, 203 Albert St.; Convener Flower
Committee, . Mrs. E:idney Smith, 151 Alfred St.; Press
Represent
tIve,
1lss Mary 'Vheeler, KingRton Gen-
eral Hospital; Pnvate Duty Rpction, Miss Constanre
Sand"ith, 235 Alfred Street.
KITCHENER
A.A., Kitchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss K, W. Scott; President, Mrs.
Wm. Noll; First Vice-President, Mrs. W. Ziegler'
Se
ond Yic
-President, Miss Elsie Trouse; Secretary;
:\-f1
8 \\ Inmfred Nelson, Apt. D. 58 Albert St. N.;
A8!,lstant-Recretary, Miss Jean Sinclair; Treasurer,
MIss M. Orr.
LINDSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss E. S. Reid; President, Miss L.
J. HardinJl:; First Vice-President. :\1rs. O. Walling.
Seco
d Vice-President, Mrs. 1\1. I. Thurston; Corres
pondIng Secretary, Mrs. J. R Morrison, 46 ColborDe
St. 'V.; Treasurer, Mrs. G. R. Allen; Flou'er Convener
Miss D. 1\1. Smith; Social Convener, Miss K. S. Morti
Illore.
LONDON
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Mother M. PaRcal; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dpnt, Sister St. Elizabeth; Pre8ident, Miss Florence
Connolly; First Vice-President, 1\Iiss Olive O'Neil'
Second Vice-Prpsident, Miss Gertrude Dietrick' Re
ording Secretary, Miss Gladys Martin; Corrpspo
din/1;
Fpe'retarv, Miss Irene Griffen; Treasurer, Mis8 Orpha
Miller; Press Reprpsentative. Miss Madalene Baker'
ReprPBentatives to Registry Board: Misses R. Rouatt:
E. Armishaw, F. Connolly.
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent, Mr
. A. E. Silverwood; President, Miss M. 1\1.
Jones, 257 Ridout. St., S., London; First Vice-Presidpnt
Miss C. Gillies; Second Vice-President, Miss M. l\1('
Lau/!,hlin; Treasurer, Mi!'s M. ThomaR, 490 Piccadi'ly
St., London; Recri'tary, MiRs V. Ardiel; C'orrespondinl/:
Secretary, Miss G. Hardy, 64!i Queen's Ave., Londrn'.
Board of Directors, Missps Mortimer, Walker Yule'
Malloch, McGugan, Mrs. H. Smith. '
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
NIAGARA'"'FALLS
-
Nia
ara Falls General Hospital .....
Hon. President, Miss :\1. S. Park; President, Miss
G. Thorpe; First 'ï ce-Presi dent , Miss H. Srhofield;
Second Vice-President. Miss K. Prest; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss I. Hammond, 634 Ryerson Crescent,
Niagara Falls; Correspondinl!; Secretary, Miss F.
Loftus; Auditors, Mrs. M. Sharpe, Miss F. Loftus;
Sick CommittE'e, Miss Y. Coutts,
tiss A. Pirie and
:\frs. J. Teal.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Dufferin Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. O. Fleming; President, Miss L'
!\I. Sproule; First 'ïce-President, Miss V. Lee; Second
Vice-President, :\Iiss I. Allen; CorrespondinJ! Secretqry,
:\Iiss 1\1. Bridgeman; Recordinj1: Secretary, Miss E. M
Hayward; Treasurer, :\'Iiss A. Burke.
ORILLIA
A.A., OrUUa Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, 1\liss E. Johnston; President, Miss
G. M. Wmt; First Vice-President. Miss L. Whitton;
[':econd Yice-President, Miss 1\1. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Alice M. Smith, 112 Peter St. N.
Regular !\Ieeting-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA WA
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. MacWilliams; President,
Miss Jessie McIntosh, 39 Simcoe St. N.; \"ice-President,
Miss Jean Thompson; Secretary, Miss Jessie Mc-
Kinnon, 134 Alice St.; Asst-Secretary, Miss Irene
Goodman, 512 Simcoe St. N.; Corr-Secretary, Miss
Jean [':te\\art. 134 Alice St.: Treasurer, Mrs. W. Luke,
Madison Apts., Simcoe St. S.
OTTA W A
A.A. Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. President, Miss M. A. Catton, Carleton Place;
President, Miss J. Blyth, Civic Hospital; Vice-President
Miss 1\1. McNiece, Perley Home; Secretary, Mrs.
R. L. Morton, 29 Clegg St.; Treasurer, Miss M. C.
Slinn, 204 Stanley Ave.; Board of Directors, Miss E.
McColl, Miss S. McQuade, Miss L. Bedford, Mrs.
E. C. Elmitt; Rppresentative "The Canadian Nurse",
:\liss A. Ebbs, 80 Hamilton Ave.; Representative to
Central Rep:istry, !\Iiss R. Pridmore, 90 Third Ave.;
Prpss Representative, Miss E. Allen.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon.-President, Miss Gprtrude Bennett; President,
MiBB Edna Osborne: 1st Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Moxley; 2nd \ïre-President, Miss Lera Barry; Re<'ord.
ing Secretary, Miss Martha McIntosh; Corresponding
Serretary, Miss M. Do\\ney; Treasurer, Miss Winifred
Gemmell; Councillors, Mis8 K. ClarkI', Mis8 Webb,
Miss G. Froats, Miss B. Eddy, Miss E. Lyons;
Represpntative8 to Central Registry, Miss Inda Kemp
:\fiss K. Clarke, Press-Correspondent, fo.tisA Evelyn
Pepper; Convener Flower Committee, Miss 1\1.
MacCallum.
A.A. Ottawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitille; President,
Miss K. Bayley; First \ïce-President, Miss G. Clark;
Second Vice-President, Miss M. Munroe; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss D. Knox; Membership Secretary, Mis8
1\1. Daley; Representatives to Local Council of Women,
Mrs. J. A. Latimer. Mrs. E. Viau, Mrs. L. Dunne,
Miss F. Nevins; Representatives to Central Rep:istry,
Mis8 M. O'Hare, 1\1iss A. Stackpole; Representative
to "The Canadian l,urse", Mis8 Kitty Ryan.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
HUll. Prpsident, Miss Maxwell; President, Mis8
Doris Thompson; Vice-President, MÍ8B Diana Brown;
Secretary, Mrs. J. Pritchard; Treasurer, Mis8 May
Hewitt; Nominating Committee, fo.lissps Sadie Clark,
:\fina MacT arpn, Hazpl T yttle.
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OWEN SOUND
A.A. Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital
Hon. Presi<!ent, .
Iiss B. Hall; President, Miss Cora
ompso
; First \ ICe-President, Miss F. Rae; Second
\ I
e-Presldent, Miss C. 1\1 ax \\ ell; Sec.-Treasurer.
1\l1s8 Mary Paton; Asst.
Secretary-Treasurer, Mis8 J.
Agnew; Flo\\er Committee Mi!!!! Alma "eedon
Miss
Iarjorie. Ellis and Mr
. J. Burns; Proj1:ramm
Committee, MIss
. Cruikshanks, Mis8 Cora Stewart;
P
ess Rep
esentatlve, Miss M. Story; Lunch Com-
mittee, 1\l1ss Leone McDonald, Miss R. Duncan
Mrs. L. Burns; Auditor, Miss 1\1. Simpson. '
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, Miss 1-1.
A.nderson, 710 Georl/;e St.; First Vice-President, Mis8 L.
Simpson; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Watson
Secre.tary, Miss F. Vickers, 738 George St.; Corres:
pondmg Secretary, MiBB E. McBrien; Treasurer, Mills
L. Rail, 641
Vater St.; Convener Social Committee:
Mrs. Roy White; Convener of Flower Committee, Mrs.
Ray Pogue.
SARNI A
A.A., Sarnia General Hospital
H?n. :.:'.residen
, Miss M. Lee; President, Miss L.
Segr
st; \i Ice-President, l\IissA. Cation; Secretary, Miss
A,. SIlverthorn; '!reasurer. Miss A. Wilson; The Cana.
dlan Nunre, 1\hss C. :\Iedcroft; Flower Committep
(Convener) Miss D. Shaw; Programme and Socisl
Committee, Miss L. Segrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Mis8 A. M. Munn; President, Mis8
F. Kudoba; Vice-President, Mrs. E. C. Moulton'
Secretary-Treasurpr, Miss A. Rock, 97 John St., Strat
for4; Corresponding Secretary, Mis8 L. McNairn.
Social Convener, Miss L. Atwood.
ST. C:\THERI:\'ES
A.A., Mack Traininal School
Hon.
resident, .Miss Anne Wright, General Hospi-
t8;l; Pr
\Ident, . :\l1ss No.ra Nold, General Hospital;
First \ Ice-Pre<lIdent, :\11"s
larj1:aret !\lcClunie, 39
Chaplin Ave.; Second 'ïce-President, !\Iiss Evelyn
Horton, Louth St.; Secretary- Treasurpr, Miss J. Hastie,
General Hospital; Social Committee, :\Ii!!!! Aileen Johr-
ston, General Hospital, !\Iiss Donalda Veale, 35 Aca-
demy St., Miss Bernice Rule, 146 Weiland Ave.;
Representative to "The Canadian Nur3e", I\liss
Featherstone, 17 Hainer St.; Corre3pondent, MiB8
Current; Programme Committee,
liEs Brubaker, 1
Fitzgerald St.
ST. THOMAS
A.A.
Iemorlal Hospital
Hon. President.
\liss Lucille Armstrong. Memorial
Hospital; Hon. Vice-President, Mis8 Mary Buchanan,
Memorial Hospital; President, MiAs Marllaret Benja-
field. 39 Wellington St.; First Vice-President, Mis8
Irene Garrow; Second Vice-President, Mis8 Bella
Mitchner; RecC'rding
ecretary, Mrs. John Rmale.
34 Erie St.; Correspondinj1: Secretary, Mis8 Florence
York. 52 Kains St.; Treasurer, Miss Irene Ble\\ett,
88 Kains St.; "The Canadian Nurse" !\lis8 Irene
Garrow, 23 l\Iyrtle St.; Executive, Misse8 Hazel
Hastings. Lissa Crane, Mary Oke, Mrs. Allen Burrell
Mrs. Elvin Wisson.
TORONTO
A.A., Grace Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. C. J. Currie; President, Mrs.
W. J. Cryderman' Recording Secretary, Mi. I.
Gilbert; COITeøpon"-ing Secretary, Mis8 Lillian E.
Wood, 20 Mason Blvd., Toronto 12; Treasurer. Mis8
V. M. Elliott, 194 Cottingham St.
A.A., The Grant MacDonald Trolinlng School
for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss Esther M. Cook, 130 Dunl1
Avenue; Pret'ident. Miss Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn
Avenue; Vice-President, l\lrs.
larlOn Smith; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss Norma McLeod; Corrpspondinj1:
Secretary, Mis8 Ethel Watson; Treasurer. Mis8 Phyllis
T awrencp; Social Convener, :\Iiss Kathlf'f"n ("uffp
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Ron.-President. Mrs. Goodson; Hon. Vice-Presidents.
Miss Flurence J. Pottt, Miss Kathleen Panton; Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. L. Langford; First Vice-Prp8irlent
Miøs Florence Booth; Second Vice-President, Mr..
W. F. Raymond; Recording
ecretary, Mrs. Clarence
Cas8an; Corresponding Secretary, Miss L. Loraine
Morrison, 54 Sheldrake Blvd.; Treasurer, Miss Marie
Grafton 534 Palmerston Blvd.; Social Convener.
Mrs. C
cil Tom; Flower Convener. Miss Alice Boxall;
Programme Committee, Miss Jean Masten; Publicity
Committee, Miss Margaret Collins; Welfare Com-
mittee, Mrs Dall Smith; Representative to Registry,
Mise Florence Currie.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, Miss Alma Armstronll, Riverdale Hos-
pital; First Vice-President, Miss Gertrude Gastrell
Riverdale Hospital; Second Vice-President, Mrs. F.
Lane, 221 Riverdale Ave.; Secretary, Miss Lexie
Staples, 491 Broadview Ave.; Treasurer, Mrs. H.
Dunbar; Board of Directors, Miss K. Mathieson,
Riverdale Hospital, Miss S. Stretton. 7 Edllewood
Ave., Miss E. Baxter. Riverdale Hospital, Mrs. E.
Quirk, Riverdale Hospital. Miss L. Wilson, 11 Sher-
wood Ave.; Press and Publications, Miss Laurel
Wilson. II Sherwood Ave., Toronto.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
Hon. President, Sister Beatrice, St. John's Convent;
President, MiBB Susan 1\h;r
an, 322 St. Georjl;e St.;
First Vice-President, !\Iiss Nan Hetherinllton, Nurses'
Residence, Toronto General Hospital; Second Yice-
President, Mis8 Kathleen Burtchall, 28 Major Street;
Rec. Secretary, Miss Helen Frost, 450 Maybank Ave.;
Cor. Secretary, Miss Marllaret Creijl;hton. 152 Boon
Ave.; Treasurer, Miss Winni
red Webb, 77 Summerhill
Ave.; Conveners. Entertainment Committee, Miss
Nettie Davis, 32 Albany Avenue; Sick and Visiting
Committee, Miss Gladys Batten, 32 Albany Avenue;
Prelli' Representative, Miss Grace Doherty, 26 Norwood
Road.
A.A., St Joseph's lI()spital
HOIl. President, Rev. Sister Mary Margaret; Presi-
dent, Miss G. Davie; FirBt Vice-Preflident, Miss E.
Morrison; Second Vice-President, Miss A. Tohin;
Recording Secretary, MiEs M. O'M.alley; Correø-
ponding Secretary, Miss J. Gallal!:her; Treasurer,
Mis8 A. Harrigan; Councillors, Mrs. G. Beckett,
Misses 1\1. Conway, R. Jean-:\larie and L. Boyle.
A.A.. St. Michael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; Hon. Vice-
President. Rev. Sister Jean; President, Miss Ethel
Crocker; First Vice-President. Mrs. Aitkin; Second
Vice-Prl'Bident. Mis8 Mary Edwards; Third Vice-
President, Miss Helen Dunnijl;an; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss M. Doherty; RecordinJ!: Secretary. Miss
Marie Melody; Treasurer. Miss G. Coulter, 42 Isabella
St., Apt. 204, Toronto: Prpss Representative, Miss May
Greene; Counci1lc>re Misses J. O'Connor. M. Madden.
H Kerr: Private Duty Misfl A Gaudet; Public Health,
Miss I McGurk; Represpntat.ive Central Registry of
Nurse8, Toronto. MiBB M Melody.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
Hon. Vice-President, Miss Jean Gunn; President,
Miss N. Fidler, Ontario Hospital, Whitby; First Vice-
President. Miss J. Anderson; Second \ïce-PreBident,
Mis8 E. Manning; Serretary, Mrs. A. W. Farmer. 89
Breadalbane St.; Treasurer, !\li88 E. Robson, T.G.H.
Residence; Asst. TreaBurpr, Miss Forl!:ie; Archivist,
'-'Iiss Kniseley; Councillors, Miss J. Wilson, Miss Diy,
:\fiS8 E. Cryderman; Committee Conveners; Flower,
Miss M. McKay; Prollramme, Miss E. Stuart; Pre8S,
Miss M. Stewart, Ki. 5155; Insurance, Mies M. Dix;
Nominations, Miss C. SoudVlith; Social, Mies J. Mit-
chell; Elizaheth Field Smith Memorial Fund. Miss
Hannant.
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Tralnin
School for Nurses
Ron. President, Mis!! E. McLean, Toronto East
General Hospital; Presidert, !\Irs. E. Philips. 155 Don-
lands Ave., Vice-President, MiF.s J. McMastpr, 155
Donlands Ave.; Secretary-Treaøurer. Mis8 N. V.
Wilson, 50 Cowan Ave.; Representative to Central
Registry. Miss M. Beston, 753 Glencairn Ave., MiBB
B. MacIntosh, 748 Soudan Ave.; Representative to
R.N.A.O., :Miss B.
'[acIntosh, 748 Soudan Ave.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Ron. President, Mis8 B. L. Ellis; Presirlent, Mis8 F.
Matthews, Toronto Western Hospital; \ ice-Pre8ldent,
Mis8 E. Bolton; Recording Secretary. MlS8 Maude
Campbell;
ecretary-1reasurer. Mis8 Isabel Buckley,
Toronto Wpstern Hospital; Representative to "The
Canadian Nurse", M:s8 A Woodward; Representative
to Local Counril of Women. Mrs. I. MacConnell; Hon.
Councillors, MrB. Annie Yorke; Mrs. I. MacConnell;
Councillors, Mi88es Annie Coonev. L. Steacv. G. San-
ders. H. Milne, G. Paterson, Marie Kolb; Sõcial ("'om-
mittt"p, Mi88esO.MacMurchv. M.Hamilton. G Folliott;
Flower '-'ommittee, M,s..es M. Ayerl'lt, H. Rtewart;
Visiting Committee, Mi8Ses V.
tevpnBOn, B. Hamilt.on'
Layette Committep. Misoes J. Cooper. F Ballantyne:
Meetinj.';s will be held the second Tuesday in each
month at 8 pm. in the AS8emhly Room, Nurses'
Residence. Toronto Western Hospital.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President. MiBB Ros8; President, Mis8 M
M c("'linchey; Vicp-Pre!lident. Miss Jest'ie Gordon
Corresponding Secretary, Mis8 Margaret Anderson;
Treasurer. Mis8 I. Archibald, ß59 Huron St.; Corres
pondent to The Canadian Nurse, l\Iis8 I. Onslow.
A.A., Women's Collelle Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. H. M. Bowman; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent. Mis8 Harriett Meiklejohn; President. Mr..
Scullion: Serretary. Mifls Grace Clarke, 42 Delaware
Ave.; Treuurer, Mis8 Fraser, Women's College Hos-
pital.
A.A., Hospital Instructors and Administrators.
University uf Toronto
Hon. President, Miss E. K. RUBBell; Hon. Vice-
President. Mis8 G. Hiscocks; President. Miss Gladwyn
Jones; First Vice-President, Miss M. McCamus;
econd Vice-President. Miss E. Younll;
ecretary,
:\li8S C. M. Cardwell. Toronto General Hospital;
Treasurer, Miss M. McKay, Toronto General Hospital.
A.A., Department of Puhli(' Health Nursina,
University of Turonto
Hon. President. Mills F.. K. Russell; President, Miss
Barhara Blackstock; Vice-Pre!lÏdent. Mi88 E. C. ("',.Ie;
Rt'cnrding Serretary; M iM L Park; Secretary- Trea....urer,
Mis8 C. C. Fr88er, 423 G!adetone Ave.. Toronto. Ont.;
Conveners. Social. Miss E MacLauren; Pr')luamme,
Mi8!! McNamara; Membership, Miss Edna Clarke.
A.A., Connaught Trainln
School for Nurses,
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President, !\Iis8 E. MacP. Dickson, Toronto
Hospital; Vice-President, !\fiss Ann Bolwell, Toronto
Hospital, Weston; Secretary. Miss G. Leeming, Toronto
Hospital, \Veston; Treasurer, :'o1Ïss R. McKay, Toronto
Hospital, 'Veston; Convener of Social Committee,
:'otiss M. Jones, Toronto Hospital, Weston.
WINDSOR
A.A.. Hotel Dieu, Windsor
President, Miss Mary Perrin; First Vice-President.
Mis8 Marie Odette; Second Vice-President, MiSB 10e
Londeau; Secrptary, Miss M. Spence; Treasurer, !\'is8
Mary Fener; Programme Committee, Mifses H.
Mahoney, A. Harvey. H. Slattery; Sick Committee,
Misses R. Farrell. H. Greenway, M. McGlrry; Social
Committee, MissesJ. Londeau, N. Wehster. I. Reaume;
Correspondpnt to The Canadian Nurse. Miss Mary
Finne
an. :'o'[eeting second Monday every month 8 p.m
WOODSTOCK
A.A., General Hospital
First Hon. President, Miss Frances Sharpe; ðecol1d
Hon. President, Mies Helen Potts; President, Miss
Mabel COBtello; Vice-President, Miss Anna Cook;
Recording Secretary, Mis8 Lila Jackson; Corresponding
Spcretary and Press Representative, Miss Doris Crail!:,
510 George Rt.; ASBistant Secretary. Mise Jean Kelly;
Treasurer. Miss Maude Slallht; Conveners of Com-
mittees: Programme: Mis8 EI!a Eby; Flower: Miss E.
Watson; Social: Mrs. :\'lcDiarmid, Mrs. P. Johnson
MiBB Hutings.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
QUEBF.C
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. L. Brown; President, Mrs.
Rf1f!P Wilson: \Ïcp-President. Miss M. MC'Nutt;
Secretary-Treasurer, '\1i!'p " Rov 37P Rt ("'lIt}-.øripe
St., Lachine; Executive Committee, Miss Lapierre,
:\1iBB Byrns. Meeting, first Monday each month.
MONTREAL
A.A., Children's Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. Kinder; President, Miøø
M. Flanders: Vice-President, Miss G. Goul!;h; Secret
ary, Miss G. Murray; Tre88urer, Miss H. Easter-
brook; Rep. Canadian Nurse, Miss J. Argue; Rick
Nurse's Committee, Miss J. Cochrane, Miss E. Mac-
Intosh; Social Committee. Miss F. Atkinson, Miss
M. Wilson, Miss B. Wright, Miss L. Destromp;
Executive Committee, Mrs. Moore, Miss V. Schneider.
A.A.. Homeopathic Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. H. Pollock; President, Mrs. J.
Wørren; First Vice-President, Miss M Bright; Second
Vice-President, Miss A. Porteous; SeC'retary. Miss W.
Murphy; Assistant Secretary, Miss M. Berry; Treas-
urer, Miss D. W. Miller; Assistant Tre88urer, Miss
N. G. Horner; Private Duty Section, Miss M. Bright;
The Canadian Nurse Representative, Miss J.
Whitmore: Programme Committee, Miss M. Currie;
Representative Montreal Graduate Nurses Association,
Miss A. Porteous.
L 'Association des Gardes-Malades Graduees de
I'Hopital Notre-Dame
Executif: Mesdemoiselles Alice Lepine, Presidente;
.\lice Gelinas, Vice-presidente; Aline Leduc. 2ieme
Vice-presidente; Suzanne Giroux, Tresoriere; Margue-
rite Pauze, Secretaire; Connseilleres: Mesdemoiselles
Germaine Brisset, Irene Rouillard, Eugenie Tremblay,
Francoise Chevrier, Juliette Beaulieu.
A.A., Montreal General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss F. E. Strumm; Hon. Vice-
President, Miss M. K. Holt; President, Miss E.
Frances Upton; First Vice-President, Miss M. Mathew-
son; Second Vice-President, Miss J. Morell; Recording
Secretary, Miss H. Tracey; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. E. C. Menzies; Treasurer (Alumnae Association
and Mutual Benefit Association), Miss Isabel Davies;
Hon.-Tre88urer, Miss H. M, Dunlop; Executive
Committee, Miss A. Whitney, Miss M. M. Johnston,
Miss H. He\\ton, Mrs. L. Fisher, Mrs. S. Ramsey;
Representatives to Private Duty Section, Miss L.
Urquhart (Convener), Miss E. Elliott, Miss E. Mar-
sh'\ll; Representatives to Canadian Nurse Magazine,
Miss M. E. Hunter, Miss M. Campbell; Representatives
to Local Council of Women, Miss G. Colley, Miss
M. Ross; Sick Visiting Committee, Miss F. E. Strumm,
M ss B. Herman; Prol/;ramme Committee, Miss Isabel
Davies, Miss Martha Batson; Refreshment Com-
mittee. Miss J. Parker (Convener), Miss M. Wallace,
Miss E. Church, MiB8 E. A. Rogers.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
lion. Presidents, Miss E. A. Draper, Miss M. F.
Hersey; President, :\Irs. F. A. C. Scriml/;er; First \'icp-
President, Miss G. God\\in; Second Vice-President,
:\liss E. Allder; Recording
ecretary, :\Iiss E. B. ROl!:crs;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss K. Jamer; Executive Com-
mittep, :\Iiss :\1. F. Her:\ey, Mrs. E. Roberts, Mrs. G.
C. ì\1elhado, :\fisses M. Etter, E. Reid, A. Bulman;
('onvenerlJ of Commi!tees: Finance, :\fiss B. Campbell;
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Sick ViI!iting, Mrs. G. R. MacKay; Pro(Jramme, Mrs.
A. H. Hawthorne; RefreshmentlJ, .Miss E. Hennigar;
rÚ;ate Duty Section,. Miss R. Cochrane; Representa-
tIve to Local Councils of Women, Mrs. V. Linnell,
:\Iiss J. Stevenson: Representative to The Ca1wdian
NurlJe, :\Iiss G. Martin.
A.A.. Western Hospital
Hon. President, Miøø Craig; President, Mill8 Birch;
First Vice-President, Miss M. N88h; Second Vice-
President, Miss O. V. Lilly; Hon. Tre88urer, Miss J.
Craig; Treasurer, Miss L. Sutton; Rec. Secretary. Miss
B. Dyer; Conveners of Committees, Finance, Miss E.
MacWhirter; Programme, Miss V. CroBB; Sick VisitiIlg,
M!ss Dyer;.
epresent!'tives to Private Duty Section,
MIss H. Williams, MIss M, Tyrrell; Representative
"The Canadian Nurse", Miss Edna Payne.
A.A., Women's Gen. Hasp.. Westmount
Hon. Pre3ide:.ts, 'Miss E. 1 rench, Miss F. Geor!le;
President, Mrs. L. :\1. Crewe; First \ïce-President,
Mrs. A. Chisholm; Second Vice-President, Miss Martin;
Recording Secretary, Miss C. Morrow; Correspondinlt
Secretary. Miss E. Moore; Treasurer, :\Iiss E. L.
Francis, 1210 Sussex Ave., :\Iontreal; Sick VilJiting,
Miss G. Wilson. Miss L. Jensen; Prirate Duty, l\trl!.
T. Robertson, :\liss L. fo;miley; Representative to "The
Canadian Nurse". :\Iiss N. Brown; Social Committee,
Mrs. E. Drake. Regular monthly meeting every third
Wednesday, 8 p.m.
A.A.. School for Graduate Nurses. McGDI
U ni versi ty
Hon. President, Miss Mary Samuel; Hon. Vice-
President, Miss Bertha Harmer; Hon. Members, Mills
M. F. Hersey, Miss Grace M. Fairley, Dr. Helen
R. Y. Reid, Dr. Maude Abbott, Mrs. R. W. Reford,
Miss M. L. Moag; President, 1\1i1lll Madeline Taylor,
Victorian Ord
r of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.; Vice-
President, Miss Marion E. Nash, Victorian Order of
Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss
M. E. Orr, The Shriners' Hospital, Cedar Ave., Mont-
real; Chairman, Flora Madeline Shaw, Memorial Fund,
Miss E. Frances Upton, 1396 St. Chaterine St. W.;
Programme Convener, Miss F. McQuade, Women's
General Hospital, Montreal; Representatives to Local
Council of Women, Miss Liggett. Miss Parry; Represen-
tatives to "The Canadian NurBe" , Administration,
Miss B. Herman, \Vestern Division. Montreal General
Hospital; Teachinl/;, Miss E. B. Rogers, Royal Victoria
Hospital; Public Health. Miss E. Church, Victorian
Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.
QUEBEC CITY
A.A.. Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. Barrow; President,
ti1l8 D.
Jackson; First Vice-President, Miss E. Fitzpatrick'
Second Vice-President, !\Irs. C. Younl/;; Recording
SeC'retary. Miss E. McCallum; Correspondinl/: Rec're-
tary, Miss 1\1. Fischer; Treal\urer. Mi8l! E. McHari!;
Representative to Thr Canadian NurRe, Miss N. Mllr-
tin; Private Duty f;ection, Mills O. Martin; Sick
Visiting Committee, Mrs. Barrow and Mrs. Butt;more;
Refreshment Committee, Mrs. MellinI/;, Miss Wp9ry,
Miss Hansen. MiM McClintoch; CounC'ilIors, Mil's
Imrie, Mrs. Craig, Mr!!. J3ckson. Miss Mackay, !\Iiss
B. Adams.
SliER BROOKE
A.A.. Sherbrooke Hospital
Hon. Presidents. l\liss E. Frances Upton, 1\llss Helen
R. Buck; President, 1\frs. N. R Iothrop; First \ïce-
President, :\Irl'l. W. Davey;
econd \ïce-President.
Mil's V. Beane; Secretary, Mil!s E. :\Ioril!ette; Treasurer,
:\Iil'ls Alice Lyster, Sherbrooke Hospital; UerreEentative
to "The Canadian NllrR"", :\Ii",. .T. \\'ardle\\orth.
THE CANADIAN NURSE
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CETOPHE
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C. T. No. 217
ACETOPHEN ð PHENACETIN
COMPOUND
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in the following services:
General Hygienic Management
and Nursing of Children,
Nursing Care and Feeding of
Infants.
Nursing Care of Orthopaedic
Patients.
Medical Asepsis and Cubicle
Technique.
A certificate will be granted upon the suc-
cessful completion of the course.
Full mainlenance and an allowdnce of $10.00
per month will be provided.
For further particulars apply to:
TilE SU>ERIVI'E:\"I>E:\"T OF NURSES
CIIILDRFI'\'S i\1E\lORJ \1. HOSPITAL.
'\lontrl.
tI
I School for Graduate Nurses
)lcGILL UNIVERSITY
Director: BERTHA HARMER, R.N., M.A.
COURSES OFFERED
Teaching in Schools of Nursing
Supervision in Schools of
Nursing
Administration in Schools of
Nursing
Public Health Nursing
Supervision in Public Health
Nursing
-\ certificate is granted upon succebsf ul comple-
tion of an approved programme of studies.
covering a period of one academic year, in any
of the above courses.
A diploma is granted upon successful comple-
tion of a major course, covering a period of
tlEO academic years.
Fur information apply to:
SCHOOLjor GRADUATE NURSES
\fcGi11 Unhersity, :\fontrl'a1
VOL. XXX, No. 2
The
Canad ian
Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of Canada
Published by th
Canadian Nurses Association
No.2
MONTREAL, QUE., FEBRUARY, 1934
Vol. XXX
THE ACCOLADE
Every nurse 111 Canada must have felt
,l warm glow of pride as she read, on
New Year's Day, the magnificent roster
of the honours conferred hy His Majesty
the King. Name after name was that of
,l nurse, some occupying important posts
,IS heads of public hed.lth or hospital
nursing services, some working in isolned
hospitals at the edge of the last frontier,
others engaged in \',Irious brelllches of
community service yet alike in that
they share with the rest of us the respon-
sihilities, the tribulations and the rewards
of h;lving chosen nursing as the
r VOCd.
tion. Their nd.mes will add lustre to an
illustrious company, the Order of the
British Empire.
Three nurses received the high honour
of heing appointed Commanders of the
Order of the British Empire. They are
Miss Edith Rayside, C.B.E., R.R.C.;
Miss Eli4abeth Smelhe, C.B.E., R.R.C.,
and Miss Laurd. Holland, C.B.E., R.R.C.
One nurse, Miss Ruby M. Simpson, of
Regina, Saskatchewan, has been appoint-
ed d.n officer of the Civil Division of the
Order of the British Empire. Six nur
's
h,lve been IlMde members of the Order
()f the British Em pire. They an.
: Mrs.
Robert Dd.rrach (formerly Sara Persis
Johnson) of Brandon, Manitoba: Miss
Nancy Dunn, of Sunset Prairie. Peace
River Block, British Columhia; Miss New
Estahrook of Saint John, New Bruns-
wick: Miss Eli4abeth Pearston of Grewde
Prairie, Alherta; Mrs. Ross of Rile,
Brook, New Brunswick and Mi:-s Berthrt
Smith of London, Ontario. The Journal
"hines in el reflecteJ !.!Iof\' hcc.lu",c It:' tir
t
rEBRUAR\. IQq
editor, Dr. Helen MacMurchy, who,
thùugh a physician, m;ìy he claimed as a
nurse hy d.doption, has b
en made a Com-
mander of the Order of the British Em-
pire.
r t will he a source of regret to Mi:,S
R,lyside's associlltes and personal friends
thd.t the signal honour paid her synchro-
nizes with her retirement from the active
prd.ctice of her profession. Miss Rayside
is a graduate in Arts of Queen's Univer-
sity and is the first woman to he appoint-
ed to the Board of Trustees of that insti-
tution. Her other academiC distinctions
include the honorary degree of Mistress
of Household Science conferred upon her
hy the University of Toronto. She is a
grd.duate of the School of Nursing of St.
Luke's Hospital, Ottawd., and during the
Wd.r she rendered outstanding service and
held the rank of matron in the C.A.M.C'
in Frd.nce. In recognition of her fine
record. she was a warded the Royal Red
Cross. Upon her return to Canadd. she
wetS elttached to the st;ì ff of the Sch(x)l
of Nursing of the Montreal Gena..1 Hos
pitetl and, in 1923, wetS appointed super
intendent of nurses at the Hllmilton City
Hospital. The tributes recently paid her,
upon the occasion of her retirement, re
flect the etdmiration, respect llnd affection
of eill with whom she has heen associated
throughout her professional career.
Miss Elizabeth Smellic, C.B.E.. R.R.C..
IS .1 graduate of the School of Nursing of
Johns Hopkins HI )spitld ltnd, after ren
dcrine; conspicuous service in the capacity
of matron in the C.A.M.C. Juring th\..
\\'.Ir. hc......trllC Chief Superintendent ot
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
:)..1-
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MISS EDITH R -\YSIDE
the Victorian Order of Nurses for
Canada. Miss Smellie is an overseas
member of the Cowdray Club and is
the chairman of the nursing section
of the Canadian Public Health Associa-
tion. She is also a member of the National
Association for Public Health Nursing, a
Fellow of the American Public Health
Association and was recently appointed
consultant in public health nursing to the
Provincial Department of Health of On-
tario. Miss Smellie is known in all parts
of Canada not only as an able adminis-
trdtor but also
s a public speaker of
charm and distinction. The latest honour
to be conferred upon her will be a pro-
found source of satisfaction to the mem-
hers of the Victorian Order of Nurses
who, in a double sense, will now look
with pride and affection upon their be-
loved commander.
Miss Laura Holland is a graduate of
the School of Nursing of the Montreal
C;eneral Hospital and served overseas
with the C.A.M.C. in Menelaus, Saloni-
ca, England and France. In recognitio11
of her miI;tary service she was awarded
the Royal Red Cross. Upon her return
from overseas she took a course in social
service at the School of Social Science,
Simmons College, Boston, and subse-
L{uently became a member of the staff of
the social service department in the Mont-
real General Hospital. For three years
she was director of nursing services for
the Ontario Red Cross Society and later
was appointed director of the division of
social welfare in the municipal depart
ment of puhlic hedlth in Toronto. In 1927
Miss Holland accepted a position as
manager of the Children's Aid Society
of Vancouver, and in 1931 she became
deputy superintendent of neglected chil-
dren for the Province of British Columbia
d.nd has rendered magnificent service to
the community in this important field of
soc;al service.
In her capacity as director of nursing
services in the division of puhlic health
nursing of the department of public
health in the government of the Province
of Saskatchewan, Miss Ruby Simpson
has displayed a fine quality of adminis,
trative ahility. A letter to Miss Simpso:1
. i
Nfl"s EI IZ \Rr.TH SMELLIr.
VOl. XXX, No. 2
THE ACCOLADE
55
MRs. ROBFRT DARRACH
from
he Prime Minister of Canada referö
to her appointment as an Officer of the
Civil Division of the Order of the British
Empire as a recognition of "fine social
services in the Province of Saskatche,
wan", thus indicating a recognition of
the value of her contribution to COlil-
munity welfare as well as to nursing.
Miss Simpson is a graduate of the school
of nursing of the Winnipeg General Hos-
pit<tl and is first vice-president of the Can-
ddian Nurses Association. For five years,
dS president of the Saskatchewan Regis-
tcred Nurses Association and now as its
first vice-president, Miss Simpson has
ùmsistently shown that she is capahle of
lcadership of a very high order.
Mrs. Robert Darrach (Sara Persis
Johnson) graduated from the school of
nursing of the Brandon General Hos-
pitdl and, at the outbreak of the war, was
,lssistant superintendent in that institu-
tion. In recognition of her overse,lS ser-
viæ she was a warded the Royal Rcd
Cross. Upon her return from overseas.
Mrs. Darrach took a postgraduate course
in the Illinois Training SchooL and l.\tl'r
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accepted the superintendency ?f the
Brandon General Hospital. Since her
marriage, in 1923, to Mr. Robert Dar,
rach, she has devoted herself whole-
heartedly to many movements for the
hetterment of her fellow-citizens.
Miss Nan Estabrook is a graduate of
the school of nursing of the Newton Hos-
pital, Massachusetts, a postgraduate of
the Women's Hospital in the State of
N ew York, and has filled the position of
superintendent in several American hos-
pitals. She served as Nursing Sister for
three years overseas, returned to Can add
in 1919, and was appointed matron of
the military hospital conducted in Old
Government House in Fredericton from
1919 to 1921, and latcr was social ser-
vice worker for the Department of Sol-
diers' Civil Re-cstablishment in New
Brunswick. Her present duties carry her
throughout the Maritime Provinces and
her administrative ability, sympathy and
tact have made her services most valuable
to the new settlers.
Miss Elizabeth Pcarston is a gr aduatl.
of the school of nursing of the \Vinnipcg
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Cen
rdl Hospitdl dnd WdS for some time
the instructor of nursing practice in that
institution. She ;s now superintendent
of the Municipal Hospital of Grande
Pr,-tirie in the Peace River district of
Northern Alberta. Miss Pedfston is of
the 5tUtf of which pioneers are made and,
in addition to a rich background of pro'
fessional experience, has a sense of hu,
DR. HI-.LEN MACMüRCHY
mour and of human vdlues which enable
her to cope with the unusual and fre'
yucntly difficult situdtions which com-
pIicdte hospital administration in a fron-
tIer cummunity.
Miss Bertha Smith rendered exceed
ingly good nursing service in the C.A)v1.
C. overseas. She is now engdged in child
welfare work in London, Ontario, and
has estahlished an excellent reputation a"
dn able leader in a branch of communit'
T
work in which her ahilities. both personal
and professional, can be effectively util
i:ed to the fullest extent.
Two of the new memhers of the Ordcr
uf the British Empire are engaged in out-
post work at points so difficult of access
that direct communication with them, at
the time of going to press, has not been
possihle. One of them is Miss Nancy
Dunn of Sunset Prairie, Peace River
Block. British Columbia, and the other
is Mrs. Ross, a public health nurse at
Riley Brook, New Brunswick. The Jour-
nal made el1l.luiries from Miss Kathleen
Lawson of Saint John, a rdative of Mrs.
Ross, who kindly gave the following in-
formation concerning her: "I have heen
to Riley Brook and can .1 pprcciatc Mrs.
Ross' work. It is a large district, without
a doctor, and away in the woods. Her
work involves long drives in cold weather
and deep snow but nothing daunts her."
In suhsequent issues of the Jownal fur'
ther details will be given concerning the
professional accomplishments of these
nurses whom the King delighteth to
honour.
Upon Dr. Helen :MacMurchy, in her
new capacity as a Commander of the
British Empire, The Canadian ]
t:rsc
considers that it has a special claim. She
was the first editor of this Journal: she
understands and sympathizes with the
dspirations of the nursing profession and
h
ls done much to help us to attain them.
She has heen for so l11dny years a com
manding figure in the field of maternal
,1Ild child welfare that it is difficult to
accept her recent retirement philosophi-
cally. Her kindly humour and tolerance,
h
r knowledge of and love for the com-
mun people made the Federal Division of
ChIld Welfare a 11dtional source of help
and healing. Her freedom from official
duties will give her an opportunity of
using her unabated energies in other di
rections, and the gratitude and affection
of Canadian nurses will follow her into
what will certainly he an active retire-
ment.
VOL XXX, No. 7
THE CANADIAN SCENE
In the second article of this series,
which appeared in the January issue of
the Journal, some of the findings of the
American Committee on the Costs of
Medical Care were briefly summarized
cll1d its statement concerning the essential
IMture of the present economic malad-
justment was yuoted as follows: Mean-
while, in so far as the great mass of the
ropulation is concerned, the need, as dis,
tinct from the effective demand for nurs'
;ng service, goes llnmet and will continue
to do so until some system of dIstribution
of nursing cost
cun be del,:'sed which w:!l
hridge the econom c gar between patient
and nurse.
It will, ett this point, be helpful to
yuote from yet another study made, un'
der the auspices of this Committee, by
Ma.urice Leven, Ph.D., concerning the
incomes of physic;ans. Dr. Leven did not
undertake any cnyuiry into the economics
of nursing, but in discussing the high cost
of sickness, as it affects the ll1cljority of
people, he uses this illustration:
It is inev:tahle tlwt the cost of the per-
sunal sert,_'ces enter;ng into med:cal care
.dwuld be h:gh. But high costs do not
necessarily meun dId the net returns ac-
cruing to the rers-onel surPly:ng medIcal
sCTvices are high. The special nurse, for
instance, does not get rich when she fur'
nishes nursing care at the rate of $6 or $7
for a twelve,hour day. Yet an illness
which requires sþecial nursing may mean
the transfer to the nurse of more than the
ratient's entire family income for the
þerind during which the nurse is engaged.
'The difficulty is not that the nurse's earn-
ings are too high, but that the illness re'
t/Hlres the attention and full time of a
srecially trained adult individual.
How large a proportion of the mem
hers of the community fall within the
group to which Dr. Leven refers? In thl.'
United States the Committee found thclt
bmilies with incomes of $2,000 or kss
This is the third of a sericlI of rdiroriall! r1.-alinL: will.
nur-in!:: conditions in Cana.la
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constitute one-half of the popul.ltion and
it is probable that approximately the
setme general economic condition exists
in Canada. We are, then, confronted
with the fact that about half our popula-
tion cannot possibly meet, for any length
of time. the cost of employing a private
duty nurse in the home, no matter how
hadly her services may be needed. Dr.
Leven plainly says that private duty
nurses arc
1Ot themselves to be held re-
sponsible or to be censured for this state
,)f ;\ffairs. Here is a profound economic
maladjustment over which nurses as mdl-
viduals have no control and on account
of which they themselves suffer severely.
It is of course true that visiting nursing
organiZ<ltions suçh as the Victori.tn Order
offl.'r a petrtial service to this section of
the community. There remains however
cl dcm,lnd for con
.nllOllS nursing care in
the home such .LS is reyuired in acute ill-
ness, twenty-four hours of the day and
seven days et week, possihly over a long
p
riod of time. \ísiting nurse orgetniu
tions ('annot he e'(pected to render such
service, nor is hospitali.:.ltion always in-
di(,ltcd or possible.
Even in the homes of the "white col
lctr" class, to which nurses themselves be-
long, the financial hurden of long illness
c.lI1not he carried indefinitely. Once the
point 1S reetched where, as Dr. Leven says,
the fetmily income is absorbed by the cost
of sickness, accumulated s,lvings are soon
exhausted and the narrow m,1 rgin of
economic security is wiped out. 11any
nurses h.lve themselves had such e:-..peri-
cnce in their own fetmilics and can there
fore understand the cruel an:-..icty of the
average family group, which through no
fault of its own. find:, it:,df in such cir-
cumstclnces.
Furthermore, It must be remembereJ
that this st;\_te of aff.tirs exists in so c.llled
norn1.l1 and prnSpL'rl1lb tll11es. It is not .l
product of the Jl'pression, though it h.I'"
heen .Iggr.tv.ttcd hy it, .md .1 return t.
"
()od time..... will not automatic,lll" pm
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
vide a solution. SoLiety provides for ell'"
mentary education, for the essential pre'
ventive health services such as water sup'
ply and sanitation, for protection ag.Ünst
fire and against criminals. As yet how-
ever, in Canada, the state does not adl11
t
responsibility for more them a measure
of medical and nursing Cetre. Whether
the state ever will do so is a highly con'
troversial question, but even if state medi,
cine came tomorrow there would stil1 be
need for constructive thinking on the part
of nurses. Its coming would mean thett
our present system would undergo radical
change for wh
ch \\'e are at present wce'
fully unprepared.
It must be etdmitted that nurses are an
intensely conservative group. The dis'
cip
inary nature of their education and
organÌ2:ation n.i.turally tends toward COll'
servatism. The blood of the army and
the church runs strongly in our veins,
and perhaps it is well that it does, and
that we are not blown ahout by every
wind of doctrine. The trouble is, how,
ever, that we sometimes mistake a rather
stupid uniformity for wise conservatism
,lIld find it difficult to do tl-
e sort ot
original thinking that is rcyuired in nevI.'
situettions. Nevertheless the economic
pressure of the past few years has forced
us to face facts which in more prosperous
yeetrs we preferred to ignore and, in more
()r kss scattered and spotty fashion, t hett
thought has been carried out in terms of
action.
In some parts of Canada, for example,
efforts have been made to increase em'
ployment among private duty nurses by
::.hortenÎng the day to eight hours and re'
ducing the fee correspondingly. Private
nurses have given a certetin number of
days free of charge rclther than leave a
patient who still had need of their ser-
vices. In certain provinces, where econ'
omic Jistress has been petrticularly acute,
nurses hetve given their serv
ces for what'
ever smetll sum the patient coulJ etfford to
pay. Hourly nursing hets been trieJ out
sporetdicalIy, without ,Iny conspicuous Je'
grec of succes:" possibly because of faulty
organization and Jirection.
The trouhle is thett these meetsures are
only petll;ative at hest anJ Jo not go to
the mot of the trouhle. UntJ some com'
prehensive co'operative scheme is thought
out, which can be sound;y financed and
which will enlist the support of the com'
munity at large, no real hetterment can
he expected. Such a task Cetnnot be ac'
complisheJ by nurses alone, but the puh,
lic has the right to expect that we will be
prepared to take our full part in the sort
of thinking which must precede th.!: for
ml!l.lt
on of definite plans. Before \\e can
hope to give the intelligent ICetJaship the
puhlic expects of us we must know our
own mind and he prepclreù to speetk it so
deetrly thett there will be no Janger of
our heing misunJerstood. We must our'
selves be prepared to suggest
Wety out
of our troubles and, elS et first step, \\:e
must ask ourselves whether, either as in'
dividuals or etS memhers of a profess!ol1,d
group we mety not, in scme n
Cclsure, helve
hrought thcm on ourselves. In the March
number of the Journal, by way of .l
he,llthy penan('e, we shall J
scuss some of
our own shortcomings, as pointeù out to
u;;; hy our critics, frienùly anJ otherwise.
(To be continucd)
VOL. XXX, No. "1
INGUINAL HERNIA IN CHILDREN
ETHEl M. HILLYARD. Reg. N.. Instructor of Nursc'i. Childrf>n's Memorial Hospital.
Montreal.
Usually chIldren suffering from in-
guinal hernia are not operated upon until
they dre about two years of age. Prior to
this time they are not old enough to with-
stand well the shock of a surgical opera-
tion. During these two years the hernia
is best controlled by means of a wool
truss, a skein of ordinary whitL' yarn,
from pulling off the dressmgs and so con-
t
minating the wound. Finally, when
nursing children, it is found that the bed-
clothes or food are likely, somehow or
other, to come in contact with the wound,
espeLÎally if it is covered only with a
light dressing, and so set up infection.
Our method of restraint hds been suc-
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PHILLIPS' SPU'J"T r:-.: PO'>ITIO'll
which is che"-11 ,lI1d e,lsily wdshed. Some-
times, if the truss is efficiently and con-
sistently applied, the hernia will disdp-
pear.
Children at the dge of two yedrs have
IH}t yet learned control over the urine
,1I1d feces, and s
nce the incision is so
neclr the genital organs, It is very likely
to hecome soaked with urine or contam-
inated with feces unless some special
method of restraint is devised. Then ag,LÏn,
one must gu,lrd against the hreaking
open of the inLÎsion even hy the orJinary
InllVCments ot the child's leg., dnd the
lower limbs must be tied down to prevent
such a mishap. One has also to consider
some device which will prc\'cnt thc child
FEBRUARY, 19J4
ce
stuL ,111d infection of a herni,l incision
is very r,lre. The urine is controlled by
medns of a test tur-e ,lttachment, the legs
are restrdined by the Phillips' splint, and
thc incision is protected from all sources
of infection by the use of a bed cr,ldle
,lI1d frame-apron. while the child's hands
yet remain free.
In the accompdnymg illustrdtions the
functions of the Phillips' splint, tlh.'
cr,ldle and the frame apron ,Ire gr
phi
cdlly shown. The articles needed are
listed helow:
A Br,ldford fr,une, covLred tightly.
A Phillips' splint. which cons;sts ot
three pieces of wood, two of úlu.t11ength.
.IIlJ )oll1.?;er th.lI1 the third. hoth hinced
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
to the shorter pIece. The longer pieces
must be the length of the child's leg, and
must be long enough to reach beyond the
hip. The longer pieces are padded with
rolled wool on the inside, and covered
with a bandage.
Two three-inch flannelette bandages.
A test-tube attachment, and kidney
basin for urine.
A cradle for the bed-clothes.
A frame apron, made of canvas, fitting
the penis, and place the kidney basin in
position.
S. Place the hed-cradle in position over
the splint.
6. Place the frame-apron over the
cradle. Pin at the neck with the blanket
pins, and huck Ie under frame.
To give routine care the child may be
removed from the splint, but he is kept
r
strained until the wound is heeded, and
the sutures are removed. Should It he
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APRON AD lUSTED OVER CRADLE
,lround the child's neck and shoulders,
and long enough to come well over the
cr;ldle, elt the site of wound. The apron
is provided with straps and huckles, and
is huckled behind the frame.
Two blanket pins.
The proper procedure subsequent to
operation is <IS follows:
1. While the child is still under the
anaesthetic, place him on the frame, and
fold hack the night-gown neatly.
2. Pbce Phillips' splint in position. Be
sure that it reaches beyond the hips.
:.. Bclnd,l
e each leg to the side of the
splint.
4. Apply the test-tuhe attachment to
necessary to improvise this equipment in
the home, the child might he plelced on
his back in the hed, and his hands re-
str elined to the sides. With care in helnd-
ling the bed-cluthes, and if a substantial
dressing has been placed on the incision,
the cradle and frame-apron may he omit-
ted, if these articles are difficult to obtain.
Nurses, and others caring for children,
wiJl find however that they will be much
happier, and easier to manage, if the
hands are not tied down. The psycho-
logical reaction of a child against any
form of restraint must he telken into con-
sIderation and he should he given as much
opportunity for physical activity as is
J1o:,
ihk in the circumstances.
VOL. xxx, No. 2
PUTTING THE PATIENT FIRST
K. A. BAIRD. M.A.. M.D., CM., Saint John, N.B.
A pdtlent usudlly reyuires nursing Cdre
because of illness or injury, real or as-
sumed. The primary objective of the
nurse should be the comfort and the re-
covery of the patient. Sometimes these
two conflict, and it is necessary to make a
patient uncomfortable in order to ad-
minister some drug or treatment which it
is hoped will aid recovery, or, as in the
case of the very aged, it may be advisable
to make him comfortable by neglecting
measures whose value in prolonging life
would be doubtful, or, at best, temporary.
When the claims of comfort and recovery
conflict, the decision is made by the doc-
tor rather than by the nurse. There are,
however, many aspects of the care of
patients which depend entirely upon
members of the nursing profession but in
which nurses have been known to fail to
put the patient first.
We have heard of a former nurse, now
the mother of several children, who after
one experience J.S a patient in the mater-
nity ward of a general hospital said:
never again in that hospital, because the
junior nurses made so much noise outside
her door, or at least she supposed it was
the juniors! A special nurse talked and
laughed so much with her patient and
friends, during the patient's last few days
in the hospital, that other patients were
much disturbed. Stories have also been
told of nurses who left patients in the
middle of a sponge bath, or with a ther-
mometer in mouth, while they delayed in
the corridor to tell or hear a bit of hospi-
tal gossip. Nurses sometimes tell details
of other cases to their patients. Even
when Il<lmes are not mentioned, and
when the p.ltient who is listening seems
to enjoy the story, this is not good treat-
ment psychologically. Besides it leads th
patient to think that the nurse may be
tdlin.
all dbout her case to someone else.
A common C.luse of not putting the pa-
tient first is, the exact opposite of car
kssncss. It is tb.' [t'ndering of services
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which are not reyuired or desired. }Viany
patients arc the victims of institutional
routine. Some routine is necessary, but
routine for its own sake is a curse to the
patient. The proper balance between
routine and the patient's comfort is a
nice question for the wise
uperintendent
or supervisor to decide. The student
nurse has little choice, but even she can
perhaps arrange to give her wakeful pa'
tients their morning wash before she be
gins to d. waken the sleepers.
The private nur& has the privilege ,)f
exercising her judgment, unless that judg
ment has all been trained out of her by
institutional necessity. She should learn
to make routine subservient to comfort
by asking the doctor, when receiving
orders, "Shall I administer thIs, if th
patient is sleeping, or shall I wait till he
wakes?" Unless he is d crank (oh, yes.
some of us are!), the doctor will rejoice
inwardly that the patient has a nurse who
can estimate the relative advantdges of hi:;
treatment and of refreshing sleep, and h:?
will order accordingly. Too much servic,
and ill-timed service. are not rendered b)
the nurse who puts her patient first.
It is a mistake to put the doctor bctore
the patient. This does not mean that the
nurse has any right to interfere with the
doctor's treatment. It does mean thdt it
you must choose, a rested patient, ju.c;t
a wake hut nut yet hathed, is a better
sight to welcome the doctor than a Pdtient
\,,'hose rest was broken so that you courd
prepare her for his visit. It also means
that, in a confinement Cdse, the patient is
entitled to considcrdtion bt.
fore the doc-
tor. The latter will probably have givcn
you 'directions clS to when you are to call
him, but if he hcls not, or if sometlâng
untowdfd has occurred, the womdn h,\s .\
right to her doctor's presence. One of tho
reasons why many d wOl1l<ln will n'Jt go
to a hospital for her confinements ù: h,-
cause she fedrs a h,lrd boiled nUl'S,' will
rcfu";l' tl) c.llI thl' d( )(tl n' \\ hen .;;h,- IW,.J"
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
him. Thdt is also the reason some patients
give for employing a ..practical nurse"
rather than a fully,trained graduate.
Finally, nurses differ in skilL Each in'
dividual nurse should show herself skilful
in the
dministration of nursing treat'
ments. She will not assume that she has
karned everything in her undergraduate
days, hut will pick up hints from doctors
,1I1d from other nurses as to better ways
of doing thing..s. The clever nurse will
think of many ways in which she can put
the patient first, and render the sort )f
service which will reflect credit upon her'
self and her profession.
In case the writer is thought too criti,
cal, let him remark in conclusion that he
has Adam's excuse. He would nevel have
dared write an article like this had It not
been that a nurse asked him to do so.
THE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL
GRACE M. FAIRLEY, Principal and Director of Nurses. Vancouver General Hospital,
and Convener of the Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee of the
Canadian Nurses Association.
In the November issue of The Can-
adian Nurse, * in
n drticle entitled "The
Florence Nightingale Memorial," Miss
Jean Gunn gave an admirable summary
of the general aim and scope of the pro'
posed international tribute to the memory
of the founder of modern nursing.
The Canadian Nurses Association has
pledged its members to participation and
at an eXl!cutive meeting
eld after the
Pari
Congress, the methods of raising
the amount of money whIch Canad
would wish to give were discussed. The
details of plans for creating
nterest and
for the collection of funds were left to a
"pecial cummittee to be known as thl
Canadian Florence Nightingale Memorial
Committee. Each province is represent'
ed on this committee and these provincial
representatives are asked to stimulate in-
terest among all nursing groups, such as
the Alumnae Associations, the di;trict
organizations, student nurses and married
nurses. It is taken for granted that all
will share in a memorial which is so truly
international in scope and yet so defi,
nitely personal in character. The sug'
gestion has been made that each country
See 'TIle Cr1t1l!di,11I "\lilTS,' No\'<'ml-cr. 19:;', p. 57C1.
should offer a scholarship dnnually, and
it is hoped that the provincial conveners
will ascertain the opinion of their mem-
bers on this point. In a recent communi,
cdtion to the vdrious provinces, it was
also suggested that if alumnde associdtions
and other nursing orgdnizations would
pledge themselves to give a grant of not
less than ten dollars edch year it would
:11aterially add to the assured income
Student nurses could also be approached
and would probably be glad to contrI-
bute to a fund, the purpose of which is
to perpetuate the memory of one whose
foresight made possible the school of
nursing of today. Such a request might
he made to them annually, following
their lectures on the history of nursing
or during the week of May 12, when the
Hospital Day celebrations are in progress.
Donations to the fund, made either hy
individuals or through organizations, will
he announced from time to time in The
Canadian Nurse and it is hoped that the
provincial conveners will receive the
ready personal support of all members of
th
profession in an effort to pcrpetu.ltc
the memory of that greatest of all nurses,
Florence Ni
htingclk.
VOL. XXX, No. 1
THE PROVINCES AND THE CURRICULUM
MARION LINDEBlJRGH. Convener, Standing Committee on Curriculum,
Nursing Education Section. Canadian Nurses Association.
By the time the February issue of 'The
CanadIan Nurse is in the hands of its
readers the revised Curriculum Study
will have been widely distributed through-
out Canada. All the Provinces have or-
g<mized provincial curriculum committees
anJ there has been an encouraging re-
sponse from the conveners to whom the
first rough draft was sent, in June, for
purposes of analysis and criticism. The
central curriculum committee wishes to
express its appreciation of the many con-
structive suggestions which have been
receiveJ and which have been most help-
ful in the process of revision.
The revised 'stuJy takes the form of a
hrief outline of the fundamental issues in
nursing education as at present carried on
in schools of nursing conducted by hos-
pitals. Nursing education on a fully rec-
ogniz.ed professional level cannot possibly
he secured hy revolutionary measures but
must gradually evolve through improved
educational facilities and opportunities in
the hospital school, since it is through this
,lvenue that it must ultimt1tely gain pub-
lic recognition and financial support. The
revised study deals, therefore, with the
school of nursing as it exists within the
fr,lme of the hospital. Nevertheless every
opportunity has heen utiliz.ed to suggest
improvement in the undergraduate course
,md, so f.tr as the economic situation per-
mits, to huild for the future, hy outlining
.m educational programme which will
hetter equip the nurse for the growing
Jcm.mds of home and community savice
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as well as for hospital nursing serv
.::
Details relating to the content of the
curriculum are not included in the revised
study. Subject matter, teaching methods.
and correlation of activities will be dealt
with separately t1fter the preliminary sur-
vey has been completed and, at this time,
the assistance of staff memhers of schools
of nursing who are engaged in teaching
and supervision will be solicited.
It is hoped that the provincial curri-
culum committees will begin work on the
revised study and questionnaire as soon
as possible. Three months is the period
allotted to them for this purpose and.
at its termination, the central committee
must enter upon the task of assembling,
tahulating and integrating the informa'
tion received from the various provinces.
Should additional copies of the study be
required they may be obtained through
the provincial convenors from
{'
Executive Secretary of the Canadian
Nurses Association, 1411 Crescent St.,
Montreal. The questionnaire has heen
carefully formulated and suggestions for
dealing with it have been incorporated in
the study. It is confidently e
pectcd th.lt
the replies to it will embody the reflective
thought and considered opinions of Ie,ld-
ers of the nursing profession in all part:'
of Canada and thus pave the way for
the construction of .t. curriculum which,
while nation,tl in character, will be h<lsed
on sounJ economIC ,md cduc,ltion,d
principles.
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THE McGILL SCHOOL FOR GRADUATE NURSES
These are busy days in the School for
C;radu,lte Nurses of McGill University.
Cbsses, lectures and field work are in full
swing and a feeling of optimism IS
ahroctd. Thanks to the generous response
to the c,lmpaign so energetically carried
on by the Central Committee under the
,lhlc direction of Its president, Miss E.
Frances Upton, sufficient funds were pre-
..;;ented to the University to meet the de'
m,lnds of the current ac,ldcmic year and,
furthermore, a substantial sum is already
avctilable toward the futun? support of
the School The annual luncheon ten'
dered by the Alumnae Association of the
School to the members of the student
group proved a 'most enjoyable occasion
and some of the principz..l objectives of
the Central Committee during the com-
ing year were discussed with enthusiasm.
The future of the school now seems
to be sufficiently secure to justify active
measures to recruit students. The pres-
ence of an enthusiastic student bo(
y
goes far tn assure the success of any
school, and 1n spite of hard times there
are plenty of young nurses in Can
da
who could, and who should, avail them,
selves of the opportunity which, through
the sacrifice of others, is still within their
reach. Under present conditions, how-
ever, must nurses find it difficult to under'
take graduate study unless a certain
amount of assistance is forthcoming. Fun
scholarships, which cover tuition and
m(lintcnance, are of course highly desir'
ah]e, but there are also many instances in
which a modest bursary or a small loan
might supplement pasonal resources and
(, I
thus enahle ambitious students to carry
on. Some of the larger Alumnae Associ,.-
tions are already helping in this way and
hospitals which conduct schools of nurs'
ing might well consider the advisability
of assisting specially promising members
of their graduating classes to prepare
themselves for positions of responsibility
Friends of the hospit,tl, members of the
mcdiG,l staff, and groups such as hospital
aid societies, might also be induced to
offer hursaries as prizes for proficiency in
some special branch of nursing.
Never before have Canadian nurses
rallied so wholeheartedly and courage'
ously to the support of nursing educa,
tion. In a time of great economic distress,
p
rticular1y in the West, nurses have
given ungrudgingly, and the effort made
by the nurses of Canada to keep the
School open has won the admiration of
the University authorities and of the
community at large. Only a short time
hefore his lamented death, the late Prin,
cipal, Sir Arthur Currie, addressed these
words to the Central Committee: "May
I congratulate the Alumnae Association
of the School on the effort made to raise
these funds, and on the splendid response
from the members of the nursing profes,
sion in Canada and their friends."
If the effort Clnd sacrifice which have
won such spontaneous recognition as this
an? to be rewarded as they deserve to be.
there must he a good enrolment of stu'
dents again next year. It may mean plain
living, but it also means high thinking.
Keep the door open.
VOL XXX, No. 1
THE EDITOR'S DESK
C all Nurses Read?
Elsewhere in this issue of the Journal
will be found a brief article by Miss
Grace M. Fairley, convener of the Flor-
cnce Nightingale Memorial Committee
of the CanCJdian Nurses Association in
whIch she describes the initial stages of
the campaign to raise funds for thIs
worthy object. In el letter to the editor,
Miss Felirley suggests that attention be
Jrelwn to this article and to the one
wluch precedeJ it in the November issue,
in which M
s:> Jean Gunn discussed, in
some Jet
il, the origin and scope of this
international undertaking. Mi
s Fairley
goes on to Sd.Y that she was much sur-
priseJ to find, when she asked the
opinion of nurses whom she knew to be
subscr,bers to the Jownal, that they had
not even read the .lrtide in question. This
sad state of elffairs Jid not surprise us in
the least. We are hardened to shocks of
this kind. \Ve have long reached the con-
clusion that, whtle it is possible that
nurses can reaJ, very few of them do.
For e)o.ample, we have received numerous
reL}uc:3ts to publish the addresses we gave
during our recent transcontinental barn-
storming tour. The fact that we are doing
so unJer the caption of The Canadian
Scene has not, so far, dawned on our
kinJ correspondents. It is of course pas-
51
le that, when compounding our dose
ot well-meant advice as administered
from the platform, we aJded an extra
ù,lsh of orange juice. But the castor oil
W,IS there, just as it is in the articles on
The Canad:an Scene. Try reading them
,ll1d sec. AnJ please do not forget the
articles on the Nightingale Memorial
either Canada must sustain her excel
lent reputeltion in m,ltters of this kind.
n HRl 'Aln. IQ
I
ElIglalld Expects. . .
In el recent issue of The British Journal
of J,\ursing, under the caption of "Can-
ada will be there," editorial comment is
melde elS follows:
--Mis::- .keln 1. (;unn, Superintendent of
Nurses, Toronto (;eneral HospitCJl, was
elected in Brussels one of the five repre-
senteltIves of the International CounCIl
of Nurses on the proposed l;rand Coun
cil of the Florence Nightingale Inter
tional Foundation. The Canadian Nurses
Association have intimated that they pro'
pose to. nominate Miss F. H. M. Emory
a.nd MISS G. M. Fairley as its representa
tIves on the (;rand Council. Here we
have a trio of women in the very first
r
nk .as administrators of nursing educa'
tlon 111 Canada of which any Association
of Nurses may be proud."
And 50 say all of us!
The February Jourllal
In this issue, the JOHr-nal welcomes to
its pages a contrihutor who is a French-
Cd.naJian nurse, M
dcmoisdle A. Mar'
tineau, G.M.E., nurse supervisor in the
division of infectious diseases of the mu
I11cipal puhlic health savice of Montre,ll.
In the sectIOn devoted to nursing edu
cation will he founJ .m e)o.tremdy
thoughtful article by the Reverend Sist\ r
Pierre of Louvelin. This WelS considered
one of the mo::.t outst.mJing of the melny
e)o.cdlent elddresses givcn elt the InterIM
tional Congress ,md will repay careful
study hy all who are interested in the
philosophy of nursing cduc.ltion. Thl'
Lltlll mind h,ls a sedrchin1?; L}uality which
:s pecu1iarly it..: own
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Correspondence
From Poland
To the President,
The Canadian Nurses Assucidtiun.
Dear Miss Emory:
We are distressed having learned the sad
news that Miss Mary Snively is gone. May
we express our deepest regret and the mo.,t
sll1cere condolence in face of the heavy los;;
yuur Association has to endure. Joining you
111 your sorrow,
J. SUHCZYNSKA.
President of the Polish ProfessIOnal
Nurses Association. \Varsaw, Poland.
Schools for Brides
My life is a busy one, not prominent and
not leading, but still 1 hope it is not useless.
As :"chool physician 1 give physical examina'
tions, have conferences with students and
parents. and we are great friends with both
groups. Besides my official work I teach
hygiene in the regular household school and
the latest development is my participation in
the three months' COUrse for brides. These
girls are beginning to realize their great mis-
sion as wives and mothers, and it is a real
pleasure to work with them. 1t gives our
women better preparation for the many babi
s
they have in married life.
I wrote a series of articles about famtly
hygiene, both mental and physical, for healthy
days and in sickness, I also spoke them over
the radio, and now they are being published
in our best monthly family review throughout
1933 and 1934. I am in close co-operation
with our nurses and help them whenever I
can, you will believe me. Every day brings me
new efforts and new ways to approach health
and education problems.
AMALIA SIMEC, M.D.,
School Physician, Ljubljana, Jugoslavia.
Give Us a Chance to Reform
I renewed my subscription in September
and ha\'e my receipt. This is an annual occur'
ence---a..king for the renewal after it has been
66
p.tid. A great IIMny nurses have discuntinued
their subscription on that .lccount. Please
look into the matter mOre carefully.
I. M.,
Saskatchewan.
This is the only cumplaint we have so
far received in this conne.-:tion and we shall
be grateful if those subscribers who have
"een similarly annoyed will communicate
with us at once. We accept salutary chas-
ti
ement with resignation if nut with joy.
But we must know our failings if we arc
to reform. Tell us the Worst.- Editor.
Beware of UColiege BOY$'
We have received a complaint from Mi:"s
T., advising us that she placed a subscnption
for The Canadian Nurse with an agent, who
was formerly one of our representatives, but
after a very thorough investigation, we fail
to locate any record of receiving such a sub.
scription. A Butterick "college boy" represen-
tative is not permitted to solicit subscriptions
for any publication, other than The Delinea-
tor. Apparently, this subscription was solicited
with "intent to defraud" by this representative.
who was forced to sever his connections with
.Our Company a short time after entering our
employ because his dealings with the public
were not up to the Butterick standard.
THE BUTTERICK COMPANY,
New York.
A Reliable Guide
On one occasion 'The Canadian Nurse was
of invaluable assistance to me. Several years
ago I was called out into the country to a
patient supposed to be dying of diabetes with
complications. I took with me an issue in
which there was an article on the treatment
and feeding of diabetics by a Toronto doctor.
There was very little to work with out there
and, of course, no scales, but we managed-
and the patient is still alive and flourishing.
A GRATEFUL NURSE.
Nova Scotia.
VOL. XXX, No. 2
Department of Nursing Education
COSVENER 01' PUßLI"ATIO' MI&. MIldred Reid. \\'mmpeg General Hospital. WinnipeK. Man.
PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS IN EDUCATION
REVERENDE SOEUR PIERRE. Louvain. Belgium.
Before starting to discuss the question
of principles in education, it may per'
h<ips he well to recall to mind the mean'
ing of the word. Education may be de'
fined <is the art of training and develop'
ing man in all his aspects, or, more fully,
<is the combination of all systematic ef,
forts by which it is sought to lead human
nature to the development and perfec'
tion of ..11 its L}ualities. Education aims
at an ideal, and this ideal, in turn, neces,
sarily depends on the conception of man
and his ultimate purpose. Education is
the basis of public order and of general
security, it helps in the advancement of
art and science,
nd is a source of uni,
versdl well,being. The \\ork of education
cannot be carried out at random; its high
aim, its true worth and significance dc,
mand that it be founded on certain prin,
ciples. Let us consider these great, gen'
eral principles.
I. Education must be swtable. It must
t<ike into account the character, tastes and
aptitude of the pupIls, as well as their
social surroundings. Hence the necessity
for the instructor to study the ch<iractcr
of his or her pupils, to watch them in'
telligently and to allow them considerable
freedom in order to discover their natural
rn)pensities.
2. Education must be cOntlnuvus. T u
he effective, it must begin from the cradle
,lI1d continue steadily and without a
hrcdk of any kind to the grCJve. Man's
education is never finished on this earth.
hecause the ideal aimed ,It is pafection.
When the instructor has carried uut his
t,lsk wisely, and the time wrongly termed
"completion of education" arrives, the
student should he capahle of continuing
(An addr.... JcllHred at thc Intcrnatum..1 (', , .!I. ,
Nursc.. Paris and Bru...I.. J"ly, len,.)
FFBRl'ARY, 1934
alone
long the road to perfection.
3. Education must he natural. It wiII
be so, said Fénelon, if the instructor un'
derstands his duty, which is to "follow
and àssist nature" Education should take
account of personality. Each human bc'
ing possesses partICular characteristics
that require careful ,tttention in his edu,
cation. The instructor must be a student
of psychology in order to succeed in his
gr
at task.
4. Education must be complete. It
must develop as harmoniously CJS po:.-sihle
every physical, intellectual and mora]
faculty, and maintain the halance be-
tween body, intellect and will.
5. Physical training gives health and
strength and develops manual aptitudes
th,tt enable man to help himself and to
soke the problems of life.
6. The better the balance of man's in-
tellectual faculties, the sounder his know
ledge will be. Moral education trains the
finer aspects of heart, wiH and character,
by te
ching certain qualities and eradicat
in
faults. Its influence on the other
forms of education is very gre.tt. Indeed,
both in the case of physical or intellectual
training, the results obtained are propor
tionate to the effort voluntarily mdde dnd
to the perseverance shown. Moral educa,
tion produces good citi:ens, honest work
ers and parents fit for their LiSk. h is
founded on good hahits: ohedience, self
sacrifice, faithfulness to duty, courdge,
honesty, sincerity, industry, justice, char
ity, purity, dignity and good,breeding.
Discipline is a powerful aid to moral edu,
cation. Th
force of education. s.tid
PIli ton, lies in inteIJigent disciplinc A
pupil who ubeys the will of his te,iChcr
gives his own greater strength and flöi'
hility everv Ja\'. He has thl' orpnl tunit\'
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THt CANADIAN NURSE
of learning manly qualities of self-control,
earnestness, and readiness to answer the
c,dl of Juty. Discipline should obviously
aim d.t guidd.l1ce and prevention, since
pre"'ention h,-Is always been better than
suppreSSIOn. But if education is to cor-
n::spond to a high iJeal it must, above all,
he placeJ on a religious foundation. In
eJucation as in everything else, says
Monseigneur Dupanloup, religion is the
supreme aim, the beginning and end, the
..lph,t and omega of all endeavour. Re-
Lgion, says Monseigneur Moulart, should
hL the unchanging hasis of all education;
in religion alone can be found the prm-
(ipk, the rule and the consecration of all
Juties. There are not two educations,
:",lYS Rutché, one of the world and one of
God: then: is one only, in which every-
thill
is connected, because in the soul
also everything is connected, because con-
science forms a whole and is responsible
for all we do, because the ultimate end
of man is single and subordinate to all
worldly purposes. This ultimate end is
God himself.
We shall now see if these educative
principles can be applied to the training
of the nurse. This special training be-
gins precisely at a time when young girls
hegin to feel the desire to make them-
selves useful, to devote themselves to
some purpose, hut are ignorant of how to
reach their ideal. Nursing is essentially
.t woman's husiness; it can satisfy both
hand and heart, but needs careful prc-
paration. The teacher who undertakes
the serious task of training a nurse must
not lose sight of the general principles in
education that answcr to its full and de-
finite aim.
We have said that education must be
suitable. As Florence Nightingale so
'lptly said: "Nursing calls for a special
vocation in so far that it demands from
those who feel the call a series of quali
ties whose absence may endanger the full
.!ttainment of their purpose." Since the
,lim of education is not to create, hut to
hdp mould .1I1d din:ct. it is advisahle to
w
ed out from the very beginning all
girls who (lfford no proof of this special
vocation.
Because education should be continu-
ous, the student must remain in particular
educative surroundings and the living-in
system is thus necessary. To abandon this
system would be to disregard one of the
first principles in education.
As the training of a nurse is a difficult
business, on account of the student's
youth and the ideal aimed at, the teacher
must remember, above all, that the train-
ing must be natural. She must, therefore,
study her pupils and know their way of
thinking; she must therefore follow them
step by step, share their everyday life and
thus win their confidence. She will thus
Jiscover that certain errors <.1 re due
merely to temporary moral or physical
weakness, and that the student often de-
serves pity rather than blame. The school
Jirector should, therefore, interview the
nurse instructors at regular intervals.
Fuller knowledge of the stuJents' frame
of minJ will make her better able to
understand the reason of their conduct
and to give thcm work suited to their
character. They are reasonable human
heings and must he treated as such. The
student nurse obviously needs a comþre-
hensive training: the professional sidc
which includes physical, intellectual and
technical instruction, and the moral side.
She must become an expert in matters of
health and hygiene and apply all their
rules, which should even become part and
parcel of her daily life. The school should
possess every up-to-date health appliance,
the use of which should be supervised and
no slackness allowed in this respect.
Open-air games and walks should be a
compulsory item of the programme, and
be arranged hy the directress. Organized
competition in games is useful in creating
interest.
Let us consider briefly the inteHectual
training of a student nurse. On arriving
at the school, the girls should already
have a good gcneral education. It may
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PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS IN EDUCATION
he thought desirable to allow them to
Jevelop their artistic, literary and social
aptitudes. Some convalescents make great
Jemand3 on the nurse's intellectual at'
tainments, and many sick persons could
be cured by proper attention to their
moral CJnd mental needs. Artistic, literary
or other pursuits must not, however, en-
croach on professional studies proper,
which are of the utmost importance. It
is not enough to know what we must do
and how it must be done, but also the
reason why. The nurse who is to be'
come the doctor's real assistant should
not only understand his actions, but be
able to forsee them. Theoretical instruc,
tion must be given by competent teachers
who are ready to go beyond the narrow
limits of a minimum programme. The
students must also have time to digest
what they have learned, and this means
careful arrangement of the time'table.
The students should have access to the
many facilities offered by the school, such
;15 books, reviews and papers. Beyond
everything, the nurse needs to be taught
judgment. Accurate judgment is impor'
tant in life, and most of all in the nursing
profession. How often must a nurse act
,LCcording to her own judgment, and how
many mistakes might be avoided if this
judgment were always sound? Memory
is an aid to judgment. As logical memory
depends lugely on clear comprehension,
which is proportionate to the interest
evoked, the director must question the
students in order to make them talk and
state their opinion. She thus makes cer'
tain whether the mind has grasped what
the ton.gue has spoken; corrections will
be made in a kindly spirit and compli,
c.lted matters explained.
A most import
nt feature in the train-
ing of the nurse is her ethical teaching.
The nurse is not a machine, but a human
heing. Human worth does not lie in
:,trength or beauty, nor in physical or
intellectual attainments, hut in lofty
ideals, strength and sincerity of purpose,
,lI1d in the sum total of a man'5 principks.
H:RRl'ARY, lQ}4
0')
Can it be said that moral trainIng h,lS
made equal progress with technical in-
struction? That is a view I should
scarcely dare to uphold. The ohject of
moral training is to cultivate 111 the stu-
dent a spirit of industry, self'saLfifice.
charity and dignity. No woman gains
strength of character and ahLty to do
great things unless she has a will of her
own and is not afraid of effort. Any sys
tern of training that abolishes or even re'
duces personal effort therefore stands con-
demned. During her three years' tr .lining
the student finds ample opportunity for
exercising her will'power. She has to obey
a sign, a look, a word, even a sound. The
school regulations are strict; the students
are subject to discipline, which te
ches
them regular hahits and self,control. Dis,
cipline is concerned with the present and
the future; it must not, however, he
despotic nor refuse a certain degree of
liberty. It is even preferable to give the
students a consider,lble amount of frcc,
dom so th.lt they may learn how to make
good use of it. A steeled ch
racter will
always hold itself in check and he self,
reliant. Faced with a critical situation
or an unforeseen difficulty, the nurse will
not feel lost but will master the situation,
because she has learned to be virile. y.t
she remains a woman (It heart, and her
womanly qualities cannot be neglected.
The true nurse is compassionate in the
right sense of the word; she feels and
suffers with her patients, her kindness is
seen in her look, heard in her speech and
proved hy her deeds. She kno\\'s hmv to
warm the coldest heart, and give the de
spondent faith in life. She is t.lught to
love her work, to forget herself. and to
be ready for the greatest self'sacrifice. In
spite of this she is always ready with a
smile and is a convinced optimist. This
healthy optimism, which may often cause
some surprise, is the e),.press)on of intense
mor,tl force and true pe.Ke of mind.
What can the te
cher do to devdop
these qualities? She will set an l.'),.ampk
She will tre,lt her ..;tudcnt..; \\"th kinJnl --.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
listen to their many small worries, help,
cncourag(>, and be like a mother to them.
The nurse must not be allowed to feel
,done in her task. She is brought too
closely in cont,lct with the melancholy
side of life am.! soon loses her illusions.
A helping h
nd in times of weakness will
ive her fresh courage for further gener-
osity and self-sacrifice and a dearer view
of ha ideal. If she is truly desirous of
attaining the required standard, she will
com hat h,mnful inclinat
ons, and try not
to he thoughtless, changeable, sensitive,
proud
md selfish; she will cultivate the
qu,llities which make for a higher char-
acter - uprightness, perseverance, kind-
ness and gaiety in ha relations with
others, simpJicity, reserve and sociability.
The social spirit is fostered by arrang-
ing functions and g,lther;ngs at the school
ibdf, and in meetings for study and
lecture purposes. In spite of contrary
opinions, the organization of social func-
tions is an important part of the training
programme. Gifts of observation, initia-
tive, perseverance, energy, self-sacrifice
,1I1d devotion are called for, and for this
reason perhaps shortcomings arc often
met with amongst organizers.
There is yet another moral yuality that
the ideal nurse should have. namely, deli-
C.lCY of feeling. This makes her see in
the patient not a mere "case" but a hu-
man being who feels and understands,
and makes her able to enter into the mind
of her patients. Delicacy implies fore
sight, alertness, discretion, the trick of
finding the right word, the smile that
consoles, the gesture that gives peace. If
this virtue he inborn, training will find
the way to make it blossom. She must be
instructed as to the mystery of her origin
and her destiny. She must learn that we
come from God and that true happiness
lies in His will. Her conscience must be
enlightened, so that she may govern her
own life, play her part worthily and be
the guide and comforter of those who
doubt.
This survey of the principles in educa-
tion brings us to the conclusion that the
nurse's special training develops in her a
ché\racter and a mind peculiar to her pro-
fession. She has her own way of feeling,
comprehending, reasoning and acting.
Her ideas and opinions become the prin
ciples by which she lives, and which dis-
tinguish her from other young girls.
Although hrought daily into contact
with human suffering, she nevertheless
remains an optimist, hecause of her
inner convictions of hore and uhimate
happ;ness.
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VOL. xxx, No. 2
Department of Public Health Nursing
(".", \ .fll. 01 ['nIL:' \TlOS
: Mrs. Agnes Haygarth. 21 Sussex St.. Toronto. Onto
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL
A. MARTINEAU, G.M.E., infirmière surveillante. division des maladies contagieuses,
Service de Santê, Hôtel de Ville, Montrêal, P.Q.
Control of communicable diseases be-
ing of general concern, it may be of in-
terest to give a brief outline of the work
Jone by the nurses of the Contagious
Diseases Division of the Health Depart'
ment of the City of Montreal. First a
few words about the administration of
this division, its work being one of the
most important amongst the many activi'
ties of the city health department. The
staff comprises one superintendent, hold,
ing the diploma of public health, who is
in charge; three diagnosticians, one of
whom had special training as epidemiolo,
gist; one head nurse who h
s had public
health training; nine visiting nurses; five
clerks and three inspectors. The efforts
of this personnel tend to control and
eliminate communicable disease by edu'
eating people and recommending pre'
ventive measures.
Every case of communicable disease
should be reported to the division of con'
tagious diseases, according to the provin-
cial health by' laws. Is this regulation
scrupulously observed? Let us make no
comment on this subject. Nurses visit
confirmed cases only, whilst all suspected
cases brought to our attention are attend-
ed by a physician and are then transferred
to nurses. The work is centralized at the
health department and the city is geo,
graphically divided into nine districts.
The nurse's functions are to establish
4uarantine anJ to see that other prophy,
lactic measures are applieJ in compliance
with the provincia] health by,laws. Nurses
rcport every morning at the office to give
an account of their day's work and to
discuss the problems to be solved, such as
patients to be hospitalized or cases where
isolation is Jifficult. Cases of poverty.
FFßRUARY, 1914
backward children and so on are reported
to the proper organization, for the nurses
always try to co'operate with other wel-
fare associations. Then the nurse starts
out with her list of new cases to be
attended during the day and enquires at
th
office again at noon to find out
whether there are .my new and urgent
calls to be made.
When a nurse calls at a home she ex'
plains that she is sent from the health
department because there is a case of com-
municable disease in the family. She takes
the history of the illness and goes through
the usual questionnaire and gives instruc,
tions concerning proper isolation of the
patient and the prevention of the con'
tamination of other members of the fam
ily. She insists on concurrent disinfec
tion, and takes note of all particulars, for
she has to keep the case in minJ for suh
sequent visits.
As the nurse sends a notice to schoo]
not to admit a child until it has heen
issued a certificate of re-admission. she
also delivers certificates to this effect, to-
gether with those of re,admission to work.
In diphtheria, she takes swabs of the
nose and throat and quarantine is lifteJ
only when two negative results are oh-
tained. In typhoid she sees th,lt the ft.'ce:,
and urine are examined and, if a germ
carrier is detected, he is kept under oh-
servation. As the city proviJes for free
Jistribution of antidiphtheric serum the
nurse has to visit these st.ltions regul.lrly
,md collect certificates; she must then in
4uire at the reporteJ .lJdresses concern-
ing the reasons why the serum W.iS 111'
jeeted
There is a service at the civic hospital
for smallpo"{. hut in the last three years.
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72
THE CANADIAN NURSE
not hc\ving met with sm.tllpo:\., we hc\ve
opened a clinic for scabies. Cases to be
treated arc selected among those reported
amI wc give the opportunity of hospitali'
:ation to those who have not the facilitIes
for receiving proper treatment at home,
especially when there are school chtlJren
in the household. The treatment is of
course given under the supervision of a
doctor.
Hav
ng to dcc\l \vith all nationalities,
Jiffercnce of language is sometimes a real
h.lI1dicap to our work, foreigners not he'
ing used to our proceedings in commu'
nicahle discasð. I do not intend to say
that it is only foreigners who do not
ohserve good quarantine: unfortunottdy
our fdlow-Òtizens overlook it only too
often. It is, however, a pleasure to say
that \ve have the co-operation of a great
numhcr of people who understand their
social Juties and whu accept willingly all
restrictions imposed, but on the other
hand, there arc those who th
nk that we
\J,.'ant to cause them trouhk or annoyance.
They do not understand that for us the
\velf.lre of the community comes first and
thc\t personal intacst should be sacrificed
to the common wdfare. The education
of people is not done in a day. Should we
meet with more success if the law were
strictly applIed? We believe, however,
in the old s('ying: Patience et longueur'de
temþs font þltts que force et v:0 1 ence.
THE GREATER VANCOUVER f-IEAL TH LEAGUE
KA THLEEN I. SANDERSON, Reg. N.. Executive Secretary.
The Greater Vancouver Health Le(\gue
is a hranch of the Canadian Social Hy'
giene Counc
l, a voluntary association
org.\nized under the auspices of the Do...
minion (;overnment and co"'operating
with the provincial and municipal de...
pc\rtments of health of the whole Do,
m!nion, for the purpose of awakening the
puhLc to the necessity of the prevention
of all preventahle diseases. This proh'
lcm has been found to he so linked up
with the problems of general hea.lth and
child training that the League was organ'
ized with the ohiect of carrying on a
general health educational campaign in
the Province of British Columbia. Efforts
arc heing directed particululy towards
the conservation of the health of the
family, and the upholding of the home
as the chief social institution for preserv'
ing the health and well-being of the indi'
v;dual, the family, the community and
the nation. Thè Leagu(' consists of rep'
resentatives of organizations at present
in existence in the community, which
have a
their ohjects the promotion of
community welfare. Its specific aims are:
To educate the whole community in per-
sonal dnd community health and in modern
scientific methods of disease prevention.
To improve the facilities for making the
he
t methods of treatment of disease available
to the whole community, and to educate the
public to make early use of them.
To give guidance and assistance to parents
in training children in personal hyg'iene and
chdracter building.
To faCllitate and inaugurate the provision
of health services to voluntary social work
agencies.
The activities of the League are car-
rieJ on hy the following sections: medical
and venereal disease; cancer prevention;
prevention of heart disease; milk supply;
parent education and child study; pre'
natal care: prevention of maternal mol"
tality: library and liter.lture; press and
puhlicity; industrial medicine; nutrition;
r.1diul11: prevention of tuberculosis.
The speakers' service offers a list of
over one hunJred suhjects in mental and
physICal health. These arc given by ex'"
perts in the
r special fields, and are avail...
<lnk. free of charge, upon request of any
VOL. xxx. No. 2
(
REATER VANCOlTVER HEALTH LEAGUE
group in the community. During the past
season one hundred and eighteen lectures
were delivered before audiences of many
types, including Parent,Teacher Associa'
tions, Communists, Y.M.C.A., Y.W.
C.A., Jewish organizations, Church clubs,
Nurses Associations, Japanese and Chin'
ese societies. Health films are loaned upon
request and each year a special series of
kctures is arranged by the parent educa-
tion and child study committee. These
deal specifically with parent and child
problems, and are given, free of charge,
in various sections of the city. An excel-
lent lending library has been established
in the League office. Borrowers include
members of parent study groups, univer'
sity students, normal school students, and
social workers.
Regular clinics are held for periodic
health examinations of the clients of vol,
untary social work agencies. This is in no
sense a remedial service, and no treat-
ments are given, clients requiring special
care heing referred to doctors or clinics
where the necessary treatment may be re'
ceived. This service is proving to be a
very important factor in determining
whether the health of one or more mem-
hers of a f.ml
ly is .t princip.-tl or contri,
huting cause of a broken home, or of de'
linquency and idleness. It serves, too, to
dispel im.tginary ills, to check up on in-
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clpient abnormalities, to reassure the
client, and presents an opportunity to
give valuable health hints. Special clinic:-
have been established for examining
adults and children previous to their
leaving for summer camps. This insures,
;IS far as possihle, against diphtteria or
diphtheri.t carriers getting into camp, and
makes possible the investigation of any
unfavourable symptoms. Through the
nutrition committee, budgets, shopping
lists and menus are prepared for clients
of voluntary social work agencies. When'
ever possible, the nutritionist has a per'
son..l interview with the client, and so is
.tble to judge wherein the real difficulty
li
s. This service is meeting a great need
for those on relief allowance, and those
who are inexperienced shoppers and
housekeepers.
In the Spring of 1932, a tuherculosis
committee, which is affiliated with the
Canadian Tuberculosis Association, was
organized. Since its inception, note-
worthy progress has been made in the
.ul1algamation of all tuberculosis work
Ullda the direct control of the city health
epartment with a complete tuberculosis
unit at the General Hospital. The Japan-
ese and Chinese communities are showing
an active and co,operative interest in en'
deavouring to stamp out this very preva'
lent disease.
THE BIG BAD WOLVES
J. OeBRINCA T, Reg. N.. member of Provincial Public Health Nursing Staff, Manitoba.
:\n unusu.ll experience befell me which may
IIldICate the difficulties of a public hea!th
nUr
e, and be a warning to avoid travelling
alone on dark nights. Darkness had fallen
when 1 found myself and my usually trusty
Ford on a trail ten miles from the nearest
house. In turning a sharp corner the car
truck a stump-result a flat tire. Moving
my car to a place where I could jack it up,
J beg.iIl to feel nervou
, something that bad
never happened to me before. Looking up 1
..,aw glowing eye". and then I heard the
howling of w()I\"C
o m.ttter how J ..truggled
FFBRlJARY, }lH I
I couldn't loosen my spare tire,
o at last,
worn out and in despair, I locked myself i!1
my car and prayed that another traveller would
soon pass by. After waiting an hour (the
longest hour I have ever known) a car carne
by with a driver who helped me out of my
difficulties. It seems that a wrong kind d
nut had been u
ed to put on the spare tire
which prevented me from removing it in spite
of all my efforts. This shows how much a
m.llI thing as a little nut can he thr cau
e pf
much di
tn'''''.
Department of Private Duty Nursing
CONVBNBIl OP PUBLIC^TION8: Miss Jean Davidson, Paris, Onto
WE SPEAK OUR MIND
RUT H M. MANNING, Reg. N., Private Nurse. Saint John. N.B.
We are now passing through a crisis
in nursing. Whether we stagnate or make
further progress depends entirely on the
type of nurse we send out from our nurs,
ing schools. The time has come to strpss
yuality rather than quantity. Mass pro'
duction IS generally considered the only
means of staffing our hospitals econorrtÏ'
cally, and if this continues, the publi\:
will wake up some day to find that the
intelligent woman will not enter a fiekl
where there are already great number
of unemployed, many of them the victim
of cheap labour and a hit'or'miss edu,
cational system. There is a limit to
optimism. 1 am not a revolutionist but
I do belIeve that unless the situation is
studied by competent persons, some wIse
decision reached, some action taken, chaos
will eventually be the result of procras'
tination.
The public should be made more
familiar with our problems. The nursing
situation is their problem as well as our--,
for while there are great numbers of uw
employed nurses, there are also great
numhers of the public not receiving effi,
cient nursing service. There has been
much discussion on the subject of nurses'
fees. We reali 4 e that many who should
receive nursing service are being deprived
of it because of financial circumstances.
We sympathize with thIs need, yet be'
cause the nurse is serving suffering hu'
manity, does that justify her not earning
sufficient to fulfil her personal and social
obligations? How many nurses have be'
come wealthy from the fees they have
collected during their professional career?
We do not want destructive criticism.
We need constructive criticism.
We still find among us a few of the
traditionalists, who believe that the nurse
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is being over-educated. Nurses may be
over' trained but is anyone ever over'
educated? Training should be an obsolete
word in modern nursing education. We
train animals. We educate nurses. W
must have a certain amount of standard,
i 4 ation. We cannot allow students to
experiment on the patients. Nevertheless,
after we reach a certain level, standard.
i 4 ation is killing. It brings things up to a
certain level but it must not be allowed
to interfere with professional expansion
,md growth.
I believe th.
t we should put more
science and knowledge into our nursing.
It will not lessen the efficiency of our
skills but will provide the "why" for the
"how." Ii will not lower our ideals or
make us less sympathetic to our patients.
It will substitute intelligent sympathetic
understanding for cheap sentimentality
and personal prejudice. Although we
ha ve not fully developed it, we believe
that we have a science of our own. We
do not wish to lose our skills and ideals.
We do endeavour to have a better under'
standing of everything we do.
Nursing and medicine have a common
aim: the care of the patient, but the medi,
cal and nursing functions are different.
The hygienic care of the patient mentally
and physically is definitely a nursing skill.
Due to the complexity of modern life,
the ment.d aspect of every patient is an
opportunity for study. We need more
psychology and mental hygiene in our
nursing school curriculum. We do not
wish to encroach on the field of medicine
hut we do wish to develop our own skills
scientifically. The method and art em'
ployed in carrying out the doctor's orders
is entirely apart from medicine. Nursing
com plements medicine and vice versa.
VOl. XXX, No. 2
WE SPEAK OUR MIND
Both are nec
ssd.ry III the interests vi
",uffering humanity.
When I say that we should put more
science and knowledge into our nursing
I do not mean that we should turn out
bookish individuals. I do think that every
nurse should know what is meant by that
attitude of mind called the scientific
method, the biological point of view. This
is after all only the common sense point
of view. It distinguishes the poor nurse
frum the good nurse. It is not the facts
in the mind that count but the facts that
one can get for oneself and the ability to
llse them. Prove all things and hold fast
to that which is good. The nurse has to
observe and classify accurately those
things which she has observed. Every
nurse should get into the habit of scien-
tific method and carry it over into all of
her work. Even making a bed may be
scientific. The nurse instructors who are
able to give their students this point of
view give them something of far more
value than the assimilation of a lot of
hook knowledge. The student with this
point of view will continue to educate
herself after graduation. Nursing is an
art, but we need science to stabilize it
(md to make that art transferable. Th
paintings of Raphael and Michael Angelo
cannot be reproduced. The technique has
heen lost.
Nursing education has advanced but It
has by no means reached the peak ùf
,lttainment. We appreciate the hospital
as the laboratory for nursing and we d0
not wish to divorce ourselves from it; but
we have as our ideal the nursing school
t.?conomically independent of the hospital.
The chief aim of the nursing school will
then be the education of the nurse and
hetter equipped women will be sent into
Fl-BRUAR\, )lH"
75
the nursmg field, providing better serVIce
for the public. No nursing duties will b
eliminated. but it will not be neccessary
to continue at tasks which have long
ceased to be of educational value. The
gap will be filled by fully qualified gradu-
ate nurses and by domestics. The nursing
school will be equipped adequately and
have the necessary number of YUd.lified
instructors; the student nurse will pay for
her tuition as do students in other schools
and colleges. It is not an impossible
scheme. Other schools and colleges did
not always receive the recognition and
support that they enjoy today.
I have not attempted to discuss the
preventive aspect úf nursing. That Ïs not
because I considel it unimportant but be-
cause I consider it an integral part of all
good .lursing. Where have we better
c ,pportunity to teach health lessons tha.l
when we are nursing lIving examples úf
broken health laws? Every nurse shoulJ
be a health teacher. EJery nurse should
h(> a public health nurse.
If we are to produce quality rather
than yuantlty, give more ethcient nurslllg
service to the public, raise and protect th('
status of the nurse, get more science anJ
knowledge into our nursing and raise the
educational standard of our schools. we
must not hide our light under a bushel.
If our present system is good enough why
tire there so many unemployed nurses,
such numhers of the public derived of
efficient nursing service, so many nursmg
schools ld.cking qualified instructors?
Health insurance may be a solution to
some of our problems. We do not wish
to be revolutionary, but when occd.sioll
arises, let us not forget that stagnation is
the fruit of procrastination.
The Student Nurses Page
NEW LIGHT
PATRICIA COLLINS, Student Nurse, the School of Nursing
of the Toronto General Hospital.
Gradually there has come to be a new
approach to nursing, a co'ordination and
a linking, up of the physical and mental
aspects of illness. Today we realize that
the two are inseparable-no point of be'
ginning or leaving off. but a complete
following through of the whole.
We speak of mental hygiene in a casu-
al way and have a somewhat blurred
knowledge of mental illness. Yet we have
to admit a great lack in the understand-
ing and care of the mentally ill in th
average general hospital. The tremendous
swift'moving undercurrent that flows
steadily in the hospital wards, frantic
rushed days, more work than can b
done, an overwhelming feeling that finds
us forgetting, not the medicines and the
baths and the treatments. but the human
being.
Many of us fail to reach beyond thl3
physical ills to the limitless sphere of
thought and idea, fear, courage and ail
other "thin kings" which press in upon
the mind of the ill person. So often we
say, realizing a maladjustment, "Oh, yes,
she is a neurotic." There we stop.
During the past year, however, an
affiliation with the Toronto Psychiatric
Hospital has been arranged for student
nurses in the School of Nursing of the
Toronto General Hospital. It is a three
months' elective course offered to as many
of the students as are interested. Even EO
short a time as this gives the student
nurse an understanding within herself
and promotes a helpful, healthy adjust,
ment on her part. It brings steadiness
and broadness to her whole outlook.
-\
great amount of thought, care, and effort
has been given to planning and arranging
this course. An extensive yet concen-
trated group of lectures is given by the
76
staff, each fitting in, correlating, and bUIlt
up into a working knowledge of psychi-
atry. Observation, demonstration and
participation in all nursing procedures,
concerned with the treatment of the men-
tally ill, constitute the practical portion.
The feeling of "fitting,in" and "'be-
longing" was a very happy one. We were
not on the outside looking in. but very
much on the inside, looking a little far-
ther in. The thing which meant much to
the student nurse was her own achiev
'
ment in case-study work. One individual
was studied intensively, tracing through
origin and cause to his present situation,
and following with a suggested adjust-
ment for his future. It gave a feeling of
having learned more about ourselves. It
gave a broader knowledge of what seem'
ed to be abnormal behaviour and abc'
ginning towards appreciating people, not
according to a set social standard, bm
as they "'fit-in" or "fit,out" of their en-
vironment.
Quite aside from any professional <1d
vantage is the real value of knowing
people and understanding a little mon?
about ourselves. A nurse, more th:tn
others, is constantly thrust into an abnor'
mal environment, because illness, mental
or physical, is not a normal state. Wisely
to meet this situation is a problem which
must be fought out with one's self. We
must set a balance, cast out and reject Oí1
one side, accept and build up on the
other. Even in the building we would
think as does the builder, realizing th..':
V<1 stness of his task, yet knowing th.u
somewhere there was a beginning anJ
somewhere will be a completion.
I woulJ build a house with many win'
dows, high on a hill with a road slow'
climbing and welcome to my door. A
VOL. XXX, No. 2
NEW LIGHT
house) a hill, and a twisting road above
the travelled way. I would build my
house and not grow weary with my work
ing. I would find a quiet joy and know
rest. Perhaps tomorrow will bring a be
ginning. Always it has been past my
reClching) mad hurry) straining ahead, a
glimmer, then hurled down, beaten back,
endlessly. Could the day not hold back
its flying hours, release the pressing ques
tioning uncertainty of its minutes:
Wearying effort! Tired-so tired.
I turn quietly away, pause in my be
wilderment, seek the common road and
watch the travellers passing by. Old men
and children, weary
footed women, mov'
ing always toward the turning of the
road. Young faces held a look of wonder.
A child and an aged man came slowly,
together, one learning the steady tramp'
ing of the road-the other, unlearning.
77
And in each face there was the same look,
an understanding.
Somehow I was with them there on the
travelled way. We three together. "Arc
you a builder, too?"' they asked of me.
Then came the turning in the road and
the aged man said, "My house lacks J
window facing the east. I shall build on
,
and when the morning sun comes there
will be a remembering." The child saiJ.
"1 shall begin my house with a windO\\'
towards the west, and sometimes watch
the sun go down." The aged man went
down the shorter way, alone, and the
child ran on, joining the others who had
gone ahead. I turned aside and founJ
again the twisting road that leads to my
house on the hill. I will hegin with two
windows, one facing east, and the other,
west.
Book Reviews
PL Hue HtALTH NURSING IN INDL"STRY,
prepared for the National Organiza
lion for Public Health Nursing, by
Violet H. Hodgson, R.N., Assistant
Director, National Organization for
Public Health Nursing. 249 pages.
Illustrated. Published by the Macmil
bn Company of Canada, 70 Bond St.,
Toronto. Price, $2.10.
The public,ltion of this book is most
(Ipportune. It gives a clear, authoritative,
and comprehensive picture of the rela
tively undeveloped field of industrial
nursing which, previously, has not been
,lvailahle. Its purpose, as stated by the
.\ uthor, is as follows:
It is hoped the material In this publicdtio'1
will: Indicate to management the potential
field of activity of the public health nur:-e:
assist the new nurse entering the industri.tl
health field in planning the most effective pro'
ramme ro
sihle:
uggest to the nurse in indu
'
try new lin
s of activity: :>uggest the function...
of the nurse and her aJmini!'tl ative relation-
I-'L:HRUARY, 1qH
ships to the medical, indu
trial relations, ai,d
production departments: assist the nurse in
making her ser"ice an integral part of the
community health programme; stimulate com.
munity public health nursing agencies to ex'
tend their programmes into commercial and
industrial establishments.
The foreword, written by Dr. C. E. A.
Winslow, Professor of Public Health,
YLlle University, stresses the first'men-
tioned objective thus: "The personnel
manager or other industrial officer will
find many parts of the work almost
eyually illuminating. He may not only
learn from it the place which the nurse
should occupy in the fidd of industry,
hut may also obtain a bro,lder vision ot
th
wider problems of mdustrial efficiency
as ,lffected by the health and morale of
the individu,tl worker ..
P,lrt One is divided into ch'lpters de,ll
ill!; with company organi:,ltion and ,ld
mini
tr.ltion. indu
trial rd.ltions, .LCti,,'i
ti\.',; .tnd }w,Llth :'\." \'icL'
. Admirahk ch.u t..
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
serve to clarify administratIve and func-
tional relationships which, at first glance,
might appear extremely complicated.
Pa rt Two is devoted to a discussion of
the principles, practices and procedures
related to industrial nursing service. In
the first chapter, the fundamental prin-
ciples of puhlic health nursing are clearly
enunciated and, throughout the volume,
these principles are consistently related
to the specific topic which is under con-
sideration. Succeeding chapters deal at
some length with such topics as human
relationships within the plant; scope and
administration of nursing service; physi-
cal equipment of health department;
work environment; prevention of acci-
dents and illness; industrial poisons; com-
munity relationships; supervision; records
and statistics.
As yet, in Canad", the function of the
nurse in industrial plants is not always
well understood either by the managers
of industry or even by the nurses them-
selves. This book would serve as an inter-
preter. It has, however, other uses. It
should be carefully read by all principals
of schools of nursing in order that the
basic requirements of this important
hranch of nursing may be understood,
and it should be placed in the library of
every school in order that student nurses
may early reali 4 e the unexplored possi-
hilities of the field of industrial nursing.
MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACOLOGY AND
THERAPEUTICS, by Maude B. Muse,
R.N., A.M., Teachers College, Colum-
hia University, New York City. 627
pages; 71 illustrations. Price, $3.25.
London and Philadelphia: W. B. Saun-
ders Company. Canadian Agents: Mc-
Ainsh & Co. Limited, Toronto.
This text is a well written composite
showing the relationship of physiology
and chemistry to pharmacology, and of
the latter to the art of nursing. The suh-
ject matter is.comprehensive and methodi-
cally arranged. Each chapter presents the
drugs affecting a particular system and
the sequence of systems is similar to that
found in most texts of anatomy and
physiology for nurses. Miss Muse has
preceded the presentation of drugs, in
ed.ch chapter, by an excellent review of
the physiology of the system being
studied. A splendid review in the form
of summaries, true-false yuestions, and
out-of-class questions, completes each
chapter. The impression gained in read,
ing each chapter is, that it is a very well
prepared lesson, also that Miss Muse de-
sires to inspire the pupil to endeavour to
reason the therapeutic and toxic effects of
drugs and to overcome "rôte immuniza-
tion." Emphasis is laid upon pharma-
cology and therapeutics. It is a delight to
see the pupil's obligation to the patient
emphasized: "If the pulse rate drops be-
low 60 the nurse must report it at once
and give no more digitalis without fur-
ther orders. Preparations of digitalis are
given between meals and in plenty of
water, as the t
ste is bitter and irritating
to mucous membranes." There is an ap-
pendix containing some definitions, inter-
esting historical data, and chemical for-
mulæ. Above all, the book is written from
an educator's viewpoint. It attempts to
arouse a sense of enquiry in the pupil. It
is recogni 4 ed thl1t much is being added
yearly, and much discarded, consequently,
the nurse as a public servant must keep
.lbreast of the times. Altogether the book
is an excellent one. It should prove a jov
to instructors and a rich reference source
for pupils.
NOREl';"A MACKENZIE,
Assistant Instructor of Nurses,
Montreal General Hospital.
VOL. XXX, No. 2
Notes From the National Office
Contributed by JEAN S. '" ILSON. Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
III Memoriam
At d meeting of the E""ecutive Com-
mittee of the Canadian Nurses Associa-
tion, held In December, the members re-
corded the deep loss experienced by the
Association through the death of Miss
Mrtry Agnes Snively, the revered and
heloved Founder and Honorary President
of the Canadian Nurses Association, who
also was the first president and a life
member of our national organization. A
committee was appointed to give con'
slderation to a memorial to Miss Snively
hy the C.N.A. The members of this com-
mittee are: Miss M. F. Hersey, Miss Jean
1. Gunn, Miss E. MacP. Dickson, with
Miss Jedn E. Browne as convener.
Approved Schools
For the past decade there has been
availahle at the National Office a list of
the approved schools of nursing in Can-
dda as recognized by the provincial Reg-
istered Nurses Associations: that is,
schools of nursing whose graduates are
eligible as candidates for the provincial
eXdminations for registration. With the
assistance of the provincial reg
strars this
list is revised annually at headquarters.
It is most gratifying to be able to an-
nounce that, during 1933, there was a
decrease in the total number of schools
of nursing in Canada amounting to eleven
per cent as compared with a similar list
for the previous year. In the province of
Saskatchewdn the decrease reached the
astonishing record of forty per cent. This
progressive step, which only a few
years ago would have seemed incredible,
is principally the result of important
changes made, by the Legislature, in the
hospit.
l regulations for Saskatchewan.
The members of the Sask.ltchewan Regis-
tered Nurses Association dre to }--Ie can'
.
r.ltulated in securing this legislative co-
oper.ition III m.lking effective certain
recl)mmend.ltH)]ls from the Report of the
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Survey of Nursing Educdtion in C.lnad...
Other provincial associations, whose ef-
forts toward the elimination of nursing
schools in hospitdls which dre und}--lle to
provide the required theory and practice
field for the education of the student
nurse, are those in British Colum}--llcl.
where fourteen per cent of the schools
were closed between 1932 and 1933, and
in Ontario: where the decrease amounts
to eighteen per cent. Probably the leaven
of the Survey Report is working better
than is redlized by the majority of the
members of the C.N .A.
One Way Ollt
There are occasions when the steel of
one's courage seems to lose its temper as
uncertainty and discouragement block
the trail ahead. At such times optimism
is re,established by the ;t ppearance of a
guid
ng light from which there is reflect-
ed the determination and fortitude of a
smdl1 group. Reports of the interchdnge
of nurses scheme. as formulated and in'
stituted by the Manitoba Association of
RegIstered Nurses, portray graphically
that registered nurses in thJt Province are
putting forth an heroic effort to alleviate
unemployment within their profession.
During the General Meeting, Canadi.tn
Nurses Association. 1932, a resolution
was accepted which read:
In order that the experience in the small
hospital, which is undoubtedly of value to
the nmse in fulfilling her responsibilities to
the community after she graduates, may not
be lost, it is recommended that a comprehen'
sive plan be formulated whereby such oppor-
tunities may be adequately utilized in post
graduate work, .1I1d through a sy!=tem of
interchange of nurses, within the Dominion
of Candda. .
Did Manitoh.l c.ltch the gle.w1? The
interchdngc of nurses committee of the
tv1.A.R.N. }--Iccame definitely active in
Fc}--lru.lry. 1933: the co-oper.ltion of all
schools of nursing in the Province \\'.l'
"ought. .1Ild
upl'rintl'ndent' of nineteen
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THl: CANADIAN NURSE
hospitals were informed of the recom-
mendations brought forward by the nurs-
ing education section. The development
of the scheme evolved as follows: Four
superintendents of nurses co-operated
with the committee in offering to accept
students for postgraduate work during
April, and one superintendent made a
similctr offer for June. It was stipulated
that the length of the course should he
three months. The transportation ex
p
nses of participants in the scheme were
horne hy the Manitoba Association of
Registered Nurses, in addition to the
monthly allowance of ten dollars granted
hy the Association to each student. Cer
tain elective courses were offered by
schools in larger hospitals and applicants
were recommended by their respective
schools of nursing.
In the spring of 1933 the M.A.R.N.
phced sufficient funds at the disposal of
the mten:hange committee to finance the
participation of eighteen students in the
scheme. In September, 1933, an addi-
tional grant was made available for a
second group of the same number of
students. During the summer the Asso'
cÌ<1tion offered a prize for the best essay
written by a participant in the scheme
and excerpts from four of these sum'
m.trize the following advantages:
The graduate of a school of nursing con-
nected with a small hospital has the privilege
of postgraduate study and practice in the
large departmental institution and, in the
mall hospital, the student from a large institu-
tion finds unlimited scope for improvization
,md application of theories and technique..
she had already learned. Such an interchange
not only tends to broaden the professio!lal
mind of the mdividual but creates a bond of
sympathetic co-operation between large and
small institutions.
An individual appreciation is created of the
tangible and intangible benefits derived f ro:n
belonging to a professional organization.
The interchange programme offers oppor-
tlll11ty for training and experience in special
pha
es
uch as tllberculo
l
and paediatric
nur
ing. The experience thus gained fosters
thoughtful comparison of nursing methods.
The participant is assured of full main-
tendnce provided hy the hospital during th!:
three months period, as welI as of a small
finanCIal re-imbursement from the Manitoo<1
A.ssociation of Registered Nurses.
Such words from the pens of students
who have actually participated in the
scheme give overwhelming evidence that
the two-fold objective of expanding the
education of each individual student and
relieving unemployment has heen, and is,
realistically being attained.
Gelleral Meeting, 1934
It is antic;pated there will be an unusu'
ally large attendance at the Seventeenth
General Meeting of the C.N.A. which is
to be held in the Royal York Hotel, To'
ronto, from June 25th to 30th, 1934. The
Ninth Annual Meeting of the Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario is to take
place on Monday, June 25th. It is ad;
visahle that reservation for accommoda,
tion he made early. The Committee on
Arrangements have supplied the follow'
ing information on hotel rates. Except
where indicated, rooms with h
th are
Lluoted, also the quotdtion given for
douhle rooms is per person (S. - single
room: D..
douh1e room).
Royal York Hotel: S. $3.50: D. $3.00.
King Edward Hotel: S. $2.50, $3.f)0, $3.:;:':
D. $2.00, $2.50, $3.00.
Westminster Hotel: 210 Jarvi:, Street- S.
$2.50; D. $2.00 (European plan, tea room and
dining room in connection).
Hotel \Vaverley: 488 Spadina Avenllc--
S. $2.50, $3.00, or with hot and cold water
only, $2.00; D. $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, or with
hot and cold water only, $1.50, $1.75.
Y.W.C.A.: 76 Pembroke Street and 18 Elm
Street- Bed and breakfast, $1.00, $1.. 1 0:
Room and meals, $1.50, $2.00.
Those wishing convent accommodation
should write to Rev. Sf. Superior, St.
Michael's Hospital, Bond Street, Toronto.
VOL. XXX, No. 1
News
Nc:\\s items mtended for publication in the ensuing issue must reach the Journal not later than the eighth of tho
prcceding month. In order to cnsurc accuracy all contributions should bl" tvpc
ritten and double-spaced.
Notes
ALBERT A
EDMO:>ÒTON: Evenings of unusual lOterest
have recently been enjoyed by well-attended
meetings of the Edmonton Nurses Association.
Dr. Oliver of the Department of Pathology,
University of Alberta, told of hIS summer in
Spain, spent in the clinics following up research
work on brain tumor. In November, Dr.
Hepburn spoke on the advancement made in
hrain surgery and the life-saving possibilitie
now in view that yesterday were deemed im-
possible. The winter programme, planned by
the nursing education section, includes a series
uf demonstrations and discussions on nursing
procedures as practised in the different hos-
pitals of the city with a view to adopting as
uniform a system as possible. The Alumnae
Society of the School of Nursing of the Royal
Alexandra Hospital have as their special work
the knitting of garments for the V.O.N., to
be used in thcir work among needy families.
MANITOBA
BRAN"DON: The Brandon Graduate Nurses
Association held their monthly meeting on
Dec. 5. when forty-eight nurses were present.
The meeting was in charge of the Down Town
Group. Miss J. Munroe, convener, introduced
Miss Eli
abeth Russell, superintendent of the
Provincial Public Health NurslOg Department.
Her subject was "Public health at home and
abroad", and was very ably presented. We
could not help but see how far ahead Britain
is in public health measures and how Canada
has fallen down. The recalling of twenty-six
public health nurses is a real disaster and is
costing the country thousands of dollars. Epi-
demics are breaking out in out-lying districts
and nurses and doctors have had to be sent In
by aeroplane to combat disease. Miss M. Gem-
mell moved a vote of thanks to Miss Russell
dnd a social hour followed.
WINNIPEG: Miss Gena E. Bamfurth (\\'.G.
H., 1932), is at present enrolled in the po
t-
graduate course in diabetic nursing conducted
under the direction of Dr. E. P. JoslIn, at thc
New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston,
Mass.
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOHN: Two New Brunswick nurs
s
.lre included among those mentioned in the
New Year's honour list. Miss N.ln Estabrouk
uf Saint John, and Mrs. Ross of Riley Brook.
Victoria Co.. have both been named membero;
of the Order of the British Empire.
Saint John nurses mourn the death, on
D
c. 7, of Dr. G. F. Emery. In his passing
we lo
c a piuneer wh., JiJ mu.::h to l'o,;taHi..h
HßRl1ARY, 1934
the Sdlllt John General Huspital Training
School for 1\' urses, the third school of nurs'
ing to be urgani
ed in Canada.
On behalf of the Alumnae Association of
the Saint John General Hospital, Santa Claus
presented a radio to the student nurses at a
Christmas party held on Dec. 12, when the
nursing staff and students were guests of the
intermediate class. Members of the Alumnae
:\ssociation who were ill in hospital were
remembered at Christmas time with gifts.
Miss Mary Murdoch (S.J.G.H.) of the
Department of Indian Affairs is in Muncey,
Ontario, for the winter. Miss Helen Cahill
(S.J.G.H.) has successfully completed a post-
graduate course at thc Children's Memorial
Hospital.
The meeting of the Alumnae Association of
St. Joseph's Hospital was held on Dec. 12,
and plans were made for a gift to a sick mem-
ber at the Saint John Tuberculosis Hospital.
A gift will also be sent to each member of
this year's graduating class.
Miss Leola Richardson resigned as super-
visor of child welfare nurses and was married
in August. Her successor is Miss Martina
Wallace, who was appointed by the Board of
Health, with Miss Zetta White as assistant.
Sympathy is extended to Miss Martha Fra-
ser in her bereavement.
MARRIED: Miss Mary C. Harrington (S.J.
G.H., 1919) to Mr. John McDonald. Mr. and
Mrs. McDonald are residing at 1298 Common-
wealth Ave., Allston, Mass.
ST STEPHEN: The St. Stephen Chapter of
the N.B.A.R.N. met on Dec. 1:- .It the home
of the president, Miss M. McMullen. An
instructive paper on the "Truby King Method
of Infant Feeding" was read by Miss Jes
ie
Murray. Refreshments and a social hour fol-
lowed the meeting. Miss Viola Floyd (C.M.H..
1930), is confined to her home in Apohaqui
with an injured knee. Miss Ha
el Darker of
the C.M.H. staff is spending her vacation at
her home in Island Brook, Que. Mi
Almd
Clark is relieving. The many friends of Miss
Florence Cunningham of the C.M.H. staff
are sorry to hear of her illncss. Mis
H. Dyke
man, director of public health nursing for
Kew Brunswick, was a recent visitor to St
Stephen. Much sympathy is extended to
fJSS
Myrtle Dunbar in the passing of her mothcr
MARRH'D: On Jan. 1, 1934, in St. Stephen,
1\li:>s Helcn G. Mowatt (C.M.H., 1926) to
?vir. Cedric H. Dinsmore.
\\'oon
fOCi-. Tlw monthly mcct1l1
of th("
:\llImn:H' .-\..
'" 1.llion of the T r. FI
h
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Memorial Hospital was held on Dec. 19, and
after the regular business was discussed, deli-
cious refreshments were served.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT 1
LONDON: The regular meeting of the On-
tario Hospital Alumnae Association was held
on Jan. 7, with Miss Williams in the chair.
It was decided that the Association would
take share in the entertainment at the annual
meeting of District 1, R.N.A.O., to be held
in the hospital on Jan. 27. A resume of
Dr. Weir's book will be given by Miss F. R.
Ball. It was arranged to hold a card party in
the junior nurses' home on Feb. 8, when the
raffle for a quilt will be drawn, proceeds of
same to go to the Florence Nightingale Fund
in the British College of Nurses in England.
Donations were voted to the Milk Fund, to
the War Memorial Children's Hospital, thf"
Day Nursery and the V.O.N. The members
were entertained at lunch by Mrs. E. D. Gros-
venor, Misses Kennedy and Lindsay assisting.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRANTFORD: Mrs. Andrews (Clara Kelly,
B.G.H., 1921) entertained a number of her
classmates recently. Those present were: Miss
E. Miller, Miss F. Westbrook, of Ann Harbor,
Michigan; Miss J. Edmondson, Miss I. Martin
and Miss J. M. Wilson. Miss M. McCormack,
who is the superintendent of the Stevenson
Memorial Hospital, Alliston, Ont., Miss A.
Mair, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Miss Reta Gra-
ham of Brampton, were holiday visitors in
Brantford. Miss E. M. McKee has returned
from a visit to Knowlton, Quebec. Sixteen
candidates from the school of nursing of the
Brantford General Hospital wrote the regis-
tration examinations. All were successful.
GUELPH: The seven candidates from the
school of nursing of the Guelph General Hos-
pital who took the recent registration examina-
tions were all successfu1. The Alumnae Asso-
ciation held a dance recently in aid of the
l'\ssociation funds and of the permanent educa-
tion fund. Through the kindness of the
Board of Commissioners, the staff and student
nurses and their friends held an enjoyable
Christmas dance on Dec. 27. A Christmas tree
and a visit from Santa Claus took place in the
residence for the student nurses. Ten of th('
newly capped nUrses presented Dickens'
"Christmds Caro1." Miss Bingeman, of the
Freeport Sanitarium, president of Districts ::!
and 3, R.N.A.O., held a conference recently
with Miss B. MacDonald, convener of the
membership committee, and discussed plan<;
(or a memhership campaign. Miss Loreen Sin-
clair relieved un the hospital
taff for Miss
Watson who was on sick leave. Miss McEwen
also relieved for two weeks.
DISTRICT 5
TORONTO: The monthly meetmg of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nurs-
ing of the Toronto Western Hospital was
held on Nov. 11, when Miss Smellie, Chief
Superintendent of the Victorian Order of
Nurses, gave a very interesting account of
maternal nursing in Poland.
Miss Marjorie A. Rutherford, of Mount
Furest, has been appointed to the public health
nursing staff of the Ontario Department of
Health. Miss Rutherford is a graduate of
Victoria Hospital, London, and the Public
Health Nursing course at the University of
Western Ontario. Miss Rose Hally, of the
Ontario Department of Health Nursing Staff,
has been transferred from the Cochrane area
to the eastern counties. Miss Hally has been
in the Cochrane district for several years
where a generalized service was carried on.
DISTRICT 7
KINGSTON: The Perth branch of District
7, R.N.A.O. held an enjoyable tea at the
home of Mrs. A. H. McLaren. The proceeds
will be devoted to the permanent education
fund. Miss Alice Cain (K.G.H.) is taking
a post'graduate course in the X-ray depart-
ment of the Kingston General Hospital.
MARRIED: On Jan. 4, 1934, at Finch, Miss
Eva Blanche MacMartin (K.G.H.) to Mr.
Angus MacMillan.
MARRIED: On Dec. 25, 1933, at Kingston,
Miss Leonia J. Joyner (K.G.H.) to Mr. Mer-
vin Hambly.
DISTRICT 9
SUDBlJRY: The newly elected officers of
the Alumnae Association of St. Joseph's Gen-
eral Hospital, Sudbury, are: Hon. president,
Rev. Sr. Phillippe; president, Miss Anne Gos'
san: vice-president, Miss Simone Trudel:
recording secretary, Miss Agnes Asam; treas-
urer, Miss J ulittte Fortin; social convener.
Mrs. Robt. Stevens; corresponding secretary,
Miss Ina Ritari.
MARRIED: In October, at Copper Cliff.
Miss Gladys Adams to Mr., Victor Piccini.
of ('opper Cliff.
DISTRICT ] 0
PORT ARTHUR: The annual meeting of
District 10, R.N.A.O., was held on Dec. 7
in the General Hospital, Port Arthur. Mrs.
F. W. Edwards presided and extended her
appreciation to the speakers and to those who
had entertained at meetings held during the
ye,tr. Those who gavc in<;tnlCti\c aJdre<;",',
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NEWS NOTES
were: Dr. Ballantyne, Dr. Blatchford, Dr. L.
D. Wilson and Dr. H. J. Ferrier. Papers were
given by Miss McTavish and Miss Hamilton,
and the nurses entertained Miss Eliz.abeth
Smellie, superintendent of the V.O.N.,
dnd Miss Ethel Johns, editor of 'The Canadian
Nurse. Plays were presented by pupils of
the Pine Street School and skits by Sunday
school pupils under the direction of Mrs. E.
C. Edwards. The MacKellar Hospital nurses
also put on a most entertaining skit. Miss
Vera Lovelace, the new president, took the
chair at the conclui-ion of the meeting. The
taff nurses of the Port Arthur General Hos.
pital were later hostesses at a pleasant social
hour.
QUEBEC
MUKTREAL: Miss Margaret M. Smith (
1.
G.H., 1933) has just left Montreal to take
a post'graduate course of one year in psy'
chiatric nursing at the Ontario Hospital,
Whitby. Miss Grace I. McConnell and Miss
Doris I. Michie (both M.G.H., 1933) have
been appointed to the hospital staff in Temis'
kaming. Mi<:s Louise Stedham (M.G.B"
1930) sailed from Halifax on Dec. 30, in
order to make her home with her parents in
England.
MARRIED: On Jan. 6, 1934, at Montreal.
MIss Alice Myrtle Murphy (M.C.H.. 1932)
to Mr. Francis Francis.
MONTREAL: Miss Mary E. Ste"enson, who
has been assistant superintendent of the Mont'
real Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses
during the last four years, has retired and for
the future will reside in Bournemouth, Eng'
land. Prior to her war !'ervice, she held super'
visory and executive positions with the
"Queen's" in England and was therefore well
fitted to enter the V.O.N. when, in 1919,
she arrived in Canada. During the following
eight years, she did very successful work, first
with th
national office of the V.O.N.. dS
superintendent of the central district, and
later as superintendent in the Maritime Prov-
inces. While exceedingly sorry to have her
leave them, Miss Stevenson' s friends i 11 Mont'
real, and elsewhere in Canada, join in best
wishes and hope that she will enjoy her wel\-
earned re"t in her new bungalow by the SCd,
QUEBEC: The graduate nurses of the st.df
of the Jeffrey Hale Hospital were at home to
all the graduate nurses of the city from four
to six o'clock on New YCdr's ddY. About fortv
nurses attended and enjoyed a plea
ant after-
noon. On Anni
tice ddY. Nursing Si
tcr H.
.'\.
acKay, representing the Canoldian Legion.
placed a wreath of poppies on the monument
erected to the memory of \Ctcran<: who fell
in the South African W:II.
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SASKATCHEWAN
REGI
^: Saskatchewan nurses are mu.::h
pleased at the inclusion of the name of Mi.....
Ruby M. Simpson in the New Year honour
list. Their feeling was enthusiastically express-
ed at the January meeting of the Regina
Branch by Miss Jean McDonald, a member
of the council of the provincial association.
Miss Simpson is a past president of the Regina
Branch and is now its first vice'president. She
has been a member of the Council of the Sas'
katchewan Registered Nurses Association for
the past twelve years, for five years was it
president, and has been untiring in her effort'>
for the welfare of nurses and nursing.
The private duty section of the Saskatche'
wan Registered Nurses Association, Regina
Branch, was re,organhed in December with
the following officers: Chairman, Miss Helen
Jolly: vice'chairman, Miss Freda Ratner;
secretary, Miss Dorothy Bowie; executive,
Miss M. Goldsmith, Miss H. McCallum. Af.
a result of the efforts of Regina nurses the
following amounts were raised in November
and December, 1933, for the purpose of pro'
viding employment for nurses: proceeds of
raffle, $193.00; proceeds of dance, $180.00:
proceeds of bridge (R.G.H. Alumnae) $84.00.
During the period December, 1932, to Decem'
bel'. 1933, $1,388.00 was expended by the
Regina Branch, Saskatchewan Registered
Nurses Association, for this purpose. Con'
tributions to this fund were received fro:n
the Alumnae Associations to the schools of
nur
inc: of the Regina General and the Grev
Nuns Hospital. The employment committee
of the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Asso,
ciation reports eight nurses placed in small
hospitals
ince the fi rst of December. Miss
Helen Wtlls, Regina, is chairman of this com'
mittel'. Miss Margaret Ross (R.G.H., 19
7).
has been appointed secretary'treasurer and
registrar of the Saskatchewan Regi
tered
Nurses Association. Miss Iris Prior (R.G.H..
1931) has been doing relief work with the
Victorian Order of Nurses, Regina. Miss E.
J. Wood (R.G.H., 1924) has been appointed
public health nurse for the town of Yorkton.
MARRIED: On Oct. 5, 1933, Miss Janet E.
MacPherson (R.G.H., 1930) to Mr. Roy
Bri
tow, of Strong field.
MARRIED: On Oct. 28, 1933. Mi
s Reta
N. Cuddie (R.G.H., 1932) to Mr. Glenville
M. Haggerty, of Stoney Beach.
MARRlrn: On Nov. 15. 1933, Mi
s Eli::.a-
beth Mary Crace Webster (R.G.H.. 19
1 )
to Mr. Frank N. Perkins, of Lang.
MARRIED: On Nov. 18, 1933, Mi..s Jean
Marion Campbell to Mr. Arthur L. Campbell.
Mr. and Mr<;. ('.tmp,",t'1J will re...ide in Lon'
don. nnt.
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
EDMONTON: On April 27, 1920, a number
of nur!'ing sisters met for the purpose of
or
aniz.ing the Overseas Nursing Sisters Club
uf Edmuntun. Our chief reasun fur org.mi::.'
ing was to continue the fellowship of those
who served overseas during the great war, and
tu help one another should the occasion arise.
Our first officers were N.S. H. B. Acton,
president; N.S. Marion Flavette, vice'presi,
dent; N.S. Jessie Chinnek, secretary'treas'
urer. Our first roll had a membership uf
forty,four sisters, with one honorary member,
Mrs. John Lee, who has since passed on. Each
year the club has raised funds for "Christmas
Cheer" for the returned men in outlying dis'
tricts. During the first five years these funds
were raised by holding dances, teas and
bridges but since that time members have
contributed privately. Special efforts have
b
en made, such as a contribution toward sup'
plies for the new wing of the Royal Alexandra
Hospital in 1922, and in 1925, a donation to
the Kiwanis Children's Home. One of our
members, Miss McQuaig, has been for some
time the matron of that home. In November,
1922, this club became an honorary member
of the G.N,V.A. and members were presented
with membership pins. In 1923, MatlOn,in,
chief Margaret MacDonald did us the honour
uf becoming our honorary president. In Feb,
ruary, 1923, we accepted membership in the
Last Post Fund Association. In 1926 we
were represented at the unveiling of the tablet
to the Nursing Sisters who gave their lives !n
the great war. Funds are on hand toward
the proposed cenotaph for Edmonton. which
we earnestly hope may soon materiali
e. We
believe we were the first club of its kind to
organiz;e in Canada, and are justly proud.
hut many towns and cities have long enjoyed
imilar privileges and now we have an All
Canada Association. We have had as our
guests Dame Maude McCarthy, Matron'in-
chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and
other nurses of war fame like Miss Eliz.abeth
Smellie, R.R.C., and Miss A. J. Hartley. Our
membership has varied from time to time.
some have gone away, many have married,
.lnd some cue in our own "Flanders fields",
but
tiJI we hoa;;t of ahollt thirty,three mem-
84
bers, with a fair showing of original members.
To commemorate Armistice day and to cele'
brate the thirteenth anniversary of our orgam,
zation, we held our annual dinner on Nov.
8 at the MacDonald Hotel. Miss Jessie Chin'
nek, the president, proposed the toast to the
King and Mrs. G. G. Stewart toasted our
president. Miss E. Robinson proposed a toast
to the club and Miss Munroe responded.
AmusIng experiences overseas were described
by Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. C. Chinnek. A
review of the club's activities since its incep'
tion was read by Mrs. C. F. Greenwood. A
comedy skit was presented by Mrs. J. Turner
and Mrs. A. Taylor, and Mrs. C. E. McManus
and Mrs. J. O. Baker entertained with music.
Among those present were: Mrs. C. C. Bur'
field (a guest from Vancouver), Mrs. R. Lees,
Mrs. P. M. James, Miss C. McKay, Miss I.
McQuaig, Miss A. McNeish, Mrs. R. Nichols,
Mrs. R. W. Rosser, Mrs. J. W. Ross, Mrs.
R. M. Shaw, Mrs. J. H. Sandilands.
VANCOUVER: The members of the Van'
couver Unit of the Overseas Nursing Sisters
Association held their annual Armistice dinner
Nov. 11. Over sixty women, whose commO!l
bond is active service to their country during
the years of the world war, gathered about
tables adorned with great brass shell cases
filled with yellow chrysanthemums, in the
glow of tall yellow tapers in brass candlesticks.
Seated at the head table were the president,
Miss Jane Johnston, and Miss Louise Mc,
Donald of Victoria, Miss Matheson, Mrs.
Shepherd, Miss Mary McLane, Mrs. Bradford
Heyer, Miss B. McNair, Miss K. Conway
Jones and Mrs. F. W. Crickard. The con-
vener for the affair was Mrs. A. E. Cunning,
ham and the guests were piped in to dinn;r
by Pipe,MaJor Gordon Ross, who later played
the lament for the Sisters who died overseas.
A musical programme was given by Miss
Phoebe Senkler, Mrs. Betty Warren and Mr.
L. J. Cotton.
Following the toast to the King, out'of,town
members were welcomed by Mrs. F. W.
Crickard. Miss L. McDonald responding. A
pleasing incident was a visit from Col. G. C.
Johnston, Col. W. W. Foster, and Mr. Carr
of the 2nd eM.R., whm:c hanqllet was being
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
held in an adjourning room, Colonel Johnston
extending greetings from his unit, and Co\.
Foster paying a tribute to the service of the
..isters overseas. Miss Laura Holland replied
,md later in the evening the nursing sisters
paid a short visit to the Riflemen's banquet
Among out-of,town guests were, Miss A.
Fornes, Miss M. Hodge and Miss Franks of
Victoria; Mrs. J. Gibb of Duncan, and Miss
Morrice of North Vancouver. City member<;
attending included: Miss E. Goldburn, Mrs.
G Arrelbe, Miss E. Cameron, Miss D. Jef,
ferson, Miss F. Baker, Mrs. R. E. Coleman
(Molly Muir), Miss E. Lumsden, Miss B.
85
Bennett, Mi!>s M. Duffield, Mrs. .-'\. \V. Lang,
iss H. Rice, Miss O. Bentley, Miss S. Hea,
ney, Miss F. McDiarmid, Mis
P. Stewart.
.Mi
s 1. Brand, Mrs. A. W Hunter, Mrs. C.
McDermid, Mrs. ]. Ro..e, Mrs. J. R. Bayne.
Mis
E. .\1artin, Mi
s H Stark, Miss D. Oli,
vcr, Mrs. H. Black, Miss H. Munslow, Mi
s
M. Steele, MIss B. Swann, Mrs. J. M. Brough,
Mrs. J. McCahe, Miss A. Stewart, Miss H.
Bayne, Mrs. King,Brown, Miss K. Panton,
Mrs. G. Stead, Miss Hirst, Mrs. J. H. Mat'
thews, Miss 1. Simms, Miss Fairchild, \1rs.
Rohinson.
OBITUARY
ßEC'KEET.- The death occurred, in Toront\>,
on Oct. 19, 1933, of Miss Bertha Beckeet.
who previously had made her home with
her cousin, the Rev. J. L Rose, in Mil!.
town, New Brunswick, and had greatly
n'
deared herself to the people of that cor.;.-
munity.
EAST\VOOD.-On December 16, 1933, the
death occurred, in Toronto, of Miss Char-
lotte E. Eastwood who, from 1898 until
her retirement in 1913, was district superin-
tendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses
in Toronto. Miss Eastwood was born in
1851 in Hamilton, Ontario, and graduated
in 1887 from the School of Nursing of
Bellevue Hospital, New York. For some
years she engaged in district nursing in
Chicago and, at the time of her appointment
to the Victorian Order, a district training
home was established in Toronto with an
enrolment of one "prohationer." While on
leave of absence, prior to 1913, Miss Ed'it
wood visited in England where she had a
pleasant contact wIth the Queen's nurses
and with Lady Aberdeen at her home in
Scotland. During recent years she made
her home with her sister, Mrs. John Caver.,
and many of the Toronto staff nurse.'
visited her to give nursing care as the
necessity arose. The first nurse to be ass,"
ciated with Miss Eastwood was Mi:>s Annie
Brown, who with Miss Campbell, district
superintendent of the V.O.N., and
everal
long'service staff nurses, attended the fune'
ral. Miss Eastwood was buried wearing th('
medal of the School of Nursing of Bellevue
Hospital.
PORTER.-Suddenly at Saint John, N.R..
Dec. 31, 1933, Mrs. Donald Porter (néc
Marguerite Christie, M,G.H., 19:!6), wife
of Dr. Donald Porter, of S,unt John. N.n
We t('a
e and whis/,eT awhile, but the day gone b.\,.
silence a.nd .deer li
t' fields of a.maranth lie.
\VALTfR OF L\
1\H!
rr-ßRUARY. IQJ4
Official
Directory
International Council of l';urses:
Secretary, :\Iiss Christiane Rpimann, 14 Quai des Eau'i:-\ï\es. Ceneva, Switzerland
Presiden t
First \ïce- Presiden t
Second Vice-President
Honorary Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
CA
ADIA
"ìl'RSES ASSOCIATIU'\
Officers
\1 iss F, H. :\1. Emory. 1; niversity of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
:\Iiss R. :\1. Simpson, Parliament Bldgs., Regina, Sask.
:\1 iss C. :\1. Bennett, Ottawa Civic Hospital. Ottawa. Ont.
:\Iiss
ora :\loore, City Hall, Room 309, Toronto, Ont.
:\liss :\1. :\Iurdoch, St. John r.eneral Hospital. Saint John,
.R.
COU:\:CJLLORS ,,-:'\1) OTHER \1E:\IßERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMJTI'EE
Numerals precpdino names ill'licate ..[fice held, vi : (1) Presidenf, Prm'incial Nurses Association; (2) Chairman,
N,tr81'no Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section; (4) Chairman, Private Duty SectÙm.
\Iberta: (11
li8s F.
lunroe. Hoyal .\le....andra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2)
liRs ,I. ('onnal, General Hospi-
tal, ('ahmr.v; (3)
lifls B. .-\. Emerson, 604 Civil'
Block. Eimonton; 141
1 iss .J. ('low, 111
R-R2nd
Ave., Edmonton.
British Columbia: (I)
liss
I. F. Gray. Dept. of
ursing, Lni\'ersity of British Columbia, \ all('oU\ er;
(2)
liss L.
litl.hell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Yil'-
toria; (3)
liss
I. Duffield, I i5 Rroadway EaRt,
\'anc,luver; (4) :\liSR :\1. :\lirfiekl, Beal'hl'roft :-i"urRinjl:
I lome, Cook St., \ïl'toria.
\lanltoba: (1) :\Iiss Jean HouRton, :\Iallito\>a Sana'
torium,
inette; (2)
Iiss
1. C.
1aI'donald, 66foi
Bannatyne .\ ve., Winnipe
; (:J)
Iisfl A. Laporte,
St.
orbert; (4)
lisB I\..
ft-Callum, 181 Enfield
f'reRI'ellt.
orwood.
"'e\\ Brunswick: \ 1)
lisB -\. .J.
lae:\laflter, :\Ionl'ton
Hospital, :\loll(.ton; (2) f'i!'ter Cninne I\:err, HI tel
Dietl HI sri tal, ('alllpbellton; on
liSR .-\da Burns,
Health C-'entre, Saint .John: (4) :\Ii:-:- :\Iabel :\11'-
hlllen, :-'t. :-'tephen.
,""ova Scotia: ,11 :\1 iRF- -\nne Slattery, Box 1 ï:
,
WindR Ir; (2)
lrR.
Iurray
lacKay,
ova
cotia
1I00mital, Dartmouth: (3) :\Iif!s .-\. Fdith Fenton.
DalllJusie Health Clinic, :\Iorris ;oit., Halifax: (4
:\Iif's Chr'Rline
la('Leod, fli :-'outh Kline :-'t., IIalifa\..
Ontario: (1) ;\liss
larjorie Buck,
orfolk Hospital.
:-'imcoe; (2)
Iiss
,
I. Jamieson, Peel :\lemorial
Hospital, Rrampton; (3)
'lr8. Ap:nes Hay
arth,
:!]
us8ex f't., Toronto; (4) Miss Clara Brown, 2:
I"-endal .-\ve., Toronto.
Prince Edward Island: 1) :\li8s Lillian Pidgeon,
Prince ('0. Hospital.
lImmerside, (2) :\olis:! F.
Lavers, Prill('e Co. Hospital, Summerside; (3) .Miss
1. Gillan, 59 Grafton
t., Charlottetown; (4) :\liRR :\1.
Gamble, 51 .-\mbrl'se St.. Charlotteto....n.
()uebec: II)
I is!' C. Y. Rarrett, Royal \'il'toria Hos-
pital,
lontreal; (2)
lisfl
lartha Batson,
lontreal
General Hospital,
Iontreal; (3) :\olifS Marion Nash,
1246 BiRhop St., :\1:ontreal; (4)
liss
ara Matheson,
.-\pt. :!4, 2151 Linl'Oln Ave., :\1:ontreal
Saskatchewan: (1).
lisB Edith .-\mas, City Hospital.
SaBkatoon; (2)
lISS G. :\1. Watson, City Hospital,
:-'aflkatoon; (3)
1:rs. E.
1. Feeny, Dept. of Publil'
Health, Parliament Hldj?s.. Rep:ina; (4) :\liR8 :\1. R.
ChiRholm, R05 ïth -\ve.
., :-'askatoon.
CH.\IR'\1EI\ NATIO:\:AL SECTIO:-i"S
t:R8INr. EDUCATION:
1:iss G. :\01. Fairley, Yar:coU\'e/'
General Hospital, \'ancouver; Pl"HLIC HEALTH: :\o1iss
1. :\loap:. 1246 Bishop St., :\Iontreal; PRIVATE
DUTY: :\Iiss Isabel :\fadntof'h, Queensl'ourt .-\ pt. ,
ï5 Queen
t.
., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary: 'Iiss Jean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
\lontreal, P.O.
OFFICERS OF SECTIO
S OF CA
ADIA
VRSES ASSOCIATION
!\l'RSI:\"G EDCCATIO:'\' SECTIO!'\
CH-\IR
HN:
liBS G.
l. Fairley, Yanl'ouver General
Hospital, \'allcouver; \.I(.E-f'HAIHM....N: :\li8R
1. F.
Gray, rniversity of Britiflh Columbia, \'anI'OUH'r;
E(,RETARY:
li!'s E. F. Upton.
uite 221, 1:-196
t.
C'atherine
t. \Y {'st, Montreal; TRE_-\srRER: 'Iisf'
l.
Blanehe Anderson, Ottawa Ci\'ie HOf'pital, Ottawa.
('m;NnLLORF.- Alberta:
IiRf'.J. ConIlal, Gem'ral Hos-
pital, Calgary. British Columbia:
lisR L.
Iitl'hell,
I{oyal .Jubilee Hospital, \ïetoria. \lanltoba: :\Iisf'
:\1. (', ;\Ial.douald, flß8 Bannatyne ..h'e.. \\ïnnipep:.
New Brunswick: :-'iRter Corinne Kerr, Hot{'1 I>iell,
Campbellton. Nova Scotia:
Irs. :\lurray :\Iad\:ay,
ova SI'otia HORPital. Dartmouth. Ontario:
IisR
:-;. :\1, Jamieson, Peel :\lemorial Hospital, Brampton.
Prince Edward Island:
li:-s
1. Lavers, Prince
Co. Hospital, Summerside. ()uebec: Miss
lartha
Bats ,n, :\lontreal General Ho"pital, :\Iontreal. Sas-
katchewan:
Iiss G.
1. \\'atson, City Hospital.
askatoon. CON\ D,ER OF Pl"HLICATION!oo, :\liSR :\1.
1. Reid, Winnipep: General Ho!'pital, \\ïnnipe
.
PRIVATE DLTY SECT I 0""
("HUUMAN: :\liRS Isabel :\Ial'lntnsh, Queensl'ourt Apt.,
75 Queen f't.
., Hamilton; \'ICE-CH\IR'\I \N:
Ii!'"
:\-label
le
Iullen, Bm. :J38, i't.
tephen; :-:EC'RETAR1-
TREA8L'RER: :\-Irs. Hc,Rp HeRs, 1:J9 Wellinp:ton
t.,
Hamiìt"n.
COL'NCILLOR:<: Alberta:
liFR .1. ('low, lIl;-!
-
2nd
.\ve., Edmnnt')n. British Columbia: :\liRB
I.
\lirfield, Hp31'Iwrnft
.lrRinp: II o III 1', \ïl'toria.
86
\-lanitoba:
liE!' 1\..
lcCallum, 181 Enfield ('res.,
Xnrwcod.
ew Brunswick: :\liBs :\Iabel !\-fI'MuIIel',
St. Stephen. Nova Scotia: :\Iiss Christine :\Iac Lend,
fl7
lIuth Kline :--t., Halifax. Ontario: ;\Iiss Clara
Brown, 23 Kendal ,-\ ve., Toronto. Prince Edward
Island: :\-IiRR ;\1. Gamble, 51 .-\mbr. se St., Charlotte-
town. Quebec:
lil'fI Sara
Iatheson, 2151 Lincoln
Ave., :\Iontreal. Saskatchewan: :\-liss 1\1. R. Chis-
holm, 805 7th -\ve. i'J.,
aRkatoon. CONVENFR OF
P'....LI(''\.TIOSS: :\Iiss Jean Da\'idROII, PariB.
Pl.'BLlC I1E.\L TH SECTIO:\
('HAIIOI \:0;: :\Iif's
I. :\Ioap:, 1246 BiRhop :-'t.,
Iont\"eal;
\'ICE-CHAIRM.\N: Miss :\1. Kerr, 946 20th Ave. W.,
\'al\l'ouver; SE("RET.-\Ry-TREA8{;RER: l\1:iss l\lary
lathewson, 464
trathcona Ave., Westmount, P.Q.
COLNCILLOR"- .\Ibí:rta: :\Iiss B. ,-\. Emerson, 604
Civil' Rlock, Edmonton. British Columbia: :\-liss
:\1. Duffield, 175 Broadway East, \'aneouver.
anltoba:
Iiss .-\. 1 aprrte,
t. Ncrbert. New
Brunswick:
IiR8 Ada Burns, Health Centre,
aint John. Nova Scotia: :\lis8 A. Edith Fenton,
Dalhousie Health Clinil', Morris St.. Halifax.
Ontario:
fr". .\gnes Hayp:arth, 21 SUR."ex St.,
Toronto. Prince Fd\\ard Island: :\Ii:-s IlIa Gillan,
59 Grafton :-:t.. Charlottetown. Quebec: l\liss
Iarion Xash. 1246 Bishop St., :\lontreal. Sas-
katchewan: :\oIrs. E. :\1. Feeney, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament Buildinvs, Regina. CONVENER
OF Pr-HLICATINOF.: :\Irs. .-\J!:neR Hayp:arth, 21 Sussex
t., Toronto.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
87
Provincial Association of Registered Nurses
.\LBERT-\
O:\"T..\RIO
Alberta \ssociation of Re
Ustered '" urst.s
President, :\Iiss F. :\1 un roe, Royal ,-\lexandra
Hospital. Edmonton; First \"ice-President, :\Irs. de
8atge, Holy ('ro!'s H. spital, Cal
ary;
econd Vice-
President, :\Iiss S. :\Iacdonald, Gennal Hospital.
Calgary;
ecretary- Treasurer-Re2Ïstrnr, :\Iiss Kate :-:.
Brighty, Administration Building. Edmonton; ChaIr-
men: NursÙtg Education Section, :\Iiss J. Connal,
General Hospital. CalJ1;ary; Public Health Sec:tion. :\Iiss
B. A. Emerson. 604 Civic Block, Edmonton; Primt#'
Dlltll Sertion. :\lisR J. C Clo
. 111
R-82nd -\vp.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses .-\ssoclatlon of British Columbia
President, M. F. Gray, 1466 \V. 14th Ave., Yancouver;
First \"ice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second \ ice-Presi-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 \'ancouver
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, :\1. Kerr, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; ConlJeners of CummitteE8: Nursing
Education, L. :\1 itchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, \ïc-
toria; Public Health, .M. Duffield, li5 Broad\\ay East.
Vancouver; PrilJate Duty, :\Iiss :\1. :\Iirfield. Deachrroft
ursing Home, Cook St., \ïctoria; Councillors. :\1. P.
("amphell. :\1. Dutton. L. :\It'.-\lli!'<ter. K. :-:anderson.
'I A
ITOBA
:\lanitoba Association of Re9,istered
urses
President, :\Iiss .Je1\n Houston, Ninette, :\Ian.;
First Vice-President, :\1iss :\1. Reid,
UTSes Home,
W G.H.. Winnire
; Second \ïce-President, :\Iiss Chris-
ti'Ie :\lcI eod, General Hospital. Brandon; Third \ïce-
President, Sister Krause,
1. Boniface; HI.spital Board
:\Iembers:
IiRses :\1. Lanl/:, K. W. Ellis, C. Taykr, I.
:\lcDiarmid, :\1. :\Ieehan. E. :-:hirley, E. Carruthers,
L.
IcLearn, Sister Superior, :\-lisericordia H"spital;
:O:ister St. .-\lbert, bt. Joseph's Hospital; :\Iiss .J.
Purvis, pljrta
e la Prairie, General Hospital. Conl1eners
"f St'ction.
: Nursing Education. :\Iiss :\1. C. :\Iacdonald,
Central T. 13. ('linic, 668 Dannatyne .-\ ve., \\ïnnipeJl;;
Public J1ealth. :\IisR ,-\. I aporte,
t. Norbert. :\Ian.;
Pril'ate Duty. :\Iiss K. McCallum, Ihl Enfield ('rescent,
orwood, :\Ian. Conl1eners of Committees: I el/:islative.
:\liss ('. Taylor; Directory. :\Iiss E. Carruthers;
{)cial
and ProJ1;ramme, :\Iiss C. Billyard; Sick \ïsitinJl;.
Irs.
.J. U. Hall; Treaaurer and HelÚstrar, Mrs. :-itella Gorrlon
Kerr, iá
\\- olseley -\ \'e., \\ïnnipeJl;.
l\i E\\ BRUNSWICK
ew Bruns"ick Association of Registered Nurses
President,
Iiss A. J. :\lac:\laster, :\Ioncton Hospi-
tal, Monf"ton; First \ïC"e-PreAident, :\Iiss :\Iarjl;an't
:\Iurdoch;
econrl \ïl'e-Preøident. :\Iiss :\lyrtle E.
Kay; Honorary
ecretary, Hev.
ister lienny; ('oun..il
:\lemherA: :\Ii!lR Florenc'c ('oleman, :\liss II.
. Dykp-
man, :\lrs. A. G. \\'oodcopk, :\Iisf' Elsie
1. Tullod.;
Conreners: Public /lealth .'i.ctioll. :\li8R -\da -\. Hurnll;
Pril1ate Ditty Section. :\liss :\label :\11':\luIlin; NltrsÙ1f/
Education Section.
ister Kerr; Committee rom'eners:
The Canadian .Vursf', :\Iiss Kathleen I a\\son; Consti-
tution and Ry-r a\\A. :\liss :-;. E. Brophy; :-:el'retBry-
Treasurer-rtel/:istrar, :\Iiss :\laude E. Hptallick, 26:!
Charlottp
t. \\ est,
aint John.
.H.
"'\O\"A SCOfT\.
Re
istered ",urses \ssociation of :".o\a Scotia
President, :\liBf' Anne :O:lattery. \\"indsor; First \ïl'p-
President, :\liBll \ï..torill \\ïnslow. lIalifax ; :-'=el'ond
\ïce-Pre!\i.lent. :\Iiss :\Iarifln Hoa, ;\I"e\\ Glüf'llo\\;
Third \ïl'e-Pre!\ident. i'if'ter .-\nna :-'=eton. lIalifa\.;
Hef"orrlin\t
ecretary, :\lrs. Donald GiIlif'. 1:!
,"pmoll
:-'t., Halifax; Treasurer and HeJl;istrar, \li
" I.. F.
Fr'l!ll'r. 10 Ea..tprII TruI't BldJ!".. lIalifll"\,
Re:>.lstered ",urses .\s
ociation of Ontario
Incorporated 1915
Preside lit. :\-liss Marjorie Bud",
orfolk General
HI'Apital.
imcoe; First \ïce-President, :\lis8 DI roth"\'
Perey. Hm. 321 Jackson Bldg., Ott.awa; :-:econd \ïcè-
Presi
ent, :\liss Constance Bre
ster. General HI spital,
lIamiiton; Secretary- Treasurer, :\1 if's :\Iatilda E.
FitzJ1;erald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman, Nurse
Etlucation Section. Miss S. :\Iargaret Jamieson. Peel
:\1 em orial Hospital, Brampton; Chairman. Prua!e
Duty Section, :\Iiss ('lara Rro\\n, 23 Kendal ,-\H'..
Toronto; Chairman, Public lIealth Section, :\lrs. .-\gr.es
HaYl/:arth, Provineial Department of Health, Parlia-
IIIpnt BldJ1;s., Torontu; Dlstrut No.1: ( hairman, :\lif'!'<
Pris..illa Campbell. Public General III spital, (,hatham;
:-'eeretary-Treasurer,
liss bla ('urtis, 78 Fe rest :-1..
('hatham; Districts i! and .-j: ('hairman, :\Iiss A. E.
Bingeman, Freept>rt
anatf rium, Kitcherer; :-'ecretary-
Treasurer, Miss Edith Jores. 253 Gren\\ích N.,
Rrantford; District No.4: (,hairman,
Iiss Constance
Rre\\ster, General Hcspital, Hamilton; :-'=ecretary-
Treasurer, :\Irs. Eva Barlow, 211
tinson 8t., Hall.iltcn;
District No. õ: (,hairman, :\liss Donthv :\1ickle-
horough, Provincial Dept. of Health. Parliamer t
Bldl/s., Torunto; :'ecretary- Tre::surer, :\li8S Irere
\\' eirs, 198 :\Ianc r Road East. TI rt>nto; Di,.trict No.6':
Chairman, :\lis8 He!en :\1. Anderson, 7G9 Water
t.,
l'eterboroujl;h;
ecretary- Treasurer, :\liss D. rotby
:\lacBrien,
ieholls Hf'spital, Peterboro; District No.7:
Chairman, :\Iiss Louise D. ,-\cton, General H,'''pital,
Kin
ston;
ecretary-TreasurH,
Iiss Oli\ia Wilscn,
General Hospital, Kinj?ston; Distrid Nfl. 8: Chairman.
:\Iiss Dorothy Percy, Hm.
:!l, .Jackson Hldl/:., Otta\\a;
Secretary-Treasurer, :\liss A. G. Tanner. Ci\ ic H. sri-
tal. Ottawa: District No.9: Chairman. :\-liRs Iiatherire
:\lacKenzie, 155 :-:econd .-\\'e. \\ ., North Bay; :'eerptan'-
Treasurer, Miss Robella Buchanan, 197 F'rst .-\\e. È.,
Lrth Bay; District No. 10: Chairman. :\lrs. :\Iarion
Ed\\Brds, 226 N. Harold St.. FI rt \\ illiam; ::O:ecretar)'-
Treasurer,
Iiss Ethel :-:tewardson, :\1..Kell6r Gener:;l
",'spital. Fort William.
District 1'1:0. R Re
istered
urses \s
ociation
of Ontario
('hairman, :\Iiss D. :\1. Percy; \ï..e-Chalrman. :\lifS
:\1. R. .\nderson; ::-\ecretary-TreBsurer, \Iiss -\. G.
Tanner. Otta\\a (,i",ic Hcspital; Councillors, ::\IiSSfl'
E. '- :\-lcIlraith, M. Graham, :\1.
Iinn. .-\. Rrad).
\1. Robertson, R. Pridmore; Conreners of Committeel!:
\Iembership. Miss E. Rochon; Publicatinns, :\Ii"s
E. C. :\Idlraith; NursÙIO Education. :\liss :\1. E.
.-\dand; Prnate Duty, :\1 i!'.. .J. l.. (,hurl.h; Puhlit'
lfrnlflr, \fiRs :\1. Rflbprtf'fln.
Distrkt ,",0. to. Rep,istercd
urst.'R .\sfociation
of Ontario
President, :\Iiss \". I o\"elace; \ïce-Pre..ident. :\11!'1" :\1.
Ilamilton; :-:peretary-Treasurer. :\li"!1 E. :-'tewllrd"nn,
\I..hellar General HfI"pital. F, rt \\ illhrn; COUlJl"ilh r..:
"Ii!-" Jane HOl/:arth. :\liR!' :\1. \\allnc'e, :\liR" C. I emOll,
:\lisR C. Chivers \\ïlson. \1if''' FllUlIliJl;an. \11,," Irpl'e
lIihditl.h.
"RI:\"CE ED\\ ARD ISI A
0
I>rince FdMard Island Re
istcrcd ",urses
As
odation
PrNoident, :\Ii!lll I illian PldJ1;el))l, Prin,'p ("u. Ii. spItal,
:-'ummersidp; \ïce-President, :\Ii..s :\1. I\.in
, CharlottE'-
to\\ n Hospital;
ecretary, :\1 iI's :\1. ('amphplI, R Grafton
:'t., ('harlotteto\\n; Treasurer and Hel/:.strar,. :\Ii""
Fdna Green. 257
Quf't'n
t.. Charlotteto\\ n; .\ IIr""'1I
H,'"oo/ion. :\lisA :\1. I a\er". Prinl'(' ("0. III spItal.
:O:ummerside; Pub/it' Iff'alth. :\11f's I. Gillan, 5
' Graftl II
:O:t.. Charlotteto\\n; Pril'ate Duty, :\-li!ls :\1. 98mhle. :il
\ mbrOBe
t.. Charlotteto\\ n; Heprf!l('ntatn p tv The
ranaàia71 Nur"r, :\lis,. \nnll \1l1ir. P F,1. lk..pital.
('harlottptfl\\ n,
QUEBEC
THE CANADIAN NURSE
xS
.\ssociatiOiI of Rep,istered
urses of the Pro"ince
of Quebec dncorporated 1910
Ad\'isory Hoard, :\Iiss('s :\Iary :-,amuel, L. C. Phillips,
'I. F. Hersey, Hertha Harmer, :\1. .-\. l\label Clint,
Hev. :\Ière :\1. A. Allaire. Hev. Soeur ,-\ugustine;
Pre8ident, :\Iiss Caroline \". Barrett, Royal \'ictoria
:\Iontreal
Iaternit:,- Hospital; 'ïce-President (EnJ1;lish),
'Iiss
Iargaret :\loaJ1;, \'.O.
., 1:?46 Bishop Street,
:\Iontreal; \'ice-Ptesident (French), Hev.
oeur Allard.
Hotel-Dieu de
t. Joseph,
Iontreal; Hon. Secretary,
:\Iiss Elsie \llder, Roval \ïctoria Hospital; Hon.
Treasurer, :\Iiss :\larion 'E. Nash, \".0.1'\.,1246 Bishop
:'treet, :\Iontreal. Other members: :\Iiss Mabel 1\..
Holt, The :\Iontreal General Hospital, :\Iademoiselle
E1na Lyneh,
ursinJl;
upen'isor, :\Ietropolitan Life
In8urance Co., :\Iontreal, :\Iiss Sara :\Iatheson, .-\pt.
:!4, 21.')1 Lincoln -\ ve., :\Iiss Charlotte Nixon, 2276
OM Orchard -\ ve.,
Iontreal, Rev. Hoeur St. .Tean-de-
I' Eucharistie, Hópital Notre Dame, :\Iontreal. Cml-
N'ners of Sectiuns: Private DItty < EnJl;lish), :\liss Sara
:\latheson, .-\pt. 24, Haddon Hall Apts.. 2151 Lincoln
-\ve., :\Iontreal; (French) :\llle \liee Lepine, Hôpital
)i"otre Dame, :\Iontreal; Nursillg Education <English),
:\Iiss :\Iartha Batson, The :\Iontreal General Hm;pital;
(Freneh) Rev.
oeur .-\ugustine, HÚpital St. Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, P.Q.; Public Health, Miss :\Iarian
ash, \".O.N., 1246 Bishop
treet, :\Iontreal; Board of
E"\aminers, :\Iiss C. V. Barrett (Col1\'ener), Royal
\'ictoria l\laternity HOBpit.al, Montreal, Mme H. D.
Bour9ue, Université de Montréal (Ecole d'Hygiene
.-\pphquée), :\Ielles Edna Lynch, Apt. 3, 4503 rue
1-;t-Denis, l\.1ontreal, Laura Senecal, Hôpital Notre
Dame, :\Iisses Rita Sutcliffe, 4635 Queen Mary Read,
:\Iontreal, Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate
urses, :\lcGill University, :\Iontrea!, Olga V. Lilly,
Royal \'ictoria :\Iontreal
Iaternity Hospital, Mont-
real; Executive Secretary. Hegistrar and Official
School Visitor: Miss E. Frances Upton, Suite 221,
1
96 St. Catherine St. W., l\lontreal
SASKA TCHEW A
Saskatchewan Re
istered Nurses Association
(Incorporated March, 1917)
President, :\Iiss Edith Amas, City Hospital, Saska-
toon; First \'ice-President, :\Iiss Ruby :\1. Simpson,
Department of Public Health, HeJ!:ina; Second Vice-
President,
Iiss Helen B. Smith, General Hospital,
Hegina; Couli('illors, Miss Jean McDonald, 1122 Hae
St., Regina. Miss Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
:\foose Jaw; Cunveners of Standing Committee8: Nursing
Education, Mi8s Gertrude 1\1. Watson. City Hospital,
Saskatoon; Public Health. Mrs. E. M. Feeney, Depart-
Illent of Publil' Health, Regina; Private Dutll, .:\Iiss l\.1.
H.. Chisholm, 805-7th .-\ve. N., Saskatoon; Legislation,
:\lIss R. :\1. Simpson, Regina; Recretary-Treasurer and
Registrar, :\fi"R :\farJl;aret RORs, 4.') .-\ngus Crescent,
ReJl;ina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
AI. BERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate Nurses
IIon. President, Dr. H. ,-\. Gibson; President. :\Ii
s
P. Gilbert; First \'ice-President, l\liRs I\:. Lynn;
econd
\ïce-President, :\lisR F. Shaw; Hecording and .-\ctinl/:
('orresoonding :;;ecretary, :\Irs. F. \'. Kenned
', 1
07
First
L \\",; Tre3Rurer, :\Ii8s :\1. \Vatt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate Nurses
PreRident. :\liBs Ida Johnson; First Vice-President,
'Ii
s P. Chapman; Second \'ice-President, :\Iiss E.
Fe'n\'i,'k: HpI' rding Sel'retary. :\Iiss \'iolet Chapman,
Hoyal -\Ie"\andra Hospital, Erlmonton; Pre
R and
('orrespondinJl;
el'retary, :\Ii
s Clow. 111
S \\ hyte
\ve., Edmonton; TreRRurer, Miss :\1. ::;talev, 98
8-
lO
th :-,t.. Edmonton; Heg;istrar, 'I iss Sproule, 111 :
s
\\ hyte .-\ve., Edmonton.
:\1edicine Hat Graduate ","urses Association
I'rel'ident, :\Iiss :\1. Hagerman: FirRt \ïce-Pre!'ident,
'liss Gill'hrist; :-,econd \'ice-President, :\fiss .J. Jorl!"e n -
Ron; Hecretary, :\Iiss :\Iay Reid,
urse!'!' Home;
Treø.Rurer, 'Iiss F. Ireland, 1st :-;t., .:\tedicine Hat;
Commi!ter Convellers: New :\Iembership, :\Irs. C.
\\ right; Flower, :\olrs. :\1. Tobin; Private Duty Section,
\Irs. Cha!'. Pickerinl/:: t'orrespondent, The ranadian
.V urse, :\IiRS F.
lIlith. Regular meeting first Tuesday
ill mont.h.
BRITISH COLU\IBIA
:'I.elson Graduate Nurses :\ssociation
lIon. President, :\Iiss V. B. Eidt., .-\ctinJl; Ruperinten-
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital; Preeident
:\Iiss I\.. Gordon; First \'ice-President. :\liss :\1. :'\Iad-
den; Seeond \'ice-President, :\lisE< S. .-\rchibald; Seere-
tarv-Tre<umrer, :\Iiss Edna FraRer, Box 1105,
elson,
B.t.
Vancouver Graduate Nurses Association
President, :\Iiss K.
anderson, 1
10 Jarvis :'L,
\'anl'ou\'er; FirRt \ïce-PreRident, :\liR!'!
1. D. :\Iac-
Dermot, Preventorium,
7.,)5-21!'!t A ve. E., \'ancouver;
:-'pf'.J1lrl \'il'e-Pre!'ident, :\Iiss .T. DavidRon; :-;ecretary,
:\Iiss F. H. Walker. General Hospital, Vancouver;
Trea8urer,
liRS L. G. .-\rchibald, .')
6-12th -\ve. \\.,
Vancouver; Council, :\Iisses G. '1. Fairley,
1. F.
Grav :\1. Duffield, .J. Johnston, .T. Kilburn; ConveneI'll
of ë
mmi'tee8: Finance. :\Irs. Farrinl!:ton; Directory,
\Iiss :\1. I. Teulon; Social, :\Iiss
1. 1. Hall; Programme,
:\fif's C. .\n'hibald; :-'ieh. Vi!'!itinll, :\lis8 C. Cooper;
:\fembership. :\liss :\1. :\Iirfield; LOf'al Council of
Women,
Iissps l\.L F. Gray, M. Duffield; Press, :\hB.
D. K Simms.
Victoria (;raduate Nurses Association
Hon. Presidents, :\fiss L. :\1 itchell,
istcr Superiu
Ludovic; President, ;\Oliss E. .J. Herbert; First Vice-
President, :\Iiss D. Frampton; Second \ïce-President,
Mi..s C.
lcKenzie: Secretary, Mi8s I. HelJ1;esen;
Treasurer.
Iis" "-. Cooke; Rel/:istrar, Miss E. rranks.
1O
5 Fairfield Road, \'ietoria; Execut.ive Committee,
:\oliss E. B. Strachan. :\Iiss H. Cruikshanks, Miss E.
:\leDonflld, :\fiss C'. Kenny, :\fiRS E. Cameron.
\IANITQBA
Hrandon Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. Prel'-ident, :\liBs E. Birtles; Hon. Vice-President,
'frs. W. Shillinl/:law; President. :\Iiss E. G. McNally;
First ''ice-President, Miss Janet .-\nderson; Second
\'ice-President, Mrs. Lula Fletcher; !-:ecretary. MisE<
Jessie
Iunro, 243 12th St.; Treasurer, :\1rs. 1\1. Long;
('onveller,
of ('um11littee8: Rocial and Programme. ;\Oh".
Eldon Hannah; Sick and \ïsitinJl;, Mrs. Rowe Fisher;
Welfare, Miss Gertrude Hall; Press Reporter, Miss
Helen l\lorrison; Cook Book, :\hs. J. :\1. Kains;
HeJ1;istrar, :'\lisR C. :'\1. :\Iacleod.
ONTARIO
Graduate l\urses :\Iumnae, \Velland
lion. President, :\Iis.. E. Smith.
uperintndent,
\\ elland General lIospibtl; lion. \ïl"e-President, 1\1i1'I'
:\1. Ball, Weiland General III "vital; President, :\liRs
D. Saylor; \'il'e-Pre!<ident, Mis!'! H. Saunders; :::;el'retary,
:\Iiss :\1. Rinker, 28 Division
t.; Treasurer. :\tiss n.
Eller; Executive, :\lisses
1. Ppddie, ::\1. TUftR, n.
Clothier and :\frs. P. Hrasf( rd.
QLEBEC
(;raduate l\urses Association of the Eastern
Townships
lIon. President, :\1 iss \'. Beane: President. :\1 iss II.
lIet.herinJl;ton: FirRt \ïce-President, :\Ii!'s G. D\\a
le;
:-'el"ond \'il'e-President, :\li8R
. Arguin; Heccrdllll/:
:-:ef'retary, :\fis.. P. GustafRon; Correspondinl!: :::;ecre-
tary, :\fiss :\1. :\Ia!lon, 151a Lon
on St., Hherbro(?ke,
P.Q.; Treasurer, :\li:>8 :\1. Rohllls; Representative,
Prirate Duty Sf>ction, :\Iiss :\1. :\Iorril'sette; Repre-
!lentative to The Canadiall Nllr,<r. :\fif'!' C. nornh
',
Bm. 324. Sherbrooke, P.Q.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
\101\ TREAL
:\Iontreal Graduate Nurses Association
lion. President, :\lisB L. C. Phillips: President, Miss
Chri!'tine Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First Vice-Presi-
dent, :\-liss G. Allison;
econd Vice-President, :\lrs. A,
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Xight Registrar,
:\fiss Ethel ('lark, 1230 Bishop 1St.; Day Registrar,
:\fiBB Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar. :\li8B H. .:\1.
butherland; Convener Griffintown Club, :\-liss G.
Colley. ReJ!;ulR.r :\lectinJl:, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tue!\day of .-\pril, Ortoher anrl December.
8Y
SASI\.A TCHE W A:\
\Ioose Jaw Graduate Nurses ,\S8oclatlon
Hon. President,
Irs. :\1. Young; Preeident, :\Iis!-o
R. LßBt; First \lce-President,
li8s C. Kier; ::;econd
\'ice-President, :\/Irs. W. Metcalfe; Secretary-Treasurer
:\liss J. Moir, General Hospital, :\Ioose Jav.; Conre71er;
of Committee8: NursÏ7yu Educatio71, :\lrs. :\1. Young.
Sr. Mary Raphael.
11S8 E. Jensen; Prirate Duty. :\Ii88
E. Wallace, l\liss E. Farquhar. :\liB8 T. ReynoldB, :\fi88
J. Casey; Public l/ealth. Registrar, :\Iiss C. Kier; Pro-
II;ramme, :\Iiss G. Taylor; Sick \'isitinp:, :\Iiss L. Trench'
o
ial, Miss:\-I. Armstrong; Constitution and By-Laws:
:\llss E. Lamond; Representative to The Canadia71
Nurse, :\-liss :\1. Gall; Press Representative. :\lrs. .J.
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA MA.."JITOBA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ar)
President, :\Irs. L. de Satge; \'ice-President, !l.liss
-\. Willison; Recording
ecretary, :\Iiss E. Thorn;
Corresponding f'ecretary, .:\liBB P. S. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, :\Iiss S. Craig; Honorary :\1 embers, Re'". f'oeur
St. .Jean de l'Eucharistie, :\Iiss :\1. Bro\\n.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, :\Ii"" F. :\funroe; President, :'olrs.
:O;cott Hamilton; First \ïce- President, :\1iss V. Chap-
man; Second Vice-President, :\lrB. C. Chinneck;
Recoriling Seeretary, :'oliss G. Allyn; Corresponding
Secretary, :\IiBs A. Oliver, Royal .-\lexandra Hospital;
Treasurer,
Iiss E. EnJ!;lish, Suite 2, 10014-112 Street.
A.A. University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, :\fiss E. Fenwick; President, Miss
:\1. Reerl; First \ïce-President, :\Iies L. Gourlay;
:-'econd \ïee-President, :'oliss n. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, :\Iiss A. Revell; CorrespondinJl; f'ecretary, :\Iiss
D. D\Lxbury, Pniversity Hospital; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1.
Howles, l)niversity Hospital; Exef"utive. :\1isses :\1.
Gord"n, I. Ro!'s, A. Raker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Hun. President. :\Iiss F. E. Welsh; President, .\lrs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, .\Iiss O. Seheie;
eeretary-
Treasurer, :\Irs. C. ('raig, Namao; CorreBpondin,lt
:-;ecretary, Miss F. E. Reid. l00!)-20th Avenue, W.,
f'aljl;ary; Convener, f-:of"ial Committee, '\lrR. H.
hear!\.
BRITISH COLU:\IBIA
A..\., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancou\er
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. \"icc-
Pre8ident, Sister Therese Amable; President, :\Iiss B.
GeddeR; Vice-President, :\Iiss R. .\lcKernan;
ecretary,
:\Iiss F. Treavor, Assistant :-:ef"retary, :\liBB \'. Dyer;
Treasurer, :\-Jiss B. :\Iuir; F-..e,'utive. .\Iissffi .\1. :\11'-
Donald, E. Berry. L Clark, \'. Pear'lp. :-;. Chrilltip,
If \II"Gilli,'ary, K. :\1,.J)ouald.
:\.A., Vancou"er General Hospital
111111. Prellident, :\Iiss G. Fairley; Prffiident, )'list;
:\Iary :\1I.Phee; First \ïf"e-President. :\Iiss Lunan;
:-;econd \'if"e-President, :\li"l1 Erllkine; Correspondinl!;
Secretary, .\-liss l\Ielnef"zuk; HecordinJl; :-:ecretary, .\lis.'1
('ollier; Treasurer,
liss Geary. :U76 \\ est 2nd .-\ ve.,
('ommittpe Conl1eners: Projl;ramme, .\lrs. Gillies: fo:e\\inp;,
\Irs. Gordon;
ick \ïsitinJl;, :\Iiss
haw; :\Iembership,
:\Iiss II. Campbell; .\Iutual Benefit, .\Iiss :\Iaitland;
HefreRhments, Mr!'. Blanl-enbach; Hepresentativell:
1.'1("111 Press, .\Iiss Cotsworth, Y.G.
..-\.; :\Irll. \\'il!'on.
\.:\., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
lion. President, .\Iis!' L. :\Iitchell; President, :\11"11
.Jean .\Ioon'; First \ïce-President, :\Irs. Yorke; SePOnd
\ïce-President. .\Ii"s .J. Grant; f'ecretary, )'Irs. .\.
Dowell, 30 Howe
t.; .\"lIistant Secretary, :\Iiss .T.
tewart; Treasurer, :\Iill" C. Todd; Entertainment Com-
mittee, .\Ii!ls J Go\\arrl;
if"1.. :"\ur!'p, :\lisR E.
pwml1n.
A.A., Children's Hospital, \\innipe
Hon. President, .\Iiss .\-1. B. .-\lIan; Preeidpnt, .\IiBB
Catherine Day; First \ïce-PreBident, :\liss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, :\liBS W. :\1. Barratt, Children's
H,?spital.: Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1. D. HUjl;hes; :-;ick \ïsitinll,
.\lls!! EdIth Jarrett; Entertainment, !\Irs. Geo. Wilson.
\..-\., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
Hon. President, Rev.
r. Krause, :-:t. Boniface
urses Home; President, .\Iiss Clara .\filler, 825
Broadway, Winnipeg; First \ïce-President, MiBB H.
Stephen, 15 Ruth .-\pts.,
Iaryland St., Winnipeg'
Second \'ice-President,
IiBB M. :\1 ad ill , F. Ashford
Blk., Winnipeg; Secretary, :\Iiss Jeannie .-\rchibald.
Rhriners Hospital, Winnipeg; Treasurer, :\Iiss Etta
Shirley, 14 hing George St.. Winnipeg;
ocial Con-
vener, Miss K. :\lcCallum. 181 Enfield Cr., Nor\\ood;
Rick Visitinjl; Convener, .\-liss B. Greville, 211 Hill St..
orwood; Representative to Local Council of \\" omen,
.\fiss :'01. Rutley, 12 EUjl;enie .-\pts., Nor\\ood; Repre-
sentative to PreBB, '\IrR. S. G. Kerr, 7.'):J Wolseley Ave..
\\'innipejl;.
A..\., Winnip
(;eneral Hospital
lIon. President, .\-frs. A. W. :\Ioody, 97 Ash :-Ot.;
President, :\Iiss E. Parker, Suite. 24, Carlyle .-\pts., 5bO
Broadv.ay; First \ïce-President, .\Irs. C. Y. Combes,
.')30 Dominion St.: Second \ïce-President, Miss J. :\Ic-
Donald, Deer Lodjl;e Hospital: Third \ ice-President,
\liRS E. Yussack, 867 .\Iajl;nus Ave.; HeeordinJl; Secre-
tary, :\Iiss J. Landy, Winnipeg General Hospital;
Correspondinjl; Secretary, :\li8s :\1. Graham. Winnipejl;
General Hospital; Treasurer, .\-lies :\1. C. !\1,.Donald,
('entral Tuberculosis Clinic; :\Iembership, :\liB8 I.
Ramsay, Central Tuberculosis Clinic; Sick \ïsitinll.
:\Iiss J. :\-Iorjl;an. 102 Rose St.; Entertainment, .\lrs. C.
.\-lc.\-Iillan, Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Edit, r of Journal,
:\IiBB R. Monk. 134 Westjl;ate; Business l\Ianap;er. :\liBB
E. Timlick, Winnipeg General Hospital; Spf'('ial Com-
mittee. .\Iis.. P. Bro\\nell, 215 Chestnut
t.
EW BRU:\TS\\lCK
.\.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 E. .T. :\Iitl'hell; Pre!\ident. :\In,.
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, :'otiS!! E. L. Hen-
derson; Second \'il'e-Preeident, :\lrs. F. :\1. .\-ff"Kelvf'Y;
Sef"retary, !l.frs. J. E. Beyea, 121 rnion St., Saint .John.
.B.; Trea8urer, :\Iiss Kate Holt; Additiunal member".
:\Irs. .J. II. Yaujl;han, :\lrR. H. II. 'I..IRllan, \fr". -\
G. C'linch.
\.:\., L. fl. Fishcr McmoriallIospftal, noodstû<"k
Hon. President, :\Ii"s Elsie Tullof"h; Presidpnt, l\lrR.
Harry Dunbar; \ï('e-President, :\Iisll Glad
" lIay\\ard;
e<'retary- Treasurer, :\Iiss Pauline Palmf'r; Board of
Directors: :\lills G. Tams, .\frs. ll. Sutton, .\-Irs. Fulton,
.\liBB :\1. Samphier, :\liBB
. \'enf'BB; C'nmmittee ('on-
renerll: Projl;ramme, :\lrs. P. Caldwell, .\-liBB E. Kerr.
:\liBB E. Dunbar, Miøe B. Bellie; :;:ick \ïeitinJl:, Mills H
Cumminllll. l\fiM D. }>Mbody. ),Ii"" .\1f'fM'reau;
Erlitor. l\fi811 :\1, Ramphipr.
90
THE CANADIAN NURSE
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
fon. President, :\Iiss Florence l\lcIndoo; President,
:\l1ss Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President, :\lrs. J. Andrews;
:-:ecretary, :\fiss L.
llIith; Treasurer,
fis8 Marion
:\facFarlane; Flower Committee, Miss Betty :\lcEwan;
RepresentatIVe to The ('anadian _Vllrs(', 1\fiss H.
Thompson.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, .:\fiBB E.
1.
lcKee; President,
lis8
K. Charnley; Yice-President, :\liss G. Turnbull;
ecretary,
fiss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
:\1iss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
:\Irs. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
:\liss W. Laird, Miss 1\1. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
:\fiss J. Edmondson, Mrs. E. Clarid
e; The Canadian
Nurse and Press Representative,
IiEs H. Diamond;
Chairman. Private Duty Council, :\liss P. Cole;
Representative to Local Council of ". omen, :\Ii8!' R.
Cleave8.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
Hon. President, :\fiss A. L. Shannette; President,
:\1rs. H. B. White; First 'ïce-President, :\liss
I.
.\rnold; Second Vice-President, Miss J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, :\1rs. W. B. Revnolds; Secretary,
:\fiss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockv111e General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, :\1rs. H. F. Vandu8en, 65 Church :-;t.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, :\fiB!' Y.
KendrÍ!'k.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
Hon. President, :\liss P. C'ampbell; President,
li8S
D. Thomas; First Vice-Pre8ident,
fil's R. Pardo;
Second Vice-President, Miss H. Simpson; Recording
ecretary, Miss K. Crackel, 12 Duluth St., Chatham;
Corresponding Secretary, !\fiss R. "ïllmore; Treasurer,
:\liss E. Mummery, 35 Emma St., Chatham; Repre-
sentative to The Canadian Nurse, :\fiss
1. :\fcDoul!all.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lion. President,
fother Mary; Hon. Vice-President,
Sister M. Consolata; President, :\fiss Mary Doyle,
Vice-President, Miss Marian Kearns; Hecretarv-
Tre3surer, Miss Letty Pettypiece; Executives, !\fissès
Hazel Gray, Jessie [toss, Lena Chauvin, I. Salmon,
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss Ruth
Winter; Representative District No. I, RN..-\.O.,
:\fis" .Jean Lundy.
CORNWALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
lIon. President, :\lrs. J. Boldick; President, :\fisf'
:\fary Fleminl/:; First Vice-President, Miss Kathleen
Burke; Second Vice-President, !\fiss Bernice :\lcKillop;
Hecretary-Treaeurer, .:\Iiss C. Droppo, C'orn....all General
Hospital; Representative to The Canadian NurRe, :\fis!'
II. C. \\'il!'on, C'ornwall General H,'spital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President, .:\lisR A. Cleaver; President,
Ii!'!'
s.
Iitchell; Secretary, :\Iiss L. MacNair, 91 \ïctoria
Ave.; Assistant Secretary, l\fiss T. Rainey; Treasurer,
!\fiss A. MacDonald; Flower Convener,
Iiss Ruther-
ford; Representative to The Canadian NUrRe flnet Pre"!'
Representath'e, :\Ii"" :\1. Vandyke.
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
lion. President, :\liss !-;. A. Campbell, Rupt. Guelph
General Hospital; President, Miss C. R. ZeiJl;ler; First
\"ice-President,
Iiss D. Lambert; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, Miss M. Darby; Hecretary, .:\Iiss N. l\:enney;
Treasurer, Miss J. \Vatson; Committees: Flower, Miss
R. Speers, l\f iss I. Wilson; Social, Mrs. :\1. Cockwell
(Convener); Programme. Miss E. :\1. Eby (Convener);
Representative to Till' Canadian N1/rse, !\liSB ":\Iarion
Wood.
IIA\-IILTOì'\
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. C. Rayside; President, Mrs.
I.L Hess; Vi
e-President, MisB M. Bain; RecordinJl:
Becretar
'. 1\flSS M. l\fatheson; Corresponding Secre-
tary,
f]ss
. Hauert, Hamilton General HOBpital;
Treasurer, l\lIss J. Jackson, 326 :\fain 'V.; Assistant
Treasurer, l\liss G. Hodgson; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Benefit Association, .Miss O. 'Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee Conl1eners: Executive. 1\fiss H.
.-\itken; Flower, Miss A. Squires; Programme. Mis"
1. Go
nell; Registry, Miss N. Thompson; BudJl;et,
Mrs.
1. Barlow; RepreRentative to The ('anadoan
Nurse, Miss A.
cheifele.
'\.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother Martina; Prreident, Miss
Eva
Io.ran; Vice-PreBident, :Miss F. Nirholson; Secre-
tary, :\'lIB8 Mabel :\-facIntosh, 168 Ray ;;t.; Treasurer,
:\f!SR :\1. Kelly; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
:\-IIss B.
lcKenna, 277 Herkimer Rt.; Representative
R.
.,\.O., Miss J. l\forin.
KINGSTON
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
:\-Irs. W. G. Elder; Vice-President, Mrs. _-\. Hearn;
Secretary, Miss Olive !\lcDermott; Treasurer, Miss
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
:\-lisses K. McGarry, M. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; '"isiting
Committee, l\1i8ses N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment C'ommittee,
lr8. R. ".
C'larke,
lisses N. Hickey, B. Watson.
A.A., Kin
ston General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Lousie D. Acton; President,
fiss Ann Baillie; First Vice-President, :\fiss Carrie
:\-filton; Second Vice-President, Miss Olivia 1'1. Wilson,
Third Vice-President,
fiss A. Walsh; Secretary, :\fis8
Anna Davis, 464 Frontenac St.; Treasurer. Mrs: C. W.
:\tallary, 203 Albert St.; Convener: Flo.....er Committee,
'Irs. Sidney Smith, 151 Alfred St.; PresB Representa-
tive,
liss Mary Wheeler, KingBton General Hospital;
Prit'ate Duty Section. :\fiss Constance
andwith, 2
5
.\lfred Street.
KITCHENER
A.A., ....itchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, :\-liss K. W. Scott; President, .:\-Irs.
\\"m.
oll; First Vice-President, Mrs. W. Ziegler;
Recond 'ïce-President, Mifs Elsie Trouse; Secretary,
Miss \\ïnnifred Nelson, Apt. D., 58 Albert St. N.;
,-\8sistant-Recretary, :\Iiss Jean I'inclair; Treasurer,
:\f iI''' :\1. Orr.
LINDSA "\
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss E. S. Reid; President, :\Iiss L.
.J. HardinI/:; First Vice-President, l\.rs. O. Walling;
Second '"ice-President, Mrs. l\L I. Thurston; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Morrison, 46 Colborne
St. 'V.; Treasurer, Mrs. G. R. Allen; Flower Convener,
:\Iiss D. \1.
mith; Social Com'ener, :\fi!'!' K.
.
:\Iortimore.
LONDO
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
11011. President, Mother :\1. Patricia; HOIl. Vice-
President" Sister 1\1. Ruth; President, Miss Olive
O'
eil; FirBt Yice-Pre-ident, "Iiss :\fadalene Baker;
econd Vice-President, Miss Erla Reger; Recording
Secretary, Miss Gladys !\Iartin; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss Irene Griffen; Treasurer, :\-fiss Gladys Gray;
Press Representative, Miss Stella Gignac; Representa-
tives to Registry Board, MiRses Rhea Rouatt, C'erile
Slattery, Olive O'Neil.
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss Hilda !'tuart; Hon. \ïce-Prelii-
dent. :\lrs. .-\. E. Rilverwood; President, ;\Jiss :\1. :\1.
,Jones, '257 Ridout Rt. S.; First Vice-President, l\fiss H.
Huston; Second Vice-President, Miss:\1. :\lcLauj!;hlin;
Treasurer, Miss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary,
fisl3 F. Quigley; Correøpondinl/: Recretary, Mif's
1. Smith, Victoria Hospital; Board of Directors, :\lis!\es
C'. GillieP., .-\. :\Ialloch, .T. :\-Iortimcr, :\1. Y\lle, ('
:-;kinner, '1r
. C' Rose.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 91
"J.\GAR \ .'ALLS OWE!'. SOl',"U
A.A., l\iap,ara Falls General Hospital
lion. President. :\Iiss 1\1. S. Park; President. :\Iiss
G. Thorpe; First \"ice-President. :\Iiss H. Schofield;
:-,econd \ïce-President. :\liss K. Prest; :-:ecretary-
Treasurer, :\liss I. Hammond, 634 Ryerson Crescent.
Hagara Falls; Correspondinl!; Secretary, :Miss F.
Loftus; Auditors. :\lrs. :\1. Sharpe. Miss F. Loftus;
:-;ick Committee, :\Iis!' ". Coutt!', :\lif'B A. Pirie and
:\lrs. ,T. Teal.
OR.\:":GEVILLE
.\.A., Lord Duflerin Hospital
lion. President, :\lrs. O. Fleming; President. :\Iisl'
r. :\1. Sproule; First Vice-President, :'\liss Y. lee;
econd '"ice-President, :\Iiss I. .-\llen; Corresponding
ecretary, :\Iiss :\1. Bridgeman; Ttecording Secretary.
\Ii!'s E. :\1. Hay....ard; Treasurer. :\fi!'B A. Burke.
ORILLJ.'\
A..'\., Orillia Soldiers' !\Iemorial Hospital
lion. President, :\Ii'!s E. Johnston; President. :\Iiss
G. :\1. Went; First 'ïce-President, :\fiss L. Whitton;
:-:econd 'ïce-President, !\Iiss :\1. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer. !\Iiss Alice 1\1. Smith. 112 Peter St.
.
He.p:ular :\leetinp;-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA W A
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss E. ::\lacWilliams; President.
:\Iiss Jessie :\lclntcsh, 39 :-;imcoe
t. N.; Vice-President.
:\liRs Jean Thompson; ::5ecretary. Miss Jessie Mc-
Kinnon, 134 Alice :o;t.; Assistant Secretary, :\Iiss Irene
Goodman, 512 Simcoe Ht. N.; Corresponding Secretary,
:\liBB Jean Htewart. 134 Alice Ht.; TreR.surer, :\1rs. W.
Luke. :\ladiRon Apt!".,
imcoe St. R.
OTT..\\\"A
:\.A., Lady
tanley Institute (Incorporated 19UI
Hon. President. :\.lisR :\1. .-\. Catton, Carleton Place;
President, :\Iiss ,J. Blyth. Civic Hospital; \ïce-President
:\liRS :\.1. :\Ie
ïece. Perley Home; Hecretary. :\Irs.
H. L. :\Iorton. 29 Clel1;l/: :-'t.; Treasl'rer. :\liss :\1. C.
:,Iinn, 204 Stanley A \'e.; Board of Directnrs. :\Iiss E.
'lcColl. :\Iiss H. :\lcQuade. :\liss L. Be:iford, :\1rB.
K C. Flmitt; Representative to The Canadian NUTse.
:\Iiss .-\. Ebbs. 80 Hamilton Ave.; Representative to
Central Itev:istry. :\liRs n. Pridmore. 90 Third :\\'e.;
Pres" Hepresentati\'e, :\liflB E. -\llen.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon. PreAident. :\liBB Gertrude Bennett; President,
:\Iiss Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, :\Iiss Dorothy
:\Ioxley; Recond Vice-President. :\Iiss Lera Rarry; Re.
cordin
Recretary. :\Iiss :\Iartha !\lcJntoRh; COTres-
pondinl/:
ecretary, :\Iiss :\1. Downey; Treasurer. :\liss
Winifred Gemmell; Councillors, Miss J\:. Clarke. :\liBB
\\ ebb. :\lisB G. Froats, :\fiRB n. Fddy, :\IiSR E. LyonR;
Hppresentatives to rentral RegiBtry. :\Iiss Inda Kemp,
:\1 iSR K. Clarke; PreRs Correspondent, :\Iiss E\'elyn
Pepper; Convener Flo....er Committee, :\fiRS M. :\11\1"-
('nlhllll.
\.A., Ottawa General Hospital
HOll. President. He\'.
r. Flavie Domitille; President.
:\Iiss K. Bayley; First ''i('e-President, :\Iiss G. Clark;
:-:econd \'ice-President. :\li!'8 :\1. :\1 unrue; Rerretary-
rreasurer, :\Iiss D. Knox; :\Ienlbership
ecretary,
'Iiss :\.1. Daley; HepresentBtivel! to Lm'al Council of
Women. :\IrR. .T. A. Latimer. :\Irs. E. 'ïau. :\.1rs. 1..
Dunne, :\lil'8 F. Ne\.ins; Hepresentativel'J to Central
ne
iRtry. :\liRs:\1. O'Hare. :\Iiss A. Htael..pole: Hepresen-
tative to The Canadian NUTse. :\Iiss Kitty Hynn.
.\..'\.,
t. Luke's Hospital
lIoli. Presidpnt. :\.1 if's :\faxwdl; PreRidellt. :\Ii"...
Duris Thompson; 'ïre-President. :\liEs Diana Brown;
ecretary. :\frs. .J. Pritchard; Treasurer. !\liRR :\Iay
He....itt; Nominatinll, Committpp, \li!"RPf' :-O:Rrtip (1Rrl...
'I ilia :\11\1'I.aren. Hl\zpl r yttlp.
\..\.. (h
en Sound General and \Iarinc Hospital
lion. President. Miss B. Hall; President. :\Iil's Cora
Thompson; First "ice-President, :\Iiss F. Rae; ::5econd
\ïce-President. :\liss C. :\Iax....ell; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\Iiss Mary Paton; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, :\liBII
J. .-\I!;new; Flower Committee. :\fiss Alma Weedon.
:\lIss :\Iarjorie Ellis and Mrs. J. Rums; Programme
Committee, 1\liss :\1. Cruikshanks, :\Iiss Cora Ste....art;
Press Representative, :\liss :\1. Story; I.unrh Com-
mittee. :\Iiss r eone :\lcDonald. Miss R. Duncan.
:\fr!l. L. Burns; Auflitor. ::\liRB :\1.
impf'oll.
I'ETERBORO
\.,'\., !\icholls Hospital
lIon. President. Mrs. E. :\1. Leeson; President. :\IiM
,\. Dobbin; First \ïce-President, :\liss H. Russell'
Hecond Vice-President. !\Iiss L. Simpson; Secretary:
:\.Iiss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Treasurer :\Iiss
:-'. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; CorreRpondinJ!:
ec
etarv,
'IiI's E. Wap:ar. 273 Park
t.; f'oeial Connn('r. !\Ii
f'
:\1. \\' R.t!'on.
SAR:\IA
\.A., Sarnla General Hospital
Hon. President. :\li88 ,I. Lee; PreRident, :\liss 1..
:-:e
rist; Yice-President. :\liBS A. Cation; Secretary,
),llss A.
ih'erthorn; Treasurer. Miss A. Wilson;
Representative to The Canadian NUTse. :\Iiss C. :\100-
croft; Flower Committee (Coll\'ener). :\Iiss D. Shaw'
Programme and
ocial Committee, :\liRs L. Sep:rist. .
STRATFORD
.\..\., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss A. :\1. :\Iunn; Pretlident. :\lisB
L. -\ tt wood; \ïce-President, :\1 jss :\1. :\Ic :\1 aster ;
:'ecretary-Treasurer. Mrs. K.
nider,:-I6 DouJ!:las St.;
Social Convener. 'liAs A. Rocl..; Flower Convener.
:\1 iSR ('. Rtaples.
ST. CATHERIr-öES
.\.:\.,
ack Tralnln
School
Hon. President. :\.Iiss Anne Wril!;ht. General HOt.pi-
tal; President, :\Iiss Nora Nold, General HOBpital;
First Vice-President. :\liBB :\Iargaret :\lcClunie. :t!1
Chaplin Ave.;
econd 'ïce-President. :\Iiss Evelyn
Horton, Louth Ht.; Secretary-Treasurer, :\Ii!'s J. Hastie.
General Hospital; Social Committee. :\Iisll Aileell
Johnston. General Hospital, MiRs Donalda "eale, 35
.-\cademy St., :\Iiss Bernice Rule. 146 Weiland Ave.;
Representative to The Canadian NUTtle, Miss Feather-
Rtone, 1 ï Hainer St.; Correspondent. 'liBS Current:
Prol/:ral1lme Committee. :\liRS Brubaker, I Fitzl/:prald
t.
ST. THO\IAS
.'\.A., \Icmorlal Hospital
lioll. President, :\liss LUl"ille .\rIllRtronp;. :\.lclIlorial
lioRpital; ]-fon. Vice-President, :\liB8 :\Iar;)' Buchanan.
:\Iemorial Hospital; President. :\liBB :\larp;aret BenJa-
field. :-I!} \\ ellington Ht.; First ''ire-President, :\fif'''
Irene Garrow;
ecnnd 'ïl"e-Pretlident. :\liBB Bella
:\Iitchner; Rerordinjl; Secretary, :\Irs. John SlIlalf',
34 Erie Rt.; CorrespondinJ!: Sel'retary. :\lif's Florencp
y c.rk. 52 Kains Ht.; TrpB/lurer. :\liBB Irenp llIe....ett.
RR Kains
t.' Representative to The Canadian ^'ursf'.
:\1 if's Irene Garrow. 23
Iyrtle :-;t.; E
ecutÌ\'e. :\.1 ;1'18('1'
Hazel HastinJl;B. LiMa Cranp. :\Iary Okp. :\Ir!'l. ,-\II('n
Burrell. \Irf'. Eh';n '\ïNlon.
fORO:\. TO
\..\., Gra,'e lIo!lJ'ital
lIon. President. :\.lrø. r. J. Currie; I'rt,..ident. :\Ir...
W. .T. Cryderman: Uerordi nil:
ecr':"tary.'
IiBl! Ðo!"ie I.
Jient. Corrpspondinp; Secretary. :\118S I .lhan E. \\ onel.
20
iason Blvd., Toronto 12; Trea"nrpr. \Ii"" ", \I
J:lljntt, IfI.J CottinJ1;hl\llI :'1.
2
THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., The Grant MacDonald Trainin
School
for '\Iurses
Hon. President, :\liss Esther :\1. Cook, laG Dunn
.-\ve.; President, :\Iiss Ida Weekes, 1
0 Dunn .h-e.;
Vice-President, Mrs. :\1arion Smith; ReC'Ording Secre-
tary, Miss Norma :\lcLeod; Corresponding Secretary,
:\liss Ethel Watson; Treasurer, :Miss PhylliA La....Tenre;
f;ocial Convener, :\1iss Kathleen Cuffe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Prel\ident, 1\lrs. Goodson; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dents, Miss Florence J. Potts, Miss Kathleen Panton;
President, Mrs. A. L. Langford; First Vice-Pre8ident,
Miss Florence Booth; Second Vice-President, :\1rs. W.
F. Raymond; Recording Secretary, :\lrs. Clarence
Cassan; Corresponding Secretary, :\Iiss L. Loraine
:\1orrison, 54 Sheldrake Blvd.; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1arie
Grafton, 534 Palmerston Blvd.; Social Convener,
Mrs. Cecil Tom; Flower Convener, MiB8 Alice Boxall;
Programme Committee. Miss Jean Masten; Publicity
Committee, Miss Margaret Collins; Welfare COUl-
mittee, Mrs. Dall
mith; Representative to RefI;it'try,
)1iss Florence Currie.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, :\liB8 Alma Armstrong, Riverdale Hos-
pital; First Vice-President, Miss Gertrude Gastrell,
ùiverdale Hospital; Second Vice-President. Mrfl. F.
Lane, 221 Riverdale Ave.; Secretary, :\1iss Lexie
Staples, 491 Broadview Ave.; Treasurer, :\1rs. H.
Dunbar; Board of Directors, :\1iss K. Mathieson.
Riverdale Hospital, :\1iss S. Stretton, 7 Edgewood
Ave., Miss E. Baxter, Riverdale H08pital, :\lrs. E.
Quirk, l{iverdale Hospital,
1iss L. Wilson, 11 Sher-
wood Ave.; Press and Publications, Miss Laurel
Wiison, 11 Sher.....ood .-\ ve.; Toronto.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
Hon. President, Sister BeptriC'(', St. ,John's Convent;
I'resident, Miss Susan l\1orJl;an, 322 St. George St.;
First Vice-President, Miss Nan Hetherinp:ton, Nurses'
Residence, Toronto General Hospital; Serond \"ice-
President, Miss Kathleen Burtchall, 28 Major Rt.;
Recor<!.ing Secretary, ],Iiss H(.len Frost, 450 Maybank
Ave.; Corresponding Secretary, Miss :\largaret Creigh-
ton, 152 Boon .-\ ve.; Treasurer,
Iiss Winnifred Webb,
77 Summerhill Ave.; Conveners: Entertainment Com-
mittee, Miss Nettie Davis, 32 Albany Ave.; Rick and
Visiting Committee, Miss Gladys Batten. 32 Albany
:\ ve.; Pre!'s Representative, :'I1iss Grace Dohertv, 2ti
or.....ood Road. .'
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Mary :\Iargaret; Presi-
dent, :\Iiss M. Kelly; First Vice-President, :\liss O.
Kidd; Second Yice-Pre8ident, Miss M. Daly; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss 1\1. Goodfriend; Correspondinll;
Secretary, Miss V. Hanley; Treasurer, Miss F. Robin-
son; Councillors, :\1is!'es A. Timlin. L. Dunbar, I.
Power. R. :\lcCue.
A.A., St.
lichael's Hospital
lIon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; Hon. \ïce-
President, Rev. Sister Jean; Pre8ident, Miss Ethel
Crocker; First \Ice-President, Mrs. Aitkin; Recond
Vice-President, Miss :\lary Ed....ards; Third \'ice-
President, :\Iiss Helen Dunniu;an; Correspolldinll;
Hecretary, Miss M. Doherty; Hecording Serretary,
:\1iss Marie Melody; Treasurer, Miss G. Coulter, 42
Isabella St.. .-\pt. 20 4 , Toronto; Press Reprpsentative,
:\Iiss May Greene; Councillors, Misses J. O'['onnor.
:\1. :\1adden, H. Kerr; Private Duty: Miss A. Gaudet;
Public Health. MiB8 1. :\lcGurk; Repreøentati"'e Cen-
tral Rellistry of Nurses. Toronto. !\Iiss 1\1. :\Ielody.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
Hon. Vice-Pre'lident, Miss Jean Gunn; Pre8ident.
:\liss N. Fidler, Ontario Hospital, Whitby; First
\Ïce-President.
1iss J. Anderson; Re('Ond \"ice-
President, Miss E. Manning; Seeretary, :\Irs. A. \\'.
Farmer, R9 Hreadalbane St.; Treaf'urer, Mif'S E.
Robson, T.G.H. ftesidence; Assistant Treasurer,
Ii!'f'
Forgie; ArchiviAt, :\Iiss Kniseley; Counrillors, :\Iiss ,J.
Wilson, Miss Dix,
Iiss Cryderman: Committee Con-
veners: Flower, MisR 1\1. l\-lrJ(ay; Pro/ITamme, Miss
E. Stuart; Press, ]"Iiss :\1. Stewart, Ki. 6155; Insurance,
Mies M. Di,,; Nominations, !\Iil'ls C. Soudwith; Socia!.
Miss J.
Iitchel1; Elizaheth FieIrl Rmith; :\feDlorial
Fund, "1iss lIannant.
\..\. Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Training School for Nurses
Hon. President. :\Iiss E. I\I cLean, Toronto Ea::<t
General Hospital; President, !\1rs. E. Philirs, 155
Donlands Ave.; \'ice-President, :'oIiss J. :\lc:\laster,
155 Donlands .-\ve.; f;ecretary-Treasurer. :\1iss N. \'.
Wilson. 50 Cowan .\ve.; Repre8entative to Central
Iteg:istry.
Iiss 1\1. Heston, 753 Glencairn Ave.; Mi8s
H. :\lacInto'lh, 748 Roudan Ave.; Representative to
H.
..-\.O.. :\Iiss n. :\lacIntosh, 74R
oudan ,-\\"e.
.\.,\., Toronto ""estern Hospital
Hon. President, 'Iiss n. L. Ellis; Pre!'ident, :\lif'1:-
F.. Matthews. 74 Westmount Ave.; \'ire-Prc!'ident,
l1ss U. Colwell; Hel"ordinJl; Seeretary.
liss G. Plltter-
!',m; f'ecre"flry- Treasurer. :\Ii88 Helen Stewart, Toronto
\Vestern Hospital; Representative to The rana(f1'an
VlIrRf, l\1i!'s F. Greenaway.
A.A., \\eUesley Hospital
lion. President, l\li8s Ross; President,
liss :\1.
:\lcClinchey; Vice-President. l\1if'R Jessie Gordon:
Corresponding 8ecretary, :\oliss :\Iargaret Anderson
Trea8urer, Miss I. Archibald, 659 Huron St.; Cor)"f>!,
ponflent to The Canadian Nurse, :\Iiss I. Onslo\\.
A..\., \Vomen's Colle
e Hospital
Hon. PreRident, ]"Irs. H. :\1. Bo....man; Hon. \ïee-
President, Miss Harriett :\Ieiklejohn; President, :\lrs
cullion; Serretary. :\Iiss Grace Clarke, 42 Delaware
-\ve.; TreaRurer,
Ji!'B Fra!'er, \\'omen'A ['ollel!"e
HORpital
A.A., Hospital Instructors and ,\dministrators,
University of Toronto
Hon. President, :\Iiss E. K. Russell; Hon. \"i.'e-
President, Miss G. Hiscocks; President, !\Ii8s Gladwyn
.Tones; First \"ice-President,
Ii!'!' :\1. McCamus'
l':ef'Ond \Ice-President, :\fiss E. Young; f;ecretarv:
Miss C. l\f. Cardwell, Toronto General H()spitål;
Treasurer,
liRs M. :\leKay. Toronto General H.-spital.
A.A., Department of Public Health -":ursin
,
University of Toronto
lion. President, :\li8s E. K. Rus8el!; President, Mis8
Barbara Blackstock; \"ice-President, :\lis!' E. C. ('ale;
Hecordinll; Secretary, :\fi8s I. Park;
eeretary- Treasurer,
:\Iiss C. C. Fraser, 423 Gladstone Ave.; Toronto, Ont.;
('ont'eners:
ocial. :\liss E. Mae Lauren; Prol!"ramme,
:\lisB :\lrNamara; .\Iembership, :\Ii!'s Edna Clarke.
.\.A.. Connau
ht Trainin
School for "'\Iurses
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President, l\IisR F. :\lac.P. Dick80n, Toronto
Hospital. Weston; Vice-President, ],lisA -\nn Bol....ell.
Toronto Hospital. \Veston; 8ecretBry, :\Iiss G. I eem-
in!!:. Toronto Hospital, \\'eston; Treasurer, :\lil's R.
:\1cKay. Toronto HORpital, "-eston; Convener of
ocial ['ommittee, :\li!'8 :\1. .Jones, Toronto He-spital,
\\. e!'ton.
WINDSOR
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Windsor
President, :\Iiss :\Iary Perrin; First \"ice-President.
:\liss :\Iarie Odette;
erond \ïce-PreRident, I\Ii8s Z"e
I.ondeau; Seeretary, Miss 1\1.
pen('e: Treasurer, I\lil's
:\Iary Fener; Pro(O'amme Committee, :\Iisses H.
:\Iahoney, .-\. Harvey, H. Rlattery; :-;ick Committee.
:\Iisses H. Farrell. H. Greenway, :\1. :\lcGlory; Rocial
Committee, :\li8sesJ. Londeau, N. \Yebster, I. Reaume;
Correspondent to The Canadian Nurse. :\Iiss :\olary
Finnegan. :\Ieeting seronrl :\Ionday ('very month, 8 p.m.
WOODSTOCIo...
\-.A., General Hospital
First Hon. Pre8ident, :\Iiss Fram'es :-;hal1Jf>;
ec'''lId
HCID. President, :\Ii!'!' Helen Potts; Pre!'ident, ,Mil's
:\label Costello; \ïc'e-Presidellt. :\Ii!'s .-\lIna Cook;
Recording :-ìe('retary, :\lis8 Lila ,Tarkson; Correspond-
ing Secretary and Press RepresentatÏ\-e, :\Iiss Doris
Craig; 510 George f-:t.; AR8istant :'erretary, :\Iiss Jean
Kelly; Trea!'urer, :\Iiss :\Iaude Slaght; ('ollt'eners of
('ommtttees: Programme, ]'liRS Ella Eby; Flower, :Miss
E. 'Vntson; Sorial, :\Irs. :\lrDiarmirl, :\Irs. P .John!'(Hl,
:\Ii!'s Hastingf'.
QL:EBEC
UFFICIAL DIRECTORY
93
L \<:III"-E
.\..\., Lachine Gelu.'ral Hospital
Hun. President,
Iif!s
1. L. Bnm n; President,
Irs.
Rose Wilson; \"ice-President,
liss :\1. McNutt;
Secretary-Treasurer, :\liss .-\. Hoy, 370
t. C'atherine
:'t., Lachine; Executive Committee,
liss Lapierre,
:\liss B:rrns. :\Ieetinl!:, first :\Ionday of eaC'h month.
\101\TRE.\L
.\..\., Children's
Iemorial Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss .-\. Kinder; Prel'idellt,
Iiss Jí.
Paterson; Vice-Preflident, :\Iiss H. Xutall; Secretary,
:\Ii!'ls J. C'ochrane, 1615 ('edar Ave.; TreasuCf'r, :\Iis!'l
L. De!'ltroillp; Executive C'olllmittpp, :\liss E. Hillyard,
'liss :\1. FJander;
oeial Cmlllllittpp, convener, :\Iis,",
:\1. Gill, :\Iis!' .-\. .-\dlington, :\Iiss :\1. :\leC'allulll and
:\Iiss :\1. Robinson; Hepresentative to The Canadian
.Vurse, :\liss Y. Schneider;
iek Nurses C'olllm;ttee, :\Ii!'s
H. Eßf!terbrook.
.\..\., Homeopathic Hospital
11011. President, :\Irs. H. Pollock; President,
Irs. J.
Warren; First \"ice-President, :\Iise :\1. Bright; Second
\ïce-President,
\liss .-\. PorteoUR;
ecretary,
Iiss W.
:\Iurphy; Assistant Seeretary, :\Iiss :\1. Berry; Treas-
urer, :\Iiss D. W. :\Iiller; .-\ssistant Treasurer,
Iiss
'ii. G. Horner; Primte Dllty Soc!ion: :\Iiss :\1. Bril1;ht;
Hepresentative to The Canadian Nllr
e, :\Iiss J. \"hit-
more; Programme Committee, :\Iiss :\1. Currie
Hepresentative :\Iontreal Graduate Xur..es -\ssocia-
ti'ln, :\Iiss .-\. Pllrtenu!'.
L' \'isoclation des Gardes-\laladt:'s Graduét:'s de
I'H>>pital :\"otre-Dame
Exeeutif: :\Iesdemoiselles .-\lice Lepine, Présidente;
,\Iiee Gelinas, \ïce-Présidente; ,-\line Leduc, 2ième
\"ice-Prisidente; Huzanne Girou-..:, TrésoriÈre; :\Iargue-
rite Pauze, :-:eerí,taire; Conseillères: :\Iesdemoiselles
Germaine Brisset, Irene Rouillard, Eu!.'"enie Tremhlay,
Francoise C'he\'rier, ,Juliette Reaulieu.
A.A., \lontrt:'al Gen('ral Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss F. E. Strumm; Hon. \"il'e-
Preflident,
Iiss :\1. K. Holt; President, :\Iiss E. Frances
Upton; First Vice-President, :\Iiss :\1. Mathe\\son;
:-'erond Vice-President,
Ijss J. :\Iorell; Hecordinl!:
:-:e('retary. :\Iiss II. Tracey; C'orrespondinl/:
eeretary,
:\Irs. E. C. :\Ienzies; Treasurer (-\lulIlnae Association
and :\Iutual Benefit -\ssoeiation), :\Iiss Isabel Davies;
Hon. Tre'lsurer, :\Iiss H. :\1. Dunlop; Executive C'om-
mittee, Miss .-\. Whitney. :\Iiss :\1. :\1. .Johnston, :\Iif'!'
II. I1ewton, :\Irs. L. Fisher, :\Irs. S. Hamsey; Repre-
spntatives to Prirate Dut.ll Section:
Iiss L. l"rquhart
(C'onvener), :\liss E. Elliott, :\Iiss E. l\Iarshall;
Hepresentativ('s tn The {'anadian Nurse, :\Iiss :\1. E.
IIUJ 1 ter, :\Iis... :\1. Call1pbell; Uepresentatives to Local
('ounC'il of Women, :\liss G. Cnlley, :\lÏss :\1. Hoss;
:-:ick \ïsitinl!: Committee. :\Iiss F. E. Strumm, :\Iiss
B. Herman; Proe:ramme Committee, :\lÏss Isabel
Davies, :\Iise :\Iartha Bat!\IIn: Refreshment C'ommittee,
:\Iiss ,I. Parker (C'onvener). :\Iil's :\1. \\ allaC'p, \liss E.
('hure.h, :\Iiss E. ,-\. Rogerf'.
A.A.. Royal Victoria Hospital
President, :\Ii
f' :\1. F. Hersey; Firf't \ïpe-Pres;dent,
'fis".J. 'tpvpnson:
pc'oncl \ï,'p-Prf'sidpnt, \lr... Gripve;
Hecording :-:e,'retary. :\Iiss E. B. UOl!:prs; :'ecretan--
freasurer, :\Iisf! h:. Jamer, Hoyal \"ict(Jria lIollpitãJ;
Exeeutiv(' Committee, :\Ir!!. E. Rohprts, :\Irll. G. C.
:\lplhado, :\lrs. Prideau-..:, :\Iisse
E. EUpr. E. Reid,
\. Bulman; CU1/veners of Committee..: Finanee, :\1 ise D.
Campbell; fo:ick \ïsitinl/:, :\Iiss R. Fellcmes; Programm(',
:\Irs. K. Hutchison; Refreshments, :\liss :\1. Ro\\ ley;
Private Duty Section, :\Iiss R. Cochrane; Hppreøenta-
tives to Local CounC'ils of \Vomen, :\Iiss .J. :-:tevensol',
:\Irs. E. Cooper; Heprespntativ(' to Thp {'mwdia"
Nurse, :\Ii
s E. .\llder.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
Hon. Presidents, Miss E. Trench,
\liss F. George:
President, Mrs. L. 1'1. Crewe; First \"iee-President.
:\Irs. A. Chisholm; Second Vice-President, Miss Martin;
Recording Secretary, Miss C. :\Iorro\\; Corresponding
SeC'retary, :\lif'S E. 1'loore; Treasurer. :\Iise E. I.
Franei". 1210 SU"
ex .-\ \"e., :\Iontreal; f-;ick \lsiting,
:\Iiss G. Wil
nn, !\liss L. Jensen; Private Duty: Mrs.
T. Hobertson, :\Ii
s L.
miley; Representative to Tht
('anadian .Vurse, :\Iise
. Bro\\n; Social Committee,
:\Irs. E. Drake. Regular monthly meetinl/: every third
Wednesday, 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nurses, 'lcGUl
Cniversity
HOll. President, :\liSl! Mary
amuel; Hon. \"iee-
Pref'ident,
Iif's Bertha Harmer; lion.
Iembers. :\lil'f'
:\1. F. Hersey, :\Iiss Grace :\1. Fairley, Dr. Helell
H. Y. Reid, Dr. :\Iaude Abhott, :\Irs. R. W. H('ford.
:\Iiss 1\1. L. :\Ioag; President, :\Iif's :\Iadeline Taylor,
\Ïctorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop
t.; Vice-
President, :\Iiss :\larion E. Kash, \ï('torian Order of
urses. 1246 Bishop fo:t.; Secretary-TreBl'urer, :\fiBs
'I. E. Orr, The
hriners' Hospital. ('edar Ave., :\lont-
real; Chairman, Flora l\ladeline Sha\\, :\Iemorial Fund,
:\liss E. Frances Upton, 1396 St. Catherine St. \\.;
Programme ConVener, Mise F. :\leQuade, "'omen's
General Hospital. l\lontreal; Herre
entatives to Local
Council of Women, Miss Lil!:gett, :\Iills Parry; Repre-
sentatives to The Canadian Nurlle, .-\dministratioll,
:\lil's B. Herman, \\. estern Division, :\Iontreal General
Hospital; Teachine:, :\lif'S E. R. Hogers, Royal \ïctoria
Hospital; PubliC' Health. l\liBs E. (,hun'h, \ïetorian
Order nf Xurses, 1240 Bishop St.
Ql."EBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrev Hale's Hospital
Hon. President. :\lrs. Barrow; President, :\Iise D.
.Jackllon; First \ïce-President, :\Iiss E. FitzpatriC'k;
:-'eeond \ ice-Pref'ident, :\lrs. C. Younl/:; Uecordinp:
:-:eeretary, :\Iiss E. :\lcCallum; Corrf'f'pondinl/: :-:et're-
tary.
Iif's :\1. Fischer; Treasurer,
Iif's E. :\Idlarg;
Heprel'entative to The {'anadian Nursr. :\Iisll X
'Iartin; Prirate Duty Section: :\Iise G. :\Iartin; Si..k
\ïf'itinl/: Committee, :\Irs. Barrow and :\Irf'. Buttimc-r(';
Hefref'hment Committef', :\Irs. :\Ielling, :\li8/1 Weary,
:\Iiss Hansen. "if's :\h'Clintoch; CounC'illors. :\Iise
IlIIri(', :\Irll. ('raip:, :\Irs. JaC'kson, :\liB8 !\Iackay, :\lil'lI
B. .\damll.
SIIERBROOKE
A..\., Sherbrooke Hospital
lion Prpsident8, :\Ii!<
E. FranC'('s rpton, :\lÏss Helen
:'. Buck; President, :\lrs. N. :-:. Lothrop; First \ïc('-
Presidpnt, :\Irf'. W. Davey; :-'econd \"i..e-Preøident.
:\Iise \'. Beane; Se('retary, :\Iiss E. :\Iorillette; Treasurer,
\liSR Ali('e LYllter, !'-:herbrook(' HOllpital; Hepresentati,'p
tn Thl' ('a1/arlial/ .v,tr.'I'. 'Ii".. .J. \\'ardlC'\",rth
. . . OFF. . . DUT}T .
A Scottish gentleman. . once u'rote LI poem about seeing ourselves
as others see US . . . we thought about this .. the other da)' . . . lvhdc
plunging through snowdrifts . in a bus . . . in f1 ont of itS . . , were tu'o ladies
engaged in earnest COfll'ersation . . . we tried not to listen but the
l'oices were oJ that penetwting quality . . . which encolmlges eavesdropPing
hy 't1w
ing it cO'inpulsory "we have had . to hat'e one . . . in the
house for the last three wec
s" . said the lady with the synthetic
. pearl earnngs . . . "you þoor dears" cooed the laåy with the bêret Ol'é,'
one ear . . . .. hou: dreadful for you .. what is she li
e?" . . . "Well, not as bad
(IS the one . . . I had when Clarence was born . . . I thin
of her . . . every time
I see the ring she made on the bedside table . by ptttting a wet glass on It
the night that the doctor said . . . he had never seen .. a case so unusual . . .
LIS mine . . . 'You see, my dear . . . what happened was this" . . . at this point
the lights changed . . . and the bus stopped . . . but not the voice it went
right on . . . but mercifully changed the subject . . . to something less intimate
. . . "and such an apþetite . . . even when I couldn't swallow. . . anything but
jluids. . the maid had to cool{ meals. . . just for her. . . a cormorant, my dear
. . . 1 assure you. . and now we have to have another of them , . . because
Clarence has measles .. and we cottldn't send . . . such a highly-strung chi!d
. . . to an)' of these dreadful hosp:tals .. where he mlght be . . . put in a
ward . . . {.(.lith horrid little children .. who scream all da)' Clarence cries
a great deal . . . and an imaginative child . . . must be sympatheticaUy understood
. . . yes, she seems rather good . . . with children . . . C'arence b:t her . . .
when she first came . . . bttt now he seems different . except when I am there
. . . and then of courSe . . . the poor little darling . real zes how much he
misses . . . his mother's care" . . . the bus stopped agam . . . and the lady prepared
to descend . . . "Goodbye, my dear. . . I must hurry . . . that nurse has to be
relieved . . . for two hours . . . so 1mreasonable of her . because Clarence
screams . . . all the time she is awa)' . . . he is such a hIghly-strung child . the
doctor says I must neva" . . . the bus driver murmured . . . a few words . in
emphatic French . under his breath . the lady dlsembar
ed . . . the bus
started with a Jerk. . (md we got off. at the next corner . . . still thin
ing
ùbout . . . the httge aJlpetit
s of COHJlOWlltS . . .
94
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CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1934
MAl I<3I';"A
T DIt-'EASI-S OF THE EAR, NOSE AND THROAT R. P. \Vrignt, M.D. 101
How THI:Y WON THE M.B.E.
105
TIll' FIRST CANADIAN SCHOOL OF NURt-'INr.
107
THE C.\NADIAN SCENI-'
10S
THI- EDITOR"S DESK
109
NURSING EDUCATION AND THE LC.N.
Marion Lindeburgh
110
THE No
,NLRSFD SICk AND THE IDLE PRI\'-\TE DUTY NURSE
Margaret K. Stac,," 113
COMMON SENt-'E AI';"D PUBLIC HEALTH
Elizabeth Smellie. GB.E.
118
THISTLETOWN
120
PROVINC!.\L ANNl:AL MEFTINGS
121
BOOK REVIF\\"S
123
CORRE
PONDI' NCE
124
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICF
125
N l'WS NOTES
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OHICIAL DIRECTORY
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OFF DUTY
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IN WINTER DYSPEPSIA
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BiSoDoL to give quick, safe relief.
The combined action of magnesium
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neutralization of excess acid without
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digestion.
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The
Canad ian
Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of Canada
Published by th
Canadian Nurses Association
VOL. XXX
No.3
MONTREAL. QUE.. MARCH. 1934
MALIGNANT DISEASES OF rrHE EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT
R. P. WRIGHT, M.D., Department of Oto-Laryngology, The Montreal General Hospitdl.
Broadly speaking, malignant tumours
or cancer are made up of cells which dif,
fa from the mother tissue from which
they originate. The more widely they
differ, the greater is their malignancy and
the tendency to form metastases. Cancer
tumors found in the upper air passages
may he primary growths, or they may be
secondary, that is metastatic, coming via
the hlood or lymph streams from else'
where in the body. The primary are much
the more common.
Cancer may he roughly divided into
two gre,lt classes, carcllloma and sarcoma,
hut there are a very great number of
suhdlvisions, clOd thIs number is being
const.-tntly added to by improving
ml?thods of technic in the laboratories.
Sarcoma is composed of embryonic types
of connective tissue which continues to
grow independent of the surrounding
tissues. It tends to spread hy the blood
stream. Sarcomata are found in the nose,
l1.lsopharynx, larynx, palate, tonsil audi,
tory nerve and the inner, middle and
CJ\.tern.-t1 cars. Carcinoma is a malignant
tumour springing from epithelial struc'
tures. It has a gre,lt tendency to infil,
tr,lte, and spreads chiefly hy the lympha,
tics. Flat cell c,lrcinoma is found in the
pharynx, l.lrynx, auricle, mouth and
freljuently at the junction of skin and
mucous memhrane as the lips. Cylindri'
c,ll cell carcinoma develops from the
mucous memhrane and is found in the
nas,ll c,lvity, sinuses, nasapharynx. laryn\.
,lIld Eu.;;tachian tuhcs. Adeno carCinnl11.l
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developes from glandul.-tr epithelium and
is found in the salivary glands and seba,
ceous glands of the auricle. Epithelio,
mata of the auricle, the middle ear,
mastoid and auditory nerve are not
uncommon.
It is impossible to group the symptoms
.-tnd course of cancer in the upper air
p.-tssages. Almost every case differs from
the otha. For instance a cancer of the
larynx may hegin with only a slight hus,
kiness or tiring of the voice, and show
no other symptoms for weeks or months.
Another, in practically the same situa'
tion, will begin with a trouhlcsom\.'
tickling cough, lancin.-tting pain, difficulty
m swallowing solid foods, or hy expecto,
r.-ttion of blood. A tumour of the nose
may be unnoticed for many months, or
show just a slight ohstruction to breath,
mg, while another almost similar case
will hegin with discomfort. pain, cpis'
t,nis and foul discharge.
C'arÓnOI11.l molY attack (lny portion of
the nose or accessory sinuses, the symp'
toms ,lre most indefinite and it is very
di fficult to make e.-trly di.-tgnosis. Pain is
,llways present l.lte in the disl?ase. and IS
usually l.-tncinating and sever\.' in char,lc
ter. There is oft\.'n hleedmg, hut not so
freLJuently as in sarcoma. FreLJuently
there is a mucopurulent dIscharge and
nasal obstruction, and if thl..'re is e:-.ten
sion to the ey\.'s. there I1UY hI..' ,l proptosis,
th,lt is ,l protru.;;ion of the cy\.'. \\'hl..'n thl'
tumour hr\.',lks Jown. it usu.dly 1\.',lWS
,l dú'p r,H!t!ed \llù'r with (,tfl..'nsi\'c sl..'cn'
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THl' (:ANA.I)IAl\; Nl'RSl
tIon. In s.lrCOl1M, the e.lrli
st symptom
is usually obstruction and nasal dis,
charge: ulceration comes later and gives
a very offensive discharge, often blood
stetincd. P,tin is less pronounced than in
c,lrcinon
,l. There may he deformIty of
the extcrn.tl tissues due to pressure of
the growth from within, or due to direct
extension to the external tissues.
Soft palate carcinnmet usually appears
lette in life. The first symptom is loss of
free movement of the palate, then faulty
phonettion, regurgitation of food through
the nose, later ulceration, haemorrhage
,mJ laryngeal symptoms. In sarcoma the
tumour is irregular and slo\"\' in growth.
Symptoms are nasetl ohstruction and
faulty phonation: ulceration anJ pain
.lppear late. Tonsil carcinoma is rather
rare, and usu
dly invokes the pillars and
tongue as wdl. It retpiJly extends to
other tissues. The symptoms at first are
increased salivation, later purulent, and
l1l,lrked cachexia is early, then rainful
swallowing. Hacmorrhages arc frequent'
Iy noted after ulcer,ltion anJ there arc
oftl'n changes in tonc of voice anJ danger
of eJema of the glottis during the later
st;lges. rain fortunately appears early
.1I1J draws attention, etnd is increa
ed on
swetllowing. There is impairment of
hreetthing and speech. I use the term
fortunately here, .lS this alone will some'
times bring the patient to the physician
Cd.rly anJ therefore giv
a hetter oppor,
tunity for successful treatment.
Carcinoma of the larynx is quite com'
mon and may be intrinsic or extrinsic. As
tuberculosis lues and non,malignant
growths give rise to similar symptoms the
diagnosis is difficult, hut always in people
over forty years of age who have husky
voices (laryngitis) for more than two
weeks suspect cancer. Huskiness is the
first symptom, then irrit;1ting cough, later
p,tÏn, and when ulceration sets in, fctid
odnur and rapid emaciation.
Sarcoma of the larynx may occur at
.myal';c. First, huskiness rapidly followed
hy intl'rfercnce with respiration, hacking
cough, .11ld offensive secretIOn. The
growth is much more rapid than in car'
cinoma. At first it is round, smooth, pale
in colour, then it rapidly enlarges anJ
hreaks down. P etin is more irregular and
usually less severe. The pain in extrinsic
growths is more pronounceJ than in the
intrinsic cases.
Early cancer can be cured either by
surgery, radium, X'ray or diathermy, or
with combinations of these ]l1eans. Late
cancer cannot be cured by any means anJ
treatment is merely palliative to relieve
pain and prolong life. An early Jiagnosis
is thc great essential. Unfortunately, in
hospital practice, we find the great
majority too late to save them. Surgery
is still the best n1L,thod for cancer attack.
In most locations such as lip, tongue anJ
laryn
, it is usuetl to follow the opera'
tions with raJium or X'ray to endeavour
to kill off any possible cancer cells, espe,
(:',dly in the glanJ areas. The surgical
treatment of cancers in these petrts is
,dways a ITletjlH" operettion and is usuetlly
vcry mutilating. Owing to the different
locations cancer may spring from, c,tLh
opl:r ettion has to he especially thought
out. It is now usual after any Olk'rd.tlOn
to follow up with either radium or deep
X'rety or a combÍJld.tion of both, hecausc
it is impossible to say whether or not
there ar
any canc
r cells still in the sur
rounding tissul's, particularly 1n the
lymphatics.
Radium is an clement which does not
exist in nature in a pure state. It con'
stantly g
\'es off rays, some of them very
like the rays of X'ray. There are three
types of rays, Alpha, Beta anJ Gamma.
For treatment the Alpha rays are not
used, and can he easily filtered, that is
a shed of paper is able to stop them.
Beta rays are more penetrating and can
he largely stopped by 2 m.m. of brass,
or its equivalent in other metals. Gamma
rays élre more penetrating and will pass
through '2.5 c.m. of lead. The Gamma
rays are lar.gely used for treating cancer.
RaLlon is a sort of gas or emanation given
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MALIC ;NANT I HSEASFS
off from radium when in solution. It is
collected and put in smd.ll seeds of gold,
platinum or glass. It rapidly loses its
strength and at the end of six days is
valueless. These seeds can be Implanted
into and around the tumour and left there
permanently. Radium salts are used in
needles of different strengths and differ-
cnt filters. The needles may be left in
the tumour for a few hours to a week
or more. Radium tubes contain heavier
doses and are used in cavities such as
the nose and antrum, usually. for twelve
to twenty-four hours. Surface radiation
is done in the hospital by using radium
needles on wax Gists, such as the collar.
There are many forms of applicators.
Radium is very dangerous. If im-
properly handled It may cause horrible
burns of the soft tissues and aeries of the
bone. Handling it constantly may bring
,lbout an anaemia and changes in the
skin. Radium needles or containers should
never be handled by the bare hands.
Always use long forceps to pick up the
needles or seeds and immediately place
them in the speciallcad containers. Like-
wise in handling the collars, pick thcm
up by thc extreme edges to avoid contact
with the implanted needles, and it is
,ldvisahle to WCdf rubher gloves as well.
In many hospit..lls where much radium
IS used, the nursing st,df is alternated
to avoid prolonged exposure to the rays.
Those who work with radium constantly
:,hould have blood examinations made at
intervals of one tü three months to note
,my approach of anaemia. If a patient
happens to have a needle lost in the tis-
sues or swallowed, it must be found and
removed, otherwise it will injure or
destroy normal tissue; r,ldium burns and
ulcers arc very slow in he<J ling.
Some tumors are very radio'sensitive,
and disappear quickly, others arc radio-
resistant. Strange to say the radio-sen-
sitive type arc usually thc most malig,
nant. The dose of r c\diul1l is estimated
hy the size and type of tumour, hy the
,unount of radllH11 ll:,cd, the .\lnount ot
I\1-\RCH, ]CH-t
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filter, (U1d the distance from the tumour.
For instance, 10 mg. of radium for 10
hours- ---::: 100 mg. hours, and is the same
as 1 mg. of radium for 100 hour s= 100
mg. hours. Radon is measured in mili
curies: the number of milicuries to be
used depends upon the si 4 e of the tumour
as well as upon the type of tumour cell.
Before the use of radium or X-ray, care-
ful inquiry regarding previous treatments
is necessary in order to avoid burning or
over-radiating the tissues and causing
radiation burns. It is known that irr
diation, either X-ray or radium, has a
selective action on the growing cancer
cell. The more unlike the cancer cell is to
normal tissue the greater is its sensitivity
to radiation, therefore, in tumours, it is
possible to actually kill the cancer cell
without great injury to the normclJ tissue.
The use of radium produces the fol-
lowing effects:
Nausea and some prostration after large
doses for the first one to two days.
Swelling, redness and congestion of the
part for twenty-four hours.
Diminution in si
e of tumour. If I-oen
iti"'e
this diminution may be seen twenty-four hours
after. If resistant, after three to four week...
Skin changes are shown by reddening or
early blisterIng. This is called the erythema
dose, and should not be heavier.
Mucous membranes are first congested and
hen a membrane forms \'ery like diphtheria
In, appearance.
The treatment for these red.ctions is by
,lPplymg soothing oily salves or hlanù
mouth washes.
The X-ray or Ro
ntgen rd.Ys arc waves
of radIant energy, ultra-violet, but made
up of different wave length:,. They are
not so penetrating as gamma rays, but by
concentrating thcm they can be used for
deep,lying tissues better than radium,
The dose is ml?d.sun::d by the time of
exposure and by the milliamperes of cur-
rent, by the distance used and by filters.
Their rays arc very similar to radium
rays. They will (d::,() caus\.' the same local
rl'actlons, reddening, hlistaing of thc skin
.md. in \Try large d()
l's, hums and ulcer;!
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tions, and loss of hair, either temporary
or permanent.
Enùothermy or ùiathermy is a form of
electro,surgery. Electric currents passing
through a conductor generate hecl.t; in
the (.tutery the current passes through
a wire loor, and makes it white or red
hot, and therehy actually burns the tis'
sues with which it comes in contact. In
employing the endotherm a high frequen'
cy current is passed through cold elec,
trodes aprlieù on the tissue. The heat is
gencrcl.ted in the tissue itself by the resist,
ance of the tissues to the current passing
from une electrode to the other. The
heat is always greatest near the smallest
electrode, therefore we use for the small
or active electroùe a needle or scalpel.
The indifferent electrode is block tin or
sheet lead, which is usually applied to the
patient's back. The flesh around the
needle or knife is actually cooked. The
searing seals off the vessels except large
arteries d.nd therefore the operation is
almost a hloodless one, but there is often
much sloughing afterwards and healing
is slow, usually ahout four weeks. Gen,
cr,ll anaesthesia is necessary, hut ether
should not he useù due to danger of
ignition. Following the operation always
examine the skin for hurns where the in-
ùitfcrent electrode was placed. Some
hbnd ointment or horic acid should he
useù if necessary.
Nursing cancer cases is always difficult
for you c1.re ùealing with a very sick type
of p,ltient. They are usually irritable,
nervous and frightened. They should be
coaxed to take their food, as it is impor-
tant to keep up the general health.
Constipation is the general rule, so the
use of lax;ltives, purgatives and enemas
shoulù he intelligently alternated. In
cancers of the mouth and throat proper
hygiene is essential, frequent mouth
w,lshes or IrngatIOns with plain saline
solutions relieve pain and discomfort. A
thin solution of glyccrin and lemon juice
swabhed to the tongue and palate re'
moves dry mucous and relieves burning.
The teeth are almost always bad anù
should be frequently cleansed. In nasal
or post' nasal cases a few drops of mineral
oil allowed to trickle through the nose
relieves the irritation. If the patient
refuses to eat, due to sore ulcers of the
mouth, dropping the food spoonful by
spoonful heyond the ulcer is often pas'
sible. Bed sores are common in these
chronic cases and should be particularly
watched for. Sooner or later, in advanc,
ing cancer, opiates are necessary but use
the coal tar products, with or without
codeine, before resorting to morphine.
Where radium has heen applied, it is
importcl.nt to carefully note the time it
is applied and taken off, as the dosage is
estimated by the time, and a half,hour,
one way or the other, with a heavy dose
of radium would. make a great ùifference
in the result. Patients undergoing radium
tre.ltment are fluid, deficient, and have a
tendency to acidity; forcing fluids is
therefore essential, especially alkalines
such as small quantities of soda bicarbo,
nate or citric acid fruit juice. As I1cI.USea
and vomiting may be caused by radium
amI heavy X'ray treatments", the treat'
ments should be preceded hy laxatives,
anù a light nutritious diet, and hy taking
small dos.es of soda hicarbonate or a glass
of lcmonade. The skin after treatment
hy either radium or X'ray should be care'
fully protected. If swollen, boric acid
ùressings will relieve. Hot water bottles,
iodine or other irritants are contra,indi,
cated. After treatments the patient
should be induced to sleep, and to take as
much liquid nourishment and water as
possible.
VOL. XXX, No. 1
HOW THEY WON THE M.B.E.
In a prevIOus issue of the Journal we
promised to give more information can'
cerning the work of some of the nurses,
included in the New Year Honours list,
with whom we could not get into touch
before the February issue went to press.
This month it is a pleasure to be able to
do so.
Miss Nancy Dunn, M.B.E., is é.L graùu'
.Ite of the School of Nursing of the
Hamilton General Hospital anù took a
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postgraduate course in public health
nursing in the University of British
Columbiét.She W.IS attached to the Queen
Alexandra lmperi,ll Nursing Service
ùuring the war and was gassed during an
air raid. After a varied professional
experience she was appointed provincidl
public health nurse in Sunset Prairie.
British Columbia. Miss Dunn has been
kind enough to allow the J ourrwl to
puhlish the following vivid description of
her daily round.
Public Healt/z III SUIlset Prairie
The women's institutes ,lsked the
Provinci..tl Government to estahlish the
nursing service. I have cleven districts
with an area of approximately two hun-
dred square miles. One district, Lone
Prairie, is isolated twenty-six miles west
of Pine River, which is very difficult to
cross both in summer anù winter. Each
district has a school which I visit every
month if possible. I make home visits
(See 'The Cal1d"'.. I "'\,
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MARCH. 19H
,l!1Ù assist the medICal officer of health
when he e)"clmines not only the school
children, but also the pre-school age
group and inf,Ll1ts. These e),.aminations
take the form of d family cl
nic which
the parents attend. There IS a heavy per'
centage of goitre cases d.nd it may be
necessary to organi:e central clinics for
this purpose.
The women's institutes are very active
,md I am giving two series of home nurs-
ing classes and help the doctors with a
summer baby clinic. \\le h.I\'e three
excellent hospitals and a Red Cross Out'
post and therefore encourage all mater'
nity cases to go to them. However, I was
called to an emergency G.se last \,,'inter in
one of the worst storms I have .:ver
experienced. It was forty helow zero,
and we playeù out two teams of horses
gettmg there. Just .-lS I ùeli vered the
haby, we found that the ceiling was in
flames. Luckily the wom.In who was
helping me kept her head, but it was a
haù moment, for the homes are all logs
and go in a few minutes.
My Red ('ross cutter .-lnù olù Forù car
t,lke the ro.-lÙ in all we,lthers. My s,lùdlc
horse is t\\'enty-one ye,lrs olù ,md is calleù
"Two bits", because he \\',lS won on a
twenty.five cent rdffle ticket hy a local
school teacher who loaned him to me. Life
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here is very hard for the \\omen. They
h,tVC had two had years, one of drought
.1I1d (.ne of h.111 ,lI1Ù snow
torms which
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got the crop before the harvest-a
serious condition where feed is short at
the best of times.
Public Health 011 the Tobique
In the absence of Mrs. Edna Gaunce
Ross, M.B.E., on a professional errand,
the president of the Red Cross Society
of Riley Brook was kind enough to give
the following information concerning her
career:
Mrs. Ross is a native of Riley Brook,
N. B., and received her education in
Fredericton. She is a graduate of the
School of Nursing of the Massachusetts
General Hospital and practised for a few
years as a private duty nurse. In April,
1923, after some experience in the To-
hique district with other public health
nurses, she was appointed by the Red
Cross Society as puhlic health nurse.
When she came on duty both weather
and roads were terrible. A shovel in a
sleigh was as necessary as the horse.
Doctors could not get to maternity cases
in time but Mrs. Ross brought them
through. Then:- were no deaths. She had
to visit eight schools and she got the
teachers interesteù in their own health
.lS well as in that of the children. She
woulù snowshoe, go in a canoe, or any
old way, but she got there. One day,
while with a sick child, she W(lS called
to another home. The little French Cana-
Ji,lIl mare soon got her there, to find a
boy of six, \Vho had been playing with
dynamite cartridges, and had blown his
hand to pieces. She stopped the bleeding,
p(Jcified the family, and got the boy to
a doctor at Plaster Rock. He told her to
take the boy on to Grand Falls Hospital.
After a lot of red tape they managed to
get the midnight freight train to allow a
woman to get on it and reached the hos-
pital at 3 a.m. After only four hours
of rest she had to take the down express
back to look after her other patieuts.
Mrs. Ross has cleaned up skin diseases
in the schools and has seen that the chil-
dren's teeth are looked over and repaired.
Her care of the mothers and babies is
\Vonùerf ul. She teaches them all through
the nine months. This is a hurried sketch
.1I1Ù I can finù no photograph of Mrs.
Ross except as one of a jolly group. She
shares all the troubles and joys of the
district and is sometimes the only one to
gi""è (lny comfort.
The Lamp Still Burns
If ùuring rccent years we have some-
times feared that the lamp lighted in Scu-
t.lri might be hurning low, we may take
fresh courage from records such as these.
The Orùcr of the British Empire may
well he prouù of these new members who
ha....e so amply justified their admission
to that distinguished comp(lny.
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us to check this abuse by refusing to pay
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payable to him. Never allow canvassing
for subscriptions among any nursing
group unless you are willing to be per-
sonally responsible for the canvasser.
Never give lists of names and addresses
to unauthorized persons. Remember that
'The Canadian J\[urse has, at present. no
raid agents.
VOL. xxx, No.
l'HE FIRST CANADIAN SCHOOL OF NURSING
It was our privilege not long ago to
visit the first school of nursing in Canada.
Even in the depth of winter the land-
scape round about Saint Catharines has
a charm all its own. In spring and early
summer this Garden of Ontario must be
exquisite indeed.
In June, the Mack Training School,
which is associated with the General Hos-
pital of Saint Catharines, will be sixty
years young. an event which it proposes
to celebrate in a manner worthy of the
()ccasion. It is expected that Dr. F. S.
(;n:enwoud. who is a member of the
group shown in the accompanying illu,,'
tration, will take part in the ceremonies.
In him, nursing has a living link with the
past which is probably unique in the Do-
minion. The Alumnae Association of the
school of nursing is collecting historical
data and would be grateful for any in'
formation which hears on the early his-
tory of Dr. Mack or of the institution
itself. Letters may be addressed to Mi
<;
Helen Rrown at the hospital.
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From a photograph, tal{,en in 1878. of the nursmg
taff of the Macl{ Training Scho(ll as.\ociated
with the General and Marine HosPital of Saint Catharines, Ontario. From left to right,
the names of nurses are: Mary Ross. Annie Carline. Hannah Dalby. Emma Linl{e.
Mary Scott, Mrs. Florence Wilton. 1'\-1rs. \\.ïlton was the superintendent. Miss Dalhy
was one of the first students to graduate from the first .
chool of nursin
In
Canada. Dr. 7'heophilus Macl{. the founder of the ,
çhool is .
eated
LIt tile rigJlt. At tile left is Dr. F. S. Greenwood to [("10111
reference is made lIbot'e.
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THE CANADIAN SCENE
The editorial which appeared under
the above caption in the February issue
of the J ourrwl had as its text the follow
ing quotation from the report of the A
erican Committee on the Costs of Medl
cal Care: Meanwhile, in so far as the
great mass of the population is concerned,
the need, as distinct from the effective de
mand for nursing service, goes unmet and
will continue to do so until some system
of distribution of nursing costs can
e
devised which will bridge the econom1C
gap between patient and nurse.
Last month we stated our intention of
setting down, by way of penance, some
instances in which the puhlic has weighed
nursing service in the balance and has
found it to be wanting.
W hat the Public Thinks
1. Nursing service ought to be readily
available for every type of illness. In
practice this is not the case. Some nurses
discriminate against nursing certain types
of cases, such as obstetrical, mental and
nervous and infectious.
2. Nursing service ought to be avail,
able at any time of the day or night.
Some nurses discriminate against night
ùuty. Service ought to be available at
any time of the year and especially on
holidays. It is not always readily pro'
curable at these times.
3. The public is confused by the multi,
plicity of hospitals, nursing agencies, and
reaistries and in case of illness ùoes not
to> ,
always know where to ohtain the type of
nursing service desired. A central bureau
is needed where reliable advice and as'
sistance could be obtained without delay.
4. Nursing service ought to be avail,
ahle in the country as well as in the city.
It is difficult to get nurses to go to the
rural districts.
(This is the fourth of a series of editorials dealing
with m:r<ing mnditinn< in C'anada.)
5. The presence of a nurse in a home
sometimes adds to the domestic disloca
tion which is incidental to illness instead
of ameliorating it.
6. Nursing care in hospitals is fre
quently hurried and impersonal. The
nurses work like machines and have little
real interest in their patients as people.
7. Public health and visiting nurses do
not always understand nor readily adjust
themselves to family and social situations.
8. Continuous nursing care is, in some
cases, necessary if the patient'5 life is to
he saved. The cost of that care is pro
hibitive to approximately half the popu'
lation.
Are We to Blame?
Here is the indictment. To what extent
.lre nurses themselves guilty? Before we
make any attempt to
nswer that ques
tion in these pages, our readers are given
an opportunity of reading a thought
provoking article which appears in this
issue of the Journal entitled "The NoH'
Nursed Sick and the Idle Private Duty
Nurse" by Miss M
rgaret K. Stack,
R.N., executive secretary of the Connec
ticut State Nurses Association. We are
indebted to The American Journal of
Nursing and to Miss Stack herself for
the privilege of reprinting this article,
which will reward careful and analytical
perusal. Miss Stack describes conditions
as they exist in the New England States
and suggests remedies which, in her judg
ment, might be appropriate in that
locality. Does her forthright statement of
the case apply in Canada? In the Apnl
issue of the Journal we propose to state
our case for the defence and, when pre'
paring our hrief, we shall make use of
much which appears to he pertinent in
Miss Stack's presentation of our common
problem.
(To be continued)
lOR
VOL. XXX, No. J
THE EDITOR'S DESK
Cavcat cmptor
In caSL, like the eùitur, you have small
Lttin and less Greek, this phrase means
thctt one should not sign on the dotted
line without taking orùinary business
precetutions. \Varnings have. been pub-
lished in the Journal from time to time
agetinst fraudulent dgents but in spite of
this fact, nurses in all parts of the country
continue to he victimizeù hy these glib
individuals. We have circularized every
hospital anù every nursing association in
Canada in the hope that the activities of
these pests may be curtailed. We now
once more recommend that the following
precautions be taken when subscribing to
the Journal through any agency whatso-
ever:
1. Never pay cash or make out a
cheque payable to any agent. All cheques
or money orders should be made payable
to 'The Canadian Nurse or to a reputable
news agency, known to you, of which the
agent has proven himself to be the ac-
credited representative.
2. Please do not allow canvassing for
subscriptions in your institution unless
the canvasser is a registered nurse known
to you personally or he or she can give
you written proof of being employed by
a n.::putetble magetzine agency which has
etuthori::eù him or her to solicit on their
behalf.
3. At present The Canadian Nurse
employs no paid representatives. Shoulù
this policy change, due notice will be
i\'Cn in the Journal, anù such represen-
t.ttive5 will he furnished with identifica-
tion in the form of a letter signeù by the
editor. l Tp to the present time no such
letters h.lve he en given to any agent.
4. Secretaries of all nursing organiza
:\1.-\RCtl. I'H I
tlons anù rcglstretrs are requested not to
give lists of names and addresses to any
agent until they h.tve been assured by the
eùitor of the Journal that he or she is
authorized to request such information.
5. If you have already subscribeù
hrough an agent and have failed to re-
ceive the Journal, kindly notify us at
once.
Traps for the Un>>ary
While dealing with the gloomy subject
of human guile and duplicity, reference
will be made to a letter receiveù recently
from Miss Helen Randal, registrar of the
Graduate Nurses Association of British
Columbia, which gives warning concern-
ing yet another pitfall. MIss Randal
writes as follows:
One of our nurses had a rather disagreeable
experience after she had answered an adver-
tisement for a nurse-housekeeper or something
of that sort, and the Council instructs me to
write and ask if you could pnnt a warning to
nurses in this connection. Times being as diffi-
cult as they are today, nurses snatch at any
chance and while I think a nurse who has had
her training, and has cut her wisdom teeth.
ought to be able to take care of hero.;elf, "till
a word in the mdgazine might help.
Under no circumstances should young
nurses accept positions in remote settle-
ments until they ha ve made enquiries
from a reliable person such as the local
teetcher or public health nurse. In the
city, it should not be ùifficult for any
sensible young \voman to avoid an Ull-
ùesir etble social situ<l.tion by taking the
precetutions which common sense inùi-
cates to be .tppropriate in the circum-
st.UKes. It is all very \,..ell to be as harm-
less as a dove, but we have the authority
of Holy Writ in suggesting that the wis'
ùom of the serpent mu:,t h.' ùiscrcctl)
cxcrcised occ.tsinn.t1ly.
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Department of Nursing Education
CONVENLR OP PUBLlC^TlONS: Mis- Mildred Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital. Winnipeg, Man.
NURSING EDUCATION .A.ND THE I.C.N
MARION LINDEBURGH, Assistant Director, School for Graduate Nurses,
McGill University, Montreal.
Recent .:.urvcys and studies have ex
posed many defects and weaknesses in
the organization and function of nursing
education. Findings have been sufficient
ly objective to convince nursing leaders
that certain adjustments should be made
,lS soon as possible if nursing education
is to meet the growing demands for effi
cÏent community service. In summary,
these adjustments may be considered un
der the following headings:
Adequate facilities for nursing education.
This means the improvement of recognhed
nursing schools, and the elimination of those
which cannot meet sound educational stand-
ards.
Intelligent students, selected on a basis of
recogni
ed academic, personality and aptitude
standards.
Properly qUdlificd nursing school faculties.
An approved professional curriculum,
affording adequate experience in classroom
and clinical fields, and with sufficient com-
munity contact to ensure a proper balance of
the curative, preventive and health aspects in
a well integrated educational programme.
It was evident that the above outlined
problems have become a conscious respon
sibility, to a greater or lesser degree, in
the national associations affiliated with the
International Council of Nurses. Some
countries have accomplished much along
certain lines while others indicate pro
gress along others. Difficulties which
seem to be real obstacles to progress in
some countries, appear to present no par
ticular problem in others. Nursing school
inspection is gradually being introduced,
and established upon a sounder educa-
tional basis. Papers on its development
in several countries were presented by
Miss Eldredge of the United States; Miss
Mackie of New Zealand; Miss Norden
d:lhl ()f S\\"cdcn: 1vfIJc dt' In,lIlni:-; of
110
Fr,ll1ce: MIss Beatrice Ellis of Can,lJ,l
.-tnd Miss Durchman of Finland.
The Committee on the Grading of
Schools of Nursing in the United States
is an outstanding project in this connec-
tion, revealing in its findings, facts relat-
ing to educational facilities, students and
graduates. The particular value of such
an analysis is in the provision of data as
a basis for reconstruction.
The Canadian Nurses Association
reported, as one of its major activities,
,l11 outstanding educational objective,
n<Jmely, "To make effective the Survey
of Nursing Education in Canada." The
organization of provincial machinery for
putting recommendations into effect was
clearly outlined: :firstly, through the
J.gency of a National Joint Study Com
mittee with its subsidiary provincial joint
study committees, and secondly, through
the agency of a central curriculum com
mittee appointed under the national nurs-
ing education section, with its corres-
ponding provincial groups.
Attempts are being made to improve
the quality of nursing education in all
countries. The minimum of nursing
theory in relation to practice, which
characteri
es many curricula is being re
cognized as one of the greatest weak
nesses in the programme. It has resulted
in nurses leaving their schools practised
only in the skills directly related to hos
pital nursing and so poorly equipped in
knowledge and understanding of nursing
principles that they fail, in large measure,
to adjust to nursing service as required
in the home and community.
Sever.-tl countries reported progress in
t !h.' llt-\'L'I()pn1t'nt of postgraduate study
\"01. xxx, N". J
NURSINl; l:,1JL:CA TI()N AND THE I.C.1\.
through which teachers may be bctter
prepared to interpret the undergraduate
course in schools of nursing. Miss Isabel
Stewart, professor of nursing education
in Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
sity, emphasized the need of qualified
teaching personnel in schools of nursing,
both in the classroom and clinical fields.
She outlined the functions of a nursing
school faculty as follows:
Organization and administration of nursing
service.
Planning the educational programme.
Management of personnel.
Educational improvement and advancement
of faculty members.
Practically every national report made
some mention of the efforts being made
to improve the quality of students,
through higher admission standards. The
Danish Council of Nurses owns a pre-
liminary school for prospective student
nurses, in which are combined the educa-
tional opportunities of a People's High
School and a preliminary school for
nurses. The courses offered include
cultural and technical subjects as well as
anatomy, physiology, hygiene and public
health. Such a plan, controlled by the
Nursing Council of Denmark, is a force-
ful factor in securing a definite and
uniform standard of preliminary educa-
tion for prospective students.
Intelligence and aptitude tests as
applied to student selection are a relative,
Iy new development in nursing educa-
tion. Papers were presented by Miss
Potts, of Teachers College; Miss Rogers
of Montreal; Dr. Stein of Vienna and
others. The objectives of such tests could
he summari::ed as:
To supply definite scientific information
1 egarding the individual student as an aid in
selection.
As an aid in meeting the individual needs
of students, during the course of instruction.
I t is obvious that when schools of
nursing use more scientific methods in
the selection of students, fewer will be
dismissed .it the end of the probation
period, which will rt."su1t in a
aving of
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III
c\pense to the hospit,tl, a saving of time
(llld energy of the teaching staff, and last
hut not least, less humiliation and dis-
(lPpointment on the part of the students
themselves
The organization of d preliminary
course was presented by Miss Gullan
S:ster Tutor, St. Thomas's Hospital, Lon-
don, who stated that in Great Britain the
oh,iect of the preliminary training school
was to provide elementary professional
instruction to candidates who have been
accepted subject to their ability to pass
the preliminary examination tests (as set
hy the General Nursing Council of
England and Wales) at the end of the
preliminary course. In our Canadian
schools, a preliminary period or term of
probation has always been a part of the
curriculum, but examinations at the end
of that period are set and controlled by
each nursing school. It would seem that
the plan adopted in Great Britain,
through which all students are subjected
to the same examination, set and controll-
ed by the General Nursing Council, is
a much more efficient means of securing
uniform standards.
The place of mental hygiene in nursing
education and service was ably presented
hy Miss Effie Taylor, of Yale University
School of Nursing. Miss Carlsson, of
Stockholm, dealt with the place of such
instruction in the basic course. The
standing committee on mental nursing
and hygiene of the LC.N. presented the
following recommendations:
That all general hospital schools of nurSIn
include in the hasic course of instruction the
rrincirles of mental nursing and hygiene.
That in:.trudion in mental hygiene begin 111
the rrelimin.uy coursc, and a:. far as possihl,'
be woven into the courses concerned with the
principles and rractice of nur..ing and the
. hlOlogical and ..ocial sciences.
\\'hen te.il:hing the Celre of the "1I::k peltJcnt
thelt the individual, in his entirety, be taJ.
n
into con..idereltion, and the mental.
{)cial and
phy
ical conditions hl' cOIbidcred 111 thl'Ir
I dation to each other
In ollkl tll rJIIIIlI.Il' 11\1.. kll1J ot 111"1111\11' .
112
THE CANADIAN NURSE
instructors and head-nurses be encouraged to
prepare themselves to give this point of view.
The inclusion of public health in the
basic course w.ts a topic in which much
intcrest w.ts shown. It is the opinion of
the large m.tjority of nursing leaders that
such instruction should be the respon-
sibility of the undergraJu(lte school,
r .tther than considered in terms of
specialization (lfter gradu(ltion. The
st(lI1Jing committee un puhlic health
Ilursin a recommended that c.trcful study
be made of the prep.tration of the public
health nurse by incorporating the pre-
ventive and social <lspects of public
health in the basic curriculum.
This report would be incomplete if
special reference were not made to a
section meeting dealing with new devel-
opments in nursing. Miss Laura Logan
presented a paper on "Research work
in nursing technique" and Dr. de la Ri
vière, Institut Pasteur, Paris, spoke on
"Scientific principles and their applica-
tion to nursing." The speakers empha-
si.:;ed the importance of nursing tech-
niques being baseJ upon scientific
principles. If nursing is to be classed
with other professions, as an art anJ a
science, the latter must unJerlie and
govern the former. Nursing .schools have
a strong and persistent tendency to con-
tinue in the pr,tctice of techniques which
h.t\"t::' .tlways characterized their nursing
pn.h:edurcs and to accept them without
yuestioll hecause "it has always been so,"
However, this std.tic situation is gr.tduaIIy
heing offset through research. Techniques
are being subiected to scientific analysis
.tnJ, through a careful study of under-
ly
ng principles, nursing procedures are
taking new form. Several demonstrations
of nursing techniques were provided
during the course of the programme.
The comments and criticisms offered
Jefinitely indicated that there is a grow-
ing analytic attitude towards traditional
techniques. Such an approach will lead
to the revision of nursing techniques and
point the way to more scientific and
hetter nursing.
WHEN TORONTO WAS YOl'XG.
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TRL:CTF\) IN 1933. To m' RE-OPt
1:D MAY '24. 19H.
VOL. J\.xx, Nu. J
Department of Private Duty Nursing
CONVENE" OP PUBLlC^TIONS: Misa Jean Davidson, Paris. Onto
THE NON-NURSED SICK AND THE IDLE PRIVATE
DUTY NURSE
MARGARET K. STACK, R.N., Executive Secretary, The Connecticut State Nurc;{'!>
Association, Hartford, Conn., U.S.A.
While economic conditions of the past
few years h(lve contnhuted to the unem-
ployment of privd.te duty nurses, there
.tre other factors which cannot be over-
looked. I will state them briefly, and
then discuss them:
1. The increase in the number of hospitals
,md the number of hospital beds.
2. The increase in the number of training
chools for nurses, the increase in the number
of student nUr
es, dnd the corresponding in-
crease in the number of nurses graduated
yearly.
3. The obsolete methods which are used by
pri\ ate duty nurses to make their services
.l vailable.
4. The illdbility of a ldrge proportion of the
publIc to meet the expense of registered nurse
care.
5. The gradual encroachment and increase
in numbers of the untrained, unclassified,
unreguldted persons who call themselves
nurses. into the registered nurse's field.
It is apparent that the field of the
privd.te duty nurse is being reduced hy
the increase in the number of hospital
heds, the increase in the number who use
the hospitd.ls, and the increase in the
number of puhlic hed.lth nursing associa
tions.
A second factor tlMt hlls contributed
to the unemployment of the priv
,te duty
nurse is the increase in the number of
training schools, students, and registered
nurses.
A third f d.ctor that has helped to bring
;lhout the present situation for private
duty nurses is the obsolete method which
they use to n1.lke their services av.lilable.
There h.ls heen II gener.d speeJing up in
(Through the CUUrt.:sy of The Arnenum ]oIl7n.I1 of
'(IIYSing and uf thc author. Miss Mdrgar
t K. Stack.
R.N.. we are rrn ,lc\o:cd to rublish a slil:hlly al->ridRcd
\ ersion of thIs article which will be found in (ull in tho'
}..nuary i
'lIe of'Thc "mcTiCI1>1 rnUT11.11 of
1I7.1i"lZ. r. n)
MARCH, IQq
the production of nurses but there hlls
been no concerted effort on the pd.rt of
the privlltl' Juty g-roup d.S a body to mJ.ke
their services aVd.ilable except in the same
Wd.Y as they did twenty-five years ago.
In praLtising her profession, the priv-
llte duty nurse has been a free lance. She
has worked or not, in the home or hos-
pit. l l, as she wished. She has taken this
and refused that. She has gone on her
vacation when she wished, even though
there may have been few or perhaps no
nurses at all left on call. Such methods
of work have caused the feeling to grow
up among physicians and others thllt
registered nurses are very "choosy" about
their cases; that they prefer hospital to
home Cd.ses, and that there is no surplus
of priv,lte Juty nurses. Becd.use of these
fd.cts, I think we are correct in saying
that the incred.sing tendency on the part
of private duty nurses to prefer to work
in the hospitd.l rather than in the home
has not been for strengthening the posi-
tion of privd.te duty nursing in the
community.
Conse4.uently the untrained woman
cd.I1ing herself a practicd.l nurse has red.p-
ed something to her .ldvantage which she
JId not sow and to which in many cases
she is not entitled.
A fourth, and a very important, factor
th.lt h.ls contrihuted to the unemployment
of the private duty nurse is the in
bility
of the public to P"lY for the ;:,Lrvices of
.l registered nurse. Because of the I.H:k
of work there are hundreds of registCfed
nur
e
who .lre either \\ ithout the me.lI1s
11f e.lfI1Ínc- .l lin'lihood OJ who .It least
111\.'rdy d\\.' out .111 l'",i
klh.Y.
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114
THE CANADIAN NUR:SE
A"yorle May Call Herself a Nurse
The fifth factor under discussion is
L'mbodied in the following quotation
from the 1932 issue of the Pacific Coast
Journal of Nursing.
fhe reason that the practical nurse has
encroached so far mto the field of the regis-
tered nur
e is only partly an economic one; it
i
largely an educational reason. It is de-
plorable but true that many graduate nurses
have little of value to offer to offset the home
lahor of the practical nurse, and that little is
not .worth the difference in the cost of service.
The doctor in consequence says, "V ou can
et dlong with a practical nurse"; and the de'
rrcs
ion deepens for the graduate nurse.
We do not have untrained doctors,
untrained lawyers, untrained dentists. If
you are sick the doctor who treats you
must be a graduate of a medical school
and have a state licence; the druggist
who compounds your medicine must be
a graduate of a pharmacy college and be
licenced by the state. I f you call in a
"cosmetician" she must have a state Ii,
cence; if your teeth need filling only a
dentist can do it, and he must have a
state licence; if you are a man and wish
a barber to shave you, he must have a
state licence; if you call in a chiropodist,
he must have a state licence; if you call
an optometrist to adjust your glasses, he
must have a state licence; if you wish a
registered nurse to give you nursing care,
she must have a state licence; if you con'
suIt a lawyer to make your will, he must
ha ve passed the state bar examination,
and be sworn in by a judge of the Super-
ior Court. If, however, the care given
by the holders of these state licences has
been of no a vail, and your time has come
to join the great beyond, fear not, the
state is not relaxing its care in your last
moments-for the undertaker who is to
bury you must have a state licence. From
birth to death on your journey through
life (be your birth assisted by a doctor
or by a midwife) to the undertaker who
buries you, you are gUd.rded by state
licences on all sides with one glaring ex'
l."ertion-the practical nur!;e.
If you wish, you may employ .my per'
.;un who calls herself a nurse. Such a
person is required to have no training,
she is required to take no examination,
she is free to nurse all types of cases, and
she is not required to have a licence.
I believe the time is here, right now,
when the nursing profession should leave
no stone un turned in an effort to get the
word "nurse" protected by legislation by
defining who may practice as a nurse.
Three Groups of Pr;'JIate Nurses
Today in public health nursing as in
schools of nursing, special training for
the staffs h(ls been stressed and to a large
degree required. There has not been,
however, any great emphasis placed on
the need for special preparation for
private duty nursing; therefore all
nurses who cannot qualify or secure posi,
tions in other branches of nursing drift
into the private duty field, where they
dr<1 g down the standards of the good
private duty nurses.
In the private duty field there has been
no way for the nurse to keep up to date
except by her own initiative. Public
health nursing organizations have con'
ferences to give their staffs the latest in
the public health nursing field, and
training school executives have similar
plans for keeping their staffs abreast of
the times. It is not done in the private
duty field. Neither are any standards set
for admission to the private duty :field
except as the individual nurses set their
own standards.
It is my belief that very soon we shall
have not only definite standards for en'
trance to the private duty field, but that
we shall have three types of registered
nurse service. If such a plan were in
operation today, more registered nurses
would be working, and more sick people
would be having skilled nursing care.
The first group would consist of regis,
tLred nurses who have had postgraduate
preparation for special types of nursing
.;uch as rsychiatric, ohstetrical, and pedia,
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THt NON-NURSED SICK
trie, dnd who by virtu
of their ;:,pecial
preparation and skill should command a
higher salary than those without such
special training.
The second group would consist of
registered nurses who would do the bulk
()f private duty nursing, whether in the
home or in the hospital, and who have
chosen private duty nursing because they
like it aml not because it is a step to
s Hneth
ng else. They would be able to
make their adjustments well in all kinds
of homes, and they would have a desire
to keep up to date. Their work might
he termed "general practice" in contrast
to the special work of those in the first
group.
The third group would consist of
registered nurses who, either because of
a partial physical disability, or because of
declining years, no longer feel equal to
giving physically whdt is required on
acute cases, and who are willing to work
for a smaller salary than those in group
two.
This plan may sound radical now, pdr,
ticularly as regnds the sliding scale of
salaries; but we must remember that a
sliding scale of sdlaries is in effect in
hospitals and in public health nursing
organi:ations. All nurses are not equ..dly
competent and all are not worth the
s.lme salary. The private duty field is
the only one in nursing today in which
the nurse gets the maximum salary the
first day she works, and consequently
cannot look forward tn an increase as
do nurses in other lines. Many are of
the opinion that all new registered nurses
should start at a lower salary than the
experienced registaed nurse, and that
salary incredses should be allowed by the
community buredu of nursing as each
nurse shows inaeasing Ilbility hoth to
satisfy the dem.mds of nllr:;in
care and
to get Idon
with people.
M.my d()ctor
. nurses, .md uthas with
whom J h,l\
t..dkeù believe thdt the hey
\.l.1r ()f privatf llllt\, I1l1f<;lI11l .I
carrll,d C III
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Juring the p.lst ten prosperous years i
over for all time. This is the first time
that .
n economic crisis has affected
private duty nurses. In previous crises
there were fewer registered nurses, fewer
puhlic health nurses, fewer free clinics
.1Ild conferences. fewer sanatoria and
hospit.d bl."ds. Cunseyuently sick people
in their homes employed private duty
nurses. The pers
)n who employed ..t
priv..ttl." Juty nursl." often received no
more o5dl..tI)' than he p.1 id to the nurse,
but his salary then did not have to
stretch to include the automohilc, the
radio, and the various other things that
it does today
Who Takes the First Step'!
BeG-..use of these facts which I have
stated, and which you all know ..tre true,
it seems imperative that some coordinat-
ed plan be perfected in order that private
duty nurses may work enough to ha\'e
at least a modest s
lary, and that the
public may h.lve skilled nursing c..tre, in
large or small L}uantities, at a reasonahlc
pnce.
The initiative for such d pltln mllst
come from the privdte duty nurses them-
selves. To put the plan in operation,
the help of the medical profession, the
training school and hospit..tl exccl1tive
,
the public, .1Ild the nursing professiun
as a whole will he needed, .1Ild each of
these groups should be represented in
sùme WdY on the bo..,rd of directors. The
hoard should determine the policies of
the organi
ation, the types of nursing
service which will be supplied, J.nd thl'
cost of edch type of service, be it on an
hourly, .1I1 eight-hour. or possibly in some
instances. on ..l monthly basis.
The director, d registered nurse who
knows hU\\ to deal with people, wilJ
c..ury out the 1"1..1.11. She will cnde.lvor to
fit the nurse to the ca
. to consult with
the nurses regarding professional proh-
lems, to plan kdur\.':, .1I1d dl."mon4ration..:
to keep the nur..;l';:, up to d.tte, .md hI
ha\'\.'
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
plan; in other words, the director of this
plan will give the same help to the priv,
atc duty nurse in her work that the prin'
cipals of schools of nursing, and the
directors of public health nursing organi,
ations give to their staffs. Call this plan
by whatever name you choose, and then
tell the public that registcred nurse
service in large or small amounts is avail,
,,-ble through its office. The concensus of
opinion seems to be that "Community
Bureau of Nursing Service" is a suitable
name. Whatever the name, some unificd
effort and unified action by private duty
nurses is needed and is needed now.
Hospital Registries
As many of our schools of nursing
operate what is called a nurses' registry,
and as many of these schools do not
charge the nurses for placing their names
on the list, some private duty nurses say,
when the yuestion of a community
hureau of nursing is mentioned, that they
should not be expected to pay for the
privilege of practicing their profession.
To this we reply that the privilege of
practising nursing, and a bureau of nurs'
ing through which the private duty
nurses make their services available
are totally different things. Each nurs
pays for the privilege of practicing
her profession by completing her train'
ing, securing her R.N. and comply'
ing with her yearly registration, if
such is in force in her state. The func'
tion of the training school office is not
to place registered nurses on cases outside
the hospital. The names of registered
nurses are listed at training school offices
for the convenience of the superintendent
of nurses in calling special nurses for the
hospital, as in very few of the large cen'
ters of New England is there a ccntral,
ized place from which to secure registered
nurses. By the continued use of such
training school registries, private duty
nurses are making no progress in opening
up new avenues for thcir services, or in
telling the puhlic where registered nurse
care, 111 tlrge or small amounts, can be
secured.
U,zited We Stand
In the immediate past we have had as
many ideas as to what should be done in
the private duty field, as there were pri,
vate duty nurses. What is needed now
is a unification of ideas, a common ob,
jective, and willingness to make and
Iccept some changes.
The words, "United we stand, divided
wc fall", were never more true than they
arc today, and especially are they true
of private duty nurses. For many years
I have been in close contact with them,
and my faith in them and in their ideals
is not diminished. I believe they will meet
the challenge which is being hurled at
th
m today by the public and I believe
it can be met only by a pooling of the
interests of private duty nurses through
a community bureau of nursing which
will be the business office of the private
duty nurse. I do not care by what name
this business office is called. My hope
is that the private duty nurses will accept
the challenge and make a start to meet
it. The rest of the nursing profession
stands ready to help, but the initiative
must come from the private duty nurses.
The gap that separates the private duty
nurse from the sick person who needs her
care is both deep and wide, but it can be
hridged.
The foundation for a bridge to span
this gap must be built of the joint desires
and efforts of the best private duty nurses
who will be working for their own ob,
jective and that of the public. The
objective of the private duty nurse is to
have her services used in sufficient
amounts to make at least a modest salary.
The objective of the public is to get
skilled nursing, c"-re at any time, in large
or small amounts, at a reasonable price.
Seve1l Objectives
In bridging the gap there are three
objectives which must be accomplished by
the nursing profession: (1) the number
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THE NON,NURSED SICK
ot nurses who are graduating yearly
must be reduced; (2) legislation to define
who may practice as a "nurse" must be
secured: and (3) training school offices
must be induced to give up the opera'
tion of registries in order that private
duty nurses may join in a cooperative
enterprise to make their services available
in whatever amounts the public wishes.
The accomplishment of these three
objectives will help to prevent a recur'
rence of the present day overcrowded
conditions in the private duty nursing
field, eliminate unfair competition by un'
trd.ined persons, and help in centralizing
the distribution of and the call for private
duty nursing service.
The private duty nurses themselves
must be willing to (1) give up the free'
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lance methods of work and come together
in a joint enterprise to distribute their
services through a community bureau of
nursing, on whose board of directors they
will be well represented; (2) put into
effect at once a sliding scale of salaries,
if private duty nurses are to retain their
place in the affection of the public and
be employed by it; (3) make registered
nursing service available in whatever
amounts the patient wishes to use it; and
( 4) set up, as soon as practical, standards
for entrance into the privd.te duty nursing
field.
These seven objectives cannot be
achieved at once, and they may not be
perfect, but let us remember that per'
fection is not a goal to be reached, but
an ideal toward which we strive.
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OFF NEWFOUNDLAND
Two small islands out into the Atlantic, off
the coast of Newfoundland, shelter the com-
mUl11ty of Twillingate with a thousand families
whose fathers go fishing and whose mothers
"make the fish:' \\'hen the run i
poor,
Llther, mother and baby live on fish, white
bread and tea and consider themselves lucky
to get it. When the run is good there may be
..orne milk for the baby, or a few vegetables
for the family, in addition to the potatoes,
grown in a patch, sheltered from the gales,
and tended by the mother.
They have a hospital, but they have been
brought up to think it is only for sick babies,
and it was not till the doctor and nurse put
their heads together that a new idea was
brought home to them. The nurse wrote to
.1 cousin in Nova Scotia, asking where she
could get coloured pu
ters to put in shop
windows, and pamphlets that mothers could
take home with them. helping them to remem-
MARCH, 1934
ber what had been told them about fresh air,
..1I1d about brown bread being better than
white and the great help that milk from a cow
or goat would be in keeping them all well.
and why green vegetables should be added to
their potato gardens. The cousin wrote to the
Canadian Council on Child and FamIly Wel-
fare, and a big bundle was sent right off to
Twi1lingate with posters to make the clinic
rOoms attractive, cards on which the doctor
.md nurse could write the mother's answ('rs
to their questions and the babies' weights, and
tittle booklets to help the mothers and fathers
remember what the doctor had told them.
What the doctor and nurse did in this far-
off community can be done in yours. Ask your
Provincial Health Department about it. Th('
Canadian Council on Child and Pamily Wel-
f.ue is always re.ldy to "end "ample sets of
lierature free on reque..t only. \\'rite to th,ll
at the Council HO!l"c. in (ìuaw,l.
Department of Public Health Nursing
C'ONYP,FR OF PUBLIC HIO
5: Mrs. Agnes Havganh,
I Sussex St.. Toronto. Ont.
COMMON SENSE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
ELIZABETH L. SMELLIE, C.B.E.,
Chief Superintendent, The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada.
Sir John Simon has said of preventive
medicine: "It is the province where medi-
L'inc joins hands with common sense."
When you come to think about it, is it
not singular how much the exercise of
common sense is needed and yet how rare
is the outstanding exhibition of it? Public
health nurses are professed disciples of
the puhlic health movement and I do not
kno\\' any occupat
on \\'hich demands
more of the individual. She is expected
personally, educationally and profession-
,tlly to be beyond reproach, to have the
capacity gracefully to fit in wherever she
may he placed and still to have in reserve
sufficient force to enable her to vitaliZl>
and to attain her ohjective. As a young
and amhitious puhlic health nurse she
blithely accC'pts a position, professionally
well-qualified and keen to put into prac-
tice the kno\\'kdge so recently acquired,
hut suhlimely ignorant, as yet, as to hO\\.
to deal with people, of the many respon-
sibilities involved in such a position and
of her need of supervision, which unfor-
tunately may he irregular or inadequate.
Is it any wonder that there is occa'
sionally disillusionment, either on the
part of the puhlic or of the nurse her-
self? When there is misunderstanding,
the blame most naturally is attached to
her. She is a newcomer and does not
know "local conditions" which are said
to be "just a little different."
We kno"\"\.' , hecause it was impressed
upon us throughout our training, that
the physician never makes a mistake-
.lnd he seldom does. If the presumption
is as well-founded in the field of diagnosis
(Reprinted l1y courtesy of the News Exchange of the
I >Cp;;rtmcn: ("If PIIHil' Hc
lth Nnr
ing ("If thr PrnyinC'c of
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.md tredtmt?nt as it dppears to be, should
not consistency demand its equal applica'
tion to the field of prevention? There-
fore, speaking of common sense leads
to some heart-searching with regard to
where we, as puhlic health nurses, some-
times fail to measure up in this as in
other relationships.- Actually we seem
more or less prone to wobble regarding
professional ethics once we enter the
puhlic health field. Surely it is quite as
importdnt, outside as well as inside the
hospital, to have the right attitude
towards the medical profession, and to
have them aware of and interested in
what we are doing in their home town,
as it is to work in harmony with and
under the direction of the local or dis-
trict health officer.
Many doctors are not too keen about
the modern nurse. As in every other
walk of life, she is said to be "not quite
what she used to be", ('twas ever thus),
d.nd health officers and physicians have
still, in many cases, to be convinced
hefore adopting the public health nurse
as a local institution. Therefore it be,
hooves her to face the situation with
understanding and to be ready to make
advances as opportunity offers. The
medical officer of health has every right
to he kept posted, and if this is not
feasible through personal interview, he
should he informed in writing as to what
is going on, we trust with his approval
and blessing: otherwise less can be accom-
plished nor can one proceed far without
medical leadership and co-operation.
Again, it does not seem to me that we
have really been honest with ourselv
,
.1nd our superintendents and supervisors
VOL xxx. No. 3
COMMON SENSE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
may not have helped us earlier to deal
with personality problems. If a public
health nurse has a difficult disposition,
does not possess good judgme
t nor like
people, and is not ready to expect the
best and to be tolerant without being
gullible, it is too bad for her to have been
a nurse at all. Her appointment may
prove a tragedy for the community, de-
partment or organization employing her,
because, even unwittingly, she may
jeopardize the advancement of a public
health programme for years to come. Nor
can she ever be fully effective, regardless
of her good intentions, if she antagonizes
people.
Then haven't we sometimes been guilty'
of leading the public to believe that a
nurse with postgraduate public health
training is in a class by herself and d.
super-woman. It is so unfair. Not for
one minute would I depreciate public
health training or its value. Given the
right type of woman, with educational
and certain human qualifications com'
bined with excellent professional prepara
tion, and, provided she is not content to
rest on her laurels, we have what every
department, organization and hospital is
5eeking- - the right person. But a poor
nurse, with a difficult person.,lity or a
one-track mind, can go on taking courses
to the end of time without certain essen-
tials ever penetrating and, alas, many
times without being fully cognizant of
the relative values of preventive and cur-
.ltive work, or even of her own limita-
tions. Whose fault is it? Not altogether
hers; she has never been vocationally
guided.
On every staff are cd.pable, intelligent
nurses, effective in their teaching, beloved
hy their families and loyal members of
the st.lff, who may not, either for family
red.sons or because of economic difficut,
tics, have been able to measure up lI)
.;;tandards or to pursue postgraduate
training. Nevertheless many of them.
heing eager to seIze an\" oprnrtunity that
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comes their way, are ready to take advan
tage of refresher courses, to read and
observe, and eagerly to welcome super-
visors" visits. Whether it be as a result
of lim;ted educational advantages, or be-
cause temper.lmentally they recognize the
fact that advancement or leadership is
not their special niche in the general
scheme, they are still content to give the
best they can, and have made a valuable
contrihution to the cause of public health.
Why are nurses apparently so often
opposed to change, new routines or pro-
cedures? There seems to be what has been
descrihed as an inner resistance. This
reference met my eye in a book I read
recently : "We can teach an old dog new
tricks provided the old dog takes an inter-
est in this accomplishment but usually he
will not'-'
When a memher of a staff receives
promotion why is the question of her
qualifications for preferment 50 often
ra
sed? Why not give her the benefit of
your support? Meanwhile wait and see,
5he may never have had sufficient scope
to develop and the powers thd.t be may
recogni:e evidences of potential leader,
::;hip that you do not appreciate.
Why do simple tasks tend to become
dull routine and why, oh why, are records
apparently placed in this category when
the results c
n prove so fascinating and
instructive, provided sufficient time is
allowed and the ultimate purpose under,
.;tood? Is there danger of home visits
tending to become monotonous and pur-
poseless, with. d.S Dr. Kinloch put it,
"indulgence in too much platitudinou
precept ?"' Would a more definite ohjec-
tive lcd.d to time heing used to better
.t.dvantage? "Any simpleton can save up
his dollars hut the wisest of men can not
sa\'e up opportunities they must he
used ,lS they come."
To what extent are public health
nurses directly responsible for the fact
th,lt the presumed moulders of public
np:ni\ln. ,1I1d the puhlic l!cnerally. are
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not fully alive to the necessity of public
health work and of the potential value
of the public health worker as an edu'
cational and economic asset to the ill'
Jividual community?
Having shared my thoughts with you,
I put these general questions to you in
the hope that you may reflect upon them,
and in the light of common sense, may
find some answers to them.
THISTLETOWN
It has been said of nurses that we do
not know how to play. The forthcoming
hiennial meeting of the Canadian Nurses
Association which takes place in Toronto
from June 26 to June 30 will give us all
a chance to dispose of that criticism.
There are to be dinners and teas and
drives about the city. There is to be a
garden party, and a pageant. And we
are to go out to high tea at Thistletown
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of nursing practice which requires spe-
cial skills and aptitudes.
If you would like to know more about
the other social events .just look at Notes
fmm the National Office. The full list
is there, and if you want to organize a
group luncheon or breakfast, or even a
midnight spread for a few choice spirits,
all you have to do is get into touch with
Miss Rh(1no Beamish at the Toronto
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1ENT OF THE TORONTO HOSPITAL FOR SIC.K CHILDREN AT
THISTLETOWN.
and play with the children. Thistletown
is the convalescent department of the
Hospital for Sick Children, and the super'
intendent of nurses, Miss P. B. Austin,
has promised the Journal that before long
an article will be available concerning the
care of convalescent children, a hranch
\V L'stern Hospital. She is the convener
of the entertainment committee and will
tcll you just how to go ahout it. Of course
we have "problems" and "situations"
galore but they may resolve themselves
hetter if we don Ot take life too seriously.
Come out and play!
VOL. xxx, Nu. 3
PROVINCIAL ANNUAL MEETINGS
Q.ueba
The fourteenth annual meetmg of the
A.R.N.P.Q. was held in Montreal on
Jan. 30 and 31, \"\'Ith a record-breaking
,lttendance, it being estimated that 1,200
Illl mners from all corners of the province
,lttendcd one or more of the five sessions.
One familiar figure was missed in the
person of the president, Miss Caroline V.
Barr
tt, who has b
en ill, and resolutions
of regret at her ansence and expressing
best wishes for her
peedy recovery were
"dopted at the general .tnd special ses-
sions. The first day included the usual
nusiness session held in the afternoon at
which all reports were presented in both
languages. Miss 11. L. Moag, English
vice-president, occupied the chair at the
first general session, the Rev. Soeur Al-
lard, French vice-president, assisting her.
In Miss Moag's excellent <J ddress a
timely warning was issued that greater
co-operation in solving the problem of the
high cost of sickness is essential. Miss
MlJ.tg also pointed out the difficulties
which the professIOn and the public are
f.lcing due to grc.ttly reduced budgets in
the home, the hospital ,lJ1d all health
organizations. She reported the forma
tion of three special commIttees during
the past year, whose specific functions
will cover the study of the nursing survcy
report; the proposcd national curriculum
for Canadian Schools, and the Florence
N ighting
lle Mcmorial. Miss Nash, in
her report as treasurer, indicated that
four scholarships had bcen awarded this
ye,lr inste.td of two, and that the two
French ,1I1d two English-spe,lking nurses
to whom these had been aw,lrded are
enjoying the public health nursing courses
,It loc.tl universities. The revenue during
the ye.tr amounted to $9,593.50.
The n
port presented by Miss E. Fr,lJ1-
ces Upton, executive secretary ,md regis-
tr.lr, recorded the following statistics:
Number of certificates issued: 435. By
ex.lmination, 216; by univcrsity affilia-
t ion, 179; without ex.uninatiun, 9; by
rl'ciprocity, :- 1. The total number of
I\1-\RCH, lQH
.lCtlve members in guod st.tnd1l1g, :',048,
.tn increase of 275 over 1932. English-
speaking members number 1,575, and
French-speaking members 1,473.
The report of the official school vIsitor,
Miss E. Frances Upton, recorded the fol-
lowing statistics: hospitals operating
schools for nurses, 44; schools visited, 40;
..;ch()ols on approved list, 37. The student
nurses in the 3 7 approved schools num-
ber 1,765, of whom it is estimated that
,lpprnximatdy 600 \.....ill gradu.tte during
the coming year. The estimated number
of students in schools not yet approved
IS 150. The tot.tl number of registered
nurses on the staff of these 37 arproved
schools is 70R. The number of staff
registered nurses in these schools who
have taken postgrad\fate courses, and hold
university certificates indicating special
l}ualific<Jtions is 94. Thc number of full-
time instructors in the approved schools is
?-9. The number of part-time nurse in-
structors is 17. Miss Upton outlined what
she deemed should be the educational oh-
iectives for the coming year. Miss C. M.
Ferguson, in seconding the adoption of
the reports, made kindly reference to
thl?ir value and the amount of work these
l'nt.tll, Mademoiselle Rita Guimont, re-
sponding in <J similar way, representing
the voice of the French-speaking members.
The evenmg session was entirely in
r rench and the attendance was estinMtcd
.It seven hundred. Two excellent papers
were delivered, one by Dr. S. Boucher,
Director of the Health Department of the
City of Montreal, entitled "L'Oeuvre de
rInfirmière," and the other by Dr. An-
tonio Barbeau, Assistant Superintendent
of Htìpital de Bordeaux, entitled "Ce que
Ie visage peut dire:' which was illustrated
with lantern slidl?s. The spe.tkers were
th,\nkcd hy Mademoiselle Alice Lepine,
C01l\'L'ner of the French private duty sec
tion. On the second day, a meeting was
hc1d at Hôtc1- Dieu for the French edu
c.ltion group, \\'Ith papers on ho,pit.l1
...nci.d service. This meeting- W.lS well
,Ittended. c"peLÍ,\lly hy sistcI
. The after
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noon seSSIons took the form of a reunion
of all sections, Miss Martha Batson, con'
vener of the nursing education section
(English group), being in the chair. Ex'
cellent papers were given by Miss C. de
N. Fraser, representing the private duty
group, entitled, "Some Novel Suggestions
in Handling an Economic Situation,"
by Mademoiselle Alice Lepine (French
group), ""How to Make a Success of Pri,
vate Duty Nursing." The public health
group was ably represented by Miss Clara
Gass, Director, Social Service Dept.,
Western Division, M.G.H., and Made'
moiselle Juliette Trudel, Director, Social
Service Dept., Hôpital Ste. Justine, whose
papers entitled ""The Place of Medical
Social Service in the Hospital and Com'
munity" were well received. The nurs'
ing education group were represented by
Miss Ruth Parr, B.A., Director of Diet'
etics, M.G.H., whose paper entitled ""Re,
cent Developments in Diabetic Diets" re'
flected her ability both as a dietitian and
teacher, and the Rev. Soeur Allard, Hos,
pitalière'en,chef de rHôtel' Dieu, who
gave an excellent paper entitled ""Apro'
pos de, Diététique." The speakers were
thanked in both languages by Miss Rose
Mary Tansey and Mademoiselle Maria
Roy. Tea was served at the close of this
session. The closing session was in Eng,
lish only, at which approximately seven
hundred were present. The speakers were
the respective editors of 'The American
J uurnal of Nursing and 'The Canadian
""\(urse. Miss Mary Roberts took for her
subject "Some Recent Developments in
Nursing particularly as these affect the
private duty nurse," and Miss Ethel
Johns spoke regarding her recent obser,
vations in the Dominion.
As is customary, five members were
elected to the board of management to
serve a period of two years. The follow'
ing persons now constitute this board:
President, Miss C. V. Barrett; vice'presi, ,
dent (English), Miss M. L. Moag; vice'
president (French), Rev. Soeur Allard:
recording secretary, Miss Esther Beith:
hon. tredsurer, Miss Marion Nash. Other
members: Rev. Soeur St. Jean de l'Eucha,
ristie, Misses Mabel K. Holt, Marion Lin'
deburgh, Mesdemoiselles Edna Lynch and
Alexina Marchessault. If the attitude of
the members who attended the annual
meeting this year can be considered as
indicative of increased interest in and
understanding of the present day r.urs.
ing problems, it is felt that Quebec ma)
well anticipate accomplishments in t
("
near future.
Manitoba
The twentieth annual meeting of the
Manitoba Association of Registered
Nurses, was held on Jan. 30, in the Legis,
lative Buildings, Winnipeg. Reports were
presented by the executive secretary, Mrs.
S. Gordon Kerr, and the conveners of the
vdrious sections and committees. Four
addresses were given: ""The T.B. Clinic,"
by Miss E. Wilson; ""The Oxygen Tank,"
by Sister St. Albert; ""Treatment of Frost
Bites," by Miss A. McIntyre; "Treatment
of Burns," by Miss E. Banks. This year
the Association celebrates its twenty,first
birthday and in a letter received from the
president of the Canadian Nurses Asso,
cirttion, Miss F. H. M. Emory, we were
congratulated and urged to greater effort.
Miss K. W. Ellis moved a hearty vote of
thanks to the retiring president, Miss
krtn Houston, who has been, during the
ì1ast two years, our wise and capable
leader. Miss M. Reid, our new president,
expressed the hope of being able to lead
us as successfully as her predecessor. On
Jan. 31, the annual dinner meeting of the
Association took place, at which Mrs. J.
F. Morrison presided. Those at the head
table included Mrs. J. S. Woodsworth,
the guest speaker; Miss Jean Houston,
Ninette, past president; Miss Mildred
Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital, the
newly elected president; the Misses K.
McCallum, Alic
Laporte, and Margaret
McDonald, conveners of the different
sections of the association. The Alumnae
Associations were represented by Miss
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BUOK KhVIE\VS
McC
llum tor ::;t. Bonitace HospItal:
Miss Emily Parker for the Winnipeg
(;eneral Hospital; Miss A. Michalski for
St. Joseph's Hospital, and Miss F. Ken-
nedv for the Misericordia Hospital. Mrs.
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\Voodsworth
poke wIth a challenging
note on "Women in a New World,"
leavmg with us the thought: "think and
karn." At each meeting there was a large
<lttendance.
Book Reviews
Mt
fA.L HYGIENE 11'>: THl:. COMMUNITY,
hy Clara Bassett, Consultant in Psych],
Lltric Social Work, Division on Com-
munity Clinics, The National Com-
mittee for Mental Hygiene, Inc. 386
pages with bibliographies and an index.
Published by the Macmillan Company
of Canada, 70 Bond Street, Toronto.
Price: $4.20.
This book gives a comprehensive pic-
ture of the relation of mental hygiene to
:'l)me of the urgent problems of com-
ll1unrty life. It defines mental hygiene;
tdls why it is of great importance and
value in any consideration of how to
.lLhieve a healthier and happier com-
munity life: how individuals and com-
mittees may study their local situation to
dètamine the ,ldequacy of psychi,ltric
:-:crvices, and the eJ\.tent to which the
mental hygiene approach is being utili:ed
in thL study and treatment of social prob-
lems. This volume is written from a
community st<tndpoint and is intended to
be of interest to physicians and social
work as a
well as thL nur
es: one sec-
\1 \RCI!, 1'1\ I
tion, huwever, is devoted to a discussion
l)f the specific relation of mental hygiene
to nursing, particularly in its public
health aspects. Reference is also made to
the desirability of including instruction
in the principles of mental hygiene in
the basic nursing course, and to the need
for a more scientific approach to the per-
sonality problems of student nurses.
Some very practical suggestions are given
for the further development of mental
hygiene in public health agencies and
schools of nursing. The chief value of
this book, from a nursing standpoint, lies
in the admirable panoramic view which
it gives of the place and function of
mental hygiene in a modern community.
THE NUR
ES DICTION -\RY, originally
compiled by Honnor Morten, 364
p"-ges. Illustrated. Published by Faber
,lI1d Faber Ltd., 24 Russell Square, lon-
don, W.C.I. Price, three shillings. A
handy little pocket volume which
should be most useful to private duty
nurses.
Correspondence
The Sigllificallce of Reg. N.
Noting the invitation in the January issue d
The Canadian Nurse for letters bearing :)n
the subject of nurses affixing Reg. N. to their
names, I wish to mention a couple of instances
which I believe are worthy of attention. 1\
woman with about three or four months' train'
ing was nursing from place to place and doing
\'ery good work, but she was charging the fee
of a trained nurse, and it would have hard
v
been discovered had she not had to confess t
.. doctor, in an emergency, that she was unable
to do what was required. Why should there
be any objection raised to the title being used
when it is a protection to the community? In
fact why not encourage its use? It should
hardly be taken as a means of advertising as
Our friend in the Renfrew Mercury suggests.
Another case of interest is this: there w 1'ì
immediate need of a physician on a tourist
island last summer and, not being very wen
acquainted with the people around. they we It
for a doctor at the head of the lake who turn
d
out to be a Ph.D. The good man, a gn
at
friend of ours, was deeply distressed. but what
could he do? A nurse spending her holidays
on the lake was at once located, some ooe-
having seen "Reg. N." on some of her letters.
She was able to do all that was necessary until
a doctor could be got from some distance.
1\nd after all from a nurse's standpoint why
hould she not use her "Reg. N."? She wOfk,
cd hard for it. I affixed it to a friend's letter
who was ill in the Sanatorium. Tears of joy
filled her eyes when she saw it, as it made her
I ealize that though she is laid aside for awhile,
..he is still a member of her chosen profession.
R. DOROTHY J. HATHERLEY, REG. N.,
Gordon Bay, On:'.
The Cap as a Symbol
I have been much interested in the coal'
ments published in 'The Canadian Nurse
regarding that strange headgear to which Dr
At1ee refers in his article published last Oc
o'
ber. When I read the suggestion "away wIth
the useless relic" (meaning the nurse's cap),
I felt like assuming a Zasu Pitt's attitude an.J.
with injured air and elevated eyebrows,
exclaiming "Well. what do you know abol.t
that?" Then I began to reflect on the past.
The first cap I wore was "built" of crinoline,
with a narrow piece of ruching around the
114
bottom of it. I held it in place with two smail
pins, then conceived the idea of using a lon
hatpin, which I stuck under the ruching and
through the "psyche" which was the heat!
dress of the time. Fortunately I trained under
a progressive superintendent (from Charlotte'
town. P.E.I., God bless her), who saw thJt
the cap was unbecoming, and so adopted the
Sister Dora cap.
After all, when a young woman enters a
training school. her one ambition is to be
"accepted", and this acceptance is recognized
by the donning of a cap. This marks the
first epoch in her career. The cap may be an
old,fashioned "built" kind, or a stiff white
handkerchief folded into the shape of a cap, (lr
may resemble a "bird's wing" or stand out
like a "blob" on the back of her head. But
it is not a "doo,dad" nor was it designed to
keep her hair in place, nor to keep hair out
of the patient's soup. The nurse's cap is the
finishing touch to her uniform, and the
greatest punishment that can be given her is
to deprive her of it.
Yes. Florence Nightingale is dead, and th!s
is another age, but nurses have not forgottt:.11
that it was she who founded the first training
school for nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital with
a class of probationers, who were to receive
"lodging, board, washing, and uniforms. and
ten pounds per year for spending money."
To quote from A Lost Commander: "the girls
wear brown dresses and their snowy caps and
aprons look like bits of light as they move."
And their caps were of white muslin, because
Miss Nightingale loved dotted muslin an;}
herself wore caps made of it. A nurse's cap
is as much of a tribute to Florence Nightir.,
gale as the "Lady with the Lamp" in a stainl'd
glass window, or the statue which stands on a
pedestal in London. At least that is the way
I feel about it after twenty'nine years 'lf
nursing.
MABEL McMuLLEN,
St. Stephen, N.B.
It Does Come I" Handy
I am doing private duty nursing in a lar
c
district which does not have a hospita1. As I
am the only nurse here, 'The Canadian Nurse
certainly makes a good nursing contact.
ANNA R. KRISBY,
Tofield, Alberta.
VOL. XXX. No. 3
Notes from the National Office
Contributed bv J EAN S. WILSON Reg N Ex <> cut, ' S
' .., '" ve ecretary.
The General Meetillg
As previously announced, the commit,
tee responsible for the sessional content
for the general meeting has plans well
advanced for an exceedingly attractive
programme. The committee on arrange'
ments has reported upon plans for en'
tertainment which are in keeping with
the occasion - the Silver Jubilee of the
C.N.A. The executive committee will
meet on Monday afternoon and evening
and, during recess between these sessions
District No. 5 of the Registered Nurse
Association of Ontario will be hostesses
at d. dinner in honour of the executive.
The opening day of national meetings is
strenuous because of heavy business ses'
sions. Tea time on June 26 will bring
relaxation, when the C.N.A. is to be en'
tertained hy the Registered Nurses Asso,
ciation of Ontario in the Royal York
Hotel. It is customary to hold a hanquet
midway during the convention. This
function takes place on Wednesday even'
ing, when Dean Ira MacKay, of the
Faculty of Arts, McGill University, will
he the guest speaker. A delightful drive
to the Convalescent Hospital of the Hos,
pital for Sick Children, at Thistletown
with high tea, as guests of the Board of
Trustees of the Hospital, is the social at'
traction for Thursday. There will be no
meeting on that evening. The nurses of
T ?ronto are to be hostesses on Friday
.Ltternoon at a garden party, and that
evening in the Royal York Hotel there
\\:ill
e shown a pageant depicti
g the
historIcal development of nursing in
Canad.t- a fitting finale to the entertain'
ment. marking the seventeenth general
meetmg.
I "formal Gatherings
Miss Rhano Beamish, T monto West'
ern Hospitd.l, Toronto, is the convener of
t he committee to which requests should
he J11.lde hy tho'L \\"i:-:hinc- to makc plan
!\lARCH, 1934
for re-uniuns d.l hreakfasts, luncheons,
.md so forth.
Vilify Is Strength
. Numerical strength is an important
factor in any .organi::ation and becomes
notahly significant in a professional group
whose geogr..tphical boundaries are as ex'
tensive as those of the Dominion of Can'
ada. As soon as Acts for the Registration
?f Nurses became effective in those prov'
lI1ces where, by registration, a nurse be'
came a member of the provincial associa'
tion or by annual renewal of provincial
membership re,registration was obtained
it became evident that membership in
provincial body should become the one
means of entry to affiliation with the
national association. At the fifteenth
general meeting of the C.N.A. the by, law
governing membership was amended to
meet the progressive development in all
provinces whereby registration of nurses
i
recogni.:ed as the necessary qualifica,
tIon for provincial membership. Following
reorga
ization, and in view of the ap'
p
oachlI1g completion of twenty' five years
S1l1ce the founding of the C.N.A., a cam,
paign was launched in September, 1931,
the objective of which is ten thousand
memhas in the C.N.A. by June, 1934.
The returns for 1933, received at the
N,ttion,ll Office during January, show
that the campaign throughout the Do,
miniun has heen vigorous. It is gr,ltifying
to be able to forecast that the objective
set may be o..cecded by June. Compari,
son of returns for 1933 with those in
1 <)30, when reorg..lI1izatioI1 w..ts under-
t.lken, show that there is over fifty per
cent increase in national membership.
Each province contributes to these excel
lent results which should he sufficiently
convinÒng to prov
the .ldvis.lbility ot
the "levelling-up" proccss in n.ltit-m.d and
J1rO\ il1Ci.d n1l'm"n
hil' Lju.ddic.ltion.....
12"1
News
Notes
News items intended for publication in the enauing i5auc must reach the Journal not later than the eighth of the
rrecedmg month. In order to ensure accuracy all contributions should be typewritten and double-spaced.
ALBERTA
CALLAR '\:: .-\ meeting of the Calgdry .-\,;so-
ciation of Graduate Nurses was held 011
J anuar} 16, Mi
:, K. Lynn, first vice-president
in the chair. The quarterly reports were re1.d
and the financial report given by the treasurer,
Miss M. Watt, was very gratifying. The
Association is now out of debt with a smaU
surplus 111 the bank. Miss Audrey Dick was
appointed to fill the vacancy on the e'{ecutive
committee. The following resolution was
passed: "That all women, other than regis-
tered nurses, who take care of the sick for
hire, be in some way licensed and supervise
.
with a view to educating the public to a
reali 4 ation of the difference between the regis-
tered nurse and others." This motion was
sent to the A.A.R.N. for consideration during
tht:ir deliberations on the employment situa-
tion among nurses. A discussion was held
on the possibility of an eight-hour day at
S3.00, in addition to the twelve-hour day at
$4.00, and it was decided that the eight-hour
day at $3.00 might make nursing service avail-
able to cases who did not need or desire the
longer service.
EDMONTON: Miss May Dean-Preem:.tn
(R.AH. 1931), following a course in Public
Health at Toronto University, has been ap-
pointed to take charge of the V.O.N. work
in Edmonton.
MARRIED: On Jan. 27, 1934, Miss Vera
Lewis (R.A.H. 1930), to Mr. Manson Barr,
Vermilion, Alta.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
V ANCOUVI:R: The annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nurs-
ing of the Vancouver General Hospital was
held on Jan. 9, in the auditorium of the hos-
pital, the president, Miss Mary McPhee in
the chair. The following officers were electen
for the year 19 H: President, Miss M. Lunan:
First Vice-Pre
ident, Mrs. C. H. C. Bell;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. K. Craig; Secre-
tary, Miss I. Collier; Corresponding Secretary.
Miss K. Heaney. Vancouver General Hospital:
Refreshments. Miss J. Hunter; Press, Mrs. G.
E. Gillies: Treasurer and Bonds, Miss Gearv:
Sick Visiting. Miss O. Shore; Progrdmmc.
Miss A. Croll; Membership, Miss V. Peters;
Sick Benefit, Mrs. Maitland; Representatiw
V.G.N.A., Mi
s Rhodes. The retiring prei'i-
dent was given a hearty vote of thanks for
her bcrvices during the past year. After the
busint"",,, wa, "lImplckd I cfrc..hments were
,en'ed
"!i.
MANITOBA
BRANum" : The monthly meeting of the
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association was
held on .1.111.9, at the home of Mrs. S. J. Peirce,
thirty eight being present. Miss Anderson,
first vice-president, in the absence of the
presidf'nt, on behalf of the association con-
gratulated Mrs. Darrach on receiving the
honor of being named a member of the Order
of the British Empire. The meeting was in
charge of the "doctors' wives group" and took
the form of a social evening.
Miss Eva McNally and Mi
s Blanche Brig-
ham are on two months' leave from the
Brandon General Hospital staff. The former
is in \Vinnipeg and the latter is taking a
postgraduate course at the Vancouver General
Hospital.
ST. BONIFACE: The Alumnde Association
of the School of Nursing of the St. Boniface
Hospital held its annual meeting on Jan. 10
with Miss Clara Miller presiding. Reports
from the ,,'arious offices showed a successful
year's work and the attendance was good.
The following officers were elected for 1934:
President: Miss K. McCallum: first vice-
president: Miss Helen Stevens; second vice-
president: Miss S. Madill; secretary: Miss J.
Archibald: treasurer: Miss E. Shirley; press
reprcsentatlv(.; Miss Betty Altman: Commit-
tee conveners: Social, Mi:-:s Ellen Banks; Sic
Visiting, Miss T. Greville: representative to
Local Council of Women: Miss Betty Altman.
The entertainment was in charge of the second
year student nurses, and a dainty lunch was
served. Mrs. Wm. Tufts, Outlook, Saskat-
chewan (Marion McMurchy, St. B. H. 1929),
with Baby Anne Louise were visitors in the
city for a few days.
NEW BRUNSWICK
AINT JOHN: The local chapter of the N .B.
Registered N urses As
ociation held its month-
ly meeting on Jan. 15, with Miss A. A.
Bevens, the president in the chair. Miss M.
Mcjunkin was welcomed as treasurer. The
brief business session was followed with a
report concerning the resolution committee of
the LC.N., and an interesting illustrated talk
on a recent trip to Europe was given by Miss
M. E. Retallick.
The private duty section of the Saint John
Chapter of the N .B.A.R.N. held its meetin
on Jan.
2, with Miss Reickers presiding in
the ab
ence of Miss Wilson, the convener.
MIss K. Lawson was elected secretary and Miss
H Pvan.. tn'rt'nrel. \Vavs of raising fund,
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NEWS NOTE
,md plans for the next meetmg wcre Jiscu
sed
Miss Hansard gave an mteresting talk on Dr.
Truby King's work in New Zealand and in
London and with the Canadian Mothercr.1.ft
Society of Toronto.
The S.J .G.H. Alumnae Association met 'pll
Peb. 5, with Mrs. Dunlop in the chair. A
report from the sick nurses benefit fund com'
mittee was given by Miss E. J. Mitchell. Quilt,
ing was done on the quilt to be given to the
V.O.N.
The nursing statf of the S.J.G.H. holds a
meeting and round,table monthly. Matters ot
1I1tercst arc discussed and much benefit
lIbtained.
The Alumnae Association of Saint Joseph's
Ho!"pital held a successful bridge on Jan. 24,
with Mrs. J. L. Mullaly as convener. A sub,
:>tantial sum was raised to be used for making
improvements in the Nurses' Home.
. Miss Ruth Manning (S.J.G.H. 1931), who
recently took the Nursing Instructors' course
at McGill University, left recently for Sa
nt
Stephen to fill the position of instructress at
the Chipman Memorial Hospital.
Miss Kathleen Snelling has been added to
the staff of the S.J.G .H. temporarily and i:-
dssisting Miss Stevenson.
MARRIED: Recently, in New York, Miss
Ldura Allen (S.}.G.H.) to Mr. Harry Burne;.
Mr. and Mrs. Burn
are re,>iding dt "40 Mol\}'
hattan Ave., New York.
MARRIED: On Jan. 20, 1934, at Fredericton
Junction, N.B., Miss Mary Clarke (S.].G.H.
1926), to Mr. John L. Mersereau. Mr. and
Mrs. Mersereau will sail in April for their
home in Manizales, Colombia, South Americ,l.
The St. Joseph's Hospital Alumnae l\S;O'
ciation met at the ho
rital with a large attend,
ance. Mrs. Mullaly, the pre:>ident, was in
the chair. General business was discussed.
Miss Elizabeth Reed is in Halifax supplyill'.::
with the V.O.N. for a few months.
MONCTON: The annual meeting of the
Local Chapter of the N.B.A.R.N. was held
recently at the Moncton Hospital, when the
members of the association and the student
nurses enjoyed an illustrated lecture on tub'
r'
culosis given by Miss McCort. Miss Mac.'
aster later entertained at a most enjoyable
"ocial hOllr.
iss Myrtle Kay has recover
J
from her recent tllne
:> dnd is convalescing at
her home. Miss Leonore Flemingtow is recu'
perating after a recent illness.
WOODS Ton. : The monthly lllecting of the
:\lullllMe As:>ociation of the L P. Fis
er
Memorial Hospital was held on Jan. 16 with
the "icc'pre
ide'1to Mi
Glady" Hayward,
rre..iding. :\ "lIcce:>sful dance, under thl'
.lu:>picc
of the As"ociation was held on Jan
30 when the !:!11l'''t, \\, r. I <"ori,'('(1 h. "1...
:\1.\Rnl. I'HI
127
Hal ry Dunbdr, pröldent, .md MI:>s Tulloch,
honorary president, and superintendent of
nurses. A ...u},stantial "urn of money Wo"
realized.
r-;OV A SCOTIA
HALlFA
: The Halifax branch of the
Registered Nurse:- Association of "N"ova Scotia
had an interesting meeting in Jdnuary at ::he
Children's Hospital. A \ ery interesting addre
...
wa
given by Mrs. Norrie &-'\ndcr..on (formerlv
Dr. Findlay, who spent :>Ollle YCdr:. in India)
on medical work in India, particularly in V d.
lore. Miss Grew, instructres, at the Children'!oo
Hospital, demonstrated treatment... for burn
cases. The members were gue
t... of Miss Win...,
low, superintendent of the Children's Hos'
pltal, for refreshments and 01 social half,hour.
Refresher COltrse.- The Registered Nurses
;\,,,ociation is indebted to Miss Winslow and
the Children's Hospital for arranging the fol,
lowing series of lectures in paediatric nursing.
These arc to be given on Monday evenings, at
8.3() p.m., in the Clinic Room of the Chil,
dren's Hospital Residence, and are open to all
graduate nurses. In February, the following
topics were discussed: "The Normal Infant":
Dr. F. A. Mil15hull; "Tuberculosis Contacts in
Childhood", "The Nervous Child": Dr. N. B.
Coward; "Recent Advances in Paediatric Sur'
gery": Dr. J. A. Noble; "Laboratory Methods
111 Diagnosis": Dr. D. J. MacKenzie. The pro'
gramme for March is as follow
:
March :-: "N ursi ng in Orthopaedil-"": D
.
T. B. Acker.
March 12: "Vaccll1es and Serum:> 111 com'
mon m.e today for the pre\ ention of some
r'ommunicable Diseases": Dr. A. L McLe.1I1:
March 19: "Remarks on the ...pccialtie, in
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Nur"'lI1g" Dr.
;\. E. Doun;
arch 26: "Common Met.tbohc DI:-turb-
,lncc,." Dr. M. J. Carney.
Fee tor the course is one dollar. Nurse..
who .Ire at present unemployed will be wel,
come to attend without fee.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT 1
LU!,;DU
: The annual meeting of district
1, R.N..-'\.O. was held Jan. 27 at the Ontario
Ho
pital. London. Mis
P. Campbell of
Chatham was in the chair, and made a strong
appeal for increased membership in the
R.N.A.O. Pdrticularly thi
year when the
C.N .A. celebr,tte
its twenty,fifth dnniversary.
NiI..s Campbell pdid
rdceful tribute to Mis"
HClth,t Smith, "M.B.E., and announced that
Mb:o M. 1. J,lcobs and Mi:-:> M. \V dlker had
been dccepted into l1lcmber
hip ot the British
r'nI1p!!c f'l1 ,- \1.1\;' \\"'nl!!t' ,nd -\' 1,0
128
THE CANADIAN NURSE
man Skegg
were present to convey the greet'
ings of the city. Rev. Kenneth Taylor gave
the invocation. The report of the treasurer
\VðS presented by Miss L. Curtis of Chatham.
Reports were also presented by Miss M. L.
I acobs of London, chairman of the nursing
ducation section: Miss A. Campbell of St.
Thomas, private duty section; Miss M. Hoy,
Windsor, public health section; Mrs. Hedlcy
Smith, permanent education fund. Miss G.
Versey reported concerning a membership of
322, which is only 22% of nurses in the dis'
trict. The Canadian Nurse magazine was
Ieported on hy Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, the
refresher course by Miss M. M. Jones and the
programme by Miss M. Hardie. An appeal
for membership was made for the Red Cross
emergency nursing list on which there are only
181 names at present. Election of officers
resulted as follows: Chairman: Miss Mildred
Walker, London; vice,chairman, Miss Pearl
Lumby, Sarnia; secretary'treasurer, Miss Mil,
dred Chambers, London; convener, nurse
education section, Miss Thomas, Chatham:
convener, public health section, Miss Mabel
Hay, Windsor; private duty section, Mi<;s
_-\nnie Campbell, St. Thomas; permðnent
education fund, Mrs. Hedley V. Smith, Lon-
don; membership, Mi5s Grace Versey, London;
Canadian Nurse (publications and subscrip'
tions), Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, London.
Dr. C. C. Ross spoke on the principles of
orthopedic surgery, and Miss M. L. Jacobs
and Miss A. Evans gave a delightful account
of the LC.N. High tea was sernd most
,lttractively. and Dr. F. S. Vrooman, medical
superintendent of the Ontario Hospital, Lon'
don, g.lve an address of welcome. Solos were
sung by Miss M. Britton, nurse'in'training at
the Ontario Hospital, and Mr. Jubb of the
Ontario Hospital staff gave a violin solo. Miss
Edna Moore, chief public health nurse for
0ntario, gave the principal address at the
evening session. She referred to the trend of
thought toward some form of stabilized nurs'
ing service provided by the community 50 that
nursing care would be available to people with
limited means. Mi
s Moore felt it would be
as reasonable to ask each member of a com'
munity to pay privately for his own fire
protection or for teachers for his children as
to keep citizens of limited means outside the
adequate nursing service. As nur!>es we must
all be ready for this new type of service. Mi
s
Mildred \Valker presided during the supper
,;ession. Mrs. Hedley V. Smith, O.B.E., an'
nounced the toast to the King.
The executive committee of district 1,
R.N.A.O. met for luncheon at the Ontario
Ho..pital prior to the dl1nudl meeting. Other
l!lIe..;t
,It the 1III11."'hcon well': Mi<;
L. Curti
.
Miss C. La Rose, Miss M. Hoy, Miss P. Lum,
by, Miss Lee, Mrs. G. Wilson, Miss Hastings,
Miss A. Campbell, Miss Ritchie, Mi
s E.
Moore and Miss H. Pennock, Miss M. Jacobs,
Mrs. Hedley V. Smith and Miss Connolly.
Mrs. Hedley V. Smith, O.B.E., entertained
on Jan. 27 in honour of Miss Moore, Miss
Pennant, Miss P. Campbell, Miss Curtis, Miss
La Rose, and Miss Boy. Miss M. L. Jacobs
was presented with flowers and a note of
appreciation.
ST. THOMAS: Members of the Memorial
Hospital Graduate Nurses Association at their
February meeting paid signal honor to two
of their most esteemed and active members,
Misses Lissa Crane and Hazel Hastings. Miss
Bella Mitchener, the president, presented NEss
Crane and Miss Hastings with life member'
ship certificates in the association and told of
their long and faithful service in the work of
the Memorial Hospital Alumnae Association
as well as in the former organization, the
Amasa Wood Hospital Alumnae Association.
Miss Mitchener's words were supplemented
by a few timely remarks from Miss Lucille
Armstrong. superintendent of the Memorië:tl
Hospital, who spoke not only of the devotion
to duty of Miss Crane and Miss Hastings
but also of Miss Hasting's leadership an';
Miss Crane's wise counsel in the direction of
alumnae affairs. Miss Hastings, in a few well
chosen words, replied for herself and Mi,;s
Crane to whom the gift, which was accom'
panied by a beautiful bouquet of flowers, came
as a distinct surprise. Progressive bridge was
played and a dainty lunch was served by t:1e
social committee.
.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRANTFORD: The regular monthly meetiI1
of the Alumnae Association of the School of
Nursing of the Brantford General Hospital
was held Feb. 6, when the guest speaker, Dr.
A. M. Overholt, gave a splendid address ("n-
titled "Wit and Humour" which was much
enjoyed. At a recent meeting of the Associa'
tion the sum of $'25.00 was voted towards the
1933 quota of the Permanent Education Fwd
for Districts 2 and 3.
ORANGEVILLE: The Alumnae Association
of the school of nursing of the Lord Dufferin
Hospital recently held a very instructive and
interesting meeting at the home of one of the
members. Reports of the special committees
were received and an extremely interesting
talk was given on the International CouncIl
of Nurses Congress. Remembering our sch.)o]
motto, "For God and Humanity," and feeling
a de!'ire to help those less fortunate than we,
money was raised to buy clothing for a needy
family in Sa;;katchewan.
\VOOf>STOf:K: Miss E]ma Rosenberger, w:
.)
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for the pd
t twelve yCdl:' hd'i been engaged
in health and child welfarc work in Kor..a,
was an interesting speaker at a recent meeting
of the Alumr.ae Association. Miss Rosenber'
ger is at present at home on furlough. She
referred to the International Congress l)f
Nurses held recently in Paris at which she
had the honour of being the delegate from
Korea. She also told of her experiences in
the work in which she is engaged in Korea.
The president, Miss Mabel Costello, intro'
duced the speaker and following her address,
iss Helen Potts, superintendent of the hos'
pital, and Miss Ella Eby expressed the appre'
ciation of the nurses to Miss Rosenberger for
her splendid talk. A social hour brought the
meeting to a close under the convenership of
Miss Eleanor Hastings.
DISTRICT 4
HAMILTON: It was with much regret that
the news of Miss Edith Rayside's resignation
was received by the members of the Alumnae
Association of the school of nursing of the
Hamilton General Hospital. During her ':en
years as superintendent of nurses she has en'
deared herself not only to her staff a,ld
students but also to the members of the Alum'
nae Association and all other organi
ations
connected with the hospital. Her sympathetic
understanding and kindness as a leader and
counsellor has won her a place of high esteem.
:\t thc regular meeting of the Alumnae Asso'
ciation held in January a presentation of a
beautiful string of pearls was made to her by
the president of the Alumnae Association,
Mrs. Hess, after which a social hour was
pent. Other social functions in Miss Ray-
side's honour were held by the nursnig staiL
the medical
taff, the students and the
Women's Auxiliary. Miss Rayside was the
recipient of several handsome gifts on th,:,sc
uccasions.
Miss Mary Watson of the Mount Hamilton
Hospital staff has left for a three months'
postgraduate course in obstetrics at the Royal
Victoria Hospital, Montreal. "!v1iss An"1Íe
Thompson and Miss Winnifred MacGregor
have recently joined the nursing staff of the
Hamilton General Hospital.
HAMIL TOr-;: Two hundred and thirty,fi\c
nurses of Hamilton and vicinity assembled in
the Generdl Hospital, Hamilton, on Jan. 19,
to hear Miss Ethel Johns give a "ivid an.!
thought'provoking picturc of nursing cond.,
tions throughout Canada. In her opening
,emarks she referred feelingly to the honor
bestowed upon Miss Edith Rayside by Hi
\1ajesty. Mi:,s Johns dlso visited the ea:.terll
portion of the district, addre"sing the nur
e
of St. Cathdrines, Nidgara Falls and \\Telland.
HAMILTON: The reg-uh, tnl'dinc of t'H
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St. Juseph's Hospltdl Alumnae Associatio:1
was held on Feb. 3 when a very interesting
talk was given by Mr. Reid, pharmacist, on
the latest drugs and their origin.
MARRIED: On Dec. 27, 1933, in Hamilton,
Miss Dorothy Mclntosh (St. J. H., 1930), to
Mr. Ralph Farrell, of Grimsby.
MARRIED: On Jan. 30, 1934, in Walkers'
ton, Miss Kathleen Waechter (St. J. H.,
1930), to Mr. James O'Meara, of Hamilto.l.
DISTRICT 5
TORO
TO: Miss Dorothy Mickleborough
was re'elected, by acclamation, as chairman
of District 5 R.N.A.O. at the annual mei't,
ing held at Toronto on January 30. Ml
s
Kathleen Reid presented the report of Chapter
One, which was organized last spring and
includes thc Oshawa and Whitby members of
District 5. Reports of sections were prc'
sented as follows: Nurse Education: Miss
Nettie Fidler; Public Health: Miss E. Man'
ning: Standing committees: MembershiP. Miss
Edna Moore; Programme. Miss Marion St
,
wart; Publications, Miss Ethel Greenwood.
A letter was read from the Central Registry
for Graduate Nurses, asking consideration of
a plan whereby graduate nurses might be
employed in hospitals to replace some of the
student nurses. Miss Mary Millman presented
a resolution from the Joint Study Committ
e
to go forward from the district to the Board
of Directors of the R.N.A.O. dealing with
the matter of reduction of the number of
student, admitted to schools of nur
ing. Mic;s
Elvira Manning, chairman of the public health
section. presented a concise summary of the
information received by her committee in
answer to a questionnaire sent out to public
health nur:,es in the district. It appeared from
the answers received that it was increasin,::'lv
difficult for nurses in training to obt
adequate experience in the care of commu'
nicable disease, or, as Miss Margarct Mc,
Crimmon. the reporter from the GJobt'
expressed in next day, "there is not enough
whooping cough, measles and diphtheria tC'
go round in Toronto." An
wers to the queries
also note insufficient training in pediatrics for
the student nurse who is to do public health
work after graduation. Miss Irene Weirs.
retiring secretary'treasurer, was presented Wi
;l
a bouquet of spring flowers by Miss Ruby
Hamilton, on behalf of the members, in appre'
ciation of her services during the past three
years. Officers elected for the coming year
were: president, Miss Dorothy A. MickIe-
borough; \'ice'president, Miss P. B. Austin:
..ecretary'trea
urer, Miss I. M. Park; conven
rc;
uf ..ections, P,..ivate Dutv. Mi,.s Mabel St.
John; Nurse Education, Mi:>s Mabel Sharpe:
Pllhli. H t't11rll "\ii....; F1\'ir.t M,.nnin(!: COtl,-
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
cilioTs: Miss Jessie Gurdon, Miss Esther
Strachan, Miss Edna Moore, Miss Jessie Fa
'-
quharson, Miss Anne Scott and Miss Hazel
Cave.
District 5 R.N.A.O. held a special meet-
ing in Toronto, on Jan. 20, when three hun-
dred nurses assembled to hear Miss Ethel
Johns speak on "The Canadian Scene." Mi
s
Dorothy Mickleborough presided and Miss
Marjorie Buck was a guest of honour from
Simcoe, bringing greetings as president of the
R.N.A.O. Mrs. F. L. Trethewey, accompanied
by Mrs. E. L. Capreol, sang two delightfll1
songs. Miss Elizabeth SmelIie, C.B.E., R.R.C.,
was a welcome guest from District 8 and
joined a group who were entertained after
the meeting by Miss Trethewey at her delight.
ful home in Trethewey Park.
TORONTO: At the annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nurs-
ing of the Hospital for Sick Children the
following officers were elected: Hon. Presi-
dents: Miss Florence Potts and Mrs. Goodson;
hone vice'president, Miss Austin: president,
Mrs. Strachan; first vice'president, Mrs. Cas.
san; second vice'president, Mrs. Raymond:
recording secretary, Miss Langman; corres'
ponding secretal y, Miss Blackwood: treasu
'er,
Miss Mary Deck.
Miss Clara Morris (H.S.C. 1932), is taking
.1 postgraduate course in obstetrics at the
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.
TORONTO: The Welfare Auxiliary of the
Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto, which has
about thirty. five members most of whom Jrc
graduates of the school, reports a very actÏ\.c
year. Thirty meetings have been held with
an average attendance of twelve. Fifty-five
layettes have been prepared for distribution;
these consisted of 260 garments and 170
knitted articles; some of the knitting being
done by the older patients and the maids -at
the Thistletown Hospital. To raise funds f'.)f
the work, a bridge was held when thirty.eight
tables were played and receipts were $122.00.
Many interesting prizes were presented by
Miss Potts, who was an honored guest at tea.
TORONTO: The December meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the school of nursing
of the Women's College Hospital took the
form of a social reunion which was planned
and very successfully carried out by our nCVl
president, Miss Worth, assisted by Miss Fra.
ser. The new officers for the year are: Hon.
president, Mrs. Bowman; hone vice'president,
Miss Meiklejohn; president, Miss Worth, 93
Scarboro Beach Blvd.; secretary, Miss Free,
48 Northumberland St.; treasurer, Miss Fraspr,
125 Rusholme Rd.
DISTRICT 7
HROC'KVJI.I r: The organization of the
Nurses Alumn.lc AssocidtlOn of the St. Vin-
cent de Paul Hospital, Brockville, has recently
been achieved. The first meeting of the Asso.
ciation was held on Dec. 3, and the following
officers were elected for the coming year:
President, Miss A. Brassor; first vice-president.
Miss M. Rupert; second vice'president, Miss
L Nelson; recording secretary, Miss K. Walsh:
corresponding secretary, Miss C. Consitt:
treasurer, Mrs. G. Hourigan; committe
.
Misses M. Jordon, H. McKeown, C. Slack.
PRESCOTT: Miss Effie Gorsoline (B.G.II.
1 C) 3 2), i
taking a postgraduate course of on
year in psychiatric nursing at the Ontario
Hospital, Whitby. The Misses Kathle
n
Weston and Marjorie Cooper (both B.G.H.,
1932), are taking postgraduate courses at the
Royal Victoria Maternity Hospital, Montrea1.
DISTRICT 8
OTTAWA: The annual meeting of the Alum-
nae Association of the School of Nursing of
the Ottawa Civic Hospital was held on Jan.
19. Much satisfaction was evinced when the
reports for the year were read and approveJ.
The president, Miss Edna Osborne, thanked
the officers and members of the association for
their cooperation during the past year. The
following were chosen as officers for the en-
suing year: Hon. president, Miss Gertrude
Bennett: president, Miss Osborne; first vice.
president, Miss Morley; second vice'president,
Miss Curry; recording secretary, Miss Lamb;
corresponding secretary, Miss Downey:
treasurer, Miss Gemmell, flower committee,
Miss Ferguson; press correspondent, Miss
Pepper; councillors, Misses Mulvagh, Farmer,
Kelly, D. Johnstone, Barry.
With an attendance of nearly four hundred
guests, the annual dance held on Feb. 2, by
the Alumnae Association of the School of
Nursing, Ottawa Civic Hospital, proved to
be a successful and delightful event. The
guests were received by Miss Gertrude Ben.
nett, superintendent of nurses, Miss Elizabeth
Smellie, C.B.E., R.R.C., who was guest of
honor, and by Miss Edna Osborne, president
of the Alumnae Association. The committee
in charge of arrangements was composed of
Miss Myrtle Dale, Miss Bertha Farmer and
Miss Beth Graydon.
MARRIED: On Dec-. 23, 1933, in Toronto.
Miss Hazel Marion Chugg (Ottawa Civic
Hospital, 1927), to Dr. Frederick F. FitÒ
of Elk Lake, Ontario.
MARRIED: On Dee. 30, 1933, at All Saints
Church, Ottawa, Miss Hermione Cobh
(Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1(27), to Mr. Rupert
Smiley, of Oxford Mills.
MARRIED: On Jan. 3, 1Y34, in Montreal,
Miss Jessie MacGillvary (Ottawa Civic Hmo.
ritat. 19
()). to
1. Ro
crt Gilchrist.
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MARRIED: On Jan. 31, 1934, at St. Mat'
thews Church, Ottawa, Miss Edna Lois Win-
deler (Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1927), to
Flying Officer Morgan Keddie. They will
reside in England.
DISTRICT 10
FORT WILLIAM: Miss Vera Lovelace presid,
ed at a meeting of the R.N.A.O. held on Jan.
4. An address on "The History of Medicine",
was given by Dr. J. H. Dennison. A delight,
ful piano duet was contributed by the Mi
es
Mildred and Ruth Walberg.
PORT ARTHUR: The regular meeting ('If
the Alumnae Association of the School of
Nursing of the Port Arthur General Hospital
was held on Jan. 9, the president, Mrs. Wal,
lace Smith, occupying the chair. Several
activities for the near future were discussed.
Tea was served by Miss Margaret McGrath
and Miss Peggy Eaton.
PORT ARTHUR: Eighty-five nurses gather
tl
at St. Joseph's General Hospital on Jan. IS,
to hear interesting addresses on mental diseases
of children, given by Dr. Greaves and Mi<;s
Marquette, of Orillia, who are at the lakehead
in connection with the psychiatric clinic. Mi-;s
Vera Lovelace presided, and refreshments
were served by the nurses of the hospital staff.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: Miss Jennie \Vebster has been
presented with a volume designated "T:1e
Book of Remembrance", containing a resolu'
tion of appreciation of her services, quoted
from the minutes of the Medical Board of the
Montreal General Hospital, the signatures of
contributors to the fund for the painting of
her portrait, and a copy of the portrait to'
gether with other illustrations. Miss Catherine
E. Kearns (M.G.H., 1929), has recently been
visiting in Montreal, having resigned her posi-
tion at the Evanston Hospital, and accepted
a similar position as medical supervisor at the
Postgraduate Hospital in New York. Mi;;s
Enid M. Davy (M.G.H., 1933), is taking a
postgraduate course at the Boston Lying-in
Hospital.
MARRIED: On Sept. 9, 1933, at ChicoutÌ101,
Que., Miss Vera B. McLeod (M.G.H., 1927),
to Mr. P. B. Butler.
MARRIED: On Feb. 3, 1934, at Montreal,
Miss Constance P. L. Ruse (M.G.H., 1930),
to Mr. John Stewart Meagher. They will
reside in Montreal.
MARRIED: On Feb. 3, 1934, at Knowlton,
Que., Miss Jean C. Bancroft (C.M.H., 1927),
to Mr. Chas. Bancroft. They will reside in
"'1 ew Canaan, Conn.
MONTREAL: At the January meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the Royal Victoria
Hospital it wa!'! decided that. in future, fifte..n
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131
minute:. at each meetmg WIll be devoted to
discussion of current nursing events. It IS
hoped that this innovation will be helpful to
all the members. Miss Winnifred Maclean
(R.V.H., 1930), has accepted the positio'1
of superintendent of nurses at the Soldiers'
Memorial Hospital, Campbell ton, N.B.
MARRIED: On Dec. 21, 1933, Miss Florenl.:e
Ross Van (R.V.H., 19:!.8), to Dr. C. E. Lun'
don, of Montreal.
MARRIED: On Dec. :!.7, 1933, Miss Mar:'
Barnes (R.V.H., 1925), to Dr. W. A. G.
Bauld, of Montreal.
MARRIED: On Dec. 27, lY33, Miss Beatric('
Foote (R.V.H., 1933), to Mr. Roy McIsaacs,
of Amherst, N .S.
MARRIED: On Jan. 27, }YH, Mi
s M,uy
Parker (R.V.H., 1930), to Mr. Haro!d
Frederick Freeburne, of Hamilton.
MONTREAL: The annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nurs-
ing of the Woman's General Hospital was
held on Jan. 17 and Mr:>. L. M. Crewe was
re-elected as president. An interesting lecture
was given by Dr. Goldman and the evening
closed with a social hour. Several of our new
members are on staff duty dt the hospital.
Miss Hilda Field (1932), is in charge of t
e
fifth Boor and Miss R. Six smith (1932), i"
in charge of the fourth floor. Miss L. Clark
and Miss Cleland (193:!.), Miss Onyon anrl
Miss M. Logan ( 1933), Miss R. Burgh.
r
(1931), are on duty in different parts of the
hospital. Miss Annie Shalit (1915), has re-
turned from California and is at present a
patient in the hospital.
SHERBROOKE: Miss Mildred Baldw1I1
(Sherbrooke Hospital, 19
9), has accepted a
position as industrial nurse at the Paton Mills.
SHERBROOKE: The annual dinner of the
Eastern Townships Graduate Nurses Associa'
tion was held on Jan. 11, in the MacKinnn'l
Memorial building and was well attended.
After dinner the annual meeting was held,
and plans were discussed to send a de1eg.ltc
to the A.R.N.P.Q. annual meeting in Mont'
real. The following officers were elected for
the year 1934: Hon. president, Miss Verna
K. Beane; president, Mi
1> E. Bean; vice-presi'
dent, Miss Dwane; corresponding secretary.
Miss Florence C. Wardleworth; recording
secretary, Miss Harvey; treasurer, Miss Mar'
garet Robins; representative to 'The Canadian
'Nurse, Miss Carolyn A. Hornby, box 324,
Sherbrooke; rcprc
entative, Private Dutv
ursing, Mi
:. Ella Morris:.ctte.
SASKA TCHEW AN
SASKATUOI'\:
i:.s Jes!-ie McRac is takin,
.1 postgraduate cuur
e in p:.ychi.,trÙ: nurSIn
.It the Ont.triu Ho,.pital, \Vhit
\. Mi!'!' M.I
linn Hil' (S.C' H. lln:\). h,\.. "'''1' I 'I: I'll II.,
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
appomtment of assistant night superivl:ior in
the .saskatchewan City Hospital. Postgraduate
ourse.s are being taken at the Saskatoon Sana-
torium hy Miss M. I. Findlay (S.C.H., 1932),
Miss A. L. Melsness (S.C.H. 1932) and Mi<;s
Viola Fisher (S.C.H. 1933).
MARRIED: On Jan. I, 1934, at RosebUlg.
Oregon, Miss Ruth Taylor (S.C.H. 1925).
to Mr. Ernest C. Patterson, of Eugene, Ore.
UOUR BITP
The War Memories of a Canadian Nursing
Sister by ex-Nursing Sister Mabel Clint,
A.R.R.C. The manuscript of this vivid and
moving recital of a tremendous experience
has been read and endorsed by Matron-in-
chief Margaret Macdonald. Though not an
official history, this book is an eYe-witn
ss
account of events in the war zone in France,
England, Belgium, Egypt and Lemnos ar.d
thus constitutes an authentic picture of actual
conditions not as yet available in any other
publication. Our readers are reminded that,
if this manuscript is to appear in book fonn,
sufficient orders must be received to warrant
the expense of publication. The pre-publica-
tion price will not exceed $1.25. Send orders,
but no money to Miss Mabel Clint, 2112
Claremont Ave., Montreal.
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
CALGARY: The annual meeting of the
Nursing Sisters Overseas Club was held at
the home of the president, Miss Gee. \\'c
welcomed to our membership Mrs. Cordingly
and Mrs. Tomlinson. We are looking forwdrd
to Mis<; Clint's book on war experiences. The
officers for the year are: President, Miss Ann
Gee; vice-president, Mrs. H. D. Stuart;
treasurer, Miss Marion Lavell; secretary, Mic;s
Nicol Gunn: phone-secretary, Miss Train
Gray. Our next meeting will probably take
the form of a garden parry.
TORONTO: The annual meeting of the
Toronto Unit of the Overseas Nursing Sist
:-s
Association of Canada was held on J anu'lTY
l.ï, at the Christie Street Hospital, Toronto.
:virs. Jack Bell, popular and energetic presi-
dent of the unit who, owing to the change
in date of all annual meetings of units, had
presided at two consecutive Remembrance
Dinners, presented a report of her activities
during the year. She represented the unit
t
the Memorial Service for General Currie and
placed the flowers at the Cenotaph on Remem-
brance Day. Interesting reports of the differ-
ent committees were presented, including that
of the welfare committee, in which Mrs. John
Turnbull told of assistance given in time of
illness to.a Nursing Sister, and of Christm2.s
l:heer provided for the families of two returned
men. A. characteristic letter from Matron-Ìiì-
Chief Macdonald was read in which she ex-
pressed thanks for the flowers sent to her at
Christmas time. Miss Rayside's letter, in
answer to Mrs. Bell's personal letter of con-
gratulations on her decoration, was also re'lt!
dnd received great applause. It was announced
that Mis!' Bertha Smith of London, who w:\s
also mentioned in the New Year's honour.;,
was a member of the unit though not weil
known to all its members, as she was seldom
able to attend meetings. Miss Harriet Meikle-
john spoke to the matter of support by the
units to enable Nursing Sister Clint to publi,h
her war memoirs in a book entitled "Our Bit."
It was felt that in view of the very favourabl
criticism of the book expressed by Matron-
in-Chief Macdonald, in the January number
of 'The Canadian Nurse, the members of the
unit should give every encouragement to the
author. Captain Sidney Lambert had arrang
d
a surprise in the form of entertainment hy
the Toronto Male Quartette, who delighted
the members with several numbers. Officers
for the year were elected as follows: President,
Miss Ruby Hamilton; vice-president, Miss
Laura Gamble; recording secretary, Mrs.
Ralph Craig; corresponding secretary, :t-..lrs.
F. A. Spence; treasurer, Mrs. George Hanna;
executive committee, Mrs. Norman Lucas,
Miss Edith Rogers, Miss Winona Farr, Mi
.
D. B. Gillespie, Miss Ella Drysdale, Miss S.
Might, Miss Edna Moore, Mrs. H. Henson,
Mrs. Cook, Miss Mary Monk.
The Hamilton unit of the Overse-ls Nursing
Sisters Association gave a dinner on Jan. 16,
in honour of their beloved honorary president,
Miss Edith Rayside, C.B.E., R.R.C., M.H.S.:.,
B.A. Miss Eugenia Gibson was also a gUCi;t
of honour. Miss Mildred Cowan, acted as
hostess and Miss Williams proposed the toac;t
to Miss Rayside to which she graciously re-
sponded. Miss Cowan proposed a toast to
Miss Gibson who made a charming response.
The silent toast to the departed sisters. a
touching feature of such gatherings, was pro-
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NbWS NOTES
posed by MISS Boyd. A handsome travelling
clock was presented to Miss Rayside as a
farewell gift. Seated at the head table were:
Miss Cowan, Miss Rayside, Mi
s Gibson, Miss
Boyd, Mrs. Betty Turner and the following
members of the executive. Miss Bertha Wil.
Iiams, Miss Gertrude Walker, Miss Ruby
Galloway, Miss Elsie Long, Miss Foster and
Miss Chisholm. Others at the dinner were:
Miss Dart, Mrs. Snider, Mrs. Hogarth, Mrs.
Cowan, Mise; Carscallen, Mrs. Anderson, Mi:ös
Ross, Miss Brown, Mrs. Shepherd, }VIiss
Cameron, Miss Thresher, Miss Macdonald,
Miss Ferrier, MIss Trim, Mrs. Thompson,
iss We gar, Mrs. Yeates and Mrs. Cook.
WINDSOR: The regular meeting and el.c.
tion of officers for 1934 took place at the
home of Mrs. G. C. Storey on Jan.
6. T!1e
followmg officers were elected: President, Mise;
Caroline La Rose, Metropolitan General Hos.
pital, Walkerville; vice'president, Mrs. Eric
Windeler (Jean Johnson), 1600 Ypres Ave.,
\\ïnd<:or: secretary.treasurer, Mrs. Gilbert C.
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Storey (Marion C. Starr), 372 Eastlawn Blvd.,
Riverside. The members of this unit expressed
themselves as very interested in Nursing Sister
Clint's book "Our Bit", and fourteen names
have been forwarded to her as prospective
purchasers.
MONTREAL: The annual meeting of the
Montreal unit of the Overseas Nursing Sisters
Association of Canada was held on Feb. 1,
Miss Nell Enright presiding. The reports of
the president, secretary and treasurer, and of
the Last Post Fund and sick'visiting commIt.
tees were read and adopted. Miss Gass re'd
an interesting paper entitled "A brief synopsIs
of the Forsyte Saga." The officers elected for
the coming year are as follows: President,
Miss Nell Enright; vice'president, Miss Lilian
Connerty; secretary, Mrs. Winifred Ramsay;
treasurer, Miss Connie Harrison; Last Post
Fund, Mrs. Stuart Ramsay; sick.visiting, MiS'3
M. Wright; committee: Mrs. Turcot, Mi"s
St. Onge and Mrs. Beattie.
OBITUARY
DOYLE-On Dec. 18, 1933, in Hamilton,
1rs. Clarence Doyle (née Sadie Campbeil,
St. J. H., 1919), wife of Mr. Clarenc
Doyle of Caledonia.
ENGLISH-On Jan. 9, 1934, after a brief
Illness, Miss Ethel A. English, (Roy.!.1
Alexandra Hosrital, Edmonton, 1926).
LANDER-On Jan. 13, 1934. in Hamilton,
Dorothy Lander (St. J. H., 1931). Miss
Lander was one of the most popular and
highly.esteemed of the younger members of
I\Jr\IKII.IQJI
the nursing profession and leaves a WJce
circle of friends who deeply mourn her
untimely death. The funeral was held at
St. Patrick's Church, the following cla3s,
mates ácting as honorary pallbearers: Missc!o
Geraldine Schuette, Gladys Oliver, Florence
Kenney, Irene Guay, Blanche McKen:1a,
Prances Armstrong.
W ATTERS--On Jan. 6, 1934, at Toronto,
Mrs. Archibald Watters (née Miss Mar-
garet 1. Darrach, M.G.H. 1930).
Official
Directory
International Council of r-.;urses:
Secrt>tary,
Iis!' Christiane Rt>imann, 14 Quai des Eaux-\ïves. (
ene'a. Switærlancl
Presiden t
First Vice-President .. .'
Second Vice- Presiden t
Honorary Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
C:\:s' :\UIA
:s'URSES ASSOCI:\ TIO
Officers
:\liss F. H. :\1. Emory, l:niversity 01 Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
..... :\-liss R. :\1. Simpson, ParIialrent B1dgs.. Regina, Sask.
:\liss G. :\1. Bennett, Ottawa Civic Hospital. Ottawa, Ont.
........
Iiss 1'\ora l\1oore, City Hall, Room 30<), Toronto, Ont.
:\fiss 1\1. :\Iurdoch. St. John Ceneral Hospital. Saint John,
.n.
COU
CILLORS .\!\D OTHER \IE\IBERS OF EXECl.."TIVE CO\I\IITTEE
.VIt?llerals precedino naml'S indicate oJfi('(' held, 1'i.: ,1) Presidf'11t, Prnrinrial NUrseR .-t,
suciat'ion; (2) Chairman,
NUrllÙI(J Educntinn S('rtioll; (:J) Chairman, PI/hlir /lealth Sef'fÙI1I; (4) rhnirmnll, Primtl' Dllty Sl'ctinn.
\Iherta: II)
1iss F.
Iunroe, Royal Ale:\.andra IIm.-
pital, Edmonton; (2)
Iiss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal, Calgary; (3) MisR B. A. Emerson. 604 Civie
Bloek, Edmonton; (4) :\lif'R J. now, 111:J8-R2nd
Ave., Edmonton.
British Columbia: (1) :\Iiss :\1. F. Gray, Dept. of
ursing, University of British Columbia, "aneou\'er;
(2) :\'Iiss L. :\Iitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital. '"i('.
toria; (3) :\1iss 1\1. Duffield, 175 Broadway East..
Vaneouver; (4)
'Iiss:\1. :\Iirfipld, Beacheroft Xur"inlC
Hnme, Cook St., Yietoria.
\Ianitoba: (I) :\Iiss :\Iildred Heid,
urses RetiÎden('e.
\\ïnnipeg General Hospital, Winnipeg; (2) Sister St.
.-\lbert, Ht. Joseph's Hospital, Winnipeg; (3) Miss E.
:\leKelvey, 60:J
IPdical Art" Building, Winnipeg:
14) :\Iis" K. :\leCallum, 181 Enfield Crt'scent, Nor-
wood.
:\ew Brunswick: (I) :\Iiss .-\. J. :\lac:\laster,
Ioncton
1I0Rpital, :\Ioncton; (2) Hister Corinne Kerr, Hott'l
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) :\'Iiss Ada Burns,
Health Centre. Raint John: (4) :\liBS
Iahpl :\1 e-
:\1 ullen, St. Stephen, .
"I;ova Scotia: (1)
lisB .-\nne :O;lattery, Box 173,
""ind"or: (2) :\1rs.
Iurray :\lacKay, Nova Scotia
Hospital, Dartmouth; (3) :\Iiss .\. Edith Fenton,
Dalhùusie Health Clinic, :\Iorris St., Halifax; (4
:\Ii"" Christint' :\lacLeod, 97 South Kline St., Halifax.
Ontario: (I)
li8S
Iarjorie Bm'k,
orfolk Hospital.
:-:imcoe: (2) Miss ::I.
1. Jamieson, Peel :\'Iemorial
Hospital. Brampton; (:J) :\Irs. Agnes Haygarth.
21 :O;us"t'"\. St., Toronto: (4) ''Ii"s Clara Brown, 2
Kendal ,-\ \"e., Toronto.
Prince Edward Island: (1) :\Iiss Lillian Pidgeon,
Prince Co. Hospital. Summerside, (2) Miss F.
La\"ers, Prince Co. Hospital, Summerside; (3) :\lis6
I. Gillan. 59 Grafton St., Charlotteto\\n; (4) :\'Ii"" :\1.
Gamhle. 51 .-\mbrose :;t., C'harlotteto\\n.
Ouebec: (I) :\Iiss C. Y. Barrett, Royal Yictoria :\Iater-
nity Ho!'pital, :\Iontrpal; (2)
Ii"s :\Iartha Batson,
:\lontJ"eal General Hospital, :\Iontreal; (:J) :Mis!'
Christine Dowling, 1246 Bishop
treet,
'Iontreal;
(4) :\Ii!'s C. :\1. Watling, 12
0 RiRhop :-:treet, :\Iontreal.
Saskatchewan: (I) :\Iiss Edith Amas, f'ity Hospital,
:-:askatoon; (2) :\Iiss G. :\1. Watson, City Hospital.
Saskatoon; (:J) :\lrs. E. :\1. Fðeny, Dept. of Publil"
Health. Parliament Bldgs., Regina; (4) Misfl :\1. R.
('hi"holm, 80.'; 7th ,-\ \'e. N., Ha"katoon.
CHAIR\IE
:'IiATIO
AL SECTIO;-"S
'l"n"INIi EDUC....TION: :\Iiss G. :\1. Fairley, \'ancou\"er
General HOBpital, Yancouver; PLBLIC HE.-\LTH: :\Ii!'!'
:\1. :\Ioag, 1246 Bishop St., Montreal; PRIVATt:
DUTY: :\li"8 Isabel MacInt08h, Queen"court Apt.,
75 Quppn
t. S., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary: '1iss .Tean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
fontreal, P.Q.
Ol'FICERS OF SECTIO
S OF C:\.!'ìADIA:\ :s'{
RSES ASSOCIATIOl\"
:'Iil'RSI!,;G ED{lCATIO
SECTIO!\
C"H...IHIIUN: :\Iis" G. :\1. Fairley. "aneouver Genpral
HORpital. "aneou\"er; "ICE-CH.-\IR!II.-\S: :\Ii"" :\1. F.
Gray, l'ni\'ersity of British Columbia, "aneoU\'pr;
ECRET...R\: :\liBR E. F. upton, Suite 221, 1
96 St.
Catherine :o;t. "'est,
Iontreal; TRE.-\8l"RER: ;\'Iit'R
1.
Hlalll.he .-\ndprson, Ottawa C'i\'il" Hospital, OUawn.
COUNCILLORS \lberta: :\lisR ,J. Connal, General JlOf'-
pital, Calgary. British Columbia: :\liR.!\ L. :\Iitehell,
Royal .Jllhilpe Hospital, \'ictpria. \Ianltoha: SiRtpr
St. .-\lbert, Ht. ,Joseph's Hospital, Winnipeg.
ew Brunswick:
if<tpr Corinnp Kerr, lIotpl Dit'll.
('ampbellton. Nova Scotia: :\Ir". :\Iurray :\laeKay.
:"Jo\'a S('otia llof<pital, Dartmouth. Ontario: :\lifoOfI
S. :\1. .Jamieson, Peel
Iemorial Ho"pital, Bramptnn.
Prince Edward Island: :\Iiss :\1. La\"ers, Prinee
('0. HOflpital,
ummerside. Ouebec: :\liBs Martha
Batson, :\Iontreal General Hospital, Montreal. Sas-
katchewan: :\Iiss G. :\1. Wattmn, City Hospital.
Saskatoon. CONVESER OF Pl"I\L1c'-\TIONS,
liRS :\1.
:\1. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital, Winnippg
PRIVATE DUTY SECTIO
('H-\lHIII.-\N: :\Iifls Isabel :\lacIntosh, Qlleenfl('ourt .\pt.,
75 Qllet'n
t. S., Hamilton; YI("E-CH.-\IRIII.'t.N: :\li!'8
:\Iabel :\1C":\lullen, Bo:\. 338. St. Stephen; SECHET...RY-
TRE.-\Sl"REH: :\11"8. ROBt' Heflfl, 1:J9 Wellington :-:t.,
Ilamilt"n.
('o\'NCILLORS: \Iberta: :\Iis" J. ('low, 11138-82nd
.\ \'e., Edmonton. British Columhla: :\liss M.
:\ I irfipld. Hp:wh('rnft ;\; nr"j ng H omf', Yil,tori".
134
\-Ianitoha: :\lif'S K. :\leCallulII. 181 Enfield ('rt'f'.,
:'Ii"rrwood. New Brunswick: :\Iis8 :\Iabel Mc;\'Iullen,
t. Htephen.
ova Scotia: i\liss Christine
laeLeod,
fl7 South Kline St., Halifax. Ontario: :\'Iis" Clara
Hro\\n, 2
Kendal Ave., Toronto. Prince Edward
Island: :\Iiss ;\1. Gamble. 51 .-\mbrose :;;t., Charlotte-
to"n. Quebec: :\liB" C. :\1. Watling, 1230 Bishop
St., :\Iontreal. Saskatchewan: :\1i8S ,I. R. Chi,,-
holm, 805 7th .-\ve. N., Saskatoon. CONVENER 0\'
Pt'I\UC-...TIONS: :\Iiss .Jean Davidson, Parifl.
Pl.."BLIC ilEAL TH SECTIO
CIf-\1I0\.\N: :\lis8:\1. :\Ioag, 1246 Hishol' Ht., :\lontrf'Rl;
"II'E-CH.-\IR'\UN: :\Iiss
'1. herr, 94ß ;!üth A\'e. 'V.,
\. an('ouver; :O;E("'RET....R\ - TRE....RURER: !\Iif!s :\Iary
:\Iathewson, 464 Stratheona ,-\ve.. "'estmount, P.Q.
C"ouNcILLoRR-Alberta: :\Ii;;i< B. .-\. Emerson, 604
C'ivie Block, Edmonton. British Columbia: :\Iiss
:\1. Duffield, 175 Broadway East, "ancouver.
\lanltoba: :\Iiss E. :\leKelvey, 603 :\Iedical .-\rt!'
Building, Winnipeg. :'IIew Brunswick: :\li8S Ada
Rums, Health Centre, f:aint John. Nova Scotia:
:\Iis" Edith Fenton, Dalhousie Health Clinic, !\lorri8
t.. Halifax. Ontario: :\Irs. .-\Jl:nes Haygarth, 21
Sussex St., Toronto. Prince Edward Island: !\Ii""
Ian Gillan. 5f1 Grafton
t., C'barl(,ttet.m n. Ouebec:
:\liss Christine Dowlinl/:, 1246 Bishop Ht., \Iontreal.
Saskatchewan:
Irs. E. :\1. Feeney, Dept. of Publil'
Health, ParliamE'nt Buildings. Regina. C'OSVENEII
OF PUroLICATION..: Mrfl. \gnp!' Haygarth, 21 SUB!I(>"\
:-:t. Toronto.
VOL. XXX, No.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
1 ... -
.
.)
Provincial Association of Registered Nurses
.-\LBERTA
O
TARIO
Alberta \ssoclation of R
lstered
urses
President,
Iiss F.
Iunroe, Royal Alexandra
Hospital, Edmonton; First Vice-President, Mrs. de
::;atge, Holy CroBS Hospital, Calgary;
econd Vice-
President, MiBS S.
Iacdonald, General Hospital,
Calgary; Secretary-Treasurer-Registrar, :\Iiss Kate
.
Brighty, Administration Building, Edmonton; Chair-
men: Nursing Education Section, :\liBS J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Public Health Section. :\lis8
B. A. Emerson, 604 ('ivic Block, Edmonton; Primll'
Dilly SecliOTl,
Ii"" ,J. ('. ('low, 11138-82nd \\'(>.
BRITISH COLU\IBIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
President,
1. F. Gray, 1466 \\'.14th Ave., Vancouver;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second \ïce-Presi-
dent. G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, .:\1. Kerr, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Conreners of Committees: Nursing
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, \ïc-
toria; Public Health, M. Duffield, 175 Broad\\ay East,
\'anC'ouver; Private Duty, :\liBS
1. Mirfield, Beachcroft
ursing Home, Cook St., Victoria; Councillors, M. P.
('ftmphpll. \1. Dutton, L. :\lc \llister, K. f'ftnc1pr"on.
IANITOBA
\Ianltoba .\ssociaUon of Re
lstered
urses
President,
liss:\1. Heid, \\';nnipeg General Hospital;
First \ïce-President, :\liss
. Wright, :\Ietropolitan
Life. \\ïnnipel!;;
econd \"ice-PrPRident. :\Iiss C. :\f(.-
Leod, Brandon General Hospital; Third \ïre-President.
:,ister Krause, f't Boniface Hospital; :\lembers of
Board: :\liss:\1. Lang, Miss E. Carruthers, f'istu :\lary,
:\liss K. \\. Ellis, :\Iiss K. :\leLearn, :\Iiss :\1. :\Ieehftn,
:\lills E. Johnson,
ister
t. .\lbert; ('onl'eners of Sec-
tiOTls: Pllblic lIealth,
liss E. :\1('Kelvey; Prirate Dul.l/,
:\Iiss K. :\lcCallum; Nursing EdllCah:oll, Sister
t.
Albert. Conveners of Committees: Directcry,
liH! .J.
Kerr, 74 Cobourg A ve.; f'ocial, :\Iiss S. Polle"fen, 954
Palmerston .\ ve.;
ick \,illiting, :\lisR L. Gray, Vic-
torian Order of Nurses; :\lembership, :\Iis!' E. Ironside,
\\"innipeg General Hospital; Librarian, Miss W. Gri('e
anò :\liss .\. Starr, 753 Wolseley A,'e.; Press and Pub-
liC'ation, :\li!'R E. Bank!', 64 :-:t. Cros8 St.; ReJlTesenta-
'ive,
: lo('al Council of Women. :\Irs. Willard Hill and
:\Irs. Emmett D\\yer; Central Council of SoC'ial Agen-
f.ies, :\liss F. Robertson; \"ictorian Order of Nurses,
:\Iiss E. A. Russell; ,Junior Red Cross, :\fi
s E. Parker;
Red CroBS Enrolmpnt, Mrs. J. F. :\IGrrison; E"ecutive
"':p('rptary and Rel!:istrar, :\lrs. Stella Gordon Kerr.
XEW ßRU
SWICK
New Brunswick Association of Re9Jstered :'\:urscs
Prellident, :\Iiss A. J. :\fac:\,laster, Moncton Hospi.
tal, Moncton; First \ïce-President,
Iiss Margaret
:\Iurdoch; Second Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
l\:ay; Honorary:-:ecretary, Rev.
ister Kenny; Coun('il
!\lembers: MiRR Floren('e Coleman. :\Iiss H. :-:. Dyke-
man, Mrs. A. G. \\' oodcocl., ì\lillB Elsie :\1. Tulloch;
('onl1eners: Public Health Section. :\liBB ,-\da A. Burns;
Private Duty Spction. :\liss :\Iabel :\Ic:\fullin; Nursino
Education Sedim. ::5ister Kerr; Committee Conl1ener/l'
The Canad1'an NUr8e, Miss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-La\\s, :\liss t-:. F. Brophy; Secretary-
Treasurer-H('
i"trar, :\Iiss :\Iaudp E. Rptalli('k, 2ft!
C'harlottp
t. West.
aint ,John, :'\l.R
","OVA SCOTL\
Registered
urse8 AssocIation of
O\a Scotl..
Pre!4ident, :\liSll .-\nne
Iattery. WindRor; First \"i('('-
l'residpnt, !\Iiss \ïctoria Winslow, lIalifa\:; Ref"ond
\"ice-President. :\liBB :\Iarion Boa, Xew GIB.I'IR'o,,;
I'hird \ïce-President, Sistpr Anna Heton. lIalifa\:;
Hecordinl!; Se('retary, :\1rs. Donald Gilli". 123 \'pmoll
St., Halifax; Treallurer and Hel!:istrar, :\li"" I F.
Fr!l!,pr, 10 F.n!'tprIl Tru!'t Bldp:.. llulifn\
Re9,lsrcred :\urses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1915 1
PresIdent, :\Iiss
Iarjnrie Buck, Xorfolk General
Hospital.
imcoe; First \"ice-Pre!'ident, :\fiss Doroth,
Percy, Rm.
21 Jackson Bldg., Ottawa;
e('ond \ïc
-
Presl
ent, :\hss Constance Brewster, General Hospital,
H.amllton;
ecretary. Treasurer, :\liss :\Iatilda E.
FltzJ[erald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman, Nurse
Edu.cati!1 n Sectio'!. Miss H. Margaret Jamieson, Pepl
Memorial HospItal, Brampton; Chairman. Pril!ur,
Du.ty SutiOTl, Miss Clara Bro\\n, 23 Kendal \ve
foronto; Chair
an.' Public Health Section, Mrs. ..\gn
;
Haygarth, Provmclal Department of Health, Parlia-
ment Bldgs., Toronto; D1strict No.1: Chairman, :\lil!8
I,'riscilJa CampbelJ, Publ
c G
neral H,?spital, Chatham;
:-;
cretarY-Tr.J:8s,-!rer, MIss Lila C
rt1s. 78 Fc,rest I"L
C
latham; D1stnd8 2 and 8: Chauman, :\o1i8B A. E.
Bmgeman, Fre
pGrt
natorium, Kitcherer;
ecretaQ-
Treasurer, l\hss EdIth Jor.es. 253 Gren\\ich
t.
Brantford; District No.4: Chairman. :\Iiss Cor.stan('
Bre\\ster. General Hcspital, Hamilton;
ecretar)-
Treasurer, :\Irs. Eva Barlow, 211
tinson St., Hamilton
District NO.5: Çhairman, :\liss Doroth) :\lickle-
borough, ProvincIal Dept. of Health, Parliament
B!d
s., Toronto; Recretary- Treasurer, :\liss lren('
\\ el
s, 198 :\If.\nor Road East, Tcronto; District No.6:
Çhalrman,
hss Helen :\1. Anderson, 709 Water St.,
I. eterbl!rough.; Secretary- Treasurer,
liss Dorotb)'
l\IacBrlen,
Icholls Hospital, Peterboro' District No.7:
(:
Iairman, :\lis8 Louise D. Acton, Ge
eral Hospital,
Kmgston; S
retar
-Treasurer, Miss Olivia Wilson,
General HospItal, Kmgston; District No.8: Chairman,
:\liss Dorothy Percy, Rm. 321, Jackson Bldg., Ottawa;
Secretary-Treasurer, :\lis!' A. G. Tanner, Civic HLsl-i-
tal, Ottawa: Distn"ct No.9: Chairman, :\li88 Katherine
:\facKenzie, 1
5RecondAve. \V., North Bay;fo'ecretary-
Treasurer, ì\hss Robena Buchanan, 197 First .-\ve. E.,
:'\lorth Bay; District No. 10: Chairman, :\Ir!l. :\fariol1
Edwards, 226.
. Harold
t., Fort William; Secretar)-
Treasurer, :\hss Ethel Stewftrdson, :\ff'Kellar GenHlil
HOflpital. Fort William.
District No. II Re
lstered :'IIurses \ssoclatlon
of Ontario
Chairman, :\Iiss D. :\1. Percy; \"i('e-Chairman, :\li
1'
:\1. B Anderson; :-:ecretary- Treasurer, :\liss A. G.
Tanner, Ottawa Civic I1C'spital; CouncillorR. :\liB8r"
E. C.
lcIlraith, :\1. Graham, :\1. Slinn, .-\. Brady,
:\1. Robertson, R. Pridmore; Conl1eners of CommIU
8:
:\Iembership. Miss E. Ro('hon; PubliC'ations, :\liF!'\
E. C. l\IcIlraith; Nursing Education. :\1iss :\1. F.
.\cland; Prir;ate Duty, :\Ii"," .Y. L. ('hur('h; PIlNic
Health. :\Iisll :\1. Rorn-rtf'on.
DI!ltrlct :\"0. 10, R
lsten:d
ursps .\ssociation
of Ontario
President. :\liss \'. T ",,'elace; \"ice-Prt'llident. :\Iiss :\1.
Hamilton; ::5ecretary Treasurer, !\IiI's E. ::5tewardllon.
:\Id\.ellar General Hospital, Fort William; Coul1('illorø:
:\Iiss Jane Hogarth, :\liBII 1\1. WallaC'e, :\lil!8 C. Lemon,
:\lil!8 C. Chi\"Pl'II \\ il"on. :\Ii"" Flannillan. :\fi"" lrpnf'
lIihditf.h.
I
RI
(;E ED\V ARU ISLA "D
Prince Fd
ard Island Reai!ltered 'ur!le!l
A8!loclatlon
I're!'idf'nt, :\liBS Lillian Pidl!:f'on, Prime ("0. II. IIpital.
SummerRidp; \"i('e-Prf'lliòpnt, :\fi!'R :\1. KinJ/:. ('harlotte-
twon Hospital; Sef"rptary, :\liBII :\1. ('ampbell, 8 Grsfwn
;o;t., Charlottetown; Trea!lurH and HeJ/:Ü'trar, :\JiM
Fdna Green, 257h Quet'll ;o;t., Charlflttetfl\\u; .VursilfU
Edllcatinn. :\IiSR
1. La\"f'n., Prinf'e Co. HOIIpital.
;o;uml11er!lide; Public lI..alth, :\Ii!\(l I. Gillan. 59 Grafton
:-'t.. (,harlotteto\\n; Private Dllty, :\li"l1 :\1. Gamble, 51
.\mbrORf'
t., ('harlottptown; HpprellPntati\ f' to TI...
('anadian Nllrfl.... 'Ii"" \lInn \fair. I'.F'- HOlipitRI.
(,hnrlottf'to" n
QUEBEC
THE CANADIAN NURSl::.
13Ó
,\ssociation of Re
istered Nurses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
.\dvisory Board: :\Iisses :\Iary Samuel, :\label F
Hersey, C. :\1. Watling, Rp\'. 1\1ère :\1. V. .\lIaire, Hpv.
:-5oeur Ste. hidora; President, Mil's C. \" Barrett,
H.oyal \'ictoria :\Iontreal :\Iaternity Hospital; \ï,'e-
President (Engli!'h), MiRS :\1. L. :\Ioag, \'ietorian Order
of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St., :\lontre31; Yi!"e.President
\French), Rév.
oeur Allard, Hôtel-Dieu de :'t. Joseph,
)'lontreal; Hon. Secretary, :\liBB Esther Reith, Child
Welfare Assoeiation, Forum Bld
., :\Iontreal; Hon.
Treasurer, :\liss M. E.
ash, \ïctorian Order of Nurf'C!',
1246 Bishop St., :\Iontreal. Other :\Iembers: :\liFf<
)'Iabel Ie Holt, The Montreal General Hospital,
:\Iademoillelle Edna Lyn!"h, Nursing Supervisor, :\Ietrr,-
politan Life Insurance Co., :\Iontreal, R{'v. Soeur St.
.Je3n de l'Eucharistie, Hõpital
otre Dame, :\-lontreal.
:\liss :\Iarion Lindeburgh, Hchool for Graduatf' NurRf'I',
:\leGill University, Montreal, Mademoiselle \Ie"ina
)'larchessault, Eeole d'Hygiène Social Appliquéi',
Fniversité de :\lontreal. C01il'enpr8 of Section8: Prim II
Duty, (English), :\liss C. M. Watling, 1230 Bishop St.,
:\Iontreal; Private Duty (French), :\Iademoiselle .\lice
L?pine, H!>pital Notre Dame, :\Iontreal; .Vursing Edu-
c'ltion (En!dish), :\Iiss :\Iartha Batson, The Montreal
Ceneral Hospital, :\Iontreal; Nur8ing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Augustine. Hôpital St. ,Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Health, Mi'!s Christine
Dowlin
, \ï!"torian Ordf'r of Nurses, 1246 Bi"hnp
t.,
:\lolltrcal; Bmlrd of E....al1l1ners, .\li",,, Ulga \. LIlly
< Com'ener) , Royal \'ietoria :\lontreal .:\Iaternity HOf-
pital, :\lif\S :\Iarion Lindehurl!:h, Sehool for Graduatf'
'\urses, :\leGi!l Uni\'ersity, :\Iontreal; :\1iss Katherine
\1I1!"N. :\laeLennan, .\le"andra Hospital, :\10ntreal;
)'lellt'. Edna Lynch, 4642 rue ::::t. Denis St., :\Iontreal;
:\11'111'. Laura
eneeal, núpital
otre Dame, :\Il>ntreal;
.\Ielle. ,\. :\larr.he!'sault, a256 avenue Laeombe, :\Iont-
real; EXt'I'uti \'e :'el"retary, ReJ!"istrar aud Offieial
('hool
\ïsitor, :\Iif'f' r.. Franees rpton, Room
21. 1396 :'t
Catherine :'t. \\'" :\lontreaI.
SASKATCHE\\ A:\
Saskatche\\an Registered Nurses \ssociation
(Incorporated \1 arch. 1917)
I'relÚdent, :\Ii8!'> Edith .-\ma", ('ity Ho"'pital,
BBl..a-
toon; First \ïee-President, :\1:"8 Huhy :\1.
irnpB0I1,
Department of Publil' Health, Hegina; tieeond \ïct'-
President, :\lis!'> Helen B. :-:mitl.. General Hl;spital,
Hegina; C'olIIwillors, :\Iiss .Jean \leDonald, 1122 Rae
St., Regina, :\Iiss Elizabeth Smith, X..rmaI School,
:\Ioose Jaw; COllIlP1IerS of Standing Committee8: Nursino
Education, :\liE's Gertrude 1\1. Watson, City Hospital,
f>allkatoon; Pub/ir Health, :\h's. E. 1\1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Publie Health, Reg-ina; Private Du('I, :\Iis!! 1\1.
H. Chisholm, 805-7th .\ve. N., Sasl..atoon; Legislatioll.
:\Iiss R. :\1.
impBon, Regina; :-:e!"retary-Treasurer aud
HelZistrar, :\Iil'f' :\Ianwret TIo!'!'. -II) -\n,lZlIf\ Crpf\cpnt,
Re
ina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate
urses
Hon. Prel'ident, Dr. H. .-\. Gibson; President, l\1i"R
1'. Gilbert; First Vice-President. Miss K. Lynn; Second
\'ice-President, Miss F. Shaw; Recordin
and Acting
('orrespondin!!: Secretary, Mrs. F. V. I(ennpd
', 1307
First Ht. \\.; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1. \\' att.
Edmonton .\ssociation of Graduate Xurses
President, :\liBS Ida Johnson; First \ï!"e-Pre!'>ident,
:\liss P. Chapman; Second Vice-President, :\Iiss E.
Fenwick; Hecording Secretary, 'Iiss \'iolet Chapmall,
Hoyal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton; Press and
Corresponding Secretary, Miss ('low. 111
8 Whyte
,\ve., Edmonton; Treasurer, Miss :\1. Staley. m,
f.;-
108th St., Edmonton; Registrar, :\Ii
'! Sproule, llI:
"
\\'hyte .\ve., Edmonton.
edicine Hat Graduate l\urses .\ssociation
President, l\liss :\1. Hagerman; First \ïce-President,
:\liss Gilchril't; Second Vice-President, :\Iiss J. Jor
en-
son' Secretary, Miss :\Iay Heid,
url'es' Home;
Tre
surer, !\Iiss F. Ireland, 1st St., Medicine Hat:
('ommittee COIlrl'lIers: New :\Iembership, 1\lrs. C.
Wright; Flower, Mrs, M. Tobin; PrÙ'ate Duty 8pclÙ;Jn,
Mrs. Chas. Pickering; Correspondent, The Ca1/adzan
.vurse, :\lif\s F. Smith. Rel!:ular meetinj!; firf\t Tllf':-d!l
'
in month.
BRITISH COLU\1BIA
elson Graduate Xurses Association
!Ion. President, :\Iiss Y. B. Eidt, Aetin!!: SlIperillten-
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital; President
:\liss K. Gordon; First Vice-President,
Iiss :\1. :\Iad-
den; Second Vice-President, l\liss S. Archibald; ::::eere-
tary-Trpaf\lIrer, l\liss Edna Fraf'er, Bo" 1105, Nelf'on,
B.C.
Vancouver Graduate
urses Association
President, :\Irs. \\' estrnan, 800 ('assail' St., \" ancouvcr;
Firf't \'iee-Pref'ident, ì\li
s ,Jane .Johnstone, Ste\'e!'ton,
B.C.; f>e!"ond \ïee-President, :\Iiss E. Berry, St. Paul'!"
Hospital;
eeretary, :\liss F. \\'alker, Vancouver Gen-
eral Hospital; Treasurer, :\Iiss L. Archibald, 536 Wel't
12th Ave.; Couneil, :\Iis"ef' K. Sanderson, Kilburn, G.
:\1. Fairley, \\ï"'mer and M. F. Gray. Financp, :\Iil'f
Teulon, 138.') Wel't 11th Ave.; Directory, Mi"I' K
:\Iotherwell, 1047 West 10th .\\'e.; :-;ocial,
Iisl' A. ,J.
:\lar'Leod, Vaneou\',..r General HOI'Ipital; Pro
ramme,
:\1 j"" H. DonaldRon, :,t. Panl'!' HOf\pital; :'i(." \ï!'itinj!",
:\liR!' ('. Cookf'r, \' aneouver General IloE'pi tIt!; ?\Ielll-
bership, illrs. Blankenbaeh, 18lti W eflt 36th .\ \"C,;
Lo!"al Couneil of Womp!}, :\lisf\PS Duffield and Gray;
Prp!'R, .\Ir!'. E. Simml', Yan!"oll\'er Gplleral Hospital
Victoria Graduate 'urses .\ssociation
Hon. Presidellts, :\Iisf' L. :\Iitchell, :'il'ter :'uperillr
LudoviC'; President,
\1iss E. .J. Herbert; First \'ice-
President, :\Iis!' D. Frampton;
eeond \ïee-Preøident.
:\Ii:-s C. :\I!" Kf'nzie; Secretary, :\Iiss I. HeIl-"ef'ell;
Treasurer, :\Iiss W. Cooke; Re
istrar, l\liss E. Franh,
1035 Fairfield Road, \ïctoria; ExecutÏ\'e Committee,
.\liE'I' E. B. Strachan, :\liSR H. Cruikshankf', :\1 il"!' T.'.
\11.J)nmllrl, \fi!'f\ C. ](enn
', :\Iif\f' E. Cftnlf'rfln.
\IA
ITOBA
Hrandon Craduate Xurses Association
lIon. President, :\li!'R E. Birtle,,; Hon. \ïce-Pn:sidellt,
:\Irs. W. :-:hil:inJ!law; Pre!'>ident, :\Iif\f\ E. G. :\Ie
ally;
First \ïce-Pre!'idt'nt, .\Iisf' .Janet \nderson; Second
\ïee-President, :\11'1'. Lula Fletchf'r; :-iel'retary,
1iSf'
.Jessie 'lunl"O, 243 12th ::O:t.; Treasurer, :\lrs. :\1. Lon
;
('onrcJlPrs of Commilteefl:
ocial and Proj!"ramme, 1\lrs.
Eldon Hanllah; :-:iek and \ïf\itin
.
Irs. Rowe Fisher:
Welfare, :\Iiss Gertrude Hall; PreRs Hepr'rter, Mis!'
Helen
lorriR(III; Cook Book, :\fr!'. .J. ?\1. Kainl':
Bel!"if'tmr, :\Ti!'!' C. \1. :\1adporl.
ONTARIO
Graduate Nurses Alumnae, \\'elJand
lIon. President,
liss E. Smith,
uperintndellt,
\\ elland General Hospital; Hon. \ïce-President, :\lis8
:\1. Hall, Weiland General H..;;pital; President, Mis!'
D. ::;aylor; Vice-l'reMident. :\liRR B.
aunders; Secretary.
:\Iiss :\1. Rinker, 28 Division ;o;t.; Treasurer. :\Iisf\ B.
Eller; E"eeutive, Misses :\1. Pf'drlie, \1. Tuftl', B.
('Iothier !InrI i\lr!'. P. Braf'forrl.
QUEBEC
(;raduate 'urst's Association of the Eastt'rn
Townships
Hon. Pre"ident, :\lis!' Y. Heane; I'reRident, :\list< E.
Heall; \'ice-President, :\lisR G. Dwaine; ('orrel'ponding
Fe!"retary.
lis8 F. Wardleworth: He!"ording
ec'retary,
:\Iiss Harvey; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\lar
1Iret Hobin!!;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, :\Iiss C. Horn-
by, Box 324,
herbrooke. Rpprf'!'f'ntati\'e, PrÙ'nl,. f)./ff/
S.,.diml, :\Iisf\ E. :\Iorri!'sptte.
OFfICIAL DIRhCTOR Y
:\IO
TREAL
\lontreal {;raduate
urses :\ssociation
Hon. President, :\Iiss L. C. Phillips; President, :\1is"
('hri",tine Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First \'ice-Presi-
.Ient,
Iiss G. Allison; Second \'ice-President,
Irs. .-\.
:-;tanley; F:ecretary- Treasurer and :\ïl1;ht Registrar.
'Iiss Ethel ('!ark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrar,
:\Iiss Kathleen Bliss: Relief Registrar.
liss H.
1.
:-;utherland; Convener Griffintown Club, Miss G.
Culley. Regular :\'Ieetinl!:, Hecond Tuesday of January,
fir:o<t Tlle!'rla
' of ,-\pril. Octoher anrl December.
137
ASKATCHEWA
\Iuu
e Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hun. President, :\Irs. 1\1. Young; President :\list!
H. Last; First Vice-President, :\'Iiss C. l{ier; Second
\'ice-Prel!ident, :\In!. W.
Ietcalfe;
cretar)'-TreB8urer
:\Iiss J. :\Ioir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; Conllener
f!! Committees: Nursif}(J Education, :\lrs. ?\1. Young,
::-r. :\Iary Raphael, 1\hss E. Jensen; Private Duty, :\li88
E. Wallace, Miss E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, Mill8
J. Casey; Public Health. Registrar, MiBS C. Kier; Pro-
gramme, :\lissG. Taylor; Sick Visiting, MiBSL. Trench:
So
ial,
Iiss M. Armstronl!;; Cons.titution and By-La\\s.
1\hss E. Lamond; RepresentatIVe to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss ,I. Gall: PreBB Repre"entfttivf', "no. .J
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
IA..NITOBA
.-\. \., 1101) Cross Hospital, Calgar)'
President, l\Irs. L. de f'atge; ''ice-President,
'Ii!!8
.\. Willison; Recording
ecretary, 1\liss E. Thorn;
('orresponding Secretary, :\1iss P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
,.urer, :\Iiss 8. Craig; Honorary l\lembers, Re'-.
opur
:'t. Jean de I'Eucharistie, .\liss 1\1. Bro\\n.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. :\luIlJ'()e; President, :\Ir!".
::;cott Hamilton; First \'ice-President, :\'Iiss \'. Chap-
man; ðecond \'ice-President, :\lrs. C. Chinneck;
Recording Recretary, Miss G. .-\llyn; COIrespondinl!:
;o;ecretsry, Miss ,\. Oli,'er. Royal .-\le"sndra Hospital.
A..\. University of \Iberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. Pre!'ident, :\liss E. Fen\\ick; President, :\Iiss
\1. Reed: First \'ire-President, Mi!'s L. Gourlay;
:-'e('ond \'i,'e-Presidpnt, :\Iiss n. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, :\Iiss A. Revell; Currespondinl!: :-:ecretary,
Iiss
D. Dm:bury, University HOE'pital; Treasurer. :\Iiss :\1.
Rowles, University Hospital; Exe('lIti\'e, :\Ii!'!'e!' .\L
Gordon, I. RORs, A. Raker.
\.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Hon. President. :\li!<s F. E. \\ elsh: President, :\lr8.
B. I. Love; ''ice-President,
Iiss O. Scheie: Secretary-
rreasurer, Mrs. C. Crail!:. :!IJ"amao: Currespondinl!:
:'ecretary,
Iiss F. E. Heid, l009-20th Avenue, W..
( 'all!:ary; ('om'ener, So('ial ('ommittee. :\1r... H. :-:heftr!'.
BRITISH COLU\IBIA
.\..\., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancou
t'r
lIuu. President, Hev. Sister t;uperior; Hon. \ iet'-
President, ::;ister Therese Amable; President. Miss n.
GeddeR; \'ice-President, Mi..s R. McKernan; Recretary,
:\Iiss F. Treavor, ASflistant Secretary, :\Iiss V. Dyer:
freasurer, \liss R. :\Iuir; Executive, !\Ii!'ses M. Me'-
Donald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pellr!'e,
. rhri!'tif'.
H. :\11.Gillivary, K \1..Donald.
A.A., \"ancouvt'r {;eneral Hospital
Pre...idt'nt, :\lisB :\1. Lunan; First ''ice-President,
.\Irs. C'. II. C. Bell; !'econd \'ic-e-President. :\Irs. K.
Craig;
e('retary,
liss I. Collier; ('orre"pondinl!:
ecre-
:ary, :\Iiss K. Ht'aney, \'ancouver General HOl:'pital;
('ommittte Conl'eners: Pru
ramme.
li!'R .-\. rr()ll.
'lemhpr8hip, Miss V. PeterR:
i('k Bent'fit, :\Irs. :\Iait-
land; Hefreshments, :\Iiss J. Hunter; Press,
lrs. G. E.
Gilliei\; Tre'lsurer and Bund'!,
Iiss Geary, 3176 \\'e..t
:?ncl ,\ \'e.; Repre"entnti\'e, \'.G. X..-\., :\1 iR" Hhoelc-".
A.A., Jubilee Hospital. \ Ictoria
Hun. Preeident,
liBS L. Mitchell; Presideut, :\Iis
.Jean Moore; First Vice-President. :\Irs. Y ork(': Reconil
\'ice-President.
Iiss J. Grant; Recretary, :\Irl. .\
Dowell,
O Howe St.; Assistant Secretary, :\Iise J.
:,tewart; Treasurer, \IiBS r Todd; Entertainm('ut COni'
lIIittee,
Ii!lfl T Gow:nrl: Si.." "lllr!'e. \Ii!'!' E. Vf'\\man
A.A., Children's Hospital. \\Innlpeg
Hun. President. :\liss :\1. B. ,-\llan; Presidrnt, :\lIs!
Catherine Day; First Vice-President, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss "..
I. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1. D. HUjZ:hes; Rick ''isitin
.
\Iis!! Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, :\Irs. Oeo. Will'()n.
\.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
lion. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, :\liss K
\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Cr.. Norwood; First ''ice-
President, :\Iiss H. Stephen, 15 Ruth Apts., :\Iaryland
St., Winnipeg; !'econd Vice-President. :\liss :\1. :\Iadill,
:'t. Boniface Hospital; Secretary. 1\liss J. Archibald.
Shriner's Huspital, Winnipeg: TreB8urer, Miss E.
ðhirley, 14 Kinl!: George Ct., Winnipeg; Social ('om-
mittee, MisR E. Banks (Convener). 64 ('roBS Ht.,
\\'innipel!:, .\liss J. Williamson, Miss A. Nelson; Sick
''isiting Committee. Miss T. Grenville (C'onvener), 211
Hill St.. Norwood; Miss I\:. Ru"an, :\Iiss J. Greij;t:
Press Representative, :\liss B. Altman, 420 Collel!:('
.\ve., "'innipe
; Representatives to Local Council of
',"omen. :\Iiss B. Altman (Con\,pner), .\Iis" B. Chandler.
\liRfI .\1. f'pooner.
\.A., Winnlpell General Hospital
Hun. President, :\Irs. A. W. :\1 oody , 97 Ash
I.,
President, Miss E. Parker, Suite. 24. Carlyle .-\pts., 580
Broad\\ay; First Vice-President, :\lrs. C. Y. Comb('!\,
,')30 Dominiun St.; Second ''ice-President. Miss J. Mc-
Donald, Deer Lodl!:e Hospital: Third ''ice-President,
.\Iiss E. Y uBBack. 867 Mal/:nus .-\ ve.; Recurdinll: Secre-
tary, Miss J. Landy, Winnipell General Hoepital:
Corresponding Secretary, Mis" :\1. Graham, Winnipt'1[
General Hospital; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1. C. McDonald.
Central Tuberculosis Clinic; :\fembership, :\Iit<s 1.
Hamsay. Central Tuberculosis Clinic; Sick \'isitinjZ:.
'Iiss ,J. MorR'an, 102 Rose St.; Entertainment, :\Irs. C.
:\lc:\lilIan. Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of Journal,
:\Iisfl R. Monk, 134 Westl!;ate; BusineBB Manap:er. l\Iill8
E. Timlick, Winnipeg General Hospital; ;o;pec-ial Com-
mittee. :\Ii!'!' P. Bro" nell. 21.'i Chp"tnllt St.
EW BRUNSWICk
.\.A., Saint John General Hospital
lIun. President, Miss E. .J.
Iitchell; President, :\1 fl'.
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, Mi"'fI F. I.. Hen-
derson; Second Vice-President. :\lrs. F. 1\1.
IcKelvP);
:-:ecretary, Mrs. J. E. Beyea, 121 Union ðt.,
aint John,
:'\J.B.; Treasurer, MiBB hate Holt: .-\dditional member,,_
.\lre. J. H. Vaughan. \lrs. H H. \lcLellan, \Irto. \
G. ('linch.
A.A., L. P. Hsher Mt'nlorlal HO!lpllal. \\oodtltoc:k
Hon. I'rcsidpnt, Miss Eltoie Tulloch: Preeident, 1\11'I!.
lIarry Dunbar; \'ice-Prt'l'idpnt, :\liBS Gladys Hay\\ard:
:'ecretary- Treal\\1rer. :\IiM Pauline Palmt'r: Board of
Directurs: ^fiS8 G. Tams, \lrs. n. :->utton, :\trs. Fulton,
:\liBS :\1.
amphier, MiBS N. Venel!l!: Com mitt e Con-
"eJlers: Program mil. Mrs. P. Cald"ell. :\Ii.. E. Kerr.
'liBS E. Dunbar, :\liN B. Bellil;
i,'k \'iliitinR'. 'Ii. If.
CumminR'lI, :\oliN D. PeKh..ch, \Ii"" \lpr-ere,,".
Frlitor, 'filii! \1.
Rmphipr.
138
THE CANADIAN NURSr
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Florence Ml'lndoo; President,
:\lisB Reta Fitzgerald; \lce-Pre8ident, Mrs. J. Andrews;
:-:ecretary, :\Iiss L
mith; Treasurer, Miss :\Iarion
MacFarlane; Flower Committee, :\IisB Betty :\IeEwan;
Representati'"e to The Cal/adt'an NrlrM', :\lilO" H.
Thompson.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. :\1. McKee; President, :\Ii
s
K. Charnley; Vice-President, Miss G. Turnbull;
:-:ecretary, :\-liss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte :-'t., Brant-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
:\Iiss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
:\In. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
:\1iss W. Laird, Miss M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
:\1iss J. Edmondson, Mrs. E. Claridge; The Canadian
.Vurs8 and PreB8 Representative, Miss H. Diamond;
Chairman. Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole;
Representative to I,ocal Council of Women, l\lifls R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President.
:\Irs. H. B. White; First Vice-President, Miss 1\1.
Arnold; Second Vice-President, :\Iiss J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
:\liss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Vandusen, 65 Church
t.;
Representative to Thc ('anadt'an NlIrs(', :\fiss Y.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
lion. President, Miss P. Campbell; President, :\liss
13. Pardo; Vice-President. :\Iiss K. Crack!p; Second
Vice-President, :Miss F. Houston; Recordin
Seeretary,
Miss E. Craig; Correspondin
:-;pcretary, :\li8S R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretary, :\liss :\1. Stacey; Treasurer,
:\Iiss B. Haley; Press Corre8pondent, :\Ii8s R. Baker;
('ommittt'e Convener,
: Refreshment, l\Iiss :\1. '\Ïckett;
Buyinl!, !\'lis8es ,J. Finney, :\1. :\lcNau!!hton and :\11'10.
H. F. :\Iitchell; Floral, :\li8S E. 01'1'; Social, :\1rs. T.
Burke; Councillors, Misses Y. Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; RepreBentative to The Canadian Nllr.
t',
:\Iiss P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Mother :\Iary; Hon. Vice-President,
::,ister l\>1. Consolata; President, Miss :\Iary Doyle.
Vice-President, Miss Marian Kearns; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Letty Pettypiece; Executives, Misses
Hazel Gray, Jessie Ross. Lena Chauvin, I. Salmon,
Representative to The Canadian Nurse. :\Iiss Ruth
Winter; Representative District No. 1, R.N.A.O.,
:\fiss .Jean Lundy.
CORNWALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
lion. President, Mrs. J. Boldick; President, :\I..;s
:\lary Fleming; First Vice-Pre8ident, Miss Kathleen
Burke; Second Vice-President, Miss Bernice McKillop;
::;ecretary- Treasurer, Miss C. Droppo, Cornwall General
Hospital; Representative to The Canadian Nllrsp, Misfl
H. C. Wilson, Cornwall General HOflpital.
GALT
.\.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President. :\Iiss A. Cleaver; Prel::!ident, :\lil::!"
:-.. Mitchell; Secretary, Miss L. MacNair, 91 Victoria
.\ve.; Assistant Secretary. Mil's T. Rainey; Treasurer,
Miss A. MacDonald; Flower Convener, :\Iiss Ruther-
ford; Representative to The Canadian NUr,
e anrl Press
BepresentatÏ\'e, 'lil'8 M. Vandyke.
Gl'ELPH
.\.A., Guelph General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss S. A. Campbell, Supt. Guel{Jh
General Hospital; President. Miss C. S. Zeil!ler; First
\"ice-President, :\Iiss D. Lambert; Second Vice-Presi-
dent. MiB8 M. Darby; Secretary, :\liss N. Kenney;
freasurer, Miss J. 'Vatson; Committees: Flower, Mis8
R. Speers. Miss I. Wilson; Social, Mrs. 1\1. Cock well
(Convener); Programme, Miss E. 1\1. Eby (Convener);
RepresentatÍ\'e to Th. ranadinn Nurs(, \li!"s 'Iarioll
\V ood
H-\MILTO!\
A..\., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. C. HaY8ide; President, :\11':-.
It. Hess; \Ïl'e-President. Mi8s 1\1. Bain; Recordin
ecretaq', 1\Iifls :\1. Matheson; Corresponding SeC'rc-
tary, :\IISfl l
. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
Treasurer, :\Il
S J. Jarkson, 326 Main 'V.; Assistant
Treasurer, :\lIss G. Hodjlson; SpC'retary-Treasurer,
:\1 utual Benefit Association, :\-lil's O. \V atson, 145
Emeralcl S.; Committee Conveners: Executive, Miss H.
.-\itken; Flo\\er, Miss A. Squires; Programme. Miss
:\1. Gosnell; Registry. Miss N. Thompson; Budl!et,
:\1rs. 1\1. Barlow; Reprp!"pntatÏ\"e to Tht' ('anru[-an
Nurse,
1iss A. Rcheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
llt,n. President, :\Iother Martina; President, :\liss
Eva :\Io.ran; Vice-President, Miss F. Nicholson; Secre-
ta
y, 1\hs
Mabel :\IacIntosh, 168 Ray St.; Treasurer,
:\I
ss 1\1. Kell:y; REpresentative to The Canadian Nurse,
:\hss B. 1\11' I'l..enna, 277 Herkimer St.; Repreflpntativp
R.N.A.O., :\lisA ,J. :\Iorin.
KINGSTO!\:
.\.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
:\11'8. '\. G. Elder; \ÏC'e-President, Mrs. A. Hearn'
I'ecretary,
Iiss Olive :\IcDermott; Treasurer, Mis
G
nevieve Pel()\\; Executive, :\Irs. L. Cochrane,
:\hsAes K. McGarry, 1\.1. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
Committep, Misses N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee. :\In.. R. \\.
('larke, :\Iifll'es N. Hil'key, H. Watson.
A.A., Kin
ston General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Lousie D. Acton; President,
:\Iiss Ann Baillie; First Vice-President, Miss Carrie
:\lilton; Second '
ice-President, Miss Olivia M. Wilson,
Third Vice-President, Miss A. Walsh; Secretary. MisA
.-\nna Davis, 464 Frontenac St.; Treasurer. Mrs. C. ,,,.
:\IaUory, 203 Albert St.; Comener: Flower Committee.
:\Irs. Sidney Smith, 151 Alfred St.; Press Representa-
tive, Miss Mary Wheeler, I(ingston General Hospital;
Private Duty Section. :\1iss ConstanC'e fo:andwith, 2
fi
\lfred Rtreet.
h.ITCHENER
\..\., ....itchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss K. W. Scott; President, Mrs
Wm.
oll; First Vice-President, Mrs. W. Ziegler;
Second Vice-President, :\li8s Elsie Trouse; Secretary,
:\Iiss \\Ïnnifred Ne!son, Apt. D., 58 Albert St. N.;
-\I'sistant-Secretary, :\liF:- .Jean Sinclair; Treasurer,
\lisfI :\1. 01'1'.
LI NDSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
lIon. President, .:\liss E. S. Reid; President, Miss L
.J. Harding; First \ ice-President, Mrs. O. Walling:
:-:econd Vice-President, Mrs. M. I. Thurston; Corres-
ponding
ecretary, :\1rs. .J. S. Morrison, 46 ColbornI'
St. W.; Trea8urer, Mrs. G. R. Allen; Flower Convener,
:\Iiss D. :\1. Smith; Rocial Convenpr, Miss K. R.
\ I ortimore.
LONDO!\:
.\..\., Ontario Hospital
Ilon. President, :\Iiss :\Iary L. .Jacobs; President,
:\Iiss N. :\1. Williams, 35 Edward Rt.; First Vice-Presi-
rlent, :\Irs. V. :\1. Reilly; Semnd Vice-President, :\lifllO
F. H. Ball; Secretary, \Irs. E. D. Grosvenrr, 52 Doulton
,-\ "1'.; Treasurer, :\Iiss E. I\:ennedy, Ontario Hospital;
Social Committee, :\IiAses 1. LindlOay, r.. Kelly; PreFIO
HeprPFPntati,'e. :\Ii!"!" F. :Aurls.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lIon. Presidcnt, "other :\1. Patricia; lion. \ ice-
President, Sistpr :\1. Ruth; President, :\Iiss Olin-
O'
eil; First \Ïce-Pre<iident, :\Iiss l\Iadalene Baker;
:-'eeond \Ice-President, l\Iiss Erla lleger; Recording
Secre.ary, 1\.'Iiss Gladys :\lartin; ('orrpsponding Secre-
tary, Miss Irene Griffen; Treasurer. :\Iiss Gladys Gray;
Press Representative, Miss Stella Gigna('; Hepresenta-
tives to Rc
istry, I}
arrl, ''Ii!"!"p,,, Bhp3 TImmtt, Cpc;11'
13ttery, Ohvp () :\1'11.
t )FFI( ïAL IHRH 'T()R Y
A..\., Victoria HONpital
110n. Pre8ident, :\li!'B Hilda
tuart; Holl. \"iee-Pre,..i-
dent,
Ir!'. A. E. "ilverwood; Prpsident, :\Iiss M. :\1.
Jones, 25ï Ridout :'t. :-:.; First Vice-President :\liss H.
I
uston; Seco
d \ïce-P!,eBident, :\tiB8:\1. :\I<-Í.aughlin;
I reaBur
r, :\lIl;1s T? :\ tkmson, 1 ï 4 Lanl!:arth
t.;
erre-
tary, 'lis!' F. QUll!:ley; Corre!'ponding tìerretary. :\lir;>s
:\1.
mith. \ïetoria Hospital; Board of Dirertors, :\Iisses
(". Gillies. A.
talloch, .J. Mortimer, :\1. Y ulp. C
:-:kmner. 'Ir". r. RO!<e.
"0;1 \G.-\RA F:\LLS
.\..\., :-"ia
ara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, :\liss :\1. S. Park; President, :\1 ib5
G. Thorpe; First \ïce-President, :\liss H.
chofield'
econd \ïce-President.
Iiss K. Prest;
ecretary:
T
eaBurer. :\liss I. Hammond, 6:H Ryerson Crescent.
Iagara Fa!!s; Corresponding
e("retary, :\Iiss F.
Loftus; Auditors. :\Irs. :\1. :::ilaarpe, :\Iiss F. Loftus;
:-:ick Committee, :\Iiss \'. Coutts, 'Iiss ,-\. Pirie and
'Irs. ,J. Teal.
OR.\:\GEVILLE
.\..\., Lord Duffedn Hospital
11011. President, :\Irs. O. Fleming; President, :\Ii!;s
r.. :\1.
proule; First \ïce-President, :\Iiss V. Lee'
:-,econd \ïce-President, :\Iiss I. .-\llen; Correøpondin
:-;e
retary, :\Iiss :\1. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
'lis!' F. :\1. Ha)'\\ard; TreaBurer, \liss -\. Burke.
ORILLI.\
\.A., Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon. PreBident, Miss E. Johnston; President. :\Iis:'
G.
1. Went; First Vice-President. Miss L. Whitton'
:-,econd \ïee-Preøident, :\Iiss :\1. Harvie; ::;eeretary:
freasurer, Miss Alice 1\1. Smith, 112 Peter ::;t. X.
HeJl:ular :\leetinj!;-First Thursday of earh month.
OSII..\ W:\
.\..\., Oshawa General Hospital
Ilon. President, :\Iiss E. :\lacWilliams' President
:\Iiss JeB8ie McIntosh, 3!1 f'imcoe St. :'Il.; Vic
President:
:\liss Jean Thompson; Secretary, :\Iiss Jessie :\11'-
Kinnon, I:H Alice St.; .-\ssistant Secretary, :\Iiss Irene
Goodman, 512 Simcoe:-;t. N.; Corresponding Secretarv,
'Iiss Jean Stewart, 134 Alice ::;t.; Treasurer, :\Irt
. ,t.
Luke, :\Iaili!'on -\pts.. Rimeop Rt. :-'.
01'1'.\\\.\
.-\. \., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 19tH)
lion. President, :\Iiss :\1. :\. Catton, Carleton Place:
President, :\Iiss J. myth, Civic Hospital; Vice-Prpsident
:\Iiss :\1. :\Ic
iece, Perlpy Home; Seeretary, :\Ir".
H. L. :\Iorton, 29 Clegg :::it.; Treasurer, l\-liss :\1. C'.
:-,linn, 204
tanley .-\ ve.: Board of Directors, \1 iI's E.
:\lcColI. :\liss :::i. :\lcQuade, :\1iss L. Bedford. :\Irl;l.
E. C. Ehnitt; Representative to The Canadian .vurse,
\hss ,-\. Ebbs. 80 Hamilton Ave.; Representative to
C 'entral Registry, :\li8S H. Pridmore, flO Thiril -\\'1'.:
Pres!' "Hf'presentative, l\Iir;>s E. -\111'11.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
lI..n. President, :\1 iI's Gertrude Bennett; Pre:;idt'llt.
\Iiss Fclna Osborne; First Vice-President. :\Iiss Dorothy
\Ioxley;
ecund \'ice-Presidellt, :\liBS Lera BaITY; He-
....rding Recretary, :\Ii!\s :\IBrtha Mcintosh; rorres-
I'ondin
:-,ecretary, :\Iiss :\1. D(mney; Treasurer, Mis'!
\\ïnifred Gemmell; Councillors, :\Iiss K. Clarke, :\Iiss
\\" ebb, :\Iiss G. Froats, \lis!' H. Eddy, :\li!\fI E. Lyons;
Hepresentatives to Central HegiRtry, :\Iiss Inda hemp,
:\Iiss K. Clarke; Press ('orrespondent, \Iiss Evelyn
Pepper; Convener Flower Committee. :\Iis" \1. :\lIlc-
("allull1.
.\.A., Otta\\a General Hospital
11011. President, He\.
r. Flavie Donutille; Prel<idellt,
:\Iiss K. Bayley; First \ ire-Pre'liilent, Miss G. Clark.
econd Vice-President, :\Iiss :\1. :\Iunroe; :-,ecretary-
rreasurer, :\Iil's D. Kno"; :\Iembprship
ecretary.
:\lil's 1\1. Daley; RepreRentati\'es to Local Council of
\\" omen. :\Irs. J. ,-\. latimer, :\Irs. E. \'iau. :\Irs. L.
Dunne, :\1i8s F.
evins; Representative8 to Central
He
istry, :\liss:\1. O'Harp. :\liRS.-\. Stackpole; Hepre"f'Il-
tativf' to Thl" rnnnrlinn .Vllr.." 'Ii.." l\:ittv Ryan.
13t)
\..\.. St. Lukc's HObpital
Holl. Prel'iden_
, :\liss r.. :\la"\. well: President. :\11,;.,
1. :\lae.Laren; \ Ice-President, :\lis!' :\1. Lunan; f'f'('re-
tary, :\l1ss :\1. :'Ilelson, 44 First Ave.; TreaBurer, :\li8B
I. ,-\lla.
, 1188
ladsto
e -\\'e.; Central Rpgistry, :\liB8es
'I: \\Ilson, S. CarmIChael;
ominating Committee
;I
sses S. Clark,
. Carmichael., E. Y oun
; Representa:
.1\ e t
The ranadwn Nurse. '11!!s :\1. Drummond. CÏ\-i('
Ho"pltal.
0\\ El\ SOl":\ i>
.\.A., O\\cn
ound General and :\larine Hospital
Hon.. Presi
ent, :\I
ss B. Hall; Pre!!ident, :\Iiss F.
p; Flr
t \ ,ce-P!,e'!,dent. :\Iiss :\1. Paton;
econd
\ Ice-Pre'lldent. :\1I8S J. -\gnew; Secretary, :\Ii..s "\.
H
)bertson.. 4T3-12t
-':t. W.; Treasurer, :\Iir;>s .\.
\\ eedon; PII
,llIst, :\11!!fI R. Dunoon; Flo\\er Committee.
:\.Irs: :\lc:\11l1an; Programme Committee. :\Iiss :\1.
( rUickshank; f'iek Committee, :\Iiss :\1.
ill1; PreBII
R
present
tive, :\Iiss H. Walden; I
efreshment Com-
nuttee. :\h!'!! C. Penner; .-\uditor, :\Irl'. J(.hn!!ton.
PETERBORO
.\.A.. :"IIicholls Hospital
lIon. P!,eside
}t, :\Irs. E. 1\1. Leeson; Preí:!ident. :\Ii".s
,
. Dobb,
; FIrst \'ice-President, :\Iiss H. Russell;
=-,e
on
VIce-President,
Iis
L. Simpson; Secretary,
hs
. Battersby, 406 SherIdan St.; Treasurer, Miøø
:--'.\\ ood, 2.12 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Secretary,
s
\"
t,,
ar. :?'j'::J Park St.; Sorial ('onn'npr, :\fiss
S:\R:'I.I \
A..\.. Sarnia General Hospital
Holl. Preøiilent, :\Ii!'s :\1. Lee; PreRident :\Iiss L.
p
ist: \'i<<:e-President,
Iiss .-\. Cation; Secretary,
hss .-\. tì
lverthorn; Treasurer, Miss .-\. Wilson;
HepresentatJve to The Canadian Nurse. :\liss C. Med-
,'roft; Flo\\er Committee (Convener), :\Iiss D. Sha\\;
ProR'ramme and :O;ocial rommittPf>, :\tisll J.. Se,v:ri"t
STRATFORD
\. \.,
tratford General Hospital
HOIl. Prer;>ident, :\liBB .-\.
1. :\1 unn; Presidt'nt, :\liB8
I. .-\tt"ood; \'ice-President, :\Iir;>s :\1. :\lcMaster;
:O:ecretary- Treasurer, Mrs. J\:. Snider, 36 Douglas St.'
:-'ocial Convener, :\Iil;ls .\. HOf'k; Flo" er COll\'pnpr'
'I il'l' r. :-ìtaple". '
sr. C.\TIIERI
ES
.\. \., \lack Trainin
School
lion. President, :\lil'!I ,.\nne 'Wrill:ht, General Hospi-
tal; President, :\liRS Nora Nold, General Hospital;
First \ïce-President, :\Iir;>s !\Iar
aret 1\frClunie, 39
Chaplin Ave.; Second \ ice-Prellident, :\1iB8 Evel) n
Horton, Louth Rt.; Recretary- Treasurer, :\Iil's J. Hastie,
General Hospital;
ocial Committee.
liBB Aileen
Johnston, General Hospital, :\Iiss Donalda Veale, 35
-\cademy
t., :\Iifls Bernice Rule. UIì Weiland .-\"'e.;
Reprpsentative to The Canadian Nurse, :\1iss Feather-
stone. 17 Hainer
t.; Correspondent. :\liss Current;
Prol[r!\IIIJ1Ie Committee, :\Iiss Brubaker, I Fitz
prRid
t.
ST. TIIO\L\S
\.A., M('morlal Huspital
I\..n. Prf'..ident. :\Iit\l! Lucille -\rmstron
. :\Ielilorisl
Hospital; Hon. Vice-President, :\lill8 Mary Buchanall-
:\1f'lllorial Hospital; Prel'ident, :\Iit\l! :\Iar
aret BenJa,
fif'ld, :19 WelIillJl:ton :-:t.; Fir8t \ïee-Prpllidpnt, :\Iill"
Irenf' Garrow;
e('onrl \ïce-President. :\lillB Bell.,
:\Iitl'hner; Recordin
:-:el'retary, :\Ir!!. John :-:malp.
:
-I Erie f::t.; Corre"ponding Se('\'f'tary, :\Ii!<l' Floren('p
\ ork. 52 hains St.; rreasurer, :\liBB Irf>nc Blewett.
'\x Kains
t.; Representative to The Canadian Nurst',
'Iiss Irene Garro\\>, 2:1
I)rtle St.; Executive, J\liBllf>q
Hazel Har;>ti, nl!:" Lissa ('ranI', 'Iar) 01..p. \lr!!. -\IIPIl
Burrpll. '1\'8. Fh'in \\ illllon
TORo......ro
.\. -\.. (;race Hospital
lioll. Prt'"idt'nt. :\Ir!!. ('. ,I. C urrit'; l'rf>t<u]ent. :\Ir...
\\ . .1. Cryderman; Rerordi nl!:
erretary, :\1 il!l! Doris I
Kent: Correr;>pondinl[ Z::;el'retary, l\I iBII Lillian E. \\ 0011.
:!u :\Iason llhd., Torollto 1
: 1'rNIt<urpr \Ii"" ,. \I
f'lIiIlU. 19-1 C . lit! inR'hlllll :-'t
140
THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., The Grant .\-lacUonald Trainin
School
for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss Esther 1\1. Cook, 1=30 Dunn
-\ ve.; President, Miss Ida Weekes, vm Dunn A ve.;
Vice-President, Mrs. :\Iarion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss Norma l\lcLeod; ('orresponding Secretary,
.Miss Ethel Watson; Treasurer, :\Iiss Phyllis Lawrpnrp;
orial ('onvener, .\-liss Kathlppn ('uffp.
.\.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. President, l\lrs. Goodson; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dents, Miss Florence J. Potts, Miss Kathleen Panton;
President, Mrs. A. L. Langford; First Vice-President,
Miss Florence Booth; Second \Ïce-Prpsident, :\Irs. \V.
F. Raymond; Recording ðecretary, Mrs. Clarence
Cassan; Corresponding Secretary, Miss L. Loraine
YIorrison, 54 Sheldrake Blvd.; Treasurer, Miss Marie
Grafton, 534 Palmerston Blvd.; Social Convener,
Mrs. Cecil Tom; Flower Convener, Miss Alice Boxall;
Programme Committee. Miss Jean Masten; Publicity
Committee, Miss Margaret Collins; \Yelfare COIII-
mittee, Mrs. Dall Smith; Representa tive to Rpp:i8tr),
.\-fiss Florence Currie.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, Miss Alma Armstrong, Riverdale Hos-
pital; First Vice-President, Miss Gertrude Gastrell,
""iverdale HOI!pital; Second Viee-President, Mrs. F.
Lane, 221 Riverdale Ave.; Secretary, Miss Lexie
Staples, 491 ßroadview Ave.; Treasurer, Mrs. H.
Dunbar; Board of Directors, Miss K. :\Iathieson,
H.iverdale Hospital, Miss S. Stretton, 7 Edl!:ewood
-\ve., Miss E. Baxter, Riverdale Hospital, Mrs. E.
Quirk, 1{iverdale Hospital, Miss L. Wilson, 11 Sher-
wood Ave.; Presø and Publications, :\Iiss Laure!
Wilson, 11 Sherwood A ve.; Toronto.
:\.A., St. John's Hospital
lIon. President, Sister Beatrire, St. John's Convent;
President, Miss Susan Morgan, 322 St. Geor!!:e ::It.;
First Vice-President, Miss Nan Hetherinl!:ton, :'Ilurses'
Residence, Toronto General Hospital;
econd \Ïce-
President, Miss Kathleen Rurtchall, 28 .\-Iajor St.;
Recording Secretary, :Miss Helen Frost. 450 l\laybank
Ave.; Corresponding Secretary, .\-!iss .\-Iargaret Creigh-
ton, 152 Boon A ve.; Treasurer, Miss \\ innifred Webb,
77 Summf'rhill Ave.; Com;e1>ers: Entertainment Com-
mittee, Miss Nettie Davis, 32 Albany Ave.; Rick and
Visiting Committee, l\liss Gladys Batten, 32 -\lbany
Ave.; Press Reprpsentative. Mif\s Graee Dohprt:v, :?ß
orwood Road.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Mary Margaret; Presi-
dent, .\-lïsB M. Kelly; First Vice-President, .\-liss O.
Kidd; Second Vice-Presidf'nt, l\liss l\1. Daly; Record-
ing Secretary, :\Iiss .\-1. Goodfriend; Corresponding
Recretary, l\lis'! V. Hanley; Treasurer, .\-liss F. Robin-
son; Councillors. .\-lif\f\f'f\ -\. Timlin, L. Dunhftr. r.
Power, R. :\Ic('uf'.
A.A., St. .\-1ichael's Hospital
HOll. President, Rev. Sister Norine; Hon. \ïce-
President, Rev. Sister Jean; President. Miss Ethel
Crocker; First Vice-President, Mrs. Aitkin; Second
Vice-President, .\-liBB .\-lary Edwards; Third Vice-
President, .\-liss Helen Dunniu:an; Correspondinjl;
Secretary, Miss M. Doherty; Recordinl!: Secretary,
Miss Marie Melody; Treasurer, Miss G. Coulter, 42
Isabella St., Apt. 204, Toronto; Press Representative,
.\-liss May Greene; Councillors, Misses J. O'Connor,
M. Madden, H. Kerr; Private Duly: Miss A. Gaudet;
Public Health. Miss I. McGurk; Representative Cen-
tral Registry of Nurses, Toronto, .\-fiss :\1. .\-Ielody.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
Hon. Vice-President, Miss Jean Gunn; President.
.\-liss N. Fidler, Ontario Hospital, Whitby; FirE't
Vice-President. Miss J. Anderson; Second Yi(,f'-
President, Miss E. Mannin!!:; Secretary, Mrs. -\. W.
Farmer, 89 Rreadalbane St.; Treasurer, Miss E.
Robson, T.G.H. Residence; Assistant Treasurer, Miss
Forgie; Archivist, .\-liss Kniseley; Councillors, l\liss ,J.
Wilson, Miss Dix, l\liss Cryderman; Commit'ee Con-
l'eners: Flower, MiBB M. McKay; Prol!Tamme, Miss
E. Stuart; Press, MiBB M. Stewart, Ki. 5155; Insurancp,
Miss M. Dix; Nominations, Miss C. Soudwith; Social.
Miss J.
litchell; Elizahpth Fipld
mit"; ,rplll()ril1l
Fund, Miss Hannant
\..\., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Trainin
School for Nurses
Hon. President, :\1iss E. McLean, Toronto East
General Hospital; President, Mrs. E. Phili
s, 155
DonlandB .-\ve.; Vice-President,
Iiss J. Mc.\-Iaster,
155 Donlands -\ve.; Secretary-Treasurer. Miss N. ".
Wilson, 50 Cowan Ave.; Reprl'sentative to Central
He
istry, .\-lil"s :\1. Beston, 753 Glencairn Ave.; Misf\
13. Madnto'!h, 748 ::Ioudan Ave.; Representative to
H.:'Il.A.O.. .\-liRS B. \Iadntosh, 741' Soudan Ave.
.\..\., Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, .\-li!'s n. L. Ellis; President, :\li!'!<
F.. .\-Iatthews, 74 "estmount Ave.; Vice-PrPRident.
llss U. Colwell; Recordinjl; Secretary, Miss G. Pattu-
:"on; Secretary- Treaf'mrer, 1\liss Helen Stewart, Toronto
\\ estern H
pital; Repre8entati"e to The Canadian
.Yllr.
l', l\li!'!' F. Grf'pnawa
'.
,\.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President, l\liss Ross; President, .\-liB8 1\1.
'-I cClinchey; \Ïce- President, l\liss Jessie Gordon;
Corresponding
ecretary, l\liss .\-Iargaret Anderson,
Treasurer, l\Iiss I. Archibald, 659 Huron St.; Corrf's-
pondent to The Canadian Nurse, 1\'liss I. Onslow.
A.A., Women's Colle
e Hospital
Hon. Prf'Bident, Mrs. Bo\\man; Hon. 'ïee-President.
:\liss :\leiklejohn; President, :\Iiss Worth, 93
:karboro
Reach Blvd.; Secretary, :\oliss Free, 48 Northumberlanrl
:'t. TreaRurer; .\-lisl" Fra!'er, 125 Husholme Road.
\.A., Hospital Instructors and Administrator!';,
University of Toronto
Hon. President, :\Iiss E. K. Russell; Hon. \ïce-
President, Miss G. Hiscocks; President, !\Jiss Gladwyn
.Jones; First \Ïce-President, MisR l\I. McCamus;
Second Yice-Prf'sidf'nt, Miss E. Young; Secretary,
:\Jiss ('. ì\1. Cardwell. Toronto General HOI!pital;
Treasurer,
lif\sl\1. :\lcKay, Toronto General Hospital.
.\..\., Department of Public Health !\"ursin
,
University of Toronto
Hon. Prf'sident, :\Ii"l" E. K. Russell; Pre8ident, :\Iil'
Barbara Blackstoc'k; Vice-President, l\Iiss E. C. Cale;
Hecordinl!: Secretary, .\-liss I. Park; !,,;ecretary- Treasurer,
.\-liss C. C. Fraser, 423 Gladstone Ave.; Toronto, Ont.;
('()ntJeners: Social. .\-liss E. MacLauren; Provrammf',
\fi!'s :\IeNamara; \Iembf'rl"hip, .\-lisf\ Fdna Clarkf'.
A..\., Connau
ht Trainin
chool for 1'I.urses
Toronto Hospital, \\'eston
Hon. President, .\-li
!< F. .\-IacP. Dickson, Torunto
Hospital. Weston; '"ice-President, .\-liss .-\nn Bolwell,
Toronto Hospital. \\'ef\ton; Secretary, ì\liss G. Leem-
inl!:, Toronto Hm;pital, 'Vf'ston; Treasurer, .\-liE's R.
.\-lcKay, Toronto Hospital, \\"eston; Convener ot
Social ('omlllittee, .\-fil"!' .\-1. .Jonl'l", Toronto HOl"pitftl,
,,- f'''ton.
WIM)SOR
\.A., Hotel Dieu, Windsor
President, :\oliss :\Iary Perrin; First 'ïce-Pre8ident,
.\-Jiss Marie Odette; Second \Ïce-President, Miss Zoe
Londeau; Secretary, Miss 1\1. Spenee; Treasurer,
Iis!'
}l.lary Fener; Programme Committee, Misses H.
ì\lahoney, -\. Harvey, H. Slattery; Rick Committee,
.\-lisses R. Farrell, H. Greeny,ay, .\-1. McGl('ry; Social
('om mittel', Misses J. Londeau, N. \\'ebster, I. Reaume;
Correspondent to The Canadian Nurse. .\-liss ì\Iary
Finnf'llan. .\-Ipf'tinjl; I"econrl .\-Ionday eVf'ry month,
p.m.
WOOUSTOC"-
A.A., General Hospital
First Hon. President, .\-liss Frances :-;harpe; :-,eeuud
lion. President, Miss Helen PottE'; President, Mis!'
.\-Iabel Costello; \Ïee-President, .\-liss Anna Cook;
Recording Secretary,
Iiss Lila Jackson; Correspond-
ing Secretary and Press Representative, Miss Doris
('raig; 510 George St.; Assistant :-;ecretary,
liss Jean
Kelly; Treasurer, .\-Iiss :\l
ude Slal!:ht; Conveners .oj
Committees: Pro!!:ramme. MIss Ella Eby; Flower, MIs"
E. Wat80n; Soria!. .\-Ir!'. :\J,.Diarmid. .\-Ir!'. P .Johnl"on,
.\-lis!' Hastin!!::".
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
()l 'EHEC
L.\CHI:'\E
\. \., Lachine General Hospital
Hun. President,
liss :\1. L. Brown; President,
Irs.
H.ose Wilson; \ïce-President, :\Ii"" 1\1. :\lcNutt;
Secretary:Treasurer,
Iiss A. R,!y, 379
t. Cath.erine
t., Lachme; ExecutIve CommIttee. :\hss LapIerre,
lif's Byrns. :\leetinll, first :\Ionday of each month.
\IOI\TREAL
.\..\., Children's :\-Iemorial Hospital
HUll. President, :\liss A. Kinder; President,
li!-l" H.
Paterson; Vice-President., :\Iiss H. Xutall; Secretar
,
\Iiss J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.: Treasurer. :\li!'s
I.. Destromp; Executive Committee, :\liss E. Hillyard,
\:liss
1. Flander; :-,ocial Committee. couvener, :\lis!'
:\1. Gill, :\liss A. Adlington, .Miss
1. :\lcCallum and
\1iss .M. Robinson; Representative to The ('anadialL
Nurse, Miss Y. Schneider; Sick Nurf'e!' Cunlluittee. :\-li,,"
II. Fash.rbrook.
:\.A., Homeopathic Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. H. Pollock; President, :\lrs. J.
Warren; First \ïce-President, :\1iss
1. Bright;
econd
\ïce-President,
liss A. Porteous; I:;ecretary, :\Iiss \\ .
:\Iurphy; A8sistant Secretary. \Iiss l\1. Berry; Treas-
urer, Miss D. ".
Iiller; .-\ssistant Treasurer, l\Iiss
. G. Horner; Private DlLty Section:
Iiss :\1. Brijlht;
Representative to The ('alladia11 Nurse,
Iif's J. \Vhit-
mure; Projlramme Committee, :\Iiss :\1. Currie
Hepresentative Montreal Graduate "urf'e!' .-\sf'oria-
tion, :\-liss A. Porteou!'.
L' .-\ssociatlon des Gardes-:\I alades Grad uées de
l'Uôpital :-.Iotre-Dame
E'l.ecutif: \Iesdemoiselles .-\lice r epiue, PrÉsidente:
\lice Gelinas, \ïce-Présidente; ,-\line Leduc. 2ième
\ïce-Pr{sidente; Suzanne Girr.ux, Trpsorière; :\Iargue-
rite Pauze,
ecrPtaire; C'unseillères: .\Iesdemuise!les
Germaine Brisset, Irene Ruuillard. EUl!enif' Trelllhlay,
Francoise Chevrier, .Juliette Beaulieu.
.\..\., \Iontreal Genl'ral Hospital
lIon. Presidents, :\llss J. Webster, :\liss
. redf( rd,
.\liss F. E. Strumm; Hon. Treasurer, .\Iiss H. Dunlop;
lIon. :\Iember, :\Iiss ".1. Cra!ll; Prf'!'ident, :\Iisf' E.
Frar,,'es üpton. :'te. 221, l:mf\ :'t. Catherine "'t. W.;
First \'i('e-Pre"idpnt, :\Iif'!' :\1.
Iathewson;
e('on(l
\ïce-Pre!'ident,
Irs. L. II. Fishpr; Hecordinl!
e('rf'tan.
\Iiss D
no\\; Corre"pondinll; ....ecretary.
Irs. E. ('
:\Ienzies, 66:
5 I Millie Blvd.. \ erdun; Treasurer (_\lum-
nae Association and .\1 utual Beuefit ('ollll11ittee'. :\Ii!'!'
I. Da\'if''', :\Iontreal General Huspi tal; Ex('('utive ('0111-
lIIittee, \Ii!'s :\1. K. H.,lt, .\Iis!' H.
f'\\t"", :\Iiss I..
Sutton,
Ii!'s O. Lilly,
Ii!'!' H. Herman; Representa-
tives to Primt,. DII'II S,'ctÙm.
Ii"s E. Gruer (Convener),
:\Iiss C. Cole. :\Iif's E. :\larf'hal1: Hppre!'entative to
The Canadian N'lr"., :\Iif's I. \,"ellinll (('unvenf'r),
Iolltreal General lIof'vital: Ref)ref'entatives to Lo('al
<'ounril uf Women, .\Iiss G. Colley. .\Iiss :\1. nos!':
Sick \ïsitinl?: Committee,
Iiss F. E.
trumm,
li55 B.
Herman; Prm
ramme Committee, :\Iiss I. Davies.
Iis.'"
:\1. Batson; Refrf'shment Committee.
Iis<! ß. t:"nder-
hill (Convener), l\liss C. Coomhf'!', l\lif's (' FitzJ;:f'l"ald.
:\Iiss D. :\lcRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, l\liss E. A. Draper; Pre;>ident, .\1,,....
:\1. F Hpr!'f')"; Firf't \ï(.p- Prf'sidpnt. :\li"s.T
tf'\'f'n""n:
141
:-,ecolld
ice-PresIdent, :\Ir". Grieve; Uecording :::;ecre-
tary, :\llss E. B. Rogers; Secretary-Treaeurer. Miss K.
.Tamer, Royal Victoria Hospital; Executive Committee,
:\1
. E. Robf'rts.
Ir<!. G. C. :\Ielhado, MI"1I. Prideau'l.,
.:\l1sses. E. Et
er, E. Reid, .-\. Bulman; Conrener8 of
Cu.mmtftees: Fmance, :\olisf' B. Campbell; Sick \ïsiting,
:\l1ss R. Fellm\,,; Programme, :\11"11. K. Hutchison;
H
freshmcnts, :\Iiss
1. Ro\\ley; Private DItty Secti<-n.
:\11"s R. ('orhrane; Representatives to Local Council
of Wo
nen, :\Iiss J. Stevenson, Mrs. E. Cooper; Reprf'-
!'entatl\e to Th,. ('anaditJ11 Vurse, :\liR8 E. ,-\Ilder.
.\..\., \\onlen's General Hospital, \\esunount
Hon. Presidents, :\Iis<! F. George, :\liss E. Trench:
Pr
sident, Mrs. L. :\1. Crewe; Fil"1lt \"ice-President,
.\l1ss E. :\loore; Second \ïce-President,
liss I\:. .\Iar-
tin; HerordinJ!;
eeretary, l\liss H..
ixsmith; Corref'-
pOlldill1l :;ecretary, :\liss N. Bro" n. .-\pt. 5, IIh7 Hope
.\ve.; Treasurer,
liss E. L. Frances, 1:?IO Russex Ave.;
Rick \ïsiting, :\liBS G. \\ ilson, :\Iiss L. Jensen; Primt.
Duty,
Irs. T. Robert!'on, :\Iiss H.. Burgher; Represen-
t.ative to The Ca/ladian Nurse, Miss C.
Iorro\\; Social
Committee, :\Irs. Drake, :\Iiss Clark. Rellular month Iv
meetinjl; pveT)' third \\. edne!'day, R p.m. .
\. \., School for Graduate ",unes. \h-Gill
l'nlverslty
Hon. President.
liss :\Iary Samuel; lIon. \ïcf'-
President, Miss Bertha Harmer; 1:1 on.
lembers, Misl'
1. F. Hersey, :\Iiss Grace :\01. Fairley, Dr. Helen
H. Y. Reid, Dr. Maude Abbott, .\Ir!'. H. \\. Reford.
:\Iiss :\1. L. l\Ioag; President,
Iiss
Iadeline Taylor,
Victorian Order of
urses, 1246 Bishop St.; \ïce-
President,
liss
Iarion E.
ash, \ïctorian Order of
urses, 1246 Bishop St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss
.\1. E. Orr, The Shriners' Hospital. Cedar Ave., Mont-
real; Chairman, Flora Madeline Rhaw,
Iemorial Fund,
:\Iiss E. Frances Upton, 1396
t. Catherine ::-it. W.;
Programme Convener, 'Iiss F.
h'Quade, \\'omen's
General Hospital. ì\lontreal; Heprffientlltives to Local
Couneil of Wumen,
Iiss Lijlgett, :\Ii;o" Parry; Repre-
sentatives to The Canadian N"rRe, .-\dlninistration,
:\Iiss B. Herman. \\ estern Division, .\Iontreal General
Hospital; Teachinll, .\lif's E. B. H.ogers, Uoyal \ïctoria
Ho!'pital; Public Health. Miss E. Chureh, Victorian
()rrlpr of "nrf'f'f', 1 24/1 Bishop St.
QumFC crn
\..-\., JcfJre\' lIale's Ho
pltal
11011. President, :\lrf<. BarTO"; President. .\liM D
.Iaekson; First \ïce-Pre!'ident,
Ii!'s E. Fitzpatrick;
:,eeond \ïrp-President,
I",. ('. Younll; Hecordinll
:'e('retary, :\1;f's E. :\lrCallum; Corref'ponding :'erre-
tary, l\li!'!'
1. Fischer; Treasurer,
Iiss E.
lrHarJ;::
l{eprespntative to The CtJrll1ditJ/I Nur. o ,.. :\1ïss !'.;.
\Iartin; Primt,. Dlltll SatÙm: l\IiSf< G.
18rtin; :::;icl..
\ïsitinll; ('ommittPe,
Irs. BarrO\\ and :\Irs. Buttimore:
Hefret'hment COlllmittee, l\lrs.
1f'llinp;,
Iiss \\'ear
,
:\Iif<!' Hansf'n,
Ii!'!'
lcClintod1; CouncJllol"1l. :\li1ll'
Imrif', \Ir!'. Craill, :\Irs. Jackson, :\li8B
Iackay,
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\..-\.. Shcrbrooke Hospital
lIull. l're,..dents, .\Ii!'/! E. France" l'pton. :\.....1 Heier.
s. Buck; President.
Irs.
. S. Luthrop; First Vire-
President, .\Irs. W. Davey;
e('()nd \ïre-President,
:\Iiss V. Beane;
eeretary.
li1ll' E. :\Iorisf'tte; Treasurer,
:\Ii!'s Alice LYf<tf'r,
herbrooke Hospital; Hepref<entlltiw'
to TI" ('f!I,nrlitJ1J Vllrsr, :\Iiq" .T. "nrdlp\\( rth
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vr twv agv wc happened tv he . m a IlUsp
tal curndoj"
when the mght nurses Luere commg on it gave us a
queer feeling . . . around the solar plexus .. we have never been able . . .
to look.. at a hosþital . . , all lighted up at. night . . . without think..ing of a ship
at sea . . . mak..ing its way . through the dark..ness .. over a track..less
sea . . . with its human freight el'en sv wise a man as Solomvn . . .
admitted that there were three thmgs. . that were beyond his understanding
in case you don't remember these a1e they: . . . the way vf a ser,
pent on a rock.. . . . the way of a Sl11P un tl-ze sea . . . and the way of a man
wIth a maid . . . about the first and last . . . we modestly agree with Solomon
but anyone who has been . a night supervisor .. or even a night
nurse . . . k..nows a little ., abvut how a sea captain feels . , . when he
accepts responsibility . . . for the lije of others . . . on night duty .. as
on board ship . . . disaster comes quick..ly . . . and with little warning . . .
also this is the time . l.vhen the weak..er members . . . of the crew .
are inclined to blow uþ .. in fact night dut\, is the acid test in nursing
. . . we once heard . . . a greot teacher of nursing say . . . that if she had
her way . . . student nurses would never go on night duty . . . we
humbly dIsagree ., It'e can remonber . . . nights on Ward D " which
we would not care. . to lil'e through again. . but we can also remember
mornings on \\1 ard D u'hen we gave the night report . . . to the
da)' nurses . . . and felt a grim pnde. . and a sense of accomplishment. . .
we had come through the mght . . . and all hands were still there . . . even the
very sICk.. patient . . . in the corne1' bed . . . with the screens around it . .
if you have ever. . been a night ,mbervisor . . . you have been made free
of that honorable company . . . who turn night into day . . . bak..ers
. . street cleaners . . . policemen . . . telephone operators . . . newsraper
folk.. . . . fiu brigades . . . train and station crews .. electric and water
power plants . . . women sCHtbbing in offices . . . telegraphers . . . under...
tak..ers . . . milk.. men . . . newsboys with the mornin
paper . . . all these
seem to us . . . a rather useful lot. . some day we would lik..e to ask.. them
. . . what they are most afraid of . . . the only time . , . we had h)'sterics
nut loud .. on night duty . . . was when a great big mouse . . . jumped
right at us . . . when we took.. the lid . . . off the garba.ge can . . . police'
men of course would not be afraid of mice . . . but we remember one
. . , (a, policeman, not a mouse) . . . who would not stay alone . . . with a
gentleman . . . suffering from alcoholic delusions . . . unless allowed to k..eeþ
the door open . "so I can see 'you, mtrse" . . . this seems to be . . . the
hottom of the page . . . so we will stor .. though there is much more
we could say . about that two o'clock.. in the morning courage which
comes in hand\' . in the rr{lctice of mtr.'.ing . . .
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CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1934
SOME TRI:.NDS I:>; AMERICAN Nl!R
I:-:(;
M..try M. Roberts
149
htMCr-,IZATION OF STUDENT NUR
I'
Margaret Murdoch
153
A. PA(
EANT OF NURSING
Jean 1. Gunn
154
THI:. CANADIAN SCENE
155
M,,,s Bl'RTHA S
fJTH, M.B.E.
157
A. NATIO:>;AL SCHOLARSHIP
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THE EDITOR'S DESK -
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THE V AU'I-. 01' INTI:.RCHAN<..;F
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163
BROADI-l'íIKG THE FIELD
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170
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182
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VOL. XXX
No.4
MONTREAL, QUE., APRIL, 1934
SOME TRENDS IN AMERICAN NURSING
MARY M. ROBERTS, R.N.. Editor. The American Journal of Nursing.
We, in what Canadians call "the
States", quite generally believe that w
are in the midst of a true social revol..1-
tion which has gathered tremendous
momentum under the popular title of
"The New Deal." The kindly gentleman
who guides our destinies from the White
House is, by many, felt to be as much
a dictator as Mussolini. or Hitler, or
Stalin, but he uses his vast powers differ-
ently. Under his guidance "'leadership
and initiative in the organization of social
forces has been taken by the federal
government and, as in all mass move-
ments, things precious to individuals and
to groups tend to lose identity."
Nursing and the N.R,A.
What is known as the National Indus-
trial Recovery Act was but the first of a
series of strategic moves to bring about
economic recovery. The theory upon
which this Act is based is briefly this:
If employed persons worJt shorter hours
at reasonable wages more worJters can be
employed. Two concurrent govern
mental activities are now going on. One
has to do with economic recovery, th
other with a reorganization of our econ-
(nnic system in the hope that the recurrent
vicious cycles of prosperity and depres-
sion may be smoothed out. The recover}'
programme is, of course, the more obvious
of the two. Leadership and initiative
in the organization of social forces havc
been taken by th e fc
eral gove r nmL [
An address
i\en at the Annual M. clmg or th."
-\ssociation of R...lo(istercd Nurscs of th. Prn\.., '
Quebec. Montrcal. hnuar\
nth, I'1H
.\PRIL. lQq
and every unit in our society IS being
profoundly influenced, not only by the
effect of the N.R.A. on industry, but by
the programmes of the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration and the
various subsidiaries which have to do
with putting people quickly to work for
short periods while we wait for the slow\:r
machinery of industrial recovery to gd
under way.
Though the Act specifically applies to
industrial workers it has neverthele:ss
affected nursing to a considerable extent.
Our country has enjoyed the best health
in its history during the period of depres
sion, but not all the populace has had
adequate medical and nursing care D}'
any manner of means. Patients have gone
uncared-for, and nurses have not onl"
been unemployed, but some of them have
themselves become public charges. So,
cially and economically it is desirablc to
put nurses to work to save their self,
respect; professionally it is desirable t ù
put them to work under supervision
which will assure the best possible per-
formance under emergency conditions.
both because the patient or the commun-
ity should receive the best possible serviù
and because professional stanJarJs, once
weakened, may not edsily be restoreJ.
Professional Statldards
Our national nursing organi:.ltioI13,
especially the American Nurses Associa
tion and the National Organization for
Public Hcalth Nursing, have heen m
frequent conference with the \"anou
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ISO
THE CANADIAN NlIRSE
fedaal authorities concerned with nurs'
ing, but the fact that nursing is of im,
portance to sever dl units of the nation;tl
government while gratifying in itself,
causes complications.
Social workers and public health nurses
had carefully built up standards of work
for each group, based on preparation
dnd experience. For example, the prill'
ciple that public health nurses should no
give material relief was accepted by both
groups, but has repeatedly given way
before the dIre and emergent need of
patients for food, warmth, and even
shelter. A larger issue is presented when
one contemplates the future of the pri,
vately supported public health nursing
organizations. With the rapid assumJ?'
tion of broad programmes by public
agencies, their future is by no means
clear.
Remedies for Unemployment
What we may term the recovery pro'
gram me has to do primarily with employ'"
ment. Nursing is by no means immune
to economic law. Unemployment within
its ranks was inevitable. When this is
coupled with the fact that the Committee
on the Grading of Nursing Schools
warned us six years ago that we were
graduating too many nurses and that
many of them were poorly prepared, it
is readily seen why we have had :.in
almost insupportable situation, particu,
lady in the private duty field. Some of
the methods of assisting unemployed
nurses inaugurated hy the profession
itself are:
t. The use of graduJ.te nurses on a staff
basis has been speeded up in our better institu,
tions.
:2. Some schools-ahout two hundred-
hdve been closed and students have. been rc'
placed by a graduate sen.-icc.
3. Part,timc service, particularly in hospitals
.tffiliated with universities, ha" hccn provided
for nurse!' wishing to study.
..J, Sharing work, hy mean" of the eight,
hour day. among ..;peC1.l1 duty nurSb in ho->,
Pltals.
Through the instrumentalIty of the
planning of federal agencies, nurses ha\'c
heen employed, for a minimum number
of hours per week, in hospitals and public
health nursing organizations, especial
y
those supported by public funds. l\
programme now gaining impetus under
the Children's Bureau, provides for the
employment of twenty,five hundred
nurses in a study of the nutrition 01
children.
Selection and Placing
Our ndtional nursing organizations, in
their conferences with the various gov,
ernmental agencies, have over and over
again stressed four principles, namely:
1. In the interests of safeguarding the
health and welfa,re of every community in the
United States, it is advised that relief nurses
be assigned to some already existing organiza'
tions
uch as a hospital, institution, nurs
s'
association, public health organization, et
cetera.
2. That no nurse be assigned to work as a
nurse excepting under paid qualified nurse
supervision.
3. That the professional and persoaal
qualifications, including physical fitness, of
women listed as registered nurses with the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, be
verified by the local nurses' association (state
or district association) of that community.
4. That the prevailing salary schedule of
the given community be paid all registered
nurses who are assigned to nursing duties.
Reconstrllction and Pri-vate Duty
The reconstruction programme for
private duty nursing, as distinguished
from the emergency or recovery pro'
gramme, is receiving the major attention
of the American Nurses Association
while the emergency or recovery pro'
gramme is a matter for frequent con'
Ference between the American Nurses
Association and the National Organi::J.'
tion for Public Health Nursing. This
"reconstruction programme" if I may I'
)
christen it, is concerned with:
1. Preparation for service. This will ha....e a
marked influcnce on the reorganization of our
curricula.
2. \\ïder di
tribution of sen.'ice.
3. The economIcs of pri\ate duty. ndnlt'ly
the h()ur
of duty .md clI\npen
atlUn therefor.
VOl.. XXX, No. 4
SOME TRENDS II\:
-\MERICAN 1\;l"RSIN(;
Preparation
There is à marked trend, in our thínk
ing, away from preparing nurses solely
on the hasis of the needs of the particular
hospital in which they receive their
professional education and toward pre-
paration for the service required by the
cClmmunity.
Distribution
One of the real trends in the field ('If
private duty, since it is not primarily an
emergency measure, is that toward the
conversion of the old-time registries into
bureaus of community nursing servi.:e.
The registry, in its simplest terms, con-
s;sted of a list of nurses to be placed; a
tdephone, and a registrar, who might or
might not be a nurse. Priority on the
list was usually the determining factor in
placing nurses, regardless of the profes-
sional or temperamental fitness for the
particular case. This plan created a
system of "vest pocket registries" becaus
doctors, failing to secure the types of
nurses they needed, kept -and still keep
lists of the nurses they prefer, usually
including a considerahle number of prac-
tical nurses A study of each community,
on the basis of the incidence of illne:::s
and of apparent needs for nursing serv-
ice, will reveal many opportunities not
previously recognized. The burea.us
should be organized on the assumptiol1
that "Bring your nursing problems to us '
is a sound slogan since they expect t.]
know the needs of the communities. to
have detailed knowledge of the nursing
resources and to find ways to connect
the two.
The Eight-Hour Day
In the main, although there were many
exceptions in our Middle West and
South, the private duty nurse has of lat
years saved for a twelve-hour day. Th
movement for an eight-hour day was
tarted in southern California, when th
country wa
at the height of prosperity,
by nurses who helIeved that they should
he permitted to live a more normal lif
APRIL. lQH
15
It was discovered, belatedly, that a tired
and depressed nurse tends to affect her
patients adversely, whereas an alert,
interested, refreshed nurse has a most
benencial psychological influence in addi,
tion to being more effective in a tech-
nical sense. The eight-hour day had,
then, been established as a workable plan,
the principle being that three nurses for
the twenty-four-hour period should cost
the patient very little, if any. more than
two, before the acute need for "sharing
work" among private duty nurses became
apparent. All other incomes were bein IT
b
cut, why not that of the private dutv
nurse, was only part of the reasoning
back of the plan. Another factor W:I.S
that neither patients, doctors. nor ho::)-
pitals could he expected favorably hl
consider increased costs at such a tim!?-.
Areas in sixteen states have now put the
eight-hour day into effective operation.
In Los Angeles, Seattle, and St. Louis
it is practically universal. St. Louis, with
aU but one of its thirty-two hospit
ls
using it, reported a twelve per cent in-
crease in employment in the nrst month
of operation. In Brooklyn, it is in wide
use; in New York City and in Boston
there are still only a few institutions
using it.
Private duty nurses are themselves the
greatest obstacle to the success of the
plan. Selfishness has some bearing on the
situation; lack of knowledge and und
r-
standing still more. Nurses who have not
the slightest notion of their actual yearly
income frequently argue that they cannot
afford to "take a cut" although records
show that the eight-hour plan not only
increases the number of nurses employed,
but increases the actual days of service
given. We may say, then, th.1t the modern
trend in private duty is for shorter hours
for hospital specials. It is helieved that
similar results in nursing in homes will
follow. That development will depend,
to some extent. on the willingness and
the ability of the pri\'atc duty mlr
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
teach some member of the household to
carryon In the absence of the nurse iJl
much the same way the visiting nurse
now does.
Hourly Nursing
The effort to develop hourly nursing,
apart from public health nursing agen'
cies, has not grown very rapidly. Th
reasons are not wholly clear. One, of
course, is the readiness of many visiting
nurse associations to give this service to
paying, patients. Another may be the
lack of information on the part of the
registries (or bureaus of nursing service
as we prefer to call them) of commUI1'
ity needs and methods of reaching those
who could utilize such service. A thirJ
is undoubtedly due to inability at this
time to secure budgets necessary for
adequate publicity.
In their professional relationships
private duty nurses have tended to be on
the defensive. With a normal working
day there naturally tends to come a more
wholesome attitude toward life and
toward professional activities. With
rapid development of the eight, hour plan
we confidently look forward to more
constructive p
rticipation by private duty
nurses in professional programmes, to
the rapid development of study clubs,
and participation in other educational
projects tending toward true specializa'
tion. Such nurses may be expected tù
demand and to secure a type of post'
graduate course in clinical nursing such
as does not now exist anywhere.
Public Health Nursing
Even experienced public health nurses
are wary about predicting the future of
public health nursing and I am not a
public health nurse. That in the United
States, powerful forces are beating upon
that branch of nursing is obvious to th
veriest tyro. On the one hand, public
health nursing is forced temporarily to
absorb into its ranks nurses with no spe,
cial preparation for that field, many of
them with inadequate preparation for
any field; on the other, carefully buÍ1t
up standards, defining the limitations of
public health nursing and of social work,
are breaking down. A third factor j
the tendency of private agencies to come
under some sort of governmental control.
I make no prediction as to the future ')f
public health nursing. I do predict th.tt
the repercussion of our emergency nurs-
ing programmes on schools of nursin
will definitely help to bring about that
integration and diffusion of the principles
of health in nursing courses and a liberal,
iz;ation-socialization if you will-of
curricula which cannot fail to help us
forward toward our goal of adequate
nursing in the amounts and kinds re'
quired for all who need nursing servic,'.
Nursing Education
Our schools have suffereJ severely
from the depression. Student allowances
have been stopped without any compen-
sating improvement in curricula. Facul-
ties have been depleted. Sensitive-mind,
ed principals have succeeded in reducing
the number of students admitted only t.)
find their less sensitive and often inad,
equd.tely prepared neighbors turning out
larger classes than ever. Many graduate
nurses have been placed on a staff basis
(general Juty) in hospitals in a more or
less altruistic effort to relieve unemplo/,
ment. As the selection of those nurs
s
has often been on the basis of econom:c
need rather than professional fitness, it
remains to be seen whether the sound
principle of having a body of graduate
service against which student practice is
projected is really being promoted. Be'
cause of the acute nature of their prob-
lems, hospital administrators and nurse
educators have tended to work more ca-
operatively than in the past. This is
borne out by the increasingly healthy
relationship now Jeveloping between the
American Hospital Association (which
made great progress along those lines
during the presidency of Canada's Dr.
VOL. XXX, No. 4
IMN1UNIZA TH)N l)f ST\ JDENT NURSES
Stephens), and our N a tinnal League oj
Nursing Education.
W hat We Believe
To sum up then, what are some of th.:
modern trends, particularly in relation
to private duty nursing, in my country?
We hope and believe that the back
of cruelly long hours is broken for ,Ill
time. With increasing numbers of pa
tients, doctors, and nurses .IPproving the
eight,hour day there will he no reason for
returning to an outworn system when
economic recovery has taken place.
\Ve believe that. with shorter hours,
more private duty nurses will become
genuinely professional workers, taking a
constructive part in the development f)f
the profession, and in perfecting the qual,
ity of their own service.
We believe that the new type (\f
bureau of nursing service, the successor
of the old,time registry will, upon a ba&
of broad knowledge of community need;;.
prom( Jte co,ordination between suppl \'
and demand and will provide a construc'
153
tive type ot ::.upervision. The time should
be not far distant when nurses working
under the direction of a community
bureau of nursing service, may be on .l.
salaried basis and may thus enjoy d re:t
sonable degree of economic security.
We believe that the various studies ot
community needs definitely indicate a
change in emphasis in nursing s.:hoül
curricula, and a resultant legitimate
charge of the cost of nursing educdtion,
not only to the individuals who receive
it, but also to the community which they,
as nurses, are preparing themselves to
serve.
We agree with the statement in your
own admirable Survey that "Nursini!
education, including that of the privd
e
duty nurse, cannot permanently remain
apart from the stream of invigorating life
and inspiration which the university caw")
hest supply."
We believe that these things imply
life more abundant for all nurses and ,I
wider use of nursing service hy the com'
munity at large.
IMMUNIZATION OF STUDENT NURSES
MARGARET MURDOCH. Superintendent of Nurses. Saint John GeneraJ Hospital.
Saint John. N.B.
In 1 Y24, Dr. H. 1. Abramson, patho,
logist for the Department of Health if.
New Brunswick. on returning from a
visit to New York, asked permission to
inoculate the student nurses of the School
of Nursing of the Saint John General
Hospital with scarlet fever toxin. As we
had been having a great many cases of
scarlet fever among the students, we felt
that, .It least, it would not do any harm.
From December. 1920. untd November,
1924, there had been twdve CdSes of scar'
let fever in the School. with an average
number of fifty students. In November,
1924, volunteer:, were .Isked for from
\PRIL. 1934
among the students to have the Dick test
done, with the result that about 90%
offered. Since that time, 1 R8 student.;;
have been Dick tested. 71 of whom were
found to be positive, and were activeh'
immunized. One hundred and scven ha"c
been inoculated without having the t
t
done. The School has now increased
from 60 to 124 students. and in that
time. there have been only three C.ISCS l'
scarlet fever. all very mild. These thre
students were each inoculated. All stu'
dents who enter the School, who canndt
give .1 definite statement ot h.n:mg h.tI..I
('..rlt.t fe\'
r. arc inùculatcJ
A PAGEANT OF NURSING
JEAN I. GUNN, Convener of th(l Pageant Committee.
Nurses who attend the Biennial Mect-
ing in June will en.ioy a type of entertain-
ment never before undertaken by the
Canadian Nurses Association. As this
meeting marks the twenty-fifth anniva-
sary of the organization of the natiOlul
Association, it has been decided to cele,
hrate the occasion by the presentation of
a pageant having as its background the
development of nursing in Canada. The
special committee appointed to assume
responsihility for the pageant has been at
work for some time and now wishes !O
give to nurses, throughout Canada, d
brief outline of its plans.
The Pageant Committee
The details of the paged.nt have been
assigned to different sub-committees. Th
scenario committee has as convenor. MIss
Jean Gunn, with Miss F. H. M. Emory
(president of the Canadian Nurses Asso'
ciation), Miss Gladys Sharpe (secretary
of the instructors' committee of schools
of nursing in T urontu). and Miss Ethel
Greenwood, as members. The committ
e
to arrange for the publication of the pri)'
gramme is convened by Miss Beatrice
Ellis; the committee on finance by Mi":6
Margaret Dulmage; the committee on
hotel arrangements by Miss Mary Wil-
liams; the ticket committee by Miss Har-
riet Meiklejohn; the committee for select-
ting personnel for the pageant hy Mi<:;s
Ethel Greenwood.
The Scellario
The historical facts concerning nursing
in Canada were compiled by the instruc,
tors' committee of the schools of nursing
in Toronto. This committee, during the
winter of 1932,1933 made an intensi v
historical study and compiled a valuable
reference. This was given to the pageant
committee to be used in the writing of thc
1')4
scenario and from this historical outline,
the pageant has been developed and writ,
ten hy Mr. J. E. Middleton. a Canadian
writer of lung experience who established
a reput<Jtion as a paragrapher and writel
of light verse on the 'Toronto News. He
is the author of a book of verse. entitled
"Sea-Dogs and Men'at-Arms". and has
contributed to many American maga,
:;ines. In recent years, Mr. Middleton
has specialized in historical work and has
edited a compendious work on the his'
tory of Toronto. His History of Ontano
is well known and the official Centennial
Book, "Toronto's Hundred Years",
soon to be published. is also from his
pen. Long interested in the stage an.:!
in music, he wrote a series of ballad-
operas produced by the Canadian Pacific
Railway at the Banff Springs Hotel, with
the late Alfred Heather's Light Opera
Company. The Hart House Theatre at
the University of Toronto. produced
"The Velvet Muzzle" and the Canadian
LIterature Club sponsored his three-act
play, entitled "Royal Doulton."
T he Production
In m.tking its plans the Pageant Com'
mittee had to consider not only the
writing of the scenario but its proper
presentation. Mr. Edgar Stone, Director
of Hart House Theatre. University of
Toronto, has \"ery kindly undertaken to
<tssist \Vi
h both production and direction.
\Vith Mr. Middleton and Mr. Stone in
.:ommand, the Pageant Committee feels
a
sured that the production will be both
historically accurate and pleasing from
the standpoint of scenic effects and music.
The performance will take place in the
Concert Hall of the Royal York Hotel.
the stage of which lends itself admirably
to the purpose.
VOL. xxx. No. 4
TI--IE CANADIAN SCENE
The editorial which appeared und.
r
this caption in the March issue of the
] ou.rnal outlines eight specific complaints
commonly made by the public concerning
nurÙlg service. This month and next w.-:.
shall try to say something by way I.)f
defence concerning some of the counts
which have been brought against us.
Discrimination
The public claims that nursing care
ought to be available in every type of
illness, but that nurses sometimes refu.se
to care for patients suffering from men'
tal or infectious diseases, or (worse stili)
for obstetrical cases. The defence is that
many nurses, through no fault of their
own, graduate without any clinical
x'
perience whatever in the care of mental
or infectious disease and therefore refuse
these cases because they do not know how
to nurse them. It is hard to find any
excuse for refusal to care for obstetrical
patients. As nurses we stand convicted
on this count and we may as well admit
it. When, later, the educational aspects
of our present maladjustments come up
for discussion, more will he said abo
t
the failure of schools of nursing to pre'
p,lre nurses for certain hranches of
private practice.
Availability
The puhlic claims that nursing service
ought to be readily available, night and
Jay, every day in the year, but that it
is sometimes difficult to get nursing
service at night or on holidays. Here
again we stand convicted. Weare not
so organized as to ensure the ready re'
ponsc to which the public is entitled.
Nursing in tlte Country
The public claims that p,ltients who
lave in the country arc just as much in
neeJ of nursing service as those who live
in the city but cannot always get it. The
only Jcfence that can be made IS to say
th,lt nurses, after all, are human, and
tenJ to seek the sort of working environ'
This u, thc fifth artic1,' in " lIeri 9 of rJilf.n..1 I ,I,.
\
llh nursing in C'an"da.
\PRII. IQH
ment which suits them best. To be isolat'
ed, far from help, with a vay ill patient
is an ordeal that not all of us are capabl
of facing. But it is a legitimate nursin
Jemand and we should be so organized
as to meet it.
A Household Liability?
The public claims that, far trom beiu6
ministering angels, we are sometimes
Jomestic pests. The maid gives notice.
the cook departs, the charwoman tel
,
phones to say she cannot come this week.
Instead of performing the functions of
all these useful persons we calmly insist
that our chief duty is to nurse the patient.
The fact that the patient would frequen
'
ly prefer to be neglected and to have the
dinner cooked and the children got off
to school leaves us cold. Our job is to
nurse the sick and not to do domestic
work.
Right here, for the first time. we feel
both able anJ willing to answer ba.:k.
There has always been confusion in the
public mind as to what the function of
a nurse in a household really is. There
has also been a '-Iuite unjustified assump'
tion, especially on the part of women,
that it is the duty of the nurse to assume
responsibility for domestic tasks when n()
household worker is employed. The prob,
lem of domestic service is hopeless
y
involved with that of nursing, and until
the women who Jirect households realize
this fact the present unfortunate misun
derstanding will continue. The plain
truth is that nurses are sometimes sum-
moned to private humes in order to tide
over a domestic crisis rather than to give
skilled nur.;ing care. The}' .lre no mor
to be blamed for performing these tasks
uI1\'\'illinglr antI under protest than a doc-
tor \VoulJ be for ob.iecting to serve cheer-
fully as furnace man or chauffeur.
The organi::ation of domestic servi
e
requires far Illl)re constructive thinking
,1Ild intelligent J.ction th,l11 women have,
so far, heen willing tv gi\'c to it. There
IS no reason in the WI,r1J why the .waage
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L)()
THE CANADIAN NURSE
midJle class household should not be able
to solve the domestic problems incidental
to illness wIthout calling upon the nur,::.'
ing profession to do it for them. The
organization and direction of a bure.lu
of household work ought not to :Je
beyond the powers of modern business
women.
Nurses, on their part, should make up
their minds whether they are. or are not,
willing to offer, under the auspices of
such a bureau, a combined domestic anù
nursing service. There is nothing dero'
gdtory in such an alternative. Some
nurses, with a talent for the household
arts, might find such occupation quite
congenial and perfectly dignified. Others
(not necessarily snobs) might prefer to
confine themselves to strictly nursing
duties. The point is that the public is
entitled to know where we stand on the
matter. At present we are content t.1
evade the real issue by vague sentimen
talities about "always helping out in a
crisis" and so forth.
By way of being thoroughly disagrec'
<tble. we might also point out that the
domestic dislocation incidental to illness
is not all to be laid at the door of the
nurse. The maid is harassed by the
presence of relatives. the cook is upset
because everyone is late for meals. the
charwoman does not come because there
is more washing to do than usuaL Domes'
tic workers necessarily suffer from th
emotional tenseness which pervades the
household. There have been cases when
the maid has said "Nurse, I am glad you
are here." The cook has been known to be
.l confederate in preparing tempting dish'
es for the invalid and h<!s not resented '1
few dirty dishes in the kitchen sink.
But, when all is said and done "a nunc
in the house" means that anxiety anJ
pain are there too. There lies our psy-
chological handicap.
(7'0 be continued)
COUNCIL ON CHILD AND FAMILY WELFARE
In reference to the transfer to the Canadian
Council on Child and Family Welfare, of the
work formerly carried on through the Division
on Child Welfare of the Dominion Depart-
ment of Pensions and National Health, it
hould be understood that this does not :n-
,,'ulve any change in the organization, plan
{It work, or relation to the Dominion or
provincial governments of the Canadian Coun-
cil on Child and Family Welfare, nor does it
involve any new precedent or principle in
relationship to one of the large voluntary
national organizations to a Dominion depart-
ment.
There has dlways been the closest co-opera-
tion between the Canadian Council on Child
.Ind Family WeHare and the Dominion De-
partment of Pensions and National Health
through the office of the Deputy Minister,
while monthly conferences always took place
between thc Chief of the Child Welfare
Division and the Executive Director of the
Canadian Council. The arrangements now
maùe only mean an amplification of the work
which the Canadian Council on Child and
Family Wélfare has been doing, particularly
through its division on Maternal and Child
Hygiene. Because it is anticipated that the
closest co-operation and consultation will con-
tinue to be necessary, arrangements have been
made for a special committee, on which Dr.
J. J. Heagcrty, D.P.H., Chief Executive Assis-
tant, will represent the Dominion Department
and consultants in obstetrics and pediatrics arc
ddded to the part-time staff of the Council.
There is no change in the constitution or
work of the Canadian Council. Its general
work will continue to be directed by its exc-
cutive director, Miss Charlotte Whitton, C.B.
E., M.A., who will also be responsible for all
general references in other fields of child
welfare than that of maternal and child health.
The personnel of the Division on Maternal
and Child Hygiene ha!' not been changed. Miss
:\gnes Baird, Reg. N., remdins o;ecretary anò
the health work of the French-speaking divi-
...ion will be carried on, as in the past, through
it!'
ecretary. Madame Noel Chassé, Reg. N.
VOL. XXX, No. 4
MISS BERTH,.t\. Sl\IITH
M.B.E.
Reference has beeen made in previous
issues of the Journal to the notable pro-
fessional achievements of the nine nursP..s
who were included in the New Y
ar
Honours List. Nùt the least of these 15
that of Miss Berthd Smith, M.B.E., who
is at present supervising nurse of the
London Child Welfare Association. Mi:3s
Smith IS the daughter of the late Canon
J. W. P. Smith. at one time rector of
Christ Church, London, Ontario. She
is a graJuate of the school of nursing of
St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, and
for three years practised as a private
Juty nurse under Dr. Emmett Holt. For
five years she was a memher of the club
organizeJ in Paris hy graduates of the
school of nursing of the Presbyterian
Hospitdl dnJ St. Luke's Hospital, and in
the course of her professional work had
opportunity for extensive travel. In April,
1 <) 15, she "vas assigned to the St. John's
Amhuldllce Brigdde Hospital at Etaples
and remained with this unit until 111
June, 191R, the hospItal was hombed.
Immediately UpOIl her return to
Canada, Miss Smith helped to organize
the London Child \Velfare Association
anJ later became its supervising nurse.
The work of this Association has grown
vcry rapidly and is held in high esteem
hy Miss Smith's fellow citizens who Just
Iy look upon the honour paid to her il:,
a tribute to her fine work as well as t,)
herself.
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MI"S BERTHA SMITH, M.B.E.
THE nM.G.H." ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
SCHOLARSHIP
The Alumnde Association of the
Montredl Cena dl Hospital School for
Nurses hds decideJ to aWdrJ a scholar-
ship which will enable the selected can-
Jldate to tdke the course of study offered
Juring the Session of 1<)34-1935 at the
McGill School for GraJudtc Nurs
s,
Montredl. Candidates must be member&
in good standing of the Alumn.h.' A"2-'
\(>RII, IQ
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CI.ltlon of the Montreal <.. ;cna.Ll H()spit,d
School fur Nurses and preference will be:
gil'en to those who hal'e had. exþerie)1CC
in þnl'dte dut)' nursing. Th
action or
this A,;
oclJ.tion in thus opening th
door
of opportunity to rn"',ttc nur
s is mu
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commenJ.lhk ,lnJ might well form a prc-
cLJent fllr simil,tr action on the part (.f
othl..T !Hit.. ng ,)rg.lI1i:.ltic In".
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A NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
Th
Cdnadiém Nurses Associcltion has
Jecidl'd to offer a scholarship to enable
a CanaJian nurse to attenJ the 1934-
1 9
5 session of the postgradudte course
(}rg<mi
ed under the aegis of the provi-
sional committee for the proposed Fb-
rcnce Nightingale International Founda-
tion. This course will be given at BeJ-
ford CoUege (University of London), in
conjunction with the CoUege of Nursing.
The president of the Canadian Nurses
Association has authorized the publica-
tion of the following statement concern-
ing the conditions under which this
scholarship has been offered and wiII he
a warded:
COllditions of AJl:ard
The Canadian Nurses Association un-
dertakes to provide the sum of two
hundred and fifty pounds as a scholarship
to send a Canadian nurse to Bedford
College for the year 1934- 35. This
dmount is to be paid to the provisional
committee for the proposed Florence
Nightingale Intern<Jtional Foundation
not later thdn August 1, 1934.
1. Funds raised for the Florence Night-
ingale Memorial Foundation are to be
forwarded by provincial convenors, on
the first day of each month, to the
National Office, and placed by the Exe-
cutive Secretary in a separate fund. The
amount of two hundred and fifty pounds
only wiII be forwarded to the Foundation
from the Canadian Nurses Association
for 1934-35.
2. Information regarding the granting
of the scholarship wiII be published in
The Canadian Nurse in the April and
May issues, and convenors of the Provin-
cial Joint Study Committees will also be
informed.
3. The following committee is em-
powered to make the award without
further reference to the Executive Com-
mittee of the Canadian Nurses Associa-
tion: Miss Ruby Hamilton (convenor),
Miss Grace Fairley, Miss Eleanor M.:-
Phedran, Miss Mane! Holt, Mis... Nor,l
1')8
Moore, MÙ:,s Florence Coleman. The
president of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation is an ex-officio member of this
committee.
4. The dl1110Uncement of the course
and a pplicdtion forms are to be procured
from the ExecutIve Secret,try, Canadian
Nurses Assoc1.ttion, 1411 Cresc
nt Street,
Montreal.
5. The Executive S
cretdry of the
Can,ldi,m Nurses Association shaU
receive applications at the N.ltional
Office, 1411 Crescent Street. Montreal,
up to June I, 1934.
6. Thc successful dPplicant will be
advised of the award not later than June
15, 1934.
7. The editor of 'The Canadian Nurse
is instructed to publish the requirements
for enrolment at Bedford CoUege, as out-
lined in the announcement of Interna-
tional Courses 1934-35, and the follow-
ing facts are to be emphasized:
(a) That applicants may choose
one of two courses: (1) Public Hedlth,
(2) Administration and te<Jching in
schools of nursing.
(b) The scholarship does not in-
clude travelling expenses to and from
London.
General I II formation
The following information concernin
the courses of instruction offered in th,'
International Courses is quoted from the
official announcement for 1934-35 spoa-
sored by Bedford College, and the Coì.
lege of Nursing:
1. The courses open on August 15
and close on July 1.
2. The session is diviJed into thr
terms averaging ten to eleven weeks each.
Students attend Bedford College and th
College of Nursing in average of twelve
hours a week throughout the year,
n-
eluding lectures and individual coaching.
. The English system of university
eJucation lays great stress on the value
(If rcaJing and discussions in small class
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tures being regarded as a basis for iT).-
dividual study.
4. In view of the fact that each stu'
dent brings to the courses a vastly differ-
ent background of previous training anJ
nursing standards, origin and education.
and that the problems that will confront
each upon her return to her native coun-
try will be considerably different, thl'
l:urriculum has been adopted to provid
,
.ts far as possible, the nMximum of in-
dividual tuition for each student. Speci.ll
emphasis may be given to any of the
branches of work in which a student may
wish to speciaIi
e, and additional lectures
may be followed at the discretion of the
Education Committee.
S. The importance of devoting two
months to practical work and observation,
in hospitals or with public health organi-
zations preparatory to the courses, has
been recogni
ed. Therefore, it has been
arranged for students to spend Augll-;t
and September -and, if necessary, addi,
tional time during the college vacations
-in practical work to familiarÜ;e them-
selves with English nursing methods and
health procedures. The practical work
of the public health students is carri
J
out in South London, part of it in con'
nection with the out-patient department
of St. Thom.ts's Hospital, and partly in
the local municipal welfare centres.
Further practical work may be arrangeJ
at the completion of the courses for
nurses desiring more experience in Eng-
land or on the Continent. A vacation
of two weeks is granted at Christmas.
6. A certificate is awarded on the
satisfactory completion of the course.
7. Students arc required to Jive in
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residence at 1 S. Manchester Squar
,
London.
Requirements for Admission
Applicants should be between 21 and
41 years of age and the following docu-
ments must be forwarded with their
applications:
(d) A medicdl certificate of good gc nera!
health.
(b) A declaration, endor:,ed by thl'
National Florence Nightingale Committee, ef
the applicant's country of origin, testifyin
to the good character, general education anJ
professional training of the applicant. Appli-
cants must have had a general education corre-
sponding to the English secondary school
education with evidence of ability to profit
by the course, and the best nursing training
availahle in their countries.
An Excellent Opportunity
The information given above indicates
the general scope and flexibility of the
courses offered. The candidate may
select either public health or teachin
and administration in schools of nursin';
and is encouraged to follow her ow
bent. She has the privilege of residing
at 15 Manchester Square, which might
well be called International House, since
it brings into contact nurse srudents from
all parts of the world. Such an experi-
ence cannot f.til to be broaJening from
.t cultural as well as from a profession.d
point of view.
Those who intend to be c..lI1Jld.Lt\.'S
for the honour of representing Can.t.],.
as the holder of this national schoI.lrship
must act yuickly. Applications shoulJ pe
sent to Miss Jean S. \\'ilson, Executi'x
Secretary, Canadian Nurses Association.
1411 Crescent Street, Montr\.'al, }1cfnrc
June 1, 1934.
IN HONOUR OF OUR SILVER JUBILEE
FLORE
CE NIGHTINGALE
The president of the Canadian Nurses
Association has instructed the Journal tn
inform its readers of the generous and
gracious gesture made by the Nightingale
Fellowship (the trained nurses of the
Nightingale School, St. Thomas's Hos,
pital, London), in offering a scholarship
which will enable a Canadian nurse to
attend the 1934,
1935 session of the
postgraduate
courses organizeJ
by the N ighting3.1e
International Foun,
dation which are to
be given at Bed,
ford College (Uni,
versity of London)
in conjunction with
the College J Í
Nursing.
The value of thi:;
gift is enhanced by
the manner of the
giving. The fol,
lowing excerpt
from a letter ad,
dressed to the Pre'
sident of the Cana-
dian Nurses Asso,
ciation from M
ss
Alicia Lloyd'Still,
Matron of St. Tho,
mas's Hospital, Su'
per
ntendent of the
Nightingale Training School and Presi,
dent of the Nightingale Fellowship,
admirably reflects the spirit which
prompted the munificent action.
"I have sent you a short ofiÏcialletter
with reference to the Florence Nightin-
gale Foundation Scholarship which we,
of the Nightingale School. wish to off
r
from our Nightingale Foundation. Would
you very kindly make known our offer to
the Canadian Nurses Association, and
may they know that our gift is in hono'Jr
of their twenty,fifth Anniversary, assur-
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ing them that, should they feel able to
accept the same, we on our part feel both
proud and happy: proud to feel that Miss
Nightingale's earnest wish to link up the
nursing profession overseas is thus being
carried out by her school. and happy to
know that a Canadian nurse may be abl,
to take the International Course und
r
the Florence Night,
ingale Foundation. ""
Enquiries con'
cerning this scho,
larship should be
addressed imme,
diately to Miss Jea
l
S. Wilson, Execu..
tive S e c r eta r y,
Canadian N ur,:;\?s
Association, 1411
Crescent Street,
Montreal, and can'
didates should reJ.d
carefully the ri.'
quirements for ad,
mission to tne
course, which ap'
pear under the cap'
tion of A Nationú.l
ScholarshiP in thiE
issue of the Journal.
Here is an oppoõ.-'
tunity which shouk]
strongly appeal tJ
every forward,loo;C,
ing young nurse i:1
Canada. This scholar will. if she proves
herself worthy, come close to the very
heart of the Nightingale tradition. Fur'
thermore, in a broader sense, we may
all claim a share in this gift since it marks
the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the
Canadian Nurses Association . The bond
between nurses in Canada and in Britaia
is intangible, yet strong. It may he knit
more closely because of the living strand
created by the Nightingale Fellowship
Scholarship.
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THE EDITOR'S DESK
fhe Biennial Meeting
Under the caption of J\l..otes from the
}
.ational Office the E
ecutive Secret,lry
of the Canadian Nurses Association prc-
sents the official tentative programme fo
.-
the biennial meeting to be held in T oron-
to from June 25 to 30 inclusive. This
programme will rep
'y caref
l stu
y an"l
should be read in COIl junction wIth the
introductory statement, prepared by the
Executive Secretary, in which its general
objectives are set forth.
American Trends ill Nursing
The Journal is proud to present to its
readers as Its leading article th
s month,
the fine treatise on American trends in
nursing prepared by Miss Mary 11-
Roberts, editor of 'The American Journal
of Nursing. The editor of
profession
l
journal should, by virtue ot the strategIc
position she holds, be better able than ani
other individual to interpret the contem-
porary natIOnal scene. While conditions
in the United States differ widely from
our own, so far as certain political and
economic aspects are concerned, there is
yet sufficient resemblance from a nursing
point of view to render Miss Roberts'
searching analysis most valuable to us étt
this time.
A National Scholarship
Who will be Canada's first interna'
tional scholar under the conditions out-
lined under this caption elsewhere in this
issue? The best is none too good, since
she must represent Canada in an inter-
IMtional group of which each memb
r
will he outstanding. This opportunity
should appeal to all young ambitious,
well-prepared Canadian nurses, not only
because it will open the door to future
professional ,ldvanccment, but becau:-:e
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the course Itself is dnIlcated to the mem-
ory of the founder of modern nurS1l1 6 ,
Florence Nightingale.
Good 1Ven:s from Alberta
Just as we go to press. the good news
comes from Albert,l that. after a li\'ely
tilt in the Alberta Legislative Assemblf,
the Alberta Association of Registered
Nurses has succeeded in getting its
recommendation that educational rc-
yuirements for entrance to schools :.)f
nurS1l1g shall be raised from Grade Sev
n
to Grade Eleven, as far as its third rea.:l-
ing in the House. As soon as this last
hurdle is taken (and it surdy will be),
we sh,tll have more to say about this well
deserved victory.
Sold Out
To our mingled pride and chagnn we
have had to refuse sever,ll orders for
copies of the March number of 'The
Canadian J\.urse. In fear and tremblin
lest unsolJ copies should remain to gath\.'r
dust on our shelves, we ordered the
largest issue that has been pnnted sÍIEC
March, 1930. Not a copy renuins, except
the s,lcreJ three put religiously ,lsi,J...:
against the delY when 'Th'e Canadian
Nuïse can afford to have its back copie:;
bound. As yet, incredible though it m.-y
seem the editorial office does not possess
bou
d copies of 'The Canadian Nurse.
Our present objective is to n:ach within
six months, the di:.:.y pre-depression
record of three thousand copies monthly.
And with our regional committees anJ
student clubs working with their prLScm
spceJ and efficiency we expect to 1..10 it
too. The morell is. of course, that it }'Oll
want the May issue you had better sub-
scrihe in April.
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Correspondence
The Journal Goes Oil the Air
We in Saint John, N.B., heard MISS A. W.
Estey, in the course of her radio hour entitled
"Community Doings", read excerpts from
",rticles in the January issue of The Canadian
Nurse which referred to the New Year
Honours List (The Accolade) and to the
audience granted by the King and Queen to
Miss Priscilla Campbell (Notes from the Nel-
tional Office). This is probably the first time
that The Canadian Nurse has been presented
to the radio audience.
KATHLH.N S. LA\V
UK,
Saint John, N.B.
Ghastly Error
In future kindly address my Journal to the
Toronto General Hospital, which is in Toronto
and not in Montreal.
K.M.
Toronto.
Evidently dreams do come true. Especially
bad ones. We have often wakened in the
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Imagined that something of this sort had hap-
pened. And now it really has. The cream
of the jest is that the institution in Montreal.
which was mistakenly sent the ] oumal that
should have been addressed to its proper
owner in Toronto, was not a bit flattered.
So nobody was pleased. Of course we could
say something about the nefarious part played
by the printer in this tragic affair. But recri-
minations are useless. Much better apologi
e
quietly, as is Oùr good old editorial custom.
Se here goes. Weare sorry that we once
thought that the Toronto General Hospital
is in Montreal. It isn't. We know better now.
EDITOR.
Alld So She Will
I'm enclosing a subscriptIOn for The Cal1û-
dian Nurse. Miss A. tells me that I shall
enjoy it more than any good detective story.
M.D.,
Nova Scoti.l.
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Department of Nursing Education
CONVENER OP PU8UC^TIONS' Miss Mildred Reid. Winnipeg General Hospital, \Vinnipeg, Man.
THE VALUE OF INTERCHANGE
ANN LAW, Reg. N., Winnipeg. Man.
In January, IlJ33, the Manitoba
Association of Registered Nurses adopted
a scheme for th
interchange of nurs
between large and small hospitals. * In
order to assist suitable candidates to av:lÏi
themselves of this experience the Associa'
tion arranged to pay travelling expenses
and a small monthly allow
nce, while the
participating hospitals provided board,
lodging, and maintenance for a period of
three months. In order to give OppOl-'
tunity to those most likely to benefit by
it, the applicant's previous record, and a
confidential report from the superinten'
dent of nurses in the school from which
the applicant graduated, was regarded as
an important factor m influencing the
selection of the candidate. The hospitals
were asked, upon the satisfactory complc'
tion of the course, to furnish the nurse
with a statement of the special work that
she had covered.
As a nurse from a large traming school
who had the privilege of observation and
experience in a small hospital I would
S,lY that the experience thus gained is ex'
ceedingly beneficial. You learn to apply
the knowledge you have already gain
J
in the larger institution. Small hospitals
have no internes, and at times a doctor
cannot be located for hours; so the nurse
must rally all her forces am.! meet any
emergency. Small hospit".1s have no di:;'
pensary-stock solutions only are kept--
the nurses gains v
luable experien..:e
weighing out and mòking up solutions
from powders and crystcl.ls. There is IW
pJ.thologicallaboratory. All specimens oÍ
urine ,U1d gastric contents are examin.
J
hy the nurse herself. Besides heing valu,
.lble knowledge, this .ldds interest to the
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case studied No dietitian weighs our
the special diets in a small hospital kit,
chen. The nurse herself must plan an.j
serve these diets and must observe the
patients and increase or decrease the fooJ
as she thinks fit. What wonderful value
this knowledge is in home nursing. And,
is a small institution, Improvising is one
of the chief tasks of the nurse. Supplies
are limited, so the nurse must use what
sh
has on hand to make her patients
comfortable-boxes are footstools- pans
of barrels are cradles- ether c.ll1s ar
hot
water bottles in anaesthetic beds.
I have come to the conclusion that, in
large hospitals, nurses are extravagant --
there is so much that we waste! In the
small hospitals there is not a surplus of
dressings, medicines, foodstuffs or sup'
plies of any sort. I do not me
n th.lt
there is not enough- - but that there i
. none to waste. The nurse is taught to
be careful in all things from the begin'
ning of her training: all dressings ar
stripped; all bandages w,lshed; no ext.a
solutions arc kept on th
wards; pòpers
ne used for sinapisms. In these h.lrd
times what better training could .1 nurse
get than in economy?
I spent ,l month in the upcr.lting room
in this small hospital. Everything from
operating room technÙ.lue on, IS t,LUght.
One assists at minor oper.ltions, h.l11dl-=s
instruments for m.ljor operations, oper
ates the ste,lm sterili::crs, prep.lrcs the
drums, mends and sterili::cs the gloves
and even learns to make up solutions ot
glucose ,lIld s.lline for an intr.lvenOU5. 1
considaed this training splendid. I mu-;t
S,lY th.lt most of my observ.ltions were
f.lvor,lhle. Different methods were used
th.m 1 \\'.lS "I,:lu,to\l1ed to, hut one mu
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select <ll1d use what one considers bcst.
I was fortunate in being sent to a well-
run and well-equipped small hospital. I
can now truthfully say that no training
is rcally complete without a few months
spcnt in a smí.dl institution. The Mani
toba Association of Registered Nurs<,s
deserves great credit for sponsoring it
scheme which makes such interchange
possible.
BR.OADENING THE FIELD
MARGUERITE M. McDONALD, Reg. N., Instructor of Nurses, Edmonton General Hospital
All who are familiar with schools of
nursing will d.ppreciate the need of extra-
curricular activities. I wish to outline a
project that we have adopted in our
school, and which we find stimulates
social interest and co-operation among
our students. With this aim in view W
organized a club on much the same basIs
as that of a literary society but whic:il,
for variety, we called the U-go-I-go Club.
Our first meeting, at which all the stu-
dent nurses were present, was for the
election of officers and the appointment
of a competent executive committee.
After discussing the qualities desirable
in such prospective candidates, nomin,t-
tions for the various officers were mad
,
and an election followed.
Our executive is now composed of the
following: - President, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer, social convener, and
a representative of each of the classzs
of our school. Thc instructor and the
director of the school of nursing a:r
honorary presidcnts. The officers pe.::-
form the functions appropriate to their
respective titles and the social convener
is in full charge of all entertainments.
She usually chooses her committee
through the class representatives, who,
according to their adaptation, arrange
for the decoration, music, games and
refreshments. Thc representativcs of th
various clí.lSSeS see that their members
share in the general activities for, as we
all know, there are in every class talentGd
but very modest pupils, whose abilities
do not become known except through th
medium of their representative. The3z
representativcs also inform the executive
committee of the attitude of thcir class
toward any measure, contemplated or
passed by the club.
All our meetings are conducted in a
business-like way; the calling of the meet-
ing to order; the reading and approving
of the minutes and of any reports; the
introduction of new business, which is
discussed freely, and when put to vote,
is repeated vertabim by the president. A
general meeting is held monthly, and an
executive meeting at such times as it ]
deemed unnecessary to have all members
present. Social functions take placc
monthly at least, and the committee i:l
charge prepares a delightful and varied
programme for each occasion. Quite
recently we h
ve undertaken the public<l-
tion of a school paper; an editor W.1S
elected, who in turn formed an auxiliary
to enable her to obtain varied material.
Since we have organized our student
nurses in this manner, a marked improve-
ment in the general atmosphere of the
school has taken place, and the spirit !:If
helpfulness and co-operation prevails.
VOL. XXX, No. 4
Department of Public Health Nursing
CO....\.E...rR Of' PI BLI ITlO"'S: Mrs Agnes Haygarth. 21 Sussex St.. Toronto. Om.
THE TUBERCULOSIS CONTACT
MARJORIE ROBERTSON, Roval Ottawa Sanatorium, Ottawa.
A recent writer has said that the av
r-
age case of far-advanced tuberculosis
.ldmitted to a sanatorium, has, at the
time of his admission, already infecteJ,
ur exposed to infection, ten other indi-
viduals. One method of attack woulJ
therefore seem to be the removal from
the family of the source of infection,
either permanently, or until he has been
rendered non-infectious, or has been
sufficiently well trained that he is no
longer a menace to their safety. But it is
not enough to remove the source of infe.:-
tion Immediately upon finding it-we
must find that source earlier, when he
has a chance of recovery himself, anJ
hefore he has endangered the lives of
others. It may be presumed that at som
time he was not ill himself, but was a
contact of some other open case of tuber-
culosis. It is at this point in his career
that we want to find him and place him
under observation.
The Need for Education
The graduate nurse, 'whether she b
doing public health, private or institu-
tional duty, is of inestimable help in find-
ing early, curable cases. In this, howev\:r,
the average nurse is seriously handicap-
ped by the fact that she has had little or
no practical e"'-periencc of the disease. It
is a deplorable fact that nurses d.re
graduated with little or no systematize. t
instruction in the nursing of one of th
oldest, most prev.llent, most prevcntabl
dise(lses known. If the student nurse
could be considercd more in the light of
.l student, and less as a me(UlS of provid-
ing an inexpensive nursing service, and
could spend a fcw of the hours which sh
now spends in (l never-ending repetition
of ml.'ch.lI1ical pnKedure, in the study
\PRII. !lH-'
.1I1d discussIOn of tuberculosis as a socIal
problem she would become a more valu-
ble unit in d. health-questing communit/.
The Need for Vigilance
For adeyuate case-finding in tubercu.
losis, the first and most crying need in th.:
public health nursing field is education
in tuberculosis for the rank and file of
public health nurses, beginning with
those who are doing generalized work
and extending to those who are speci3.i-
izing in such fields as child welfare,
infant and maternal care, industry, men-
tal hygiene and even tuberculosis itself.
It is always a temptation, when we are
doing specialized work, to become mildly
fanatical concerning our special branch
and the visible manifestations of tuber
culosis are therefore easily overlookeJ
hy the nurse who is in the home on som'
other mission. Why is it that the indus-
trial nurse so frequently lightly passes
over the common indications of tubercu-
losis? Why docs the generali:ed nur
e
f ail to appreciate the significance of th
childhood type of tuherculosis in the
contacts that she finds in homes where
no apparent tuberculosis e",-ists? Is it be-
cause of her relative indifference to th\:
disease? This usually grows out of a
feelÙw that tuherculosis associ.ltions 'r
\)ther
specÏ.lI agencies ,1re handling th\:
prohlem and th(lt, therefore, it is :10
longer her special concern.
WIldt is a COil tact?
A cont(lct is a person who h.ls h,ld a
more or less intimate exposure to tuber-
culosis infection. If. on examÜ1.ltion,
some of these individu.tls are found to
he suffering from the disease they become
positive cases, and cease to be regarded as
'()ntalt.;. Thcr('f()rl
. for the purr(,:,e
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this discussion a contact shall be said to
he an individual who has been exposeJ
to tuherculosis, examined and found to h
free from disease, or to be a suspicious
case, with not enough evidence to war'
r,ll1t a diagnosis of tuberculosis.
Control of Infection
By this is meant either the remov.ll
to a hosp
tal or sanatorium of the diseased
member or members of the family, or
arranging for such care and isolation thJ.t
there is no danger of further infection.
The development of tuberculosis disease
depends largely on intensity and length
of exposure to the source of infection.
Especially is this so in the case of the
childhood type of disease. If the open
case is removed. and a normal enviro
'
ment procured, child contacts will usually
t.lke care of the infection present, unless
it is already too massive. when an acute
tuberculous broncho'pneumonia is usual,
ly the result.
Much has been said and written on the
relationship of adult disease to earli
r
childhood infection, but it is beginning
to look as though a well,healed childhouJ
infection may be innocently carrying the
hl,lme for later disease while the so,called
.'breaking down" in adults may be an
entirely new thing and the result of a
second exposure to massive infection.
Therefore, it is important to procure, as
soon after discovery as possible, a tuber-
culosis,free environment for all con.
tacts.
Until all members of a household haT;e
been examined we cannot say that the
source of infection has been removed.
We may have removed the apparently
sick individual, but perhaps there is stlll
left another adult, not yet exhibiting any
visible s
gns of disease, but quite as dan'
gerous a disseminator of infection as WIS
tne known case whom we have admitted
to sanatorium. Examining contacts of
known cases is generally conceded to be
the best means of discovering other eady
curable cases. This is one of the most
important functions of a chest clinic.
Social Aspects
No plan, either social or health, can
he made for a tuberculosis contact until
he has been examined and diagnosed.
For example, children may be left depen'
dent orphans through the death of a
parent from tuberculosis and it is impos'
sible for the Children's Aid Society t;J
make any plans for the placing of these
children until it is known definitely
whether or not they are diseased. It is
foolish to institute proceedings for pro'
curing a mother's allowance pension for
a woman who has lost her husbanJ
through tuberculosis without first det
r'
mining whether she herself may not be
suffering from incipient tuberculosis amI
therefore unable or unfit to take care of
her children.
Correction of Defects
The examination of a tuberculosis
contact should be complete, and he
should be advised of any existing
curable defects, especially defects or
other diseases of the upper respiratory
tract. It is here that the nurse doing
tuberculosis work co,operates very closely
with other clinics and health agencie.s
and especially with nose and throat,
dental, and medical clinics. Underweight
in child contacts can often be overcome
by outlining for the mother a programm
of rest, diet, air, sun, and so forth. B
,
cause tuberculosis contacts report back
to the clinic regularly it is possible to
keep before them the need of treatment,
and to check up on corrections. We can
teach our tuberculosis contacts how to
a void other diseases which would lower
their resistance. During the course of his
examination, the physician is able to
detect the earlier symptoms of other
diseases, and to encourage the patient to
procure medical attention.
W hat Needs to be Done
One of the first requisites of a suitable
environment for tuberculosis contacts i3
that it shall be free of contamination by
tubercle bacillus. This is assured only
whcn all contacts have been examineJ,
VOl. XXX, No. 4
TH.t TUBERCULOSIS CONTACT
all open cases removeù or isolated, and
the premises properly cleaned and disin-
ft'cteù. After this our efforts are directeJ
at ralsmg the general standard of
hcalth, hath physical and mental. COIl-
ditions which contribuetd to the breaK-
ing down of one individual in a
family may remain to hasten the break
down of the contacts who are left. Chief
of these is a low economic status, with its
concomitants: worry, poor food, ba3
housing, and lack of proper recreation.
It is here that we make full use of appro'
priate social agencies.
Sometimes the health of a family is
heing affected, not by poverty but by
poor management, and mothers are often
glad of help in planning meals. If the
mother has again become pregnant, the
nurse can do much by encouraging her
to consult her doctor early, and to make
use of the services offered by the Vic
torian Order of Nurses and by prenata1
J.nd other clinics, thus assuring the new
member of the family at least a fair start
in the race.
lo?
The mental health of the family c<m b
improved by getting them to take a san
positive attitude toward the disease. It
is neccssary to keep thcm fully alive to
the possibilities of tuberculosis, but at
the same time to foster a healthy desir
to adopt all available means for combat
ting it in the family, and avoiding a
morbid, fatalistic outlook.
One negative examination after ex.
posure to tuberculosis does not warraat
the discharge of a contact from observa
tion. If this were so, tuberculosis nursing
would be a simple matter indeed. It is
not difficult to persuade people who are
afraid that they may be mfected to come
for an examination, but it is difficult t.!
induce them, over a period of years, to
return again and again for examinations
of which they may be unable to see th
need and certainly cannot see any imme'
diate tangible gain or result. Because
bitter experience has shown us that the
disease-free contact may break down at
any time, he must be persuaded to seek
examination often and regularly.
TUBERCULOSIS IN THE COUNTRY
Courtesy of the League of Reel Cross Societies.
With the country on its trial as a promoter
of tuberculosis, numerous enquiries have
elicited some singularly interesting facts and
these have been collected and reviewed by
the "Office international d'Hygiène publiquc"
one of whose members, the Polish represen-
tative on the Council, Dr. W. Chodz;ko, has
recently submitted a report on this subje\:t.
His researches deal with many countries be-
sides Poland and his statistical investigations
have shown that where agriculture is not
industrialised, the tuberculosis mortality is
most high in the country districts. The farmer
who employs primitive implements and farm-
ing technique, instead of using machinery
intelligently. wears out the lungs, mu..c1e
and
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'
sinews of his labourers. Stat!
ti('s also show
that in rural areas the tuberculosis death-rate
is particularly high among the younger women
as compared with their sisters in towns. The
young country woman is more fertile than
her town sister, and this increases her liahilitv
to contract tuberculosis.
It used to be thought that tuberwlo
is an
the country and tuberculosis in the towns w J
one and the samc disease. So it is as far as
the bacillus of tuherculosis itself is con('erncd.
But its reaction in the body is different. Com-
parisons made in Poland between a series of
rural and urban ca."es of tuberculosis have
!>hown that the disea
e is not only more com-
mon hut also mOre severe in the COli n tr'V.
Department of Private Duty Nursing
CONVENEil or PUBLIC^TIONS: Miss Jean Davidson, Paris. Onto
WHAT USE IS A FORUM?
N earl y a year ago the policy of the
Journal with respect to private duty
nursing was officially outlined under thè
caption of this Dep
rtment. During the
past year eleven articles directly related
to private duty nursing have been pub,
lished, most of which dealt with the
economic aspects of private practice. In
addition, the principal aim of a series of
editorials now appearing under the title
of 'The Canadian Scene, is to analy:.
the causes of certain economic maladjust-
ments in this field. What has been the
reaction of private duty nurses to the
efforts made hy the Journal on their be'
half? It would certainly not be fair to
say that there has been no response
whatever. There is evidence that th\.'y
are doing some serious thinking. But nat
out loud.
In the statement of policy referred t')
.lhove this sentence occurs: 'The Depart'
ment of Private Duty Nursing in the
Journal should fulfil a dual function anI
should serve as an open forum as well {!s
afford an opportunity for the expression
of the educational and economic ideals
of the private duty group. * After a
silence of eleven months we now presellt
the first written evidence that private
nurses really want a Forum .md, as
usual, the initiative comes from the West.
A Western Challenge
"Wauld it be possible for us to have a
small space in 'The Canadian Nurse to
publish our little say? We, of the Cal,
gary private duty section, would like to
announce, through the Journal, that we
are very much alive and are enjoying our
struggle for a mere existence. We con'
gregate the second Monday of each
month in the humble home of anyone of
"'Scc 'The CanadiulJ "Xllr.<c, May, 19B, p. 255 uA
Stat,ment or Polin ..
IM
our worthy members, to discuss ways and
means; to weep upon one another's broa.:!,
nurse-like shoulders; to exchange funny
little ideas and learn whether or not
they are of any value. We listen to our
visiting speakers with an attentivene
s
that would surprise you. Yes, and \V
continue to draw up resolutions to be
presented to the proper authorities, th
town fathers and so on, then we timidly
put them aside as our retiring natures
forbid us to force ourselves upon the
public notice. We eat-and we adjourn.
Although what goes before might seem
to contradict, we insist that we turn Ollt
enthusiastically to our meetings, and have
accomplished much of importance.
'''Now, we'd like to know, very mucn,
who else is alive? Let's hear from you,
sister private duty groups."
Hem'en Helps Those . . .
There will never be any real improvc-
ment in the conditions of private practice
until private nurses become more articu,
late than they are at present and there is
only one way to gain confidence in eithèr
writing or puhlic speaking and that is bv
practice. Of all forms of literary expres-
sion the writing of letters is the easiest.
Many people can write an excellent letter
who become stilted and dull when th
y
attempt a formal article. Why not take
pen in h(lnd? Anonymous contributions
cannot be accepted, but a pen name may
be used providing the real name an...l
address are made known to the editor.
The more violently you disagree with
points of view set forth in the J ourn.ll
the better.
Why not answer the challenging ques-
tion put by Calgary: who else is alive?
and prove that you are hy contributing
to the Forum.
VOL. xxx, No. I
The Student Nurses Page
PHYSIOLOGY ON THE SCREEN
PETRONELLA CHAMARD and PAULINE MARTIN,
First- Year Students in the School of Nursihg of St. Mary's Hospital, Montreal.
Perhaps the most difficult study to
visuali
e from text books is physiology.
Even after a comprehensive course in the
subject, first-year nurses find it difficult
to reconcile theory am.l reality. It is one
thing to learn that food, in process of
digestion, passes from the oesophagus
through the can.liac opening into the
stomach and thence out again to the duo,
denum, via the pyloric opening, but actu'
ally to witness this process in the rabbit
and dog is a vastly different matter. Mo,
tion pictures prepared by the Petrolagar
Laboratories of Chicago were shown re'
cently to the student nurses of the School
of Nursing of St. Mary's Hospital, Mont'
real, and the highly interesting pheno'
men
, of physiology were actually de'
picted on the screen and clarified still
further hy the explanations of Dr. Mul,
lally, a member of the medical staff of the
hospital.
The first series of pictures showed the
movements of the alimentary tract in ex'
perimental animals. Of particular interest
were the movements of peristalsis and
anti-peristalsis. These phenomena, which
had heen explained to us so many times
and in so many different ways, were once
,mù for all made clear to us by these pic,
tures. The second series dealt with the
influence of drugs on intestinal motIlity.
To the nurse who is ever "passing medi-
cines" it was pointed out how careful
one should be. Acute spasms of contrac-
tion, brought about by the taking of an
overdose, were clearly shown. Watching
the vdrious convolutions of the stomach
in its gentle peristalsis could not hut fill
the spectator with admiration and respect
for so intricate a mechanism. 'J..' e were
shown the structure of the ahdominal
wall and then emergency operations on
the liver and hladùer. This was especially
interesting to those of us who have not
as yet had our operating room training.
Every minute detail of procedure was
shown, even to the making of the in
cision and suturing it up. Also an appen-
dectomy was shown, step hy step, por
trayed so clearly and followed so logically
that there was left no feeling of "work-
ing in the dark," a feeling which should
not be tolerated but which unfortunately
sometimes exists. Incisions and sutures,
hitherto \'
_gucly comprehended, were
realistically associated with the previously
aCl-luired knowledge of the anatomy and
functional activities of the liver and
hlaùùer. Anù many a wide-eyed enthu-
siast among the prohationers returned
he
lvy-hearteù, the following mornin
. to
the realities of heù-making anù wllter
carrying!
STlJDENT CLUBS
Just a year ago we welcomed the fir
t 01 our
Studept Cluhs to the pages of the Jour'hd.
The School of Nursing of the City Ho
pilal
of Saskatoon led the way and now we havc
no less than eight of these up-and-coming
groups. Here they are: The Saskatoon City
Hospital; the Ottawa Civic Hospital: thc
(ìttawa General Hn
pita1: the
ontr-=al
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General Hospital: the Royal VH:tori.1 Hos-
pital. Montreal: the McKellar Ho
pital, Fo:-t
\Villiam: Saint John General Ho
pital, Saint
John: Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton.
\Vhy not form .1 duo in y'our
chool? If
ten or more
tl1dent... from one ..chool su
("n
e
we olTer a redll("cd r.lte of
1 :;n per "Il
"crip
tinn.
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Notes from the Nationa I Office
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
The Telltatire Programme
The trend of activities of the Canadian
Nurses Association is revealed in the
tentative programme of the General
Meeting which is published on the fol-
lowing pages. Throughout the detailed
arrangements for the sessions, there
appears a continuity of thought which
has arisen from present conditions in the
profession as well as from the findings
and recommendations of the Survey. A
careful reading of the reports of the
General Meeting held in 1932* is sug'
gested as an excellent preparation fùr
those who attend the meeting this year.
The sessions are so arranged that ever}
one can be present all except the business
meetings of the three national sections
which are being held concurrently. The
importance of ascertaining the point (It
view of physicians and the laity has not
been overlooked. The medical profession
will be represented by the Hon. J. 11.
Robb, Minister of Health of Ontario and
by Dr. C. P. Lusk of Toronto. As already
announced, Dr. R. C. Wallace, President
of the University of Alberta and Dr. Ira
MacKay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
McGill University, will also deliver
addresses.
The Joint Study Committees
The reports of the progress made by
the National and Provincial Joint Study
Committees are well placed under the
general topic of "Nursing-the present:'
Before discussion is opened, the meeting
is to be addressed by Professor H. 1-1.
Cassidy of the University of Toronto,
an economist of repute. Now, when even
the most optimistic acknowledge the un'
certainty of the coming years, it behoves
the entire national organi
ation to study
seriously and plan cautiously, yet daring'
ly, for future development.
"'S/'/' 'Tllc Canadian ?{IITSC. Septemher, J932.
170
National Projects
National undertakings, as reflected in
the reports from special committees,
indicate the variety and scope of these
interests. No one can afford to miss the
session at which these reports are to be
given. The C.N.A. faces two heavy
financial responsibilities, both of which
must receive careful consideration by the
official delegates in regard to future
action and support. These are The
Florence Nightingale Memorial Founda,
tion as proposed by the InternatiOlul
Council of Nurses and 'The Canadia^l
Nurse. The two year experimental
period under which the Journal is oper'
ating terminates on December 31, 1934.
The Business Sessions
In the interval between general meet-
ings the business of the C.N.A. becomes
the responsibility of the Executive Com'
mittee. It is only once in every two years
that there is an opportunity for represen,
tatives of the entire membership to meet
for' discussion of national problems and
future policies. Let no one miss the
business sessions, thus supporting and
encouraging the Executive Committee,
the members of which give so freely of
their ability and time on behalf of the
Canadian Nurses Association.
J'ransportation and Hotels
After careful inquiry concerning the
validated certificate plan it has been
decided that the reduced summer rates
are more advantageous. Special arrange'
ments for transportation are therefore
not being made. As previously announced
in the Journal excellent accommodation
can be obtained at moderate rates at the
Royal York Hotel and at other conveni
endy located hotels. Early reservation
is advised. Parking accommodation will
he available adjacent to the convention
headquarters.
VOL. XXX, No.4
THE CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
BIENNIAL MEETING
Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Ontario
JUNE 25 - 30. 1934
All sessions will take place at the Royal Yor.... Hotel
MO
DAY-JUNE 25
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
9.30 a.m. Conference of nurse members of
the Provincial Joint Study Committees
with the National Joint Study Commit.
tee.
1.30 p.m. Registration.
1.30.2.30 p.m. Section executive committee
meetings: (a) Nursing Education Se;:.
tion; (b) Private Duty Section; (c)
Public Health Section.
2.30 p.m. Meeting of the Executive Commit.
tee of the Canadian Nurses Association.
6.30 p.m. Dinner given in honour of the
members of the Executive Committee,
Canadian Nurses Association by the
Registered Nurses Association of On.
tario.
8.00 p.m. Meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Canadian Nurses Association.
TUFSDAy-JUNE 26
General Session, 9.30 a.m.
8.30.9.30 a.m. Registration.
9.30.10.15 a.m. Invocation: The Rt. Rev.
Bishop Derwyn T. Owen, D.D.
Reading of minutes.
Report of Honorary Secretary.
Report of Honorary Treasurer.
Report of Executive Secretary.
Correspondence.
10.15.12.15 a.m. Reports of Standing Com.
mittees with discussion:
(a) Publications Committee-Miss Florence
H. M. Emory.
(b) Arrangements Committee-Miss Mary
Millman.
(c) Programme Committee-Miss Florence
H. M. Emory.
Presentation of resolutions from the
Executive Committee and the Provincial
Associations. Appointment of resolu.
tions committee. Appointment of SCrll'
tineers and instructions regarding ballot.
Appointment of press representatives.
Roll call of federated associations .
Reports of affiliated associations:
(a) The J nt<"rnational Conncil of Nurses.
APRil. ]91-1
(b) The National Council of \\'omen of
Canada.
( c) The Canadian Council on Child and
Family Welfare.
12.15 p.m. Adjourn to view exhibit'i.
General Session, 1.45 p.m.
1.45.3.15 p.m. Reports of Special Commit.
tees with discussion:
(a) Joint Study Committee Canadian
Medical Association. and Canadian
Nurses Association: Mi
s Jean E. Browne.
(b) National Enrolment: Miss Ruby E.
Hamilton.
(c) Membership Campaign: Miss Mary
Millman.
(d) Exchange of Nurses: Miss Jean E.
Browne.
(e) History of Nursing: Miss Jean E.
Browne.
(f) Interpretation of the Historical Devel.
opment of Nursing in Canada: Miss Jean
I. Gunn.
(g) Mary Agnes Snively Memorial: Miss
Jean E. Browne.
(h) Commercial and Professional Exhibit!õ:
Miss Jean S. Wilson.
(i) Budget Committee: Miss Margaret
Murdoch.
(j) Co.ordination of nursing education
interests: Miss Marion Nash.
(k) Publicity for higher education for
Nurses: Miss M. F. Hersey.
(I) Curriculum for nurses in training in
mental hospitals: Miss N. Fidler.
(m) Scholarship award. Florence Nightin.
gale Memorial Foundation: Mi
s Ruby
E. Hamilton.
3.15 p.m. Presidential Addre-ss: "Yesterd.\)'
and Tomorrow:'
3.35 p.m. Prot:incial Reports with discussion:
Alberta: Miss Fanny Munroe.
Briti..h Columbia: Miss Mabel F. Gray.
Manitoba: Mi
s Mildred M. Reid.
New Brunswick: Miss Alena J. MacMa..ter
Nova Scotia: Miss Anne Slattery.
Ontario: Miss Marjorie Buck.
Prince Edward Island: Mi<;s Lillian Pill
geon.
Quchec: \1i
C'aro1ir1(' V TIarn'tf
171
172
THE CANADIAN N{TR
E
Sask.ttchewan
Miss Edith Amas.
4.30 p.m. The Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario will be hostesses at a tea to
he given at the Royal York Hotel.
General Session, 8 p.m.
(open to the public)
Chairman; Miss Marjorie Buck, President,
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.
Addresses of Welcome:
Hon. George S. Henry, Premier of the
Province of Ontario; His Worship, the
Mayor of Toronto, Mr. William J. Stew'
art; F. C. Neal, M.D., President ,On'
tario Medical Association; Miss Mar'
jorie Buck, President, Registered Nurses
As
ociation of Ontario.
Response to addresses of welcome: Miss
Florence H. M. Emory, President, Cana'
dian Nurses Association.
Address: Dr. Robert C. Wallace, President,
U ni\'ersity of Alberta.
WEDNESDAy-JUNE 27
General Session, 9.30 a.m. Nursing: The
Present
9,30' 10. 30 a.m. Reports of Provincial Joint
Stud" Committees:
Albert
; Miss Margaret S. Fraser.
British Columbia: Miss Grace M. Fairley.
Manitoba: Miss Kathleen W. Ellis.
New Brunswick: Miss Margaret Murdoch.
Nova Scotia: Miss Anne Slattery.
Ontario: Miss Mary Millman.
Prince Edward Island: Miss Anna Mair.
Quebec: Miss Caroline V. Barrett.
Saskatchewan: Miss Ruby M. Simpson.
10.30,11.00 a.m. Address: H. M. Cassidy,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social
Science, Uni\'ersity of Toronto.
11.00,12.00 a.m. Discussion
12.00 12.15 p.m. Summary of discussion and
þresentatlOn of resolutions: Miss Jean
E. Browne, secretary, National Jobt
Study Committee.
12.15 p.m. Adjourn to view exhibits.
General Session, 2 p.m. Nursing: The Future
2.00,3.00 p.m. A symposium: The future of
nursing as seen by:
A public health nurse: Miss Elizabeth L.
Smellie, C.B.E., Chief Superintendent,
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada.
A private duty nurse: Miss Mabel Mc,
Mullen, St. Stephen, N.B.
A nurse educator: Miss Ethel Johns, editor
and business manager, crhe Canadian
NHrse.
3.0U'4.15 p.m. Discussion led by:
Miss Margaret L. Moag, Chairman, Public
Health Section, Canadian Nurses Asso,
ciation, and Superintendent of Victori.lI1
Order of Nurses, Montreal.
Miss Isabel M. Macintosh, Chairman,
Private Duty Section, Canadian Nur
es
Association.
Miss Marion Lindeburgh, Assistant Director,
School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University.
4.15'4.30 p.m. A summary of discussion and
presentation of resolutions; Miss Ruby
M. Simpson, O.B.E., director of Nursing
Services, Provincial Department of
Health, Saskatchewan.
4.30 p.m. Adjourn to view exhibits.
General Session, 7.00 p.m.
7.00 p.m. A dinner commemorating the
twenty,fifth anniversary of the founding
of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Greetings will be extended by;
The Hon. and Rev. H. J. Cody, President,
University of Toronto.
Certain fraternal delegates.
11rs. Brent Goodson, Charter Member,
Canadian Nurses Association.
Address: Dr. Ira Mackay, Dean of the
Faculty of Arts, McGill University.
THURSDAY-JUNE 28
General Session, 9.00 a.m.
9.00,9.45 a.m. Report of the Editor and Busi,
ness Manager of 'The Canadian Nurse?
Recommendations of the Executive Com'
mittee regarding future policy.
9.45'10.30 a.m. Discussion.
10.30' 11.15 a.m. The Florence Nightingale
Memorial Foundation.
(a) 'TIle national point of view: Miss Grace
M. Fairley, Vancouver, Convenor of
the Florence Nightingale Memorial
Foundation, Canadian Nurses Associa'
tion.
(b) 'The provincial point of view: Miss
Cory Taylor, Winnipeg, Convenor of
the Florence Nightingale Committee,
Manitoba Registered Nurses Association.
11.15, 12.15 a.m. Discussion. introduced by
Miss Jean I. Gunn, member, Interna,
tional Committee, Florence Nightingale
Memorial Foundation.
12.15'12.30 A summary of discussion and pre'
sentation of related resolutions: Miss M.
K. Holt. Montreal, member, Florence
VOL. xxx, No. 4
Tl:NT A TIVE PROC;IZAMML
lghtIngale Memorial C01Unuttee, C,ma-
dian Nurses Association.
12.30. Adjourn to view exhibits.
Concurrent meetings of the three National
Sections, 2.00 p.m.
Nursing Education Section
Chairman: Miss Grace M. Fairley.
2.00-3.15 p.m. Reading of minutes.
Chairman's address.
Report of secretary.
Report of treasurer.
Correspondence.
Reports of committees.
Reports of Provincial Committees on N,u,-s-
ing Education:
.'\lberta: Miss J. Connal.
British Columbia: Miss L. Mitchell.
Manitoba: Rev. Sister St. Albert.
New Brunswick: Rev. Sister Corinne
Kerr.
Nova Scotia: Mrs. Murray MacKay.
Ontario: 1v1iss S. M. Jamieson.
Prince Edward Island: Miss M. Lavers.
Quebec: Miss Martha Batson.
Saskatchewan: Miss G. M. Watson.
Appointment of Resolutions Committee.
Appointment of Scrutineers.
Election of Officers.
3.15,4.15 p.m. Round Table Conference:
Questions submitted by the National
Committee on Curriculum and the prov,
Incial Nursing Education Sections regard,
ing:
(a) Postgraduate and staff education;
(b) Making the clinical experience of the
student of greater educational value;
(c) Importance and value of mental hy'
giene and psychiatry in the undergradu,
ate course.
.15-4.30 p.m. Unfinished a.nd new business.
Private Duty Nursing Section
Chairman: Miss Isabel MacIntosh.
2.00'3.00 p.m. Reading of minutes.
Chairman's address.
Report of secretary-treasurer.
Correspondence.
Roll call of members by provinces.
Report of pub1ications committee: M!ss
Jean Davidson.
Report of nominations committee: Mrs.
Rose Hess.
Report of exhibit.. committee: Miss Francl's
Mathews.
:\rpointment of re..olutions (ommittee:
APRIL, 1934
173
Reports from Pnt'üte Duty Comnllttees of
the Provincial Associations:
Albertd: MIss Jean Clow.
British Columbia; Miss M. Mirfield.
Manitoba: Miss K. McCallum.
New Brunswick: Miss Mabel McMullen.
Nova Scotia; Miss Christine MacLeod.
Ontario; Miss Clara Brown.
Prince Edward Island: MIss M. Gamble.
Quebec: MISS Christine \Vatling.
Saskatchewan: Miss M. R. Chisholm.
3.00-3.45 p.m. Round Table Conference:
Topic: Eight Hour Duty, discussion led
by Miss M. 11irfield.
3.45-4.30 p.m. Address: Miss E. Johns. dis-
cussion led by Miss Helen Buhler, Ha-
milton.
Election of officers
Unfinished business.
Public Health Nursing Section
Chairman: Miss Margaret Moag.
2.00'3.15 p.m. Reading of minutes.
Chairman's address.
Report of secretary.
Report of treasurer.
Correspondence.
Reports of committees.
Reports of Provincial Committees on Public
Health:
Alberta: Miss Blanche A. Emerson.
Bntish Columbia: Miss M. Duffield.
Manitoba: Miss E. McKelvey.
New Brunswick: Miss A. Burns.
Nova Scotia: Miss A. Edith Fenton.
Ontdrio: Mrs. Agnes Haygarth.
Prince Edward Island: Miss Ina Gillan.
Quebec: Miss Christine Dowling.
Saskatchewan: Mrs. E. M. Feeney.
Appointment of resolutions commIttee.
Appointment of scrutineers.
3.15'3.45 p.m. Address: "New Frontiers In
Public Health Nursing", Miss Sybil H.
Pease, supervisor of Menta.l Hygiene,
East Harlem Nursing and Health Service,
New York City.
3.45-4.30 p.m. General di
cussion.
4.30 p.m. A drive through the city with high
tea at the Children's Convale
cent Hos-
pital, Thistletown, as the guests of the
BOdnl of Directors of the H0"pit.ll (<II
Sid. Children. Torontll
FRIDAY-JUNE 29
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174
General Session, 9.30 a.m.
9.30- 10.30 a.m. Report of the Curriculum
Committee of the Nursing Education
Section of the Canadian Nurses Associa-
tion: Miss Marion Lindeburgh. Discus-
sion of future policies regarding thii
committee's work.
10.30-12.30 Discussion led by a repïesen-
tative of each of the three sections of the
Canadian Nurses Association:
(a) The selection of students: Miss M.
Blanche Anderson, instructor, School for
Nurses, Civic Hospital, Ottawa.
(b) The possibilities of introducing health
teaching into the basic course: Miss Ethel
Cryderman, supervisor, Victorian Order
of Nurses for Canada.
(c) The teaching of nursing theory and
practice in preparing the nurse for ser-
vice in the home and the community:
Miss Ruth Tallman, Hamilton.
12.00- 12.15 Summary of discussion and
presentation of related resolutions: Miss
Eileen Flanagan, Royal Victoria Hospital,
Montreal, member of the Curriculum
Committee, Canadian Nurses Association,
Nursing Education Section.
12.15 Adjourn to view exhibits.
General Session, 2 p.m. Nursing: The
Interval
2.00-3.00 p.m. A symposium On modifications
in nursing service toward which we
should aim:
(a) The Nurse: Miss Jean I. Gunn, supa-
intendent, School for Nurses, Toronto
General Hospital.
(b) The Physician: Dr. C. P. Lusk, To-
ronto.
(c) The Government Official: Dr. J. M.
Robb, Minister of Health ,Ontario.
3.00-4.15 p.m. Discussion.
4.15-4.30 p.m. Summary of discussion and
presentation of resolutions: Miss E. Kath-
leen Russell, director, School of Nursing,
University of Toronto.
4.30 p.m. Garden Party. Hostesses: The
Registered Nurses of Toronto.
General Session, 8.30 p.m. Nursing: The
Past
8.30 p.m. A pageant interpreting the his-
torical development of nursing in Canada.
SATURDAY-JUNE 30
General Session, 9.30 a.m.
9.30-10.15 a.m. Reports of Sections: Actit."
ities 1932-1934 and findings of the ses-
sions:
Nursing Education: Miss Grace M. Fairley.
Private Duty: Miss Isabel Macintosh.
Public Health: Miss Margaret Moag.
10.15-10.30 a.m. Report of resolutions com-
mittee.
10.30-11.30 a.m. Unfinished business and
new business.
11.30- 12.00 Election of officers.
Adjournment.
2.00-4.00 p.m. Meeting of the Executive CO!Jl-
mittee of the Canadian Nurses Associa-
tion.
HOTEL ACCOMODATION
Except where mdicated, rooms with bath are quoted, also the rate given for double rooms
is per person (S.-single room; D.-double room).
Royal York Hotel: S., $3.50; D., $3.00.
King Edward Hotel: S., $2.50, $3.00, $3.50; D., $2.00, $2.50, $3.00.
Westminster Hotel: 210 Jarvis Street: S., $2.50; D., $2.00 (European plan, tea room and
dining room in connection).
Hotel \Vaverley: 488 Spadina Avenue: S., $2.50, $3.00, Or with hot and cold water onîy,
$2.00; D., $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, Or with hot and cold water only, $1.50, $1.75.
Y.W.C.A.: 76 Pembroke Street and 18 Elm Street: Bed and breakfast, $1.00, $1.50;
Room and meals, $1.50, $2.00.
Those wishing to arrange for convent accommodation should write to Rev. Sister Superior,
St. Michael's Ho
pital, Bond Street, Toronto.
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intended for publication in the ensuing wue must reach the Journal not later than the eighth of the
precedmg month. In order to ensure accuracy all contributioN should be typewritten and double-.paced.
ALBERT A
CALGARY: The regular meeting of the Cal-
gary Association of Graduate Nurses was held
on Feb. 20, the president, Miss P. Gilbert,
in the chair. Dr. W. H. McGuffin, radiologi'it,
gave an interesting lecture on malignant
disease, particularly those forms which attack
the skin and mouth. He emphasi
ed the
importance of the missionary work which
nurses can do in helping to educate the public
to the necessity of a periodical medical exam-
inatoin by their family physician. A letter
was read from Miss E. McPhedran, Alberta
representative of the A.A.R.N. to the
National Committee on the Florence Nightin-
gale Memorial Fund and a grant of $10.00
was voted. Miss M. Watt was appointed to
represent the C.A.G.N. on the provincial com-
mittee, of which Miss McPhedran is chairman.
LETHBRIDGE: The annual meeting of the
Lethbridge Graduate Nurses Association was
held on Feb. 12, seventeen members being
present. . A resolution to amend the by-laws
was passed to the effect that: "Fees for regis-
tration of the private duty nurse be reduced
to $4.00 for the year 1934, payable half year-
ly. It is necessary that this fee be paid before
a nurse is allowed on the registry:' Election
of officers for 1934 resulted as follows: Miss
Jean MacKenÚe was re-elected president.
Miss J. Brodie was elected vice-president:
Miss B. Clark, secretary, and Miss H. David-
son as treasurer. Mi
s A. M. Tilley acted a ç
hostess.
BRI fISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER: The annual meeting of the
GrJ.duate Nurses Association of British Co-
lumbia tJ.kes place on April 2 and 3 at New
Westminster. The afternoon of the first day
will be devoted to the transaction of business
and the hearing of reports. An address en-
titled "\Vhat is happening to family life?"
will be given by Dr. W. G. Topping of the
depJ.rtment of economics and sociology in t
e
Univen,ity of British Columbia. Afternoan
tea will be served by the Graduate Nurses
Açsociation of New Westminster. In the
evening Miss M. 1. Bollert, Dean of Wom
n
in the University of British Columbia ,will he
the guest speaker. On the second day a panel
discussion has been arranged of which Mi
s
Margaret Kerr will be chairman. At the
evening mceting, Dr. H. T. J. Coleman, head
of the department of philosophy in the Uni-
\'ersity of British Columbia will speak
H\
"Education as a factor in a d\anging world:'
APRil, tq34
MANITOBA
BRANDON: The Brandon GraduJ.te Nurse"
Association held their monthly meeting c. n
Feb. 6, thirty eight being present. The private
duty section were in charge of the meeting
and Mrs. Fletcher, the delegate to the annual
meeting of the Manitoba Association of Regis-
tered Nurses, gave a concise report. Rev. Mr.
Garden, the guest speaker, made a trip
through Canada's beauty spots most interest-
ing.
ST. BONIFACE: St. Boniface Hospital
Nurses Alumnae Association held their
monthly meeting on Feb. 14. Reports from
the various sections were read after which
Miss' Ellen Banks gave a paper on "New
Treatment of Burns." This proved bo:h
interesting and instructive. The meeting wa,..
well attended. Miss Parenteau (St. B. H..
1929), and Miss Emma Kuneman (St. B. H.
1929), are at present on the staff at St.
Boniface Hospital.
WINNIPEG: Miss Cory Taylor, provincial
convener in Manitoba, of the Florence Night-
ingale International Memorial, has been the
guest, during the past month, of the various
Alumnae Associations in Winnipeg at their
monthly meetings. The object of Miss Taylor's
visits was to give a very interesting talk
describing in full the objectiHs of the Flo-
rence Nightingale International Memorial. \Vc
are grateful to Miss Taylor for helping U
,
as we all intend to do our share.
\VINNIPEG: The Alumnae l\
sociation of
the school of nursing of the Mi,..ericordia Ho<;-
pital held their monthly meeting on M,uch
.5 when we had the plea!ooure of being the firçt
\Vinnipeg Alumnae Association to have a
their guest speakers Mi
s Cory Taylor, con-
venor, and MIss Emily Parker, a repre!-en-
tative of the Manitoba committee, wf:o
described the Florence Nightingdle Inter-
national Foundation which IS to be a living
monument to our great leader. There wa
much enthusiasm among our nur!ooes and we
will try to do our part to help it
!-uccess.
NE'" BRUNSWIC.....
fRLlH:RICTON: The graduate nurses ot
V ictoria Public HospitJ.l held their tenth
Alumnae dinner on Feb. 16, when twenty-
eight meJ1lber
were pre!-cnt .IS well as cleven
student nur
e
, compri!-ing this year's gradu-
.Iting c1J.,..,.., who were gue..t
of the As
ocia
tion. The gue
b were received by Mr!-
Tr.dforJ Donuvdn and Mr!-. J. T. Ma"or
.,
'ted .1' tn.,..t m,,..tr ". :\ tclcgr.lI\1 of gwd
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THt CANADIAN NURSE
wishes WdS recei\-ed from Miss V. Winslow.
superintendent of the Children's Hospit.tl,
Halifax, who organi
ed the Alumnae Asso,
ciation when she was superintendent of the
hospital in Fredericton ten years ago.
SAI"T JOHN :The Saint John Chapter of
the N.B.A.R.N. met recently, with Miss A.
i\.. Burns in the chair and there was a large
attendance. Mrs. J. H. Vaughan and Mis"
Charlotte Hume were appointed to the audit,
ing committee. The dppointment of Miss
Marion Myers to the Provincial Committee óf
Nursing Education was made. Miss Ha
el
Rcicker, chairman of the Registry Committee,
exhibited the Card ex System to be used at
the local registry. Dr. Geo. M. White
addressed the meeting. An interesting address
on the course in public health nursing, which
she attended at Columbia University, wa::
given by Miss H. Dykeman, director of publi.:
health nursing services for New Brunswick,
at a meeting of the public health section of
the Saint John Chapter N.B.A.R.N., with
Miss M. Wallace presiding. The senior C],lSS
of the training school S.J.G.H. entertained
at an enjoyable dance on Feb. 13, with Miss
I. Williams as convenor. Miss Murdoch and
MIss Myers received the guests.
MARRIED: In February, 1934, Miss Edith
Powers (St. Joseph's Hospital), to Dr. Per!"v
Knox, at the Bishop's Palace, Saint John.
N.B.
WOODSTOCK: The rcgular meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the school of nursing
of the 1. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital was
held on Feb. 20. Regular business was tram'
acted.
ONT ARlO
DISTRICT 1
CHATHAM: A delightful evcning wa:, spent
.It St. Joseph's Hospital, Chatham, when Miss
Pri:,cilla Campbell, superintendent, Public
General Hospital, Chatham, gave a report 0'1
her trip abroad.
MARRIED: On Jan. 3, 1934. at Jeanctt
Creek, Miss Blanche Ouellette (St. J. H.), to
Mr. Joseph Y .t
beck, of Thamesville.
LONDOK: The regular meeting of the 0:\,
t.trio Hospital Alumnae A
sociation was held
on Feb. 8, when four new members w
re
enrolled. It was decided to have the announcc'
ment of the Association appear in the offici 11
directory ot The Canadian Nurse .1I1d ten
dollars W.lS \'oted for this purposc. A special
meeting was called on Feb. 12, to arange
about a donation to the Florence Nightingale
fund. It was decidcd to send this throu:,{h
the committee of which Mi
:, Ruby Hamilt.)n
of Toronto i:- convenor. The nursing st,i1T
of the Ontariu Ho::pit.d. held .l delightful
party in honour of Miss Catherine Cotter who
IS retiring after thlrty'two years' service on
the nurslllg statl. The guest of honour was
presented with a sterling silver brm:h, comb
and mirror, Misses Stapleton and Kennedy
making the presentation. Miss Mary L.
Jacobs and Mrs. E. J. Kitchen presided at an
attractive tea table decorated in the school
colours, Mi
::es N. \Villiams, A Fit
ger.,ld
and 1. Lindsay assisting.
LONDON: The eight,hour nur
ing day is
being tricd uut in London for registered
nurses on private duty in hospitals and in
homes. It will now be possible to have two
nurses in place of one, or three in place of
two at a reduced rate. The new rate is $3.00
for eight hours of $9.00 for twenty' four hours.
By the twelve,hour schedule, the full ddY
is divided into two, instead of three shifts,
at a rate of $5.00 per twelve hours on $10.00
for twenty,four hours and only two instead
of three nurses employed. A more c\'en dis'
tribution of work among the nurses is what
is being aimed at. Since three will be em'
ployed at a cost of $1.00 less than was for'
mally paid for two, it seems probable that
people who need nursing service will approve
of the plan, and nurses on eight,hour duty
can gi\ e a better service especially if the
casc is a heavy one. This schedule covers
general mcdical and surgical cases.
LONDON: Miss Jean McNaughton (Vic,
toria HospItal, 193 2). and a graduate of the
University of \\' estern Ontario public health
nursing course, has been appomted to the
public health stat! in Sarnia.
DISTRICTS :: A:>:D 3
BRAKTFORD: The regular meeting of the
:\lumnae Association of the Brantford Gen'
eral Hospital was held March 6, with the
president. Miss K. Charnley, presiding. Mis,;
A. Bmgeman, chairman of Districts 2 and 3,
R.N.A.O., was the guest speaker and ad,
dressed the meeting in regard to R.N.A.O.
membership. Mr. A. M. Harley gave an
interesting addre"" on current events at a
recent supper meeting of the staff conference
.It the Brantford General Hospital. Ml,,
Margaret Gillespie leaves shortly on a Medi,
terranean cruise. She is sailing on the S. S.
Aq uitania. Miss Dorothy Franklin (class
1932 B.G.H.) has accepted a position ao;
general duty nurse at the Stephenson Memo'
rial Hospital, Alliston, ant.
GALT: The winter meeting of Districts 2
and 3 WdS held in Galt, on Feb. 7, about one
hundrcd nurses bein!! present. lvliss A. Bing.
,
man of Freeport. prcsident of the local dis'
tricts. W.I:- in the chair .md Miss S. Mitchell,
pn:siòcnt of the Galt Alumnae Associc.ltion,
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NOTE
welcomed the gue
t
. Dr. J. McQueen wel-
comed the guests on behalf of the medical
tetaff and Dr. Doyle of the Ontariu Hospit:ll,
Hamilton, who was one of the guest speakers,
gave a very interesting talk on the wurk of
the mental clinics throughout the province.
Dr. Ward Woolner, of Ayr, spoke on the
value of organi
ation, and stressed the im'
portance of nurses being members of such
an organi
ation as the R.N.A.O. Mi
s E.
McKim, superintendent of the new Ontario
Training School for girls in Waterloo County,
,mother interesting speaker, gave an outline
of the work being accomplished among the
girls in this school. Miss S. Post, R.N., of
Galt, sang several delightful solos. It was
decided that the next meeting will be held
in the early part of June at the Homewo!IJ
Sanitarium, Guelph, at the kind invitation of
Miss Northmore. High tea was served by the
Galt Nurses' Alumnae Association.
GUELPH: At the February meeting of the
Guelph Hospital Alumnae Association, PlU'
fessor McLean of the English Department of
the Ontario Agricultural College, gave a mo!'t
interesting address on "Pepys' Diar'y,"
GUELPH: The Alumnae Association of
St. Joseph's Hospital held a successful dance
recently. At the January meeting of the
.'\Iumnae Association the election of officers
for the year took place.
DISTRICT 4
HA '-ilL TON: The annual meeting of Dis-
trict 4, R.N.A.O. \Vas held on Feb. 17, with
Miss C. Brewster, chairman, presiding.
'\
good attendance from Hamilton and vicinitv
and from St. Catharlnes, marked the intere
'
taken in the activities of the Association
which were reported on by the various com:
mittees and groups. Membership for the ye;lI
] 933 totalled four hundred and sixty-four.
A balance in the treasury of $255.58 was
hown, and the sum contributed to the per-
manent education fund $159.75. The public
health group reported h,wing had d course
of lectures on mental hygiene by Dr. Mont-
gomery of the Ontario Huspital, H,unilton:
.tlso a mdternity in
titute conducted by Miss
E. Cryderman, of the Victorian Order ûf
Nurse!'. The private duty nur
e1> have formed
a group, within the district, for the purpose
of studying the problems confronting
he
private duty nur1>e dnd their po
sible remedy.
The spedker of the evening was Mi
C. Ethel
Greenwood who!>e addrete
on the International
Congress of Nurses proved intere<;t1l1g and
,Imusing. Officers dected for 1934 were a....
follow..: Chairman' Mi..... (' E Brew
ter.
H,unilton: Vlce,CIILl1Ymûn: MI
'" M. Pdrk,
Niagar'l f,tlh-: SeL"TftaT\',TYf(/
IIYer:
r''. Nor'
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177
JIldn Barlow, Hamilton; CounCillors: Miss .'\.
\\'right, St. Catharines; Miss J. Allen, Niag;u-a
falls; Mites E. Smith, Welldnd; Miss A. Schie-
fele, Miss M. 1. Sutherland, Miss F. Nichúl
son, Hamilton; Nurse Education: Miss E
Chisholm; Public Health: MIss A. Boyd:
Private Du.ty: Miss E. Moran. A pleasant
social hour was spent when Miss Jean Souter
and Miss Janet Murray presided at the tea
table.
DISTRICT 5
TORUNTU: On Feb. 16, a JU\l1t meeting of
the Public Hedlth N llJ'sing Alumnae, and the
Hospital Teachers and Administrators Alum-
nae was held at the School of Nursing,
Toronto Uni\Crsity. As the amalgamation of
the two associations had been heartily en-
dorsed at the last general meeting of the
individual groups, the main business of the
meeting was the reading and adoption of the
new constitution. The new association will
be known as the Alumnae A
::,ociation of the
School of Nursing, University of Toronto.
and the executives of the former assocÏdtions
are to carryon, sharing responsibilities until
the next annUdl meeting in June. A letter
from Miss Ruby Hamilton, com'enor of the
ProvinciJ.l Flo:-ence Nightingale MemoriJ.l
Committee was read and ten dollars wa<; voted
as this yeM's contribution. A pledsant sociJ.I
hour was spent and refre!'hments were serv
.j.
TORUNTO: Professur G. D. Glaxebrook, of
the University of Toronto, addressed th.'
members of the Community Health A::,
ocia-
tion of Greater Toronto, at a meeting helJ
on Feb. 13, on "The Political Situation in
Europe:' Miss Laura Gamble presided. .'\
bridge of about seventy tJ.blcs wa!' held on
March 3, under the auspices of the A......oci I-
tion. Group
from n1dny of the ho
pital
and
nursing organi
ations, as well J.
their friend....
were present.
TORONTO: l\1i:>:. E!i:?:J.beth SmeIlIl', C.B.E..
R.R.C., was the gue;;t of honour at the dnnuJ.l
dinner meeting on March 6, of the
t.ltf
council, Toronto Branch, Victori,1I1 Order of
Nurses for CanadJ.. Mi:-
Edith C dmpbdl.
M.M., R.R.C.. Wd::, also a guest. Mi
s SpedI"
ing', of the \\' eston Br,\I1ch, together with
Mis
Ferguli;on, Mi
s Webb, MI:-" Llwli;on and
Mi
s Hopper of the York Town
hip Branc!l.
joined with the Toronto staff who wen
present en ma
se, with the exception of tholi;c
on the ...i\.k li
t or 011 night dury. The table.
arranged a
a thrce-
ideJ
quare. W,I:- g,IY
with yello\V and hlue "pring flowers :md
individu.11 c.lI1dy l-1a
ket
tndde l-1y ,I pJ.tient.
The
e were of hlue crepe p,tpcr with a white
!'tor1-. f cdthcr
,lIld ,111, with .1
mall nak,.t/
hahv per("hed ,'1 tllp (It the l.lnch. nth, r
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pretty fd\'uurs wert: in the furm uf papt:r
book marks of pale pink with a baby's
head and the letters V.O.N. interlaced
in hlack and gilt. These were made by an
art student, the sister of one of the sta!f.
Because Miss Smellie has !'u many childr.:n
that she might get them mixed, Miss Mc'
Namara, the chairman, asked each staff mem'
ber to introduce the persun on her right.
This was done by reading absurd rhymes
which had been prepared by the poets of
the hranch. Miss McNamara, in proposing
a toast to Miss Smellie, expressed the delight
,md satisfaction each member of the Council
cuntinued to feel in connection with the
hunour conferred upon her chief by His
Majesty the King. Mi
s Smellie, in replying.
said she had experien.:ed great pleasure in
that the work of the Order throughout
Canada had been recognhed in the person of
its Chief Superintendent, and told amusing
anecdotes incident to the announcement ()f
the award. Brief reports of the activities .Jf
the Council for the year were presented and
the foHowing officers for 1934,1935 were
elected: President: Miss Kdthleen McNamara;
Vice' President: Miss Grace Milne; Secretar)':
Miss Grace Cameron; Treasurer: Miss Steven'
on; Convenor Social Committee: Miss Gr
ce
Rogers.
MARRIED: In November, 1933, Miss Doris
Bailey (H.S.C., 1929), to Mr. Chisholm, of
Oakvilk.
MARRIED: In January, 1934, Miss Ruth
Hillock (H.S.C., 1931), tu Mr. Nuyes, of
Oneida, N.Y.
DISTRICT 6
Pt.TERBOROUGH: Chapter C. of District
6, R.0i.A.O., held its annual meeting un Jan.
30. Miss Fanny Dixon was re,elected chair'
IIldn; Mrs. E. M. Leeson, vice'chalrman; and
Miss A. Price, secretary'treasurer. Dr. G.
Stewart Cameron gave a very interesting-
address on "Future trends in nursing."
PETfRBOROCGIi: The Nicholls Hospital
Alumnae Assuciation, under the direction of
Miss 1-1dble Watson, social convenor, recently
held a successful bridge party, the proceeds
of which were used for relief purposes.
DISTRICT 7
KI!,;G
TON: The annual meeting of tht:
Kingston Gener,ll Hospital Alumnae Associa'
tion was held in February, with eighty mem-
hers pre1>cnt. The assuciation voted ten
dollars tu the Florence Nightingale Memorial
Fund, this sum tu be given annually for a
number of years. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Honoraïy
Preside'll: Mi
.; L. D. j\cton; President: Miss
A. Baillie; Vice' PresIdent: Mi
s F. Smart;
Secretary: Miss V. MacMartin; 'T reasv:rcr:
Mrs. C. W. Mallory; Private Duty Section:
Miss B. Howes; Flower Committee: Mrs. S.
Smith; Press Re þresentative: Miss E. Sharp.
KINGSTO
:A number of graduate nurses
and other friends gave a tea at the Kingston
General Hospital on March 1, in honour of
Miss E. Leeder, who has retired after acting
for the past twenty,three years as Victoria;}
Order nurse in Kingston. Much praise was
given Miss Leeder for the splendid work she
has done for the Order and for her co'
operation with the K.G .H. As a token of
appreciation she was presented with a bouquet
of spring flowers. Mrs. R. F. Armstrong
presided at the tea table and Miss Baillie and
Miss O. \Vilson assisted.
DISTRICT 8
OTTAWA: The annual meeting of District
8, R.N.A.O. was held on Feb. 9, with an
attendance of about three hundred. Reports
from the different sections were read and a
motion picture on spinal anaesthesia, unda
the direction of Dr. Mirsky and shown by
Mr. J. R. Booth, proved interesting and
1I1structive. The evening session took the for'11
of an open meeting when Miss Ethel Johns,
editor of 'The Canadian Nurse, was the guest
speaker. Delightful solos were sung by Mrs.
Robert Jefferson, accompanied by Miss Mur-
phy. A hearty vote of thanks was tendered
the retiring chairman, Miss Percy, by Mi
s
Jean Church. The following officers were
ele.:ted for 1934: Chairman: Miss Blanche
Anderson; Vice,Chairman: Miss Jean Church:
Secretary: Miss A. G. Tanner; 'Treasurer: Miss
MJ.ry Acland; Councillors: Misses G. Clarke,
A. Ebbs, Christine Murray, Mary Slinn, Mary
Graham and E. C. McIlraith.
OTTAWA: The annual dinner dnd bridl
c
pJ.rty of the Lady Stanley Institute Alumn,te
Association took place on Feb. 22, when the
members were received by the president, Mi
s
Jean Blyth, and by Mrs. W. C. Elmitt con-
venor of arrangements for this happy event.
More than fifty members were present, 1lldny
coming to Ottawa specially for the occasion.
Greetings were read from Alberta, Illinoi
.
and India. The tahles were centred with
spring tlowers and pink tapers in silver can'
delabra.
OTTAWA: A very successful tea, munev
shower and musicale was held on Feb. 10,
by the student nurses of the Ottawa General
Ho
rital. The proceeds will be voted to the .
general fund of the organi:;dtion. The guests
were received by Rev. Sister Flavie Domitille,
superintendent of nurses, and by Sister Madc'
lei ne of Jesus, in:'tructor of n lIrses, Mis
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Frances Baxter, president of the ,wdent nurse:,
association, and MISS Greta Nagle, vi\:e,
president.
MARRIED: Miss Az.eta Whelan (O.G.H.,
193:'.), to Mr. Leonard Leclair, of Ottawa.
QUEBEC
MOlliTREAL: We are glad to report that
òue to the modern treatment of fracture
,
Miss M. K. Holt who suffered a Potts fractu!
on February 6, was walking in two weeks,
and although still in a cast, was in her office
for a short time at the end of the third week.
Miss Evelyn Horsfall (M.G.H., 1925), ha"
recently accepted a position as X,Ray Tech,
nician at the Montreal Children's Hospital.
Miss Rosamond Lamb (M.G.H., 1933). who
has recently accepted a positiun on the operat'
ing room staff at the W estern Divi
ion, is at
present relieving in the operating room at
St. Mary's Hospital. Miss M. ]. Almond
(M.G.H., 1933), has been appointed to tpe
staff of the We5tern Division. The following
M.G.H. graduates have recently completed a
four months' internship course, including e},.'
perience in various wards and department"
of the hospital: the
isses Margdret Camp'
bell (1929), Charlotte Jack"on (1933). 1.f.
J. Almond (1933), Helen Hamilton (1933).
N. Siddons,Gray (1933), Conradine Fit:,
Gerald (1933), Irene Mo Gilbert (1933),
Jean Harvey (193:').
MOKTREAL: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the Royal Victorid
Hospital held on Feb. 14, was very I argeiv
attended. Professor E. G. D. Murray, Depart'
ment of Bacteriolog'y. McGill Uni\Oersity, gave
a most instructive dddres..; on "Stdphylucuccu"
infection, dnd the use of serum," At the
March meeting, Miss Mabel Clint (R.V.H.
1910). read n,cerpts from her book e ntit!ed
"Our Bit"", which i
to be published in the
near future.
MOXTRl:AL: Gre.,t intcröt is bC1I1g di..-
played in the effurts being made to rdi
e funJ.,
in suppurt of the McGill Schuul for Graduate
N urse5. A dance will t.Jke place at the Rtt::
Carlton Hutd un :\pril 18, which i
beifl
sponsored by the younger grdduates of th-::
school and has received hearty support from
the student nurses in the vdriuu!> schools of
nursing in Muntreal. In addition, two bridge
Pdlties have been arranged, une to be held on
the afternuun of April 19 and une un the
cvenin,!; uf the ....lInc Ò.lY, buth dt the Ritz.
Carltun Hutel. It I,. .,I
u grdtlfying to nu.":
tl1.l:: 1934 pledge
arc
te.tdily curning in .lIld
th.lt dpplicdtiuns fur enrulment fur the "e
i()'1
lIf 19H,ltJ3:, .Ire "Ireoldy neing received.
rllrtlh'r infllrlll,ltilln 111,1\ nt' ..nt.lined frn!'l
-\PRJI, 1<H--t
17:)
Mi!>s E. France!> Upton, 1396 St. Catherine St
\\;. est, telephone PLateau 7027.
Qu BEe: At the February meeting of the
Alumnae Association of Jeffrey Hale's Hos'
pital, the
pecial speaker was Mr. D. Jackson
who gave an interesting talk on Charles
Dickens and his "T die of Two Cities." The
specidl speaker at the March meeting was
Dr. Leblanc, who gave us a mo
t vivid and
humourou
description of hi
recent vi
it to
France. Switz.erland and other Europe:lO
countries. Refreshment" were
ef\'ed at !:he
close uf both meetings. Mi:,s G. Weary,
furmerly :,upervi
ur of the pri\ ate and the
women's w"rds i
now in charge of the
central linen room.
SASKA TCHEW AN
RI:GINA: The annual meeting of the S'l!>-
katchewan Registered Nurses AssociatIOn will
he held April 5 and 6 in Moose Jaw. The
busim',s uf the association will occupy the
first day when the reports of the employment
committee, the memberslllp committee and
di
cus"ion with regard to the appointment of
an inspector of nursing schools will be impor'
tant items. The name of the scholarship
student for 1934 will be announced. TIH'
:,econd ddY will be devoted to the presentation
and discussiun of nur
ing problems. Four
private duty nur
es will present various phase
of their difficulties. The convention will clo..c
wIth an address by an outstanding member
of the legal professIOn on h\\'hat i
a PrJ-
fession?"' and an addre
" on the "Profitabl
Use of Leisure" by a prominent woman wh0
is a member of the Regina City Council. and
formerl} chairm
n of the Regina PublIc 5cho',1
ßOdrò.
RU;I:-"r\: Mb:o M. F.lu
t (McGIll, 1933).
has been "ppointed Imtructur of nur
es ;1t
the Grey
uns' Ho
pital, Regin.l. MN. Jedn
Sh.Jnk (R.G.H., 1933). ledve
for Montreal
at unce to undertdk
three munth
' tnten
I\t:
tudy with the Victuridn Order uf 1\:UN>
The fund for the purpuse of providing em-
ployment for nurses has been further aug'
Inented by the proceed
of a dance. put on
bv the Sd:okcltchewdn Regl
tered '" ur
c
A..
0-
cidtiun. Regina Bralh:h, on St Valentine'
D.I'y. The Alumnae So.:iety uf the Grey
un..'
Hu..pital hd
a bridge tournament in progrc....
dt pre
ent. P .Irt of the proceed.. wIll j-.
donah:d for the .Inuve purpo
e.
hRRII'I): On J.tn. 10. ItJH. \11
J. F.
ßeltwl
tlc tR.G.H.. Jl)
I). to \'1r..At. j).
tr.l1th. of Victon,l. B.C.
SAS"'Aruo
. MI....
t. Semple (SC.H.
1(31), h.,,, t.Jken d posItion on the ..t.iff of
the "..-pital .!! \f.HlI1t.lin P,lrJ... :\Inerta
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS ASSO-
CIA TION OF CANADA
VANCOUVJ:.R: Miss Laura Holland, C.B.E.,
was elected president of the Vancouver Unit,
Overseas Nursing Sisters Association, at its
<lflnual meeting. The members of the exe-
cutive are: V ice'president: Mrs. J oh n Rose
(N.S. E. Boultbee); secretary'treasurer: Mrs.
J. D. Brough (N.S. E. Charles): Social Con'
yenor: Mrs. E. HelliweU (N.S. K. Perrin):
conven0r of membership committee: Miss M.
cLane; convcnor of sick visiting committe!::::
Miss S. Heaney; Press correspondent: Miss J.
J uhnston. The secretary-treasurer's report
1'howed a membership of sixty,four. A letter
from Miss Rayside, C.B.E., the national prc.-jj,
dent was read, speaking of the convention to
be held in Toronto in June, and it was an-
nounced that a new directory of aU Overseds
Nursing Sisters in Canada is being prepared.
The retiring president, Miss Jane Johnston,
gave a full report of the activities of the yeu
and a brief history of the Vancouver Unit
since its formation ten years ago. Bouquets of
flowers were presented by Miss Matheson,
matron of the Shaughnessy Military Hospital,
to the president,elect in recognition of the
honour conferred on her by His Majesty, and
by Mrs. A. E. Cunningham, to the retirin
president, in appreciation of her work during
the past three years. Refreshments were
served, Mrs. J. Shepherd and Mrs. King'
Brown presiding. A programme, arranged by
Miss Mal)' McLane and Miss Brand, was given,
consisting of lantern slides of interesting and
uften amusing snapshots taken during over-
seas days. Other nursing sisters present in-
duded: Miss O. Bentley, Mrs. J. R. Bayne
(N.S. Kirk), Mrs. Fairchild (N.S. Boyed,
Mrs. H. Black (N.S. Kier), Mrs. F. W. Crick,
ard (N.S. Robson), Miss Cre1'swell, Miss M.
Duffield, Mrs. B. Heyer (N.S. Cobb), Mis
S. Heaney, Mrs. A. \V. Hunter (N.S. Rid,
dell), Miss K. C. Jones, Miss D. Jefferson,
Miss H. Jukes, Miss B. McNair, Mrs. T. K.
McAlpine (N.S. Rodd), Miss McCammon,
Mrs. Jackson, Miss E. Pierce, Miss E. Martin,
Mi
s M. Motherwell, Miss H. Munslow, Mrs.
J. D. McCabe, Miss D. Oliver, Miss K. Pan-
ton, Mis
M. Quigley, Miss H. Rice, Mr
.
Rubinson (
.S. Fournier), Mrs. W. E. Robi
(N.S. Thompson), Miss M. Steele, Miss A.
Stewart, Miss E. M. Stewart, Miss B. Swan,
Mrs. G. Stead, Mrs. Slevin (N.S. Ellis), Mr1'.
A. Valentine (N.S. Robertson).
TORoxTo: The Executive of the Toront()
U nit of the Overseas Nursing Sisters Associa,
tion of Canada entertained recently at tea at
the home of Mrs. F. A. Spence, who received
with Miss Ruby Hamilton, president of the
club, and Matron Hartly of the Christie St.
Hospital. Mrs. Jack Bell, Miss Maud Wil-
kinson, Mrs. William Black and Mrs. Guy
Dingle presided at the tea table. Members who
assi
ted in looking after the numerous guest
included the convenor, Mrs. R. Henson, Mrs.
D. B. Gillespie, Mrs. J. Dunc<lfl, Mrs. N.
Lucas, Miss E. Moore, Miss \\'. Farr, Mi""
L. Gamble, Mrs. R. Craige and Mi
s S. Might.
Out of town guests, some of whom are mem'
bers of other units, were Mrs. Mills (N.S.
Reynolds) of Bowden, Alta., Mrs. Whitney
of Sutton, Mrs. Hogarth of Burlington, Mrs.
Oliver of St. Catharines and Miss Abernethy
of Kingston.
"OUR
BIT"
This volume is in the rress <l11d will be reddy for distnbution in MdY. If thuse who ha.re
already sent in their order
will kindly remit the pre'publicatiun price ($1.'25) to the author.
Miss Mabel Clint 2112 Claremont -".ve.. Montreal. copies will he mailed them immediately upon
publication. Since the edition is limited to one thousand cupies. further orders, either from
..;chools of nursing or frum individuals, should be sent, dccomp<lllied by remittance, to Mi..;..;
Clint at the aho\e .Iddrcs..;. Asoid disappointment }-,y ordering .It once.
IHO
VOL. XXX, No. 4
OBITUARY
('ROSS-Mrs. Helen Cru..., died recently ;J.t
her home in Wallaceburg. She was a mem-
her of the Florence Nightingale Post of the
American Legion and served with the Am
-
ricaq expeditionary forces in France.
embers of the First Baptist Church and
of the \\-' allaceburg Legion attended in a
body and a firing party from Chatham ren'
dered the final military salute.
GLEASON At London, Ontario, early in
February, 1934, Mrs. Gleason (Orpha Men-
dell) of Elora, Ontario. Mrs. Gleason wa!'
a member of the class of 1924 of the School
of Nursing of the Guelph General Ho..'
pital.
HINCHEY -
-\nnie Reabie Hinchey died on
February 10, 1934, at the Lakeside Ho,;-
pital, Cleveland, O. Mi!'s Hinchey served
with the first Canadian Contingent aml
was stationed at No. 2 Stationary Hospital.
Boulogne. For the past ten years she hac;
been night superintendent of Lakeside Hos'
pital, Cle,,'c1and. A.fter a service held at
the hospital,
Lrvicc
were conducted in
Chatham, Ontario. hy Rev. A. C. Calder.
Mis, Hinchey was a graduate of Kingston
General Hospital. Member.. of the local
branch of the Canadian Legion formed a
firing squad, and the 'Z4th Kent Regiment
Chapter ot the LO.D.E., of which Mi
,
Hinchey was an honorary member, attended
her funeral.
cTAGGART-At Toronto, on March 4,
1934, Rose McTaggart, a member of the
cla..s of 1909 of the School of
lIrsing of
the Montreal General Hospital.
ROBBINS-Suddenly, in New York, un
February 23, 1934, Mrs. J. R. Robbins
(E,,'el'yn Whitney), a member of the cia....
of 1925, of the School of Nursing of the
Montreal General Ho'pital.
ROBINSOK-At the Montreal General Hos'
pital, on February 16. 1934. after a brid
illness, Bessie Robinson, a member of the
class of 1903 of the School of "!\ ur..ing of
the Montreal General Ho"pital
So be my passing!
My tas
accomplished and the long day done.
My wages ta1{..en, and in my heart
Some late lar1t singing,
Let me be gathered to the quiet U'e.
t,
The sundown splendid mld serene,
Death.
\PRII. PH"
\V. E. H"='LFY.
181
Official
Directory
International Council of ]\; urses:
Secretary, :\Iiss Christiane Reimann, 1-1: Quai des Eaux-\ïves, (;eneva, Swit7.f>r1ann
Prcsiden t
First Vice-President.
Second Vice-President
Honorarv Secretarv
Honorar)' Treasurèr
CA
.\DI.\:\"" XtTRSES \SSOCI.\ TIO:\
Officers
:\Iiss F. II. :\1. Emory, Pni,oersity of Torontù, Toronto, Onto
H. :\liss R. :\1. Simpson, Parliament Bldgs.. Regina, Sask.
:\1:ss C. 1\1. Bennett, Ottawa Civic Hospital. Ottawa, Onto
.l\liss :\"ora :\1 oore , City Hall, Room 309, Toronto, Ont.
:\Iiss :\1. :\Turnoch, St. John (;eneral Hospital. Saint John,
.H.
cot 'CILLORS \ "ID OTHER \IE\IBERS OF EXECUTIVE CO\HUTTEE
.""memls precedino names illd
('ate office hdd, rio. (I) President, Prorincial Nurses .-tssociation; (2) Chairma1l.
NIiN/ino Education S"r/ion; (3) rllnirmnn, PuMi" [[mUll S,r/it",; (41 rhnirmall, Prirate Dlity Section.
\lherta: (I) :\hss F. :\Iunroe, Hoyal _-\l{':\andra 1101<-
pital, Edmonton; (2) :\lisR J. Connal, Gen{'ral HOl'pi-
tal, ('alg:ary; (3) Miss 13. .-\. Emerl'on, 604 (Ï\'i..
Block. Edmonton; \4) :\Iiss ,J. Clow, 1l1a8-R
nd
,-\ ve., Edmonton.
nrltlsh Columbia: (I) :\lil's :\1. F. Gray. Dept. of
ursing, University of British ('olumbia, Yancoun>r;
(
) :\liRS L. :\Iitchell, Royal Jubilee Hosl;ital, \"i..-
tnria; (3) :\lisR :\1. Duffield. 175 Broad\\ay Eal't,
\'ancouver; (t) :\Iiss :\1. :\Iirfield, Beachcroft Xursinj!
Home, ('ook :'t.. \ï..toria.
\Ianltoba: (I) :\lil'l' :\Iildred Heid, Xurses Heside,w(',
"ïnnipeg General Hospital, Winnipeg; (2)
ister
t.
.-\lbert,
t. .Joseph's Hospital, Winnipeg; (3) Miss E.
:\lcKelvey, 603 :\Ied.ical Artl' Building, Winnipeg;
(4) Misl' K. :\leCallum, lRl Enfidd Crel'cent, Xor-
wood.
'ew Brunswick: (I) :\lis8 .-\. ,J. :\lac:\laster, :\loß{.ton
Hospital. :\Ion<.ton; (2) :,iRter Crrinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Call1pbellton; (3) :\li8S .-\da Burn 8,
Health Centre,
aint John: (4) :\Ii
s :\labf'1 :\Ic-
:\1 u!len, :'t. :-;tf'phen.
'ova Scutia: (1) :\liss .\nn(' :,Iattery, lim. 1 i;l,
"ind!\or; (
) :\-Irs. :\-lurray :\laeKay,
ova :,cotia
Hos'Jital, Dartmouth; (3) :\Ii
s -\. Edith Fenton,
nalh.msie Health Clinic. :\lorriR
t., Halifax: (4
:\I'!"s Chril"tinf' :\lacf.cod.!"Ii South Klinf'
L Halifa"\..
Ontario: (I) :\Ii!"s :\Iarjorie Buck, Norfolk H""(Jitall
:'imcof'; (2) :\li8S
. :\1. Jamieson. Peel :\Iemoria,
Hospital, Brampton; (3) :\lr8. AI/:nes Ha:rgarth.
I :'U8SCX :'t., Toronto; (4) :\lis8 Clara Brown, 23
Kendal Avc., Toronto.
Prince Ed
ard Island: (I) :\liss Lillian Pidgeon,
Prin<'e Co. Hospital.
ull1merside, (2) Miss F.
Lavers, Prince Co. HOl"pital, f:ummerside; (3) :\li!'1'
I. Gillan, ij9 Grafton
t., Charlottetown; (4) :\li!"R :\1.
Gamble, 51 .-\mbro8e.:-;t., ('harlotteto\\n.
()uehec: \ n :\lil"s C. \". Barrett, Ho}"al Yictoria :\Iatl'r-
nit)" 1I ofll'i tal, :\lontrf'al; (
) :\li81" :\lartha Batl'on,
:\Iontreal General Hospital, :\Iontreal; (3) Mis!'
('hristil:e Dowlin!!', 1
46 Bishop Street, \Iontreal;
(41
lis"('.:\1. Watling,1230Bishop:.;treet, :\lontreal.
Saskatchewan: (I) :\lis8 Edith AmaR, City Hospital,
:,askatoon; (2) :\lìss G. :\1. W stson, ("it
r Hospital,
:'3skatoon; (:l) :\lrR. E. :\1. Feeny, Dept. of Publie
Health, Parliament B1dgl' 0 , Regina; (4) :\-li!"s :\1. H.
Chisholm, 805 7th .-\ve. X.,
al'katoon.
<:IHIRME
:"I \TlO
.'\L SEC1'IO
S
Xn'''IN(; EDt:"C'TION: :\-liss G. :\-1. Fairley, Yan('oU\'pr
General Hospital, Yancouver; Pl"BLIC HEALTH: :\li8S
:\1. :\--1oal/:, 1
46 Bishop ::5t., :\-Iontreal; PRIVATE
DrTY: :\Iiss {I'abel l\Iac.Intosh, QUf'{'nl'conrt Apt.,
i.'i Queen
t. S., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary: :\liss Jean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent
t.,
\lontreal, P.Q.
OFFICERS OF SECTIOi\S OF CANADIA
URSES ASSOCIATIO
NURSING EDl.(;ATIO
SE('ïIO
('HAm'-UN: :\Iiss G. :\1. Fairley, Yancouver Gen{'ral
Hospital, Yaneouver; YICE-("H.-\IRMOI: :\Iil"s :\1. F.
Gray. Vni J"ersity of British Columbia, \'sncouver;
:'ECRETARY: :\Iiss E. F. Fpton. ::5uite 221, 1396 :'t.
Catherine:-it. WeRt, :\Iontreal; TREASURER: :\Ii!\s 1\1.
Blanche Anderson, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa.
( 'OUNCILLC R8 - \lberta: :\1 iss ,J. Connal, General Hos-
pital. Calgary. British Columhla: :\1is8 L. :\-lit..hell,
Roy:ll ,Jubilee lIospi
al, \ ictoria. Manitoba:
il"tH
t. .\lbert, :'t. ,J,'seph.s Hosnital, \\ïnnipeg.
!\ew Brunswick:
iRter Coriulle I\:err, Hotel Dieu,
<'ampbellton. !\'ova Scotia: :\Irs. :\Iurray :\'la..Kay,
Nova Scotia Ho!\pital, Dartmouth. Ontario: :\-liss
:-;.
1. Jamieson, Peel
lell1orial HU8pital, Bramptoll.
Prince Edward Island: :\Iiss \1. Lavers, Prince
('0. H.-spital. :;ummerl"ide. Quebec::\1 iss Martha
Jhts")n, :\Iontreal General H()spital, :\Iontreal. Sas-
katchewan: Miss G. :\1. Watson, City Hospital,
Sas'<:atoon. CONVENER OF PUBLICA1IONS. Miss :\1.
1\1. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital, \\ innipel/:.
PRIVATE DUTY SECTION
CH'IR\lAN: l\Iiss Isabell\IacIntoRh, Queenscourt .-\pt.,
75 Que{'n
t.
., Hamilton; \"ICE-('H,IRM.\N: :\li8S
:\labell\I..:\1 ullen, Box 3:I8, Sf. Htephf'n;
ECHETAfn-
TREASUHER: :\lrs. nose Hess, l:m Wellington :'t.,
Hamilton.
COt:"NCILLOR3: Alberta: l\Iiss ,r. ('low, 1113S-82nd
A ve., Edmonton. British Columbia: 1\li
s 1\1.
l\firfie=d, Bea..hcroft
ur..j III/: HOllIe', \ïl'toria.
HI2
\lanitoba: :\li!'s K. :\leCaHulII, 1
1 Enfield Cns..
or\\ood.
ew Brunswick: l\Iissl\labell\lcMullen,
:-(t.
tephen. :'I:ova Scotia: Miss Christine MacLeod.
!17
outh Kline :o;t., Halifa... Ontario: :\-liss Clara
Brown, 23 l\:endal .-\Vf'., Toronto. Prince Edward
Island: :\-liss
L Gamble, 51 .-\mbrose
t.. Charlotte-
to\\n. Quebec: :\-li8!' C. :\1. "'atling, 1230 Bishop
:-'t., :\Iontreal. Saskatche
an: Miss :\1. n. Chis-
holm, 805 7th Ave. N., ::;askatoon. CONVENER 0.-
Pn
uc-\TIONS: :\Iiss Jean DavidRon, Paris.
Pl'BLIC HEALTH SECTIO:\"
("HAIUM -\s: :\lisl' :\1. :\loag, 1246 Bishop :'t., :\Iontr{'al;
\'ICE-('H.URM.U.: :\Iiss :\1. Kerr, 946 20th .Ave. W..
\'ancouver; :'Ef'RETAR1-TREASUREH: :Miss .Mary
1\lathe\\son, 464
trathcona .-\ve., \Vestmount, P.Q.
COUNCILLORs-Alb
rta: :\li88 H. .-\. EmerRon, 604
Civic Bloek, Edmonton. British Columbia: :\Iiss
:\-1. Duffield, 175 Broadway East, \"aneouver.
\lanitoha: :\Ii!'s B. :\1.. Kelvev, 60:1 Medical Art..
Building, Winnipeg. :'I:ew Brlmswick: \li8S .-\da
Burns, Health ('entre,
aint .John.
mia Scotia:
:\Iisl.' Edith Fenton, Dalhousie Health Clinic, :\Iorri:<
:'t., Halifax. Ontario: :\Irs. .\gnes Haygarth,
1
US8e... :O;t.. Toronto. Prince Edward Island: :\Iiss
Ian Gillan, 59 Graftoll :'t., Charlotteto\\ n. Quebec:
:\lis.. Chri!<tinf' })owlillj!, 1
46 Bishop :,t.. :\lontreal.
Saskatchewan: :\Irs. E. .\1. Fef'ney, 1>ept. of Public
Health, Parliament Buildings, Hegina. CONVENER
0" PV"LICATIC'N"S: :\Irs. ,\
nf'1' Haygarth, 21 Susse..
:'t. Toronto.
VOL. XXX, No. 4
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
lR:;
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
\LH"ERT \
OVL\RIO
Allwrta \ssociation of Re
Ustcred 'urses
President, :\Iiss F. :\Iunroe, Ho)al _\le"\andra
Hospital, Edmonton; First \ïee-Pre
ident, :\Irs. de
:-:iatge, Holy Cross Hospital, CalJl:ary; :'eeond Vice-
President, :\Iiss S. :\Iacdonald, General IIr-!"pital,
Calgary; :-ecretar:r-Treasurer-Hegistrar, :\Iiss I,-ate ;-;.
Bright:r, Administration Building, Edmonton; ('hair-.
men: Nursinn Eduration SI'CIion, :\Iiss J. Connal.
General Huspital, Cahr:ary; Public J1tfllth S(ction. )Ii!":<
B. .-\. Emerson, 1104 ('j\ic Block, I:dmonton; PrÙa
1'
DIlty Section. )li!<s .I. (' ('10", 1I13H-8:?nd \\"('.
BRITISH COLU\IHIA
Graduate
urses Association of British Columhia
President,:\1. F. Gray,1466 "".14th ..h'e., YancoU\er;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second \ïce-Pre!'i-
uent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Handal, 516 \'ancou\"er
ßlock, \'ancou\"er; Secretary, :\1. Kerr, 516 \'ancou\"er
Block, Vancouver; COllunrrs of Committpes: NlirFliny
Education, L. :\Iitchell, Ho
'al ,Jubilee Hospital. \ïc-
toria; Public Ilealth. )1. Duffield, lï5 Broad\\ay F.ast,
\"ancou\"f>r; Priratc Duty, \Iiss :\1. Mirfield, Beadu'roft
:'\ur!!inll; Home, Cook
t., \ï<'toria; Counl"ilIors,:\1 1'.
Camphell, )1. Dutton, L. )1<,,\lIister, I\:.
anderson.
'IA
ITOBA
Manitoba Association of Re
istered 'urses
President, :\Iis:l )1. Heid, "'!nnipejl: Generaillospital;
First \ïl"e-President, :\Iiss :-. \\"ril/;ht, )letropolitan
Life, "ïnnipelZ; :-:e('ond \ïce-Prpsid('nt, )Ii"" C. :\1('-
Lend, Brandon General Hospital; Third \ï('e-PreRident,
:-:ister IÙaulle, :'t. Boniface Hospital; )1 emhcrll of
Board: )fis" ,I. I anll;, :\fis8 E. Carruther!", :-:istu 'Iary,
:\Iiss 1-... " . Ellis, )li8S K :\1..J earn, )Iiss )1. :\Ieehan,
)Iiss E. .Johnson,
ister
t. -\Ibert; COI/I'eners of Sec-
tiolls: Pltblic J/pa/th, )Iif"
F.. \1(.Kplvey; Primtp DIl'II,
'Iiss I\:. :\leCallum; Nur"i"" EdllratÙm, :,if"tpr ;-;t.
.\Ibert. Conveners of rommi't('I'..: nireetory, :\Iif! .1.
Kcrr, ,4 Cobourg .-\ve.;
()('ial, :\Ii
f" :-:. Polle"\fen, !1.')1
Palmerston .-\ ve.: :-:ie},. \ïsitinjl:, :\Iisf" L. Gray, 'ïl'-
t<)rian Order of r-;urses; :\Iembership, :\Ii"s E. Jrom,idp,
Winnipel!; General Hospital; l.ibrarian, :\liss \\". Gri('(>
anrl :\lis8 .-\. :'tacc, 7:'i:J \\olf"elev A\'e.; Pre8!' and Pub-
lication, :\Ii
" E. Banks. 64
t: Cross :'t.; Rel're..enta-
lil'e:;: !.o('al ("oun('il of Women, :\Ir!'. \\ïllßrd lIill and
).1 rs. Emmett n\\ )-er; Central ('oul\l.il IIf :'o('ial \j!en-
('Ies, :\Iif'ls F. Hohertson; \ï(.torian Order of
UrBPf",
Iiss E. A. Russell; ,Junior H('d ("ro!'f", )li
f'I E. Parkf'r;
BNl Cross Enmlment, :\1rf'l. J. F. )lfCrÏf.on; Exe('utin>
-:c('rptßr;l< anrl Hejl:istrar,
Ir!'. :-otella G('rdon KHr
EW BRur,S\\'ICh..
:"oIew Hruns\\ick Association of Re
istered
urs\.''''
PrPRident, :\li!"fO .-\. .J. :\lac
lafOtpr,
Ioncton 1I(lslJ i -
tal, l\loncton; First \'il'e-Pre!'ident, :\liRf'I )Iarjl:arpt
Iurdoeh;
econd \ïce-President, :\lif'ls ì\lyrtle E.
Kay; Honorary :,pl'retary, H.e,. :'istpr Kenny; ('olllll.il
:\Iembcrs: :\Iif'ls Floren('p ("olpman, )Iiss II. :-. J)ykp-
man, l\1rs. .-\. G. ""oodcol'k, :\lif'M Elsie
1. Tullol'h;
('onvencrs: Pubtic lIm/t1i SrctiOJI. :\h!-fi ,-\du \. Burns;
PrilJate Dlltll Sf'ction, :\Iiss !\Iahel :\1(')lullin; Vllr..ÙIII
fo:rlu.cation Sf'clion. Si!itpr l\.(>cc; rummitt,., ro"rnIPrs.
The ('allUdian !tIltrse, 'Iiss h.lltlolpen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-La\\s, :\Ii
s :'. E. Brophy; :,pcrpt,uy,
TrellRurpr-Rpjl:istrar, )Iiss 'I:\lulp E Hptalli,.k, :?Ii:!
('Imrlotte :-'t. Wpst, :'aint .John,
.B.
1'\ 0 \" A SCOT 1.\
Reø,ish:red '\;urses \ssol"Ìation of
u\a SnJtiu
1'le!'idpnt, )Iisll .\nnc :-;Iuttpr), \\ iml"or; Flr"t \ ...e-
I'residpnt, )Iiss \ï(.tori:
\\ïn!ilo\\, IIIlMu"\; :,p,'ollli
\ i('e-Prpsidpnt, :\1 is.. )lllrion Boa, :\('\\ UIIl"IlO\\;
Third \ï,'p-l'rp!'id('nt, Si..ter ,\ nlll1 Spton, I hlih\"\ :
He('ordilllr: :'ecretary, )Irll. J)onald Gllli!', 1:?:
\ prnon
:-'t., Hlllif:!,,; Tre!l"m'pr and BplZi"tl ar, \I i.... r F.
Fr:\"f'r, If) EIl"tf'CII TrI\
t BI.I!!.. I !:Iliffl'
R\."Ustl'rl"d
urses .\Sbociation of Ontario
Incorporated 1915
I'rc.
ident., )Iiss :\farjorie Buck, :\rrfulk Uenpral
1I('f"pltal. :'III1Coe; Fir:<t Yi"e-President, \liss non thy
l
en'
', Boom .:3:?1 .Ia(.k!'on Bldg., Otta\\a; :-:e('ond \ïce-
I resl
ent,
liss ('onstaIH'e Bre\\ster, General H. !'pital,
lIanlilton; :--e"retary-Treasurer. :\li!'8 :\Iatilda E. Fitz-
jI:
rald, :J
Jan
t., Toconto; Chairman. Nllr:;" Edtlm-
I1ml .
pchon,
liss :'. :\Iarjl:aret Jamieson, Peel :\Iemflrial
H(!f"pltal, Brampton; Chairman, Prirat#' Dlltll Sectio1l
\11f"s .Clara Hro\\ n
:?:
h.pndal ,-\" e., Toronto; Chairman:
J rtbltc Health St'chml, :\lrs. .-\I/:nes HaYl/:arth, Provin('ial
I )<<:,pa
tmpnt of Health, Parliament Bldll!'., Toronto;
Dv<lnct _Vo. 1.: Chairman, )liR... )Iildred "alker, h:sti-
tu
e of 'pllblll' Health, london; :,p('retary-Treasur('r,
)11!'s :\hld
ed. Chamhers, Institute of Puhli.. Health.
London; DIstrIcts
a1ld ."1: Chairman,
fiss ,-\. E. Binge-
!I
an, Freep(
rt
anatorium, h.itl"hener; :-:el'Cetarv-
I reasur
r, .
lif"s Edith Jonps, :?S:J Gren\\il'h :-it., Bral;t-
ford; Dlstnct No.4: ('hairman, :\Iiss ('onstan('e Bre\\-
st('r, General Hospital. /lamilton; :'el'retar:r-Treasurer,
\!rs._Ev
J
arl()\\, :?I.I :'tinson
t., Hamilton; District
.\.0. :'J: (halrman, )hss Ikrothy :\Ii('kleboroul/:h, Pro
\:111('181 n,:
t. of Health: Parliament Bldlls.. foconto;
el'C!,
ary- J rea!"
re
, 'IIss bahelle Park, la-lR \ onvp
:0-1., I oronto; /)I..t"ct No.6: Chairman, :\Iisf" Hplen )1.
\ IIderson, ,
O \\ ater :-t., Peterhoroul/:h: :-:(','retary-
reaf"urer, :\llsf" Dorothy \la(.Brien, Xi('hollf" Il( f"pital,
I etprbOClIUjl:h; District No. i: Chairman, :\Ii!'s I ouisp
!? .\eton. Gt;neral.
ospit
l, Killllston; :-:e('retar)--
I,
easurer,
IIs
OhVia "Ilson, General 1I0f"pital,
h.llllZston; DI..trlct .Vu. R: (,hairman, :\liBS )1. Ulanl'he
\
derson, O
a\\a Civil' If( spital, Otta\\a; :-:iel'Cetar)-
.Ii!-!' .-\. G. I.anner. Otta\\a Ci\i(' HOf'lpital, Otta\\a;
I rea!"urer.
11
f'I 'Iary \('Iand,
trath('ona fkspital,
Otta\\a; pl"trlct No. .9: Chairll1un.
Iiss Katherine
.Ial'l\.enzle, 1;'i5 :-iecond _-\ \ e. W.,
ort h Bllv: Se('retary-
I.rellf'lurer, )1I"f'I. H(
hena BU('hanan. If1ï First -\"e. 1-:.,
:'I;l'rth Bay; DistrIct No. In: Chairman,
lisf'l \ era
J ovela('p. :3 \\ïlpy Hd., Port ,\rtIHlr; Sccretarv- Trpns-
IIrer, )Iiss Ethel :'te\\ardsoll, \I('hellar 'General
1I1>f"pital. Fort William.
Distrkt '0. R Re
istl"n'd 'urses \ssociation
of Ontario
'hairman, )Iiss :\1. R. .\nderson; \"i('e-Chllirmlln,
'hss .J. L. ChuCl'h; :-:e('retary, :\Iiss .-\. G. Tanner
Otta\\a Civi(' Hospital; Treasurer,
Iiss )1. E. -\('Ialld;
('oUlu.illors, :\lif"..es G. Clarke, -\. Eht-s. )1 Graham,
E. ('. :\Idlraith, C. C. \lurrav, :\1. :-:Iinn; ('"nre1lf'rs
"f ('"mmittee..: \femberf'lhip, :\lisR G. Clarke; l'uhlirll-
tionM, Miss E. C )ll'Ilraith; .Vur..i1lY Jo:dtlca'i"n )Ii""
C. ('. :\Iurray; Prim" Dlltl/, '1;8s.l. I. Chlln.h; j'II1,lic
/Irnfth,
li8s II. O'\lpara.
Dlo;trict '0. 10 RpØ,istl"red 'urses \so;odutlon
of Onturlo
President, l\IiB8 \ . Lovela('e, \ï('p-Prp"idPllt, )liBs :\1.
Hamilton;
e('retary Trea"llrer,
li!'11 F :-:tp\\llnl"oll,
,... ".ellar Gpnpral Ho!'pital, Fort \\ iIlium; COlllll'illoC!'.
\lisf'l.Jane /logarth. )Iiss )1. \\ 8111\("e, )1I"s C. IA-mon,
\Ii.... C. Chi\'prf" \\ïl!'(III, :\fi,... FI8nllil/:all, 'Ii",. Irpnp
lIihdit<.h.
PRI;\;CE EDW.\RD ISI .\
D
I"rlnce Ed\\anl Island Rt.1lish'n'd 'urRP'"
\lisol"ÌU t ion
Presidpllt, \lif'ls Lillian PidJ.!clln, Prilll'P {'o. /I. "llilal,
:'mllml'r!'idp: \ i..p-Pre"ident. \li
.. )1. l\.lllil. ('hllrlottl
to\\1I JIII
pitlll; :'e('rptary, \II!lIIM. ('IUlIllhell, SGrafton
:'1., ('harlottet()\\ II; Treaf"lIrer and Bpjl:i"trar. )1; II
I'dlla Grepn, :?5,IJ (
IlP(>n :0-1., ('hur!oth.to\\n: Nllrsl""
f:dl(lali"".
Ii"" :\1. l.u,er", Prin.,p ('0 1I"'''I',tlll,
:-:uIIIlI'prBidp; Public lI,a'tl., )1iB8 I Gillnll, :,!I (;r"f!ulI
:-:t ('harluttptu\\lI; Primt, /)Ilt-"
lisll
1. Gnmblp,
1
\mhrusp :'1., ('hnrluttptu\\lI; HI'Jlrp!'Plltatl\p to TI,,,
{',wadÙw .VIlrs,. \Ii!''' \111111 'lair. I' F I Ho"pital,
('Imrlottl't..\\ II
QUEBEC
THE CANADIAN NURSE
lR
Association of Re
istered Nurses of the Pro\incc
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
,\dvisory Board: :\lissps :\lary ;';amupl, :\label F.
IIpr!'ey, C. :\1. Watling, Upv. :\Ière :\1. Y. -\llaire, RÍ'\".
()eur Ste. I..idora; Presidf'nt., Miss C. \'. ßarrett,
Hoyal \'il.toria :\-Iontreal :\Iatprnity Hospital; \ÏI'p-
President (Emdi!'h), Miss 1\1. L. :\Ioag, \ï,
tcri
n <;Jrder
of Nurses 1246 Bishop St., :\lontrea!; \ ll'e-I rf'Sldent
(French), 'Rév.
oeur Allard, Hôtf'l-Dieu de
t. Jospl?h,
\lontreal; Hon.
ecretary, Mis!' Esthpr Reith, Child
\Vf'lfare Association, Forum ßldl/:.,
Iontreal; Hon.
Trpa'lllrer, :\Iiil'! M. E. Nash, \Ï(.torian Order of Nur!'
s,
1246 Bishop St., :\Iontreal. Othpr :\lembers:
hl'''
:\labpl K. Holt, The :\lontreal Genf'ral Hospital,
:\Iademoiselle Edna Lynl.h,
ursing :-;upervi!'or, :\Ietro-
politan Life Insuranee Co., :\lontrpaJ, R{.v. :-;oeur
t.
.Jf'an de l'Eucharistie, Hôpital Notre Dame, :\Iontreal,
:\lis3 :\larion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate
urse!',
:\lcGill Fniversity, :\Iontreal, Mademoiselle .-\Ie"ina
\Iarchessault, Ecolp d'HYl/;iène Social .-\ppliquÍ'i',
('nivprsité de :Montreal. C'onl"l'n p rs of Sections: Pril'flt
Duty, (English), l\Iiss C. 1\1. Watlin!!:, 1230
ii!hop
t.,
:\-Iontreal; PrÙ,ate Duty (Frem'h), :\lademOl!'ellp Ahcp
L!'pine, HÔpital Notre Dame, :\lontre:\I: Nu
sinu Edll-
c
tion (English), :\-liss :\Iartha Bat!'on, The :\Iontreal
General Hospital, 1\lontreal; Nursing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Augustine, Hôpital Rt. .Tean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Health, l\Iiss .Christ
np
DowlinJ!". \Ï(.torian Ordpr of
ur!'p!" 1241) BIQh(lp
t.,
:\Iontreal; B"Rrd of E"\:allllnerr', :\li
s Olga \. 1.illy
(Con\"pnpr), Hoyal \ÏI.toria :\Iontrpal
Iaternity Hos-
pital, :\oliss 'larion Lindeburgh, 8ehool for Graduate
url'P!', :\lcGill University, l\Iontrf'al; :\Iiss Katherinp
:\Iac ='J. :\1 ae Lennan, ,-\Ie."\.andra Hospi tal, :\Iontreal;
:\1 Pllr. Edna Lynch. 4642 rue St. Denis Rt., :\Iontreal;
:\Iplle. Laura :-;pneca.l, HÔpital Notre Dame, Montreal;
:\11'111'. .-\. :\Iarl'ilp!'sault, 3256 avenue Lacombe, !\Iont-
real; E"\ec'uti,'e :-;pI'retary. Rpgi!'trar and Offieial 8('h<)01
\ isitor, :\Iiss E. Franep!' rpton, Room
21, 1
91) ;-;t.
f'!lthprinp St. \\'., :\fontrpaL
SASKA TCHEWA
Saskatdlcwan Rel>,istered !\iurses Association
Incorporated :\farch, 1917/
Pre.-;idellt, :\Iisl' Edith .-\ll1a
, (ïty Hospital, :-;aska-
tnon; First \Ïc'e-Presidf'nt, :\1:!'!' Hub)" :\1. :-;im, pl'OIl
Departnlf'lIt of Public Hpalth, Hf'gina;
econd Vicp-
Prpsident, 'lis!' Hplpn ß.
mith, Gf'neral Hospital,
Hegina; Councillor""
Ii!'s .Jean McDonald, 1122 HHP
St., ReJl:ina, 'Iiss Elizabeth Smith, Normal Scho(.I,
:\Ioose Jaw; ('onuners of StandÙI(J Committees: NurRino
Edumtiu)/, :\-lis!' Gprtrude :\1. Watson, City HOl'pitaJ,
:-;askatooll; PllbliC' /Il'u/th, :\lrs. E. :\1. Ff'pnf'Y, Depart-
ment of Publil' Health, HpJ!"ina; Pril'atl' Dllty, :\Iiss :\1.
H. ('hishollll, 805-7th '-\"1'. N., Saskatoon; Legislation.
\1iss R. :\1.
impson, Hej:(inR; 8ecretary-Treasurer and
ReJl:istrar, :\Ii!'s :\larlmrpt Ho!'I', 4!i .-\nl!:lls Crpl'cpnt,
Hpl!ina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate r-\urses
Hon. Pre!'ident, Dr. H. .-\. Gibson; Prpsident, 1\li""
1'. Gilbert; First \Ïce-President, Miss K. Lynn; Secf!nd
\'ice-President, !\Iiss F. Shaw; Recordillg and Adm!!
('orrespondinjl Fe'retary, 1\Irs. F. \'. Kpnnedy, I
O'ï
First Ht. \Y.; Treasurer, Miss :\1. Watt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate Nurses
President. :\Iiss Ida John!'on; First \'i('e-Prellidpnt,
:\liss P. chapman; Hecond \'ice-Presidpnt, Miss F..
Fpnwiek; Heeording Secretary, !\liss Violf't Chapman,
Itoyal Ale"andra Hospital, Edmonton; Pre!'s and
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Clow, 1I1
8 \\"h.vtf'
-\ve., Edmonton; Treasurer, Miss i\-1. Staley, 9838
lO
th Ht., Edmonton; Registrar, !\Ii!'!' RpTOulp, 111
X
"-hyte .-\ ve., Edmonton.
Medicine Hat Graduate I'ourses Association
President, :\frl'. J. Keohane; First Vice-President,
:\lrs. :\1. Tohin; Second \Ïce-President, Miss ;\1. Gil-
dlriRt; Secrf'tary, :\Iil'!' A. :\11' Leod, 2 Diana Court;
Trea!'urer, 'Iisl' F.
mith; ('ummitte.. ('ulIl'Pllers:
:\Iembership, :\otisI' .-\. Allan; Flowf'r, Mr!'. \V. FI'8Bf'r;
PrivatI' Du'Y Section, Mrs. Chal'. Pickprinj:(; Corrf'spon-
dpnt, Tht' ('allarlian NurRe, :\Iiss :\1. Hal/:prman.
BRITISH COLU\tBIA
!\ielson Graduate Nurses .\ssociatiun
lion. President, J\li!'s Y. ll. Eidt, Acting SuperilltPIl-
dent, Kootenay Lake Genf'ral Ifol'pital; Presidel1t
:\Iiss 1\:. Gordon; First \Ïee-President, Miss .:\-1. Mad-
den; Second \Ïce-President, :\1iss S. Archibald; Sel'Tp-
tary-Treasurer, l\liss Edna Fraser, Box 110!i, Np!I'on,
B.C
Vancouver Graduate
urses Association
President, :\lrs. \\. estlllan, ROO Cassair St., \' an('ou,'('r;
First \ïce-Presidpnt, MisR Jane JohnAtone, SteVf'
toll,
B.C.; Second Vic'e-President, :\Iiss E. Rerry, joo;t. Paur
Hospital; Seeretary, :\Iiss F. \\'alker, \'aneouvf'r GPII-
pral Hospital; Treasurer, Miss L. Archibald, 536 We!'t
12th A \'e.; Council, !\-li!'ses K.
anderson, Kilburn, G.
1\1. Fairley, \\Ïsmpr and :\1. F. Gray. Finance, :\Ii!'s
Teulon, 138."1 \\ e!"t 11th A,"p.; Directory, l\lis!' K
Iotherwell, 1947 West 10th A\'p.; Social, Miss A, .J.
:\oIacIÆod, \'anl'oU\'f'r Gpl1('ral Hospital; ProgramlJlP,
:\lislI R. Donald!'on,:-;t Palll'!" lIo!'pital;
il"k \'il'itinl/:,
:\-li,,::; C. Cookrr. \ anl"ou\'f'r Genpral Hospital; :\lelJl-
bf'rship, :\hs. Rlankenbaeh, 1816 West 36th A,"f'.;
Local Council of \\'(}Inp!1, :\lisI'es DnffieJd and Gra\':
PI'p!'!',
lrs. E. :-;inlln.., \'ancoll\,pl' Gpnpral Hruopital.'
Victoria Graduate '\;urses :\ssoclatlon
lion. President
, :\Iiss L. :\litchpll, :-;i!'tf'r 8upf'rior
Ludo\'ic; President, ;\Iiss E. ,J. Hf'rbf'rt; First Yice-
President, :\Iiss D. Frampton;
econd \ïce-Prpsident,
:\Iiss C.
1('Kenzie; Rel"retary, Miss 1. Helgesen;
Trf'asurer, :\liss W. Cooke; Registrar, Miss E. Franks,
1035 Fairfield Road, \Ïctoria; Executive CommiUf'p,
:\-lis!' E. B. Straehan, Miss H. Cruikshanks, l\IiEll' E.
:\f..f)onald, :\Ii!'!' f'. Kpnny. :\lir;<!' E. CampTOn.
IANITOBA
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association
lion. I'n.!'ident, :\Iiss E. Birtles; Hon. \Ïce-Prpsident,
:\lrs. \Y.
hillindaw; Presidf'nt, :\Iiss E. G. ;\1I'Nally;
First \Ïce-Prf'sident, Miss Janf't Anderson; Second
\Ïce-President. Mrs. Lula Fleteher; Secretary, Mis!"
.If'ssie :\-IUIII"O, 243 12th Rt.; Treal'urpr, ::\lrs. 1\1. Lonl/:;
('onZ-f'ners of Committees: Rucial and Prop-ram me, 1\.11'1'.
Eldon Hannah; Rick and Yi!'itinlZ, 1\lrs. Howe Fisher;
Welfare. Mis8 Gertrude Hall; Prp
s Rf'porter. Miss
Helen l\Iorrison: Cook Book. :\Ir!". .J. :\1. Kain..;
Hf'l!:il'trar, :\Iiss C. :\1. :\Iaclpod.
ONTARIO
(;raduate !\iurses Alumnae, \\-'eHand
lion. Prf'Sident, :\Ii!'s E. joo;mith,
uperintndent.
\\ f'lIand General Ho!'pital; Ifon. \Ïcf'-President, l\li
::;
:\1. Hall, Weiland Geueral HOl'pital; Presidpnt, l\lisl'
D. Haylur; \ÏI'e-Pre..idpnt, :\-lis!' B. Saunderl'; Seerf'tar),
::\tiss 1\1. Hinkel', 28 Division :-'t.; Trea8urer, :Mis!' H-
Eller; E"f'cutive, :\-li!"ses :\1. Peddip, 1\1. Tuft!', B.
e'lothipr and :\Ir!'. P. Bra!'fnrd.
QLTEBEC
(;raduate '\;urs('s Association of the Eastern
Town8hlps
If oU. Pre::;ident, :\1 i
!" \'. Bf'anp; I'rf'sidel1t-, :\111's E.
Bean; \ïl'e-Prf'sidpnt, :\liR!' G. Dwaine; CorrpspondiuIj
:-:cI'Tetary. Miss F. Wardle\\OI.th; Hecording
ec'retary,
:\Iiss Harvey; TreasureI', :\Ii
!' :\larJ!"!uet Uobinll;
Representative to The Ca/ladian Nurse, :\Iiss C. Horn-
by, Box 324, :-;hf'rbrooke. Hpprf'I'rntllti,'p, PrÙ'nf, Dllt.ll
Sl'dif/Il, :\1 iss F. \Iorris!,ptt,.
UFFICIAL DIRECTORY
IO!\TRE \L
\lontreal Graduate Nurses \ssociation
Hon. President, :\liss L. C, Phillips; President. :\Iish
('hri!\tine Watling. 1230 Bishop St,; First \"ice-Pre@i-
dent. Miss G. Allison; Second Vice-President. :\Irs. .\.
:'tanley;
eeretary-Tre.asurer and
ight Registrar.
:\Iiss Ethel {'lark. 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrar.
:\liss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar. Miss H. :\1.
Sutherland; Convener Griffintown Club, Miss G.
Colley. Hegular :\leeting. Second Tuesday of January,
fir!'t Tlle"da;\-' of \pril. Oet..her IInd DeceIUhrr.
185
SAS h...\TCHEW.-\:\
\Ioosc Jaw Graduate
unles .\s!ooodatlol1
Hun. President.
Irs. :\1. Young; President. :\11,,;0
H. Last; First \'ice-President. :\lis8 C. I-\:ier;
econd
\ ice-President. :\Irs. 'V. :\Ietcalfe; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\lisø J. :\Ioir, General Hospital. :\Ioose Ja\\; Comeners
of Committees: RurBJ.'ng Education. \Irs. :\1. Y oun
.
Sr. :\Iary Raphael. :\Iiss E. Jensen; Private Duty, :\li811
E. \\ allaee, MiBS F. Farquhar. l\1iss T. Reynolds, :\IiS8
.J. ('ase
'; Public I1ealth. Registrar, Mil's C. Kier; Pro-
Ilramme, :\Iiss G. Taylor; Sick Visitinl!:. 'IiBS L. Trench;
So
ial. :\Iiss :.\1. .-\rmstrong; Constitution and By-La" s.
\llss E. Lamond; Representative to Thp f"anndiml
Nurse, Miss ,I. Gall; Pre!'S Uepre!\entati,'r. \frl'. .J,
Phillil)ß.
Alumnae Associations
.\LBERTA 'IA
ITOH.\
.\.A., Hol
Cross Hospital. Cal
ar)'
President, :.\Irs. L. de
atge; \"ice-President. :\11:;>1
.\. Willison; Recording
ecretary,
Iiss E. Thorn;
('orresponding Secretary, l\IiBS P. K. Gilbert; Trea-
surer,
liss S. Craig; Honorary :.\Iembers, Rev.
oellr
t. Jean de I'Eucharistie. :\liss :\1. Bro" n.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. :\Iunroe; President. :\Ir".
:-;cott Hamilton; First \"ice-President. :.\Ii!'s V. Chap-
lIlan; Second '"iee-President. :\Irs. C. Chinneck;
Hecordin(l; Recretary. :\IiBS G. ,-\llyn; Conespondinp;
ecretary. Miss .-\. Oliver. Royal .-\le...-:andra HO!lpital.
A.A. l'nlverslty of Alberta Hospital. Edmonton
Hon. Pre8ident. 'Iiss E. Fen\\ick; President, Miss
1. HePrl; First ''ice-President. :.\Iiss L. Gourlay;
:-'ecund \"ice-President. :\Ii8s B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary. :.\liss A. Revell; Corresponding Recretary. Miss
D. Duxbury, University Hospital; Treasurer. Miss :\1.
Rowles, University Hospital; F-\el'lItive. \Ii"!le!l
1.
Gordon, I. RoBS, A. Baker.
.\.,\., Lamont I>ublic Hospital
lion. President. Miss F. E. Welsh; President. .\Irs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, .\Iiss O. Scheie; Reeretary-
Treasurer, l\Irs. C. Craip;. Namao; Corresponding
Secretary. :\Iiss F. E. Heid, l009-20th Avenue, \\ '.
('alp;ary; ('om'ener. Social ('oIUmittee. \'lrs. H. Shears.
BRITISH COLU\fßL\
A.A., St. I>aul's lIospital, Vancou\cr
Uon. President. Rev. Sister ::5uperior; Hpn. \ï,'e-
President.
ister Therese Amable; President. Miss B.
GPrldes; ''ice-President, :\Iiss R. Mch.ernan; Secretary,
-liss F. Treavor. Assistant Seeretary, l\1iss V. Dyer;
rreasurer.
Iiss B. .\Iuir; Executive. :\IiB8es :\1. :\Ie-
Donald. E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearl'e,
. Chri"tir,
H. \II'GiJli,'ary, K. :.\leDonald.
\..\" Vancou\'cr Gcncral Hospital
l're
ident, :\liB8 :\1. Lunan; First ''ice-President.
\lrs. C, H. C. Bell; ::;ecOlld ''ice-President, :.\Irl'. K.
('rail!:; Se('retary. l\1iss I. Collier; Corre8pondin
::5ecre-
tary, .\Iiss J{. Heaney, "ancouver General Hospital;
Committee Conveners: Programme. ;\Iiss A. Croll.
:\Iembers
ip.
Iiss '-. Peters; Sick Benefit,
1r".
Iait-
land; Uefreshments, :\Ii!'<8 J. Hunter; Press. :\Irs. G. E.
Gillie,; Treasurer and Bond'l. !\Ii!!!! Geary, :n76 \\"I'"t
2nd \,'e.; Reprl'!'entati"e. \'.G.
..\., \Ii".. Bh"dr",
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, \ ictoria
lion. President. :.\Iiss L.
Iitehell; President. :\1 i"..
Jean :\Ioore; First \'ice-President. :\11"8. York(';
econ,1
Vice-President. :.\Iiss .J. Grant; ::'ecretary. :\Irø. .\
Do" ell. :10 Howe St.; .-\sßÍstant Secret
r
',
Iiss .J
Stewart; Treasurer, l\1iss C. T"dd: Entertainment COlli
mittep. \ti
;I T GO\\lIrd: Sic'" '\"lIr!'('. \Ii
" F. "'r\\lnan
\..\., Children's Hospital, Winnipe
Hon. President, :\Iiss :\1. B. .-\llan; Pre8idrnt. :\Iiss
Catherine Day; First 'ice-President. :\Iiss Elsie
FraBer; Secretary, :\Ii!'s W. :\1. Barratt. Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, :\liss:\1. D. HUl!:hes; Rick \"isitinll,
:\Iil's Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, :\Ir!'. Geo. Wilson.
\.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
lion. President, Rev. ::;r. Krause; President.
Iis!l K
leCallum, 181 Enfield Cr.. Nurwood; First ''ice-
President, :\Iiss H. ::5tephen, 15 Ruth Apt.... :\Iaryland
St., Winnipel!:;
econd 'ïce-President. .:\Iiss
1. .:\fadil!.
St. Boniface Hospital; Seeretary,
-1i8S J. \rchibald.
Hhriner's Hospital. WinnipelZ; Treasurer. l\1iss E
Shirley, 14 King Georj1;e Ct., \\ innipl'l!:; Social COIII-
mittee. :\Iis!' E. Blinks (Convener), 1)4 Cross
t.,
""innipel!:. :\IiS8 J. Williamson. :\Iiss A. Nelson;
ick
'"i"iting Committee. :\li8B T. Grenville (Convener), 211
Hill St.. Norwood;
Ii8!\ h.. Rowan, :.\li!'S .T. Grei/(;
Press Representative. Miss B. Altman. 420 Collel!:e
-\ve., Winnipeg; Representatives to Loeal Council of
\\'omen. :\IiB8 B. Altman (Com..ener). 'Ii".. R. Chandll'r.
\Ii".. \1. Spooner.
\.A., Winnlpe
Gl'neral Hospital
Hon. President. :\Irs. \. W.
Ioody. 97 -\sh :-1.,
President, ;\Iiss E. Parker. :-;uite. 24. Carlyle .-\pts., 5X()
Broadway; First \'ice-President, :\1rs. C. Y. Combl'!',
.');m Dominion St.; Seeond ''ice-President. Miss J. Mc-
Donald. Deer Lodl!:e Hospital; Third \'ice-President,
\liB8 E. YUBSaek, 867
Ial!:nus A,'e.; UecordinJl: Secre-
tary,
liB8 J. Landy, "innipel!: General Hospital;
('orrespondilll!: Secretary, :\Iis!l l\1. Graham. \\ innipel!:
General Hospital; Treasurer, :\li!'<8 :\1. C. :\I,.Donald.
Central Tuberculo!lis Clinic;
Iembership. \Iiss I.
Ramsay. Central Tubereuloøis Clinic; Sick \ïsitinl!:.
:\Iiss ,J. Morl!:all. 102 Rose St.; Entertainment. Mrs. C.
:\lc:\lillan, Hertfonl Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of JOllrnal,
:\Iis!\ R. :.\Ionk. 134 Wefltgate; BusineBfll\lanal!:er. :\Iil's
E. Timlick. Winnipeg General Hospital; Special ('Olll-
mittpf'.
Ii"" P. Bro\\npll. 2].') (,hl'"tnut
t.
EW BRL":'\SWICh.
.\..\., Saint John Gcm'ral IIm.pltal
11011. President, l\1is" E. .J. :\Iitchell; Prc"iJf'I.t. \11-
G. L. Dunlop; First \ ice-Presidpnt. :\lls1! F, I Hen
derson; Seeond \'iee-Preøident, :\Irs. F. \1. \1..I"l.el\l');
e('retary, Mrs. J. E. Reyea, 121 l'uinn St..
aint .John,
N.H.; Trea"urer, 'Iiss hate Holt; -\dditioual memb('r..,
:\Irs. .J. H. Vaul!:han. :\Irs. H. 11. :\1.-1 ('Ilan. \Ir
. \
G. (,linch.
.\.A., L. P. Flsh('r :\lcmnrial Hnspltal, \\ on<istnck
Hun. President. \Ii!'!" 1:I!'ie rullol'h; Presidput, :\Ir"
"arry Duubar; \ï"e-Pre..idrut. :\Ii"s Glad;\-s Jla
\\ard;
:--e,'retary-Treasurpr. :.\Ii!'l" I'sulinf' Pahllrr: B.'ani of
l>irf'C,tors: 'lis" G. TIIIIll<. \Ir". B. Sutton.
Irs. Fnlton.
\Iil's
I.
alllpiller, \lisH
. \ ('1\('1<"; ('ummdtt't' ("ml-
"IIu'r/l: I'rugrallllllP. :\Ir!<. 1'. C'altl\\rll. \11.... ... I"l.err.
111!1! E. Dunbur. \I1M Ii. B('lIi";:'..,, \ ..ifin&:. :\li"S II.
( 'ullllllinll'"
II"" D 1'('11 h. ..h.. \11-- \I,'r-pr., '1
I'ditor, \Ii!''' \1 :'ulllphi.'r
186
THE CANADIAN NURSE
ONT.\RIO
BELLEVILLE
A,.\., ndlcvllle General Hospital
lIon. Prel'idf'nt, :\Iiss Florence ;\lcIndoo; President,
:\Iiss Reta Fitzgerald; \ïce-Prf'sidf'nt, :\Irs. .J. Andre\\,,;
:'ecrf'tary, :\Iis!'l L. Smith; Treasul"f'r, Mis!'! ì\larioll
;\lacFarlanf'; Flower Committee, ;\Iiss Betty :\leEwan;
l{f'presentati\'e to Tile Canadian Nllr!;(', ;\Ii!'!' II.
Thompson.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, :Miss E. l\1. ì\lcKee; President, :\Iiss
K. Charnley; \"iee-President, .Miss G. Turnbull;
:'ecretary,
liss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlottf' :'t., Brant-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, l\1iss Y. Buckwell; Treasurer,
:\Iiss L. R. GiHespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
:\Ire. F. Doherty; Flo\\er Committee, Mrs. Phillipf',
:\Iiss W. Laird, l\Iiss :\1. 1\1. Nichol; Gift Committee,
Miss J. Edmondson, l\Irs. E. Claridl!:e; The Canadian
Nur8e and Press Representative, Miss H. Diamond;
Chairman. Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole:
Representative to I,ocal Council of Women, Mi:>s H.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
lIon. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President,
:\Irs. H. B. White; First \"ice-President, l\Iiss 1\1.
Arnold; becond Vice-President, :\Iiss J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
:\liss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H, F. Yandusen. 65 Church :'t.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, :\Iis" \.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Publlc General Hospital
)lon. President, Miss P. Campbell; President.. :\lis8
B. Pardo; Vice-President, :\liss I\:. Crack!e;
f'eOl,d
Vice-President, Miss F. Houston; Uecording Secretary,
:\1iss E. Craig; Corresponding :,pcretary, Miss R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretar:r, :\l!s8 :\1. Rtacey; Treasurer,
:\Iiss R. Haley; Press Correl:'pondent, :\liss R. Baker;
('ommittee Convl'/Iers: Refreshment, :\Iiss :\1. \Vickett;
Buying, :\Iisses J. Finney, :\1. :\Ic
aul!:hton and :\lrs.
It. F. Mitchell; Floral, Miss E. Orr; :O;ocial, 1'lrs. T.
Burke; Councillors, Misses \'. Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; HepresentatÏ\"e to The ('anadÙI7l Nur..,.,
:\Iiss P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iothf'r :\Iar:r; lion. \"iee-President,
:,ister ;\1. ('onsolata; President, :\Iiss Uuth \\- inter;
\"ice-Prpsident, :\lif's :\1. Kearns; i"e('retary- Treasurer,
:\Iiss J. Lundy, II:! \'an .-\Ilen Ave.; E'i:eeutives. :\Iisses
II. Gray, I. Poissant, Z. :\Iartin, :\Irs. H. Hodgin; Hep-
resentative District
o. 1, R.N.,-\.O., Miss Jessie Hoss;
Hepresentati\'e to The ('ananian Nltr..e, :\Ii:>s Y. L.
f'hauvin.
CURXW.\LL
.\.A., Corn\\aU General Hospital
lion. President, l\Irs. J. Boldick; President, :\liss
:\Iary Fleming; First \ïce-PrE'sident, l\Iis!\ Kathleen
Burke; Second Vice-President, l\Iiss Bernice :\IcKillop;
Secretary-Treasurer, l\Iiss C. Droppo, Cornwall General
Hospital; Representative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss
H. C. Wilson, Cornwall General HOl"pital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
lion. Presidellt, l\liss A. Cleaver; Presidellt, :\lil<8
:-:. '\Iitchell; Secretary, :\liss L. MacNair, !II Victoria
\ve.; .\SBistant Secretary, :\liss T. ltainey; Treasurer,
!\liss ,-\. MacDonald; Flower Convener, :\Iiss Ruther-
ford; Repre!'lentative to Tlte Canadian NUr,
e finrl PrPRR
Hpprpspntatin'. :\Iil"s :\1. Vandyke.
Gl'ELPII
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
lIon. President, l\liss S. A. Campbell, :O;upt. Guelph
General Hospital; Prffiident, l\liss C. S. Zeigler; First
\"ice-President, :\Iiss D. Lambert; Secolld \ïce-Presi-
dent, ;\Iiss 1\1. Darby; Secretary, :\liss N. Kenney;
freasurer, :\Iiss J. \\"atson; Committees: Flo\\er, l\li!'lR
n. Speers, :\1 iss I. Wilson; Social, Mrs. ,\1. Cock we))
(Convener); Programme, Miss E. 1\1. Eby (Convener);
Hepresentativp to Tilt, {'flnadiml Nllr.
('. Mi,,!'1 :\farioll
\\T 00l1.
11 \:\11 LTO:\
A.A., Hamilton General Huspital
lIon. President, l\Iiss E. C. Rayrside; President, :\11"".
R. Hess; Vice-President, 1\1i8S ì\1. Bain; Recording
E'crptar:r, 1\1 iBS 1\1. Matheson; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss H. Hauert, Hamilton G('neral Hospital;
Treasurer, Miss .J. Jackson, :3:?6 :\Iain \\.; Assistallt
Treasurer, Aliss G. Hodgson; ::-:ecrctary-Treasurer,
.:\Iutual Benefit Association, :\Iiss O. Watson, 14á
Emerald S.; Committee Convener8: Executive, 1\liss H.
,-\itken; Flower, :\liss A. Squires; Programme, Miss
1'1. Gosnell; Hegistry, l\Iiss N. Thompson; Bud
et,
:\lrs. :\-1. BarIo\\; ReprE'sentative to The ('U1rad
'an
Nurse, Miss A.
cheifele.
\.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, :\Iothf'r Martina; Pref;ident, :\liss
Eva :\Ioran; \"ice-President, Miss F. Ni('holson; Secre-
ta,:y, Miss 1\labE'1 '\lacIntosh, 168 Hay St.; Treasurer,
:\I!ss :\1. Kelly; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
:\11f
s B. McKenna, :?ï7 Herkim('r St.; Repre!'lpntati\'e
n.
..-\.O.. Miss .T.
Iorin.
h..INGSTOi\
.\..\., Hotel Dleu, Kin
ston
11011. Pre!'lident, Rev.
ister Donovan; President,
:\lrs. W. G. Elder; Vice-President, :\Irs. A. Hearn;
ecretary, l\Iiss Olive .:\lcDermott; Treasurer. :\-lis!\
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, :\lrl:'. L. Co('hrane,
:\Iisses K. McGarry, l\1. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; \ïsitinl!:
Committee, Misses N. fo:peaglf', 1.. f;ullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, :\Irs. H. ".
f'larke, :\Iil'ses X. Hickey, R. Watsnn.
A.A., Kingston General Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss Lousie D. Acton; Pretsident,
:\Iiss Ann Baillie; First Vice-President, ;\lisR Carrie
:\Iilton; Second \"ice-President, Miss Olivia 1\1. \\ïløoll,
Third Vice-President, Miss A. Walsh; Seeretary, l\Iiss
Anna Davis, 464 Frontenac St.; Treasurer. Mrs. C. W.
:\Iallory, 203 Albert St.; CO'1lvener: Flower Committee,
:\lrs. Sidney Smith. 151 Alfred St.; Press Representa-
tive, l\Iiss Mary Wheeler, I\:ingston General Hospital:
Private Duty Sectio)!. Miss Constance
and\\ ith. 2:
,')
,\lfrerl
tr('et.
KITCIIE:\ER
.\.,\., Kitchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, l\liss K. W. Scott; President. Mrs.
\\ III. Noll; First Vice-President, Mrs. W. Ziegler;
Second \"ice-President, l\liss Elsie Trouse; Seeretary,
:\Iiss \\ïnnifred Nelson. Apt. D., 58 Albert St. N.;
-\ssistant-Recretary, '\Iiss Jean Sim'lair; Treasurer,
:\Iis!'l :\1. Orr.
LI :\ USA'
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
lion. President, :\liss E. S. Reid; Presidellt, ì\lil's L.
.J. Harding; First Vice-President, :\Irs. O. Walling;
ecolld \"ice-President, Mrs. :\1. I. Thurston; Corres-
ponding
ecretary, Mrs. J.
. l\lorrison, 46 Colborne
:,t. \\".; Treasurer, ;\;Irs. G. R. Allen; Flower Convener,
:\liss D. :\1. I"mith;
ocial Convener, Miss K.
.
:\Iortimore.
LO;'l.iDU:'\
A.A., Ontarlo Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss :\Iary L. Ja('obl<; Pr('sidellt,
:\Iil's
. :\1. Williams,;;5 Edward :'t.; First \ïee-Pre!'li-
dent, :\lI"s. \'. :\1. Heill:r;
el'ond Yiee-President, l\liss
F. H. Hall;
ecretary, :\lrs. E. D. Gros\"enor, 52 Doulton
\ve.; Treasurer. :\Iiss E. h.ennedy, Ontario l{o!';pital;
Sodal f'ommittpe, Misses I. Linds!lY, L. J(plly; }'rpss
Hf'pref'entati\'e, :\Iil's F. Burl!'!.
.'1...'1.., St. Joseph's Hospital
lIon. Presideut, :\lother :\1. Patrie-ia; lion. \ïl'C-
Pre!'lirlent, Sistf'r :\1. H uth; President, Miss Olivp
()'
eil; First \"icf'-Prp!'ident, :\li8S !\ladalene Baker;
:,econd \ïl'e-President, l\liss Erla Beger; Hf'('ording
:'eerptary, l\Iiss Gladys !\Iartin; Corres!)onding :-)ecre-
tary, l\Iiss Irene Griffen; Treasurer, :\Iiss Gladys Gray.
Press Hepresentative, l\Iiss :-)tel l a Gignac; Hepresenta-
tivf's to Regi
try Board, \Iissp!, Blip:! Hnllatt. ["p(';lp
Iattpr
'. ()Ii\'p ()'l'\pil.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., \ictorla Hospital
lion. l'lesident, :\Ii!'s Hilda f-:tuart; Hun. \ïl"f'-l're!oi-
(lent, .:\Ir". A. E.
ilverwoOO; President, l\Iiss 2\1. :\1.
.Jones, 257 Ridout
t. 8.; First Vif'e-President, :Mi88 H.
Huston; Second \"ice-President, l\Ii88.:\1. 1\-JcLaugLlin;
TreasurH, l\I iss D. Atkinson, Ii 4 Langarth :'t,; Secre-
tary, )'Iis
F. Quigley; Corresponding ::;ecretary, Miss
:\1. :'n1ith, Victoria Hospital; Hoard of Diref'tors, 1\li!\Bes
('. Gillir'f', A. :\Ialloeh, J. Mortimer, :\1. Yulf', ('
;o;kinner, :\Ir
. (' Rose.
1'1..\G.\R.\ FALLS
A.A., :\"ia
ara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, :\lis8 :\1. R. Park; President, :\li!'s
G. Thorpe; First Vice-President, :\Iiss H. ::;chofield;
econd \"ice-President. Miss K. Prest; Seeretary-
Treasurer, :\liss I. Hammond, ß;j4 Ryerson Crescent,
iagara Falls; ('orresponding Secretar:r, Miss F.
r oftus; Auditors, :\lrs. :\1. i:;harpe, Miss F. Loftus;
:,ick Committee, 'liss \'. ('outt'!, :\Iiss .\. Pirie and
:\lrs. J Teal.
OR.\:\"CEVILLE
.\..\., Lord Uufferin Hospital
Hon. President, :\lrs. 0, Fleming; President, :\Ii"s
r.. :\1. :O;proule; First Vice-President, :\Iiss V. Lee;
:,econd Vif'e-President, :\liss I. Allen; Corresponding
:'ecretary. :\1iss :\1. Bridgeman; Hecording Secretary,
:\Iiss F. :\1. Hayward; Treasurer, :\Iiss .-\. Burke.
ORILLI:\
A.A., Odilia
oldiers' l\lemorial Hospital
lion. President, Miss E. Johnston; President, :\lisF.
G. M. Went; First \"ice-President, :\liss L. Whitton;
:,econd \"ice-President, :\lisB :\1. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer, .:\-IiSB Alice :\1. Smith, 112 Peter
t.
.
HeJl:ular Meeting-First Thursda:r of earh month.
OSH.\ W.\
.\..\., Osha\l\oa General Hospital
Hon. Pre"ident, :\liss E. :\lacWilliams, General Hos-
pital; President, Miss ,J. :\Idntosh, 414 :\Iaf:'son Rt.;
First \'jl'e-President, :\Iiss J. Thompson, 115 Agne" :O:t.;
Serond \"iee-PreIÚdent. :\liss R. Post, General Hospital;
Sef'retary, :\liss :\-1. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; Assistant
:-;ecretary, :\Iiss :\1. Tribble, 91 Connaught St.; Corn's-
ponding ::;e('retar
r, Miss E. ('lark, 97 .\thol ;o;t.;
l'reasurcr, :\liss E. Dif'kinson, ,,)
4 :\llIry :'t.
01''1'.\ W.\
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporatcd 191M)
Hon. President, :\liss :\1. A. Catton, Carleton Place;
President, :\li88 J. Blyth, (,ivic Hospital; Vice-President
:\liss 1\1. :\Ic
iece, Perley HOllie; Secretary, 1\Ir".
H. L. Morton, 29 ('legg Rt.; Treasurer, :\Iiss 1\1. C.
:,Iinn. 204 Stanley Ave.; Board of Directors,
lif's E.
:\lcColI, :\-liss H. l\IcQuade, Miss L. Bedford, .\lrl!.
E. C. Elmitt; HepresentatÏ\'e to The Canadian NUTse,
:\Iiss .\. Ebbs. 80 Hamilton _-\ ve.; Represpntative to
('entral Hegistry, l\-li88 R. Pridmore, 90 Third .-\ vp.;
Prpsf' Rf'presentativp, 1\lif's E. Allpn.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
lion. Prpsidpnt, :\1.88 Gertrude Bennett; l'rpRidNlt,
:\Iiss Fdlla Osborne; First \ ice-l'residpnt, Miss Dorothy
:\loxlf'Y;
econd Vice-President, Miss Lera Barry; He-
cordi liP; :-:ecretary, l\Ii88 l\-1artha Mcintosh; Corres-
pondinp;
ecretary, Miss .\1. Do\\ney; Treasurpr, :\liss
\\ inifred Gemmell; Councillors, :\Iiss K. Clarke, :\liss
Webb, l\1iss G. Froats. :\liss B. Eddy, .\liss E. Lyons;
HepreselltativeB to Central Rel/;istry, 1\Iiss Inda h.f'mp,
:\tiss K, Clarke; Press Correspondent, :\li88 Evelyn
Pepper; Convener Flower Committpe, :\Iisf' :\1. :\Iac-
('allum.
A.A., Otta\l\oa General Hospital
lion. l','e"iupnt, He". f'r. Flavie Domitille; I'rr/o!iuellt,
\liRR K Bayley; Fir"t \ i('p-PreQident. :\lisR G. ('lark;
:,econd \ïre-Presidpnt, :\Iiss :\1. :\hmroe; ::-;p('r('tary-
TreaRurer, :\lisR Dorothy Knox, Ottawa Genf'rlLl lIof'-
pital; l\1f'mbership :-;e('retary, :\liRS F. Poitra,,; :'i
'k
('ommitt<,p, l\1i,,'1 P. Bissonnettp, :\Iiss:'. I\:f'arn", :\hfUII
B. Le
ris; HepreRentati,'p to Thi' runndinn .v',TSI',
:\tisR E. Kenn('dy; Hepresf'ntati,'f's to lo('al ('oun('11
of \Vomen, .\lrs. Latilllpr, \lrs. ])unnf' ß nd :\1 rR. I f'
Clair; Hf'prel'pntatives to ('f'lIf ral HplI'i!'t r
', \1 i!'R
ROJl:er!l. :\Iil'!\ \I J.andrevillp.
137
.\..\., St. Lukc's Hospital
lion. l're"idpnt, Miss E. :\la"\\\"cll; Pre!'iuent, :\I.,,!'
:\1. .\IacLaren; \'ire-President, :\lisR :\1. Lunall' :'eoe-
tary, .\li88 :\1. Xelson, 44 First -\ve.; Trpasure'r, :\li"..
I. .-\Il3:.
, 1188 Gladsto'.le .-\ \'e.; Central Registr
', :\lisSpQ
:\1. "lIsoll, S, Carnllchael; Nominating Committpe
Ii"f'es
. ('(ark. fo:. Carmichael, E. Young; Reprp"pnta:
tl\'P tu TIlt rnnndinn NUTsi', \Iiss :\1. Drummond, (,ivil'
)[nspital.
O\\- E;\; S01J
))
A.A., O\\CII Sound General and \Iarine Hospital
Hon. Presidpnt, :\liss H. Hall; Prp"ident,
liss }O.
Hal'; First \"ice-President, :\Iiss :\1. Paton- :'f'{"ond
\"if'e-President,
li88 J. _\jl:new; Secretary, ':\liFs .\.
Hobertson, 473-12th
t. \V.; Treasurer, :\1 is!' _\.
Wepdon; Pianist, :\Iiss R. Dunoon; Flo\\er Committpp.
Irs: .\lc:\lillan; I'rogramme Committee, :\liss :\1.
('rUlckshank; Sick CommitteI', .\Iiss .:\1. :--im; Press
Representative, .\liss II. Walden; l
efrp8hment Com-
mittee, :\'IiRS C. Pennpr; .\uditor, :\Irs. .JC\hnl'ton.
PETERBORO
A.:\., Nicholls Hospital
lion. President, :\1rs. E. 1\1. Leeson; Pre8iupnt, :\Iiss
.\. Dobbin; First \"ice-President, :\lis8 H. Russell.
Se
ond Vice-President. Miss L. Simpson; Secretary;
:\llss S. Battprsb:r, 400 Sheridan St.; Treasurpr, !\liss
S. ."'000, 2.12 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Se('retary;
:\11SS E. "aJl:ar, 2ï
Park Rt.;
oeial ('om'pner l\1iQ!,
:\1. \\' a tSOIl. '
S.\R:\'I.\
-\..\.,
arnia Gpneral Hospital
Hon. President, :\liss :\1. Lee; PreRident, :\li88 L.
:,egrist; \ïee-President, l\Ii88 A. Cation; ::::ecrptar:r.
:\1iss A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, :\li88 .-\. \\ ilson,
Representative to The Canadian NUTse. Miss C. :\Ied-
croft; Flo\\er C'ommittt'e (CO!l\'ener),
liB8 D. Sha\\;
PcoJl:ramme and f-:ocial ('ommittee, :\Iis!\ L. :'pJl:rist.
STRA Tl<'ORD
,\..\., Stratford General Hospital
lIon. President,
liss A. :\1. :.\Iunn; President. :\Ii!'s
L .-\tt\\oOO; ''ice-Presidpnt,
lilSs
1. :\1l"
la"ter;
;o;erretary- Treasurer,
lrs. Ii:.
nidpr, 36 Douglas
t.;
:'o("ial Convener, l\liss _\. Rock; Flowpr ('on,'ener;
:\1 iss ('. :'taplel'.
ST. CATHERI;'\ES
A.A., 'lack Trainini1 School
lion. Presidpnt,
Ii"s .-\nne WriJl:ht, Geueral Uo"pi-
tal; Prpllident, :\li8S Nora
old, Gpnpral Hospital;
Fir"t \ïl"e-President, l\1il.<s :\larl/:aret :\1,'Clunie, 3!1
(,haplin Ave.;
econd Vice-President, :\lisB Evel
'n
Horton, Louth ::'t.; Secretary-Treasurer, :\liss J. Hastil',
General Hospital; Social ('oulluittep, :\li88 Aileen
.Johnston, General Hospital, :\lil'8 J>ollalda \'eale. 35
.-\cademy
t., :\Iiss Bprnice Hull', 146 \\ piland -\\ e.;
Hepresputstive to The Canadian Surse, :\lis8 Feathpr-
stone, 17 Hainer :'t.; Correspolldpnt. :\li88 Current;
I'rol/:rammp Committee,
liBS Brubaker, 1 Fitzl/:prald:,t.
ST. THO\I.\S
A.A., :\Iemorlal Hospital
lIon. Presidellt, :\Iiss .-\rmstrolll/:; ][011. l're!<iuent,
:\Iiss Bm'hanau; PreRidf'nt, :\1iB8 Belli' :\htl'hener;
First \"il'p-I'resident, :\liss ,\nuie Campht'lI;
erond
\"ire-President, :\lisll .Jervpll; Hpl'oniinJl:
f'('Cf'tar};
:\Ii!'s ESI\eltinp; CorreRpondinJl: :-'ef'Cpta.ry, :\lisQ 1 anllllld,
Treasurer, :\Iis!l ClaJ poll'; E,\;pl'utiH'''. :\liR" :\1,' \Ipinp,
:\liss Irvine, :\Iiss Nona :\lanni"\, \Ii"" lIazf'1 lIa!<tinJ!s,
:\IIS8 L. Crane; Committ('(' rOnre"I'T.': "ominatinl/:,
:\lillS ,J. Grant; :,il"k :-';ursinl!:. \li
Q F. 1 anyon; :"lI'ial,
:\Iisf' ('. Hobf'rtson; PUCl'hasinJl:, :\Ii"" L. Hon"..n; \\ RJ'I
and :\leanB, :\lis" Olin- I'udd..u; Hppr('Rpntati,'p to
The rnlladin" .VIIT"', :\Iis'l .\I1I
' Prin,'f'; Hf'I'rf'''entati\f'
to the IL:\ .\.0., \li"s :\llIry 'I,I
.
rORo:'\ 1'0
\..\., (;rac(' lIospltal
'I<,n. I'n,,,.drnt, :\Ir'l. ('. J. ('un if'; I'Cl'...ldl.llt. :\Ir".
\\ . ,J. Cryderman; B.ecordiul/: Sel'rf't.ary, :\liSl\ D"ri" I.
h.f'nt; Corrf>fOpondlllg
('cretary, :\lls/l Lillian E. \\. nod,
:!() l\IaRon Bh'd.. 1"orontn 12; Tn',,"ur"r. 'Ii.... \ \1
Flli..tt, 1 !I-I ('..u inll'lmm
t
lX8
THE CANADIAN NURSE
:\.:\., Thl' (;rant \lacDonald Trainin
School
for Nurses
Hon. President, :\Iiss Ef-ther :\1. Cook, I:JO Dunn
.\ve.; President, :\Iiss Ida Weekes, 1:J0 Dunn .-\w'.;
'ïce-Pre
ident, :\Irs. :\Iarion
Illith; Recording Secre-
tary, :\Ii!'!s Norma :\f('Leod; Correspondinjl; Hecretary,
:\Iiss Ethel Watson, I:W Dunn .-\ ve.; Treasurer, :\Iiss
Ph
'lIis La\\rence;
O('ial Com'ener, :\Ii
!'! Betty Bl
.thp.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Presidents, Mrs. Goodson, 1\Iiss F. Potts; Hon.
Vice-President, Miss Austin; President, :\Irs.
trachan;
\'ice-Presidents, :\Irs. Cassan, :\Irs. Haymond; Hecord-
injl; Se('fetary, :\Ii!'!s E. Lanjl;man; Corre!'<pondinjl;
;-';e('retary, :\Iiss ì\1. Bla('kwood; Treasurer, :\Iiss De('k,
613 Avpnuf' Hd.; ('ommittee CmlVelleTs: :'m'ial, :\Irs. A.
Russpll; Flower, :\IislO H. Fisher; PrOjl;ramme, ì\li
s
Elliott; Publications, :\Iiss
. E. Le\\is; Hejl;istry. :\fis!'<
('urrie; Welfare, :\[iAS ParkPr; H.X.,-\.O., :\fi!'<s :\liIlpr.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, Miss Alma Armstrong, Riverdale Hos-
pital; First Vice-President, Miss Gertrude Gastrell,
ùh-erdale Hospital; Second Vice-Presidpnt, l\Ir!!. F.
Lane, 221 Riverdale Ave.; Secretar:r, Miss Le...ie
Staples, 491 Broadview Ave.; Treasurer, Mrs. H.
Dunbar; Board of Directors. Miss K. ì\fathieson,
Riverdale Hospital, Miss S. Stretton, 7 Edgewood
.\ve.. Miss E. Baxter, Riverdale Hospital, 1\Irs. E.
Quirk, 1tiverdale Hospital, Miss L. Wilson, 11 Sher-
wood Ave.; Press and Publications, Miss Laurel
"ïlson, II Sherwood A "e.; Toronto.
A.:\., St. John's Hospital
lIon. President, Sister Beatrice, ::5t. John's Convent;
I'resident, Miss Susan Morgan, 322 Ht. George St.;
First Vice-President, Miss Nan Hethprington, Nurses'
Residence, Toronto General Hospital; tlecond \'ice-
President, Miss Kathleen llurtchall, 28 Major St.;
Recording Secretary, Miss Helen Frost, 450 Ma
rbank
-\ve.; Corresponding Secretary, :\fiss Margaret Creigh-
ton, 152 Boon Ave.; Treasurer, Miss Winnifred Webb,
77 Summf'rhill Ave.: Con-reTler8: Entertainment Com-
mittee, Miss :Nettie Davis, 32 Albany Ave.; Sick and
Visitinjl; Committee, Miss Gladys Batten, 32 Albany
--\ve.; Press Representativp, l\liss Gra('e Dohprty. 26
orwood Hoad.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lIoll. Pre'lident. Hev. Rister Mary :\[argaret; Presi-
dent. Miss M. Kelly; First Vice-President, :\Iiss O.
Kidd; Hecond Yice-President, Miss 1\1. Daly; Record-
illg Secretary, :\-liss 1\1. Goodfriend; Corresponding
Secretary, Mi!'<s \'. Hanley; Treasurer, Miss F. Hobin-
son; Councillors, l\li!'<ses -\. Timlin, L. Dunhar, L
Power, R. \fcCue.
A..\., St. Michael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; Hon. ''ice-
President, Rev. Sister Jean; President, Miss Ethel
Crocker; First Vice-President, Mrs. Aitkin; Second
Vice-President, Miss Mary Edwards; Third Vice-
President, Miss Helen Dunnill:an; Corresponding
Secretary, MiB8 M. Doherty; Recording Secretary,
:\liss Marie Melody; Treasurer, Miss G. Coulter, 42
IS:lbelia St., .Apt. 204, Toronto; Press Representative,
\Iiss May Greene; Councillors, Misses J. O'Connor,
:\1. Madden, H. Kerr; Private Duty: Miss A. Gaudet;
Public Health. :\Iiss I. McGurk; Hepresentative ('en-
teal Hegistry of N \lfses, Toronto. :\[iss ì\1. l\Ielod
'.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
Hon. Vi('e-President, Miss Jean Gunn; Presidpnt.
:\Iiss N. Fidler, Ontario Hospital, Whitby; First
Vice-President, :\1iE's J. .\nderson; Recond \'icp-
President. Miss E. Manninjl;;
ecretary, !\Ir!'<. A. "'.
Farmer, 89 Breadalbane tit.; Treasurer, Miss E.
Hobson, T.G.H. H('!'<idence; Assistant Treasurer, Miss
Forgie; Archivist, l\fiss Kniseley; Counf'ÏlIors, Miss J.
Wilson, Miss Dix, Miss Cryderman; Committee Con-
!'eneTS: Flower, l\-fiss 1\1. 1\IcKa:r; Programme, Miss
K Stuart; Press, Miss 1\1. Stewart, Ki. 5155; Insurance.
'fiss M. Dix; Nomination!!,
\liss C. Soudwith; Social.
:\[iss .J. Mitchell; EJizal1f't.h Fif'lf!
mith; :\Jf'morial
Fl1nrl. :\1 i!'s n annan I
\..\., Toronto Orthopedk ànd East General
Hospital Trainini1 School for l'urses
lIon. President, Miss E. :\lcLean, Toronto En"t
General Hospital; Prpsident, 1\lrs. E. Philips 15..
Donlands Ave.; Vice-President, :\liss J. l\IdI
!'<tpr.
155 Donlands ,-\ vp.; Secretary-Treasurer. Miss N. ,_
\\'ilson, fíO Cowan Ave.; Representative to Centrnl
Hejl;istry, .Miss 1\1. Beston. 753 Glencairn Ave.; l\fiss
B.
lacInto'l
, 748 Soudan Ave.; Representative tl'
H.
..\.O., :\llss ß. :\facIntosh, 748 Sondan Ave.
.\.A., Toronto Western Hospital
lIon. President, :\Iiss B. L. Ellis; President, :\Ii!'!'<
F..
Iatthews, 74 Westmount Ave.; Vice-President,
:\l1ss U. Colwell; Recordinjl;
ecretary, Miss G. Patter-
lOon; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Helen Stpwart, Toronto
"'pstern Ho!'pital; Representative to The ('m/fuliml
.vuT.
e, 1\li!'s F. Gref'naway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President, l\liss Ross; President, ;\Iiss 1\1.
:\fcClinchey; \'ice-President, Miss Jessie Gordon'
Corresponding Secretary, Miss l\largaret Anderson:
Treasurer, Miss I. Archibald, 659 Huron
t.; Corn'E'-
pondent to Th(' Canadiu'1I NUTse,
\Iiss I. On!'lo\\.
A.A., Women's ColleJ1,e 1I0jpitai
Hon. President, :\Irs. Bowman; Hon. \'ice-Presldent,
:\Iiss Meiklejohn; President, ì\liss Worth, 9:J Scarboro
Beach Blvd.; Secretary, Miss Free, 48 Northumberland
t. Treasurer; :\Ii!'<s Fraser, 125 Rusholme Hoad.
A. \., Hospital Instructors and Administrators,
University of Toronto
Hon. President, l\liss E. K. Russell; Hon. \'ice-
Presidpnt, Miss G. Hiscocks; President, Miss Glad\\yn
.Jones; First Vice-President, Miss 1\1. :\IcCamus;
Second Vice-President, :\Iiss E. Young; Secretary,
:\Iiss C. l\I. Cardwell. Toronto General Hospital;
Treasurer, !\Iiss 1\1. :\lcKay, Toronto General Ho!'pital.
.\..\., Connau
ht Trainin
School for
ur
(s
Toronto Hospital, Weston
lion. President,
\li8s E. :\-IacP. Dickson, Toronto
Hospital. \\
eston; \'ice-President, l\li!'s Ann Bolwe\l,
Toronto Hospital. 'Weston; Se('retary, Miss G. Leem-
injl;, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Treasurer, :\Iiss R.
:\1C"Ka:r, Toronto Hospital, \'"eston; Convener 01
f'ocial Committee, l\filO8 :\1. Jones, Toronto HOlOpital,
". e!'<ton_
WINDSOR
:\..\., Hotel Dieu, Windsor
President, :\Iiss Mary Perrin; First \ïce-Presidpnt,
:\Iiss Marie Odette; Second \'ice-President, Miss Zoe
Londeau; Secretary,
Iiss 1\1. Spence; Treasurer, Miss
Mary Fener; Programme Committee, Misses H.
Mahoney, A. Harvey. H. Slattery; Rick Committee,
:\Iisses H. Farrell, II. Greenway, l\I.. McGlory; Social
('ommittep, MissesJ. Londpau, N. \\'ebster, I. ReaulllP;
Correspondent to The Ca'1ladian NUTse. l\liss ì\lary
Finnejl;an. 1\Ieetinjl; second Monday every Illonth, 8 p.m.
WOODSTOCK
A.A., General Hospital
.First lion. Pre!'!ident, Miss France!'! I'harpe;
econd
lIon. President, Miss Helen Potts; Prpsident, :\-lif:1<
l\lahel Costello; ''ice-President, :\Iiss .\nna Cook;
Hecordinl,( Recretary, :\lisB Lila ,fad.son; Correspond-
ing Se('retary and Press Representative, l'vJiss Dori!'<
Craig; 510 George St.; .A!'<sistant Secretary, Miss Jean
I\:elly; Treasurpr, ì\liss :.\Iaude SIajl;ht; COnvener8 of
('ommittees: Programme,
Iiss Ella Eby; Flower, Mis!>
Eo \\'atson; Social, :\Irs. :\J('Dil"lrmid, :\Jr!' l' .J"hIlSflll.
\Iis!'! IIa!<tinll!'.
()l"EBEC
OFfiCIAL DIRECTORY
Id9
L.\CHI
E
.\..\., Lachine General Hospital
lion. President, Miss :\1. L. Brown; President,
Irs.
H.ose \\íl!!on; \'ice-President, Miss 1\1. McNutt;
:'ccretary- Treasurer, :\1iss ,-\. Roy, 3i9 ::;t. Catherine
:'t., Lachine; Executive Committee, :\1Ï8s Lapierre,
:\liss B)Tns. 'Ieeting, first
I'mday of each month.
\IO
TREAL
.\.A., Children's :\Iemorial Hospital
HOIl. President,
Iiss .-\. Kinder; President. :\IiSB H.
Paterson; Vice-President, :\Iiss H. !\utall; ::;ecretary,
\Ii"" J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasurer. :\liBs
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, :\lisB E. Hillyard,
:\lisB :\1. Flander; Social Committee, convener, l\IiB!'
:\1. Gill. :\Iiss A. Adlington, :\Iiss :\1. :\lcCallum and
\Iiss 1\1. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e,
liBs V. Schneider; Sick Nun.es Committee,
li8l\
II. Ea!'terbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
PreBident, :\Iiss .-\. Porteous; \ïce-President, :\Iiss
:\1. Hayden; Treasurer,
Iiss D. :\1 iller, Homeopathic
HOBpital; .-\sl'istant Treasurer.
Iiss X. Hurner; :-;eere-
tary, :\liss :-;. Holland; _-\ssiBtant :-;ecretary,
Iiss J.
Gray; Private Dilly Section, :\Iiss .-\. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee, :\Iiss H. Bright; Entertainment
('ommittee, :\Iiss :\1. Hayden; Hepref'entative to The
{'anadian N ur8e, :\liss .J. Whi tmore; Hepresentative,
:\Iontreal Graduate Nurses .-\ssoeiation,
Iiss :\1.
Brijl;ht;
iek Benefit i"ociety, :\Irs. J. Warren,
L'.\ssociation des Gardes-:\Ialades Graduées de
I'Hôpital Notre-Dame
E"ecutif: :\Iesdemoiselles Alice lepine, Présidente:
-\lice Gelinas, \ïce-Présidente; _-\line Leduc, 2ième
\ïce-Pr{sidente;
uzanne Giroux, Trésorière; :\Iargue-
rite Pauze, :,ecrétaire; Conseillères: :\Iesdemoiselles
Germaine Brisset, Irene Houillard, Eu/!enie Tremblay,
Fran('oise Chevrier, .Juliette Beaulieu.
.\..-\., MontrL>a1 General Hospital
IIun. PreFidents,
Iiss J. Webster, :\Iiss N. Tedf"rd,
:\liss F. E.
trumm; Hon. Treasurer, :\Iiss H. Dunlop;
Hon. :\Iember, :\Iiss J. Craig; Pre!!ident, :\Iiss E.
Frances Lpton, Ste. 221, 1:396
t. Catherine
t. ".:
First \ïce-Pre!'ident, :\Ii!'s :\1. !\Iathe\H1Un; :-:eeond
\ï('e-PreBident, :\Irs. L. H. Fisher; H.eeurdimz :-;eeretar:r,
:\Iiss D. :-:now; CorrespondinR; :-:eeretary, :\Irs. E. C
:\Ienzies, 66:
5 Lasalle Blvd., \'erdun: Trea!'lurer (.-\Ium-
nae -\ssociatiun and :\lutuaJ Benefit Committee), :\Iis"
1. Davie", :\Iontreal General Huspital: E"pcutive Com-
mittee, :\Iiss \1. I\:. Holt. :\Iiss II.
ewton, :\Iis!' L
Sutton, :\liss O. Lilly, :\liss H. Herman; Hepresenta-
tives to Prirate Duty Seetioll, :\Iiss I:. Gruer (Convener),
:\Iiss C. Cole,
Iiss E. :\Iar!'hall: nlC'presentati\ e tu
The. CanadiaIt Nur8e, :\Iiss I. ""ellinjl; (Convener),
:\Iontreal General Hospital: Hepresentatives to LOf'al
('oum.il of "omen,
Iiss G. Colley, :\Iiss M. Hos!';
:'iek \'isiting Committee. :\Iiss F. E.
trumlll,
li8S B.
Herman; PcolI;ramme Committee, :\liss I. Davie", :\Iis!'
:\1. Batson; Uefreilhment Committep. :\Ii!''! n. Under-
hill (Convener),
Iiss r. Coomhe!'l, :\Iiss C. Fitzl/:prald.
\Iiss n.
Il'nap.
.\..\., Ro) al \ ictoria Hospital
lIon. President, :\IiHS E. _\. Drapt'r; I're:!ident, :\lIh:;
:\1. F. HcrsP\': Fir!'t \ïce-President, :\Iiss J. :-'tpvpnson:
:-,econd \ï"e:Pl'psident,
Irs. Grieve; Ue('ordinjl;
ecCf'-
!,
ry, l\Ii"s E. B. ROlI;ers: :'ecretary-Treasurer,
Ii"s 1\..
.I:
mer, Hoyal \ïetnria Hospital: Exe('utive Committpp,
:\Irs. E. Hobert!!, :\lrs. G. C'. :\Iplhado, :\Irs. Prideau"\,
:\lisses E. I:tter, E. Heid, .\. Bulman; COnrCl/er8 uf
('ommittH": Finance, :\Iiss H. C'ampbcll:
id, \ïsitinl/:,
\Ii!'s n. Fellnw!': Prnl/:rammp, :\Ir". I\:. Jlut,'hi!'flJl:
Ht:freshments, :\Iislo' :\1. Huwle)'; Priwte Duty Sectiul/.
\Ilss R. CUl'hrane; Representatives to Lol'al Counl'il
of 'Vomen. :\Iiss J. :5tevenson, :\Irs. E. ('ooper' neprp-
:,pntative tf) Th.. Canadian .Vur8e, :\Ii!'" r. \lIrler.
.\.A., \\onlen's Gencral Hospital, \\estmount
Hon. President!',
Ii:.s F. Georjl;e, :\Ii!'s E. Trenl'h.
Pr
8ident,
lrs. L. :\1. Crewe; First \ï"e-I're!'ident,
:\llss E. :\Ioorc;
econd \'ice-President, :\lis:. K :\Iar-
tin; .H.ecording ðecretary, :\liss R.
i"\smith; Corres-
ponding ::;ecretary,
liBS N. Bro\\n, .-\pt. 5, 1187 Hopp
-\ve.; Treasurer. :\I:ss I:. L. Frances, 1:!10
u!'lse" _'he.;
:-;ick \ïsitinlr. :\Iiss G. \\ïl"on,
Iis" L. Jensen; Prirate
Duty, 1\Irs. T. Robertson, :\Iiss R. Burgher; Hepresen-
tative to The Canadian Nurse,
Ii".. ('. :\Iorrow' ::5ocial
Committee, :\Irs. Drake,
Iiss Clarb.. Hegu1ar n;onthh
meeting pvery third \\'edneBday, 8 p.m. .
A.A., School for Graduate
urøes, \Ic<';ill
L'nhersit)
Hun. Presidcnt, l\liss :\Iary Samuel: lIolJ. \ïl"e-
President, Miss Bertha Harmer: Hon.
Iembers,
1i8S
L F. Hersey, 'IiI's Grace :\1. Fairley, Dr. Helen
R. Y. Heid, Dr. Maude -\bbott, :\Ir!'l. R. ". Reford,
:\liBB i\I. L.
Ioag; President,
Iiss :\Iadeline Taylor.
\ïctorian Order of
urses, 1246 Bishop St.; \'ice-
President, Miss Marion E. Nash, \ i,.torian Order of
urses. 1246 Bishop :'t. : Secretary-Treasurer, :\Iit'!'
:\1. E. Orr, The Shriners' Hospital. Cedar Ave., Mont-
real; Chairman, Flora :\Iadeline
ha\\, 1\lemorial Fund,
:\liss E. Frances Lpton, 1396 :'t. Catherine
t. \\ ;
Programme Convener, Miss F. :\1l'Quade, \\ omen's
General Hospital.
Iontreal; Repre!'entatives to Local
Council of Women, :\li[Os Lijl;gett, :\Iiss Parry; Repre-
!'entatives to The. Canadinll Nurlje, Administration,
liss B. Herman, Western Division,
Iontreal General
Hospital: Teachinll;. Miss E. B. HOl[er!!, Hoyal \ïctoria
Ho[Opital; Public Health. Miss E. ('hurch, \ïctnrian
Order of
ur!'es, 1246 Bishop
t.
QLEBEC CITY
\..\., Jeffrev Hale's Hospital
lIull. Pre"ident. :\lrs. BarrO\\: Pre!'ident. :\lil's n.
.Jackson: First \ï('e-Pre!'ident, :\li"I' K Fitzpatri('b.;
:-,econd \ï,'e-President, :\lrs. C \ ounl[; He('ordinl/:
:'cc'retary,
Iiss E. :\1l'Callum; Corre!'pondin
:'('cre-
tary. :\Ii,,!' :\1. Fis(.her; TreB.l!urer, :\liss E. 'If.Hør!!::
Hepresentative to The Calladian Nurtle. :\1 is!' X
:\Iartin; Prir:ate Dutil SfCtion: :\Iiss G. :\Iørtin; 1'\('1..
\ïsiting Committee, :\Irs. Barro\\ and
Irs. Buttimure:
Hefreshment ('ommittef'. :\lrs. :\Iellinlr,
Iiss \\ ear)'.
:\Iis!! Han!'en. :\Iil's :\1 eClinto(.h; COUlwillurs.
I i!'"
Imrie,
lrI
. ('r/lil/:, \Irs. .In,.I-''on, :\Ii!'!' \In,.b.a),
Ii:,..
11. \IIa Ill!'.
SHERHROO....F
\..\., Sherbrooke Hospital
lIon. PreHidpnts,
lis." 1:. Fran"c!' l" pton, :\I i"" \ ("'Jllt
Bpallf': Pre!'ident.
I r!'. Gordon :\Ia('l\:a)'; Fir!'! \ï('e-
Presidf'nt, :\Iiss O. lIan f'y; :,pe<llId \ï,'p-Pre"idpn!.
:\Irs. .-\. :-;avajl;e; He('ordinl[ I"pl'retllry, :\lis" :\1. Gdi1l3S;
Corresvondillll; :'el'CetaQ'.
Ir... Herhert
la(raIlum;
Treasurer,
Ii"s .\lil'e Lystpr, lOa \\pIlilll(ton :-'t. X.;
HeJ-rpselltati\p to The ('mlGdiall Vurs. \Ii,.,,, F.
Wllrdle\\orth.
S.\SK.\ TCHEW.\:\
\. \., Saskatoon City lIo!>pltal
)(011. Presidf'lIt,
Ii,,!' C. :\1. \\ ØtSOIl: Prt'"idpnt,
hl'''
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. . . OFF. . . D U 1 1 1 7 . . .
'The othcr day . being in a domestic mood . . . we sallied forth . . . to
a sale of blanl{ets very nice they were too . . . exotic lavender affairs. . .
bound with satin . apricot and rose þinl{ and pastel blue .. bt
t
we steeled ourselves . against these ridiculous extravagances . . . and went
over to . . . a counter marl{ed "greatly reduced for clearance"
we successfully evaded . . . a saleslady l-f..'ith sanguinary finger nails . . . and
encounteïed a grey' haIred sales gentleman . . . who tool{ us in charge. . . "Now
those Scotch blanl{ets" ., said he benevolently . . . "are worth considerin
. . . not much to 1001{ at . . . but very electric". . assuming a I{nowledge
. . . we do not possess .. we said it was highly important . . . that blanl{ets
purchased by us . . . should be electrified . . . "of course", said he . . . "it
depends upon whether you . . . are electrical )'ourself' .. we said we wen
afraid we weren't . . . at last not very . . . however we scuffed our feet. . .
on the carpet . . . and elicited quite a sþarl{. . from the blanl{ets . . . th
sales gentleman said . . . we were þretty good .. but that he was better
and he was . . . he managed to call forth .. a much longer and bluer spar
. . . than we did . . . after we had become .. the proud possessor . . .
of the sensible Scotch blanl{ets . . . we found ourselves regretting . . . thos
lovely þastel shades . . . and we thought of all the blan"1{ets . . . we had seen
in Our professional career . . . gray bath blanl{ets . . . horrid things
. . . badly shrunl{ yellowish blanl{ets .. which slipped out . when YO!t
tried to m(.:.
e . . . neat envelope corners . . . on the beds . . . bloodstained
hlan
ets . . . on ambulance stretchers . . . hot pac
blanl{ets . . . wrung OL
-:;
1.I{e long snal{es . . . red blanl{ets in English hospitals . . . gay in the firelight
. . . baby blanl{ets . . . these were nice . . . blanl{ets on trains . . . dar
brown, heavy and cold . . . white blanl{ets on clothes lines . . . blowing in the
prairie wind . . . a blanl{et used as a sail . . . in a birchbarl{ canoe . . . ({
dangerous procedure . . . unless you are an Indian . . . and not very safe evcn
then . . . but the most beautiful blanl{et . . . we ever saw . . . was a deep
crimson . . . and was draped . . . lil{e a Greel{ robe over the shoulders . . .
of an Indian chief . . . I.vho might weIl have been . . . the 'model for Rodin'.
statue .. "The Age of Bronze" . . . since that time . . . (it was before
the 'movies carne) . . . we have seen I{mgs ar1d rulers . . . but none of them
. . . could have worn . . . that crimson blanl{et . . . with such a natural
majesty. . u'hen the time came . . . for this Chief to explore . . . thos.:
far hunting gruunds . . . of his race . . . which lie east of the sun . . . and
west of the moon . . . he went with his crimson robe . . . draped about hirr..
. . as a
ing should .
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MAkE YOUR VOYAGE'
G. H. Stevenson, M.D.
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Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurs('s of Canada
Pubhslu-d by th
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VOL. XXX
No.5
MONTREAL. QUE., MAY, 1934
MAKE YOUR VOYAGE
G. H. STEvENSON, M.D., Medical Superintendent, The Ontario Ho!>pital. Whidw.
I should like first of all to define th
mentally healthy person as one who de'
rives a satisfying degree of contentment
from life as he meets it and who in times
()f severe stress is still able to preserve his
poise and a fair degree of efficiency. This
ùefinition implies that the main business
of living is to get satisfaction from useful
and altruistic efforts and not from fan'
tasy, nor from the suffering of those we
meet, and that the criterion of our men'
tal strength is our ability to withstand
difficult and trying situations.
Our Ships
Let us discuss the suhject somewh.lt
allegorically and represent each one of us
as a ship with its captain d.nd crew set'
ting forth across the sed. of life to an
unknown port. Translated into mental
hygiene terms the ship is the total per'
sonality. The owner, the captain, is rep'
resented by the intelligence of the Ego,
amI the sea of life is the span of time from
the assuming of adult responsibilities un'
til we finally release ourselves from them
in old age. The ship is launched at our
birth, and is the product of two long lines
of ancestors, who have given us our can'
stitution, our hull. The generd.l shape and
size of our craft is therefore determined
for us by our inheritance .1I1d for the
next twenty years the ship is being got
re.ldy for the sea. During these years we
.lre growing, we are being trained (well
or ill), we are acted upon by all those
environmental influences of our chIld,
hood anJ adolescence.
(An address dcli\(
red to the R, gist< reJ Nurses A
().
,'j,11 ion of Dnt,mo.)
It will thus be obvious that the kind
of a ship we are at the dge of twenty IS
dependent on the quality and size of the
materid.ls bequeathed to us by our an'
cestry, plus what we have received from
the environmental influences, ,llso largely
Jetermined for us by our parents. That
is to say, until the age of twenty, we have
h;id very little to do with the construe
tion or equipment of the ship, and at or
about this time we he
in to captain our
own craft.
All Killds of Craft
It is important for us to realize that as
ships d;ffcr in si:e and shape, so do hu
nl.ln ships. Some of us are luxury liners,
some d.re freighters, some tug bOd.ts, others
are graceful yachts, while not a few of us
are noisy motor boats, and sea fleas, and
some even are pirate craft, or dangerous
submarines slinking through life with
sinister motives. Then we have all known
people who can best be descrihed as
lMttleships, and I t,lke it that doctors .11lJ
nurses are hospitd.l ships, relid ships and
life'saving craft. By this I mC,lIl to say
that we ar
not all ðpected to do the
S,lIne work in life, that some of us are
speedier or stronger than others, and that
while d. few of us mdY have expensive and
showy interiors, the majority of us must
do the common work of the world, and
still others of us heIp to give he,lUty and
joy to life -the artists ,lI1d poets.
How m,lY you know Wh.lt sort of a
cr,tft is yours? How se,lworthy is it? How
much cargo can it carry? \Ve can get
..;ome iJl';l of our ment,tl si:e anJ strength
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by looking back at our progenitors. Were
they hardy, capable, courageous people,
or did they not possess these qualities?
Did they resort to alcohol or to fantasy
or to psychosis, when buffetted by heavy
sed.s? Were they sensitive, artistic, re'
tiring, and seeking to escape responsi-
bility? All of us have had some ancestors
with strong characteristics, and others
with characteristics and tendencies less
desirable. Which of them do we most
resemble? And what pattern have we
tended to follow during our childhood
and adolescence? How do we carry our
Cd.rgo of responsibilities even now? Do
we worry about them continually? Do
we lose sleep and appetite? Are we easily
discouraged? Our answers to these ques-
tions should give us some ideas of the
type
nd strength of the craft which is
ours. Nor should one be dIsappointed if
he comes to the conclusion that he is not
the flagship of his line. Far better for him
to face the situation honestly, to know
not only his weaknesses, but also hi
strength so that he md.Y assume a cargo
of business and domestic responsibility
commensurd.te to his carrying ability. The
captain who knows the weak points of
his craft seeks to perfect himself in navi-
g,lting skill. A small boat well navigated
will withstand the storms of life much
better thd.n a proud liner indifferently
handled.
A n Even Keel
The bOd.t will have difficulty weather-
ing the gales if the weight is not properly
centred, either by poor construction or by
improper arrangement of the cargo. We,
too, will not weather life's gales so well,
if we ,He off centre- - eccentric. One of
these eccentricities that cripple us may be
an undue sensitiveness. We should cu]-
tivate a reasonably thick skin so that we
;Ire not severely hurt if we graze a dan-
gerous rock. This sensitiveness may be
due to our original construction, or to
the well-known inferiority complex, ac-
Ljuired during the formative years. Most
of us have such a complex, but there are
healthy and unhealthy ways of reacting
to It. It is unhealthy to have no self-con-
fidence, to want to shirk any specific joh,
to wish to avoid meeting people or diffi-
culties. It is also unhealthy to overcom-
pensate, as so many people do, by be-
coming pompous, domineering, loud (in
voice or appearance, or action), scornful
of subordinates, refusing to take advice.
The proper way to handle an inferiority
complex is first of all to be willing to
recognize our inferiorities and, not for'
getting our virtues, attempt to correct
these inferiorities so far as may be pos-
sible, especially those which hamper our
relationship to our fellows, and to use
the complex itself to spur us on to our
hest efforts in those qu'alities and fields
which have definite social value. An in-
feriority complex so used, may become
our hest asset.
Some eccentpicities we deliherately cui-
tivd.te because we are proud of them. We
like to think we are superior to the rest
of the fleet, if only in one particuI.lr. It
should he remembered that such cultiva-
tion is most likely an overcompensation
for an inferiority, and th,lt it may not
have the social or personal value we like
to attribute to it. It should be remember'
ed further that such a misplaced indi-
vidualism may not only he ridiculous but
md.Y become actually dangerous to our
security and to the enjoyment of good
mental health.
Cargoes
Every craft is designed to carry a
cargo, which shall not exceed a certain
weight. The cargo we all must carry is
that of life's responsibilities, our jobs, our
home, our duties as citizens. Every well,
made ship should be able to carry a rea-
sonable cargo reasonably well. Many of
us get into difficulties in heavy seas, how'
ever, by having taken on more cargo than
we should have carried, particularly a
surplus of useless and even dangerous
cargo. It is perhaps just as unsafe to put
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MAKE YOUR YOY Al;E
to sea without any load. We need re-
sponsihilities to give us hallast and to keep
us at the proper level for good sailing.
The useless and dangerous cargo we carry
,lre those un justified worries and fears
which are so common. Many of these
come from what is called a guilty con-
science, errors of long ago, which unfor-
tunately have never been properly at-
tended to. Dr. S. R. Montgomery and
the writer* were able to show that an
unresolved guilty conscience may lead to
serious mental disability. We believe that
matters of conscience are now demon-
strated to be definitely on a scientific
helsis within the field of mental hygiene.
A person with a sense of guilt (as all
of us have) should not allow that sense
of guilt to act as an unnecessary burden.
"All we, like sheep, have gone astray,"
and everyone has done things which he
wishes he had not done. The conscience
should be cleared at least every twenty-
four hours by frankly admitting and
recognizing our shortcomings, by making
,lmends to anyone we may have injured.
by the firm resolve not to repeat the same
offence, and by using this unfortunate ex-
perience in a positive way to improve our
character. Whether or not we believe
th,lt God is offended at our delinquencies
and forgiveness must be sought and ob-
telined, it is of utmost importance for
good mental health that the individual
should forgive himself in the way I have
indicated so that he may start each day
with this sense of guilt cleaned away.
Taking the Bridge
We must digress at this point to dis-
cuss the sea-going attitude of ships and
of people. While all ships are m,ldc for
the w.tter, the lighter and frailer crdft are
not made for he,lvy sedS. One can just
,lS truthfully S,lY th,lt we as individuals
would never he liahle to shipwreck, if we
remained safely at our moorings at the
shipyard that produced us, hut it is
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equally true that we would disintegrate
more quickly if we were not put to work,
;lI1d we would never fulfill the destiny
thelt is ours. One can understand a cer-
tain amount of trepidation on the part of
the youthful mariner, navigating his ship
on its first and only world cruise, hut both
he and his ship have been created for this
purpose. He cannot simply wish he were
at the end of the voyage, he has to put
his wishes into action, and the great
ma jority of young captains look forward
courageously to the task, and enjoy the
pleasure that comes from successfully pit-
ting their navigating skill against the sea
and the elements.
Not so with all of us, however. Some
of us never leave our home port, I---ut ride
idly at anchor, living in day dreams and
fantasies without constructive planning,
hut merely wishful thinking. It is only
fair to say that these are the fraile.5t craft
who hdve no confidence in their own sea-
worthiness or their captain. If they are
to proceed, they will need assistance and
encouragement all the way, especially
when the storms of life beset them. With-
out this help they are in danger of going
to pieces at the first squdll. These are that
great group of young people who develop
schizophrenia (dementia praecox) in the
early twenties, just when they should be
ready to begin their life work. Schizo-
phrenia is just another name for defeat
and disintcgr,ttion hefore le.lYing port or
shipwreck on the early part of the voyage.
Most of us have some schiwphrenic ten-
dency, but by improving our mariner's
skill, hy increasing our confidence in our-
selves and .t willingness to accept the help
of our fellows, we should he ahle to make
the voyage successfully, with all flags
flying and with St. P,lUl to he ahle to say,
"I have fought the good fight. I have
finished the course, I have kept the faith."
Out from the home port slowly moves
the ship. Eager ,1I1d unafraid the young
captain rejoices in the smooth perform
(lIKC of his craft. He sees other ships
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about him setting forth on the same jour'
ney, and although confident of his
strength, is nevertheless glad to know he
will have company in the fleet. He re'
members that many ships have preceded
him. He scans the horizon. One last
glance at his charts. Full steam ahead!
Keeping Shipshape
During the forty'year cruise ahead of
him his main work will be to keep his
craft in good running order, to stay on
the course, and to navigare skilfully when
"the stormy winds do blow," and to avoid
those hidden rocks and shoals, which be'
set his course. I shall indicate briefly the
personal application of these navigating
principles. We should keep ourselves in
the best physical condition possible. To
the ordinary rules of common sense ap-
plied to diet, hours of sleep, and avoid,
ance of excesses should be added the
.mnual health examination. Why wait
for some part to break and imperil the
whole ship or make it a derelict? The
good captain puts his hoat into dry dock
,lt intervals for a thorough overhauling, to
replace or renew parts showing signs of
we.lr, to scrape the barnacles off the hull,
and give It a fresh coat of paint. We
should do no less with our craft. In ad-
Jition to the annual health examination,
the individual needs periods of complete
ahsence from work, so that his mind may
he renovated by nature and refreshed
and melJe more vigorous for the work
ahead. If possible the annual vacation
should be taken in at least two install-
ments.
The human ship differs from the
marine ship inasmuch as we put into a
convenient harbor at the end of each
day's run, and drop anchor until morn-
ing. These ports are our homes, our
friends, our relaxations, and our hobbies.
These are literally re-creations for us.
The protection and love of au: family,
the friendly mingling with our fellows,
the new interest of the game of golf, ten-
nis, bridge, conversation, good books,
drama, art,-all these and similar types of
recreation will enable us to work better
on the morrow. Special mention should
he made of rhe hobby. The hobby is par-
ticularly necessary to those of us who do
not get full satisfaction from our work
of navigating. Not all of us are good
sailors, and if by force of circumstances
we are in some type of work which is
disagreeahle to us, but for our daily bread
and the protection of our dependents
must still be adhered to, then by all means
have a hobby. From it you will derive
the satisfaction that your job should give
you, but so often does not, and from it,
night after night, you will derive the
strength and courage to go on with the
delily task. Persons who are perfectly
happy in their work perhaps need no
hobby. To them their work is their
hohby, hut these people arc few. Most of
us find life difficult, and need work out'
side our job to give us satisfaction.
Rules of the Sea
There are well-known navigating
rules, which we might call mental hygiene
principles. Care means alertness of mind,
keen interest in our job, and the exercise
of caution at all times; in the word
COHrtes:-, are bound up all the social and
friendly tendencies which we should cuI,
tivate so that our journey need not be a
lonely one, but we shall be willing to give
and receive friendship and helpfulness.
The unfriendly or asocial individuals
never get nearly so much satisfaction out
of life's voyage as the courteous, friendly
individual, and are in much greater dal1'
ger from the sea and the storms if they
refuse to join the friendly fleet. The two
words, "common sense" mean, of course,
the best application of our intelligence to
the navigation problems that arise. This
.may appear to be a very obvious deduc'
tion, but the number of people whose
chief guide is not common sense but
rather their emotional reactions, their
prejudices, likes and dislikes, and the
mechanisms of rationalization and pro'
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MAKE YOUR VOYAGE
jection. These are non-rational and are
closely linked up with our instinctive
drives. The lower animals use their emo-
tions and instincts as their only guide to
conduct and they are successful-for the
uncivilized animal. They are not good
enough for the civilized human, and we
must be constantly on the alert to see that
these forces within all of us are directed
and gUIded by reason, rather than the
reverse.
RidÍ1Jg the Storm
We should remember, too, that in fair
weather any kind of craft can sail along
comfortably even with an indifferent
navigator. The real test of the sturdiness
of our craft, and of our skill as navigators
comes with the storms of life. These
storms are the financial reverses, the busi-
ness worries, the domestic difficulties, the
physical illnesses, the loss of dear friends
and relatives, the social disappointments,
the misunderstandings, the undeserved
temporary defeats, and other kindred
shocks and stresses that discourage and
torment us. If in fair weather we take
all the credit for our success and become
conceited, patronizing to others, self-
satisfied and careless, then the storms and
hidden dangers of the sea may find us
ill-prepared to deal with them.
In such times there are at le,lst two
unhealthy reactions, which are commonly
seen, both of which are due to our in-
ahility to be honest with ourselves, and
the situations we are facing. We should
remember that it is much less easy' to be
honest with ourselves than with. other
people. The first of these we will call
rationalization and it really is an attempt
to excuse ourselves for some degree of
failure due to our own carelessness or
lack of capacity. We try to make our
excuses reasonable. The following ex-
amples will perhaps explain this type of
reaction more clearly: our jealousy of the
superior ability of a rival or subordinate
may måke us unduly critical and severe
towards him; our laziness we excuse on
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the grounds that we need more rest; our
failure to do certain things expected of
us, we explain as having been too busy.
Keep in mind that we are never too busy
to do the things we really want to do.
Criticism from a superior we rationalize
mto a feeling of self-pity and ideas of
persecution. Do we say that the success
of a rival is the result of good luck or
some special influence he has with the
higher powers rather than being willing
to admit that perhaps he has ability su
perior to our own?
The second unhealthy mechanism we
often employ is known as projection
and is related to rationalization. It can-
si:,ts in the firm refusal to admit that
any of our failures or delinquencies
might be due to any fault in our-
selves. Therefore if they are not caused
by our neglect or error, they must
he due to the fault or defect of some
other party. We project on to others the
blame that we should have placed on our
own shoulders. We refuse to be honest
with ourselves and shut our eyes to the
facts. These unhealthy mental reactions
c,m It.>ad only to unhealthy results and
may form the basis for the development
of definite delusions.
Honesty is the best policy, therefore,
not only in business but in mental hy-
giene as well, not because of ethical rea-
sons alone, but because we do not wish
to place our mental integrity in jeopardy.
Thus when the waves surge about us,
threatening destruction, when the gales
hlow us off the course, when we are in
danger from hidden rocks and shoals, we
shall not give way to frenzied crying, to
temper tantrums or recrimin
tions, hut
we shall keep calm in our souls, we shall
practIse self-control, we shall be confi-
dent of our own stren!-,'1:h, and skill, as
well as the sturdiness of our craft.
Hoyen
And at the last, hattered .1I1d worn,
sc,lrred and twisted a hit, perhaps, but
with flag::: fl\Oing, we shall enter the har
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bour we set out for so many years ago.
We shall give up our cargo, having car'
ried it well and proudly, and we shall
receive the commendations of the Harhor
Master . We shall not rust out in this last
harbor, but having finshed our work, we
may still be used as training ships for the
next generation of youthful mariners,
who shall take our cargo aboard their
younger and strönger vessels, to set sail
for their ultimate goal. \Vell done. good
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THE CANADIAN SCENE
In the series of articles appearing un'
der the caption of The Canadian Scene
an attempt is being made to do three
things:
1. To outline and to analyz.e the criti,
cisms commonly made hy the public con'
cerning nursing service.
2 . To state the case for the defence
from the point of view of nurses them'
selves.
3. To suggest the first steps which
might be taken toward the correction of
the existing economic maladjustments
which weigh as heavily upon nurses as
they do upon the public.
In the April issue of the Journal a
beginning was made toward formulating
a brief for the defence. While admit,
ting our culpability on some counts, it
was pointed out that the failure of the
public, and particularly of women in
households, to differentiate between the
problem of nursing care and that of
domestic service sometimes leads to a
misconception of what may justly be ex-
pected from private duty nurses in the
home.
Faults if I Educati011
In an article which will appear in a
future issue, more extended reference
will be made to those criticisms of nurs-
(This is the siuh in a series of articles dealing with
nur.mg conditions in Canada)
ing service which, to a large extent at
least, are distinctly traceable to weak-
nesses in the educational programs of our
schools of nursing. It is apparent that
nursing care in hospitals frequently seems
to the public to be hurried and imper'
sonal. Nor do public health nurses always
display that wisdom and tact in dealing
with social situations which gains public
confidence. Faults like these, as will be
shown later, cannot be corrected until
our system of nursing education is fre
d
from the economic shackles which at
present limit its growth and development.
JVhere the Real Trouble Lies
Before td.ckling this aspect of the prob-
lem it will perhaps be wise to deal briefly
with the most serious complaint of all.
Both the public and the medical profes-
sion are firmly convinced that although
continuous care by an individual nurse
is sometimes necessary if the patient's life
is to be saved, the cost of such care is
prohihitive so far as approximately one-
half of the population is concerned. That
this complaint is well-founded is unqucs-
tionably true. Recent studies, the find-
ings of which cannot be gainsaid, prove
it to the hilt. But the question now arises
as to how far nurses may justly be held
responsihle. To begin with, nurses are
certainly not responsihle for a social and
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economic system which forces almost half
the population to seek a precarious living
,Lt, or sometim
s below, a subsistence
level. Nurses hall no part in creating
such a system. M,lIlY of them are them-
selves the victims of it.
Furthermore, there has been until very
recently an utter failure on the part of
the public, and, unfortunately, of the
medical profession, to admit that there is
any cause for lack of continuous nursing
other than that "nurses' fees are too
high." Dr. Weir's Survey in Canada,
dnd the work of the Committee on the
Costs of Mellical Care and of the Com'
mittee on the Grading of Nursing
Schools in the United States have fur-
nished ample proof of the fallacy as well
as of the gross injustice of this assump-
tion.
The Psychological Element
The public is made up of human be-
ings who quite naturally object to spend-
ing money on things they do not enjoy.
Illness is enou.
h of an evil in itself with
out having to pay for it. The psycholo-
gical element, therefore, asserts itself,
once more to the detriment of the nurse.
Even under favourable economic condi-
tions her presence in a householll is a
symbol of pain and anxiety. In most
homes she is also a symbol of economic
loss. It is bad enough to need her ser-
vices-it is worse still to have to pay for
them.
\\.'hile we, as nurses, should under'
stanll and even sympathize with this in-
stinctive reaction, it does not follow that
we arc forced to admit that it is either
reasonable or right. Regarded in the cold
light of logic, it has no justification what-
soever. Logic and reason, however, do
not come into play because emotional
strain is present and we are therefore
forcell to attempt the difficult task of
taking our own part without seeming
mercenary anll heartless This is a nece -
Sity which, so far, we have not facell. We
have dodged the issue, partly because we
rather like the pose of being above mate-
ri,ll considerations.
EducatifJg the Public
It has been said that nursing service, at
its best, cannot be rewarded in terms of
money. This is profoundly true. Yet it
is also true that the labourer is worthy
of his hire and cannot live unless he ob-
tains it. Nurses must somehow find a
way to make it plain to the public that
the problem of providing continuous
nursing care to the critically ill patient
c,lIlnot be solved by forcing the earnings
of the private duty nurse to a point be-
low the subsistence level. The risks of
loss or property by fire or by theft are
provided against by means of insurance
on a co-operative basis. Life is the most
precious of all possessions, anll in order
to save it the skilled service of a nurse is
sometimes inllispensable. If a police force
and fire brigade can be organized on a
co-operative basis so that protection of
the individual citizen is assured, so can a
nursing service. In most well-organi:ed
modern communities, hospital and public
health nursing services have already gone
far on the roall to sociali:ation. There is
no good reason why we should not go a
step farther and transform private duty
nursing into an efficiently directed and
economically operated public utility.
Such a radical change will imply per
sonal sacrifice in terms of money and of
effort. Some h(Mr}' olll traditions will
have to go by the board. A few special
privileges will have to be surrenllered.
But, if in the end, we win through, we
IndY find that we hdve rendered a con-
spicuous service to the public and\ at the
S,lme time, immeasurahly improved the
economic status of the rank ,md file of
ollr own profe
slon.
(To be continued)
MAY, J934
WIDENING HORIZONS
Contributed by "An Old International"
Is it not rather wonderful that al-
though situated almost in the heart of the
world's largest city, Bedford College and
FIfteen Manchester Square both have
their gardens? But their windows over-
look, and their doors open, not only upon
these gardens-they open to the world!
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It was indeed a happy and practical
act on the part of the League of Red
Cross Societies to have established in
1920, as part of their peace-time pro-
!Srammc, an international course for pub-
lic health nurses, giving students from
many lands an opportunity to live and
study together for a year, to discuss com-
mon problems and develop international
friendships and understanding. In 1924
a seconJ course was started for hospital
aJministrators and teachers in schools of
nursing. These two postgraduate courses
hct.ve, since 1921, been established at Bed-
ford College for Women, in con junction
with the College of Nursing, with the
co-operation of the British Red Cross,
various nursing, educational, social ser-
vice and heéllth authorities. In the past
twelve years no less than two hundred
and thirty-one students (including six
Canct.dian nurses) from forty-two coun-
tries, have secured their certificates, and
Me now scattered over the earth, some
working in the cold north, and others
under tropical skies, but with the same
spirit and ideals of service.
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Bedford, a pioneer amongst Colleges
for Women, has a history dating hack
almost ninety years. The College forms
part of the University of London, and is
honoured in having as Patroness, Her
Majesty Queen Mary. There is a regis-
tration of over six hundred students, a
number, apart from the nursing group,
coming from other lands. Situated in the
heart of Regent's Park, the grounds are
of course delightful, with glorious daffo-
dils and tulips in the Spring. The Royal
Botanical Gardens are just across the
drive, and the lake offers facilities for
boating between lectures for the really
energetic. Lectures are taken with the
social science students in such subjects as
economics or psychology, while the small
coaching and discussion groups provide
opportunity for the students to meet and
know many of the lecturers personally.
Many readers of the Journal know
London and have visited the priceless
Wallace Collection in Manchester
Syuare, close to Selfridge's and within a
few minutes' walk of Oxford Circus,
Bond Street, the Marble Arch and many
points of interest. Come then, just across
the square, to visit, "Number Fifteen", a
delightful old town residence of the
Georgian period, now the London home
of nurses from many lands. Inside you
will feel the homelike atmosphere and
notice the beautiful doorways and ceil-
ings, comfortable chairs, the grand piano
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é1nd the pictures from foreign countries,
some bearing Royal autographs.
You will also enjoy having a glimpse
of the students' rooms, simply furnished,
but each quite distinctive, for the name
on the door tells the name of the country
responsible for the furnishing of the
room, and gives the clue as to what we
may e"\.pect to find within. Some contain
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pean countries, in others may be found
pieces of pottery or pictures, a specially
woven rug, or drapes, all national in
character. Canada (in 11anchester
Square geography) is found between
Italy and China, and is a sunny room,
furnished with yellow-toned Canadian
homespuns, Murray Bay blankets, and
pictures of Canadian mountains and
plains.
Afta dinner, while you sip your
coffee in the drawing room, and enjoy
the warmth of the open fire, you will
have the opportunity of meeting the
students, including perhaps tall, dark
eyed Spain, fair-haired vivacious South
Afric,l. ,lIld dc,lr little Jap,lIl with her
gr,lceful hows and expressions of thanks.
Indeed. if you are very fortunate you
may be a visitor some evening when a
distinguished guest is present. Mahatma
Candhi, during his memorable visit to
London in 1931, spent an evening, quite
informally, at 15 Manchester SLJuare, to
t he great delight of d.ll privileged to be
present. In any CJ.'e, before the e\'ening
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is over you will understand why, when
speaking of Bedford Colleg
, an Inter
nd.tional simply must also speak of the
Residence, - for Fifteen Manchester
Syuare is home!
It has been said that the Easter Vd.Cd.-
tion at Bedford should be c,llled, Ed.ster
adventures, into new realms of d
sco\'ery.
for the hospital administration students
ma y scatter to spend their time in hOf-
pitals as far apart as Glasgow and Copen-
hagen, while the public health students
also scatter to varil'us parts of Great
Britain or to the Continent. It is a
month of work, observation and study.
highly spiced with play in off-duty
hours!
The League must surely possess a
master key, judging from the many doors
that open to Internation
tl students.
Famous hospitals such as St. Thomas's.
Guy's, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the
Edith Cavell hospital in Brussels, and
public health departments in and out of
London all endeavor to gld.dly give of
their best. There are also, each \\<eek,
group ehcursions to visit institutions of
every description, - factories, health
centres, speci,tl schools, prisons, refuse
disposal depots, and Truby King Centres.
On one such occd.sion, seeing so many
fd.ir I.ldies following 1Il the w.lke of ,l
le,lrned doctor, a street urch
n was he,lrd
to ,lsk if the gentleman was a Mormon,
out with his wives.
Meanwhile, in spare moments c,m you
not picture the students en joying English
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
life in general? The classic Oxford-
Cam
ridge boat race, Covent Garden be-
fore daybreak on Christmas Eve or at
Easter. London on the night of a general
election, the Lord Mayor's Show, Christ-
mas shopping at Liberty's (yes, and
Woolworth's) or the thrill of occasion-
ally seeing little Princess Elizabeth out
driving, beaming with smiles and so full
of life, the living personification of the
little Princess of our childhood dreams.
Dear old England, with her shadows,
fog, and sunshine, her slums, but also her
fields filled in Spring with swaying d.tffo-
dils and bluebells, who could help
ut
love her varying moods?
Six Canadian nurses have taken the
International Course at Bedford College:
Jean Browne in 1920-21; Nora Moore in
1921-22; Isabel Manson Prince in
192ó-27; Ruby Hamilton in 1927-28;
Cory Taylor in 1928-29, and Kathleen
Ellis in 19'29-:' O. Of course, such a year
passes all too quickly, but never a day
slips by without some seeds having been
dropped or planted in the garden of
memory, and as Kipling has truly said:
T'he glory of the Garden lies in more
than meets the eye.
A TRIBUTE TO MISS SNIVELY
As the months since her death go by
there is increasing evidence of the wide-
spread and beneficent influence exercised
on nursing by Mary Agnes Snively. The
latest tribute to her memory comes from
the League of Nursing Education in the
United States. The dignity and simplicity
of the 1.lIlgUd.ge used in the following
resolution of sympathy passed at a recent
meeting- of the Board of Directors admir-
ably reflects the affection and respect
which prompted it:
Whereas, in the death of Mary Agn!'
Snively, a pioneer and leader in the develop-
ment of American nursing, the National
Lea
uc of Nursing Education has lost one of
its life members, the Board of Directors of
the National League of Nursing Education
hereby record their sorrow in the loss of one
who was a charter member and the fifth presi-
dent of our organization, and express their
appreciation of her long life of devotion to
the cause of nursing education and to the
highest professional ideals. This expression
of appreciation is to be sent to her family
and to the Alumnae Association of Bellevue
Hospital School of Nursing, and also to th
Alumnae Association of the Toronto General
Hospital School of Nursing.
Canadian nurses will be deeply touch-
ed by this expression of sympathy in the
loss of a leader the quickening influence
of whose spirit extended far beyond the
houndaries of her own country.
VOL. xxx, N.,. 5
THE NIGH1INGALE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
GRACE M. FAIRLEY, Convener of the Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee
of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Announcements made in the April
issue of the Journal have had a most sf-i.
mulating effect on CanadIan nurses
hecause of the fact that the news of the
gift from the Nightingale Fellowship of
St. Thomas's Hospital made us realize
how strong is the imperial bond and ho"J.'
truly international is this Memorial Foun-
dation. Nurses in the different provinc.::;
are discussing ways and means of raising
money to meet the provincial quota. In
some cases the various alumnae anJ
other nursing associations are giving
direct grants from their treasuries, which
perhaps, under eÀisting conditions is less
of a personal tax than asking for indivi-
dual subscriptions. Others are planning
for bridge and garden parties. One group
of student nurses is making the annual
tennis tournament a means of doing their
share in aid of the Foundation. Ail
provincial conveners have already be
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heard from and although donations have
so far been received from three provinc
s
only, several others have announced
pledges of various amounts. In a fe\v
cases the promises are for this and next
year only, while others have notified their
conveners of their intention of making
annual subscriptions for the next fou
or five years. The following is the list
of subscriptions already received as at
March '28, 1934:
ALBERT A
Albert,l Registered Nurses (private
duty section) ................. $
Calgary Association of private nurses
Lamont Hospital Alumnae As
ociation
Staff of the Central Alberta Sanato-
rium
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vancouver Graduate Nurses Associa-
tion ......................... $ 40.00
St. Paul's School of Nursing.
Vancouver .................. 30.00
Vancouver General Hospital Alumnae
A!'osociation ................... 25.()()
MAY. IQH
10.00
10.00
10.00
ONTARIO
Toronto General Hospital ......... $100.00
Grace Hospital A.A., Toronto (dona-
tion for 5 years) .............. 50.00
Ontario Hospital A.A., London ., . . 50.00
Ontario Division, Canadian Red Cross 2500
Brantford General Hospital A.A.,
Brantford .................... 15.00
Graduate and Student Staff, Ontario
Hospital, New Toronto ......... 13.03
Hospital for Sick Children A.A.,
Toronto ..................... 10.GO
St. Joseph's Hospital A.A., London.. 10.00
Community Health Association of
Greater Toronto ............... 10.00
Hamilton General Hospital A.A.,
Hamilton .....................
School of Nursing A. A. , Toronto ..
Hôtel Dieu Hospital A. A., Windsor.
General Hospital A.A., Niagara Falls
Princess Beatrice Chapter LO.D.E..
Port Arthur ..................
Overseas Nurses' Club, Toronto. . .
!sobel Hampton Chapter LO.D.E.,
London ......................
Vancouver General Hospital Student
Nurses ....... _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tranquille Sanatorium Graduate Staff,
Tranquille ....................
Science Girls' Club, UniversIty of B.C.
Prince Rupert General Hospital,
Prince Rupert .................
King's Daughters Hospital Staff,
Duncan ......................
Jubilee Hospital Alumnae Association,
Victoria ......................
R. W. Large Memorial Hospital, Bella
Bella ........................
Sisters of St. Joseph, Comox .......
St. Eugene Hospital Alumnae A,socia-
tion, Cranbrook ...............
Misericordia Hospital, Rossland .....
Miss Thatcher, Windermere Hospital;
Windermere ..................
New Westminster Graduate Nurses
Association ...................
Cowichan Health Centre, Duncan ...
Miss R. I. Stone, Cobble Hill ......
Saanich Health Centre ............
5.30
25.()()
18.00
15.00
12.00
10.00
10. I)')
10.00
10.eo
10.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
3.00
2.00
2.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
'This list is not complete since it
ac
nowledges only the donations already
receit'ed at tile date on which tile Jm-,R-
N:\L goes to þress.-- -Editor.
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WHY ATTEND THE BIENNIAL?
Because 'Toronto is celebrating its Centennial and will be en fête for the occasion
Because the Canadian Nurses Association is having an important birthday too
Not a century old, of coarse, but a quarter of one. . . Because there is a good
stimulating programme. . . Because a number of important projects are to come up
for discussion and you ought to ta
e part Because there is going to be a beautiful
and historic Pageant of "J'{ursing in Canada . . . Because there is to be a banquet and
a garden part)' and a high tea right out in the country . . . Because you will meet
old friends and ma
e new ones . . . Because thIs has been a long, hard winter and
It will do you good to have a change. . . Because you will be able to exchange ideas
and experiences with others wlw are struggling with the same difficulties that you are
. . . This helps to raise one's drooping spints . . . Because there are to be interesting
professional and commercial exhibits which will set 'you thin1{ing along new lmes . . .
Because Canadian nurses live and wor
in a vast country which ma1{es personal
contact difficult . . . Because without such contact there can be no national unity or
understanding . . . 'There are a lot of other reasons but these seem enou.gh for the
f'resent . . . Remember the date. . . it is June 25 to 30 . . . the place is 'Toronto
. . . and the girl is you. . . .
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VOL. XXX, N". 5
THE EDITOR'S DESK
Follow the Gleam
This year, as last, the Journal welcomes
the graduating classes now ready to begin
the jnd
pendent practice of their pro'
fession. \Vhile it cannot yet be said that
good times helve come again, perhaps it
is true that the worst of the economic
torm is over. Of one thing we may cer'
t.linly rest assured: there is plenty
f
work to be done ('ven if there is not much
money to pay for the doing of it. Nurses
are needed as never before and the public
is beginning to realize it. Perhaps the
first faltering steps have already been
taken to bring together the need and the
fulfilment of it. If this be true we can
take heelrt again, for the class of. 1934
may yet set out on a new and neautiful
,tJventure.
Help Them to Begin
Time was, not so long ago, when it
\Vas easy to paint, in glowing colours, the
future of the successive graduating
classes. Today those well,meant plati'
tudes sound just a little hollow and we
must seek words which convey something
more than empty promises and a vague
goodwIll. In commenting on the present
situation w;th regarJ to unemployment
among nurses, a physician recently said
that the services of student nurses in hos,
pitals are paid for in terms of promissory
notes of future professional opportunity
which are sometimes repudiated when
they are presented for payment. Un'
fortunately there is something in this
omment, bitter though it be. Hospitals
cannot entirely esc
pe all responsibility
for the women who are graduated from
the schools of nursing operated and con'
trolled by them. Nor, to do them justice,
do they usually seek to do so. This year,
more than ever before, the graduating
dasses will look to the schools which gave
them professional education to do all they
c,m to assist them in estahlishing them-
:,clves m practice. Members of the
I\IA.Y, 1934
boards of directors should be informed
concerning the difficulties with which
these young women have to contend.
These men and women are frequently
persons of influence in their communities
elnd elre therefore in a position to help
with plans for enlarging the fielJ of pos'
sihle employment. Bouquets and d.lnce
elnd general jollifications are
Il very well,
.lnJ even in harJ times, arc perfectly
justifiable. But what the new graduate
needs is a job, and for this homely neces,
sity no satisfactory substitute has yet been
discovered.
Health Through the Ages
The 1-letropolitan LIfe Insurance Com'
pany has recently published a most valu-
able booklet entitled "Health through the
Ages" written by Dr. C. E. A. Winslow
and Grace T. Hallock. In its sixty,four
charmingly illustrated pages will Î:>e
found an excellent and authoritative om'
line of the evolution of the public health
movement from the Stone Age to our
own times. Copies for use in schools pf
nursing may be obtained, free of charge,
by writing to Dr. N. L. Burnette, \\'cl,
fare Division, CanaJian HeelJ Office,
Metropolitan Life Insllrelnce Comp,lI1Y,
OUa wa, Canada.
Fraudulent Agents
We regret to say th,lt, in spite of the
warnings sent to every nursing associa'
tion and hospital in Canada, reports col1'
tinue to come in concerning the activities
of fraudulent agents. At least t\\"o of
these persons represent themselves as
,lUthorized to offer a combined reduced
rate for 'The Canadwn Nurse ,1I1d 'The
'T ramed Nurse. Yet another offers a
combined subscription with a well, known
popuI.lr magazine. All of these elgents
are frauds. The Journal offers a com-
bined relte with the American Journal of
l\ursing only, anJ hits no simil.lr arrange
l11l'nt with ,my (lther puhlil.-,ltilH1.
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Correspondence
Getting Together
During February I called a meeting, at the
hospital, of the registered and graduate nurses
residing at Shawinigan Falls, Quebec. The
attendance was good and the nurses were glad
to come and discuss the situation here. I
told them they could do nothing alone, but
that they should form themselves into a local
association, appoint a president, and a secre'
tary'treasurer, with representatives from each
major nursing group to act as an executive
committee. The election resulted as follows:
Honorary president: Rev. Sister Hélène,
Superior of Ste. Thérèse Ho
pital: president,
Miss A. E. Richardson; secretary,treasurer,
Mrs. G. Bolduc. The private duty group are
represented by Miss L. Bouchard and Miss
M. P. Bedard; the institutional group by Miss
S. Beaulieu and Miss Ena West; the public
health group by Miss G. Leduc and Miss G.
Trudel and the industrial hy Miss J. Lupien.
Correspondence was read from Miss E. Frances
Upton, RegIstrar, A.R.N.P.Q. and from the
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association dealing
with certain aspects of the private duty situa,
tion. An animated discussion followed. The
organi4ation of a regional committee to pro'
mote the circulation of 'The Canadian Nurse.
in this district, was also taken into considera,
tion. A schedule of fees for private duty
nursing was drawn up, since this seemed the
most urgent problem. Later we hope to
arrange for a registry which will serve all the
graduate nurses in the locality. AU papers,
notices, reports and minutes are to be read
in both French and English because not all
of us are bi,lingual. Two nurses are to be
appointed to read and discuss at the April
meeting articles dealing with current nursing
events which appear in The Canadian Nurse
and La Garde'Malade. In this way we hope
to keep abreast of current events in the nurs'
ing world.
I feel that we have made a good beginnin
,md that the nurses themselves are doing some
really constructive thinking.
A. E. RICHARDSON, Lady Superintendent,
Joyce Memorial Hospital, Shawinigan Falls,
Quebec.
In most parts of Canada alumnae dssocia-
tions or local chapters of the provincial re
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tered nurses assoCIatIOns provide a rallyipg
point and a forum where nurses may meet and
exchange ideas. There are, however, many of
the smaller urban centres where neither of
these facilities as yet exists, but where the need
of some form of organi 4 ation is acutely felt.
Under such circumstances it seems natural to
expect the local hospitals to take the initiative,
especidlly when, as in Shawinigan Falls, the
I esponse to enlightened leadership is fO
thoroughly satisfactory.
EDITOR.
A Good Word From China
We enjoy The Canadian Nurse greatly. It
helps to k
ep us in touch wit
nursing move'
ments in the homeland. We, here in China,
have quite a nice magaÚne of our own. Nur.;'
ing is in its infancy and we are greatly ham'
pered, particularly in interior China, because
of lack of higher education facilities for girl;;.
However, we do manage to secure some amaz'
ingly capable girls who make excellent nurses.
ISABEL LESLIE,
Superintendent of Nurses, Weihwei Hospital.
United Church of Canada, Weihwei, Honan,
China.
Not a Luxury
There seem to be so many demands for
one's money these days, that one regard"
magaÛnes as a luxury, and I am sorry to say
that is just exactly what I considered our
Canadian Nurse. But after leading a copy,
which a friend kindly loaned me, I have
chdnged my mind and decided that it is not
a luxury, but a very real necessity to keep one
in touch with nursing activities throughOl,t
our country.
ELIZABETH L. SANDE MAN .
Reg. N., Windsor, Onto
rakes to the Air
I was so afraid that Winnipeg would not
have any news this month that at the la<;t
minute I discovered the enclosed information
and am sending it on by air mail. 1 do hope
that it will be in time for publication.
ELLEN N. BANKS,
Press Representative, Manitoba Association of
Registered Nurses, Winnipeg.
VOL. XXX, No. 5
Department of Nursing Education
CONVENER 01' PUIILILATIONS: Miss MIldred Reid. Winnipeg General Hospital. Winnipeg, Man.
VITALIZING THE TEACHING OF MATERIA MEDICA
MILDRED M. REID, Reg. N., Instructress of Materia Medica. School of Nursin
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Winnipeg General Hospital.
Materia medica or pharmacology can
he made one of the most interesting sub,
jects in the curriculum of a school of
nursing and lends itself to varied types
of teaching. It is particularly adapted to
the project mc-thodin which the students
may actually do, almost entirely, their
own work with only guid,lI1ce from the
instructor: "purposeful activity carried to
completion in a natural setting." Invari,
ably, the student nurse finds it more in'
teresting to seek for herself the source
and action of a drug while observing the
effects of its medicinal preparation on the
p,ltient. Yet this work sht add not entail
extensive investigation and numerous
hours of study outside of routine ward
duty.
Objectives ill Teaching
It is wise to begin by outlining objec'
tives and decidmg what one hopes to ac'
complish. To endeavour to gain in
twcnty-five hours or so mastery of more
th,m the outst,lIlding drug pn
parat,ions
used in one large hospital IS an impossible
t,lSI-... Consc4uently, one should plan to
aw,lken the student's curiosity in a few
drugs to such an cxtent that she will be
sufficiently interested and inyuisitive to
continue her investigations when con-
fronted with drug prepar,ltions new to
her. To arouse this active interest it is
necessary to draw to the student's atten'
tion freyuently the actual relation of the
patic-nt to the prepar,ltion under discus'
slon.
lv1ethods of 'Ft.'aching
Th,lt the student may keep abreast
with the newer drugs th,lt come into use
d.lY by day she ..hould know where and
how to ohtain information ahout them,
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and various project assignments will as-
sist her in accomplishing this. When
ass;gning studies, memory work should
he mininl1::ed if we intend to make the
suhject of pr.-lctic.-li v.-llue and a vIt.-l1 part
of the day's activity.
After the introductory lesson we are
re;ldy for student p,lrticipation, which
may Llke seva.-ll forms. Presuming that
Òe second lesson init
,Ltes the study of
the stimul.lI1ts or deprl'sS.-lnts of the cerc-'
hn )spin,ll nervous system, ,l review of the
physiology of that system is the first pre'
requisite. Such a review is of paramount
import.-lnce, for, if the function of the
p.-lrt on which the drug .-lcts is compre'
hended, the m.lin fÒundation for a dearer
underst;lI1ding of the drug has heen I.Lid.
The student h.lst's this review upon her
preVIOUS study of an.ltomy and physi-
ology.
Jl akin g A n Outline
With the w.lrd as .-l dinical1.I
)ratory
and the p,ltient as the import.-lnt tactor
for the ohservdtion of the effec
s of drugs,
we now hegin the study of caffeine. The
following outline with suitahle vari.-ltions
has heen used successfully and with in
creasing interest to the student.
Each student is instructed to he pre'
p.-lred to present to the group inform.-ltion
reg,l rding caffeine or any of its rdated
prep.-lr.ltions, which have been adminis
ten
d on her particular w.-lrd, under the
following hC.-ldings:
1. The name of the drug". Its source and
dosage.
2. Why WdS It ordered to he given? De-
!\crihe the wndition of the patient.
3. Were there any noticcdhle effect.. follow
ing the admmi..tratioJ1 of the drlli!", If "0,
cxplain thc (".111..,'
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4. \Vhat nursing calC was involved? What
undesirable effects were noticed or anticipated?
5. Could this drug be used for other con'
dition
? State which ones.
6. How was the drug administered? Why
was this particular method used?
7. Could any other drug (in the student's
experience) bring about a similar therapeutic
effect? Why does the student think it was
not used?
8. What is the approximate cost of this
drug in its usual dose?
These headings act as a stimulus for
the student and may be changed to suit
any drug being studied.
Discussion
Caffeine is now discussed in the group;
almost all the information regarding the
drug is contributed by the students, a few
essentials being supplemented by the in'
structor. At the end of the class period
the drug is classified as to action, thera'
peutic uses, preparations and methods
of administration, idiosyncrasies of the
patient, poisonous symptoms and their
treatment. The interest shown in this
type of study by the student is remark,
able, they actually enjoy materia medica.
This method requires time, hçwever, and
class periods should be arranged at least
three days apart in order to permit this
necessary element. A great many other
drugs maybe studied in this manner, such
as morphine, digitalis, atropine and
others.
Assignments
Assignments which require consider'
able time and study on the part of the
student could be planned carefully and
given early in the course. Two such pro'
jects which have been carried out sat is'
f.\Ctorily are tabled below.
Project '"'"A"
Hand in written information, under the
following headings, regarding ten or more
drugs that you have administered to your
patients.
1. The dosage and the method of adminis'
tration.
2. The reaSOn for the drug being ordered
3. The therapeutic effects expected.
The therapeutic effects observed.
4. Obvious symptoms of overdosing.
5. Poisonous symptoms anticirated.
6. Give other information regardmg each
preparation:
(a) source;
(b) other pharmaceutical preparations;
( c) other therapeutic uses;
(d) treatment of acute and cumulatlw
poisoning.
In each case give the name of the patient to
whom the drug was administered; state the
ward on which the patient is receiving treat-
ment; note the diagnosis Or tentative diagnosis.
Use a separate sheet for each drug; references
should be noted and material must be handed
in at a stated time.
This assignment serves as a means of
relating the theory of drugs with ward
practice as it represents an actual study
of the drugs given by this student to her
patients. The instructor is also in pos'
session of the information which enables
her to check the accuracy of the material
submitted.
Project '"'"B"
This is a written assignment, which
ma y be prepared sometime during the
term, and is suggested by Stella Goostray
in her text,book: Introduction to Matena
Medica.
1. Make a graph representing the growth
of medicine from ancient times to the present,
noting the main events and contributions in
the history and development of materia medica.
2. Make an outline map of the world
designating where the crude drugs are grown.
Under the heading of the crude drug, list
the main derivative.
3. Give the- historical background of one
drug such as: digitalis. opium, cinchona, bella'
donna, nux vomica. Describe how it is made
ready for use as a medicine and list its
related preparations.
The above assignments are preferably
for individual study though they can be
,ldapted to group study. Credits should
be given for this work and these should
be included in the final term mark.
In order that all students in the group
may benefit materially by such work it is
necessary to have periods of discussion.
These afford an opportunity for the
teacher to emphasi 4 e that the nurse
should avoid a censorious attitude when
drugs are employed for purposes other
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VITALIZING THE TEACHING OF MATERIA MEDICA 213
than she has observed as therapeutic
uses. It should also be pointed out that
methods of administration change from
time to time and the opinion of physi'
cians differs as to the value of some drugs
in various diseases.
Students have shown remarkable
ability and originality in preparing as'
signmcnts, manifesting intense interest,
as is indicated by the detailed work in
connection with the projects described
above. The concomitant learnings are
many, and active participation by the
student develops initiative and has proven
to be peculiarly gratifying to both stu,
dents and teacher.
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Department of Public Health Nursing
CONVEN Ell Of' PUBLICATIONS: Mrs. Agnes Haygarth. 21 Sussex Sr.. Toronto. Onto
PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE SMALL TOWN
PAULINE JACKSON, Private Duty Nurse, Woodstock, N.B.
Not long ago the question of a public
hecdth nurse for our small community
was raised. For a time it seemed certain
we should have one, hut after many
plans, amI much discussion, the idea was
abandoned, becclUse the community was
unable to raise the necessary funds. The
money which the town might have grant-
ed for this purpose went toward the up-
keep of a free dental clinic, a much-
needed item in itself, but supplying only
one of the many puhlic health needs.
Perhaps if the town council and the
community as a whole had understood
the necessity for a public health nurse
they would have made a greater effort to
raise the necessary funds. Some of the
citizens wcre opposed to the idea for the
re;
5()n that there was already an over-
supply of nurses in the town. Quite true!
There is also an over,supply of teachers,
hut parents would ohject most strenu-
ously to the schoo] board employing, as
a l.-mguage or a science teacher, one who
has only the superficial training in these
suhjects reyuired for the common school.
The school hoard reyuires, and the
parents desire, teachers who have re-
ceived special training. Similarly, the
community needs as a puhlic health nurse,
one who has !'pecialized along certain
lines and is capable of lecturing, and do-
ing clinic work, and a good organiz.er.
Ul"here the Public Health Nurse
Comes In
I read, not long ago, in the public
health page of one of our leading periodi-
cals' this' statement: "Ninety per cent of
our health enquiries come from small
towns and rural districts and fifty per
cent of those enquiries, although of great
importance to those who ask, do not re-
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yuire a medical man's attention." These
are questions of hygiene and sanitation,
of weights and diets for infants and
children, of pre-natal and post,natal care,
which any qualified public health nurse is
capable of answering. One woman wrote,
"Please do not think my question is a
foolish one, or fail to answer it, because
it is of the utmost importance to me, and
please do not refer me to my family doc-
tor, because I live in a community of six
thousand with only three resident doctors.
Births, deaths and operations keep them
too busy to hother with anything so
trivial. "
Only too often we find unsatisfactory
health conditions existing in small com-
munities whICh would be shocked if one
accused them of having a slum d:strict.
There are very few centres where they Jo
not exist. Slums really mean unhealthy
dwelling places: a fairly common condi-
tion in all communities. In cities where
ewry district has its own hospital and
health centres, and nearly every third
house seems to be a doctor's residence,
there are free clinics in ahundance. We
find V.O.N. and public health nurses,
social service and "follow'up" nurses,
while small communities have not only a
scarcity of doctors and hospitals but must
do without the rest The school doctor
makes his rounds regularly and the health
report cards are handed to the parents.
Perhaps he remarks that Willie needs his
tonsils removed, Jane needs her teeth
filled or Mary is underweight. And, in
the majority of cases, on his next call, he
writes the same reports for the same
children. And why? Because Willie's
or Jane's or Mary's parents are careless,
or cannot afford to have the necessary
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE SMALL TOWN
work done, and there is no one to follow
up and find out why or take the neces'
sary steps to get something done.
Payiug the Price of Neglect
We admit large numbers of free pa,
tients to our hospital wards, the greatest
percentage being surgical, medical and
malnutrition cases. We spend time and
money on them and, J.S soon as they have
recovered, discharge and promptly for'
fSt them. Mrs. J. has a serious surgical
operatIon which costs the town a good bit
of money and herself a large amount of
suffering. She makes a quick recovery
and is discharged, probably to go to a
home where she is obliged to look after
herself or to begin work immediately. In
a short time she is in a worse physical
condition than before the operation. Her
suffering and the care and expense have
been in vain. She advises her friends
against operations and hospitals. Just
another case where the operation was su.:'
cessful but the patient received no lasting
henefit because she had no follow'up care.
The same is true of the medical and mal,
nutntIon cases. They return to the
homes they came from, only to be re'
admitted to the hospital later.
The Cost of 19l1orauce
A
r<,at deal of proc-ress has been made
111 the line of obstetrics and pre,natal and
post' natal care. with the death rate for
mothers and infants materially lessened
in some circles, but not among the poorer
classes. Their progress has been very slow.
They do not understand sterile precau
tions nor diet before or after the birth of
the baby. Go mto one of these homes rt
few hours after delivery and one finds
the patient's room full of flies, visitors
and odors. Six or eight visitors, all talk,
ing at once, holding and kissing the baby
.Ind advising everything from brandy to
soothers. The young mother listens and
tries all of them if she escapes blood
poisoning ,1I1d survives getting up on the
seventh or eighth day. The baby, if it is
horn lucky, survives too, a fit
uhject for
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free hospital care later on Many of
these homes are not so poverty'stricken
but thdt they cou]d supp]y the necessary
things if they knew what the necess,lry
thmgs were. They are just ignorant or
carele
s and have no one to teach them
hetter.
The spirit of competition is a strong
factor in human nature. Start a better
haby clinic and offer a prize for the best
haby. Get Mrs. Jones interested, and
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Brown wiH decide
right away not to let her put anything
over on them, nor Jet her baby get away
wIth the pri:e if they can heJp it, and so
they enroll, and once interested they con'
tinue to be. After all, what parents are
going to rduse their children the chance
fur health if it is persIstently presented to
them? Malnutrition does not only exist
in the slums. And people of all classes
take advantage of baby clinics. What a
thrill if Mrs. Brown"s baby from obscure
Mill Street gained the pri:e for a hetter
haby over Mrs. Fraser"s from select Saint
John Street.
C0111rol of Tuberculosis
Not long ago I went into a home where
there was a case of tuberculosis. The pa,
tient, a young girl, was ]ying on a couch
covered with dirty blankets. The sister
that attended her was dirty. A dirty sore'
eyed cat lay beside her. I t was on a
fashlpnahle street and in a ]arge house,
yet the pdtient was lying in the on]y room
that they cou]d afford to he,lt, a com'
hined kitchen. ]iving,room and hedroom.
Np doors or windows were ever opened
C\ù.'pt in extremely hot we,lther. Proud
but poverty stricken, they refused to sdl
their home .or to accept aid. And so they
remain d menace to that community. The
only bright spot in the drc,lry picture is
that there \\'ere no little chi]dren in the
house. Unfortunately, in homt:S like
these, there so often .lre. In another
slytion of the town there was another
p,ltient in a house which was much
de.mCf. hut h.ld th.lt st,de. must\' odor
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found in aidess houses where there is a
Lonsumptive patient. Unfortunately, that
house of five rooms was the home of fif,
teen persons. Ten of them were children
ranging from two weeks to sv.teen years
of age. Very little chance that all will
escape tuberculosis. These arc only two
of similar cases in our community and
other communities like it. A community
nurse could do much towards rectifying
these conditions and teaching these people
hetter health rules.
llltcrpretitlg Commutlity Needs
At any time there is plenty of work
for a community nurse to do, but in
times of depression there is more. People
do not need actually to starve or freeze
to death, the relief officer will save them
from that. Potatoes, bread and oatmeal
C(lIl be got, but in a family where there
are four or five chilJren under school age
they require milk each day, and this is an
item which relief does not always look
after. They need vegetables, cod liver oil
a.nd clothes as well and do not always get
them; and not hecause people who are
ahle to are not willing to help.
Our community is singularly kind,
he(lrtC'd. Hundréds of dollars in money,
;lnd boxes of dothes are sent away every
year for missions and poor people because
these needs are constantly presented to
their minds, and once they get really
interested in a cause they keep on sup'
porting it. No man or woman who could
help it would let children suffer for food
or clothes. The trouble lies in the fact
that they do not know the requirements
and there is no one to tell them. With
co'operation and organization, such cases
could be remedied. Truly, though this
generation has to bear the burden of de'
pression, it is the coming one that will
really get the brunt of it, for they start
in life so handicapped.
A community nurse could do much in
following up school and hospital work
and could give health, pre'natal and
child welfare lectures. Though she could
not accomplish much in the line of clinics
and poor relief, she could co'operate with
the doctors and the public and get them
to co,operate with each other. She realizes
the need of co-operation, and has learned
to lecture and to organize, and knows
how to educate people toward better
living conditions.
Finding aWay
Perhaps some plan could be made
wherehy unemployed nurses could do
this work, but unless under a competent
head and well-organized, it would doubt,
less fall short of success. Some communi,
ties are not able to pay a full,time salary
to their community nurses and pay th
m
only for each call that they make, which
after all is a great deal better than being
without one altogether. A public health
nurse c(m save her community each year,
a great deal more than she C03tS it. A
community that emploYE one, sh'ìws not
only good business sense, but also good
C0111mon sense and that they have the
welfare of the whole people at heart.
VOL. xxx, No. 5
Department of Private Duty Nursing
CONVZNZR or PVZLICATIONI: Mill Jean Davidaon, Pari., One.
A NlJRSING ALLEGORY
CATHERINE de NULL Y FRASER, Private Duty Nurse, Montreal.
I once saw a motion picture represent'
ing the interior of a flower shop and, as
one gazed, the petals unfolded and a girl's
head peeped out of each flower. Let us
enter this same kind of make' belief land
for a few minutes, and try to picture the
interior of a large book store and lending
hbrary combined, and to imagine the
hook opening and a nurse's capped head
peeping out from between the leaves of
each volume. Now the puzzle is to find
just where our nursing groups are located
in this strange imaginary book store, and
then to find in what way they resemble
the type of books to which we will com'
pare them.
First of all here are the new books, our
latest publications and first editions, very
fresh and crisp, and attractively bound.
These are the débutantes of the book
world, "just out," and reviewed in the
press, with the publisher's imprint fresh
upon them. We can easily distinguish
our graduating classes here,-the young
nurses who have passed their registration
xdmindtions, and are ready to practice
independently.
Next we come across the "reprints" or
r
vised popular editions of publications,
with earlier faults amended, and supple'
ments added; after a moment's considera,
tion, we see in these our postgraduates,
who have specialized in various branches
ot the profession or have qualified for
scholarships. Then here are the educa'
tional books; the children's section; books
on health and those dealing with social
problems. We can easily place our nurses
where they belong in these divisions and
subdivisions.
(An addreaa read at the Annual Meeting of the Also-
ciolrion of Reglstt n d N IIrses of the Province of Qud-,cc.
January, 1934.)
MAY, 19H
On a news,stand in the front of the
store we find the morning and evening
"dc\ilies -, and current periodicals with
their serial numbers. This at once sug'
gests the Victorian Order and our other
hourly and district nursing organizations.
As we enter the lending department
and look around, we find it symbolical of
the private duty section, with our regis,
trdr as librdrian. Although advertising
itself as a medical library, you can obtain
here something of what a general library
offers by way of novels and novelettes
and travelogues. The public are wrong if
they think our library can supply nothing
but walking encyclopedias on nursing
matters. To judge the merits of a person
or a book takes more than a casual glance;
it requires careful perusal. A librarian
tries to find out before she recommends a
book just what is wanted by the sub,
sLriher. If fiction, whether romance or
mystery is preferred, and if the ultra'
modern novel or the simple unsophisti-
cdted story is the type that would have
the greater appeal. In the same way our
registrar does her best to supply the nurse
to suit the individual patient, accordmg
to whether it is a medical, surgic.\l or
ohstetrical case, and whether a house or
hospital call.
To make a lending or circulating
llhr.\ry a success, the librarian l'ndeavours
to keep the circulation active. In other
words the intake and thc output must be
kq)t well balanced or something is amiss.
Whl'n a librarian finds her library getting
over-stocked she has a "clearing out" of
a certain numher of books to make room
for the new oncs that pour in from time
to time. These discards arc put into a
c.lteg-ory hy themselves, and it is the
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
librarian's policy to dispose of them on
special terms, d.nJ not to rent them out
hy the Jay any longer. These books repre'
sent those nurses on the registry. who
ohject to heing shelvcJ before age or
health relluires it, and would rather take
work at a reduceJ fee if it is to be of a
more permanent nature, such as nursing
chronic invaliJs. We C.1I111ot all expect to
remain hest sellers right to the end of our
c.treer, nor to compete with the books of
the day in popularity.
The term "discard" is perhaps un-
fortunate, as many of these books have
been general f.tvourites. Naturally some
of their covers may show signs of wedr
anJ tear after being in the service of the
puhlic for years. Then some good books
lctck in local interest and are less in de'
mand on that account. This assorted col-
lection constitutes the "hook bargains."
which sounds hetter than "discards,"
though the lihrarian woulJ be indignant
if you suggested that she implied that her
.. JiscarJs" were no longer of any value
or interest The library gives a good deal
of space to its JiscarJs or book bargains,
and they are usua]]y we]] aJvertised and
aJv.l11t.tgeously placed so that the public
Cll1 take notice of them.
The usual plan for dealing with the
over-supply of nurses seems to be the
Sdmc as that advocated for the wheat
crop, which is to limit the production.
Possihly this may be found necessary to
s. Hue extent, but if we follow the library
method. it would leaJ us to clear out the
old rather than keep out the new. Rather
than close the door completely let us find
some other outlet for our energies. along
other lines which our knowledge of nurs'
ing and our nursing experience Cd.n sti]]
he of use.
In the January number of The Caw
ad
an Nurse* this statement is made: "If
the community were in a position to pay
for adelluate nursing service for all its
members, the present apparent surplus of
nurses might be transformed into a short-
dge." Possibly it might also be saiJ that
if all the poor were in a position to pay
for adequate food. the apparent surplus
of wheat might be transformed into a
shortage. The supply and demand ques,
tion is exceedingly complex. Those who
ha VI." studied the report of our Canadian
Survey and have read some of its state'
ments and conclusions will realize what
Jifficulties we are up again::.t. Even in
England, 'The Nursing 'Times (the official
organ of the College of Nursing) reports
it conference on the over-supply of pri,
vdte nurses, forty-eight per cent of whoí11
experienced unemployment last year. Yet
a sentence in The Canadian Nurse asks
this question: "How can visiting nursing
make its way into the prisons of our
country. where it could be so unspeak,
.thly helpfu!?" If this is ever possible of
accomplishment, the private nurses now
unemployed might like to be able to
nurse back to hedlth, physical and ment.tl,
some of the poor discards of society as
prisoners might be named.
This question was once put to me:
"Do you think that you have been suc'
cessful in your professional career?" My
answer is that compared with what
others have achieved my accomplishment
is not worth talking about; and there has
heen sufficient discouragement to offset
.my success I may have haJ. Neverthe'
less, during thirty years of practice, I
have nursed in the neighbourhood of
three hundred private patients in five
countries and in thirty hospitals. Here
at least is one volume from the "lending
library" which has had "a good circula-
tion "- and if variety is the spice of life,
I have found enough to make mine full
and happy.
(.Sce The ('1II,Ii1itln ]\1175<, Janu"rv, 1934, p. 7.)
VOL. XXX, No. 5
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GRADUATE NURSES
ASSOCIA TION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
The annual meeting of the Graduate
Nurses Association of British Columhi.l
was held at the Royal Columbian Hos-
pital, New Westminster, on April 2nd
and 3rd, 1934, with a very good attend-
ance. The morning sessions proved
specially interesting to each section.
A p.mel discussion organized by Miss
Margaret Kerr,
1.A., R.N., prov
d to
he of outstanding value. The main
topic Wd.S "The Student Nurse of To-
morrow", and nine nurses, most of them
.lssociated with the teachl11g departments
of schools of nursing in British Colum-
hia, contributed to the discussion under
one or more of the following headings:
I. The selection of the student.
2. The orientatiun of the student: her per-
sonal and social development.
3. DIscipline of the student; the place and
vðlue of student government.
4. Responsibility for the health uf the st
-
dent; physical education.
3. The instruction of the
tudent: theoretical;
housekeeping: clinical: community.
6. The success uf this trðining from the point
uf view of a private duty nurse: a puhlic
he.tlth nurse: an institutiunal nurse.
Dr. H. T J. Coleman, head of the de-
partment of philosophy in the University
of British Columhia, gave a thought-
provoking address entitled "Education as
a factor in a changing world," and Dr.
W. C. Topping, of the department of
sociology in the University of British
Columhi.t, made a notahle contrihution to
the programme under the caption of
"What is happening to family life?" The
report of the Registrar and Inspector of
Schools of Nursing was given hy Mi:-5
Helen Randal and the conveners of com-
mittees gave interesting details concern-
ing their respective activities.
It was decided to send four delegates
to the Bienn ial Meeting of the CalMdian
Nurses Association. The president, the
registr ar a.nd two delegates to he selected
hy the Council from na.mes suhmitted by
the local Associations of the Province
will represent the provincial association
on that occasion. The annual dinner W.b
held at the Vancouver Golf Club, Bur-
quitlam, when an excellent address was
given by Miss M. L. Bollert, Dean of
Women, University of British Columbia,
on "Understanding." Musical selections
were generously given hy Miss Doris
Bcws, accompanied by Miss Jessie Pede,
hoth memhers of the Gradu.lte Nurses
Association of New Westminster.
Nurses were present from many parts
of the province and, with ideal Spring
wcather, the mecting was declared a
great success.
AN EX PLANA TION
In the April issue of the J ow'nal, an
official statement issued hy the Canadi,lI1
Council of Child and Family WelLlre
respecting its recent re-organization, was
published. In addition to outlining the
work to be done in the future by this
organization, the following statement of
opinion was also made: "This (the re
org.lI1ization) does not involve any new
MAY, 1<)\4
precedent or principle In the rel.ltionship
of one of the large VOlunt.try 11.10011.11
organiz.ations to a Dominion Depart-
ment." It should he de.lrly understoo.l
that this opinion is, of course, th.lt <,f
the Canadidn Council on Child and
F.lmily Welfare, and is not ncc
ssarily
shdrl.'d hy the C:1Il.1di.11l Nur:,I..'
Associ.l-
tinn.
lIe)
Book Reviews
STERILIZATION? BIRTH CONTROL? A
book for family welfare and safety, by
Helen MacMurchy, C.B.E., M.D.,
until recently Chief of Division of
Child Welfare in the Ministry of Na-
tional Health. 151 pages with index.
Price $1.50. Published by the Mac-
millan Company of Canada, St.
Martin's House, Toronto.
Part One of this volume is devoted to
the discussion of sterilization under the
following headings: the history of the
movement; operations for sterilization;
legislation; results of sterilization. Part
Two takes up the question of birth con-
trol in chapters the titles of which sug-
gest the content: general considerations;
popular opinion; scientific opinion; medi-
cal opinion; religious opinion; the law
and contraception.
There can be no question but that this
book will be exceedingly useful to all
nurses and especially to those who are
engaged in public health activities. While
it is not the province of the nurse to give
information on either topic, it is never-
theless highly desirable that she should
herself have an intelligent understanding
of the social and medical factors involved.
This volume supplies the elements of such
an understanding and the numerous
rderences to the sources from whence
the content is derived make it a good
st,lrting point for more extended study.
Another useful feature is the listing of
hirth control clinics recently establish
d
in Canada. Existing legislation in
Alherta and British Columhia with re-
spect to sterilization is quotcJ in full.
As might be expected, Dr. Mac-
Murchy is scrupulously just in setting
forth opposing points of view. There is
no attempt to force the issue. The title
uf the book is itself an interrùgation and
its aim is to state both sides fairly. Iri
so doing the author has made yet another
worthy contribution to the long list of
her achievements.
220
NURSING CARE OF COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES, by Mary Elizabeth Pillsbury,
M.A., R.N., Instructor of communic-
able disease nursing, Yale University
School of Nursing from 1924 to 1927;
advisor for prophylactic techniques,
Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn. Third edi-
tion. 116 illustrations. 463 pages.
Price $3.50. Published by the J. B.
Lippincott Company of Philadelphia.
Canadian Office: 525 Confederation
Building, Montreal.
The rapid progress which is being
made in preventive medicine has again
necessitated a revision of Miss Pillsbury's
book on "The Nursing Care of Com'
municable Diseases." This text, which
appeared first in 1929, is divided into
two distinct parts. The first section deals
with disease prevention from both a per'
sonal and a social point of view. Not
only are the underlying principles of
control clearly set forth, but emphasis is
placed on the opportunity given to each
nurse to play an individual part in the
great drama of disease prevention. Sev-
eral techniques are described for carrying
out effective isolation under varying cir,
cumstances, a private home, a general
ward, or a specialized hospital. Excellent
illustrations of different procedures are
interspersed throughout the book. The
seconJ portion of the text deals explicitly
with the treatment and nursing care of
the various communicable diseases. The
clear and concise arrangement of this part
of the book is especially to be com-
mended. Each disease is treated under
a variety of headings, special stress being
laid upon prevention and control anJ
exact instructions are given as to con'
current and terminal disinfection. Any
unusual procedure with which the nurse
may be required to assist, such as incuba,
tion, is described in detail.
Miss Pillsbury has added, in this third
edition, an historical review of the can:
of communicable diseases which shows
VOL. XXX, No. 5
BOOK REVIEWS
the vast change which has taken place in
our professional attitude towards this
type of sickness. Mention should be
made of the excellent bibliography which
is included at the end of the volume and
which should prove a valuable aid to
teachers and students. Blank pages have
been left between the descriptions of the
different diseases in order to enable the
student to make her own remarks and to
note any new developments in treatment'-
This book should prove most helpful as
a text book for students and graduate
nurses doing public health work will find
here a readily available source of concise
and definite information.
MARY E. ACLAND,
Instructor, Strathcona Hospital for
Infectious Diseases, Ottawa, Ont.
ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOK OF CHEMISTRY,
with laboratory experiments. By John
H. Guenther, B.Sc., M.A., instructor
in chemistry, Omaha Technical High
School; Lecturer in Chemistry, Psy-
chology, and Public Health, Nebraska
Methodist Hospital; Lecturer in Chem-
istry and Public Health, Nicholas Senn
Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska. 274
pages with index. Price $2.10. Pub-
lished by The Macmillan Company of
Canada, Limited, Toronto, 1934.
Any comments on this book might well
involve a criticism of the curriculum
which, as the author states, is closely fol-
lowed by his text. Such criticism would
include not merely length of time allow-
ed-45 hours,-but also subject matter,
continuity of such matter, and the em-
phasis placed on laboratory. Leaving
these dehatable points aside, however, the
general impression made by a perusal of
this text is that it is admirably written as
to presentation of the facts. It is a moot
MAY, 1934
221
question, though, whether it is not too
concise; for should a lecturer in this
course be concerned with the presenta-
tion of the facts and their professional
application, a good text would go far to
stimulate the interest of the student if
it contains interesting matter just out-
side the student's actual needs. In a
course of this length it might well be
pointed out that the use of symbols,
formulæ and equations should be restrict-
ed to the minimum; thus their early
presentation on page 13 without intro-
duction till page 46, and the discussion
on pages 55 and 56 require much to be
done by the lecturer. The hardest thing
to present to beginners in chemistry is
the "shorthand of chemistry."
The experiment on page 16 is made
unusually complicated for a beginner, as
is also the presentation of the carbohy-
drates. It likewise seems a pity that
phenol was included with the alcohols,
and that the cresols, etc., were not in-
cluded with phenol in a separate section
even if the curriculum did not so specify.
Following this curriculum obviously may
omit information of value to the nursing
profession.
The above comments have been made
from the point of view of a teacher who
prefers to present his students with a
complete text on which they may
thoroughly rely for review purposes, the
lectures being considered as a personal
presentation to arouse their interest. All
things considered, this text may be held
to be suited to the requirements of the
Curriculum for Schools of Nursing.
W. H. HATCHER.
M.Sc., Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Chemistry, McGill University.
Montrc.d.
Notes from the National Office
Contributed by JEAN S. "W ILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
At a meeting of the Executive Com'
mittee of the Canadian Nurses Associa-
tion which took place in Toronto during
March, reports were received from all
nine Provinces. The following excerpts
strikingly demonstrate the interesting de-
velopments now under way in all parts
of the country.
Alberta
The Senate of the University ot
Alberta h.ts authorized the School of
Nursmg conducted by the Provincial
Mental Hospital at Ponoka to affiliate
with a school of nursing associated with
a general hospital. A special committee.
appointed hy the Alberta Association ot
Registered Nurses, is dealing with the
employment question. The lo.tn fund of
the A.A.R.N. is being continued, one of
its purposes being to assist nurses in
m.tking the initial payment of their
registration fee which has been reduced
from 57.0n to 055.00.
British Columbia
Affiliation with general hospitals for
student nurses in schools of nursing asso'
ciated with mental hospitals is being
discussed hy the Graduate Nurses Asso-
cÌc:ltion of British Columbia with the
provincial joint study committee and
with the officials of the Provincial Mental
Hospitlll at Essondale. Arrangements for
reciprocal registration with the General
Nur
ing Council of England and Wales
are practically completed: each applicant
will be considered on her individual
credentials. Special committees arc
active in solic
ting subscriptions for the
[ournd. in rJ.ising funds for the Florence
Nightingale Memorial, and in the relief
,)f unemployment.
Manitoba
Amendments to the by-laws of the
Manitoha Association of Registered
urses provide that the conveners of the
three
ections, (Nursing Education, Puh-
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lic Health Nursing and Private Duty
Nursing) will be members of the Board
of Directors and that the Manitoba
Nurses Centr(11 Directory Committee will
include in its memhership a member of
the medical profession, appointed by that
hody: and a lay memher who is to be
appointed by the Local Council of
Women of Winnipeg. Negotiations arc
proceeding towards the establishment of
rcciproc.tl registrJ.tion between the
M.A,R.N. and the General Nursing
Council of England and Wales. The
private duty nurs
ng section is conducting
a survey among its memhers to learn the
numher of nurses engaged in professional
work, either .tt a reduced fee or without
remunerJ.tion. The nursing education
section has distrihuted copies of a synop-
sis of a study of Chapter Eleven of the
Surv
y Report to the superintendents of
schools of nursing in rural areas. The
rules governing the lending of hooks from
the M A.R.N. lihrll.ry are now printed
on the reverse side of the J.nnual renewal
memhership can1.
New BTlIllsß'ick
The Executive Council of the New
Brunswick Association of RegIstered
Nurses h.ts J.dviscd the provincial Board
of Education that the Associ.ttion ap
proves Junior matriculation as the
minimum educational requirement for
entrance to schools of nursing. The De-
partment of Educ.ttion is heing asked to
as
ist in placing this information before
the high schools of the province so th.tt
those who intend to study nursing after
gradu.ttion may be advised in (l choice
of studies.
Nova Scotia
The Rq
istered Nurses Association of
"'\Tova Scoti., is seeking information on
unemployment insur.tnce for nurses.
LcgislJ.tion has heen ohtained wherehy,
.tEter Octoher 31st, 1936, the completion
VOL. XXX, No. 5
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
of Grade XI. will be rcquired of those
desiring registration and mcmbership 111
the Registered Nurses Association of
Nova Scotia.
Ontario
The puhlic health nursing section of
the Registcred Nurses Association of 011'
t.trio has distributed a y'uestionnaire to
industrial nurses in Ontario in order to
learn the needs and problems of this
group before making arrangements for a
refresher course A local group of
private duty nurses. in District 7 has tem'
porarily reduced the fee for a ten-hour
day to $3.50. The private duty nurses
of H.tmilton are organizing into a local
group. Funds.tre being raised by
Alumnae Associations for the Florence
Nightingale Memorial Foundation.
Prince Ed'ward Isla"d
Thc Graduate Nurses Association of
Prince Edward Island has appointed com
mittees which are actively engaged in
promoting the several projects in which
all provincial units are participating.
Quebec
The progressive activities of the Asso-
ciation of Registered Nurses in the Pro-
vince of Quebec were included in the
rcport of the annual meeting which w.ts
puhlished in the March number of the
.1 ournal.
Saskatchewan
All committees of the Saskatchewan
Registered Nurses Association are active.
The employment committee is helping
materially in ohtaining staff positions for
.l numhcr of nurses in smaU hospitals and
in arr.lI1ging postgraduate study in pro-
vincial sanatori.t, in addition to the
d,lsse.;; regularly planned by thesc insti,
tutions. The results of the memhership
campaIgn in Saskatchewan J.re most
gratifying and the passing of legislative
measures wherehy all graduate nurses
employed hy hospitals must he registered
in the province is proving to he most
effective in aiding the campaign. Certain
1A"\, 19H
223
concessions in reference to fees in
arrears have been authorized, thus aiding
nurses who are in arrears for several
years to re-cst.thlish membership in the
provincial association.
Natio"al Council of Women
Miss Florence H. M. Emory, president
of the Canadian Nurses Association, re-
presented the Association at a meeting
of the Executive Committee of the
N J.tional CounCIl of Women of Canada,
held recently in Toronto. Among the
resolutions adopted and of special interest
to the members of thc nursing profession
was the following, presented by Mrs. H.
]. Cody, Convener of the Child Welfare
Committee:
Thdt representation be n1dde to the Prir.l
Minister regretting the discontinuance of :-ne
Division of Child Welfare of the Department
of Pensions and NatIOnal Health.
That the Prime Minister (or the Federal
Government) be asked for a statement 01
policy of the Department of Pensions ar.d
National Health as a whole, particularly in
relation to maternity and child welf dre.
The following resolution from the
Canadian Federation of Business and
Profes.."ional Women's Clubs was also
I dopted :
Whereas there are few women who are
fitt
d for election to public positions and the
National Council of \Vomen has always advo.
cdted through its Cltizen
hip Committee that
more women he appointed to puhlic office and
has urged the form.ltion of study group
an.t
{ranchise clubs, we therefore endorse the-
principle enunciðted in the resolution pre:,cnt.
ed by the Canddian FederatIOn of Busine"
and Profes
ionðl Women's Cluhs in thl,.
regard, hut would ..tress more partICularly if:.,
desirahility in connection with municipal
atfdlls and would a,k that local cOlmcll..
through their citizenship committee" .lId in the
..election and education of suitahle women for
puhlic office.
Forthcomjng .",Ieetjugs
The lntcrnation.tl Council of Women
n1l..'cts in P.lris from .July 2- 12, 19
4. .tnd
the .1Ilnu.ll meeting of the N.ltional
Council of \\'omen of C.lIl,ld.l \\'111 he
hdJ m Ott.lW.l in Octoher.
News
Notes
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ALBERTA
EDMONTON: A meeting of the Alumnae
AssociatiOn of the School of Nursing of the
Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, was held
on March 5 with Miss Mary Verchomin,
president, in the chair. The financial report
given by thc treasurer, Miss Cecillia McAnally,
was very gratifying. A discussion on the
possibility of an eight-hour day at $3, In
addition to the twelve-hour day at $5 was
held, with the view of extending employment
to a greater number and rendering nursing
care more readily available to patients who do
not require a longer service. The officers of
the Alumnae Association for the coming year
are: Honorary President: Rev. Sister St. Co-
lette; Honorary Vice-President: Miss M.
O'Brien; President: Miss M. Verchomin;
Vice-President: Miss A. Swaboda; Secretar)':
Miss A. BioJ1a; 7'reasurer: Mrs. W. Bury;
Programme Committee: Misses 1. Morrell, E.
Benson, A. Watson.
EDMONTON: The Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital Alumnae Association entertained en
March 28 at a banquet in honour of the gradu-
ating class of 1934. Hon. Irene Parlby,
minister without portfolio, was the guest
speaker and predicted brighter prospects in
the coming year with larger opportunities and
new fields in nursing service. Miss Kate
Brighty, superintendent of public health
nurses, was toast mistress. Miss F. Munroe,
superintendent of nurses, Royal Alexandra
Hospital, proposed the toast to the graduating
class to which Miss LilIidahl responded. Mis.
Harold ElweJ1 toasted Alma Mater. During
the evening a delightful programme was given
by Mrs. T. H. Field, Mrs. Rice, Dr. Dora
Newson and Mrs. Bartley. An unique tableau,
through which the class passed in to dinner,
depicted four eras of nursing. Miss May
Deane-Freeman represented a "nurse" (Sairey
Gamp) of the nineteenth century; Miss Shel-
don represented "Jeanne Mance"; Miss Mos.
ley assumed the rôle of "Florence Nightin.
gale" and Miss Einarson portrayed "Edith
Cavell." One hundred and thirty.five guests
were present at this delightful function.
EDMONTON: On April 6 the Alumnae Asso.
ciation of the University Hospital entertained
three hundred guests at a dance in honour of
the nineteen nurses in the 1934 graduating-
class. The patronesses were Mrs. Wallace.
Mrs. Washburn, Miss Fenarck and Miss M.
Reid. Mrs. Pound, Mrs. Beddome, Miss C.
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White and Miss M. Bowman were members of
the dance comittee.
Miss Laura Allyn (R.A.H., class 1917) and
superintendent of nurses in the Baptist Mis-
sion Hospital, Petha Purum, India, sailed from
N ew York on April 14 to take postgraduate
work in Edinburgh before returning to her
work in India. Dr. Jessic Allyn, of the sam.c
mission field, will spend a part of the summer
visiting European dinics.
MARRIED: Recently, Miss Nora Smith
(Edmonton Misericordiå Hospital, 1926), to
Dr. Edward F. Cain of Charlottetown, P.E.!.
Dr. and Mrs. Cain are residing at Anaheim,
California.
MANITOBA
BRANDON: The March meeting of the Br'ln.
don Graduate Nurses Association was held at
the home of Mrs. T. Lane. The programme
for the evening was sponsored by the married
nurses group. Mrs. E. Hannah introduced Dr.
Noel Rawson, who gave an illustrated lecture
on diphtheria. Mrs. Robert Darrach, M.B.E.,
moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Rawson. The
Graduate Ñurses Association held a bridge
on March 1, under the capable convenership
of Mrs. E. Hannah. The proceeds were donat-
ed to the General Hospita1.
WINNIPEG: The regular meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nursing
of the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, was
held on March 13, when Mrs. Herklots, a
Roumanian by birth and a physician by pro-
fession gave a very interesting talk on Rou-
mania. Her many examples of the handicrafts
of the Roumanian people were greatly admired.
WINNIPEG: At the April meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the Winnipeg General
Hospital, a grant was made towards the Flo.
rence Nightingale International Foundation of
$100.00 each year, for a period of five years.
Miss Geraldine Hayden (W.G.H., 1921),
has just returned from an extended trip to
California and British Columbia. Mrs. O. W.
Thompson (Edna Morgan, W.G.H., 1919),
of Kitchener, Ont., recently visited in Win.
nipeg. Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Burns (Gladys
Mackay, W.G.H., 1921), attended the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons Convention which
was held in Venezuela, South America durin.:>'
March. On April 10, the Alumnae Associ;'
tion Dramatic Club presented a play entitled
"The Rest Cure."
MARRIED: On March 2, 1934, Miss Mar-
jorie Elliott (W.G.H., 1932), to Dr. Alvin
T. Mathers, at All Saints' Church, Winnipeg.
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NE\VS NOTES
NEW BRUNSWICK
FREDERICTON: The regular meeting of the
local Chapter of the N.B.A.R.N. was held on
April 2. The sum of fifteen dollars was voted
from the Registered Nurses Association ar:d
the Alumnae Association for the Florence
Nightingale Memorial Fund. Our meetings
are well attended and prove very interesting.
A lecture from one of the local doctors usually
follows the business session, after which
refreshments are served. Miss Arline Inman
(V.P.H., 1933), has completed a postgradu.ltc
course, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and
also at the Children's Memorial Hospitdl,
Montreal.
SAINT JOHN: The Saint John Chapter of
the N.B.A.R.N. met on March 19 with Miss
A. A. Burns, the president, in the chair
Eight-hour duty and unemployment among
nurses were discussed and a decision was made
to advertise that nurses for hourly duty may
be obtained through the registry. A history
of the sick nurses benefit fund was given by
Miss E. J. Mitchell, convener. The two
Nightingale Memorial scholarships were re-
ferred to. There was a large attendance.
SAINT JOHN: The Saint John General
Hospital l\lumnae Association met on April
3, with Mrs. G. L. Dunlop in the chair.
Reports were received showing a busy yea..
The Association wi1l again entertain the
graduating class at a dinner dance. A pri
e
of ten dollars is to be given to the graduate
obtaining the highest marks. Officers were
elected as follows: Honorary President: Mis')
E. J. Mitchell; President: Mrs. G. L. Dunlop:
First Vice-President: Miss Ethel Henderson;
Second Vice.President Mrs. F. McKelvev;
Secretary, Mrs. J. Edgar Beyea; 'f reasure'r.
Miss Kate Holt: Miss Murdoch, Miss R. Reed
and Mrs. J. H. Vaughan are also memhers of
the executive committee.
Miss A. J. McMdster, president of tite
N.B.A.R.N., has had the honour of having
bestowed upon her a charter fellowship, in
the recently organized American Colle'ge of
Hospital Administrators. Miss Z. J. Lovely
h.ls completed her postgraduate course at th
S.lint John General Hospital and has returned
to her home in Woodstock. Miss McFarlane
has resigned her position at the Saint JOilH
General Hospital and is succeeded by Miss
Helen Cahill.
MARRIED: Recently, dt Edmundston, N.B.,
Miss Claire Montgomery (S.J.G.H.. 1928), to
Mr. Hugh FoIster. Mr. and Mrs. FoIster will
reside in Grand Falls, N.B.
SAI!\'T STEPHI
: At the M.lrch meeting of
the IOCdl Chapter of the N.B.A.R.N. it was
JcciJeJ to don.ltl' three flllllr !>cre('n
tu the
MAY, 1934
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REGISTRATIOl\ OF NURSES
Province of Ontario
EXAl\fIN A TIO
ANNOUNCEMENT
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aminati()n for the
Registration of :\ ursps in
the Pro\ ince of ( h1tario will
be held on :\1.1)" 2
th, 2<)th
anù 30th.
.\pplication forms, informa-
tion regarding subjects of
t:'xam:nation, and general
information relating thereto,
may he had upon written
application to
:\tIISS A. M. "\1CNN, Reg. N.
Parliament Buildings, Toronto
An
Opportunity
Wanted: to communicate with
a graduate nurse who has had
undergraduate university work
and who would be interested
in furthur study of some one
subject on a graduate basis.
Fellowship a possibility
.:.
Apply, by letter, in Cdre o
The Canadian Nurse
BOX No, 14
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THE CANADIAN
NURSE
Chipman Memorial Hospital and to replenis:1
linen supplies for the special nurses room.
The Association has also donated a wheel chair
to the hospital. Miss Florence Cunningham,
former instructress of nurses at the C.M.H., is
convalescing in Haverhill, Mass., after a seri-
ous illness. Miss Gertrude Hughes (C.M.H.)
is confined to the hospital with a fractured
leg. Miss Phyllis McLaughlin has gone to
Grand Manan to recuperate from a recent
illness.
MARRIED: In January, 1934, at St. Stephen,
N.B., Miss Helen G. Mowatt (C.M.H.),
o
Mr. Cedric Dinsmore.
MARRIED: At St. James Cathedral, Mont-
real, Miss Marion Crawford, to Lieut.-Colonel
P. E. McLaughlin.
WOODSTOCK: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the L. P. Fisher Me-
morial Hospital was held on March 20th, with
the president, Mrs. Harry Dunbar, in the
chair. After the regular business was trans-
acted refreshments were served.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT 1
LONDON: At the annual meeting of District
1, held at the Ontario Hospital, London, on
January 27th, the following officers were
elected: Chairman: Miss Mildred Walker, In-
stitute of Public Health, London; Vice-Chair-
man: Miss Pearl Lumby, Sarnia General
Hospital, Sarnia; Secretary-'[ reasurer: Miss
Mildred Chambers, Institute of Public Health,
London; Nursing Education: Miss Dorothy
Thomas, Chatham General Hospital; Private
Duty: Miss Annie Campbell, 258 Talbot St.,
St. Thomas; Public Health: Miss Mabel R.
Hoy, 606 Canada Bldg., Windsor; Permane"1t
Education: Mrs. H. Smith, 926 Waterloo St.,
London; Publications: Miss Elizabeth Ken-
nedy, Ontario Hospital, London: MembershiP:
Miss Grace Versey, Institute of Public Health,
London; Councillors: LONDON, Miss Rhea M.
Rhouatt, 422 Adelaide St.; ST THOMAS, Miss
Hazel Hastings, 101 Curtis St.; STRATHROY,
Mrs. Malone, Superintendent, General H03-
pital; PETROLlA, Miss Ruby G. Page; CHAT-
HAM, Miss Jean Lundy, 112 Van Allen St.;
SARNlA, Miss Lottie Siegrist, 351 Davis St.;
WI
DSOR, Miss Mary R. Perrin, 606 Canada
Bldg.
LONDOK: The regular meeting of the On-
tario Hospital Alumnae Association was held
recently with Miss Williams presiding; Mrs.
Arthur Reilly acted as secretary in the absence
of Mrs. Stanley Grosvenor. Final arrange-
ments were made to hold a party on April 9th
fur charltablc purposes, and each member
\"oluntl:cred to give a prizc. The graduating
class will be entertained at a dinner-dance, for
which Mrs. Grosvenor was appointcd convener
uf arrangements. Misses Lillian
urphy,
Evelyn Wilkinson, Evelyn Padgham, Phyili.;;
Stapleton and Francis Burls assisted in serV1l1g
refreshments. Application forms for mem-
bership enrolment in the Canadian Red CrÛ'>s
were distributed to the members.
MARRIED: The marriage took place recently
of Miss Gwendoline McKerecher (Chatham
Public General Hospital, 1933), to Mr. Angus
Graham.
MARRIED: On February 24th, 1934, at Lon-
don, Ont., Miss Bessie Elaine Tompkins
(Chatham Public General Hospital, 193 I), to
Mr. Lawrence Reginald French.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRAKTFORD: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the Brantford Genera!
Hospital was held on April 3rd, when Mr. W.
G. Raymond was the guest speaker and ga'"e
a splendid talk on "Worthwhile Books for
Busy People." Mr. F. D. Reville, who has
been president of the Board of Governors of
the Brantford General Hospital for many
years, recently retired. The Woman's Hos-
pital Aid, the Alumnae Association of the
School for Nurses, the Student Nurses Asso-
ciation, and the Junior Hospital Aid held a
reception in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Revii!e
on April 11th at the Nurses' Residence.
The Canadian Red Cross Society, Brantford
Branch, is at present conducting five classes
in Home Nursing. Mrs. J. N. Mitchell is
convener of the Home Nursing Committ('e
and Mrs. F. Unger is organizer. Graduation
exercises of the Little Mother class under tl:e
direction of the Victorian Order Nurses were
held recently and were very successful. Six-
teen "teen" age girls graduated. A play
called "Little Vegetable Men" was put on by
the students and was greatly enjoyed by
parents and friends. At the closing meetin
of the class the members were entertained at
the home of Mrs. J. N. Mitchell. Supper was
serv('d: after which competitive games were
played and prizes awarded. Miss Anne
Hardic;ty spent her Easter vacation in Ber-
muda.
DISTRICT 4
HAMIL TOK: Of much interest is the appoint-
ment of Mrs. Agnes Haygarth to the position
dS directress of nursing services in Hamilton.
Amalgamation of the city's nursing services
recently touk place, namely, those of the Ham-
ilton Department of Health, the Board of
Education and the Babies' Dispensary Guild.
Mrs. Haygarth, formerly a member of the
nursing staff attached to the Provincial Do?-
p.lrtment of Hcalth in Ontario, i, a gr.ldlJ.lt
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NEWS NOTES
of the School of Nursing of the Hamilton
General Hospital.
MIss Edith Menzies (H.G.H., 1925), has
been appointed to take charge of the obste-
trical department in the Mount Hamilton
Hospital. Miss Edna Webster (H.G.H.,
193:!), has been appointed assistant night
supervi1>or in the Hospital at 622 West 168th
St., New York. Miss Connell and Miss c.::,s-
ford (H.G.H., 1933), are doing private duty
nursing in Bermuda. Miss Mary Ward,
supervisor of the children's wing, Hamilton
General Hospital, has returned from a month's
vacdtion in Florida.
HAMILTO:-:: On Easter Sunday, April 1st,
1934, at Erskine Church, Hamilton, a me-
morial tablet, donated by Mrs. H. E. Soutar
in memory of her daughter, the late Mildred
Soutar (St. Joseph's Hospital, 19:!8), was
unveiled. Miss Soutar died while engaged
in missionary work in India.
HAMILTON: At a recent meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nursing
of St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, an illus-
trated lecture on the nervous system was given
by Dr. W. O. Stevenson.
DISTRICT 5
TORONTO: The Alumnae A<;sociation of the
School of Nursing of the Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto, wishes to announce that
a luncheon is being arranged to take place
at the hospital on Wednesday, June 27th,
1934. The executive committee of the
Alumnae As"ociation is most anxious that all
out-of-town members of the association take
note of this advance notice a'nd that they
will pldn to be present at the luncheon.
TORONTO: The annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nursing
of St. Michael's Hospital took place recently.
The election of officers resulted as follows:
Hon. President: Rev. Sister Norine; Hon.
Via-Pre,
ident: Rev. Sister Jeanne: President:
Miss Marie Melody: First Vice- President: Miss
Crocker; Second Vice-President: Miss R.
Grogan: 'Thi
d Vice-President: Mi!'os J .0'Con-
no
: 'Treasurer: Miss G. Coulter, Apt. 404, 4:!
Isabelle St.: Assistant 'Treasurer: Miss 1.
Nealon: Recording Secretary: Mis<; M. Do-
herty, St. Michael Hospital; Cnrresþondtn.
Secretary: Miss K. McAuliffe, E.I::.twood Apt.,
Sherhourne St.; Private Dutv Reþresentativ
:
Mi<;s McGuire; Public Healdl Reþresentativc:
Mi
s H. Kerr; Pre,'ìs Reþresentatit.'e: Mi
..
Regdn: C(ItU1cillors: Misses M. Blown. I. Mc-
Gurk. ('. Cronin.
Misse::. Aileen Bans .wd M.lri.1I1 Tuph.!!H
(CI.I!'o<; of 1<)32). .Ife t..klng ro,tgraJIJ.ltc
(IIUf!'ol'" .Il St. M.lrv's HosPlt.11. RodH"ll'l.
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University of Toronto
SCHOOL OF
NURSING
An dccredited school under the
Registrdtion Act of the
Province of Ontdrio
1. Undergraduate Training
for Nursing.
A three-yedr course in nursing
which gives prepdrdtion for stdff
work in both hospitdl nursing dnd
public hedlth nursing. This ledds
to the School Diploma dnd pre-
pdres for provincidl registrdti.:>n
eXdmindtions.
2. Courses for Graduate
Nurses.
One-yedr courses which ledd to
certificdtes from the School.
Students mdY enrol for study in
prepdrdtion for dny one of the
following:
Public Hedlth Nursing (d pre-
limindrY course).
Public Hedlth Nursing (dd-
vdnced work in specidl fields).
T edching in schools of nursing.
Supervision dnd generdl stdff
work in hospitdl dnd nursing
school.
Undergrdduates will live in resi-
dence dnd d certdin dmount of
residence dccommodation will dlso
be aVdildble for grddudte st'Jdents.
For further informdtion apply to:-
THE SECRETARY
School of Nursing
University of Toronto
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
DISTRICT 7
KINGSTON: The annual meeting of the
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Dis.
trict 7. took place in the Kingston General
Hospital on March 24th, with Miss L. D.
Acton in the chair. The secretary, Miss ù.
Wilson. reported 182 paid.up members for
the past year. She also stated that District
7 ranked third in Ontario for meeting the
allocation for the permanent education fund
for graudate nurses. Ways and means of
relieving unemployment of nurses was dis.
cussed and the members were urged to attend
the biennial meeting of the Canadian Nur..es
Association which is to be held in Toronto in
June. MISS Shaw, of the Ontario Hospital,
Brockville, was appointed a delegate to attend
this meeting. The following officers were
elected: President: Miss L. D. Acton, King:;.
ton General Hospital; Vice. President: Miss M.
Bliss, superintendent, Public Hospital, Smith's
Falls; Secretary.'Treasurer: Miss O. Wilson,
Kingston General Hospital. At the close of
the business meeting Dr. W. A. Jones, ra:.li.
oIogist at the Kingston General Hospital, gave
an interesting address on the history and uses
of X'ray and radium. Refreshments were
served at the close of the meeting by M:ss
Baillie and members of the Kingston General
Hospital nursing staff. Miss Bliss invited the
district association to hold the next meetin
at the Public Hospital, Smith's Falls, in June,
and the invitation was accepted.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: At the April meeting of the
Royal Victoria Hospital Alumnae Association
three papers were read on recent developments
in special fields of nursing. These were given
by representatives of the private duty section,
public health section and nursing education
section, respectively. Miss M. A. Prescott
(RV.H., 1905), spent the Easter holidays in
Kingston and, en route, visited friends in
Montreal.
MARRIED: On April 10th, 1934, Miss Gert.
rude Godwin (R.V.H., 1917), to Mr. Art!lUr
Robertson, of Montreal.
SASKATCHEWAN
SASKATOON: Sympathy is extended to Mi
s
M. R. Chisholm in the loss of her father,
Mr. A. Chisholm, who died suddenly on
March 8, 1934, at the family residence in
Saskatoon.
OBITUARY
BOSWELL-The death occurred on March
8. 1934, at Seaforth, Ont., of Mrs. Phoebe
Boswell, wife of Mr. E. C. Boswell. The
deceased was born at Sharbot Lake, where
her father, Canon Austin Smith, had his
parish, and was educated at St. Agnes Col.
lege, Belleville. She later graduated fro;n
the School for Nurses of the Kingston Gen.
eral Hospital. Mrs. Boswell is survived by
her husband and two children, three and
five years old, her parents, Canon and
Mrs. Austin Smith of Trenton, and two
brothers, Rev. F. Arthur Smith, of Trenton
and Mr. Stanley Smith, of Winnipeg.
Services were held at Seaforth and burial
took place in Cobourg Cemetery.
BREWER-The death occurred recently of
Mrs. Brewer, widow of the late Staff Ser-
geant Brewer, R.C.M.P. For about two
years prior to her death Mrs. Brewer was
engaged in teaching at Barr Hill, Alberta.
She was a graduate of the School of Nurs-
ing of the Galt Hospital, Lethbridge. and
had greatly endeared herself to the com.
munity in which she lived.
COMISH-At her home in Toronto. in
February, 1934, after a short illness. Mona
Cornish, class of 1930, St. Michael's Hos.
pital School of Nursing, Toronto. Since
her graduation Miss Cornish had been
engaged in social service work with the
Neighborhood Workers, Toronto.
DONOVAN-At St. Michael's Hospital. on
March 24, .1934, after a brief illness, Mrs.
Donovan (Helen O'Neil), formerly of
Lindsay, Ontario, and a graduate of St.
Michael's Hospital School of Nursing,
Toronto.
JACK-The School of Nursing of the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital, Boston, lost one
of its oldest graduates in the death of Miss
Helen Ramsay Jack, on March 28, 1934,
at her residence in Saint John, N.B.
McMAHON-At the Woodstock General
Hospital, on February 23, 1934, Winnifred
Jackson, beloved wife of Mr. Thomas Mc.
Mahon. Mrs. McMahon was a member of
the class of 1924 of the School of Nursing
of the Hamilton General Hospital. She is
survived by her husband and by an infant
son who was born on February 1, 1934.
THOMPSON-Miss Alice Thompson died Ul
February, 1934, at St. Michael's HospitaL
Toronto, her alma mater. She was a gradu.
ate of the class of 1905, and had engaged
10 private duty nursing in Toronto until
about two months prior to her death.
VOL. XXX, No.5
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
TORONTO: The N atiunal Executive of the
O.N.S.A. wishes to notify the Nursing Sisters
that a business luncheon will be held in the
roof garden of the Royal York Hotel, at
12.30 p.m., on Thursday, June 28. We un-
derstand also that His Honour, the Lieutenant'
Governor and Mrs. Bruce are entertaining
the O.N.S.A. at a garden party on Wed,
nesday afternoon, June 27, when full sized
medals or ribbons will be in order. No ribbons
or medals will be worn for the general banqut't
or at any other time.
KIKGSTON: The annual meeting of tile
Kingston Unit, of the O.N.S.A. was held at
the King!'ton General Hospital. The following
officers were elected for the coming yeM.
President: Miss Leonora Hdrrington, Nara'
nee; Vice-President: Miss Grace Hiscock,
Kingston; Secretary-er reasurer: Mrs. Jack
Willoughby, Napanee.
WINNIPEG: The tenth annual meeting of
the Nursing Sisters Club of Winnipeg was
held at the home of MIss S. Pollexfen, 011
March 21, with the president, Mrs. C. M.
Davidson, m the chair and about thirty mem'
bers preseht. A buffet dinner was berved from
a table centred with spring blooms in shades
of mauve and yellow. The reports of the
various conveners of committees were sub-
mitted and showed that the Club has made
some progress. The new executive committee
was welcomed into office, in a graceful speech,
made by the temporary chairman, Mi!'s Annie
C. Starr. lts members are as follows: Presi-
dent, Miss Margaret Meehan, 753 \V olsel
y
Ave., Winnipeg; First Vice-President, MIs.
Fletcher Argue, 189 Kingston Row, Winni,
peg; Committee Conveners: Social, Mrs. E.
Hambhn, 704 St. Mary's Rd., Winnipeg; Press
and Publications: Miss Martha Hearn, '2
Huntley Apts., \Vinnipeg; Memorial and
Poppy: Miss Edith Hudson, 545 St. Mary's
Rd., Winnipeg; MembershiP: Miss Ruby
Dicky, 103 Chestnut St., Winnipeg: Sic
Visiting: Mi!'s L. N. Gray, Victorian Order
of Nurses, \Vïnnipeg; Secretary-Treasurer:
Mrs. S. Gordon Kerr, 5-217 Sherbrooke St.,
\\'innipeg; Adt'isor)' Members are: Miss Mar-
garet MacGillivray, Miss Ann Blais, Mi$s
Elsie J. Wilson, Miss E. C. LetcJlier.
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resultant manufacturing economies will permit
substantial reductions in price. Superinten-
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departments where this indispensable product
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. . . OFF. . . DUTY.
After what seemed to be . . . an interminable winter. . . Spring came slowly
. up this way. . . of course the Pacific coast. . . Vancouver and Victoria. . .
and other vernal climes . . . lived up to Chamber of Commerce advertising . . .
..:md gathered roses in December. . . or at least crocases in February. . . Calgary
had a mid-winter Chinool{ wind. . Winnipeg a January thaw . . . 'Toronto
always true to its tradition . . . did not go to extremes . . . bat for a high wide
and handsome old-fashjoned winter. . . give us 1vIontreal . . . or rather don't give
it to us, we've had it already . . . Natm'e tool{ her course. . . uncheclted by any
interference . . . from the street cleaning department . . . we have never seen
: . . more or dirtier snou.! . . . not even in Bul{harest . . . where they do pretty
well . . . when a Blaclt Sea wind is blowing . . . also the ruts were grand. . .
frozen blacl{ and hard. . . with nice sharp edges. . . which cut you when you fell
. . . yet they had to yield at last . . . they turned into spring freshets . . . and
leaped down the mountainside . . . with pleasant gurglings . . . then the crows
came. . . noisy and qaarrelsome . . . and the willows and alders. . . toolt on that
lovely flush . . . which shows the sap is rising . . . Soon the lilacs will bud .
and other hardy perennials . . . will burst into bloom . . . such as addresses to . . .
the members of the graduating class . . . valedictories . . . cldss prophecies . . .
Harassed college professors . . . and the local dags . . . will þrepare for oratory
. . . at forthcoming exercises . . . by hastily 100Jting up Florence Nightingale. . .
in the National Dictionary of Biography . . . and the Encyclopedia Britannica . . .
Earnest practitioners of medicine . . . will proceed once more . . . to warn white-
robed damsels . . . of the dangers of the unbridled tongue . . . and the urgent.
necessity. . . of never saying. . . in so many words .. that 'you thinlt Johnny
has measles . . . the malting of such a diagno.çis . . . being beyond the powers
. . . of a member of an ancillary group . . . If you don't l{now what ancillary
means . . . consult the dictiona.ry . . . there are several definitions . . . most of
which explain . . . that inferiorit'y complex . . . to which nurses seem born . . .
as the sparR..s fly upward . . . The only time . . . we el'er really felt ancillary
. . . was at a graduation ceremon)' . . . when we beheld. . . the President of the
Ladies' HosPital Aid . . . pinning the medals . . . on the crisp new uniforms . . .
of the graduating class . . . while the head of the school . . . who, through three
long years . . . had srared no effort . . . to give these student nurses . . . a fai'r
deal . . . stood humbly by . . . and handed her the little boxes. . . which contained
them. . . However we were tall{ing about Spring. . . and new and growing things
. . . Nursing is a. very old tree . . . its roots go deep into the centu.ries . . . yet
every year . . . its sap ru.ns strong and free . . . and its branches . . . brealt into
a foam of þinlt and white blossom. . . the mantle and mystery of the Spring. . .
Meantime of Cou.rse . . . it remains the immemorial duty . . . of the director of
nursing . . . to see that the deplorable attemþt of Miss Jones . . . to disgrace the
class . . . by wearing high-heeled shoes . . . is frustrated in time . . . and that
pretty Miss Smith . . . does not too closely resemble . . . a floral display . . . and
of course. . . (we nearly forgot) . . . she must stand ready to hand the little boxes
. . . in a manner becoming . . . to a self-effacing member . . . of an ancillary
rrofession . . .
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of quality. But the mother's friends
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Careful selection of raw milk and
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Registrar-ANNIE C. STARR; Reg. N.
Phone 30 620
753 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg, Man.
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Phone Garfield 0382
Registrar:
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International Council of :\urses:
Secretary,
Iiss Christiane Reimann, 14 Quai des Eaux-\ïves, Cene\'a,
\\itzerland
President
First Vice-President ..
Second Vice-President
Honorary Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
C.\
ADIAK
URSES .\SSOCI.\TIO:\
Officers
.. ...11iss F. H. 1\1. Emory, L"niversity of Toronto, Toronto, Onto
.. .....Miss R.
1. Simpson, Parliament BIdgs.. Regina, Sask.
l\Iiss G. M. Bennett, Ottawa Civic Hospital. Ottawa, Om
.. .ì\tiss !'\"ora Moore, City Hall, Room 309, Toronto, Om,
.. l\liss 1\1. :\lurdoch. 51. John General Hospital. Saint John, ="l.B.
CO{'
CILLORS :\:-"1) OTHER \.IE:\IBERS OF EXECUTIVE CO:\HIITI'EE
Nllmeral8 preceding names indicate office held, "Ú: (I) President. PrO'Dineial Nurses Association: (21 Chairman,
Nur8ing Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section: (4) Chairman, PrifJate Duty Sect1'on.
\Iberta: (I) .:\Iiss F. :\1 unroe, Royal Alexandra Hof'-
pital, Edmonton; (2) :\liss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal. Calgary; (3) .:\Iiss B. A. Emerson, 604 Civic
Block. Edmonton; (4) :\Ii!'s J. ('10\\, 11l38-82nd
Ave., Edmonton.
Hritlsh Columbia: (I) :\liss :\1. F. Gray, Dept. of
ursing, University of British Columbia, 'ancouver;
(2) :\liss L. :\litchell, Royal Jubilee Huspital, 'ic-
toria; (3) :\Iiss :\1. Duffield. 175 Broadway East,
"ancouver; (4) .:\liss
1. :\lirfield, Beachf'roft
ursin
Home, Cook St., 'Ïctoria.
\lanitoba: (I) :\Iiss :\Iildred Reid, Nurses Hesidence,
Winnipeg General Hospital, Winnipeg; (2)
ister fo:t.
Albert, St. Joseph's Hospital, Winnipeg; (3) :\liss E.
.:\lcKelvey, 603 :\1 edical Arts Building, Winnipeg;
(4) :\Iiss K. :\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Crel!f'ent, I\or-
wood.
:-';ew Brunswick: (I) Miss .-\. J. .:\lac.:\laster, .:\Ioncton
Hospital, Moncton; (2) fo:ister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) .:\1iss Ada Burns,
Health Centre,
aint John; (4) MiSB :\label 1\Ic-
:\1 ullen, St. fo:tephen.
","ova Scotia: (I) :\Iiss .\nne
lattery, Box 173.
Windsor; (2) Mrs. :\Iurray :\lacKay,
ova Scotia
Hospital. Dartmouth; (3) Miss .-\. Edith Fenton,
Dalh,)Usie Health ('Iinic, :\lorris St., Halifax; (4\
:\li!<s Christine :\laeLeod, 9i ;o.;outh Kline St., Halifax.
Ontario: (I) \Iiss :\Iarjorie Buck. Norfolk Hosvitall
:'imcoe; (2) Miss S. 1\1. Jamieson, Peel Memoria.
Hospital, Brampton; (3) Mrs. .-\p;neø Haygarth,
21 Susse'( St., Toronto; (4)
Iiss Clara Brown, :?::I
Kendal .-\ ve., Toronto.
Prince Edward Island: (I) :\Iiss Lillian Pidgeon,
Prince ('0. Hospital. Summerside, (2) :\liøs F.
I averR, Princ'e Co. }fof'pital, fo:ummerside; (3) M if'!<
1. Gillan. 59 Grafton
t., Charlottet()\\ n; (4) :\1 iB/<
I.
Gamble, 51 Ambrose St., CharloUeto\\n.
Quebec: (I)
Iiss C. Y. Barrett, Royal 'Ïctoria :\Iah'r-
nity Hospital,
1()ntrpal; (2)
liss :\Iartha Batf'lIn,
:\Iontreal General Hospital, :\Iontreal; (3) l\1if's
Christine Dowlinp;. 1246 Hi8hop
treet, :\Iontreal;
(4) :\lis!< C. 1\1. WatlinlZ, 1230 Bishop Street, :\lontreal.
Saskatchewan: (I) Miss Edith .-\mas, C'ity Hospital,
askatoon; (2) :\Iiss G. M. Watson, City Hospital,
Saskatoon; (3) :\1rs. E. 1\1. Feeny, Dep1. of Public
Health, Parliament Bldgs., Uep;ina; (4)
liRB :\1. U.
Chi!<holm, 80!) 7th Ave. S.,
askatoon.
CHAIR\IE" :\IATIO:S-.\L SEcnO:":s
;\LR-iINr. EDVC.O\TIO:S-: .:\Iiss G. :\1. Fairle", "ancoU\ er
General Hospital, Vancouver; PLIJLIC lÌEALTH: MiBS
:\1. :\loap;. 1246 Bishop S1., :\Iontreal; PRIVATE
Dt:T\: .:\Iiss Isabel :\1 acIntoBh, Qut'enscourt Apt.,
i5 Queen St. S., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary: 'liss Jean S. Wilson,
ational Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
J\lontreal, P,O.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF C.\
ADIA
l:RSES ASSOCIATIOl\
Nl'RSI:-\G ED{'CATIO
SECTIO
CH UR
HN: :\liss G. :\1. Fairley, "anf'ouver General
Hospital, Vancouver; "I('E-CH-\IRM-\N: :\liBs :\1. F.
Gray, l'"niversity of Britlf'h Columbia, "ancol!\"er;
ECRETARY: :\liss E. F. rpton, Suite 221. 1::1!)6 St.
Catherine St. \\ est, :\lontreal; TRE-\Bt"RER: \Iiss :\1.
Blanche Anderson, Otta\\a Civic Hospital, Otta\\a.
('01 snLLORM - \Iberta: :\lif'/< J. Connal, General Hos-
pital, ('alp;ary. British Columbia: :\liRS L. :\litchell,
Royal ,Jubilee Hospital, 'ïctoria. \lanitoba: Sistf'r
;o.;t. .\Inert,
1. J',seph's Hospital, WinnipelZ.
i'iew Hrunswick:
if'ter Corinne Kerr, Hotel Dieu,
('amphellton.
ova Scotia: :\1rs. .:\1 urray :\Ial' Kay,
o"a :-if'otia HOf'pital, Dartmouth. Ontario: .:\Iiss
:-'. :\1. .Jamieson, Pf'el :\Iemorial Hospital, Brampton.
I>rlnce Edward Island: :\Ii!<s :\1. I aver"" PrilJ('e
('0. Hospital, I"ummerside. Quebec: :\lill8 :\Iartha
Hatslln, :\Iontrf'al Genf'ral Hospital, :\lontreRI. Sas-
katchewan: :\liB/< G. \1. \\ ab
on. Cit
Hospital.
Saskatoon. CON"\"Est:R ot. PI'RLW-\TIOS"', :\Ii..s \1.
:\1. Reid, Winnipep; General Hospital, \\ïnnipeJl:.
PRIVATE I>llTY
J"C;TIO,",
('U\lII'\I.o\S: :\liss I811.hel \1 ü..J ntOf'h , QUf'ens('ourt .-\1'1.,
75 Queen
t. :-i., Hamilton; \'wt:-('H\IRM-\N: 'li"'B
:\Iahel .:\1(':\lullen, Box aas, S1. Stf'phf'lI;
EnIET-\It\-
TRE-\st:RER: :\lrø. ROBe 11,,81'1, 1:l9 Wellinp;ton
t.,
lIamiltùll.
('OI'NCILLORR: .\Iherta: :\hM .J. (10\\. 111:
-S:!n.t
.\ve., Edmontoll. Hritish Columbia: \liBS \1.
:\lirfìf'I(1. Be8(.h,'rort "urslll!!: HOIllf', \Ïl'toriu.
MAY, 1934
:\1anitoba:
Ii!'s K. :\ll'CallulII, ISI Enfield ('res..
Xorwood. !'\ew Brunswick: :\liBs .:\label :\1c':\lulien.
t. Stephen. ,",ova Scotia: :\1iss Christine :\lad eod,
!l7
outh Kline
t., Halifax. Ontario: :\1iBI' Clara
Brown, 23 Kendal .-\ve., Toronto. Prince Fdwanl
Island: :\1iss M. Gamble, 51 .-\mbrol'e
1., Charlotte-
to\\n. Quebec: :\liss C. :\1. Watlinp;, 12:10 Hi..hop
1.,
Iontreal. Saskatchewan: :\Iisf' :\1. H. Chi!<-
holm,
5 7th Ave. r-;-., ::;askatoon. CmwEroöt:R Ot
1',
LI('-\TION": :\liBS Jean Da" idson, Paris.
Pl.BLIC HE.\L TII SECTIO,",
('H-\lIIMAN: :\Iiss :\1. :\loa(l:, 1246 Bishop fo:t., :\lontre,ll;
"WE-CHAIRM -\N: :\1iss :\1. Kerr. 946 20th -\ \ p. \\.,
"al1('ouver;
E('Rt:T.\R\-TRE-\"l.Rt It: :\liss \lar
:\lathe\\snn, 464 Stratlwona .\\ e.. \\'eI'tIllO\lnt, P.<J.
C\II N('ILLOR" \Iberta: :\Ii.." B. ,\. Enlt'r"on, ti04
(Ivif' Blo('k, Fdl1lontoll Britbh ('olun1bla: \Iil'!;
\1. Duffield, Ii 5 Broad \\ lI.y EMt, \. alll'OI1\ er.
\lanitoba: !\Ii.... I.:. 'Id'ehev, t)O:
\1 ("(lic'1I.1 -\rt..
i
lIildinlZ, \\ innille!!:. :'\t.'W ßruns\\lck: \Ii
.. .\d/\
Burns, Hf'alth ('entre,
aint ./ohll. :-':0\11 St:otia:
\Ii!ll' Fdith Fenton, J>alllllullje Jlf'l\lth ('hille, :\1..rrr..
:'1.. H/\Iifa'l(. Ontarlo::\1 rs \p;lIeB Ha
1Z8rth, 21
:-'111\"e'l(
t., Toronto. Prlnt:e I'd\\ard Island: :\Ii""
18n Gillan, .')f) Grafton
t., Chll.rl..ttetmHI. ()uebl'c:
\Ii..!' ('hrilltinf' J>o\\linll', 1:!4fì Bill)lIIf)
I., \lontrf'al.
Saskatche\\an: :\lrs. F 'I. Fef'ne
, I)elll. of Puhli..
lIeah)" Parli8nwllt Ihlllllllll/S, Hej[inR. ('0'1/\ "Nt"
(I'" 1'1' '1.1("-\111'''''' \lr.. \...nf'W 11.1
1I"..t", 21 :-'11""1'\
:-'t Torollto
211
234
THE
CANADIAN
NURSE
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
O
TARIO
Alberta \ssociation of Rel1.istered !\ urses
President, :\liss F.
1unroe, Royal .\lexandra
Hospital, Edmonton; First '"ice-President, .Mrs. de
atge, Hol} Cross Hospital, Calgary; ::5econd \"ice-
President, :\Iiss ::ì. :\lacdunald, General Hospital,
Calgary; Hecretary-Treasurer-Registrar, :\Ii!'s Kate :--.
Brighty, Administration Building, Edmonton; Chair-
men: Nursing Education Spction,
liss J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calp;ary; Public I1ealth Section. Miss
B. A. Emerson, 604 (,ivic Block, Edmunton; PrÙ'ate
Ultty Section, !\liss .J. C. Clnw, 1l1
8-82nd \\'1'.
BRITISH COLU\1ßIA
Graduate Nurses Assoclat
on of British Columbia
President,l\I. F. Gray, 1466 W. 14th Ave., \"ancouver;
First \'ice-President, E. G. Breeze; Secund \'ice-Presi-
dent, G. Fairlev; Registrar. II. Randal, 516 \"ancouver
ßlock, Vancouver; ::ìecretary, :\1. Kerr, 516 Van com er
Block, Vancouver; COlU'eners of Committpes: II/ursin a
Education, L. Mitchell, Hoyal Jubilee Huspital, \'ic-
toria; Public Health, Ì\1. Duffield, 175 Bruad\\ay East,
\'ancouver; Prirate Duty, :\Iiss :'01. :\lirfield, Beachcroft
ursing Home, Cook
t., '"ictoria; COUllC'illors, :\1. P.
Camphell, :'01. Dutton, L. :\lcAllister, I\:. :'anderson.
MANITOBA
Manitoba Association of Re
istered Nurses
President, :\lis.'1 :\1. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital;
First Vice-President, :\Iif-f'
. Wright, :\letropolitan
Life, WinnipeR:; :-'econd \"iee-President, :\lif'I" ('. :\Ic-
Leod, Brandon Generaillospital; Third \ïee-PreRidpnt,
::;ister IÜause, :'t. Boniface Hospital; :\Iember!\ of
Board: :\liss:\1. Lang, !\Ii!'s E. Carruthers, :-,i!'ter :\lary,
:\Iiss K. W. Ellis, :\tiss h.. :\l('Learn, :\liss :\1. :\Ieehan,
:\liss E. Johnson,
istpr :--t. -\lbert; roTltleners of Sec-
tions: Public I/palth, :\liss E. :\ld\:elvey; Primte Dutil,
:\Iiss K. :\leCallum; Nursing Education.
i"ter :,t.
Albert. ('mwener8 of ('ommittpcR: Dire..-tory, :\1if! .J.
Kerr, 74 Cobourg ,\ve.; Soc'ial, :\li,,:; :-;. Pollex fen, 051
Palrnerston .-\ ve.; I"ic'k \ïsitinl!:, :\Iisf' L. Grav, 'ïe-
tori an Orler of Nurses; :\Iembership, :\Iiss E. Ironside,
Winnipeg General Hospital; Librarian, :\Iiss W. Gric'e
ami
Ii!'s A. Htarr, 7,')3 \Volseley \ve.; Pres!' and Pub-
iication, :\Iiss E. Banks, 64
t. Cross :-'t.; RepreRpnta-
tÙ'es: Local Counl'il of \\'omen, :\Irs. \\ illard Hill and
:\Irs. Emmett f)\\yer; Central CoulH.il of :-'oc.ial -\J!;en-
('ie!', :\Iiss F. Robertson; \ïl'torian Order of ;'I; ursl's,
:\Jiss E.
\. RUf'l'l'll; .Junior Red Cross,
li8" E. Parher;
Hed Cross Enrolment, :\Irf'. J. F. :\Iorrison; E...el'utive
:-:ec'rptaryand ReJ1:istrar, :\lrs. ::5tella Gordon J\:f'rr.
NEW BRUNSWICk
New Hruns"ick Association of Registered !'\urscs
President,
Iiss
\. J. :'olac:\laster, :'oloncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First '"ic'e-President, :\Iiss l\Iarj!;aret
\Iurdoch; Second \"i('e-President, :\liss :\1vrtle E.
Kay; Honorary :-:ecretary, Hev. f;istC'r Kenny; Counc.il
:\Iembers: :'oliss Florem'e Coleman, \1 iss H.
. Dyke-
man, :\trs. A. G. Woodc'ol'k, Miss Elsie :\1. Tullol'h;
ronveners: Public lIealtlt Section. :\lisH .-\da .\. Burns;
Private Duty Section, :\1 iss l\label :\1 c.:\l ulli n; N ursin"
Education See/ion.
ister Kerr; Committt'e ConvenPrs:
The Canadian Nllrse, :\Iiss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-Laws. :\Iiss
. E. Brophy; Sec.retary-
Treasurer-Re!!:istTar, :\Iiss .\'1aude E. Hptallic'k,
fi
('harlotte St. West, :-'aint John, N.H.
NOVA SCOTIA
Re
istercd Nurses Association of ;\Iova S(.'otla
Prel"idellt, \Iis!' ,\lIne ::5lattery, Wimbor; First \ï(.C'-
PI'C'sidf'nt, :\Iiss \ïetoria Winslo\\, Ilalifa...; Se('ollli
\ ic'e-Pref'ident, :\Iiss :\larion Boa, Xe\\ GIR!'R:ow'
Third \ï('e-President, :-iister .\nna Seton, Halifa"l.;
Hf'('ordinv: I"er-retary, :\Irs. Donald Gillis, I
a \ PrllOIl
:-'t., Halifax; TreasurC'r and Hep;i"trar, \1 is!' I. F.
Fr:o!,pr, 10 Eastprn TrII!'t nJdJ!"., Iblifa....
Re
istt'red
urses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1915)
President, .\Iiss :\Iarjorie Buck Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe: First \"il'e-President, :\liss Dorothy
l;erl';Y, Room.
21 Jac'kson Hid!!:., Ottawa; Se{'(md 'ïc'e-
) resl
ent,
lIss ("ons!ance Brewster, General Hospital,
Hanulton; f;ecretary- rreasurer, :\liss :\Iatilda E. Fitz-
p;erald,
80 Jane
t.. Toronto; Chairman Nurse Educa-
tion .
ectioll, :\Iiss S. :\Iargaret .Jamieson: Peel
temorial
H,!sPl
al, Bramptun; Chairman, Private Dllty Section,
:\lIss ( lara Brown, 2
I\:endal A "e. Toronto' ('hairman
Public Health Spctioll, :\Irs. ,\/l:nes Í-Iay/!:arth: Provineiai
Department of Health, Parliament BldJ!"s. Toronto"
District No. I:' Chairman, :\Iiss Mildred \\ aiker, Insti
tu!e of .Pubhl' Health, london; Hecretary-Treasurer,
:\llss :\llldred ('hambers, Institute of Public Health
London; Districts;! and iJ: Chairman, :\liss .\. E. Binge.:
man, Freeport
anatorium, I\:itchener' :'el'retarv-
Treasurer, :\liRS Edith .Jones, 25
Grenwic.h St., Bralit-
ford; District No.4: ('hairman, :\Iiss ('onstanee Rre\\-
ster, General Hospital, Hamilton; :-'ecretary-Treasurer,
\Irs. Eva Barlow, 211 Stinson
t., Hamilton' Di.
trict
Ny. :'i: Chairman, :\tiss Dorothy :\lickleborOl;gh, Pro-
VlncJaI Dept. of Health, ParJiampnt Bld/l:s.. Toronto;
ecr
tary- Treas
re
. .\liss Isahelle Park, 1:-148 ). on!!:e
::-t., foronto; Dlstnct No.6: Chairman, :\Iiss Helen :\1
;\nderson, 7
!I \\ atf'r St., Ppterb. roul!"h; Sel'retary-
freasurer, :\lls!' l?or!Jthy :\lac'Brien,
ieholls Hospital,
Peterhoroup;h; DI.
tnct No.7: Chairman, :\Ii!\s Louise
D. Acton, General Hospital, KinR:stoll' :,ec'retarv-
1:
easurer,
lis
Olivia
\ il.son, Ge
er
l Hospihil,
1"l.IIlR:ston; DI..trzct No.8: (halrman, :\II!'S :\1. Rlanl'hf'
.\I
derson, Ottawa Civil' Hospital, Ottawa;
eeretary-
,\lI!'s A. G.
anner, Ottawa CivÎC' Hospital, Otta\\a;
freasurer,
lI
s :\Iary .-\eland, Strathl'ona H"spital,
Otta\\a; Dt..tnct No. .f): ('hairman, :\Ii!'s Katherinp
.IIIC' Kf'nzif', 1
,)5
pl"lI1d
\ ve. \\'., North BHV; :-:e('retary-
I rpa!'lIrer, :\11!'s Hobena Buchanan. 197 First .\\e. E..
Kurth Bay; [)i,
trict
\TO. In: (,hairman :\liss \'era
I.ovelaep. :J Wilp)' Rd., Port ,-\rthur; :-'ee
etary- TreaR-
IIrer, :\1i8S Ethel :-'te\\ard!'on, \1('Keliar 'General
Hospital, Fort William.
District
o. R Re
istpred :'\,urses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, :\liss :\1. B. .\ IIderson; \ïce-Chairmall,
:\Iiss J. I.. ('hurl'h;
el'retary, :\Ii!'s .\. G. Tanner,
Ottawa ('ivic Hospital; Treasurer, :\Iif's :\1. E. .-\dand:
Counc'illorf', I\Iisse8 G. ('larke, ,-\. Ehl-s, :\1. Graham,
E. ('. :\Idlraith, ('. C. :'olurray, :\1.
linn; ('oJll'enprl!
of Committees: :'olembership, :\liss G. Clarke; Publica-
tion!', :\Iiss E. C. Mdlraith: Nur.
inf) Education, :\Iiss
C. r. :\lurray; Prillntp Duty, :\Iif's ,J. L. ('hun'h; Pltblic
lIenlth, :\li!'R H. ()'\Ieara.
District :\"0. 10 R,-,
istered ;\urses .\ssodation
of Ontario
President, Miss \'. Lovelal'e. Vic.e-President, Miss:\1-
Hamilton; Secretary Treasurer, Mi!'!\ E. Stewardson,
'lc'Keliar General HOf'pital, Fort William: Coun(.illor:;:
'Iiss ,Jane HOJ!"arth,
Iiss :\1. Wallal'e, :\Iiss ('. Lemon,
;\Iiss C. Chivers \\ïlf'on, \IiI's Flanni/l:an, \liAS Irpnp
Hihditl'h.
PRIJ'\CE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Fd\\ard Island Re
istered
urses
Association
Presidellt, :\Iiss I.illian Pid/l:eon, Princp ('0. lIof'pital,
ulllrnerside; ''ice-Pref'ident, :'oliss :\1. Kin!!:, Charlotte-
town Hospital: Sec'retary, :\Iil"s :\1. ('ampbpll, 8 Grafton
t., ('harlottpto\\ II; Treaf'urer and He/!:istrar, :\lisf'
Edna Green, :!!}7 1
Queen :-'t., Charlotteto\\ n; Nuri/ill"
Rdllmticm, :\liss :\1. I.aver!', Prill('e ('0. IIlJspital.
u'IIIIIPrsidp; Public Ilpa!t1I, :'olisf' I. Gillan, !}!I Grafton
:-'t Charlottf'to\\ n: PrÙ'atp [Jutll, :\Iif'!\ :\1. Gamble, 51
.\rnbrc'f'e :-:t., ('lmrlottf'to\\lI; Hppref'elltative to Th,.
('alladia1l Nur..p, :\Ii!':; .\nllll \lair, P.E.r. lIof'pitnl,
('Imrlottf'tll\\ II.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
235
QUEBEC
Association of R
lstered l'\urses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
-\dvisory Board:
li8Ses
Iary
allluel,
label F.
Hersey, C. :\1. Watling, Rév. :\Ière :\1. \". Allaire, Rh.
Soeur :-:te. hidora; President,
fiss C. \". Barrett,
Royal \'ictoria :\fontreal "Iaternity Hospit.al; \'ice-
President (En//:lish),
Iiss :\1. L. :\foag, \'ictonan Order
of :'Ilurses. 1246 Bishop ::;t., :\Iontreal; Vice-President
(French), Rév. ::;ueur Allard, Hótel-Dieu de ::;t, Joseph,
:\llIntreal; Hon. Seeretary, :\Iiss Esther Beith, Child
\VeUare .\ssociation, Forum Bldg., :\Iontreal; Hon.
Treasurer, :\lis'3
1. E.
ash, \'ictorian Order of Xursel',
1246 Bishop St., :\Iontreal. Other :\Iembers:
Ii!l."
:\Iabel K. Holt, The
lontreal General lIo8pltal,
:\Iademoiselle Edna Lynch, 1'õursing Supervisor, :\Ietro-
politan Life Insurance Co., :\lontreal, Ri.v.
oeur
t.
.Jean de rEucharistie, Hópital
otre Dame, :\lontreal,
\Iiss :\Iarion Lindeburgh,
chool for Graduate :'Ilurses,
:\lcGill University, :\Iontreal, :\Iademoiselle .-\lexina
:\Iarchessault, Ecole d'Hy//:iène Social Appliquée.
Université de :\lontreal. CtJ/lrpnprs uf Sectio/l8: Primte
D"ty, (English), :\Iiss C. M. WatlinlZ, 1230
ishop
t.,
:\lontreal; PriMte Duty (Frem.h), :\lademOlselle .-\hce
L('pine, Hôpit:).\
otre Dame, :\Iontreal; .Vur8Ïng Edll-
cltioll (English), :\li8S :\Iartha Batson, The :\Iontreal
Ceneral Hospital, :\Iontreal; Nursing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Augustine, Hôpital St. .Tean-de-
Diell. Gamelin. Que; Public /lealth, !\Ii
'! .Christine
Dn\\ling, \'i('torian Ordpr of
urses, 124ß BIshop
t.,
:\lontreal; Hoard of Examiners, :\li8s Olga \'. Lill}
(Cunvener), Royal \ ictoria :\Iontr<<-al
Iaternity Hos-
pital, :\lil.'s Marion Lindeburp;h,
('hlJol for Graduate
urBes, McGill University, Montreal; Mi!!s Katherine
:\Iac:'ll. MacLennan, _-\lexandra Hospital, :\lontreal;
:\lelle. Edna Lynch, 4642 rue ::it. Denis St., :\lontreal;
:\lplle. Laura Senecal, Hópital Kotre Dame,
lontreal;
lel1e. A. :\Ian'hessault, 3256 avenue Lacombe, :\lont-
real; Executive :-:ecretary, Registrar and Official :,chool
\'isitor,
Iiss E. Frances Lpton. Room 221, I:Ul6
t.
f'atherine :-:t. W., :\lontreal.
SASKA TCHEW:\.:\
askatche\\an Re
lstered :-.. urses :\shoclat Ion
(Incorporated :\-1 arch. 1917)
President, Miss Edith Amaf.. City Hm'pital. :'asl..a-
toon; First \ïce-President, Mif's Huby :\1.
impBon,
Department of Public Hpalth, I{ep;ina;
econd \ï('e-
President, Miss Helen 13. Smith, General Hospital.
Hegina; CoulI(.illors. :\Iiss Jean !\lcDonald, 1122 Rae
t., Rep;ina, :\fi8S Elizabeth Smith,
ormal School,
:\Ioose .Taw; Conrener8 of Standing Committee8: Nurnnu
BdlLCfltion. :\fiss Gertrude :\1. \\ atson. City Hospital,
askatoon; Public Health, :\Irs. E. :\1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Public Health, Hegina; PriMte Duty,
Ii!<s :\1.
H. Chisholm. R05-7th .-\ve. N., Saskatoon; I ep;islation,
:\Iiss R.
1. :,impson, Regina; Secretary-Treasurer and
Rep;istrar, :\li8S :\Iarp;arpt RO!<l!, 4!'i -\nlZus f'rpsf'f'nt,
Rep;ina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate l'ourses
Hnn. President, Dr. H. .-\. Gibson; President, .Miss
P. Gil
ert; First \ïce-President, :\liss K. Lynn; Second
\ ice-President, :\fi'8s F. Shaw; Recording and ActinlZ
Correspondinp; Secretary, :\lrs. F. \". Kennedy, l:i07
First ::;t. \\".; Treasurer,
liss :\1. Watt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate l'ò"urses
President, :\Iiss Ida Johnson; First ''ice-President,
:\liss Turner;
econd \ïce-PreRident, :\liss O'Brien;
Re('ording and Corres;:>( nlinJi;
ecret!\ry, :\Iiss \ïnlet
Chapman. Royal Alexandra Hospital. Fdmonton;
Treasurer. :\liss Gavin; Rep;istrar, :\1iss :'proule. 111:iR
Whyte .-\ ve., Edmonton.
:\-ledlclne Hat Graduate :'I.urses Association
President, :\lrs. J. h.eohane; First \ïce-President,
\lrs. M. Tobin; Second \ïce-Prpsident,
fi!!s
1. Gil-
christ; Secretary, :\lis8 .-\. :\lcLeod, 2 Diana Court;
Treasurer, :\Iiss F. Smith: Committee ('onvener8:
\lelllbership, :\Iiss .-\. Allan; Flower, :\Irs. W. Fral\er;
Prirate Duty Section, :\lrs. Chas. Pickerin//:; Correspon-
dent, The ranadian Vur.
e. :\liss:\1 lIap;erman.
BRITISH COLU:\IHI.\
['I;elson Graduate :-"urses Association
lion. President, :\li8S V. 13. Eidt, .-\ctinp; SlIpf'rinten-
dent, Koot('nay Lake General Hospital; President
:\li8S K. Gordon; First \ïce-President, :\Iiss :\1. :\lad-
den;
econd \ïce-President, :\liss
. .-\rchibald; Seere-
ta.ry-Treasurer, :\li8S Edna Fraser, Box 1105,
elson,
R.f'
Vancouver l.raduate
urse8 Association
President, :\Irs. \\"e'ltrnan, ROO Cassair :-:t.. \'am'ou\'cr;
First \'iee-President, :\li'18 .Jane JollII!!tone. Ste\ f'ston,
B.C.; SeNllld \ïce-Pre"idNlt. :\li,,!! E. Bf'rry, St. Paul'"
lIut\pital; Spl'ff'lary, :\Ii!'s F. Walker, \"am'ou\er Gen-
f'ral Hnspital: Treasurer, :\Ii!l"l L. Archibald, 5:36 WCl'1
12th '\ ve.; ('ouncil. :\lis..e.. l
. :'anderson, Kilburn, G.
:\1. Fairley. \vismpr and :\1. F. Gray. Final\('e, :\lif'8
Teulon, laRo') \\esl 11th \ve.; Dire('tory. :\liSl'l h
:\lother\\pll. 1!147 \\ e"t 10th .-\ve.; Social, !\liAS \. J.
\111.(,1 eod, Van('nuvpr Gpnf'rnl lIo"pital; Prol/:rammp,
\Ii'l" n f)onuld"on.
I. 1',1111'11 lIo"pital; Sick Visiting,
:\111:'s C. Cookpr. \'ancouver General H'lspital; :\Iem-
bership, :\lrs. Rlankenbaeh. 1816 \\ el:'t 36th .-\ v<<-.;
Local Couneil of WOIllf'!}, :\Iisses Duffield and Gray;
Press, :\lrs. E. Rimms, \'ancouver General Hospital.
Victoria Graduate
urses -\ssociation
Hon. Presidents, :\Iiss L. :\Iit('hell, Sister Ruperi. r
T.udovic; President, :\Iiss E. .J. Herbert; First \ïce-
President, :\Iiss :\1. :\Iirfield;
econd \ïce-Presi-
dent.
lrs. Kirkness; ::;('cretary, :\li8S I. Helgesen;
Treasurer, :\Iiss \\". Cooke; Hep;lstrar, :\Iiss E. Franks.
lO:i5 Fairfield Road, \ïctoria; Exe('utive Committee,
:\Irs. E. B. Strachan,
li8S E. :\1r.Donald, :\Iis,. C
Kenny, :\lisR E. Camf'ron, :\Iiss D. Frampton.
:\IANITOHA
Brandon Graduate :"I/urses Association
HOIl. President, :\liss E. Birtles: Hon. \ïce-Prpsidenl.
\lrs. W. Rhillingla\\; President, :\lil.'s E. G. :\leNall);
First \ïce-President, :\lil.'8 Janet Anderson; Second
\ïce-President, :\lrs. Lula Fleteher; :'ecretary.
lisf'
JeMie :\funro, 243 12th St.: Treasurer, Mrs. :\1. Ion!!:;
('onl1ener8 of Committees:
ocial and Proj!"ralllme. :\lrs.
Eldon Hannah; Sick and \ïsitinp;. :\lrs. Heme Fif'her;
Welfare, !\Iiss Gertrude Hall; Prells Reporter, :\lisll
Helen :\lorrison; Cook Rook, :\Irf'. .J. :\1. Kains'
Hel!:istrar, :\lif'!I C. :\1. :\lacleod. '
Or-;-T ARID
Graduate !'\unies Alurnnac, \\dlanll
lion. President, :\li8S E.
mith, SlIperintndNlt.
Wf'lland Gpneral lIospital; lion. \ïee-PrPflident, :\Ii..;
:\1. lIall, Weiland General 1I0l.'pital; Prellidpllt, :\lIs/l
D.
aylor; Vice-President. :\Iiss B.
I\unders; Sp('retar),
:\Iiss :\1. Rinker, 28 Division St.; Treaf'urf'r, :\liss H-
Eller; Executive, :\li!<l!es :\1. PPddie. \1. Tufts, B.
Clothier and :\Irs. P. Brasford.
Q{ 'EBEC
(;ralluatl. 1\ urs("s Association or t Iw Fast("rn
Townships
11011. President. :\li'18 \. BeluU'; Pre"l"I('lIt. :\Iif'!! F.
Bt'an; \ i('e-Presidpllt, :\Iifltl G. D\\uill(>; ('orrptlpolldillj(
:-:e<'rf'lary, :\li"" F. \\'ardl,,\\()rtll; Hee'ordllll( :-:f'('retan.
:\lil's lIarvey; Trf'asurer, :\Ii"" :\larlZ
lret H()binÌ<-
Representativp tn The Ctllwdiall .\ "rll", :\1 il!ll ('. Horn;
ny, Rox 324,
"erbrookf', Hf'prf"<('"ll1ti\". Prill.t.. nufll
St'rtiun, \Ii!!" F :\Iorri!!sf'tt(.
NURSE
236
THE
CANADIAN
SASKA TCHEW A
\10NTREAL
\1ontreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, :\Jiss L. C. Phillips; President,
Iiss
Chrilltine Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First \ïce-Presi-
dent, Miss G. Allison; Second \Ïce-President, :\Irs. .-\.
:O;tanley;
ecretary- Treasurer and Ni/!:ht Rel[istrar,
:\liss Ethel Clark, 12:30 Bishop St.; Day Registrar,
:\liss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar. :VIi
s H. :\1.
:O;utherland; Convener Griffinto\\n Club, Miss G.
Colley. Regular Meetinll:, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of -\pril, October and Decembpr.
loose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Mrs. M. Young; President,
lJSS
R. Last; First \ïce-President, l\liB8 C. I\:ier; Second
\ïce-President, Mrs. \Y. Metcalfe; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\liss J. Moir, General Hospital, Moose Ja\\; ('onveneT8
of Committees: Nursing Education, Mrs. 1\1. Young.
r. :\lary Raphael, Miss E. Jensen; Primte Duty, :\Iiss
E. Wallace, Miss E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, Miss
J. Casey; Public Health. Registrar, Miss C. Kier; Pro-
ramme, Miss G. Taylor; Sick \ïsitinl/:, Miss L. Trench;
:-'o
ial, MiB8 1\1. Armstrong; Constitution and By-Laws,
:\'l1ss E. Lamond; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e, Miss M. Gan; Press Representative, Mrs. J.
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
IANITOBA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ary
President, :\lrs. L. de Satge; \ïce-President, Miss
,-\. Willison; Recording Secretary, Miss E. Thom;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, Miss R. Craig; Honorary :\lembers. Rev. Roeur
t. Jean de I'Eucharistie, :\liss :\1. Rro\\ n.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. l\lunroe; President, :\1rs.
cott Hamilton; First Vice-President, Miss V. Chap-
lIlan; Second \ïce-President, :\Irs. C. Chinneck;
Hecording
eeretary, :\liss G. Allyn; Correspondiul!;
Sec'retary, Mi
s A. Oliver, Royal Ale"'l[andra Ho!!pital.
A.A. University of \Iberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President,
li!;s E. FeJJ\\ick; President, :\Iiss
1. Reed; First Vice-President, Miss L. Gourlay;
Second Vice-President, :\Iiss B. Fane; Recordin
Spcre-
tary, :\tiss A. Revell: Corresponding Secretary, :\1iss
D. Du.xbury, University Hospital; Treasurer, Miss :\1.
Rowles, Univerllity Hospital; E"\ecutive, :\Iis!'es :\1.
Gordon, I. R08s, A. Raker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
}fon. President. Miss F. E. \Velsh; President, :\1rs.
H. I. Love; \ïce-President. Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
frea8urer, l\Irs. C. Craig, Namao; Correspondinl!;
-':ecretary, :\li!\s F. E. Reid. l009-20th Avenue, W.,
ral!mry; Convener, Social Committee, :\Irs. R. :-,hears.
BRITISH COLU
IBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Hun. President, Hev. Sister Superior; Hon. \ïce-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, l\1iss 13.
Geddes; Vice-President, !\liss R. McKernan; Recretarv,
:\liss F. Trpavor, Assistant Secretary, :\Iiss V. Dye-r;
Treasurer, :\liss B. :\luir; Executi\ e, :\Iisses :\1. :\Ic'-
Donald, E. Berry, I. Clark, Y. Pear!'e, B. Chrif<tif',
B. '1('Gillivary, h. :\h.Donald.
A.A., Vancouvcr Gencral Hospital
President, :\lis
:\1. Lunan; Fm<t \ïce-Presidellt,
\Irs. C. H. C Bell; Sec'ond \ïc'e-President, Mrs. K.
('rai
; Sf'eretary, Miss I. Collier; Correspondinl!; :--ecrp-
tary, Miss K. Heaney, Vancouver General Huspital;
('ummittee Con-oen"T.
: Pro
ramme, l\liss ,-\. CmU.
\Iemhership, Miss \'. Peters; Sipk Benefit., ;\1r8. :\Iait-
land; Rpfreshments, :\Iiss J. Hunter; Pre
s, :\Irs. G. E.
nilliei!; Tre!lsurpr and Bond", Mi
s Gparv, 3176 \\ p
t
:!lId Ave.; Repre!'entative, V.G.N.A., \Ii
" Hhoc!ps.
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
Ilon. President, :\Iiss L. Mitchell; President, :\Iiss
.Jf'ßn Moore; First \ïpp-President, .:\lrs. Yor)"e;
ecoJld
\ïce-President, .:\Iiss .J. Grant; Secretary, :\Irs. :\..
J>o\\ell, 30 HO\\e
t.; Assistant
ecrlltary, Miss ,J.
tewart; Treasurer, I\liss C. Todd; Entertainment CUIII-
mittf'e, :\Iiss I. GU\\ard; Sick Nurse, Miss E.
e\\lIIan.
A.A., Children's Hospital, Winnipe
Hun. President, Miss 1\1. B. Allan; Presidmt, ;\li8s
Catherine Day; First \ïcp-Pre!\ident, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss \V. 1\1. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, :\liss :\1. D. Hu
hes; Sick Yisitiu/!:.
Miss Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, :\Irs. Geo. \\ ilson.
A.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
lion. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, Miss Ii.
:\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Cr., Norwood; First Vice-
President, 'liss H.
tephen, 15 Ruth Apts., :\laryland
t., Winnipeg; Second ''ice-President, Miss :\1. Madill,
t. Boniface Hospital; Secretary, Miss J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hospital. \Vinnipeg; Treasurer, Miss E.
Shirley, 14 King Georl/:e Ct., Winnipeg;
ocial Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (COIl\'ener), 64 rross St..
Winnipe/!:, .:\Iiss J. \Villiamsun, Miss A. :'\elson; Si(.k
\ïsitin/l: Committee, Miss T. Grem'iUe (Convener), 211
Hill St., Nur\\ood; Miss K. Rowan,
Iiss J. Greil!;;
Press RepreBentativp, Miss B. Altman, 420 Cullege
.-\ ve., Winnipeg; Hepresentatives to Local Cuuncil of
Women, :\liss B. Altman (Convener), :\Ii!'
B. Chandlpr,
Mif<!' :\1.
pooner.
A.A., Winnipe
General Hospital
Hun. President, l\1rs. A. W. Moody, 97 Ash :-:t.;
President, Miss E. Parker, Suite. 24, Carlyle .-\pts., 580
Broad\\ay; Firf<t 'ï('e-Pre
ident, Mrs. C. V. Combes,
530 Dominion
t.; Second \ïce-President, Miss J. :\le-
Donald, Deer Lod/!:e Hospital; Third ''ice-President,
:\Iiss E. Yussack, 867 l\Ial!:nus Ave.; Hecording
pere-
tary, .:\fisB J. Landy, WinnipPI!: General Hospital;
('orresponding Secretary, Millll :\1. Graham. \\ïnnipe/l:
General Ho!\pital; Treasurer, !\Iif<s .:\1. C. :\h.Donald,
Central Tuberculosis Clinic; :\lembership, :\liss I.
Ramsay, Central Tuberculosis Clinic;
ick \ isiting.
'-liss J. :\Iorl!;an, 102 Rose Rt.; Entertainment, :\1rs. C.
McMillan, Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of Journal,
Miss R. !\fonk, 134 "'estgate; Business :\Ianal!;er. !\Jiss
E. Timliek, Winnipeg General Hospital; f:pecial COIl1-
mittpe, 'li!'f< P. Bro\\nell, 215 Chestnut Rt.
NEW RRUì\"SWICK
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. Pre!<:dent. :\li"8 E. .J. :\litcheU; Prel'irlent, :\Irs.
G. L Dunlop; First \ïl'e-Pre"ident, 'Ii".. Ethel Hen-
dersun; F:?c(llld \ïce-Prf'sidf'nt, l\Irs. F. :\1(' Kf'h'ey;
e('retary, :\lr!<. .T. Edl!;ar Beyea, 121 eniol1
t.; Trpa-
!'urer, :\Ii8s Kate Holt; E:'le('uti\'e COll1l11ittpe, :\Iis!'
:\Iargaret :\Iurdol'
, :\Iis!' R. Reid, :\Irs. .J. H. Yau/l:hall.
A.A., L. P. Fisher '\Icmorial Hospital, Woodstock
Hun. Prpsident, l\fif<!I Elsie Tulloch; President, Mrs
Harry DUJlhar; \ï"e-PresidPIlt. :\Ii!'f< Glady!' Hay\'ard;
:--pc'retary-TrelJ.'ouTI'r, :\1 i!<f< I'ILlilille Palrllf'r; Board of
Directors: :\li8!1 G. Ta",.., \Irs. H.
uttOJl, \Irs. FlIltoll,
:\Iiss 1\1. Samphier, :\lis8 :'Ii. \ Plless; ('OfILfIt'ttel' ('on-
reners: Programme, :\Irs. P. ('ald\\ell, :\li!<8 E. Kerr.
:\Iiss E. Dunhar, :\Ii!'s H. Hpllis;
i('h \ïf<itinl!:, :\Iiss H.
('ulllmilll!:S, :\liss D. Peahod
', :\Ii"s :\If-'rf<('rp:m;
Erlitor, Mis.. :\1.
amphier.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
237
Oì\TARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Bclleville General Hospital
Hon. Prp
ident, :\Ii
t! Florence .\Idndoo; I'resident,
\Iiss Ueta Fitzgerald; \"ice-Pn.!'ident. :\lrs. J. -\ndrews;
ecretary, :\Iiss L. :;mith; Treasurer, .\Iiss :\Iarion
:\lacFarlane; Fl,mer Committee, Miss Betty :\IeEy,an;
Hepresentative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss H.
rhompson.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
lion. President, .\Uss E. "1. "lcKee; President, "liss
K. Charnley; \"ice-President, "Iiss G. Turnbull;
ecretary. "Iiss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte :;t., Brant-
ford; -\s!<istant-Secretary, .\'liss V. Bucky,ell; Treasurer,
:\liss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
\lrs. F. Doherty; Floy,er Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
:\liss W. Laird, Miss 1\1. .\1. Nichol; Gift Committee,
:\Iiss J. Edmondson, Mrs. E. f'larid!o!;e; The Canadian
Nur8e and Press Revresentative, Miss H. Diamond;
('hairman. Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole;
Representative to Local Council of Women, "Iiss R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
lIon. President, "Uss .c\. L. ShanneUe; President,
l\1rs. H. B. White; First \"ice-President, Miss 1\1.
Arnold; Second Vice-President, Miss J. Nicholson;
Third \ïce-President, "'Irs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
Iiss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, .\lrs. H. F. Vandusen, 65 Church f:t.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, .\Uss \'.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
lion. President, 1\1iss P. Campbell; President, Miss
B. Pardo; Vice-President, "Iiss K. Crack!e; Second
Vice-President, "Iiss F. Houston; Recordinl!: Secretary,
:\1iss E. Craig; Corresponding :;pcretary, "Iiss R. Will-
more; ,\SRt. Secretary, "Iiss "I. Stacey; Treasurer,
"Iiss B. Haley; Press f'orrespondent, :\Iiss R. Baker;
Committee Conveners: Refreshment, "liss :\1. Wickett;
BuyinJ!:, :\'lisses ,1. Finney, :\1. Mc
au!o!;hton and .\Ir".
R. F. :\Iitchell; Floral, Mil's E. Orr:
o('ial, :\lrs. T.
Burke; f'ouncillors, Misses \ . Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Hevresentative to Tht C'anadiun .Vur..e,
:\Iiss P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lion. Pre!'ident, :\lother :\Iary; Hon. \"i,'e-President,
:,ister \1. Consolata; President, :\lis8 Ruth Winter;
\ ice-President, "Iiss :\1. Kearns; I"peretary- Trea"urer,
:\liRS J. Lundy, 112 \'an Allen Ave.; E'\ecutives, :\liRses
II. Gray, I. Poissant, Z. :\Iartin, :\lrs. H. HodJ!:in; Hep-
resentative District No. I, H.N.A.O., .\Iiss .Jessie Ross;
Hepresentative to Till' C'anadian Nurse, Miss Y L
(,hauvin.
COR:\W.\LL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
lion. President, "Irs. J. Boldick; President, :\l1ss
\lary Fleminl!;; Firat \"ice-President, Miss hathleen
Burke;
ec()nd Vice-President, Miss Bernice .\fcKillop;
ecretary- Treasurer,
1 iss C. Droppo, Curnwall General
Hospital; Representative to The C'anadian Nursf', :\Ii"s
II. ('. Wilson, Cornwall General Hospital.
GALT
.\.A., (;alt Hospitaf
11011. President, Miss -\. (,leaver; Presidellt, \lifl"
:'. :\Iitehell;
eeretary, :\liss L. :\Iar
air, 91 \"ictoria
.\ve.; Assistant
ecretary, :\Iiss T. Rainey; Treasurer,
:\Iiss A. :\lacDonald; Floy,er Com,ener, I\liss Huther-
ford; Representative to The C'anadian Nur8e and Press
Representative, :\1iss :\1. Yandvke.
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
lion. President, \liss S. A. f'alllpbell,
lIvt. Guelph
General Ho"pital; Presiòpnt, Mi"t< C. S. ZeiJl:ler; First
\"ice-Pre...ident, 'Ii!'", n. f amhprt:
econd \ iee-l'reRi-
(lent, :\1 i"s :\1. I )arh); :'ecretar
, :\f i",s
. l(pnnpy;
I'rpasurer, :\fiss .J. \Vatt!on; C'ommilt"e8: Floy,cr, :\fiR"
It.
peers, \f iss I. Wilson;
o('ial. :\1 rs. ,I. ('ocky, ell
(('om,ener): ProJl:ramllle, .\lisR E. :\1. Ehy (('oll\'pner);
Heprp!,!plItnti'e to The Ca7ladmll VlIr,'I. :\li"R 'I:trion
\Voo,1
H \;\IILTOI\
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
lion. President, Miss E. C. Rayside; President, .\lr!'l
H. Hess; \"ice-President, Miss !\1. Bain; Recordinjl;
ecretary, Miss .\1. Matheson; Corresponding SerrC'-
tary, "Iiss H. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
Treasurer, :\Iiss J. JackRon, 326 .\Iain \\.; -\ssistallt
rreaBurer, .\1iss G. Hodgson ; f:ecretar
- Treasurer,
:\Iutual Benefit Association,
Iiss O. Watson, 14,,)
Emerald S.; Committee Convener8: Executive, !\liss H.
Aitken; Flo\\er, Miss A. Squires; Programme, !\Iiss
.\1. Gosnell; Registry, Miss N. Thompson; BlIdl!:et,
l\'Irs. 1\1. Barlow; Reprpsentative to The Ca7lad'an
]l;ur8e,
liRS A. Scheifele.
\.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother "Iartina; l'reEident, :\liSR
Eva Moran; \"ice-President, Miss F. Nicholson; Secre-
tary, :\fis:<
Iabel :\Iaclntosh, 168 Ray ðt.; Treasurer,
:\Iiss :\1. Kelly; Hepresentative to The Calladwn Nur8e.
Miss B. :\Ie Kenna, '277 Herkimer St.; Represpntative
R.N. <\.0., "Iiss J.
Iorin.
KII\GSTOl'\
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; Pre"ident,
.\lrs. W. G. Elder; \Ïce-President. :\'Irs. .\. Hearn;
Secretary, !\fiss Olive !\lcDermott; Treasurer, I\liflR
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
"Iisses K. .\fcGarry, :\1. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Yisitinl!:
Committee, Misses X. Speagle, I,. Sullivan, L. I.a
Rocque; Entertainment Committpe, :\lrs. R. W.
Clarke, .\Iisses
. Hickey, B. Wat!'on.
A..\., .dn
ston General Hospital
Hon. President, "fiss Lousie D. Acton; President,
Miss Ann Baillie; First Vice-President, "1iss Carrie
:\Iilton; Second Yice-President, Miss Olivia 1\1. Wilson,
Third Vice-President, Miss A. Walsh; Secretary, .\'li
!'
-\nna Davis, 464 Frontenac St.; Treasurer. .\lrs. C. W.
"lallory, 203 Albert St.; Cot!tJener: Flower Committee,
Mrs. Sidney Smith. 151 Alfred St.; Press Representa-
tive, Miss Mary Wheeler, Kingston General Hospital;
PrÙ'ate Duty Section. Miss Constance Sandy, ith, 2
5
-\lfreò Street.
hITCHE"I,jER
A.A., hitchencr and Waterloo Gencral Hospital
Hon. President, :\liss 1-1... \\". :,cott; President, :\lrs.
Walter Zie!o!;ler; First \"iee-PreRident,
Iiss Thelma
itler;
el'ond \"i('e-President, :\lis!'! Elsie Trouse;
p"retary, 1\liss .Jean :-'indair. 144 \,"ater St.
.; \!'!!'!iR-
tant Seeretary, :\fiss :\Iarion ßallantyne; TreaR\.r('r.
:\Ii
" :\lary Orr.
UI\J)SA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
lion. President, :\fiss E. S. Reid; President, :\fiss I..
.J. Harding; First \"ice-President, Mrs. O. WallinJ!:;
:;econd \"ice-President. Mrs. !\1. I. Thurston; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Morriflon, 46 Colborne
t. \V.; Treasurer, Mrs. G. H. Allen; Flo\\er Convener,
:\fisfl D. \1.
mith; Social ('omenpr, :\lisR h.. S.
:\Iortimore.
LOI\DO
.\.A., Ontario Hospital
lion. I'rpt-iclent, :\Iiss :\fary T. Jaeobfl; l're"idrnt.
:\Iifl!< X. :\1. Williams, ;;.') I:Ò\\Rrd :,t.: FirRt \ï,'{'-Prp"i-
elpnt, :\Irs. \', \1. Heilly;
pe..nd \ i"c-l'rt't-iòpnt, :\fi""
F. R. Ball; :,eeretary, "Irs. F D. Gro"vpnor, 5:.? Doult..n
,\ ve.; Treasurer, :\Iil's E. l\:ellllpd)', ()lItari.. H. ,...pital;
!'c...ial ('ommittep, :\li
"'PR I. I ind"RY, I.. h..plly; Pn'
"
HC'prpspntative, I\Ii"" F. Burls.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lion. PreRidellt, :\Iother :\1. Patri('ia; Hon. \"i,'e-
Pre!<iòellt, Si"tpr \1. Ruth; Prp"idpnt, :\fi!ls Oli\ e
O'''ll'il; Fir..t '"i('e-l're..iòPllt. 'Iil'!I :\fadalp/lp Bal-pr;
:""'01111 \ lI'e-l'rPRident, 'Ii"" Erlü B"awr; Rt'....nlill!o!;
:-""'TI"l\r
, \1 i"" (; Il\d
!I '1/\1 till: (' orn"s(lollllinl!: :-0. cre-
IILn, :\11"" IrPIII' Griffpn: rn'ü"un'r 'Ii!lll Glad)" (:ray,
l'rêss Th'presentlLti\ e, 'Ii".. Stplla (;i!o!;na": Hpl,rpl'pnts-
tivpl' to RI'Jl:istr\' BORnl, :\Ii!l!<('!1 HhC's HOllall, ('('...:1..
Iall('ry, 011\ p O'N"ril.
238
THE CANADIAN NURSb
A.A., Victoria Hospital
HIIII. I'rE''sidellt, :\Iiss Hilda
tuart; HOIl. \ïl'e-Pret'i-
dent, :\Irs. A. E. Silvery.oud; PreRident, I\liss 1\1. 1\1.
Jones, 257 Riduut f;t. S.; First \"ice-President, :\Iiss II.
Huston; ðecond \"ice-President, :\Iiss M. :\1l'Laughlin;
Treasurer, Mis!! D. -\tkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Se('re-
tary, :\Ii!!s F. Quil/:ley; Correspondinl/: Secretary, :\li!'R
:\1. Smith, \ïcturia Hospital: Board of Dirp(.tors, :\lil'!!PS
('. Gillies, A. :\Ialloch, J. ì\lortimer,
1. Yule, C.
SkillllPr, :\Ir!'. C. Rose.
:\I.\GAR.\ FALLS
A.A., :\ia
ara Falls General Hospital
Hun. President, :\Iiss :\1.
. Park; President, :\Iiss .\.
Irving; First \"icp-Preaidpnt. :\Iiss Y. Coutts; Second
\"iee-Presidpnt, :\lrs. H. English; Spt"retary-Treasurer,
:\Iiss F. .J. Loftus, 823 Ml'Rae St. CurrespondinJl: I'el'rp-
tary, !\Iiss A. Pirir; Auditors, :\Iis!< Day, :\Irs. Sharpe;
:-'iek Committee. :\Irs. Teal, :\Iiss Carson, :\Iiss Thorpp.
ORAI\GEVILLE
A..\., Lord Duflerin Hospital
Hun. President. :\lrs. O. Fleming; President, :\Iiss
L. :\1. Sproule; First \"ice-President, Miss V. Lee;
=-,econd Vice-President, Miss I. Allen; Curresponding
Se
retary. :\Iiss :\1. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
:\l1ss E. :\1. Hayward; Treasurer, :\lisB A. Burke.
ORILLIA
A.A., Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Johnston; President. :\li8s
G. :\1. Went; First Vice-President, :\Iiss L. Whitton.
Second Vice-President, :\'liss 1\1. Harvie; Secretarv
Treasurer, Miss Alice !\1.
mith, 112 Peter t-:t. X.
Rel/:ular Meeting-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA WA
A.A., Ushawa General Hospital
H'II1. President. :\Iiss E. :\Iae\\"illiams. General H08-
pital; President, :\Iiss .1. ì\lelntosh, 414 :\la880n St.'
First \"ice-President, :\Iiss J. Thompson, 115 Agnes ::'t.:
Secund Vice-President, :\Iiss H. Post, General Hospital;
f;ecretary, :\Iiss :\1. Chappell, 259 Celina st.; Assifò\tant
Secretary, :\1 iss :\1. Tribble, !II Connaught I't.; CorrE'f'.
p"nding Se('retary, :\Iiss E. Clark, 97 -\thol St.;
Trpasurer, :\Iiss E. Dickinson, 534 :\Iary
t.
OTfAW.\
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. Presidpnt, :\Iiss :\1. A. ('atton, Carleton Place.
President, :\1 iI's ,1. Blyth, Civic Hospital; \"ice-President
:\liss :\1. ì\lcXiece, Perley Home; Secretary, :\Irs.
H. L. :\Iurton, 29 Clegg :-'t.; Treasurer, :\Iiss :\1. ('.
Slinn, 204 Stanley Ave.; Board of Directors, :\lis8 E.
:\lcCnll, :\Jiss S. :\lcQuade, :\liss L. Bedford, :\lrs.
E. C. Elmitt; Representative to The Canadian Nurse
\Iisl' A. Ebbs, 80 Hamilton .-\ ve.; Representative t
Central Re!!,istry, :\Iiss H. Pridmore, 90 Third Ave.;
Press Representative, Miss E. Allen.
A..\.. Ottawa Civic Hospital
lion. President, :\Ii!'s Gertrude Bennett; President,
:\Ii!!s Edna Osbornp: First \"ice-President, :\Iiss D( rottl"\'
:\Ioxley; 1-'eeond \ïee-President, :\Iiss E. Curry; Hè-
('ordinjl: Seeretary. :\Iiss :\Iary Lamb; CorrpspondinJl:
s"eretary, :\Iif's Downey; Treasurpr, :\Ii!<s \\ïnnifred
Gemmell; Ew('uti\'e Committee, :\Iiss :\Iulvaugh. :\Ii!'s
r era Barry, :\Iil's Bertha Farmer, \liss D. Johnst"n
:\Iiss 1>. I\:elly; Heprpsentativea to Central Rel!"istry'
\liss I\:atie Clark,
Iiss L. Boylp; Convener Flowp;
Committee, :\Iiss G. FerJl:uson; Prpf's Repreaentati\'e
:\Iiss E. Pepppr. '
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
lIun. President. l
e\". Sr. Flavie Onmitille; President
:\Ii!'!s K. Bayley; First \ïee-President, :\Iiss G. Clark:
:-:econd \'j('e-Presirlent, Miss :\1. :\Iunroe; Secrptary
Treasurer, :\Iiss Dorothy Kllo'l(. Ottay.a Genen&l Hos-
pital; :\Iembership
e('retMry, .\liss F. Poitras; :-,i('"
Cummittee, :\liRS P. Hi!<s.mnette. :\li!<R S. Kearn!',
Ij
"
B. Lpl!"ris; Hevrp!<pntativp to 1'1" ('nl/fLdiau Nltr.".
:\Iif'R E. 1\:('I1I1('{ly; Hpprp!<t'lltati\"pl' to 1....1\1 COlllu..1
..f \\omcn, \Ir!<. L.ltinlt'r. :\fr!<. Dnllnt' and :\Irl'. It,
('lair; Hpprespntati\ f'1j t.. ('PJl
ral HpJ!iRtry,
I i""
ROJ!en., :\Iif'R
I r 8!ulrp\"iUe.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
lIun. President, l\1iss E. Maxwell; President, :\lisR
1\1. l\1ac.Laren; \"ice-President, Miss 1\1. Lunan; Secre-
tary, :\I1SB M. Nelson, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, l\liss
I. Alla.'.l' 1188
ladstOl
e Ave.; Central Registry, ì\1Ïsses
:\1. \\ IIsun. S. C'arnnchael; Nominating Committee
Iisses
. Clark, :-:. Carmichael., E. Younp;; RevreRenta
bve to The Cnnadwn Nur8e, :\11!!s :\1. Drummond. Civic
Hospital.
OWEN
UUNI>
A.A., Owen Sound General and \Iarlne Hospital
Hon. President, :\lies B. Hall; Pref'ident :\Iiss F.
P; Fir
t \'ice-P
esident, Miss :\1. Pato
; :,econd
VIce-PresIdent. :\l1ss J. Ap;new; Secretary, :\Iiss .\.
R51bertson, 473-12th
t. W.; Treasurer, :\IiI's A.
\\ eedon; Pi
nist, :\Iiss R. Dunoon; Flower Committee,
Mrs: :\lc:\lllIan; Programme Committee, :\Iis!< 1\1.
CrUIckshank; Sif'k Committee. :Miss :\'1.
ill1' Press
Representative, :\Iiss H. Walden; Refreshment COIU-
mittee, :\liss C_ Penner; Auditor, !\Irs. Juhn!!ton.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
lion. President, :\hs. E. 1\1. Leeson; President :\Ii
e
.-\. Dobbin; First Vice-President, Miss H. R
ssell
Se
on
Vice-President, Mis!! L. Simpson; Secretary';
:\l1ss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Trea!!urer, I\'liss
!-:. .W ood, 2.12 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Speretary;
:\I1!<s E. \\al/:ar,
7
Park
t.; F:odal COII\'pnpr, :\liRS
:\L Watson.
SARNIA
A.A., Sarnla General IIospital
Hnn. President, :\Iiss :\L Lee; President, :\Iiss L.
:-'e
rist; \'j
e-President, Miss A. Cation; Secretary,
:\l1ss A.
Ilverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson,
Hepresentative to The Canadian Nur8e. :\Iiss C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), :\Iiss D. Shay.'
Programme and Social C'ommittee, Miss L. Sejl:rist. '
STRATFORI>
:\..\., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss A. 1\1. :\Iunn; President, :\Iiss
L. Atty.ood; Vice-President, :\liss :\1. :\lcMaster;
ee
etary-Treasurer, .:\Irs. K. Snidt'r, 36 Doup;las St.;
SO
JaI Convener, :\l1ss .\. Rock; Flower Convener;
:\I1!<!! C. Staple...
ST. CATHERli'oES
A.A., Mack Training School
Hon. President, :\Iiss Anne Wright, General Hosvi-
t8:l; Pr
:,ident, . :\Iiss
ora
old, General Hospital;
FIrst . \ Ice-PresIdent, :\l1ss :\Iarl/:aret :\1 eClunie, 3!)
Chaplin Ave.; Second \"ice-President. :\Iiss E\"elvn
II orton, Louth St.; Secretary-Treasurer, :\Iiss .J. HHstie,
General Hospital; Social Committee, :\Iiss Aileen
Johnston, General Hospital, I\liss Donalda Veale, 3.')
Academy St., :\Iiss Bernice Rule, 146 W ellHnd Ave.;
Representati\"e to The Canadian Nur8e, :\liss Feather-
stone, 17 Hainer I't.; Correspondent. :\1 iss Current;
ProJl:ralllme Committee, :\Iiss Brubaker, 1 FitzgerHld St.
ST. TIIO\-IAS
:\.1\., :\lemorlal Huspltal
Hon. President, :\Iiss Armstrong; Hnn. PrPf'idel1t,
:\Iiss Bw'hanan; President, :\Iiss Bella :\Iitehpnu;
First \"iee-Pref'ident, :\Iiss Annie Campbell;
E'(,(lIId
\"ice-President, :\Iiss Jervell; Reecrdinl/: !'p"retary;
'IiI's Esseltine; Correspondinl/: Secretary. :\tis!< J anwnd,
Treasurer, :\Ii.... ('Iaypole; E"\ecutives. :\lis8 :\Ie.-\Ipinp,
:\1iss Irvine, :\Iiss
una Mannix, :\liss Hazel Hastin
s.
:\Iiss L. Crane; Committee Co nvenerll: NOIninatinjl:,
:\fiss J. Grant; Sick Nursing, .Miss E. Lanyon;
ocial,
:\Iiss C'. Robert!'!(m; PurchasinJl:, :\li!'8 L. Ronson; Way!!
and :\Ieans, :\Iiss Olive Paddon: Representative to
The Canadinn Nurse, :\liBS Amy PrincE'; HepreRPntMth'e
to thp HS.A.O., 'liss :\Iary :\Ia:,-.
TOROì'\TO
A. A. Grace Division. Toronto Western Hospital
11011. PreRident. :\IrR. C, .J. Currie; Presidt'l1t, :\Ii!'!'!
\. n. Bell: Hp('ordillJ( Spl'rptary, :\Iiss lJ"ris L Kellt;
Corrp",polldinjl: Io'p('rptary. :\liRS :\Iay Hood. Gra('p
1I')Hpital, Torollto; Trp88urpr, :\1 if'!< \'. :\1. Elliott, 1!14
('ottinJl:halll
t.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., Th
(;rant \lacDonald Tralnin
S,,'hool
for !\ur"es
I [on. Pref'idellt, :\lisM El'ther:\1 ('001.., I:W I )UIIII
.\ ve.; Prpl'ident, :\1 i"" Ida \\ pekes, 1:10 DUIIII .-\ ve.;
\ï('e-PrPBidellt, :\Irs. :\Iarion :-:mith; Hel'ording
el're-
tary, :\Iis
orrns :\11' Leod; \orrespouding
e"reta
y,
:\Iiss Ethel \\. atsoll, 1:10 DUlin -\ ve.: Treasurer, :\hss
Phyllis La\HeIH'p;
,,('ial ('OIl\'Pller, :\Iis" Bptty HI.rthe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
11011. Presidents, :\lrs. Goodson, :\liBB F. Potts; HOll.
\ïce-Presidpnt, ì\liss Austin; President. !\Irs. Strachan;
\ïce-Presidpnts, :\Irs. Cassan, :\lrs. Raymond; Re('ord-
ing Se('retary, :\Iiss E. Lanl!;man; ('orre
pondinl!;
:-:er-retary, :\liRS :\1. Blar-kwood; Treasurer, :\11IÒ\s Deck,
f\1
-\venue Rd.; Committee ("ollvener8: Social, :\lrs. A.
RU"l'ell; FIO\H'r, :\Iiss H. Fil'her; Pro
ramme, :\Iis"
Elliott; Publil'atiolls, :\Iiss f'. E. T p\\is; Hejlistry, :\Iiss
Currie; Welfare. :\Iiss Parker; H.X..\.O., :\Iiss :\Iillpr.
A.A., Rivenlalc Hospital
President, :\Iiss \rmstrolll!;; First \ïee-Prpsidellt,
:\Iiss Gastrill; Secolld \ïl'p-Prpsident, :\Iiss 1\1. Thomp-
I'CJII; Secretary, :\Iiss Staples, Ri\'erdale Hospital;
Treasurer, :\Irs. H. Dunbar, f)
Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, :\1 i"s :\Iathieson, :\Ii"s f'tratton, :\1 iss Breeze,
:\Iil's Baxtpr, :\Iiss L(mrie, Hiverdale Hospital.
A.A.,
t. John's Hospital
lion. President, Sister Beatricc, :5t. John's \UII\pllt;
['resident, Miss Susan l\I0rl!;an,
22 St. Georl/:e St.;
First Vice-President, Miss 1'<all Hethprinl!;ton, Nurses'
Heeidencp, Toronto General Hospital; Second \ïce-
President, Miss Kathleen Burtchall, 21-\ :\Iajor St.;
Recordinl!; :-:ecretary, :\Iiss Helen Frost, 450 Maybank
Ave.; ('orresponding f'ecretary, :\fiss MarlZaret Creigh-
tOil, 152 Booll Ave.; Treasurer, :\Iiss \Vinnifred Webb,
77 SumIJwrhill Ave.; Com:eTler8: Entertainment Com-
mittee, :\1 iss .Nettie Da vis,
2 Albany Ave.;
ick alld
Visitinl!; Committee, :\Iiss Gladys Batten. 32 AlballY
Ave.; Press Re(lrp.sentative, :\Iiss Gra('e Doherty, 26
Norwood Road.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lion. Pre'!ident, Hev. Rister Mary :\Iarl!;aret; Presi-
dent, :\Iiss :\1. Kelly; First \ïcp-President, :\Ii"s O.
Kidd; Secolld Vi('p-Presidpnt. :\li88 :\1. Daly; Record-
illl!:
er-retary, :\Iifll' 1\1. Goodfriend; ('orre"pondinl!;
Se('retary, :\lis8 V. lIanley; Treaflurpr, :\lil'fI F. R"bill-
!'Ion; \ouncillorll, :\1 il'ses .\. Timlin, L. DUllhar, I.
l'o"er, H. :\1('('IJe.
A..\., St. :\Iichacl's Hospital
11011. l'rl'flident, Hp\'. :-:ister X"rillp; lI,m. \ï(,I'-
l'rpf'idpnt, Hcv. SiRtpr .Jpanne; Presidpnt, :\Iiss :\Iarip
:\felody; Fir!!t \ïc'e-President, :\Iifl!'l ('rocker;
ec'ond
\ï('e-Pre"ident, :\liss R. Grol!;an; Third \ï('e-PrPflidpnt,
\Iisl' .J. O'Connor; Treasurer, :\Iiss G. Coultpr, Apt.
404, 4:! Isahelle
t.; Assistant Treasurpr, :\liRS I. .\" palon;
Hl'cordillg Sef'retary, Miss :\1. Doherty,
t. :\li('hapl'l'
JllIl'pital; ('orrpf'pondin
::;e('retary, :\liRs 1\.. :\1,'Auliffe,
Eaf'twood .\ pt., !'herbourne St.; Private Duty Rrwe-
..entntÙ'", :\IiI'R :\1,.GlIire; Pllhlir lIealth Ht presentative,
\lif'1' H. Kprr; Prp"s HepreHPntati"e, :\IiSR Rel!;an;
('oun('illor", :\lif'spS :\1. Brim n, L. :\1('Gurk, C. Cronin.
A.:\., Toronto Gcneral Hospital
lIon. Vice-President. Mir;os Jean Gunn; Preflicll'lIt.
\Iiss N. Fidler, Ontario Ho"pital, \\ hithy; First
Vice-Presidpllt,
liflR J. \rull'rson; f'f'r-ond \ï,.p-
Presidellt, !\1il'
E. Manllllll!;;
cl'retary, :\Irl'. A. \\.
Farlllpr, S9 Brpadalhalle
t.; Trpl1l!urpr. :\1 iss Eo
Hobson, T.G.II. HI'!'Iidenr-e: Assistant Trl'as..rer, :\Ii!ls
Forl!;ie; Archi\ iRt, .\Iiss Kni!lcll'
"; ('''um.mor", :\lif'!I J.
\\'ilson, Mi"fI nix, :\liRI' ('rydI'Tlnall; Committee ('U/I-
leners: FI,)\\pr, :\liHA :\1. :\1('h,ay; Pr"l!:rallJlIIP, 'IiI'''
E. StulLrt; PreRl', :\Ii!4f1 :\1. :-:tl'"urt, Ki. ,'>15S; Tml1/rlLllI'f',
\Iiss :\1. OJ'(; NOlllilHltiollf<, :\lil''I (
. Roudwith;
,...il'l.
:\aisø .1. \lil,'hf'lI; Elimh"II, Fi,.'"
IJlit"; """I..ri:"
FlIlIcl, :\Iil'f' lIallnallt
239
\..\., Toronto Urthoþcdlc and Eabt Gcncral
Hospital Training School for ;\iurses
11011. President, :\Iiss E. :\11'1 ean, Torollto EaHt
General Jlospital; President, Mrs. I:. I'hililJ8, IS.')
))onlallds A\'e.; \ i,'e-l'resident, :\Iiss .J. :\lc:\laster,
IS5 D'Hllands .\ve.;
ecretary-Treasurer. :\Iiss N. \.
Wilson, 50 CO" an Ave.; Hepresentati\ e to Central
Hegistry, :\Iiss 1\1. Heston, 753 Glencairn .he.; :\Jiss
B. MscInto'!h, 748 Soudan Ave,; Representative to
R.N..-\.O.. Miss ll. :\lacIntosh, 74b
oudan _.he.
A.A., Toronto "'cstern Hospital
11011. President, :\Iiss B. L. Ellis; Presidl'lIt, :\liHH
F. :\Iatthe"s, 74 Westmount Ave.; Vice-Prp8ident,
:\Iiss U. Colwell; Recordinj!: ::;ecretary, MiBB G. Patter-
SOil; Secretary-Treasurer, Mifls Helen Stpwart, Toronto
Western Hospital; Hepresentativc to The CnlWd1'an
.Vllrse, Mil'!' F. Greellaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President. Miss Ross; President, Miss :\1.
:\lcClinchey; \ïce-President, :\Iiss Jessie Gordon;
\orrespondinl!;
ecretary, Miss :\largBTet Anderson,
Treasurer, :\Iiss I. Archibald, 659 Huron St.; Corrcs-
pondpnt to The Canadian NUr8e, :\Iiss I. Onfllow.
A.A., ",'omen's Colle
e Hospital
Hon. Prf'sident, "Irs. B,mllJan; Hon. \ïce-Prreident,
:\Iiss :\Ieiklejohn; President, :\Iiss Worth, !1:1
carburI)
Reach Blvd.;
ef'retary, :\Iiss Free, 48 Northumberland
:-:t. Treal'urer; :\Iisf' Fraser, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Hospital Instructors and \dmil1lstrators,
l'niverslty of Toronto
Hon. Presidellt, :\liBB E. K. Russell; HCII1. \ïce-
President, Miss G. Hiscocks; Presidellt, :\Iiss Glad"vn
.Jones; First Vice-President, Misfl 1\1. :\fc('amüs;
econd \ïce-Presidpnt, :\Iiss E. Y uung;
eeretar)',
:\Iiss C. :\1. \ardwell, Toronto General Hospital;
Treasurpr, :\Iif'R :\1. :\leKay, Toronto Gpnpral Hospital.
A.A., ('onl1au
ht Trainin
School for !\ur
('s
Toronto Hospital, \\eston
H'Hl. Prpsident, :\liHS E. :\la,.J>. Did.son. Tllrollto
Hospital. \\estoll; \ïce-Prpf'idpnt, "if's Anll Bol"pll,
Toronto Hospital. "e"ton;
p('retary, :\Iiflf< G. I epm-
illl!:, Toronto Hospital, '" pl'ton; Treasl/rl'r, :\li8f1 If.
:\1 cI\:ay, Toronto Hospital, " pStoll; COllveller 01
ocial Committee, :\Iiss :\1. .Jonp", Torollto 1I0f'pitnl,
". I'l'tOIl.
WI:'\I>SOH
A. \., lIotel Dleu. \\indsor
I'n'!>idf"lIt,
I iss Mar} Perrin; First \ï('e-l'n'tHdPlII,
\Ii!>s :\Iarie Odette;
('eulld Vice-Presidellt. :\Iit\ll ZOf'
I ondcau;
e('felury. :\Iiss :\1.
pellce; Trelll'urer, :\Iifls
:\Iary Fenpr; I'r"l!;ramllle ('ommittep, Mi88es II.
:\Isholley, .\. IIarvf'Y, H.
Iattcry: Sick COllllllittel',
:\Iiflfles R. Farrell, II. Greelmuy, 1\1. MeGI..r); :-:ocinl
('Ollllllitt('(',
I if'f'l's J. Londeal/, K. \\. pbstl'r, I. RpsulIIP:
Corrt'f'(lOIHll'ut to The rrwudian NUrse. \Ii"" :\Iary
Fillnl',mn. :\1 ppti III!; "ecolld :\Iollday C\ rry II"",t",
p.lII.
WOOI)SIU(:I\.
.\..\.. (;('neral lIu"pltal
Fir!!t 11011. I'rPRidt'"t, '11141' FTIlIII'pfl :-:1,l\rVI';
pc"lId
lion. Prl'l.idellt, :\lif'R IIrll'lI Pott,,: Pn'flidpllt, :\Iil'l'
\luh('1 Co!'tl'llo; \ï"I'-Pr.."idellt, :\IiR" \IIIIS ('ook:
Het'onlinlZ
ec'rl'tRry, :\Iis" Lila .Inl'k"oll; ('orrellpollcl-
iIII/: :-:f'I'rt'tlLT\ .u..1 I'refl!' Ht'Jlrf'''t'lItuti\ 1', :\1 i"f' I )orif'
('mil/:; ;'111 (;I'orj!t'
t.: .\!'!4i"tullt
(','n'tnr), MiA'! .1"1\11
1\"'1"; T..pnl'uTI'r. :\Ii.." :\IlLud,'
h"d,t. ('OnÐe'lt'r.. ..!
('"",',,"1I1t I'r"l(r,,,"m.'. ,...." Flln EI>\; FI""er, 'II""
I'. \\ Itl",,"; :-:,..-1:11. 'Ir" :\1.-1 Ii ,rmi,l. 'I..". l' .J"I"''''.II,
:\ Ii".. IIa..t i Ill!!'.
240
THE
CANADIAN
NURSE
QUEBEC
LACHI!\E
A.A., Lachlnc General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss
I. L. Brown; President, :\Irs.
Hose Wilson; Vice-President, Miss :\1. McNutt;
ecretary-Treasurer, MiBB A. Roy, 379 :'t. Catherine
ðt., Lachine; Executive Committee, :\lÏss J apierre,
:\Ii!'s Byrns. :\Ieeting, first :\1onday of each month.
\fONTREAL
A.A., Children's :\Iemorlal Hospital
Hon. Pr
sident. :\Iiss .\. I\:inder; President, :\Iiss H.
Paterson; Vice-President.. Miss H. Nutall; Hecretarv,
\Iiss .J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar \ ve.; Treasurer. :\Ii
L.. Destromp; Executive Committee, :\Iiss E. Hillyard,
.\lIss :\1. Flander; :'oeial Committee, convener, .\lisE<
:\1. Gill. .\JisE< A. .\dlington, Miss M. :\leCallum and
.\Jiss :\1. Robinson; Representative to The {'anadian
Nur1le, .\Iis!' \'. :;chneider; f'ick Nurses Committee, .\Jiss
ll. Easterbrook.
:\.A., Homeopathic Hospital
President, .\Jiss A. Porteous; \ïee-President, .\Jioss
:\1. Hayden; Treasurer, :\Iiss D. .\Iiller, Homeopathic
Hospital; .\ssistant Treasurer, .\Jiss
. Horner; Ser-re-
tary, .\Iiss
. Holland; As!'ifltant
ecretary, .\Iiss .J.
Gray; Private DILly Section, .\Jiss A. Porteous; Pro-
jl:ramme Committee, .\Iiss H. BriJrht; Entertainment
Committee, :\fiss :\1. Hayden; Representative to The
Canadian NurRe, .\Iiss ,J. "'hitmore; Heprellentative.
.\Jontreal Graduate Nursell Association, :\fi!'s .\1.
Bright;
ick Benefit
ociety, :\Irs. J. Warren.
L'Associatlon des Gardes-Malades Graduées de
I'HApltal Notre-Dame
Executif: Mesdemoiselles .-\lice I epine, Présidente'
-\lice Gelinas, \ïce-Présidente; Aline Leduc. 2i;'m
\
ice-Pr"'sidente; Suzanne Giroux, Trésorière; !\IarJ!:ue-
rite Pauze, F'ecrétaire; Conseillhes: .\Jesdemoiselles
Germaine Brisset, Irene Uouillard. Eugenie Tremhlay,
Francoise Chenier, Juliette Beaulieu.
A.A., :\Iontreal General Hospital
Hon. PreE<idents, .\Iiss J. Webster, .\Jiss S. TedfLrd,
:\liss F. E.
trum
; Hon. Treasurpr, .\Jiss H. Dunlop;
Hon. .\Iember, .\IISS J. CraiJr; President, .\-1iBB E.
Frances Upton, Ste. 221, 1:196 :-:t. Catherine St. ".'
First \'ice-President, :\Iiss .\1. .\Iathev,soll' ::;e('oJl(i
\'ice-President, .\lrs. L. H. Fisher; Recording S'ecretarv,
:\Iiss D. :'now; Corresponding
ecretary. Mrs. E. t..
:\Jenzies, f\6
5 Lasalle RIvet, \'erdun' Treasurer (Alum-
nae .-\ssociation and .\Iutua! Benefit 'Committee), Miss
I. Davies. .\Iontreal General Hospital; Executive Com-
mittee, \fiss .\1. K. Holt, :\Jiss H.
ewton, .\Iiss L
utton. .\I
"s O. Lilly, Miss R. Herman; Representa-
tives to Prll'Ute Du'Y SpctioTl, .\-liss E. Gruer (Convener),
.\Iiss (', Cole, .\I:ss E. .\Iarshall; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, .\Iiss I. "'ellinjl: (Convener),
.\Jontreal General Hospital; Reprpsentative!' to I.oeal
(
..unc.i.1 .o.f Women,. :\Iiss q. Colley, :\Iis" :\1. Ross;
Ick \ ISltlll
Committee, .\lIss F. E. F'trumm, .\Ii!'s R.
Herman; Programme Committee, :\Iiss T. Davie!'. :\IiRs
.\J. Batson; Refreshment Committee, :\Iiss n. ender-
hill (('onvener), .\IiRs C. Coombe!', :\Jiss C. Fitzl/:prald,
:\Jis'! D. :\lcRae.
1\.A., Royal Victoria H;;spital
lIulI. President, :\Jiss E. A. Draper; Pre>>ident. .\Iil's
.\1. F. Herl'e:v; First \'ice-President, .\Iiss J.
tevenROIl'
=-,econd
'i('p-President, :\lrs. Grieve; Recordinl/: !:'eerp
t.ary, .\JI!
B E. R. R"
ers; !:'e('retar:\'- Treasurer,
IiR!' I,.
.Tamer. Royal \ïe'V ria Ho!'pital; Exer-utive Committpp,
.\Irs. E. Roherts, .\Ir!
. G. C. .\Ielhado, :.\Ir!'. Prideam.
\Iisses. E. Et
er, E. Reid, A. Bulman; rOT/l',.nerl> "f
ro.mm1ftees: Fmance. .\Iiss B. Campbell: Sick \ïsitinl/:,
:\II!!!! R. Fellows; Prol/:ramme, :.\Irl'. K. HutchiRon;
R
freshments, !\liBB .\1. Rowley; PriIJate Dut!1 Section.
-'1I!'s R. Cor-hrane; Representatives to Local Cmlll('il
of "'omen, l\1i88 J. Stevenson, l\lrs. E. Cooper; Hepre-
sentative to The Canadian NUT8e,
fiss E. Allder.
A.A., \\'omen's General Hospital, \Vestmount
U'.JIl. Presidents, :\Jiss F. Ge,'rjl:e, .\Iiss E. Trene),;
Pr
sldent, .\lrs. L. 1'1. Crewe; First \ïce-President,
:\llss E. 1'loore; :-'pcond \'ice-President,
Iiss Ii. 1\lar-
tin; Hp('(Jrdinl/:
p('retary, .\Iiss R. Si-..:smith; Corres-
pondillf:
eeretary, '-liss :-;. Brown, .\pt. 5, 1187 Hope
.-\\:e.; frea.l?urer, .\I.]ss E. L. Francis; :-ir-k \ï!'itinl!:.
.\lIss G. "Ilson, .\llss L. Jensen; Pri1'Ute D,l'y, :\lrs.
.-\. Chisholm, .\Iiss G. Wilson; Representative to The
Canad1'an Nur8e! :\Iiss C. :\1I-rrow; Social C,'ullllittee,
.\Irs. Dr
ke,
I]ss Clark. Regular monthly lIIeetiu/o!
every tI'Jrd "edllpsday, .., p.lII.
A.A., School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
{'nlverslty
H
JIl. Pres
dent, Miss .\Iary Samuel; Hon. \ïee-
President. :.\llss Be
tha Harmer; Hon. :\Iembers,
Iiss
.\1. F. H.ersey, .\lIss Grace .\1. Fairley, Dr. Helen
H.. Y. Reid, Dr. 1\laude.Abbott, Mrs. R. W. Reford,
:\.
ISS
1. L. 1\loag; President,
Iiss Madeline Taylor,
\ Ict
Jrlan Or
er of f'Jurses, 1246 Bishop St.; Vice-
President, l\lIss Manon E. Nash, Victorian Order of
urses, 1246 Bish,?p S
.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss
.\1. E. Orr, The Shrlllers Hospital. Cedar Ave., l\Iont-
re
l; Chairman. Flora :Madeline Rhaw, :\Iemorial Fund,
:\1lss E. Frances Upton, 1:l96 St. Catherine St. W.;
Programme qonvener, :\Jiss F. l\lcQuade. "'umen's
General HospitaL Montreal; Representatives to Local
Counr-.il uf Women, .\-liss Liggett, 1\liss Parry; Repre-
sentativeI' to The Canadian Nurse, Administration,
:\Iiss B. Herman, Western Division, Montreal General
H( sp
tal; Teac
inl/:, 1\liss E. B. Rogers, Royal \'ictoria
Hospital; Pubhc Health. Miss E. Church Victorian
Order of Nur!'es, 1246 Bishop St. '
Ql."EBEC CITY
.\.1\., Jeffrev Hale's Hospital
HOIl. President, :\Ir!'. Barrow; President, :\Jiss D.
.
acb.son: ,first Y
('e-PreRident,
Iiss E. Fitzpatrick;
ecolld \ Ir-e-.Presldent, .\lrE<. C. Younp:; Recordinl/:
ecretary, :\I!s!' E. .\leCallum; Correspondiul/:
eere-
tary,
Iiss
1. Fiseher: Treasurer, :\Jiss E. .\-IeHarJ!:;
Hepresentatlve to The é'arwdÙm NurßP, -"Iiss N.
.\Jartin; Private Duty Section: 1\liss G. .\Iartill' I'iek
\ïsiting Committee, ..\Irs. BarrO\\ and :\lrs. Buttï'morp;
n
freshment Com
T1Ittee, .\
rs. :\JelIinjl:, Misfl Weary.
\lIss HanRen. .\lIS!' .\1('Chntoch: Councillor!'. :\fi!'R
Imrie, :\IrR. Crail/:, :\Ir!'. ,Ja..kson, .\Iiss .\Iar-J..a
', .\Ii,,:;;
ß. ,\daIllR.
SHERBROOKE
1\.:\.. Sherhrooke Hospital
Hon. Presidents, :\Iiss E. Frall('es {'pton. .\fiss \'erna
Bea
e; PreRid.ent, :\lrfl, Gordon 1\lal' Kay; First \ï('e-
President. .\lIss O. Harvey;
pr-ond Vice-President
:\lrs. A. Raval/:e; Recording Recretary, :\Iiss :\1. Gplinas;
Correspondinl/: :-'ecretary, :\JrR. Herbert :\IacCalllll11'
Treasurer, .\Iiss Aliee Lyster, lOa WelIinJrton :-:t. X.
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e, .\liR!' F.
\\" ardleworth.
SASKA TCHEW AN
.\..\., Saskatoon City Hospital
Hon. President, :\Jiss G. .\1. Watson; Presidellt, :\Iiss
1. R. Ch
!,holm; J:'irst \ïce
President, l\fiss G. :\1111 rC'e;
e('ond \ lee-I:'resldent, .\1Iss H. Johnston; Recordinl/:
:-e
retar:v-,. l\1Iss J. \"ells; Correspondinp: Recretary,
.\hss L. Kirk, 419-9th St.; Treasurer, .\Iiss -\. FeTlwson
('onU'Tler8: PresR, :\Iiss :\1. E. Crant; Helief, :\Iif's G:
\I unrC'e;
ie'k \ïsitinl/:, .\Jiss .\1. Graham; Educatiollfll,
:\Jrs. G. Pendleton; Ways and :\leans. .\IiRS :\1. Dunean;
:-;or-ial, '\h". H. Bur-k.
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JUNE 1934
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ault Brother Bill was trying
to teach 1ue yesterday."
.
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that u'as easy! I'd do it again
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tired. Better f!et Nurse to
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CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1934
A QL'ARTFR OF ^ CENTl:RY
245
DIET II': DIABETES MFLLlTl;S
Ruth ParI{
247
THE FLOREI':CE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL
Grace M. Fairley
252
OVER
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253
OPPORTUI':ITY BECkO"!l;"S
254
SASKATCHr\\'AI': AI':NLTAL MEETING
255
CORRE
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THE EDITOR'S DESk
257
SFLECTIO:'\ OF Sn;DE?\TS AND INTEGRATION" OF MENTAL HYGIE:'\F IK THE
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Nt 'R"II':G I
THE CAKADIAI': LABRADOR Anno. May Jowsey 264
THE CANADIAN SCENE
269
BOOK REVIE\\'S
270
NOTES FROM THE NATIO"JAL OFfICE
272
E"\HIRITOR:' AT ("HI' BIEl'<!'iIAL MEF.TIN"G
274
01'1' DUTY
276
NEWS NOTES
278
OI'FICIAL DIRECTORY
289
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,
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VOL. XXX, No. 6
The
Canad ian
Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of C.madd
PublIshed by the Canadian Nurses Association
VOL. ,(XX
No.6
MONTREAL, QUE., JUNE, 1934
A QlJARTER OF A CENTURY
The Canadian Nurses Association
has ctttdined its quarter century mark.
Twenty-five years is a long time in a
young country like Canada. Visitors
from lands where they reckon in hun'
Jreds or even thousands of years, smile
,it our enthusiasm over a church or a fort
or a dwelling which is over a hundred
yectrs old. But ctfter ctll what is this child,
ish pride hut the first stirrings of whctt
will some ddY be our Canadian tradition,
,i putting down of strong roots into our
l1.ltive soil?
Nursing in Canad,l is much more than
twenty-five yectrs old. This month there
will be celebr ctted in Saint Catharines,
Ontctrio, the sixtieth anniversary of the
tounding of the M,lck Training School
of the Ceneral and Marine Hospital, the
first school of nursing in Canada. And
that is not the beginning. In 1641, Je'1Il11e
M,lI1CC of whom it has heen truly said:
Size was a nurse by nature, a trained
Hurse by eXþerience and inclination and
by l'ocation from God, had already enter'
ed upon her pioneer task. What is it,
then, that we mean when we say that this
is our Silver Jubilee?
The Visioll alld the Dream
We mean that twenty-five years ago
our nursing leaders and chIef among
them, the Founder of our National As
o-
ci,ition, Mary Agnes Snively, caught the
vision of an united Il.ltional profession,d
roup. There were already many org,mi,
:,ltions of nurses scattered about the coun-
try hut there was then no official link bc-
tween them. The new movement gained
JUNE, 1934
momentum from the impulsion given it by
the Founder dnd President of the Inter'
national Council of Nurses, Ethel Gordon
Fenwick, and it is of interest at this time
to quote her letter which appearLd in The
Canadian Nurse, in June, twenty-si\.
years ago.
421 Oxford St., London, W.
Dear Miss Crosby: When are you goin
to have a Nation.l} Council of Nurses of
Canada? It is time. Why not start, and com
into affiliation with the International ne..t
year, 1909, when we hope to have a splendid
meeting. Denmark, Holland, and Finland
have already applied fur affiliation. Our
Colonies and Dominions are hehind if}
women's organiz..ltions-they are too paro-
chiaL The world is a very wee place, and
too many narrow circles .lttempt to ignore
that fact.
ETHEL G. FL
wlcJ,.. Hon. President,
The International Council of Nurses.
The Canadian Nurse of today pays a
cordictl and admiring tribute to its dis,
tinguished correspondent of over a quar-
ter of a century ago, whose burning ze
l
ctnd passion for the estaHishment of nurs'
ing as a true profession, the world over,
is in no way dimmed nor cthatcd hy the
p,lssing of the yectrs.
Lcadl.>rship
At the forthcoming Bicnni.tl Meeting
of the Canadian Nurses Association to be
held in Toronto from June :25 to 30, the
history and accomplishments of our na-
tional association will he tr.l('ed hy means
of the spoken word ,md by pageantry.
Full infornl.ltion concerning the pro'
r,unme h,is alrectdy heen glvcn in the
pa
cs of the Journal ,1I1d no attempt will
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
be made here to anticipate what the pro-
gramme committee has to offer. It may
not be out of place, however, to say a
word of appreciation at this time COD'
cerning the woman who is responsihle for
e:\tended over four years, has been coin-
cident with important developments and
great economic stress in the nursing
field. It has been a time to try men's souls
and no greater compliment could be paid
Miss Emory thdn to say that
she has ri
en magnificently to
the occasion. Her courageous
leadership has always been
tt:-mpcred with patience, hu
mour and common sense and
she has amply proven her
right to a place among the
other distinguished women
who, from time to time, have
served the Canadian Nurses
Association loyally dnd well
in the capacity of president.
Miss Emory would herself
he the first to point out that
nursing leaders all over the
country, and especially in
Toronto, have collahorated in
huilding up the programme
for our Silver Juhilee and
would ask that they, ton,
should receive acknowledg-
ment of their contribution.
This will certainly be ac-
corded them in due course
and, in the meantime, CaD'
adian nurses will rest as-
sured that the deliberations
of the General Meeting at
Toronto which mark the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canadian
Nurses Association will be guided by a
woman and a nurse who has shown
herself to be worthy of that responsible
task.
MISS FLORENCI: H. M. EMORY,
PRESIDE:\'T, CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION.
the general direction of that programme
as well as of other activities of the Can
adian Nurses Association at this time; we
refer to the president, Miss Florence H.
M. Emory. Her term of office, which has
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VOL. XXX, No. 6
DIET IN DIABETES MELLITUS
RUTH PARK, B.A.. Director. Dietetic Department, The Montreal General Hospital.
DIabetes is a disorder of nutrition and
in the nldjority of cases, is readily con
trolled hy diet alone. The discovery of
insulin h.ls, therefore, not lessened the
responsihilities of the dietitian. At their
hest, special diets do not conform to the
normal dietary hdbits of the individual
and a freyuent change of diet to avoid
monotony and the temptation to break
diet is essential. In addition, as most dia,
betic menus must he yuantitative, there
are other difficulties, hut, fortunately, as
I propose to show, many of these diffi,
culties are more theoretical than practical.
Long experience with many hundreds
of diahetics in the clinic for diabetes at
the Montreal Generdl Hospital has taught
us that a knowledge on the part of the
patient of carhohydrate, protein, fat and
caloric values of food materials is not
essentidl. As a matter of fact, experiences
have repeatedly tdught us that insistence
upon the education of the patient, either
he yond his will or capacity, leads more
often to failure than to success and ap'
pears to account appreciably for failure
to lower the mortality, in spite of the
proven efficiency of present-day dietetic
and insulin treatment.
When Dr. Rabinowitch first thought
of dispensing with scales and with teach,
ing patients the mathematics of diet we
were very apprehensive about the res
lts.
For quite a number of patients, however,
there was no alternative. Many had little
or no education and amongst those who
were reasonahly well educated there were
ldnguage difficulties because many of our
patients are foreigners. Dispensing with
scales and mathematical manipulations
was therefore forced upon us because of
the difficulty of teaching these scientific
methods of calculation.
The eJucation of the p
tient regarding
his diet is begun shortly after his arrival
in the hospitaL In the accompanying
. (An address. given at the Annudl Mætmg of Ihe '" "0'
"..tlon of Regl
tercd Nurses of the Pro, ince of
et-.ec
M"lIIrc..1. January. 1934.) .
JUNE, 1934
illustrations are shown the units of
measurement with which edch patient is
supplied in order to ev.llu.ite the food
l11.lterials.
I. One block of wood three and d haif
nches square and half an inch thick represent-
mg one slice of bread weighing approximately
30 grams and containing 18 grams carbohy-
drate and 3 grams protein.
. One block of wood three and a half
inches by one and a half inches and half an
inch thick representing une serving. or 43
grams lean meat and cuntaining app
oximatcly
12 grams of protein and :; grams of fat.
3. One block of wood one inch square and
half an inch thick representing one !'quare or
10 grams butter and containing approximately
8 grams of fat.
The units representing a teaspoon, des'
sertspoon, a potdto, a soJa hiscuit, a
handnd, an orange and a grdpefruit are
mdde of light weight bristol board and
are fastened together in compact form.
The patient sees the actual amount of
food allowed and served at each meal and
is thus enabled to check it up with these
units, and in this way learns to visualize
the amount of food he should have.
Such methods may at first seem inexdct
and radical but we soon found that with
very few trials, it was possible to educate
the average child of eight years, and for'
eigners who could not speak English, to
select the proper quantity of food with an
error of about 15 per cent. This appeared
to be a large and dangerous error, but
again theory Jid not agree with p
actice
for, in spite of it, we founJ that urincs
were kept free of sugar in the majority
of cases. It was, therefore, of interest to
find the cause of the satisfactory results.
This was found to be due to the marked
variations of the compositions of food
materials.
By chemical analyses, Dr. Rabinowitch
founJ that no matter how carefully diets
were weigheJ, patients received as much
.lS 25 per cent more or less of caroohy'
dr.ltes than prescriheJ. In some Cdses the
error was as high .is 50 per cent. Data
n
taincd more recently hy Lawrence and
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
McCance in England, and Dr. Rabin-
owitch's own analyses, further empha-
sized the differences between apparent
and true values of food materials. By
hetter methods of chemical d.nalyses, util-
izable carbohydrates can be differentiated
from non-utilizable carbohydrates, and
when celluloses, hemi-celluloses, penta-
sans and hexosans are subtracted from the
total carbohydrate content of food mate-
rials, mdny so-called 5 per cent fruits and
vegetables become one per eent or less;
many 10 per cent vegetables and fruits
become 5 per cent or less; and, in some
cases, 15 per cent fruits and vegetables
not only become 10 per cent, but, in some
cases, less than 5 per cent.
With the high carbohydrate-low calorie
diet which has now been in use for more
than four years in our clinic, errors due
to dispensing with scales and mathemati-
cal manipulations are reduced still fur-
THIS IS THE SIZE Of
ONE PORTION OF
BREAD
One Ounce or 30 Grams
One
Portion of
BUTTER
o%.
OR 10 GRAMS
POTATO
ON E (1) of these is e9ual to
ON E slice of bread
VOL. XXX, No. 6
DIET IN DIABETES
DESSERT SPOON
Any ONE of the following
is equal to ONE slice of bread
2 HEAPING spoons dried beans
2 dried whole
peas
tOVER)
249
IESSERT SPOON
Anyone of the following UNCOOKED
is equal to ONE slice of bread
3 level spoons Flour
3 Cream of Wheat
2 II Rice
. heaping" Oatmeal
TEASPOON
Anyone of the following is
equal to ONE slice of bread
3 LEVEL spoons sugar
4" .. jam 01" marma-
lade.
ther, because of the inappreciahle influ.
ence of an error l,f ] 0 to 15 gr .tIl1S of
carbohydrate upon the total c.trbohydrate
content of the diet. With the fat content
of the diet reduced to about 50 grams, we
have found that diabetics who ordinarily
could tolerate no more than 50 or 75
c;r.tms of carbohydrate without glycosuria
were able to tulerate 250 grams or mure.
The principles underlying this diet and
its effect upon the metabolism of the dia-
betic have been dealt with by Dr. Rahin-
owitch in his book* on diabetes and pub-
lications elsewhere. For purposes of
brevity, they will, therefore, not be dealt
with here.
The followin
is an outline of our
f*DlIlbclcS Mdlarus. i" L M. Rai>inoultch. D Sc.
M.O., C.M., F.R C.P.fr..); rllh".iH"J i>\ th,. M
cmll1,,"
C'ompan)' of C';mad.I.)
JUNl, 1934
treatment with this diet which again
demunstrates that scales and mathematI-
cal manipulations are not necessary. This
treatment is recommended because it has
now stood the test of experience for four
ye.trs and there are over a thousand pa-
tients who are taking this diet. Regard.
less of the type of diet, the principles of
treatment of diabetes are the same:
Firstly, the caloric intake mu!'t be adequate.
Secondly, the amount of carbohydrates mu.;t
be within the carbohydrate tolerance of the
individual.
Thirdly, nitrogen equilibrium mu!'t be main-
tained.
Fourthly, the ratio of fatty. acid to glllco!'e
mu
t be such as to avoid keto..is, that is. the
appearance of acetone, diacetlC acid and beta-
hydroxybutyric acid in the urine.
In addition to these requirement..., if the
high carhohydrate lo\\' calonc dlct i.. to bc
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
used successfully, the fat content of the diet
for the day must be kept within 50 grams per
24 hours.
How, therefore, without scales and
without teaching patients carbohydrate,
fat, protein and caloric values of food
materials, can these principles of treat-
ment be maintained? The difficulties, as
I shall show, are, as stated, more apparent
than real. Thus the best indication that
caloric requirements are being met, is that
the individual is able to maintain the
body weight which is normal for the
height, age and sex. If the weight is kept
5 or 10 pounds below the normal for the
height, age, and sex, the principle of
undernutrition is also maintained. The
best indication that nitrogen equilibrium
is being maintained is that the individual
can perform his ordinary duties without
undue fatigue. The best indication that
the ratio of fatty-acid to glucose is being
maintained at the proper level is that the
urine is free of acetone, diacetic acid and
beta-hydroÃybutyric acid.
The best indication that the carbohy-
drate intake is within the carbohydrate
tolerance of the individual is that the
urine is free of sugar and, lastly, if the
followin a rules are adhered to, the fat
content
f the diet will be kept within
the limits allowed for the high carbohy-
drate-low calorie diet:
1. Cream, fatty meats and fish of all kinJ
.
(bat:-on, ham, salmon, sardines, etc.) are
forbidden.
2. The total amount of meat or fish for
the day is limited to two servings, each being
approximately one and one-half ounces or 45
grams.
3. The butter is limited to three portions a
day, each portion being about one inch square
and three-eights of an inch thick or about 6
grams.
4. The milk is limited to one and one-half
glassfuls or 12 ounces a day.
The carbohydrate content of the diet
is controlled as follows: in view of our
newer knowledge of the carbohydrate
content of fruits and vegetables, these
foods are no longer divided into 5, 10,
and 15 per cent. All fruits and vegetables
are grouped together and only those of
very high carbohydrate content are ex-
cluded (potatoes, peas, beans, etc.). Pa-
tients are allowed an average serving of
fruit three times a day and an average
serving of vegetables twice a day from
the list allowed and are instructed to vary
the type of fruits and vegetables daily. If
this rule is followed, there is no danger
of excess intake of carbohydrates from
these foods because at one meal the pa-
tient may have a fruit or vegetable con-
taining 10 per cent carbohydrate, and the
intake at the next meal will be rendered
almost negligible by taking one contain-
ing 5 per cent or less of carbohydrate.
When patients thoroughly understand
how to keep the fat content of the diet
within 50 grams and how to vary the
fruits and vegetables, the remainder of
the diet is explained. This is made up of
bread, the carbohydrate intake of which
is controlled by expressing the break in-
take in terms of units. One unit is a
slice of bread approximately three and
one-half inches square and one-half inch
thick and weighs about one ounce. Bread,
of course, varies in texture and with these
dimensions, such breads may weigh
more, and others less, than one ounce.
The average is, however, one ounce.
When the bread is added to the diet, it
is increased at the rate of one slice a day
until the caloric requirements of the indi-
vidual are met. It may here be observed
that caloric requirements are not calcu-
lated on a theoretical basis, that is, ac-
cording to age, sex, and body surface.
The caloric content of the diet depends
upon the amount necessary to maintain
body weight about 5 or 10 pounds below
the normal for the height, age, and sex
of the individual. If the urine cannot be
kept free of sugar under these conditions,
insulin is given.
As Dr. Rabinowitch has pointed out,
our experiences with this new diet appear
to be incompatible with the present con-
ception of the physiology of carbo
ydrate
metabolism and the pathology of dIabetes.
VOL. xxx, No. 6
ONTARIO ANNUAL MEETING
The incontestable fact is that glycosuria
is more readily controlled with this diet
than those of lower carbohydrate and
higher fat content. Glycosuria is more
readily controlled without insulin. Com-
pareJ with the published data of other
clinics, relatively few of our patients are
taking insulin; but, perhaps, the best
proof of the value of the diet is the clini-
cal condition of the patient. With the
high carbohydrate diet, the diabetic feels
better and looks better. This diet is par-
ticularly suitable for juvenile diabetics
who take better to cdrbohyJrates than to
fat anJ, also, for adults with heart dis-
ease, because the heart is supplied with
that food which it requires for proper
functioning, namely, carbohydrates. It
thus acquires a proper store of glycogen.
It also appears to be ideal for the gall
bladder type of diabetes, probably be-
cause of its low fat content.
Even the high carbohydrate-low cc:tlorie
Jiet, though much more attractive than
the diets of low carbohydrate-high fat
(:ontent of the past can, in time, become
monotonous. Very few patients care for
nine or ten or more slices of bread day in
anJ day out. To avoid monotony, diets
must be varied, but, fortunately, with this
Jiet, there is very little difficulty. Dis-
pensing with bread permits the use of a
251
variety of cereals, fruits, vegetables and
other foods of high carbohydrate content.
Intelligent patients are also taught how
to substitute cream and fatty meats for
t he articles of diet ordinarily allowed. For
example, a fairly large potato weighs
about 3 ounces and contains about 18
grams of carbohydrate. It may, therefore,
be substituted for one slice of bread. A
fairly large serving of cereal contains no
more than about 18 to 20 grams of car-
bohydrate and, therefore, may be substi-
tuted for one slice of bread. However,
before patients are permitted substitu-
tions, they must thoroughly understand
the diet in terms of bread.
M} purpose in this report is to outline
briefly the present method of treatment
of diabetics in the clinic for diabetes at
the Montreal General Hospital. A high
carbohydrate-low fat diet has replaced
the high fat-low carbohydrate diet of the
past, and the results are very satisfactory.
With this diet, it is not necessary to teach
patients carbohydrate, fat, protein and
caloric values of food materials as it was
in the past: nor is it necessary to use
scales. Proof of this statement is found
in the health of our patients, in the small
percentage who require insulin and -
most important of all critaia - m our
mortality statistics.
ONTARIO ANNUAL MEETING
The ninth annual meeting of the Reg-
istered Nurses Association of Ontario
will be held on Monday, June 25, 1934,
at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. This
year the annual meeting will only be a
one-day session, held immediately prior
to the Biennial Meeting of the Canadian
JUNe, 19H
Nurses Association. There dre important
4uestions to be discussed in the morning
cll1d in the ã.fternoon an interesting and
instructive programme is being arranged.
It is hoped that the members will en-
deavour to attend this one-day meeting
and help to make
t a suc(:ess.
THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL
GRACE M. FAIRLEY, Convener of the Florence Nightingak Memorial Committee
of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Since the announcement of the two
scholarships which are available for mem'
hers of the Canadian Nurses Association,
interest in the Foundation seems to have
spread as is evidenced by the response to
the appeal from the various provinces.
Since the last report was published, in
the May issue of the Journal, the follow,
ing donations have been received and the
Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Asso,
ciation has notified the convener that
their contribution of two hundred dollars
will he forwarded at a later date.
Alberta
Mcdicine Hat Graduate Nurses Asso'
ciation .......................
Staff of Grande Prairic Hospit,ll ....
MIss J. McGowan, Fairview ..... . . .
Mrs. O. M. Findlay, Red Decr . . . . . .
British Columbia
Mrs. Ernest Rogers. Vancouver
N anaimo Hospital dnd district public
health nurses .................
Trail Tad,ll1ac Hospital, Trail ......
Royal In'and Hospital, Kamloops ...
St. Luke's Hospital, Puwell RIver "
Vancouver lvledical Assuciation ....
St. Paul's Hospital Alumnae Assn.,
Vancouver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kuotenay Lake General Hospital,
Nelson .......................
Nicola Valley General Hospital .....
Overseas Nursing Sisters Assn., Van-
couver .......................
Anyux General Hospital ..........
Kimberley Public Hospital ...,.....
Matsqui.Sumas Hospital, Abbut<;ford
Bella Coola General HospItal ......
Mrs. P. G. C. Wood, Vancouvcr ...
$10.00
5.00
1.00
1.00
25.00
18.0n
12.00
] 1.50
11.00
10.0U
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
8.50
8.00
5.00
Manitoba
Winnipeg General Hospital .:\Iumndc
Ass'n. ....................... 500.00
(to be given as five annual grants
of $100.00)
St. Boniface Hospital Alumnae Assn. 125.0Q
(to be given as five annual grants
of $25.00)
Brandon Graduate Nurses Assn.. . . . ] 0.00
Ontario
Toronto \\l estern HospItal A.A.,
Toronto ...............,...... 25.00
Grant Macdonald Alumnae Associa.
tion, Toronto (total payment) '" 25.GO
MLKellar General Hospital Alumnae
Association, Fort William ..,.... ] 0.00
St. Luke's Hospital Alumnae Associa.
tion, Ottawa .................. ] 0.00
Lady Stanley Institute Alumnae Asso,
ciation, Ottawa ............... 10.00
Riverdale Hospital Alumnae Associa.
tion, Toronto ................. 10.00
Florence Nightingale Nurses Associa.
tion, Windsor ................ 5.00
Lord Dufferin Hospital A.A., Orange.
vi1le ......................... 5.00
Hamilton Unit, Overseas Nursing Sis'
ters Association ............... 5.00
Ross Memorial Hospital Alumnae
Association, Lindsay ........... 5.00
Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital
Alumnae Association, North Bay.. 5.00
Nicholls Hospital Alumnae A""ocia'
tion, Peterborough ............. 5.00
Belleville General Hospital Alumnae
Association, Belleville ........... 5.00
Wellesley Hospital Alumnae Associa,
tion, Toronto ................. 5.00
St. John's Hospital Alumnae A<;so-
ciation, Toronto ............... 5.00
This list is not complete since it
ac1(nowledges onl), the donations alread)'
received at the date on which the JOL'R'
NAL goes to þress.-Editor.
THE FLORA MADELINE SHAW MEMORIAL FUND
For the Advancement of Nursing Education
A Schularship of $250 (two hundred and fifty dollars), is offered to a Registered Nur<;c
in I!oud
tanding, to enable her to follow a course at the School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University, Montreal, during the session of ]934,1935. For application forms, write to Miss
E. Frances Upton, Suite 406, 1396 St. Catherine St. West. Montreal. Applications will be
accepted until August 1st, 1934.
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HIS EXCELLENCY
On the occasion of Lord Bessborough's
recent visit to the Deer LoJge Military
Hospital in Winnipeg, a pleasant inci-
Jent occurred. Mrs. Phyllis Lawrie (bet-
ter known to the nursing sisters as '.Bm'"
Peyton) while lying in her room, \vhere
she has been confined for many long,
wcary months, had a Jdightful though
surprising caller in the person of His Ex-
cellency the Governor-Gencrdl, who chat-
ted for some time-with her, learning that
she graduated in 191() from the School of
Nursing of St. Boniface Hospital, Win-
nipeg, and proceedeJ that same year
overseas with the C.A.M.C. She con-
fessed that whcn shc rCdli::cd who hcr dis-
tinguishcJ visitor really was "my heart
just poundcd." Unknown to her a press
photographer took the accompanying
photograph which shows her admiring
HIs Excellency who, she says, "is a vcry
charming gentleman and so kind"
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THE GOVFR
OR-GI:
ER^L VISIT" Ar-<
IXVALJD NURSIXG SISTER.
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Overseas Sisters are looking forward to a
great reunion during the week of the Biennial
Meeting of the Canadian
urses A!'sociation.
June 25 to 30, at the Royal York Hot.::l,
Toronto. Sisters from the Overseas NurS2S
Club of Toronto will be on duty at one
sectiun of the registration bureau during the
!'essions. The garden party in honour of the
Overseas Sisters will be given by Sir Joseph
Flavelle at his residence, Holwood, Queen's
Park, on Wednesday afternoon, June 27.
and a bu!'iness luncheon will be held in the
roof garden uf the Royal York Hotel at 12.30
on Thursday, June 28. Tickets for the lun-
cheon and the tea will he available at the
registration hureau. Do not miss the beautiful
and hi..toric Pageant of Nursing in Canada
which will take place on Friday evening, June
29, in the Concert Hall of the Royal York
Hotel. Forty nun,ing si...ters will appear in the
scene d
picting the Riel rebellion, the South
African \\'.lr, and the Great War.
TOROI';TO: The National E'<ecutive of the
a.N.S.A. wi!'he!' to notify the Nursing Sisters
th.1t a husines" luncheon will be held in the
roof garden of the Royal York Hotel. at
J 2.30 p.m., on Thursd.1Y, June 28. We un-
der"t.1nd al!-o that HI!' Honour the Lieutenant-
JUNF, 19H
Governor and Mrs. Bruce are entertaining the
O.N.S.A. at a garden party on Wednesday
afternoon, June 27, when full sized medals or
ribbons wIll be in order. No rihbons or medals
will be worn for the general banquet Or at any
other time.
TORONTO: The Toronto Unit of the Over-
sea.. Nursing Si
ters A,,!'ociation of Canada
held a \."Cry successful bridge at Christie Street
Hospital on April 27, when Matron Hartley
and Miss Ruby Hamilton, President of the
Unit, received the members with their' hu!"
bands and friends. The large reception room,
gay with flowers. was filled with tables and
late-comers overflowed into the hall and dining
room. Gatherings of the Unit are never stilted.
formal affairs and it sounded more like one
hundred than just over fifty tables of player".
All the refreshments were donated as well a"
eight lucky number prizes, which were awarded
to those fortunate ones who found a number
stuck to the bottom of their saucer. Imagine
the chagrin of the polite people whu had
handed on their cup of coffee to some ont'
else who, later, fuund it had a number. The
executive and social committee may well feci
happy o\'er the "UClCS!- of this annu,.1 flllKb'l1
of the Unit.
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OPPORTUNITY BECKONS
I f a census were to be taken of the
nurses who take postgraduate courses
given under the auspices of Canadian
universities, it would probably be found
that the majority of them choose to md. jor
in public health nursing. While a fair
number elect to yualify themselves for
positions as instructors, relatively fewap-
pear to be interested in the professional
opportunities in the field of general su-
pervision and teaching in hospitals and
schools of nursing.
JVhy the Preference?
There must be underlying reasons
which determine these preferences and it
is the purpose of this article to discuss
them briefly. The attraction which public
health nursing ha
for many nurses is
not difficult to understand. Its human
interest, its freedom from institutional
restraint, its regular hours and relative
security of tenure all combine to make it
desirable. Until recent years the field it,
self was extending rapidly and promotion
might confidently be expected. Naturally
the young forward - looking graduate
nurse found that here was a gateway to
professional advancement. So indeed it
still is although, for the present at least,
the expansion of public health services is
dcfinitely curtailed by lack of economic
support and the demand for workers is
much less than the supply.
Meanwhile there is another avenue,
far less crowded, which would perhaps
repay more exploration than has hitherto
been given it. What has the field of teach-
ing and supervision in hospitals to offer?
Interesting and absorbing work, comfort-
able living conditions, relative economic
security and an opportunity to acquire
the difficult art of instructing and direct-
ing other people. It is true that institu-
tional life has its drawbacks in that it
interfers with the liberty to come and go
as one pleases. It is also true that the
hours are long and the work is sometimes
exhausting but these conditions are slowly
but surely being remedied in good hospi-
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tals. The chances for promotion are just
as good and perhaps better than in' the
public health field and there is always
opportunity to specialize in some phase of
nursing in which individual aptitudes
and talents can find full scope.
The Need oj Standards
The puhlic health field and that of edu-
cation and administration both have much
to offer and university postgraduate
courses are now available in Canada
whereby women can l}udlify themselves
for both. Why is it that the courses in
puhfic health are eagerly sought while
those in teaching and supervision in hos,
pitals attract only a handful? It is sug'
gested that one reason is this: nurses en-
tering the public health field are required
to qualify themselves by taking post-
graduate work and preference is given to
those who. all other things being equal,
have the best professional and academic
preparation. In the hospital field, with
the possible exception of instructors, no
such postgraduate preparation is usually
insisted upon. Head nurses, and even
supervisors, are sometimes selected on the
basis of executive ability alone, without
enquiry as to their capacity or willing'
ness to teach, though teach they must
since their departments are staffed largely
by students.
The turn-over in hospital nursing staffs
h
fore the depression was notoriously
high. It was the exception rather than
the rule to find nurses who had occupied
the same position for five years. This
fact in itself showed an undercurrent of
dissatisfaction. There was evidently not
that sense of permanence or of solidarity
and pride which is experienced by those
who feel themselves to be the members of
a picked group. And the administrative
and teaching staff of a hospital should be
the product of a highly selective process;
they should be a picked group. They
should be strong, intellectually, profes-
sionally and personally.
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SASKATCHEWAN ANNUAL MEETING
Who Should Set Them?
Ought there to be st.lI1dards for admis-
sion to the higher ranks? Would it be
reasonable to e
pect that .lspirants should
possess more professional preparation
than is afforded in the basic nursing
course? If this is demanded in the public
health nursing field, it seems logical to
require it from those entering upon the
equally responsible and complex task of
teaching and supervising in hospitals.
The setting up of such standards is mani
festly the responsibility of the national
.lnd provincial nursing organi:ations.
These could be worked out in active co-
operation with the directors of nursing
service. Within the hospital itself a con-
tinuing process of selection could be car-
ried on whereby the most promising
memhers of the gr.lduate staff could he
encouraged and, if necessary, financially
assisted,. to take postgraduate work which
would qualify them for promotion and
assure the hospital of a nursing personnel
of a very high order.
It is not suggested that all nurses hold-
ing hospital positions should be obliged to
take postgraduate courses in universities.
There are many excellent nurses, giving
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service of incalculable v.llue to the hospi'
tal, who would not benefit by such cours
s
if they took them. Their ability is of .l
different order and is developed by other
than academic means. But women whu
are to be charged with the teaching and
direction of students do not belong to
this category. It is they who need the
intellectual stimulus offered by the uni-
versities and who should be encouraged
to seek it.
Why Not in Canada as Well?
It goes without saying that the univer-
sities must be prepared to offer a well-
integrated course, rich in content and
directed by able teachers. But before such
courses can be firmly established the need
for them must he felt hoth by nurses
themselves and by the hospitals which
employ them. The response to the offer
of the Nightingale Memorial Foundation
Scholarship has been such as to demun
:-.trate the keen interest of our younger
nurses in matters of education. Are there
not some of these who, while not having
the good fortune to win the privilcg
of
going overse.lS, might find ne;1ra home
the very opportunity they are seeking?
SASKATCHEWAN ANNUAL MEETING
The seventeenth annu.ll meeting of the
S.lskatchewan Registered Nurses Asso-
ciation was held in Moose ).lW, on April
5 and 6 with a registered attemlance of
ninety-six. The business of the Associa'
tion occupied the first day with the fol,
lowing interesting items: a decision to
continue the work of the employment
committee, the .u1I1ouncement of Mi:,:,
Nellie Goodman of RegÍlM as the schol,
.lrship student for 1934, and the appoint-
ment of two deleg.ltes tu the Biennial
Meeting of the C
nadian Nurses Asso-
ciatiun. The Florence Nightingale Mem-
JUNE, 19H
ori.d was discllsseJ anJ the sum of two
hunJreJ dollars voteJ from the A:,socia-
tion. After considerable discussion it wa.;;
JcciJed to appoint an inspector or visitor
of nursing schools, the position to incluJe
the work of the secretary-t
easurer and
registrar of the Association anJ, if pos'
sihle, ha duties to begin ne
t September.
The problems of the private duty nurse
were presented on the second day of the
meeting by Miss M. Chisholm, Sash.a,
toon; Mi::s D. Kerr, Regina; Mis::> H.
Jolly, Regina, and Dr. V Black, Moose
Jaw. The eight-hour J.lY for private duty
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
nurses was approved and plans made for
publicity with regarò to it. Interesting
addresses wëre given by Mr. G. N. Grif-
fin of the Moose Jaw Normal School as
the guest speaker at the dinner meeting
on Thursday evening and by Mrs. A. M.
Walker of Regina at the last session of
the meetmg. The officers elected for
1934-35 were: Presiòent, Miss Edith
Amas, Saskatoon; First Vice-President,
Miss Elizaheth Smith, Moose Jaw; Sec-
ond Vice- President, Sister Clotilda,
Moose Jaw; Councillors, Miss Jean Mc-
Donald, Regina: Miss Edith Stocker, Sas'
katoon; Chairmen of Sections: Nurse
Education, Miss A. Lawrie, Regina; Pub-
lic Health, Mrs. E. M. Feeny, Saskatoon;
Private Duty, Miss M. Chisholm, Saska,
toe 111.
Correspondence
Canadiall and Ellglish Nurses
The nursing problem and an indication of a
preference for the clinical rather than the
theoretical type of tramed nurse were two
interesting subjects recently dealt with by two
prominent doctors at a meeting of the Vi.:-
toria Graduate Nurses Association. Their
practical advice to the nurse as to the best
way to meet the unemployment situation was
to extend her sphere of usefulness. The kn0w-
ledge of stenography, bookkeeping, laboratory
technique and
ocial service would give her
more opportunities for employment. The
Ii nancial stre&s which precludes the emplov-
ment of the private duty nurse forecasts a
growing need for the institutional nurse; post-
graduate work and refresher courses arc there.
fore worthwhile and all those who can should
avail them.
cl,,'es of them.
The idea that a "nurse is born and not
made" was not fully endorsed by the
econd
speaker. Anyone who takes up nursing with
the idea of working hard and paying attention
to detail will make a competent nurse. Good
appe.arance, putting them1>elves in the patient's
place and being able to sense the doctor's
point of view, giving a concise and compre-
hensive report of the patient without con-
fusion are all e1jsential characteristics of the
competent nurse. A comparison between Cana-
dian and English nurses was drawn which
should prove interesting to the sister nurses of
Canada. The speaker claimed that the train-
ing of the English nurse is essentially clinical,
the discipline is very strict and only the strong-
est and keenest can stand the strain. A great
many of the sisters (nurses in charge of
wards) dedicate their lives to their work and
have rooms adjacent to their wards in which
they make their homes. The Canadian nur.5t"S'
training is incli'1ed to emphasize the the01.
-
tical. They seem too learned, very good
hearted and very young. The practical side
of the training, the actual bedside work sho;Jld
be better emphasized, thought the speaker
The members of our association found these
opinions of two of our leading medical men
very stimulating and would like to submit
them for the consideration of the readers of
The Canadian N.urse.
JEAN D. MOOR!;.
Representative to The Canadian N.ur!>e, for the
Victoria Graduate N urse<; Association.
H clio, Calgary!
Let the East congratulate the \\'e<;t on the
compliment paid you in the April Journal.
Oh yes! the priv.lte duty section in Saint John
is alive and just beginning to creep. We have
met three times in the past year and I think
the Chapter wished that they had "let sleep-
ing dogs lie." We have dealt with eight-hour
duty, reduction of fees, the emp!oyment of
non-registered nurses and made a disturbance
generally. At our next meeting we are to have
the high lights of the private duty section of
the Weir Report and a "waist line" social. We
have a treasurer, so we must have funds.
A VOICE FROM SAIXT JOHN, N.B.
We KnoJJ' Just How She Feels
Plea.<;;e renew my subscription to the J ouma/.
I like mOst of it very much-but not "Off
Duty"-it makes me feel dizzy.
M. L.,
Nova Scoti,l.
VOL. XXX, No, 6
TH E E D I T OR I S DES K
Made ill Callada
With what we hope is a pardonable
pride, the J ou.rnal presents this month Its
special Silver Jubilee number. Whatever
its faults it has at least one virtue: it has
been made in Canada. In that respect, If
in no other, it is worthy of the important
occasion which it celebrates-the twenty'
fifth anniversary of the founding of the
Canadian Nurses Association of which
The Canadian Nurse is the official organ.
Every page, w;th one e:xception, has been
written by, or in collaboration with, Can'
adian nurses. This one e:xception is Mis.s
Ruth Park's e:xcellent article un the diet'
etic mdnagement of diabetes mellitus, and
Miss Park is one of our foremost Can'
adian directurs of dietetic departments in
hospitals and therefure belongs to the
fdmily. Under the caption of "The selec,
tion uf student nurses
,nd the integratiun
of mental hygiene in their course" will
he found an account of an important edu,
cdtional e:xperiment carneò out jointly by
the strtff of the Mental Hygiene Institute
of Montreal and the teaching staff of the
Schoul of Nursing of the Royal Victoria
Huspital. This report W.lS prepared by
the following collrthoraturs: W. T. B.
Mitchell, M.D., director of the Mental
Hygiene Institute of lvlnntreal
Hrtrriet
Mitchell, B.A., Reg. N., director of
parent education of the Institute; Given
PeJen, B.A., psychologist of the Insti-
tute; E. Bell Rogers, Reg. N., member of
the teaching staff of the School of Nurs,
ing uf the' Roy.LI Victoria Hospitrtl. It
\\'dS presented hy MIss Rogers at the In-
ternation.d Congress of Nurses in Paris
rtnd W.lS st.lted by competent authority to
h.lve heen one of the most scholarly anJ
scientific contrihutions made to th.lt pro-
gramme. The collrthoration of rhysicians,
psychologists anJ nurses h.ls, in this in-
stance, heen productive of excellent re-
sults. An adventure in nursing in the
Canadirtn Labrador is vividly Jescriheò
hy Mi:,s Anna May Jowscy and, hy w..y
JUNE", 1934
uf royal recugnition of nursing, His Ex'
cellency the Governor,General himself is
portrayed as a kindly visitor to an invaliò
Canadian military nursing sister.
Our Adyert;sers and Exhibitors
The added cost of this issue of the
Journal has been met by an increase in
our advertIsing. We take this oppor,
tunity of thanking our advertisers and of
dra wing to the attention of our readers
the announcements in our pages of the
various firms, all of them dependll ble, and
all of them good friends and supporters
of the J oUTnal. A partial list of firms
whose products will be on exhibition at
the Biennial Meeting in Toronto will be
found on another page. Unfortunately
this list cannot he complete because the
Journal goes to press before all arr.lIlge,
ments have been concluòed. One word
more: it costs money to advertise and to
display exhibits. The firms whu thus de-
monstrate their belief in the buying po'
tentirtlities uf nurses have a fight to a
fair de.LI. Visit the exhibits, read the ad-
vertisements and select your purchllses
accordingly. You will not go far wrong.
By the way: tell them you "S.lW it in The
Canadian Nurse."
The Journal at the Biennial
We expect to h(lVe a desk all uur own
rtt the Biennial. It wIll be so pl.LCed th
.t
there will he no opportunity of escd.pc
from signing on the dotted line. A regis-
ter will he availahle in which all memhers
of our regional committees and all "repre
sentatives to 'The Canadian NUTse" from
the various nursing org.uÙ:ations arc
urgently requested to inscribe their nrtme
and adJresses. The editor would greatly
appreciate an opportunity of meeting
these nurses who hy their understanding
.1Ild untiring support have gi\'en her
(( mr.lge for her task. A large receptrtdc
(not the editori..l w.lste p..pcr haskct)
will be provided in which you .lre re
ÿuesteò to drop hrickh.lts and. pah;1ps.
an occasional houquct.
20;-
Department of Nursing Education
CONVENEIl 01' PUBLICATIONS: Miss Mildr
d R
id. Winnipeg G
n
ral Hospital. Winnip
g, Man.
SELECTION OF STUDENTS AND INTEGRATION OF
MENTAL HYGIENE IN THE CURRICULUM
W. T. B. MITCHELL, M.D.; HARRIET MITCHELL, B.A., Reg. N.;
E. B. ROGERS, Reg. N.; GWEN PEDEN, B.A.
The following is a preliminary report
of a study begun in October, 1931. It
represents a co,operative piece of work
between the staff of the Mental Hygiene
Institute of Montreal and the teaching
staff of the Royal V ictoria Hospital
Training School for Nurses. This study
is an experiment in the selection of stu,
dent nurses and in the integration of
mental hygiene in the training course of a
general hospital. When instituting the
study the writers had in mind the follow,
ing questions:
1. Is it possible to find some simpler, less
expensive, more effective process for the selec'
tion of student nurses other than that generally
applied at present?
2. How may mental health principles and
knowledge be effectively integrated in a
genera] hospital nurses' training course?
3. How may our knowledg
of personality
growth and the significance of personality
deviations from mental health be incorporated
as to permit the making of this thirty,six
months' training a significant period in the
personality development or mental growth of
the individual nurse?
All writers familiar with present con'
ditions in nurses' training schools appar,
ently agree in regretting the financial loss
and waste effort involved in the elimina,
tion, before completion of the course, of
a considerable percentage of the group
who enroll in these schools. The larger
part of this loss occurs during the :first
year of training and of course represents,
so far as the hospital is concerned, a total
loss.
A survey of the school considered in
this report indicates that for six years,
1924 to 19
9 inclusive, 501 students en'
(A r
port presented to the International Council of
Nurses at its CongrLSs held in Paris and BrubSelS in July,
1933. by Miss E. B. Rogers.)
258
tered the school; of these 346 graduated
and 155 did not complete the course. The
average percentage of each class failing
to graduate in these six years represented
30.90 per cent of all students entering the
school. A conservative estimate of the
.lVerage cost to the school is two hundred
dollars for each of the students resigned
or dropped from the course. The loss
thus amounts in the six years to thirty,one
thousand dollars, or over five thousand
dollars in each year. This figure is con'
siderably less than the actual loss, since
it is calculated on an average number of
days in the school for each pupil nurse of
ninety and on the basis of an annual cost
of eight hundred dollars. For the stu'
dents eliminated during the entire course
of training the average number of days
in the school would be considerably
higher than ninety.
It is probably fair to assume that the
experience referred to in the preceding
paragraphs represents that of the great
ma jority of training schools maintaining
reasonably high standards of accomplish,
mente Hence the need for some more
accurate means of determining the stu'
dent risks that are assumed by the hos,
pital training school.
In planning the various aspects of this
study it seemed desirable that means
should be used to provide, as completely
as possible, estimates of the intellectual
capacity and the personality status of
cach pupil tentatively accepted for train'
ing. In addition to the original source of
information, namely the application
forms, it was decided to use three addi,
tional approaches to this problem. It was
understood that the information obtain'
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SELECTION OF STUDENTS
ed from these additional studies of the
individual pupil was not to be used as a
means of seleetion during the early stages
of the study, but was simply for the in-
formation of the writers. The selection
in the classes included in this report wa.,
made as formerly and quite independent-
ly of any test results.
The three approaches used in addition,
of course, to the physical health examina-
tion in estimating the quality of the pupil
material were:
1. Formal tests, of which two were
259
employed: (a) the psychological exam-
ination (Thurstone) for the purpose of
giving some indication of intellectual
capacity; (b) the personality inventory
(Bernreuter) for the purpose of obtain'
ing some leads regarding the personality
status.
2. A psychiatric interview.
3. An objective personality and l1e-
haviour response chart concerning each
pupil nurse completed by instructors and
supervisors. This chart is reproduced l1e-
low.
Chart for Objecti-ve E-valuation of Personality Characteristic and Responses of Nurses in
T ra;n;n g
NAME ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 . . . . .. CLASS.......... CHRO:-;OLOCICAL Acr:..........
EVALUATION PERIODS-I. Admission. 2. Completion uf Preliminary term. 3. Junior term
4. Intermediate year. 5. Senior year completion.
SCALE OF EVALUATION-A. Excellent. B. Above the average. C. Average.
4. Slightly below the average. 5. Apparent inability.
Note-See separate di\ isions for characteristics of an E grade.
1. Interest and Attention.
A. Manifested in Class-room work.
1 234 5
B. In Ward and Practical work.
1 234 5
A. ...... 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A.. 0 0 . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 . . .
B. .. 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.. . 0 . . 0 . 0 . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
C. ................................... C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D. ................................... D. ..................................
E. ................................... E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Grade. E,-Disinterest, indifference or spasmodic interest.
2. Resþon.'ilbilit:v.
A. \Villingness to accept
2 3 4 5
A. ............................. 0 . . . . . A.
B. ...............................0... B.
C. ................................... C.
D. .0..........................0... .. D.
E. ,. ... 0............................. E.
Grade E.-Unwillingness to accept.
ß. Ability to accept ,lOd execute
1 234 5
3. Personal Response to Instruction and to Criticism.
1 2 3 4 5
Ina}-,ility to carry through.
A. .............. 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ß.
C.
4. POIse in New and Difficult SituatlOn,ç
1 234 5
A. ...................................
n. ........... .............
C. ...................................
D. ...................................
E. ...................................
o. 4-GraJe E. Embarras
ment. lack of
assurance.
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D. ................................
E. ........... ........... ....... ......
Grade E- Extremely sensitive, resistant ,tttitude
5. Social Relations
1 2 3
4
5
A. ....................... .......
B. ...................................
C. ................................,..
D. ...................................
E. ...................................
No. .5 - Grade E. Inability to m,tke comfort-
able contacb or plea
ing- social relatlUn
hip
.
or making vio1ent attachment...
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6. Emotiunal Control
1 2
4
5
A. ...................................
B.
C.
D.
E.
Grade E.-Ob\'ious tension, anger, resent'
ment, restless dissatisfied attitude.
8. Dominance-Submission
'2 4
5
A. ...................................
B.
C.
D.
E.
Grade E.- Marked withdrawings, secretive,
passive attitude in face,to,face situations.
Yielding personality.
9. ReactIOn 'T yþe
1 2
3
4
5
A. ...................................
B.
C.
D.
E.
7. Mood Resþonses
1 '2
4
5
A. ...................................
B. ...................................
C. ...................................
D, ...................................
E. ...................................
Grade E.- Mood swings -exaltation and
depression.
9. lntroversion- Extroversion
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5
A. ...................................
B.
C.
D.
E.
Grade E.-Introverted individual living in
realm of imagination. Lack of adjustment to
existing conditions.
10 Health-Physical
123
4
5
A. ...................................
B.
C.
D.
E.
Grade E.- Very slow or very impetuous, et.:. Grade E.--Unsatisfactory physical health,
fatigue, etc.
Results of Tests
This report includes the test results
from three entering classes-September,
1931; January, 1932; September, 1932;
and centers chiefly around the informa-
tion obtained from the formal tests. After
the first class the psychiatric interview
was discontinued owing to lack of time,
although it was considered by the writers
as an additional valuable source of infor-
md.tion and as a possibly valuable lead for
planning the programme for the indi-
vidual pupil. The obJect of the person-
ality and behaviour response chart is in-
tended not only to supply an additional
estimate of the individual pupil, but also
as a graphic indicator of the personality
development accruing in the course of the
training period since this chart is com-
pleted at intervals throughout the pupil's
training. Its principal values seem to lie
in helping supervisors to systematize and
objectify their judgments regarding the
personalities and performances of indi-
vidual pupils, and to afford some tenta,
tive approach to the measurement of per-
sonality growth of the individual pupil
nurse. Experience with this chart is as
yet too meagre to permit any satisfactory
reporting of results.
There follows in Table I an analysis
for the three classes, of (a) the numher of
students entering; (b) the number of
students failing to complete the course:
( c) the median percentile rank of each
class according to the Thurstone psycho-
logical examination.
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Entering
date
September, 1931 ...........
January, 1932.............
September, 1932...........
1\ umber
entering
46
41
47
It is very interesting to note, in these
three class
s, that the percentage of stu.
dents lertving the cours
varies from 41.3
per cent in the September, 1931, class to
17.0'2 per cent in the September, 1932,
class. The psychological examination
(Thurstone) indicates a correspondingly
interesting varirttion in median scores for
these three groups. In the third class,
with the high median percentile rank of
Percentile rank
1. 20 ..........
20. 40 ..........
40. 60 ..........
60. 80 ..........
80-100 ..........
Percentile rank
1- 20 ..........
:!O- 40 ..........
40. 60 ..........
60- 80 ..........
80-100 ..........
Table 1.
Number leaving
in first year
19
16
8
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Median percentile
rank (Thurstone)
53.0
52.5
65.0
65, the loss in the first year is 17.02 per
cent as compared with 41.39 per cent and
39.02 per cent respectively in the two
previous classes.
The following tables for each of the
three classes show the relationship be.
tween the individual students retained
and not retained in terms of their group'
ing on the Thurstone examination:
Table ll.-Class entering September. 1931
Number Students Students not
given test retained retained
No. p.e. No. p.e.
2 25 6 75
4 57 3 43
7 63.7 4 36.3
8 80 2 20
4 50 4 50
8
7
11
10
8
Rea..ons for leaving
Health Poor work
5
3
2
Other
1
1
1
3
Table 11l.-Class entering January, 1932.
Number Students Students not
given test retained retained
No. p.e.
o. p.e.
3 60 2 40
6 50 6 SO
7 70 3 30
3 75 1 25
4 50 4 50
5
12
10
4
8
Reasons for leavll1g
Health Poor work
1
4
1
Othcr
1
2
Table IV.-Class entering September, 1932.
3
Number Students Students not
given tcst retained retained Reasons for leaving
Percentile rank No. p.e. No. p.e. Hcalth Poor work Other
1. 20 . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 50 2 50 2
20- 40 . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 85.72 I 14.28
40- 60 . . . . . . . . . . 9 8 88.9 1 11.1
60- 80 . . . . . . . . . . 11 10 91 1 9.
80-100 . . . . . . . . . . 13 8 84.61 2 15.39
Comparative A ,wlysis
In the Scptember, 1931, class, of the
twelve students frtlling into the group
percentile rank of 1-25, only four or 33
per cent are still in training; 67 per cent
have been resigned or dropped. Two of
the four individuals belonging to this per.
centile group who have been retained are
reported as doing the poorest work in the
second year. The character of their pru-
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n.',s in the course would suggest that
they prohahly should not have been r
-
tained. Throughout the three classes i
appeared evident thrtt thc great majority
of the students dropped from the cours
for unsatisfactory attainment in class or
w.lrd work were among those in the
lower quarter or third of the groups as
indicated by the scorcs on the Thurstonc
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examination. Only one student with a
percentile rank of 60 was dropped be-
cause of unsatisfactory work, and this
student was eliminated for what was de-
saihed as a personality difficulty.
It is interesting to note that the highest
degree of success has been attained in
the two percentile groups 40-60 and
60-RO. Peculiarly enough, in the highest
percentile rank 80- I 00, there were lost,
in each of two classes, 50 per cent of this
group, all on a basis of health difficulties
none, of course, on the basis of inability
to handle the required work. This raises
an interesting question as to whether or
not the very superior group has less
chance of attaining healthy effective ma-
turity than the group somewhat lower
in the scale from the standpoint of in-
tellectual endowment.
The personality inventory (Bernreu-
ter) results have not yet been satisfac-
torily evaluated in relationship to other
aspects of the study so no present report
is heing made with reference to this test.
Some form,d personality inventory would
seem to have a logical place in such a
study. This particular scale may appear
to have a special value in that it purports
to measure several different aspects of the
individual's personality at the same time.
It is scored at four levels, the four scales
being designated by the symbols: BI-N,
B2-S, B3-I, B4-D. The interpretation of
the scores in each scale may be briefly
designated as follows:
BI-N.-A measure of neurutic tendency.
Persons scoring high on this scale tend to be
emotionally unstable. Those scoring above the
98 percentile wou!d probably benefit from
psychiatric Or medical advice. Thuse scoring
low tend to be very well balanced emotionaHv.
B2-S.-A measure of self-sufficiency. Pc-..-
sons scoring high on this scale prefer to be
alone, rarely ask for sympathy or encourage-
ment, and tend to ignore the advice of others.
Those scoring low dislike solitude and often
seek advice and encollragement.
B3-I.-A measure of introversion-extru-
version. Persons scoring high on this scale
tend to he introverted: that is they are ima-
ginatIve and tend to live within themselves.
Scores above the 98 percentile bear the same
significance as do similar SCores on the BI-N
scale. Thuse scoring low are extroverted; that
is they rarely worry, seldom suffer emotional
upsets, and rarely substitute day-dreaming for
action.
B4-D.- A measure of dominance-submi
-
sion. Persons scoring high on this scalc tend
to dominate others in face-to-face situations.
Those scoring low tend to be submissive.
A problem arises as to the integration
of mental hygiene in the curriculum. At
the present time the mental health mate-
rirtl is being presented as a separate sub-
ject and by individuals not regularly part
of the nursing school staff. The ideal
plan, in the minds of the writers, is that
eventually the major part of the mental
health tertching, the integration of mental
health principles, shall become an integ-
ral part of the teaching in other aspects
of the tra:ning and shall not continue to
he regrtrded as a separate discipline. A
mental health view is essential to good
nursing whether the nurse is presently
engrtged on a medical, surgical, obstetri-
cal, pediatric or psychiatric problem. It
is not something belonging to the psychi-
atric service, to be discarded when one
steps into the medical, surgical or paedi-
atric services.
Such an ideal implies the presence of
teachers and supervisors thoroughly gym-
prtthetic to, and familiar with, the prin-
ciples of mental growth, and thoroughly
cognizant of the significant manifesta-
tions marking deviations from healthy
mental growth. Nowhere have we begun
to approximate such an ideal in our
schools of nursing.
Teaching mental hygiene as a separate
subject and aiming always at the more
desirable plan, the educational approach
in this study has fallen naturally into two
main divisions: (a) the instruction of the
student nurse; (b) the instruction of the
teachers and supervisors.
As far as possible, in each of these
fields a beginning has been made in
laying the foundation for a better under-
standing of mental health and the prin-
ciples and processes of mental growth.
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The problem in this teaching is not so
much to give a new body of facts, but
rather to lay the basis for a more sympa-
thetic, more scientific understanding of
the meaning and approach to individual
beh.\.viour wherever we may find it. It
involves the reconstruction of attitudes
anJ points of view. It means for both
teachers and supervisors a revised con-
ception of their own and others' person-
ality responses, and a revised conception
regarding the training period itself, as a
period of emotional growth rather than
a phase from which the individual stu-
dent emerges with simply a new body of
knowledge and a new group of skills
superimposed upon the unaltered indi-
vidual background.
Summary
I. There is presented a preliminary re-
port of an experimental study dealing
with selection of student nurses and the
integration of mental health teaching in
the nurse's training programme.
:2. Selection of student nurse material
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by way of the original application plus
the trial or probation period is a costly
procedure.
3. The facts already revealed in this
study suggest the value of certain tests in
guiding the selection of student material.
4. The annual financial saving from a
more dependable selection process is ap-
parent.
5. The very considerable loss through
physical health factors suggest the need
for a more dependable health history and
a more dependable statement of present
physical fitness.
6. There is presented the point of view
that mental health instruction is essential
in the nurse's training course and that
this instruction should ideally be in-
tegrated in other aspects of the nurse's
training rather than be confined entirely
to presentation as a separate discipline.
7. The instructional programme must,
at the present time, include instruction
for teachers and supervisors as well as for
students.
THE ONTARIO DIETETIC ASSOCIATION
The third annual meeting of the Ontario
Dietetic Association was held in Toronto or.
April 27, with a morning session in the Arca-
dian Court, at Simpson's, an afternoon session
at the Consumers Gas Company, and an even-
ing b..mquet in The Round Table of the T.
Eaton's College Street Store. Miss Lorena
Richard!>on, president of the Associatio.l,
presided at the morning meeting which in-
cluded a meat demonstration by represen-
tatives of Swift & Co., Chicago, and Swift
Canadian Co., of Toronto. The afternoon
"ession wa'i chaired by Mi.... Kathleen Burns,
JUNE, 1934
chief dietitian, the Hospital for Sick Children.
Toronto, when Dr. R. F. Farquharson gave a
paper on "The role of liver and other diet-
ary measures in the treatment of anaemia."
Two hundred and thirty-four dietitians were
in attendance, and Miss Jean I. Gunn, superia-
tendent of nurses, Toronto General Hospital,
and MIss Ethel Greenwood, convener of pub-
lications, Registered Nurses Association of
Ontario, were nurse guests. Dr. Charles H. M.
\Villiams, D.Sc. (Dent.), gave a very interest-
ing paper on the "Effect of Vitamin D in the
prevention of dental caries."
Department of Public Health Nursing
CONVU;r.R Of' PUBLIC^TlONS: Mrs. Agnes Hayganh. 21 Sussex St., Toronto, Onto
NURSING IN THE CANADIAN LABRADOR
ANNA MAY JOWSEY. Staff Nurse, Montreal Branch, Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
While in training I heard Sir Wilfred
Grenfell lecture on the Labrador and also
sa w his pictures. I was greatly interested
.tnd, a few years later, had the oppor-
tunity of .tpplying for a post in the In-
ternational Grenfell Mission, and was
accepted for the Mutton B.ty Post the
same year. On reaching Harrington Har-
bour I was told by the doctor that I must
remain there because, owing to some mis-
take in my appointment, I was three
months too early. The hospital in Har-
rington consists of three wards, an oper-
ating ruom, and living quarters for the
nurses and maids. The doctor has a house
of his own and, while he is away, the
head nurse takes charge of the hospital.
Harrington is the largest English-
speaking- settlement on that part of the
coast. There are about three hundred
families; some of them live on the outer
island and come into Harrington for the
winter months. The weather is change-
ahle and the summer very short. In the
autumn the Northern Lights are mar-
vellous and the colourings very beautiful.
When a storm comes up It may last for
d,lYS and if the nurse is aw.ty no one
e\.pects her until she returns, perhaps a
day or a week later. The people always
seem to know when a storm is coming and
just how long it will last.
The people are of a 4uiet, religious
type, not talkative unless something really
interests them, such as fishing, hunting,
and the weather. Everyone calls the head
of the house "Uncle," and his wife
"Aunt," and one falls into this custom
quite readily. The reason for it is that
there are so many intermarriages but, in
spite of this, the children are very hright
and attractive. The people who have
settled on this coast come from New-
foundland and the Channel Islands and
264
make their living by fishing for cod,
salmon and lobster. In the late fall there
is seal fishing, and a short distance from
Mutton Bay there is the largest natural
seal trap in North America where as
m,l11Y as three hundred seals are trapped
in a day in open water.
In the winter the men are "'inside" (as
they say), that is, they go into the interior
for wood cutting and hunting. The wood
is drawn out by dog teams for a distance
of twenty-five miles. The trees are cut
fur use as firewood and for building boats
and houses. The w,dls are papered with
newspapers and lTI.tgazines distributed by
the Mission. In one home I amused my
patient hy reading jokes on the walls
taken from the pages of Judge.
Most settlements have a schoolhouse
although the children do not attend regu-
larly. In the larger summer settlements
school teachers from Montreal and Que-
bec come for a couple of months and the
younger children attend these classes.
Boys of twelve to fourteen years do a
man's work and get up at three in the
morning and go out fishing. If the catch
is guud they work until late at night,
cleaning, salting and putting the fish to
dry .ts suon as possible.
While I was at Harrington Hospital
we had one very active day. A patient
came in for an operation at seven in the
morning and the nurses wer
up at four
o'dock getting everything in order.
Everything went off very well though it
was my first anaesthetic, and the patient
only stopped breathing once. On the
same day we had a tonsillectomy, and a
confinement case came off later, so every-
one was in a sta.te of great excitement,
the people "outside" even more than the
staff.
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In June, the doctor received a wire
.lsking him to go up the coast to visit a
sick woman. The symptoms, as described
by the Hudson Bay Factor, indicated that
it was a case of pneumonia. As the doc-
tor was just le.lvïng for his western trip,
he sent me in his place. Armed with all
the neceSSd.ry things and enough food for
myself and the two men who md.11l1ed the
boat, we left at five in the morning wIth
"Uncle Esa" in charge of the boat. Later
we transferred to an open gasoline boat
and, after travelling for seventy miles,
.lrrived late in the afternoon. No one
seemed to be e>..pecting us, so Uncle Esa
and Bob helped me over the rocks and
mud where only a few Indian dogs came
to meet us. We arrived to find the pa-
tient having her crisis. She was French
and did not speak a word of English, but
I proceeded to give her general care. A
window was forced open and the fresh
,Iir seemed to put new life into her.
After supper someone came for me and
I was taken to see a sick man and a child
and got back at midnight. During the
night there was a gred.t change for the
hetter in the pneumonia patient and I
t,\u
ht her sister to give her simple nurs-
ing care, and carly in the afternoon lay
down on a feather bed to try to get a
little rest. However, the feathers all part-
ed company and I had to try to sleep on
the boards. During my stay the patient's
sister asked me if I had my "tools" with
me and, not knowing just what she med.nt,
I questioned her dnd found out that she
w,lI1ted some teeth e>..tracted, but not be-
ing qualified to give service of this kind,
I told her that the dentist would visit the
settlement the following week.
Although quite a storm had come up,
"Uncle Es,l" Cd.mc to say we should have
to leave that IlIght and, when the people
heard that we were planning to do so,
they strongly advised us not to. How-
ever, we left at three in the morning hy
W,\y of the inside run and, after getting
out into the open, I reali:ed why we had
been advised not to start. It was a wild
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ride, for the waves were breakers and the
rocks seemed so near. The telegraph
operator in Wolfe Bay advised H,lrring-
ton that we had passed that puint safely
and, when we finally arrived, the harbour
Wd.S like glass.
On the first of Septemher I took up my
duties in Mutton Bay Nursing Station.
In this settlement there are forty-five
families. The Anglican Church and the
Hudson Bay Post are also located here.
The scenery is beautiful, for the highest
hills on the coast are found here, and at
sunset one can look out to sea over to-
wards the many islands and sometimes
see the liners going by. We were fortu-
nate enough to see the airship R-IOO,
which was a wonderful sight to many of
thc natives as it was the first time they
had ever seen any sort of aircraft.
In the nursing station there is a dis-
pensary where supplies are made up and
the necessary drugs given out. There is
one ward, containing two beds and a cot,
and living quarters for a nurse, a com-
munity worker and a maid. One has to
have some knowledge of housekeeping
and ordering as you have to get in enough
supplies to last over the winter, without
having either too little or too much.
When the steamers come in, you go on
board and look after your freight and see
th,lt your man is on hand with the boat
to carry everything off. During thc sum-
mer months, hales of clothing come up
from Quebec which must be acknow-
ledged by an interesting letter so that
ne:<..t year the Mission will be remembered
,lgd.in. Some out-going mails carry as
many as twenty-five of these letters.
A monthly report is sent to St. John's,
Newfoundl.lI1d, d.nd also one to the doc-
tor in Harrington. You buy from the
peoplc who bring in fish, herries and
wood, and, in exchange, you give them a
slip of p
per and on Thursday afternoons
thcy come to the clothing store and pick
out what they like: a dress for a fish, or
clothes for a Lunily in C\.change for a
load of wood. In this \Va\' one encour-
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
ages thrift and obtains a supply of fresh
food. If the people are too poor to pay
for the services rendered they, of course,
get them free of cost. The dispensary is
open every day from nine in the morning
until noon and the people come for the
drugs they need, the most popular being
castor oil, camphorated oil, syrup of
white pine and also plenty of Epsom
salts.
During the thirteen months I was at
, I:!"""
",....... .
MUTTON BAY, LABRADOR.
this station I cared for eight confine'
ments, four of which were primiparae,
all normal cases except one very ill pa,
tient who had had pneumonia during her
pregnancy. As this was her seventeenth
confinement she needed the services of a
doctor but, owing to the dense fog, no
one could travel. There were accident
cases caused by the slipping of an axe,
resulting in the cutting of a finger, wrist
or leg, and two of these required sutures
which were put in by the nurse. A car'
diac case, a man of twenty,eight years of
age, who finally died, required nursing
care for three days and nights, when the
nurse's only "relief" was to get home for
meals. The local undertaker made his
coffin of wood covered with white cot'
ton and used black elastic to bind it. The
room was draped in sheets and a table
with a Bible on it was placed near the
body Although he died on December
23rd, he could not be buried until De'
cember 27th because of a severe gale. The
body was drawn to the church on a
sleigh by six men with white ribbons on
their arms. After the service the body
was carried to the water's edge and the
people sang a hymn as the coffin was put
into a large boat which was rowed across
the harbour, through great sheets of ice,
to an "outside" island where the cemetery
IS.
The social life in Mutton Bay was
quite active, but a call out of town would
cancel all my engagements. In the after'
noons the nurse paid her visits among the
people both sick and well. On Tuesday
afternoons I had a class in home nursing
care. There were twelve members, all
girls from fourteen to eighteen years of
d.ge. Artificial respiration was one of the
main procedures taught in these classes.
On W ednesda ys the sewing circle of the
church held its meeting, and on Friday
afternoons sewing was done for the Mis,
sion, when dresses, aprons and quilts
were made up. A sale of work was held
in order to buy something for the nursing
station and the nurse was allowed to sug'
gest what she would like. My choice was
an equipped travelling bag as one has to
carry so much on long trips. On Thurs,
day evenings choir practice was held Ull'
der the direction of the community
worker, and on Fridays there was a meet'
ing of the Junior Red Cross, also directed
by the community worker, the nurse oc'
casionally giving brief health talks. The
community worker took charge of the in,
dust rial work which consists of wood
carving, making mats and so forth. These
articles are made during the winter
months and sold to the summer tourists.
The community worker and the nurse
share the direction of the housekeeping
week about, so that each gets an oppor,
tunity of making out the menus and has a
chance of choosing what she likes best.
At the beginning of October we had
to get the Christmas parcels ready for the
settlement down the coast, because these
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have to be got out during the mail boat
service for. after the freeze, up, we could
not ask the mail man to carry parcels by
dog team. During the winter it was a
great thrill to see the dog teams coming
and to guess who was who. In the
Christmas parcels we always put candy
for each child. I found that I was rull'
ning short of it and, as I had on hand a
half'pail of hard candy, I tried to boil it
down. After spending about three days
on it I was not successful, but everyone
in town was keen to know how it was
coming along and would make an excuse
to drop in to take a look and go out and
tell how it was doing. At last I gave it
up and late one night buried it in the ash
pile. In the morning I heard a great
noise and, to my horror, on looking out
of the window saw three dogs with their
jaws locked with a piece of the candy,
so, of course, everyone knew what a
grand success it had been. The Christ,
mas entertainment was organized by the
community worker and the nurse and was
held on Christmas Eve, everyone getting
<.l present from the tree. A midnight ser'
vice was held in the church and on
Christmas Day everyone was free to visit
(lI1d to find out what the others had
received.
In January, a man came to the station
267
asking me to visit his home for a couple
of days as his wife was expecting a son
and heir. I packed up and left with two
men and a team of dogs. It was my first
trip of this kind and it did prove thrilling.
We went up some steep hills and then
came down at a great rate, one man
steering in front and the dogs following.
On one of the bays we saw another dog
team coming and each party ,,\.'ondered
where the other party was off to. When
the other driver came up he asked us
about our trip and how the dogs were
standing it and then happened to say
"your wife needs the nurse." The man
almost threw me from my sleigh to the
other in his hurry to get me to my des,
tination. I was given over to the fresher
team and it was a fast ride. Going round
a corner I fell off and had to run to catch
up but, fortunately, arrived an hour be'
fore the son. I had to spend a week in
that settlement owing to a severe snow'
storm, and during that \\:eck I visited
everyone.
A great many children have rickets
owing to the inadequate diet. Very little
cod liver oil is used, even though the
nurse advises it. In one case a child of
eighteen months was not walking and her
parents felt she never would. After win'
ning them over we started giving cod liver
....
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THE DOG Tt-^M Rr"TING.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
oil and, in a very short time, she was
standing and taking a few steps.
The first steamer coming into the har-
bour in the Spring gives a great thrIll.
One goes on board to see one's friends
and to get the news. During the summer
the tourists come on shore to look over
the building and you do your best to
make it interesting. At this time the com-
munity worker and the nurse endeavour
to sell the handicraft work of the people.
After my stay of fourteen months in
the Canadian Labrador I could not help
being impressed with the general happi-
ness and contentment which prevailed in
spite of the isolation of these people.
Certainly a nurse doing work such as this
feels that she is definitely a part of the
community and that the interests of the
people are hers. To her they come with
all their problems, confidently hoping that
she will find some solution.
...
MISS CHARLOTTE E. EASTWOOD
Contributed by some of her Staff Nurses
The recent death of Miss Charlotte E.
Eastwood recalls to the minds of her early
associatc!> the pioneer days of the Toronto)
branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses.
The choice of its first district superintendent
was important and a wise selection was madc
in the appointment of Miss Eastwood who
W,IS a graduate of the School of Nursing of
Bellevue Hospital, New York, and had had
considerable experience in visiting nursing In
Chicago. It would be difficult for the nur'ie
of today to realize the problems she had to
face-opposition to the new scheme, difficulties
of transportation, and a host of others. There
were no taxis in those days, and cabs were a
luxury unknown to the people among whom
her work lay. Street cars went off duty at
midnight. So it was necessary to work all
day and, if out on a night call, to travel home
on foot, as of course no call could be refused.
The work grew quickly under her wonderful
management, and nurse after nurse was added
to the Order. Calls for Victorian Order nurses
began to come m from other centres and a
district training school for graduate nurses
was soon established in Toronto. Miss East-
wood was loved and admired by all. Her high
principles a-nd steadiness of character under
mOst trying circumstances were always an
inspiration to her nurses. Her absolute loyalty
to the Victorian Order and her spirit of co-
operation with other associations soon allayed
all opposition and was something precious that
her nurses carried away to new fields and that
they could only learn by association with such
a wonderful personality. Miss Eastwood W.lS
interested in many organizations, especially
those related to education and to raising the
standards of nursing. She was one of the
original members of the association formed to
have nursing recognized as a profession which,
when first organized, was known as the Gradu-
ate Nurses Association of Ontario. After a'
long and uphill struggle, a bill for the regis-
tration of nurses was eventually passed in 1924
by the Ontario Legislature. Miss Eastwood has
passed away, but her spirit will continue to
inspire many Canadian nurses as they travel
into the far reaches of our beloved Dominioil.
VOL. XXX, No. 6
Department of Private Duty Nursing
CoNYBNBB or PUBLICATION': Mi.. Jean David.on. Pari.. Ont.
THE CANADIAN SCENE
Beginning with December of last year
a series of editorials entitled 'The Can-
adian Scene has appeared monthly in the
Journal. It is in this series that this article
really belongs but this month it is de-
lIberately placed under the caption of the
Department of Private Duty Nursing in
the hope that it will receive the thought-
ful attention of the private duty group.
At the Biennial Meeting of the Can-
adian Nurses Association, which is to be
held in Toronto from June 25 to June 30,
there will be an opportunity for private
duty nurses from all petrts of Canada to
get together and thresh out their prob-
lems. Unfortunately the time assigned
for this purpose is sharply limited and it
is therefore highly desirable that none of
it should be wasted. It is modestly sug-
gested that by way of preparing to take
part in the debate it might be helpful to
review the editorials already published
under the title of 'The Canadian Scene.
and having done so, to give some thought
to certain divisions of the Survey in
which Dr. W cir discusses the economic
aspects of private duty. Since this is a
time-consuming process it will perhaps be
helpful to set down here a highly con-
densed version of some of Dr. Weir's
suggestions concerning a possible way out
of our economic dilemma.
In the first place, Dr. Weir accepts and
endorses the principle of health insurance
and indicates that its possible scope might
be as follows:
1. A complete health service should he
provided including medical, nursing, amI
dental services. Hospitalization should also
he available when required. Public health
services should be maintained.
2. All these services would he financed hy
contributions from the insured, and from
governmental sources: federal, provincial and
municipal.
(This is the s
Hnth if! a øcriea (If editorial. d...llin.:
with nursing condit IOns in Canada.)
JUNE, 1934
3. Health insurance should be compulsory
for all single adults whose income is less th.ln
$1,200.00 per year and for all married per-
sons whose income is less than $ 2,000.00 per
year. Persons receiving higher salaries than
these might be given the option of participat-
ing in health insurance schemes.
4. In order to discourage any abuse of the
insurance scheme it is suggested that, in addi,
tion to their regular contributions, persons
actually receiving nursing care should be
charged at the rate of ten per cent of the
actual cost of the nursing service supplied to
them.
Obviously such a far-reachmg scheme
as this cannot be put into operation until
all concerned are convinced of its sound-
ness and practicability. The medical and
dental professions, hospitals, public health
organizations are all involved and will
claim the right to speak for themselves.
But it is nevertheless true that nurses are
also entitled to a hearing since they are
not only engetged in private practice but
etlso constitute a larger part of the work-
ing force of hospitals and public health
organizations.
Supposing such a scheme were to come
into force, how would it affect nurses?
Public health nurses and hospital nurses
would be in much the same position as
they are now. It is the private duty group
who would feel the impact. Dr. Weir
suggests th;-it the following changes would
come about in private practice:
1, Provincidl nursing councils would he set
up which would either operate or control all
nursing registries. The money derived from
contrihutions to the insurance scheme would
be paid into a central con...olidated fund from
which private duty nurses would he paid on a
salary basi... and he .\:-signed to ca:-es as visiting
nurses are today.
2. Private duty nun.es would he graded a:-
to rank and earning power a.. are puhlic health
and hospitc\1 nurses.
3. Pri,,'ate dury nurse... would be ..uhject to
supervision and control as is now the ca"e in
other nur:-ing groups. Tho..c who did not
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wish to accept such condItions would be at
liberty to remain "free lances" and to carry
on an independent practice as at present.
It is, of course, quite possible that any
comprehensive scheme of health insurance
such as that outlined in the Survey may
not come into being for many years, if
ever. Time will tell. In the meantime we
ha ve here in the Survey at least a rough
chart which will help us to explore the
possibilities of establishing private duty
on a sound co,operative financial basis.
The next step may be to select a favour'
able community and to try out a few
laboratory experiments.
But first of all, private duty nurses, as
individuals and as a professional group,
must clear up their thinking on certain
points. It is suggested, therefore, that a
free discussion of the following topics
might lead to a profitable debate:
I. Should the co'operative principle (hedlth
insurance), be applied to private duty nursing
and is it desirable that private nurses be em'
ployed on a graded salary basis?
2. Is the suggestion of the Survey that
nursing registries be controlled by provincial
nursing councils a sound policy?
3. Should private nurses be subject to such
control and supervision as is accepted by other
nursing groups?
That there will be widely differing
points of view about such highly contro,
versial questions goes without saying. Yet
there is such a thing as compromise and
reconciliation for the sake of the common
good. One thing must be kept in mind.
No nursing policy can possibly be sound
which ignores the patient. Whether we
realize it now or not, the community at
large will eventually take an active part
in deciding this issue. Above the clamour
of our professional debates the still small
voice of public opinion wiII make itself
heard. It may be well to listen to it.
Book Reviews
OüR BIT: The War Memories of a Can'
adian Nursing Sister, by ex' Nursing
Sister Mabel Clint, A.A.R.C. 175
pages. Published by the author. Copies
should be ordered immediately from
Miss Mabel Clint, 2112 Claremont
Avenue, Montreal. Price, $1.25.
This volume is unique in that it has
achieved the record of being the first
book, published in Canada, that has been
written by a Canadian Nursing Sister,
telling of the work and experiences of the
Sisters who served at the front during
the Great War. The author takes the
reader on a long and far, reaching jour'
ney, lasting four years. From the mobili,
zation of the Sisters at Quebec in 1914,
to their landing with the First Canadian
Contingent at historic Plymouth, on to
F ranee and then to Egypt, and the Isle of
Lemnos in the Ægean Sea, again to
France, through the battlefields after the
Armistice, England once more, and final,
ly the return home in 1919. Miss Clint
introduces each chapter with a distinctive
and carefully chosen poem of the war
period. These chapters form a complete
series of vivid, interesting, and at times
tragic word pictures, coloured through'
out with quiet and steady heroism. With
absolute sincerity she has created out of
her great experience, a history of living
memories. So effectively and truly has
Miss Clint recaptured the atmosphere of
the life of the Sisters On active service,
that every Sister and veteran throughout
Canada and elsewhere who is privileged
to read her book may renew on every
page the countless, ageless memories of
those years. You will not want to lay it
down until the end is reached, for the
telling has an unusual quality and a fasci,
nation that is all absorbing. Many books
have heen written from the viewpoint of
the men in the trenches, but far too few
from that of the women who nursed
VOL. xxx, No. 6
BOOK REVIEWS
them: thus from an entirely different
angle we are given vivid glimpses of those
heroic years. The prospective reader may
be assured of finding, in this all too short
record, food for serious reflection. Not
only will it interest all nurses, but is
worthy of being read by everyone and
particularly by those who shared in the
conflict and the victory.
WINIFRED FRAY R-\MSAY.
(Nursing Sister Fray)
SURGICAL Nl!RSI
G. by E. L. Eliason,
M.D., Sc.D., University of Pennsyl,
vania; 1. Kraeer Ferguson, M.D.; and
Elizabeth Keller Lewis, R.N., former
instructress of nurses, University of
Pennsylvania Hospital. _ Fourth edition.
566 pages. 265 illustrations. Published
by the]. B. Lippincott Company, Can'
adian branch: 525 Confederation
Building, Montreal. Price, $3.50.
In the preface of this volume the auth,
ors have stated that the aim of the text
is to prepare the nurse to care intelli,
gently for the surgical patient. To this
end they have produced a text the coB'
tent of which is varied, detailed and prac,
tical. It is obvious that the authors have
had experience in teaching nurses as there
is a fine appreciation of the view point of
the nurse in the presentation of the nurs'
ing care. The many illustrations are well
chosen and contribute much to the value
of the book for teaching purposes. Black
faced type has been used extensively
throughout the text for the emphasis of
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important points. This has possibly been
overdone as there is a tendency for the
eye to leap ahead to the next heavy type
and to omit a careful perusal of the ex-
planatory lighter type. In some cases the
selection of words to be emphasiz.ed is not
particularly apt so that the purpose seems
to be defeated.
The content includes not only the
usual surgical conditions, but many
phases in the surgery of the eye, ear,
nose and throat, brain and spinal cord,
and in the fields of gynecology, urology
and orthopedics. Several of the chapters
open with a condensed review of the
anatomy and physiology relevant to the
subject under consideration, which should
be a help to the student in recalling the
principles underlying the nursing care.
There is a brief concrete discussion of
typical diets with an explanation of the
food requirements for some specific medi,
cal and surgical cases. A chapter is de'
voted to the preparation of solutions and
the administration of drugs, in which the
essential principles are stated in a com'
prehensive manner. The book concludes
with an adaptable outline for a course in
surgery based on the material in the pre'
ceding pages providing for lectures, quiz
and demonstrations.
CHRISTINA C. MURRAY.
Instructor, School of Nursing,
Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa,
Ontario.
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Notes from the National Office
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
Nominations
The tIcket of nominations for the elec-
tion of officers at the General Meeting of
the Canadian Nurses Association to be
held in Toronto, June 25 to 30, 1934,
is announced herewith:
For P1 esiJent: Miss Ruby M. Simp-
son, Director of the Public Health N urs-
ing Service of the Department of Public
Health, Province of Saskatchewan, Re-
gina, Sask.
For First Vice- President: Miss Grace
M. Fairley, Principal and Director of
Nurses, the School of Nursing, Vancou-
ver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.;
Miss Eleanor McPhedran, Superinten-
dent of Nursing, Central Alberta S<ln
-
torium, Calgary, Alta.
For Second Vice-President: Miss Mar-
garet L. Moag, District Superintender1t,
Montreal Branch, Victorian Order 01
Nurses, Montreal, P.Q.; Miss Kathleen I
Sanderson, EÀecutive Secretary of the
Greater Vancouver Health League, Van-
couver, B.C.
For Honorary Secretary: Miss Eliza-
beth Smith, Director of Health, Provin-
cial Normal School, Moose Jaw, Sask.;
Miss Elsie J. Wilson, Director of Nurs-
ing, Central Tuberculosis Clinic of the
Sanatorium Board of Manitoba, Winni-
peg, Man.
For HonoYa1 y Treasurer: Miss Mar-
garet Murdoch, Superintendent of the
School of Nursing, Saint John General
Hospital, Saint John, N .B.
The nominating ticket is prepared
from the returns received from the pro-
vincial associations of registered nurses.
A nomination form was sent to each of
these associations he fore November 1st,
1933. The completed forms were return-
ed for January 31st, 1934, showing the
name of one nominee for each office. The
consent of members to accept nomina-
tion must he first obtained. The two
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nominees receiving the highest number of
nominations for each office completes the
nominating ticket. The election of offi-
cers at the General Meeting is by ballot
and the officers elected for the period
1934- 3 6 will be announced by the scru-
tineers at the final session on Saturday
morning, June 30th.
Divine S
rvice
Honouring the celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canadian
Nurses Association, Divine services have
heen arranged during the General Meet-
mg in Toronto. A service will be held
on Sunday evening, June 24, at 7 o'clock
in St Paul's Anglican Church, Bloor
Street East. The preacher will be the
Right Reverend Robert J. Renison, M.A.,
D.D. At noon, on Wednesday, June 27,
a service will he held in St. Michael's
Cathedral, Bond Street. The celebrant
will be the Reverend W. P. Smith, Chap-
lain of St. Michael's Hospital, and the
preacher will be the Rcverend ]. Fallon.
S.].
Guc.ds of Honour
I n recognition of the Anniversary cele-
hrations during the week of the General
Meeting, representative nurses from
Great Britain and the United States of
America will be the guests of honour of
the Canadian Nurses Association. We
are happy to announce these guests who.
_t the banquet on Wednesday evening.
June 27, will bring greetings. from the
organi:ations they represent. Mrs. Edith
Rome, ex- President of the College of
Nursing, London, will convey the mes-
sages from the International Council of
Nurses and from the College of Nursing.
Miss M. S. Cochrane, Matron of Charing
Cross Hospital, London, will express the
congratulations of the National Council
of Nurses of Great Britain. Miss Susan
Fr
lI1cis, President of the American
Nurses Association, will bring greetings
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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
from that organizd.t1On. A third repre-
sentative from Gred.t Britd.in will be MISS
Daisy Bridges of the nursing staff of St.
Thomd.s's Hospitd.l. Miss Bridges will
represent the Nightingale School. Mrs.
Brent Goodson, a chd.rter member d.nd the
first vice-president of the C.N.A., has
kindly consented to d.ttend the ban4uet
dnd to offer her congratuldtions to the
Association.
Natiollal Ellrolmcllt of Nurscs
Considering the large numher of regis-
taed nurses who d.re memhers of the
Cd.nddidn Nurses Association, it woulJ
he red.sonahle to expect a much larger en-
rolment of nurses for war or disaster in
C,lOaJa than d.t present exists. According
to the last report from the Nd.tional Office
of the Canadian ReJ Cross Society, only
(j.B nurses have signifieJ their willingness
to serve in case of d. IMtiondl JIsdster. It
enrolment is to he l1Mintd.ined some med.ns
must he found to stImulate and keep the
interest in the pl.lI1 originally prompteJ
hy the nurses. Following the report of
the Committee on N d.tion(ll Enrolment of
nurses for Wdr l>r Jisd.ster which is to he
presented at the Generd.l Meeting in To-
ronto, Dr. J. L. Biggar, National Com-
missioner of the Can(ldlan Red Cross
Society, will sped.k hriefly to the recom-
mendations hrought forwd.rd in the re-
port, and it is hoped that nurses will come
prep,. red to t(lke pdft in d. discussion
which will bring out Wd.YS dnJ medns of
increasing the interest in this enrolment,
which will prove of gred.t nationallmpor
tance should d.n emergency ,lrise.
Legislatioll
Durin a the recent session of the Legis-
lative A;'embly in the Province of Al-
herta a Bill to amend the Registered
Nurses Associd.tion was introduced (lIld
passed upon; during the closing days of
the session Royal Assent was given to the
BIll, thu
n1.lking effective d.t once the
,lmendments to the Registered Nurses
Act of ] 922. The secretary of the Al-
herta Association of RC!!lstned Nursc.
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273
writes thdt they dre happy to report:
"the stand;. rd of education reÿuired of a
person entering upon a course of hospital
trd.ining leading to registr,ltion is raised
from Grade Eight EXdmination of the
Puhlic School Course to (;rd.de Eleven
Ex,m1Ínation of the Department of Edu-
cation of the Prov"ince of Alherta." It is
interesting to note that during the dis-
cussion of the Bill before the Legislative
Assemhly it was shown thd.t there is only
one student among those who will gr(,du-
d.te in IlJ36 who has not Grade Eleven
stdnding; further, that this student is
taking an examination shortly to com-
plete that standing. The Alberta Asso-
ciation is to be heartily congratulated
upon these results which, it is stated by
several members of the A.A.R.N., are
due principally to the efforts of their
Legislative Committee and the Provin-
cldl Joint Study Committee.
Scholarships
Interest in the ScholarshIps offered to
memhers of the C.N.A. for the Interna-
tional Courses for Nurses, 1934-1935.
hds heen Dominion-wide. Reÿuests for
application forms dnd information ha....e
been recÓved hy the ExecutIve Secretary
from as far east as Cape Breton and
through to V dncouver Island on the west
coast: from nurses resident in sm(lll towns
d.nd rural districts as well as from the
cities. It is hoped that this evidence of
interest in d particuldf project of the
C.N.A. is significant of a desire to par-
ticipate in and support provincial and
national enterpnses 111 general. At the
time this is written (May 4th) applica-
tion forms have heen sent to eIghty-two
nurses.
rht.' OYCrH'a Scttlcmcnt Committee
The Oversed. Settlement Committee is
d hody appointed to advise the Govern-
ment of the United Kingdom on ,lli l11.lt
ters concerning migration ,md settlement
within the Empire. A handhook issued
hy the Committee contains intormation
a
to regul.ttions for nurses III force in
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
vanous parts of the Empire. Recently a
revision of this handbook became neces-
sary. The C.N.A. was asked to prepare
a memorandum showing the required re'
visions in order to bring up to date the
regulations governing nurses in Canada.
A complete rewriting of information
published in previous issues of the hand,
book was required. The material sup'
plied was arranged under the following
headings in relation to the Acts for the
registration of nurses in Canada; permis-
sive or compulsory law; appointment and
personnel of the boards of control and of
the boards of examiners; the requirements
tor registration and for reciprocal regis,
tration; the types of organizations and
institutions in which registered nurses are
employed; the names and addresses of
the provincial registrars.
A Few Reminders
The time and place of the General
Meeting is June 25 to 30, 1934, at the
Royal York Hotel, Toronto. The annual
meeting of the Registered Nurses Asso'
ciation of Ontario will be held on Mon,
day, June 25. The first session of the
C.N.A. will open at 9.30 a.m., June 26.
For the tentative programme, see 'The
Canadian Nurse for April, 1934. It is
recommended that all nurses attending
the General Meeting should register early
and obtain their reservations for the ban-
quet and the pageant, and for other social
affairs listed in the final programme which
will be available at the time of registra-
tion. Daylight saving time is used in
Toronto; that is one hour in advance of
eastern standard time.
Hotel Accommodation
Detailed arrangements in reference tu
hotel accommodation have been published
in several previous issues of the Journal.
Reservation for accommodation in hotels
should be made at an early date. The
committee on arrangements advises that
the Royal Yark Hotel offers a rate of
$2.50 per day per person for three guests
in one room, with bath. Those who are
planning to take advantage of accommo-
dation offered by the Convents arc urged
to write as soon as possible to the Rev-
erend Sister Superior, St. Michael's Hos-
pital, Bond Street, Toronto.
EXHIBITORS AT THE BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
In co-operation with the Registered Nurses
Association of Ontario, the Canadian Nurses
Association is arranging an exhibit of products
used in the practice of nursing which will be
on display in the ballroom of the Royal York
Hotel, Toronto, during the week of the Bien-
nial Meeting, June 25-30, 1934. All nUrses
will find the exhibit interesting. The pro'
gramme of the Biennial Meeting includes
time allowance for daily visits to the Exhibit
Hall. A list of exhibitors, as at May 8th, is
published herewith:
J. B. Lippincott Company, Publishers, Mont-
real. Booth 1.
Not only will Lippincott have their complete
line of the most up-to-date and highest grade
nursing textbooks, but the newest ideas in
nursing publications. Make Liprincott"s Booth
Number One your headquarters, where you
will be welcomed.
A. Wander Limited, Manufacturing Chemists.
Peterborough. Onto Booth 2.
A. Wander Limited will exhibit Oval tine
Tonic Food Beverage and other v.,r ander
products such as Malt Extract with Cod Liver
Oil, 1\locol, etc. Ovaltine will be served at
the exhibit at all times to those attending
the Genera1 Meeting.
The J. F. Hartz Company, Limited. Booth 3.
The exhibit of The J. F. Hartz; Co. Limited.
Montreal and Toronto, will consist chiefly of
general nurses' and hospital supplies, paying
rarticu1ar attention to their "Rex" green glass
Luer syringes, "Vita" rustless Hypodermic
Needles and "Vitalast" al1-ruhber bed sheeting.
VOL. xxx, No. 6
EXHIBITORS AT THE BIENNIAL MEETING
The Walk Over Boot Shop, Montreal and
Toronto. Booth 4A.
The Walk Over Boot Shop, 290 Yonge
Street, Toronto, will have on display shoes
that are a distinct asset to the appearance
and at the same time very comfortable on the
feet and a real economy.
G. H. Wood & Company Limited, Toronto,
Montreal, Hamilton, Ottawa, Quebec,
Saint John, Halifax. Booth 14.
The comprehensive display at the G. H.
Wood & Company exhibit is well worth
seeing. You will find those in charge must
anxious to explain the use of the many prod,
ucts which are proving so popular for hos'
pital use, among which are included:
Lik'wiD Brand Foot Pedal Surgicoil Soap
Dispensers;
Lik,wiD Brand Surgical Green Soaps;
Zef,ir Air Purifying Blocs;
hal, the famous British GermIcide;
SteRiloL Antiseptic Fluid.
Johnson & Johnson, Limited, Montreal. P.Q.
Booth 16.
Johnson &' Johnson, Limited, is the only
concern manufacturing adhesive plaster in
Canada. Their bleaching plant is the only
one producing sterilized gauze cloth and ab-
sorbent cotton for surgical purposes. Visit
Booth 16 to see the merits of ZO Adhesive
Plaster, also "Drybak", the adhesive plaster
with a moisture'proof back, and the "Neat
Edge" Bandage, slit by a special machine
which eliminates ravels, loose threads or f1uffv
edges. .
E. R. Squibb & Sons of Canada, Limited,
Montreal and Toronto. Booth 18.
E. R. Squibb & Sons, Limited, Manufac'
turing Chemists since 1858, will have on dis-
play their complete line of standard Vitamin
products as well as an exhibit of their regular
lines of Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Profe,,'
sional Products, Tablets and Specialties. There
will be an exhibit of Ether showing the copper'
lined container, this lining being the only
known safeguard to prevent the deterioration
of Ether.
Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Limited. Phar-
maceutical and Biological Chemists.
Montreal, P.Q. Booth 20.
Members attending the General Meeting
will have an opportunity of seeing the manner
in which biological tests are made by Ayent.
McKenna & Harrison Limited.
any of our
members are familiar with these methods
through visits to the biological laboratories
of the above.named firm. The demom.tr.ltiun
is of primary interest to nursc
, dietitians amI
puhlic health wurkers.
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The T. Eaton Co., Limited, Canada. Booth
22.
The T. Eaton Co., Limited, extend to all
delegates to the General Meeting of the
Canadian Nurses Association a cordial invit.l'
tion to view an exhibit of hospital steel furni-
ture. This includes all the latest developmentc;
in beds, specially designed, charting desks.
bed'side tables, chairs and other pieces alI of
steel construction.
Ingram & Bell, Limited. Montreal. TorontC'.
Winnipeg and Calgary. Booth 23.
We will be exhibiting newest Operating
Table, electrically heated sterilizers, as manu'
factured by American Sterilizer Co. These
items will include the very latest devices and
will be wen worth seeing demonstrated.
Vi-Tone Company. Hamilton. Onto Booth
25.
Vi,Tone! That always welcome drink will
be served by Miss Samis, B.A. (Dietitian of
the Company) while your friend Miss Suther-
land attends the Medical Meeting in Calgary.
Miss Samis greets you with Vi,Tone cake
and ice cream and news about Vi,Tone.
Scientific Food Products, Limited, Toronto,
Onto Booth 26.
Scientific Food Products, Limited, are de.
monstrating their new food beverage V.I.P.
(Vitamins, Iron and Proteins). V.I.P. con'
tains 27% wheat germ, specially processed.
and iron to the amount of 6 milligrams per
teaspoonful. The exhibit will contain white
rats from the company's laboratory, demon-
strating the effect of these elements in pro.
moting growth, and increasing blood count.
Chr. Hansen's Laboratory, Inc., Torcnto,
Onto Booth 27.
"The Junket Folks" welcome you to Booth
27 where they will demonstrate how junket
works magic with milk and how to arouse
the interest of the convalescent in food. Vi..it
this booth to see the attractive desserts made
from Junket Tablets, Junket Powders and
Flavotint.
The Macmillan Company of Canada limited.
Publishers, Toronto, Onto Booth 28.
The Macmillan Company of Canada Limit-
ed will have on display at Booth
8 their
Nursing Texts including their newer publica'
tions on Materia
fedica, Chemistry, Puhlic
Health Nur!olllg, History of Nur!oing. etc. They
invite you to e
amine the
e boub there oit
yuur leisure.
Not
.- This list of exhibiturs is incomplete
.lI1d consi!>ts only of those who h.ld signified
their intention of t.lking space before this
issue of the Journal goes to prt.". EdltoJ.
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After sitting in the seats of the scornful. . these mlmy yeaïs we
succumbed at last .. and bought a radio. . . A modest affair. . . but our vel')'
own . . . to twiddle t.ht: dials .. as we please . . . The first thing . . . which
gushed out frum it . . . was not as we had feared it might be a slH;'e
ing
soprano . . . or a nasal tenor . . . or intimate ådl'ice . on personal hygiene
. from the vendo)"s of toothraste . . . Instead it was a flood of melody .
the voices of men and boys sHstamed b)' the deep notes of the organ from a
church in a town in Poland . . . which once we v:sited . . . on a clear and shining
autumn day . . . in order to see the Crucifix . . . beautifully carved out of dar
wood. . which according to legend . . . floated miraculously . . . down the
Vistula . . . long centuries ago .. We were caught up .. on a magIc carpet
. . . which mmil11lated space and telescoped time . and for a fleeting
instant . . . we loo
ed again. . upon t.he ineffable beauty . . . of that ancient
shrille . . . ReluctantI')' we left our new purchase . . . and went bac
to wor
. and in the evening .. hUJ 1 efully tHned in once more . . . this time it was a
voluble gentleman. . who llery much wanted . . . to be elected an alderman of
the city of Montreal .. quite a laudable ambition of course . . . but we turned
the dial . . . and got. Amos and Andy . . . and a person named Kingfish . . .
this didn't SUIt us either . . . so u'e switched over to some frivolous dance musIC
. from a grand hotel. . then there came a queer sort of crac
ling . . . and
we heard . . . through the music . . . a sibilant urgent whisper . . . "Car number
forty'seven go to Lincoln Street . . . arrest man wearing blue overcoat . . . and a
gTey hat" .. 'Then in a moment or two . . . "Missing from her home. . . ElsIe
Smith . . . age nineteen . . . fair hair, blue eyes . . . five feet five . . . one
hundred and twenty pounds" . . . \Ve sat spellbound . . . After a pause the same
sibilant voice began again. "Huld car with New Jersey licence. . . four men
suspected of mdnslaughter. . Car number forty'seven go to Lmcoln Street" . . .
then the crac
lmg stopped . the poltce went off the air. . . and the dance music
went gail)' on . . . but we thought of the missing Elsie Smith . . . and the four
frightened men . who were wanted for manslaughter. . . Just then the dance
music faded auoa)' . . . and an earnest. voice from Ottawa . . . told us how to escape
fmm UtoJ1ia . . .
o we twiddled again. . . and got Saint John, New Brunswic
. . . (md then Moose Jaw, Sas
tltcÌ1eu'an . . . presently a courteoitS voice told us
in French .. exactly u'hat time it uoas. . in Montreal, of course, .. not Moose
Talv . . . the time is different out there . . . by three hours . . . and a thousand
miles or so . . . spanned onl'y . . . by the power of the an . . . Late tlwt night
. . . just as we were dropPing off to sleep . . . a hideous screech assailed our ears
. . . It was the radio in thð arartment below . . . and far into the night . . . the
honid details of the six,day bicycle race , , . were dinned into our unwillmg ears
. . . However we had our revenge . . . being an early riser. . . u'e turned on an
organ rhaf'sody full blast at six forty,five the next morning . . . and
new by the
protesting groans Wll1Ch came from below . . . that our nocturnal ,mffenngs uoere
avenged
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ALBERTA
CALCAR Y: One hundred and forty guests
were present on April 25, at a bridge in the
study hall of the Holy Cross Hospita1. .1\
dainty lunch wa!' served at tables tastefully
decorated with spring flowers donated by
Terrill's Ltd. The members of the association
arc grateful to their friends who made this
affair a success, as it was held to assist with
the expenses of the graduating class of 1934.
The bridge was convened by the president,
Miss Mildred Leggatt, assisted by Miss K.
Guy and Miss R. Bond. Mrs. J. P. Rooney
was in charge of refreshments.
MANITOBA
BRANDON: The monthly meeting of the
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association was
held at the home of Mrs. J. R. Fisher on
April 3, when the meeting was in charge of
the executive committee. Miss Margaret Gem-
mell gave an interesting and comprehensive
report on the Florence Nightingale scholar-
ships. The members discussed plans for the
final meeting in May.
ST. BONIFACE: The St. Boniface Alumnae
Association held its regular meeting on April
11, with Miss McCallum presiding. Various
busnies:; matters were attended to including
the voting of a sum of money to the Floren.:e
Nightingale Memorial Fund to cover a period
of five years. The dance in honor of the
graduating class of 1934, held April 6, was a
great success and much credit is due the soci:11
committee. Plans for a spring tea arc und
r
way. Miss Cory Taylor was the guest speaker
at the March meeting, her subject being the
Florence Nightingale International Memoria1.
WI
N1PEG: A general meeting of the
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses
was held on April 16, in the Legislative Build,
ing, Winnipeg. Following the reports of the
various sections and committees, three very
interesting and instructive talks were given.
Miss C. Taylor, Manitoba representative of
the Florence Nightingale International Memo'
rial, chose as her topic, "The Florence Night-
ingale Foundation:' Miss M. McQuaig,
V.O.N., spoke on "Maternal Institutes", fol,
lowing which the Rev. J. Richmond Craig,
drew a clear picture of "The Present Day
Economic Situation." There was a very good
attendance.
WINI'IPEG: The Manitoba Association oi
Registered Nurses entertained at tea on April
25, when the guest of honour was Miss A.
Starr, retiring registrar of the a!'sociation, to
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whom a lovely chair was presented by her
fellow-members, as a token of affection and
appreciation. The many guests were received
by Miss Mildred Reid, president of the asso,
ciation, and Miss Jessie Kerr. Miss Elizabeth
Carruthers was in charge of the arrangements.
Pouring tea were Mrs. J. H. Morrison, Mrs.
Willard Hill, Miss McLeod, and Miss M.
Allan. Assisting were the Misses P. Brownell,
E. Wilson, S. Pollex fen, M. Maughan, 1.
Lynch, \Vilkins, E. Shirley, J. McDonald, and
B. Robertson. The headquarters of the Mani'
toba Association of Registered Nurses in the
future will be known as "The Central Nursing
Bureau", and will be located at 510 The
Medical Arts Building, Winnipeg; telephone
27700.
WINNIPEG: The regular meeting of the
Children's Hospital Alumnae Association was
held on April 10, when Misses Taylor and
McCallum were the guest speakers of the
evening, their subject being "The Florence
Nightingale Memorial Fund."
WINN1PEG:As a means of improving leis'
ure hours, with cultural, athletic and profcs,
sional activities, and as a service to the com'
munity, a new venture has been successfully
undertaken by the members of the Alumnae
Association of the School of Nursing of the
Winnipeg General Hospital, in the form of
an Alumnae Club, which was Olganized in
January of this year. Its officers are: President,
Miss Sally Tretiak: Vice' President, Miss M:1r'
garet Cameron; Treasurer, Miss K. Young:
Secretary, Miss Florence Stratton. The Club
is composed of the following groups: Modern
Trends in Nursing convener, Miss K. W.
Ellis, superintendent of nurses; Community
Social Service: Miss Stella Pollexfen; Sports:
Miss Mary Duncan; Dramatics: Miss Julia
Moody; Art: Miss Margaret McClure; Music:
Miss M. Gemmel; Reading and Poetry: Miss
K. Glass; Current Events: Miss Isobel Barnes;
Sewing and Handicrafts: Miss 1. Thordarson;
Languages: Miss S. Tretiak. Following a
debate: "Resolved that an eight,hour day is
more beneficial to patient and nurse than a
twelve,hour day." The affirmative was sus'
tained by Miss Pearl Mills and Miss Lillian
Warner, and the negative by Miss Elizabeth
Morecombe and Miss Catherine Baker, who
wOn the debate. In March, the dramatic group
had, as its guest speaker, Mr. Charles Moat,
a member of the Sock and Buskin Club of
the Little Theatre, who gave an interesting
demonstratiot:\ of !Ötage make'up. In April the
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
group made its first attempt dt a play-a one-
act farce, "The Rest Cure:' The player:,.
under the adept direction of Miss Miriam
Norton, made their first theatrical appedrdnC\è.
,1I1c.l onlookers might have connived dt any
nervousne:,s. It was an agreeable surprise,
however, to note that the various portraY.lls
were presented with keenness, with due reg:l:-d
to the exigencies of comedy situations, with
great clarity of enunciation, and a generally
uccessful result. In the cast were: Margaret
Cameron (1933), taking the role as ClarenLc,
a poet, in hospital for a rest cure against a
nervOus breakdown who did her, Or his, wo;'k
with commendable skill: Annie EtLer (\930).
as a nurse; Mary Duncdn (1932), as another
nurse, who did their Thespian duties as nurse
dS efficiently as they do in their regular hos-
pital work: Ada Billinkoff (193\). as wife
of Clarence, in a small role which she por-
trayed well: and Isabel Cameron (\929), a
d servant, 111 which part she was credited with
the major portion of the comedy, carryir.g
off high honors. Make-up WdS done by Miss
Pat Holden, through the kindness of the Sock
and Buskin club: properties were in care of
Miss Stella Pollexfen, assisted by Miss Isabel
Barnes and Mary Shepherd: MIss Winnitred
Spdfford acted as prompter, though her ser-
vices in this connection were not greatly
requir\èd, and Miss Catherine Baker had
L-harge of the necessary sound effects. Previous
to the play a paper on Great Drama was read
by Miss Julia Moody, convener of the drama
tIC group, in which she traced the growth of
the drama from its beginnings, through tragedy
to s,ltirical drama and to comedy. dealing witil
the inception of mechanical appliances and
finally the establishment of buildings to
accommodate the staging of plays.
Mass meetings arc held twice monthly each
group. 10 turn. being in charge of a meeting.
The activities of some of the groups have
been as follows: the social service group ha:;
worked in connection with the Back-to-th.:-
land Assistance Association and has also be
n
instrumental in caring for two needy tamilies.
one in the country where there arc four chií-
dren, and one in the city - a deserted mother
with three small children. The handicraft"
group has been holding its meetings in the
homes of the various members and papers
have been given on handicrafts, weaving and
spinning, laces, embroidery, Dresden china
and Wedgewood ware. The current events
group has made a study of the lives of Benito
Mussolini and Adolph Hitler. The art group
has been studying the life of Raphael. The
sports group has participated in various winter
,.,ports. The languages group has been study-
ing German.
NEW BRUNSWICK
MON(;TO:-.1: The regular meeting of the
locdl chapter of the New Brunswick Associa-
tion of Registered Nurses was held on April
9. It was agreed to send the sum of ten dol-
lars for the Florence Nightingale Memori<<l
Fund. After the meeting a social hour w:\.;
spent at the Annex when the members were
guests of Miss Oliver and Miss Newcomb. A
beautIful basket of roses was presented to Mis.;
MacMdster with the good wishes of the Chap-
ter. It was a great honour for the Moncton
Chapter to have had Miss MacMaster given a
charter Fellowship in the American College 01
Ho...pital Administrator:,. Recently Mr. Harold
Rcid gave a most interesting illustrated lecture
to the members of the i\ssociation and th...
student nurses on the process of newsprinting
and photo-eng
aving. A rummage sale W,lS
held on May I, under the convenership of
Misses I. Scott, M. Mercer and M. K. Miller
when a considerable sum was added to the
funds of the chapter.
WOODSTOCK: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nursing
of the L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital was
held on April 17, with the president, Mrs.
Harry Dunbar, in the chair. After the usual
business was transacted, Dr. George Belycd
gave a very interesting lecture on goitre
ONT ARlO
DISTRICT 1
CHATHAM: On May 1. the Alumnae Asso-
ciation of the School of Nursing of the
Chatham General Hospital entertained the
graduate and student nurses of St. Joseph's
Hospital at a social evening in honor of Flo-
rence
ightingale, "The Lady with the Lamp:'
During the evening, scenes from her life from
childhood to Crimean \\'ar days were depicted.
The fdmily album was then presented and
much enjoyed by all present.
MARRIl:D: The marriage took place recently
of Helen lola Rankin to Mr. John Russel
Hunter. Miss Rankin is a member of tho:
class of 1932 of the School of Nursing of the
Chatham General Hospital.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRAt.:TFORD: A meeting of the Alumn,le
Associdtion of the Brantford General Hos-
pital was held on May 1 when plans were
made for the grddudtion exercises which take
place on June 2. National Hospital was cele-
brated on May 12 by the Brantford General
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During the session 1934-35, the following work will be offered:
1. Undergraduate Training for Nursing.
A three-yedr course in nursing which gives prepdrdtion for stdff work in
both hospitdl nursing dnd public hedlth nursing. This ledds to the School
Diplomd dnd qUdlifies for registrdtlon for the prdctice of nursing in the Prov-
ince of Ontdrio.
2. Studies for Graduate Nurses.
One-yedr progrdmmes which ledd to certificdtes from the School.
Students mdY enrol for study in dny one of the following subjects:
A. Public Hedlth Nursing: d prelimindry trdining.
B. Public Hedlth Nursing: ddvdnced study in specidl fields.
C. *Educdtlondl Theory dnd Prdctice, including Psychology, Principles of
Educdtion, T edching Methods.
D. *Pre-Medicdl Science: d selection from the subjects of Chemistry, Biology,
Andtomy dnd Physiology.
* The s'.udies dre d-rdnged pJrticuldry fo
nurses who dre prepdnng for teòching
dnd supervisory work in hospitdl dnd nu-sing school.
Undergrddudtes will live in residence dnd d certdin dmount of residence dccom-
moddtion will dlso be dVdddble for grddudte students.
For further informdtion dpply to: -
The Secretary I School of Nursing, University of Toronto.
JUNf., 19i4
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Hospital. Miss Helen F. Murison, dietitian,
Brantford General Hospital, gave a valuable
contribution to' the nursing staff conference at
the Brantford General Hospital in regard to
new diets for pernicious anaemia and otha
special diets. Miss Murison attended the
Ontario Dietetic Association meeting held
recently in Toronto. Mrs. M. Norton, Miss
R. Isaac and Miss H. Kerr attended the
refresher course in mental hygiene recently
held under the auspices of the School of
Nursing. Toronto University. Miss Margaret
Gillespie has returned from a Mediterranean
cruise. Miss Clara Biffin (B.G.H., 1932), is
doing general duty at the Norfolk General
Hospital. Simcoe.
GALT: On April 18. the Alumnae Associa-
tion of the Galt General Hospital held a bridge
and over sixty tables were in play during the
evening. The proceeds are for the nurses' per-
manent education fund. Miss I. Mitchell,
president of the association, was the con-
vener of the enjoyable affair.
GUELPH: A meeting of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation of the Guelph General Hospital was
held on March 7, when Miss A. Bingeman
of Freeport Sanitarium gave an interesting
address on the obligations of the graduate
nurse to nursing organÌ2;ations and on the
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario,
and the value of membership therein. Later,
everyone took part in an enjoyable game of
bridge. The officers for 1934 of the Alumnae
Association of the School of Nursing of the
Guelph General Hospital are as follows: Hon.
President: Miss S. A. Campbell, Superinten-
dent. Guelph General Hospital; President:
Miss 1. Ferguson; First Vice-President: Miss
K. Cleghorn; Second Vice-President: Miss M.
Wood; Secretary: Miss N. Kenney, Guelp!1
General Hospital; Treasurer: Miss J. Watson:
Social Convener: Mrs. 1. Jackson; Programme
Convener: Miss E. Eby; Flower Committee:
Miss I. Wilson; Representative to 'The Cana-
dian JXw'se: Miss 1. Sinclair.
STRATFORD: At the monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association. plans were made to
furnish and maintain one ward in the paedia-
tric department of the Stratford General Hos-
pital. This ward is being sponsored by the
Women's Hospital Aid and is to be officially
opened in the near future.
DISTRICT 4
HAMILTON: Misses Livingston, Gayfer and
Schiefele attended the Alumnae dinner of the
School of Nursing of the University of To-
ronto on May 5, in Toronto.
DISTRICT 5
TORONTO: The School of Nursing of the
University of Toronto, was a scene of happy
gathering on May 5, when the Alumnae Asso,
ciation held its annual dinner. Since the
establishment of the School the Alumn3e
Association of the Department of Public
Health Nursing and the Course for Teacher
and Administrators have merged into the
School of Nursing Alumnae Associdtion. It
seemed a very special celebration when '-he
re-organÌ2;ed Alumnae Association held !(:-
re-union in its new home and entertained the
graduating class. The tables, down the sides
and across one end of the large dining roo
n,
seated one hundred and twenty, and w
re
dainty with pale yellow candles, bouquets of
mauve sweet peas and yellow menu cards.
After all were at their places the graduatmg
class filed in, each wearing a yellow and
mauve sunbonnet of crepe paper, and took
their places at a long table up the centre of
the room. With Miss Russell and members of
the executive committee of the Alumnae
Association and teaching staff at the head
table were Mrs. Plumptre and Dr. and Mrs.
H. A. Cody. In the absence of Miss Laura
Gamble, president of the Alumnae Associa-
tion. the toast to the King wa& proposed by
Miss Gladwin Jones, who also gave the toast
to Alma Mater. Miss Elvira Manning, a
graduate of 1921, the first year of the course
in Public Health Nursing, made a humorous
response. Miss Russell introduced the speaker
of the evening, making happy reference to Mrs.
Plumptre's share, as president of the Ontario
Red Cross. in the establishment of the De-
partment of Public Health Nursing. Mrs.
Plumptre, speaking from a wealth of personal
experience as Canadian delegate to Geneva.
made a strong plea for understanding of the
League of Nations. The president of thp.
University, Dr. Cody, spoke of his interest in
the Department of Public Health Nursing
since the early days when he was present at
the graduation of Mrs. Cody. and wished the
school all success for the future.
TORONTO: In November, 1933. a refresher
course for hospital staff nurses was held in
Toronto under the direction of the School of
Nursing of the University of Toronto. The
enrollment was representative of many hos-
pitals in Ontario. which is significant of the
interest taken in these short intensive courses.
The programme included the following lec-
tures: "Testing and examination methods",
by Mr. Mustard of the University of Toronto:
"Ward teaching", by Miss Ditchbourne of
the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital; "Admim<j-
tration and supervision of wards staffed with
graduate nurses", by Miss Buck, Norfolk Hos-
pital, Simcoe; "Radiological treatment". by
Dr. Richards, Toronto General Hospit31.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Round tables were ably conducted by MI
Grindlay of the Hospital for Sick Children
and Miss Stewart of the Toronto GenerJ.l
Hospital, .\ssisted by Mis
Beamish of the
Toronto Western Hospital, Mi
s Chute of the
School of Nursing of Toronto University.
Miss Draper of the Hamilton General Ho,,'
pital and Miss Kelly of the Toronto GenerJ.1
Hospital.
An opportunity was afforded for the
obser\'ation of some of the newer nursing
procedures on the w.\rds of the \Vestern
Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children. Th
course was concluded with a visit to the sple'l'
did new wing of the Toronto General Hos'
pital, which was followed by a mOst enjoyahle
teci party at the Nurses' Residence.
The staff of the School of Nursing is to be
congratulated for arranging this successh.1
programme.
TORONTO: St. John's Hospital i\lumnM
Association held their monthly meeting on
April 30. Memhers of the Hospital for Sick
Children and of the Toronto Psychiatric Hos-
pital were present. Dr. F. W. Marlow ad,
dressed the meetIng.
DISTRICT 6
Chapter C of District 6, Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario, held Its month,
Iy meeting at Ros
Memorial Hospital, Lind-
say, on April 24. Seventeen members motored
from Peterborough to Lindsay to participate
in the meeting, and between thirty and forty
members altogether helped to make the
meeting one of the largest the Chapter has
had for a long time. The president, Mis
Dixon. occupied the chair and after a short
business session introduced the speaker of
the evening, Dr. Logan, who spoke on the
pasteuri 4 ation of milk and touched briefly Of)
tuberculosis and rickets. Vocal numbers were
presented by Mrs. Gleeson and Mr. T. Hick.
The accompani<;ts were Mrs. Morrison and
Miss R. Shannon. Miss Walsh proposed a
vote of thanks to Miss Reid and her assis
tants for their hospitality.
MARRIED: On March 29, 1934. at Peter'
horough, Ont., Miss Kathleen Burnside (Ni,
choll's Hospital. 1926), to Mr. B, j. Burgess.
PICTON: It will be learned with regret that
Miss Laura J. Gaden, Reg. N., has resigned
her position as superintendent of Prince Ed.
ward County Hospital. In the years Mi
s
Gaden has been associated with the institutioa
he has become well beloved. Patients in thp
hospital have become her lastIng friends amI
the staff has been loyal to her. She has ju"'t
passed through a serious illness and feds
unable to continue the arduous duties sO
cheerfully and efficiently performed since she
assumed the responsible position. It is hoped
that relaxation will restore her to her former
strength and that she may again take up the
work for which she is so well qualified
DISTRICT 8
OTTAWA: During the winter the membe:s
of the Alumnae Association of the School of
Nursing of the Ottawa Civic Hospital wer
privile
ed in having as guest speakers at two
of their monthly meetings Miss Emily Warren
and Dr. R. K. Paterson. Miss Warren's fas,
cinating address. "Seeing England," was beau'
tifully illustrated by lantern slide reproductions
of her own paintings depicting rural England.
An instructive iIlustrcited lecture on "The
Treatment of Cancer with X,Ray and Radi,
um". by Dr. R. K. Paterson, was Intensely
interesting and greatly appreciated.
MARRIED: On February 10, 1934, in Ot,
tawa, Miss Norma Lillian Stevens (Ott.\wa
Civic Ho
pital, 1927), to Mr. Hdfry P.
Walkcr of Ottawa.
OTTAWA: The annual meeting of the Lady
Stanley Nurses Alumnae Association wa
held
recently at the Ottawa Civic Hospital with
Miss Jean Blyth presiding. Sdtisfactory reports
of the year's work were presented. Officers
for the ensuing year were elected as follows:
Hon. President: Miss M. Catton: President:
Miss Jean Blyth: Vice'President: Miss M.
McNiece: Secretary. Miss Gertrude Halpennv:
Treasurer: Miss M. Slinn: Directors: Miss E.
McColl, Miss S. McQuade, Miss L. Belford,
and Miss M. Stewart: Flower Convener: Mr'.
V. Boles; Press Convener: Mrs. W. C. Elmitt:
Representative of The Canadian Nurse: Miss
A. Ebbs. During the social hour which follow,
ed, the retiring secretary, Mrs. R. L. Morton,
was presented with a silver flower basket prior
to her departure for her new home in Win.
nipeg. Refreshment
were served by the
hostesses. Miss J. Blyth, Miss E. Manchest
r
and Mrs. V. Boles.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
CHARLOTTETOWN: At the May meeting of
the Graduate Nurses A
sociation of Prince
Edward Island, a grant of $50.00 a year, for
a period of five years. was made towards tl-je
Florence Nightingale Memorial Fund.
Arrangements were made for the annual
meeting to be held at Summerside on June
12. Delegates were appointed to attend the
Biennial Meeting of the Canadian Nurses
Association in Toronto. The graduating exer'
cises of the Prince Edward Isldnd Hospital
School of Nursing were held in St. Paul's
Hall, Charlottetown, on Tuesday, May 15.
The graduates received their diplomas from
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his Honour, the Lieutenant-Governor, and
were addressed by Dr. J. W. MacKenzie.
Mrs. Lois MacDonald read the valedictory.
After the programme, the nurses and their
friends were entertained at a reception in the
spacious reception rooms of the new Prin.:e
Edward Island Hospital. The Alumnae Asso-
ciation of the Charlottetown Hospital Nursing
School has recently donated a metabolism m:l-
chine of the latest type to their hospital equip-
ment. Miss Mary Lowther, obstetrical super-
visor at the P.E.I. Hospital, is spending her
vacation at her home in Nine Mile Creek.
Miss Florence Platts, instructor at the P.E.I.
Hospital, has returned from a visit to Toronto.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: The graduation exercises of
the Training School for Nurses, Royal Vic-
toria Hospital, were held in the Nurses Home
on Tuesday evening, May 8, with Dr. W. W.
Chipman presiding. Forty-five nurses gradu-
ated this year. Dr. W. F. Hamilton gave the
address to the graduating class and Lady Ho:t
presented the diplomas and prizes. The prize"
for highest standing in the class were won
by Miss Margaret Casselman (1st Division)
and Miss Rena Harvie (2nd Division). For
best ward reports by Miss Melba Pynn (1st
Division) and Miss Ebha Neilson (2nd Divi-
sion). The dinner, given by the Alumnae
Association of the Training School for Nurses.
Royal Victoria Hospital, in honour of the
graduating class of 1934, was held at the Rit<:
Carlton Hotel on Monday evening, May 7,
and was as enjoyable as in former years. About
one hundred and fifty graduates were present.
Miss Elizabeth SmeIlie, C.B.E., R.R.C., Chief
Superintendent of the Victorian Order of
Nurses for Canada, gave a most stimulating-
address to the graduating class. At the May
meeting of the Alumnae Association. Dr. A.
Howard Pirie gave an address on "Recent
Developments in X-Rays:' After the meeting.
Dr. Pirie demonstrated his new discovery, 'lnd
allowed the members to read and see pictures
with their eyes shut.
MONTREAL: Friends of Miss Jennie Web-
ster will be interested to learn that in apprecia-
tion of her long and faithful service in the
nursing field, she has been made an honorary
member of the Alumnae Association of the
Winnipeg General Hospital. Miss Irene Gil-
hert, Miss Katherine McKim and Miss Muriel
K, Foote (all M.G.H., 1933), are taking
postgraduate work at the Laurentian Sanato-
rium, Ste. Agathe. Miss Marjorie Lamont
(M.G.H., 1933), is taking postgraduate work
in the Central Division outpatients depart-
ment. Miss I. McIver (M.G.H., 1933) is
taking postgraduate work in the Central Divi-
sion Operating Room. Miss Sadie Hicks
(M.G.H., 1928), who has been on the operat-
ing-room staff for the past five years, has
accepted a position as operating-room super-
visor at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria,
B.C. Miss A. M. Smith (M.G.H., 1929)
and Miss Corinna S. Dea (M.G.H., 1930)
have accepted positions on the staff of the
Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Hospital.
MONTREAL: On April 27, doctors, nurses
and other friends gathered to witness the
graduation exercises of the final class of thc
School of Nursing of the Children's Memorial
Hospital. Dr. Cushing, as chairman, con-
gratulated the members of the class, and
wished them success. The Rev. David Scott,
in his most inspiring and humorous address
to the graduating class, spoke highly of the
nursing profession and of the work to be done
by the young graduate. Mrs. T. S. Gillespie
presented the pins and diplomas to the eleven
members of the class: Marguerite Bateman:
CilIa Benning; Eleanor M. Campbell; A.
Elizabeth Collins; Katherine Finlay; Dulcie
Read; Ethel M. Richardson: Marjorie Tate:
Helen Griffin; Melba Knickle; Margaret A.
MacNaught. Mrs. G. B. Foster presented the
prizes to their fortunate winners: highest
standing in the senior division: Miss E. Col-
lins; highest standing in the junior division:
Miss M. MacNaught; practice of nursing:
iss E. Richardson; operating-room tech-
nique and pediatric nursing: Miss K. Finlay.
At the close of the exercises Miss A. Kinder
received the nurses and their friends at tea
and in the evening an enjoyable dance wa<;
held in honour of the new graduates. The
Alumnae Association of the School of Nursing
of the Children's Memorial Hospital gave (I
tea-dance in honor of the graduating class of
1934, on April 21, when a pleasant afternoon
was enjoyed and many an old acquaintance
renewed. Mrs. F. McLean of Granby spent
a few days in the city recently. We wi3h
Miss A. Woodley, who is at present a patient
at the Children's Memorial Hospital, a speedy
recovery. Misses J. Smith, K. Churchill, M.
Chaulk have returned to Newfoundland. Mi"s
M. Tate has sailed for her home in Clansidc.
Montego Bay, B.W.I.
SASKATCHEWAN
REGIN A: The Regina branch of the Saska!:-
chewan Registered Nurses Association held a
Springtime tea on May 5, at the Regina
General Hospital. The proceeds will be used
toward the expenses of a private duty nurse
to be sent as a delegate from the Regina
Branch to the Biennial Meeting of the Cana-
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dian Nurses Association in To
onto in June.
Miss Nellie Goodman (R.G.H. 1932), has
been awarded the scholarship of the Saskàt-
chewan Registered Nurses Association for
1934. She will leave in September for post-
graduate study at
cGill Uniwrslty. Mont-
real. The Regina \V elf are Bureau arrangc.d
its first conference on sucial work in Regm I
on May 4. "Child and Family \\'elfare" and
"Public Health and Relief", arc the gener.d
topics of the two sessions. Miss Ann Morton
of \Veyburn. Miss Gladys McDonald and Miss
Ruby M. Simpson of Regina are the nurses
whose names arrear on the programme. A
two,day maternity institute for nurses has bec.l
arranged in Regina under the direction of
MIss Ethel Cryderman, Central Supervisor,
Victo
i<1n Order of Nurses. Miss Eunice
Dyke, of Toronto, was a vI
itor in Saskatoon,
Regina and Weyburn during April.
SASkAT()O
: At the April meeting of the
Saskatoo!1 City HospItal Alumnde Associ.l'
tion, which was held in the demonstratio'1
room of the hospital, Dr. J. A. Valens gaw
an interesting lecture on Pioneer Medicine in
Saskatchewan.
MARRIFO: On April 2, 1934. Miss Elizaheth
Margaret Beaton (S.C.H. 1930). to Mr. Mo'1'
ty C. Stacey, of Humboldt. Sask.
OBITUARY
ANDERS01\- Died at Guelph, March 17,
1934. Mrs. NelIie Anderson (Guelph
Hospital, clas" 1903), after a short illness.
FIFE-Early in April, 1934. at Pasadena.
California, Gertrude G. Fife, a member of
the class of 191.1 of the School of N ursin
of Nicholl's Hospital, Peterborough.
FLEMING On April 6, 1934, at the Corn-
wan General Hospital, Cornwall, Ontanu.
Mary A. Fleming, a member of the clas
of 1911 of the School of Nursing of the
Cornwall Gener.d Hospital. Miss Flemi'1g
was for several years a member of the statf
of the Victorian Order of Nurses. and for
eight years was night supervisor of the
Cornwall General Hospital. At the time
of her death she was president of the Alum'
nae A
sociation and leaves a wide cIrcle of
friends who deeply mou;-n her loss.
GILLILAND -Mi
Lcla N. E. GilIiland, a
member of the c1as;; of 1931 of the School
of Nursing of the Hamilton General Hos'
pital, passed away at her home in West-
dale, on Apnl t 1, 1934. .It the age of
twenty-six years.
\V c U'a
e and whIsper au-Inle. but the day gone by.
silence and sleep It
e fields of amaranth lie
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VOL. XXX, No. 6
Official
Directory
International Council of :\"urses:
Secrt'tary, ì\liss Christiane Reimann, 14 Quai ùes Eaux-\ïves, Cene\'a, S\\itz('rland
Presiden t
First Vice-President.. "
Second Vice-President.
Honorary Secretary....
Honorary Treasurer
C.\:\'.\DIA
rRSES \SSOCIATIO
Officers
...
Iiss F. H. 1\1. Emory, university of foronto, Toronto. Ont.
..........l\Iiss R. 1\1. Simpson, Parliament Bldgs., Regina, Sask.
..Miss G. 1\1. Bennett, Otta\\a Civic Hospital. Ottawa, Ont.
.........Miss Nora Moore, City Hall, Room 309, Toronto, Ont.
Iiss M. Murdoch, St. John General Hospital. Saint John, :'\.B.
COl :'I:CILLOHS .\:'\1) OTHER \IE\IBERS OF EXECUTIVE CO\1\II1TEE
V"mn-als precffiing names indicate office held, "it: (I) President, Pronncial Nurses Association; (2) Chairmfln,
Nursing Education Section; (3) Chairmfl II , Public Health Section; (4) Chairman, Private Duty Sf'ction.
Alberta: (1) :\Iiss F. )Iunroe, Royal .-\lexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2) Miss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal, Call!;ary; (3)
Iiss 13. A. Emerson, 604 Civic
Block, Edmonton; (4) :\Iiss J. Clo", 11138-82nd
Ave., Fdmonton.
I\ritish Columbia: (I) :\Iiss :\1. F. Gray, Dept. of
ursing, University of British Columbia, "ancouver;
(2) :\Iis!' L. :\Iitchell, Royal Juhill'l' Ho!'pital, 'ïc-
toria; (3) :\Iiss )1. Duffield, 175 Broadway Fast,
"ancouver; (4) :\Iiss 1\1. :\Iirfield, Beachrroft
ursing
Home, Cook
t., \ idoria.
Manitoba: (1) :\Iiss :\Iildred Hl'id, :\" urses Hl'sidence.
Winnipeg General Hospital, Winnipf'l!;; (2)
ister
t.
-\lbert, St. Joseph's Hospital, Winnipeg; (3) :\Ii,,!! E.
\lc Kelvey, 00.3 :\Iedical Arts Buildinl!:, \\ïnnipel!:;
(4) :\Iiss K. McCallum, 181 Enfield Crl'srf'nt, :\or-
wood.
New Brunswick: (1) :\Ii!'s -\. J. :\lac\laster, \Iondon
Hospital, Moncton; (2) f'ister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) \-liss Ada Burns,
Health Centre,
aint John; (4) :\Iiss 'fabel Mc-
:\f ullen, f't. Stephen.
ova Scotia: (1) :\Iiss .-\nne
lattery, Box 173,
Windsor; (2) 'frs. \furray :\lacKay. Nova
rotia
Hospital, Dartmouth; (3) Miss A. Edith Fenton,
Dalhûusil' Health Clinic, :\Iorris St., Halifax; (4)
Miss Christine Mac Leod, 97 South Kline St., Halifax.
Ontario: (1) :\Iiss )Iarjorie Buck, Norfolk Hospitall
imcoe; (2) Miss S. :\1. Jamieson. Peel \Iemoria,
Hospital, Brampton; (3) l\lrs. Al!;nes HaYl!:arth.
21 Sussex St., Toronto; (4) Mi!'s Clara Brown, 2
Kendal .-\ ve., Toronto.
Prince Edward Island: (1) Miss I.illian Pidgeon.
Prince Co. Hospital. f'ummerside. (2) "Ii&< F.
Lavers, Prinre Co. HQ!'pital,
ummerside; (3) Mis"
I. Gillan. 59 Grafton St.. rharlottetfmn; (4) :\liss:\1.
Gamble, 51 Ambrose St., Charlotteto\\n.
Quebec: (1) MIss C. V. Barrett, Royal 'ïctoria 'Iat('r-
nity Hospital, :\Iontreal: (2) :\Iiss :\fartha BatS(111,
:\Iontreal General Hospital.
Iolltreal; (3)
t i!'1'
Christine Dowlinl!;, 1246 Bishop Strl'et, :\Iontrl'al:
(4) :\Iiss C. :\1. \\" atlinjr, 1230 Bishop :;treet, :\fontreal.
Saskatchewan: (1) Mis!' Fdith Amas, rity Hospital,
:-,askatoon; (2) \Iiss G. :\1. Watson. rity Hospital,
:-,askatoon; (3) \Irs. E. M. Feeny, Dept. of PuHi..
Health, Parliament Bldl!:s.. Hejrina; (4) l\fiss 1\1. n.
rhisholm, 805 7th Ave. N., Saskatoon.
CH\IR\IE
="JATIOl\" o\L SECTIU:\S
SURtlINr. EDUCATION: :\Iiss G.
1. Fairley, "ancouvl'r
General Hospital, Vancouver; Pt:BLlC HEALTH: Mil's
:\1. :\Ioall:, 1246 Bishop St., Montreal; PRIVATE
Dt:TY: :\Iiss Isabel Macintosh, Queenscourt Apt"
;5 Queen Ht. S., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary: \fiss Jean S. Wilson, :\"ational Office, 1411 Crescent Sto,
\fontreal, P.().
OFFICERS OF SECTIO
S OF CANADIA
Nt:RSES ASSOCIATIOI\:
l\l'RSIl\G EUl (:A1"IOS SEC1'IO:-"
('HAIRM'l.N: Miss G. :\1. Fairley, 'ancouver General
HOllpital, Vancouver; 'WE-CHAIRMAN: Mi"" :\1. F.
Gray, {Tniversity of Briti!'h Columbia, "anC'ouvl'r;
SErHETARY: \Iiss E. F. Upton,
uite 221, 1:
9fì
t.
('atherine St. West, Montreal; TRY-ASURER: :\Iiss M.
Blanche Andl'rson, Otta"a Ci\-i(' Hospital, Ottawa.
CorNrILLORe- .\lberta: :\Ii"s J. COllnal, Genf'ral HOII-
pital, Calgary. British Columbia: \fiss L. \fitchI'll,
Hoyal .Jubilef' HORpital, 'Ïrtoria. '-lanltoba:
i"tf'r
St. \Ibert, :'t. .JoReph's Ho""ital, Winnipel!;.
ew ßruns"lck: Si"ter Corinne herr, lIotel Dieu,
('ampbellton. ;'I;ova Scotia: Mrs. :\Iurray \farl\.ay,
ova Scotia Ho"pital. Dartmouth. Ontario: :\Iiss
S. \1. Jamieson, Pf'el \Iemorial HOl\pital, Brampton.
Prince Edward Island: :\Iiss \1. I avers. Prinre
("0. Hospital, Summersid{'. Quebec: :\liB!! Martha
Batson, 'Iontreal Genf'ral Ho"pital, :\lontrl'aL Sas-
katchewan: \liss G. :\1. Watson, City Hospital,
SaskatoQn. rONVENER 0.' PUIILICATION!O, :\liB!! \1.
\1. Rl'id, Winnipejr Genl'ral HORJlital, "ïnnipf'
.
PRIVATF Ul'T\ SECTIO,\;
('H"H\lAN: :\liB!! Isahf'l :\1tU'lntosh, Queens("ourt -\Jlt ,
75 <.!ueen :'t. ::-;., Hamilton; "WE-rH "RM 'l.N: :\Iiss
labell\1,'\lullpn, nox 33H, St.
tephf'n; :-'ECRET.'l.R"-
TREARt:'RER: '-I",. ROlle J{PM, 1
9 Wl'llinl!;ton
t.,
Hamilton.
("OUNCILLORtI: Alblorla: :\118" .J. (1"", 111;{X-X
...1
Ave.. Edmollt')IJ. Hrltlsh Columbia: \li"s \1.
\1 irfieltl, BI':wlll"roft :'I: IIr"j III! II "'lit'. , if'torin.
JUNE, 1934
'\Ianitoha: :\Iiss K. 'I cCallulII , lXI Enfield ('res.,
orwood. New Brunswick: :\liss \Iabf'l Mr:\lullen,
f't.
tephen. :'\;ova Scotia: !\.II"" Christine :\Iarl end,
97 South hline St., Halifax. Ontario: :\Ii"s rlara
Brunn,
I\:endal Ave., Toronto. Prince Edward
Island: :\liBl! M. Gamble, 51 -\mbrosl' H., Charlottf'-
to"n. Quebec: :\Iiss C. 1'1. Watlinl!;, 1
30 Bishop
=-'1.. :\Iontrl'al. Saskatche"an: 'Iiss !I.t. n. Chil'-
holm. &15 7th Ave. N., Saskatoon. CONVENER 0.'
P\. IILlr'l.T1OS!O: :\Iil'll! Jean DR'\ idsnn, Pari...
Pl ßLlC HEALTH SECnO:\
C'IIAIHMAN: Miss .\1. \Ioajr, 1246 Bishop
t., \lontreal;
"ICE-CHAIRMAN: :\liss :\1. Kerr, 946 20th A \ 1'. ",'
'-an('ouver; SECRETAR,-TREARURER: \Iiss Mar)'
!l.fathl'"son, 464 Strath("ona <\\'1'., ""estmount, P.Q.
CouN{"JLLoW\-Alberta: -'lisp! B. .\. Emerp!on, 604
rivic Blork, Fdmonton. British Columbia: 'liB!!
\-1. Duffield, 175 Broad\\ay East, \'ancouver.
Manitoha: :\1i!!11 E. \f,'helvev, ßO:
:\Iedil'al Art!'
Buildinjr, Winnipl'jr.
ew ßrùnswkk: :\Ii"s .-\da
Burn", Health Centrl', =-,aint John. '\"o\a Scotia:
:\Iil'll' Fdith Ff'ntCln, Dalhousil' Hl'alth Clinic, :\Iorri!'l
=-'t., Halifax. Ontario: \trll. .\p;nel! HaYl!;arth, 21
USsl''1:
t., Toronto. Prince Ed"ard Island: :\Iil'ls
Jan Gillan, .'')9 Grafton
t., Charlntteto" n. Quebec:
\Ii"" Christinl' Dm\lin/l, 1246 BilllHlp
t., :\Iontreal.
Saskatchewan: :\1rP!. E. \1. Ff'
ney. Df'JlI. of Publi..
Ill'alth, Parliament Buildinp;". Rf'lI:iuR. ("nsn:NU(
IIF P, '1 W'l.TU......: \Ir.. \I!'II";o IIn\ I!nrlh.
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Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
ONTARIO
Alberta Association of Re
istered "urses
President, :\Iiss F. :\Iunroe, Royal Alexandra
Hospital, Edmonton; First \"ice-President, :\lrs. de
Satge, Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary; Second Vice-
President, :\1iBs ::5. }'Iacdonald, General Hospital,
Calgary;
ecretary-Treasurer-Registrar, Miss Kate
.
Brighty, Administration Building, Edmonton; Chair-
men: Nur8ing Educatiun Section, }'Iiss J. Connal,
General Hospital, C'aljl:ary; Public Health Section. Mis8
ß. A. Emerson, 604 Civic Block, Edmonton; Private
Dlity Sertion,
IisB .1. C. Clow, 11138-82nd Ave.
BRITISH COLU)IßIA
Graduate r-;urses Association of British Columbia
President,},1. F. Gray, 1466 \V. 14th .-\ve., \'ancouver;
First \ïce-President, E. G. Breeze; Second \ïce-Prel'i-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; ::;ecretary,
1. Kerr, 516 \"ancouver
Block, Vancouver; Convener8 of Committee8: Nursing
Education, L. :\litchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, \ïc-
toria; Public Health,
1. Duffield, 175 Broad\\ ay East,
Vanoouver; Private Duty,
Iiss
1. Mirfield, Beachcroft
Nursing Home. Cook St., \ïctoria; Councillors, M. P.
Camphell, M. Dutton, L. Mc,-\llister, K.
anderson.
)IANITOBA
\1anltoha Association of Re
lstered I'. urse:s
President, :\liss.:\1. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital;
First Vice-President, .:\liBS
. Wright,
Ietropolitan
Life, \\ïnnipeg; Second \lce-President, :\Iiss C. :\11'-
Leod, Brandon General Hospital; Third \ïce-President,
ister lÜause,
t. Boniface Hospital; :\lembers of
Board: :\liBs :\1. Lang, :\Iil's E. Carruthers,
ister }'lary,
:\Iiss K. W. Ellis,
lisB K. :\Ic Learn, Miss :\1. :\Ieehan,
:\Iiss E. Johnson,
ister St. Albert; Conveners of Sec-
tion8: Public Health, :\hss E. :\1(' Kelvey; Private Duty.
:\Iiss K. :\lcCallulll; Nur8ing Education, Sister 1't.
.-\lbert. Convener8 of Committees: Directory,
1Í!! J.
Kerr, ï4 Cobourg Ave.; Social, :\Iiss S. Pollexfen, !l54
Pahnerston Ave.; Sick \lsiting, }'Iiss L. Gray, \'ic-
torian Order of
urses; }'lembership, :\liss E. Iron Bide,
Winnipeg General Hospital; Librarian, .:\Iiss W. Grice
and :\Iiss .-\. Htarr, 753 Wolf,eley Ave.; Press and Pub-
lication, .:\liss E. Hanks, 64 ::;t. Cross St.; Representn-
tive8: Local Council of Women, l\lrs. Willard Hill and
:\lrs. Emmett D\\yer; ('entral Council of Social Agen-
"ies, :\lisB F. Robertson; \ïctorian Order of N Ilrses,
:\.Iiss E. A. Russell; Junior Red ('rosB, }'Iiss E. Parker;
Red Cross Enrolment, :\:lrs. J. F.
Iorril"Jn; Execlltivf'
:-;eeretary and Regif\trar, :\Jr!'.
tella Gordon Kerr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
ew Bruns"lck Association of Re
lstered Nurses
President, :\Iiss .-\. J. :\Iac}'laster, :\Ioncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First \ïce-President, :\Iiss 1\:larl!;aret
:\lurdoch; Second \'ice-President, :\Iiss
Iyrtle E.
Kay; Honorary
erretary, Rev. Rister Kenny; Council
:\Iembers: .:\Iiss Florence Coleman, :\liBs H. R. Dyke-
man,
IrB. .-\. G. \\' oodcock, :\liss Elsie :\1. Tulloch;
r'onveners: Public Health Section.
liss Ada .-\. Burns;
Private Duty Sl'ctinn, :\IIBS ;\label
lc:\lullin; Nursing
Education Sechon. f'ister Kerr; Committee Convener,,:
The Canadum Nur8e, 'Iiss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-Laws, :\liss R. E. Brophy; Sec-retary-
Treasurer-Rel!:istrar, Miss :\'laude E. Retalli('k, 2ft!
(,harlotte
t. \Vest,
aint John. N.H.
NOVA SCOTIA
Re
lstered Nurses Association of I'<o"a Scotia
President, :\llss .-\Ilne Hlattery, Wind!!or; First ''i,'e-
President, :\1 i8S \"ictoria \Vinslo\\, Halifax; Second
\'ice-President,
liss :\Iarion Boa, Xew Glasjl:ow.
Third \'ice-Presidf'nt. Hister .-\lIlIa Seton. Halifa,,;
Re,'onling Sf'.'retary, :\lrs. ])onal.l Gillil', 1:!:t \'f'rnNt
:-:t., Halifax; Trea!!urer aud Rel!:istrar, :\li,,1' L. F.
Fral'f'r, 10 Ea!!tf'rtI Tru/lt RldJ!., lIalifa".
Registered 1\ urses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1915)
President,
liBs Marjorie Buck, Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe; FirBt \"ice-President. Miss Dorothy
Pen'y, Room.3
1 Jackson Bldg., Ottawa; ::;econd \'ice-
Presl
ent. l\,:lISS Constance Brewster, General Hospital,
HamIlton; i:iecretary- Treasurer, Miss
latilda E. Fitz-
gerald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman Nur8e Educa-
tion
ection,
Iiss S. :\Iargaret Jamieson: Peel :\Iemorial
Hf!sPltal, Bral11pton; Çhairman, Private Duty Section,
:llss.Clara Bruwn! 23 Kendal Ave., Toronto; Chairman,
Pubhc Health Secttfm, Mrs. Agnes Haygarth, Provincial
Department of Health, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto'
Di8trict No.1.: Chairman. Miss :\.Iildred Walker, Insti
tu
e of .PubhC'
ealth, London; ::5ecretary-Treasurer.
:\Ilss :\l1ld
ed. Chambers, Institute of Public Health,
London; Di8tnct8l! and .OJ: Chairman, :\fiss.-\. E. Binge-
!nan, Freep
rt
anat()rium, Kitchener; :O::erretary-
rreasur
r, .1\118s Edith Jones, 2.'):
Gren\\ich
t., Brant-
ford; Di8trict No, 4-: Chairman, :\.Iiss ConBtance Brew-
ster, General Hospital. H
miltoll;
ecretary- Treasurer,
:\lrs. Eva Barlow, 211
tJnson
t., Hamilton- District
IV.". ..;: Chairman, ::\liss Dorothy :\Iickleboro
gh, Pro-
vlIlclal Dept. of Health, Parliament Bldgs.. Toronto;
ecretary- Treasurer. :\liBs Isabelle Park, 1348 Y onge
:st., Toronto; Di8trict No.6: Chairman, Miss Helen M.
-\nderson, 7
9 "'ater St., Peterborough; Secretary-
freasurer, l\hss Dorothy
1acBrien, Kicholls Hospital,
Peterboroujl:h; District No.7: Chairman, Misf\ Louise
p. Acton, G
neral.
ospi
l, Kin
8ton; Sef'retary-
easurer,
l1s
OhVla \\ Il
on, Ge
eral Hospital,
1\.lIll!:ston; Dlstnct No.8: Chairman, 1\l1ss ::\1. Blanche
.-\
derson, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa; Secretary-
.hBS A. G.
anner, Ottawa Civic- Hospital, Ottawa;
I reasurer,
IIBS .Mary Acland, foìtrathcona Hospital.
Ottawa; Di8trict No.9: Chairman, :\Iiss Katherine
\lacKenzie, 1:"5 SeC'ond .-\\'1'. "'., North Bay; Sef"retary-
Treasurer,
hss Robena Buchanan, 197 First .-\\'1'. E..
North Bay; District No. 10: (,hairman, :\:liss \'era
Lovelacf', 3 \\'iley Rd., Port .-\rthur; Secretary-Treas-
IIrer. :\Iiss Ethel Ste\\ardson. :\lrKellar General
lIospital, Fort William.
District '0. 8 Re
lstered :\'urses .\ssociatlon
of Ontario
(,hairman, .:\Iiss :\1. B. Anderson; \'ice-Chairman,
:\Iiss J. L. Church;
ecretary, :\Iiss .-\. G. Tanner.
Ottawa Civic Hospital; Treasurer, :\:liss 1\.:1. E. .-\cland'
C'ouncillors, :\Iisses G. Clarke, .-\. Ebbs, :\1. Graham'
E. C'. :\lcIlraith, C'. C. :\:lurray, :\1. Slinn; rOTll'ener;
of Committees: :\Iembership, :\Iiss G. Clarke; Publica-
tions, Miss E. C'.
lrIlraith; Nur8ing Education,
1i1'1'
C. C. :\:lurray; Private Duty, }'Iiss J. 1.. Church; Public
Health,
fisB H. O':\leara.
District 1\0. 10 Re
lstered Nurses .\ssociatlon
of Ontario
President, Miss V. Lovelace, Vice-Presidf'nt,l\1iss M,
Hamilton; Secretary Treasurer,
:liss E. Stewardson,
McKellar General HOBpital, Fort William; Counrillors:
:\liss Jane Hogarth, :\:liss },:f. "'allarf'. :\Iiss C'. Lemon,
:\liss C. ('hh,-ers Wilson, :\Iil'f\ Flannigan, Mi
s Irene
HibditC'h.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Re"Ustered
urses
Association
President, Miss Lillian Pidjl:enn, Princf' ('0. Hospital,
ummerside; \Ïcf'-President, :\li8s l\1. I(inl!:, Charlotte-
town Hospital; Secretary, l\Iiss :\1. Campbell, 8 Grafton
:;;t.. (,harlottetown; Treasurer and Registrar, Mis8
Edna Green, :!.,)7 % QUf'en
t., Charlottetown; N ursi710
Educati07l, :\Iiss :\1. Lavers, Prince Co. Hospital.
:'ulJlmerl!ide; Public Health, :\Iiss I. Gillan, 5f! Grafton
t., (,harlotteto\\ n; Private Ditty, :\lisf\ :\1. Gamble, 51
\mbrose St., ('harlnttf'town; Representativf' to Th,.
Canadian Nur8e, :\Iis/l -\nllll :\Iair. P.T
.1. Hospital.
f'harlottf'town.
QCEBEC
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
2Yl
\ssociation of R
lstered :\urses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
.-\dvisury Hoard:
lis8es
Iary ::iamuel, :\label F.
Hersey, C. :\1. Watling, Rév.
Ière :\1. Y. -\llaire, Rév.
Soeur Ste. hidora; President, :\Iiss C. V. Barrett,
Royal \'ictoria Montreal :\Iaternity Hospital; \'ice-
President (Emdish), :\Iisll
1. L. :\10ag, \'ictorian Order
uf Nurses, 1246 Bishop ðt., .\Iontrea!; \'ice-President
(French), Rév. :-;oeur -\llard, Hôtel-Dieu de St. JOBeph.
.\Iontreal; Hon. Secretary, :\liss Esther Beith, Child
Welfare .-\ssociation, Forum Bld
., :\1untreal; Hon.
freasllrer,
Iiss
1. E.
ash, \'ictorian Order of
un'el',
1246 Bishop St., .\Iontreal. Other .\Iembers: .\IiSh
.\Iabel K. Holt, The .\Iontreal General Huspital.
.\1ademoiselle Edna Lynch, Nursing Supervisor, Metro-
pulitan Life Insurance Co., .\Iontrea), Rév. :-;oeur St.
.Jean de rEucharistie, Hôpital Notre Dame, .\Iontreal,
.\Iiss Marion Lindeburgh, foOchool for Graduate
urse8,
:\lcGill University, .\Iontreal, .\1ademoiselle .-\le'l:ina
.\Iarchessault, Ecole d'Hygi
ne Social .-\ppliqupe.
Univer"ité de :\Iontreal. Conrenpr8 of Section8: Primt..
Duty, (English), :\Iiss C. \1. Watling, 1230 Bishop Rt.,
.\Iontreal; PriÐate Duty (French),
Iademoiselle .-\lice
Lepine, Hôpital :-.lotre Dame, .\Iontreal; .Vursing Edu-
catiun (En
lish), .\lis8 .\Iartha Batson, The .\Iontreal
General Hospital, .\Iontreal; Nur8ing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur .-\ugu!!tine, Hôpital :'t. .Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public llealth,
Iiss Christine
Oowling, Viptorian Ordf'r of
ursf'''' 1246 Bishop Rt.,
.\Iuntreal; Board of Examiners, .\li8h Olga \. Lill)
(Convener), Royal \'ictoria .\Iontreal :\Iaternity Hos-
pital,
Jiss Marion Lindeburgh, :-,chool for Graduate
:-.lurses, .\lcGill University,
Iolltreal; :\liss Katherine
Mac
, .\lacLennan, ,-\lexandra Hospital, .\Iontreal;
.\1f'lle. Ectna Lynch, 4642 rue St. Denis St., -'10ntreal;
.\If'll... .\larip -\ny"ie Déland. '",,'itut Bruc.hé,i, -'Iollt-
rpal: .\IPI Ie. .-\. .\Iarrhp
"ault, :
2,ífi a\ enup Lacombf',
.\Iontr,.al; E"f'l"uti\'p :'f','rf'tary. n..gi!Strar and Official
:".Iwol \'i,itor. .\Iis,", 1:. Fram'ps {'pton, Hoom 221,
1;
!lfì:" Cathrrinp:'t \\. .\Iollln'a!.
SASKATCHEWA
-;askatche
an R
istered r\urses Association
(Incorporated \-Iarch, 1917)
President, .\liBS Edith .-\mas, City Hospital, :'asha-
toon; First \'ice-Prel'ident, M;ss Ruby .\1. ðimJ}8on,
Department of Public Health, Hegina; foOecond \'iee-
President. .\Iiss Hf'len B. Smith, General Hospital,
Hegina; Counrillors, -'Iiss Jean .\lcDonald. 1122 Rae
foOt., Regina,
Iiss Elizabeth
mith, Normal foO..hool,
.\Ioose Jaw; Conllener8 of Standing Committee8: Nur8ing
Education, .\liss Gertrude .\1. Watson, City Hospital,
askatoon; Public Health, .\lrs. E. .\1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Public Health, Rell'ina; Prirate Duty, .\Iiss
1.
R. Chisholm, 805-7th .-\ VI'. X., Saskatoon; Iell'islation,
.\liBS R. 1\1. Simpson. Rell'ina; Serretary-Tréal'urer and
Rep:istrar, .\Iiss .\Iarll'arf't ROI'!', 4.'i -\ngul" C'rf'scent,
Rell'ina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate
urses
Hon. Pre!'ident, Dr. H. .-\. Gibson; President, Mil's
P. Gilbert; First \'ice-President, .\Jiss K. Lynn; Second
\'ice-President,
li1!s F. :-;ha"; Hecordinp: and .-\ctin
CorrespondillJ/: Secretary, .\lrs. F. \'. Kennedy, 1307
First St. \\'.; Treasurer, .\1iss .\1. \\'att.
Edmonton Association of Graduate 1\urses
President, -'liss Ida .Johnl""'; First Vice-President,
1i8S Turner;
f'cond \ïee-Pre!'ident, .\liss O'Brien;
Hecordinl/: and Correspondinl/: Sf'eretary, -'liss \ïolet
('hapman. Hoyal .-\lexandra Hospital, Edmonton;
Treasurer, '\'li!'s Gavin; Hegistrar, Miss
)Jroulf', IliaI'
Whyte .-\ ve., Edmonton.
\ledicine Hat Graduate '\urses .\ssociation
President, -'Irs. .J. Kf'ohanf'; First \ïee-President,
.\Irs. .\1. Tobin; Reeond \'ice-President, .\Ii"s .\1. Gil-
christ; foOecretary, l\lis8 .-\. -'leI eod, 2 Diana Court;
I'reasurer, .\Iiss F. Smith; Committ
e ('olll'enPrs:
.\Iembership, .\Iiss .-\. .-\Ilan; Flo"er, .\Irs. W. Fral'er;
Primtp Duty Section, .\Irs. ("has. Pickerinl/:; ('orrespolI-
.tf'nt, The ralladian Nurse, .\Iis" .\1. Hagerman.
BRITISH COLC
IBIA
;\;elson Graduate :"Iiurses Association
lIon. President, -"liM V. B. Eidt, .-\ctinJl; Ruperinten-
dent, Kootenay Take General I1l1spital; President
-'Iiss K. Gordon; 'First \'ice-President, -'Iiss -'I. :\18d-
den; Second \'ice-Prellident, .\Iiss S. .-\rchibald; 8e..re-
ta.rv-Treasurer, -'IiI's Edna Frasf'r, Box 11 O.'i ,
elson,
B.C'.
Vancouver Graduate ,,"urReB Association
President, .\Irs. \V e"tman, SOO C'SBBair :'t., \ arH'ou\,er
First \'il'e-Prpsident,
Iiss Jane Johnstonf', Rte\'f'i"ton:
B.c.; Se{'ond \'ire-Prf'sidf'nt. .\lills K Berry,
t. Paul's
HlIspital; t;erretary, -'Iiss F. \\ alkf'r, \'an{'ouver Gpn-
{'ral II ospi tal ; TreafHlrf'r, '\'liR!' L. ,\rchibKld, !);{ti W PRt
12th .-\,1,'1'.; ("o
ncil, .\1 jRR{'R h.. Sunrler"on, Kilbnrn, G.
.\1. Falrle,., W IRlllf'r and .\1. F. fOray FinalU'f', .\Ii""
reulon, 1;
R.5 \\' f'st 11th .-\ \'f'.; Dirpetory. :\1 j"l1 h.
Iothen'ell. 1947 \\!'!It 10th \Vf'.; Soeial, .\Iil'll -\. .I.
.\laeT eod, \'Imrouvf'r Gf'nerul I1ot!)Jital; Prup:ramme,
:\liss B Dunald80n, ::'t. Paul's Hospital; Sick \'isiting,
-'Ii!''' C. Cooker. \'ancomer General Hospital; .\Iem-
bership, Mrs. Blankenbach. 1816 \\ est 36th Ave.;
Local Council of Womf'!l, :\lis8es Duffield and Grav;
Press, Mrs. E. 1"imms, \'ancou\'er General Hospital.'
Victoria Graduate
urses Association
lion. Presidents, .\,lIs8 L. -'litchell, :,istf'r :'uperior
Ludovic; President. :\Iil's E. J. Herbert; First \'ice-
President, .\Iiss .\1. .\Iirfield; :'f'rond \ï('e-Presi-
rlent, -'Irs. hirknesl'; Secretary, -'Iiss I. I1elll'esen;
Treasurer, Miss \\'. Cooke; Registrar, .\liBS E. Frankl'.
1O;
5 Fairfield Road, \'ietoria; EXf"'uti1,'e Committef',
.\lrs. E. B. Rtrachan, :\Iiss E. .\1,'Donald, .\Ii
.. c.
henny, .\Iiss E. C'amf'ron, .\liM D. Frampton.
1\IASITOH.\
Brandon Graduate l\"urses Association
Hon. President, .\JiBS E. Birtles; lion. \'ice-Prf'sident,
Irs. \\'. Shillingla"; Prf'sident,
Iil's E. G. .\1('
aIly;
First Vice-Prf'sidf'nt, l\lil's Janet Anderson; Second
\'ice-President, Mrs. Lula Flet('hf'r; :'ecretary, !I.lis!'
Jessie .\Iunro, 243 12th
t.; Treas\...rer, :\lrs. .\1. Lonp:;
('onren"rs of Committees: Social and PrOll'ralllmf', -'Irs.
Eldon Hannah; 8i..k and \'isiting, :\.lrs. Howe Fisher;
Welfarf', MiBS Gf'rtrude Hall; Prefll! Reporter, Miss
lIelen :\.llIrriRon; Cook Book, :\lrs. J. .\1. Kainl';
Hel!:iRtrar, .\li"R C'. .\1. .\Iaclf'od.
O:'\T .\RIO
Graduate Xurses Alumnae. \\'.."lIand
lIun. President, .\Iiss 1-:. Smith, :-'uperintndent,
\\ elland General HOllpital; lion. \'i('e-Presidf'nt, -'I.",..
:\1. Hall, WeIland Genf'ral 1I0Rpital; President, -'liR"
D. Saylor; \'ice-Prel'idt"nt, :\.liss H.
aunder!'; :'f'('retan,
.\liBS .\1. Rinker, :!8 Di1,'illion foOt.; TreaRUrf'r, \Iiss h.
Eller; EXf'C'utive, :\Iis
es .\1. Peddie, \1. Tufts H
('Iothier and .\11'1'. P. Brnllf..rd. .
QCEBEC
(;raduate '\urs..'s .\!lRodation or tht" Eao;tenl
i"o"nshlps
11011. Pref<idf'lIt, :\li
1I \. B,'anf'; Pre_"Iidcllt, -'liBS 1::.
Bean; \ i('e-Prf'lIident, -'liAs G. f)"aille; CorrpspondilljC
:-'e,'rptary. MiNI F. Wardle"ort!.; He('ordillp:
f'{'ret8n.
\Iifll! Harvey; Trf'asurf'r. Mil'll' :\Iari!lret Hohill
-
rlf'prel'f'ntative to The Ca"adiall Nurs
, !I.liss C' Horn,
hy, Box 324, Sherbruohe, Heprf'sentative, PrÙat. Dutil
Section, .\Iil!l! E. :\lurrillBette.
292
THE CANADIAN NURSE
SASKATCHEWAl\;
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, :\liss L. C. Phillips; President.
Iiss
Chri!ltine Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First \'ice-Presi-
dent, MiB8 G. Allison; Second Vice-President, Mrs. .-\.
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Registrar,
:\liss Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrar,
:\1iss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar, Miss H. M.
Sutherland; Convener Griffintown Club, Miss G.
Colley. Regular Meeting, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, Ortoher anrl Df"cembf"r.
'\-Ioose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Mrs. 1\1. Young; President,
liB8
R, Last; First \ïce-President, MiB8 C. Kier; Second
\ïce-President, Mrs. W. Metcalfe; Secretary- Tre88urer,
:\liB8 J. Moir, General Hoapital, Moose Jaw; Conveller"
of Committee8: Nur8ing Education. Mrs. M. You nil',
:-:r. :\Iary Raphael, MiB8 E. Jensen; Primte Duly, :\Iiss
E. Wallace, Miss E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, Miss
J. Casey; Public llealth. Registrar, Miss C. Kier; Pro-
gramme, Miss G. Taylor; Rick Visiting, MiB8 L. Trench;
Social, Miss M. Armstrong; Constitution and By-Laws,
liss E. Lamond; Representative to The ('a"adiall
Nur8E, Miss \1. Gall; Press Representative, Mrs. J
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA MANITOBA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ary
President, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-President, l\liss
.-\. Willison; Recording Secretary, Miss E. Thom;
Corresponding Secretary, MiB8 P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, t.1iB8 S. Craig; Honorary :Members, Rev. Soeur
St. Jean de l'Eucharistie,
liB8
I. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital. Edmonton
Hon. Pre!'idcnt, :\Iiss F. :\Iunroe; l'residcnt,
liss J\.
Brighty; \'i('p-Pr
id('nt. :\Ii!<!' I. .Johnson; ::-;ccond Vice-
Prpsident,
Iiss R. :\Iillf'r :\lc:\lanus; Hpcretary, l\liss
L. Rinanson; Corresponding Recretary, :\liss G. !\Ic-
Diarmid; Treasurer, :\Iiss A. Oliw.r; Committee Con-
vener8: Programme. l\lisH G. Allyn; Social, :\Iiss \"
J{elly :\lcNeil; Sick \ïsitinJ1;, :\liHs J. :\Iunro; :\Iembcr-
ship, :\1iH.'> :\1. Culleme.
A.A. University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, l\liss E. Fem\Íck; President, Miss
1\1. Heed; First Vice-President, Miss L. Gourlay;
Hecond \'ice-President, Miss B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss A. Revell; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
D. Duxbury, University Hospital; Tre88urer, Miss M.
Rowles, Univer!lity Hospital; Executive, Misses 11.1.
Gordon, I. Hoss, A. Baker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
lion. President, MiB8 F. E. Welsh; President, :\1rs.
B. I. Love; \'ice-President, Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
Tre88urer, I\lrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Hecretary, :\fiss F. E. Reid, WOn-20th Avenue, W.,
Calgary; Convener, Social Committee, :\lrs. R. !'hears.
BRITISH COLU'-IBIA
A.A.. St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
lion. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. \Ïce-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, Miss B.
Geddes; Vice-President, :\Iiss R. :\lcKeman; Secretary,
:\Iiss F. Treavor, Assistant Secretary, :\oliss \'. Dyer;
Treasurer, :\Iiss B. :\Iuir; ExecutÏ\e, !l.li!lses :\1. 1\lc-
Donald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, :-;. ('hristie,
H. :\lcGillivary, K :\lcDonald.
A.A., Vancouver General Hospital
Pre!lident, :\Iiss 1\1. Lunan; First \Ïce-Prel;Ídent,
:\lrs. C. H. C. Bell; Second \'ice-President, Mrs. [{.
Craig; Secretary, Miss I. Collier; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss J.e Heaney, Vancouver General Hospital;
Committee Convener8: Programme, l\1iss A. Croll.
:\Iembership, Miss V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; Refreshments, :\Iiss J. Hunter; Press, :\lrs. G. E.
Gillies; Treasurer and Bonds, Miss Geary, 3176 "'est
:!nd .-\"1'.; Representl\tive, \'.G.N..-\., Miss Rhodps.
A.A., Jubilee Huspltal, Victoria
Hon. President,
Iiss L. Mitchell; President,
Iiss
.Jean :\Ioore; First \'iC'e-President,
1r8. Y orke;
econd
Vice-President, :\tiss ,J. Gr;mt; !'ecretary,
lr8. A.
Dowell, :m Howe St.; Assistant Secret8T
', Miss J.
Stewart; Treasurer, ;\liB8 C. Todd; Entertainment Com-
mittee, :\Iiss I. Goward; Sick Nurse, Miss E. Ne\\man.
A.A., Children's Hospital, \\'Innipe
Hon. President, Miss M. ß. Allan; Prel'idf'nt, :\Iiss
Catherine Day; First \'ice-Prellident, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss W. M. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, :\fiss !\t. D. Hughes; Sick \'isitinll',
:\fiss Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, :\lrs. Geo. "ïlson.
A.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
Hon. President, Rev. f'r. Krause; President, Miss J\:
:\tcCallulll, un Ellfield Cr., Norwood; First Vif'e-
President, Miss II. ::-itephen, 15 Uuth Apts., Maryland
St.. Winnipeg; Second \'ice-President, Miss !\of. Madill,
1't. Boniface Hospital; Secretary, Miss J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hoapital, \Vinnipeg; Treasurer, Miss E.
hirley, 14 King George Ct., Winnipeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (Convener), 64 Cross St.,
Winnipeg, ì\liss J. Williamson, Miss A. Nelson; Sick
\Ï!liting Committee, l\liss T. Grenville (Convener). 211
Hill
t., Norwood; :\Iisl' K. ROYoIW, Miss J. Greig;
Press Representative, Miss B. Altman, 420 College
.-\ ve., \\Ïnnipeg; Representatives to Local Council of
\Vomen, :\1iss B. Altman (Convener), :\Iiss B. Chandler,
Mi!lll :\1. f'pooner.
A.A., Wlnnip
General Hospital
Hon. President, :\lrs. .-\. W. :\Ioody, 97 Ash 81.;
President, Miss E. Parker, Suite. :!4, Carlyle .-\pts., 580
Rroad"ay; First \'ice-President, :\Irs. C. V. Combe::-,
,')30 Dominion Bt.; :-;econd \'ire-President, Miss J. Mf'-
Donald, Deer LodJ!;e Hospital; Third \'ice-President,
:\Iiss E. YUBBack, 867 Ml1l1'nus Ave.; RecordinJ1; Secre-
tary, :\Iiss J. Landy, "ïnnipeg General Hospital;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss 1\1. Graham, \\Ïnnipeg
General Hospital; Tre88urer, :\liss 1\1. C. :\leDonald,
Central Tuberculosis Clinic; Membership, Miss I.
Ramsay, Central Tuberculosis Clinic; I':ick \ïsiting.
Miss J. Morgan, 102 ROlle St.; Entertainment, Mrs. C.
Mc:\lillan. Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of Journal,
Miss R. Monk. 134 Westgate; Business Manager.
Ii!!s
E. Timlick. Winnipeg General Hoapital; Special Com-
mittee, :\Ii!ls P. Brownell, 215 Chestnut St.
NEW ßRt;NSWICK
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. President, :\Ii
s E. J. :\Iitchell; President, :\Irs.
G. L. DUlllop; First \ïf'e-President, :\Iiss Ethel Hen-
derson; :-;ef'(md \ï('e-President, :\lrs. F. :\leI{eh'ey;
:-:ecretary, :\lrs. J. Edll'ar Reyea, 121 Pnion ::;t.; Trf'a-
surer, \Ii!'s Kate Holt; F.\.ef'utive Committee, :\Iiss
Margaret :\Iurdo('h, :\Ii!'s n. Heid, :\lrs. J. H. \'auJ1;han.
A.A., L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital, Woodstock
Hon. President, :\Iiss Elsie Tulloch; President, :\Irs
Harry Dunbar; \ïee-President, Miss Gladys I1ay"ard;
Secretary-Trealmrer, :\tiss Pauline Palmer; Board of
Directors: !l.lis!! G. Tams, Mrs. B. Sutton, Mrs. Fulton,
:\Iiss :\1. Samphier, :\Iis/\ N. Vene8B; ('ommittee ('011-
vener8: Programme, :\Irs. P. Caldwell, Miss E. Kerr.
Miss E. Dunbar, Miss R. Bellis; Ril'k Visitinll',
liB8 H.
Cummings, Miss D. Peabody, :\Iiss \Iersereau;
Editor, MiB8 !I.f. Samphier.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
lion. President, Miss Florence
lcIndoo; President,
:\liss Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President,
lrs. J. Andrews;
Secretary,
liss L. Smith; Treasurer, :\liss Marion
MacFarlane; Flower Committee, Miss Betty !\lcEwan;
Representative to The Canadian NUTl1e, :\Iiss H.
Tlwmpsnn.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
lIon. President, Miss E. M. McKee; President, :\Iiss
K. Charnley; Vice-President, :\liss G. Turnbull;
Secretary, MiBB F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treaaurer,
:\liss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
:\Ir.. F. Doherty; Flo\\er Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
Miss W. Laird, MiBB M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
Misø J, Edmondson, Mrs. E. Clarid
e; The Canadian
NUTl1e and Preøa Representative, Miss H. Diamond;
Chairman. Private Duty Council, Misø P. Cole;
Representative to Local Council of \Vomen, Miss R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockvllle General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President,
:\Irs. H. B. White; First \'ice-President, MiBB M.
-\rnold; Second Vice-President, Mill8 J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
Miss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, :\Irs. H. F. Vandusen. 65 Church St.;
Representative to The Canadian NUT8e, :\fiss V.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
lion. President, Miss P. Campbell; President, Miss
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crackle; Second
Vice-President, Miss F. Houston; Recordin
Secretary,
MiB8 E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, :\liss R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretary,
liss
1. Stacey; Tre88urer,
:\liss B. Haley; Press Correspondent, Miss R. Baker;
rommittee COmJener8: Refreshment, Miss M. Wickett;
lluyinjr, MiBl!es J. Finney,
1. McNaul/:hton and Mrs.
H.. F. l\-litchell; Floral, :\Iiss E. Orr; Social, Mrs. T.
Burke; Councillors, MiBBes V. Dyer. L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian .VuTse,
:\Iiss P. Griffeth.
A.A., :St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iother Mary; Hon. Vice-President,
:-;ister :\1. Conshlata; President, Miss Huth Winter;
Vice-President, :\liBB :\1. Kearns; Sf'cretary-Treasurer,
:\Ii!\s J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; E"el'utivefl, :\lisses
H. Gray. I. PoiBBant, Z. \Iartin, ::\lrs. R. Hndl/:in; Rep-
reflentative District
o. I, R.N.A.O., !\Iiss Jessie Ross;
Rf'presentative to The Canadian NUT8t', !\Iiss Y. L.
rlumvin.
CORNW ALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
lIon. I'r<,!oidcnt, :\Ir... J. Boldick; First \ïN'-Presi-
dent, :\liHS Kathken Burkc; Second \ ire-Pn'",ident,
:\liss Bernice l\1(.Killop; :::-:eeretary-Trra,"urcr, :\Iiss C.
Ðroppo, CornwalJ Grncral Ho"pital; Rcpre'lcntative to
The Canadian NUTl1e, :\li:t8 II. C. Wilson, Corm,all
U..neral 1I""pital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
((on. President. :\Iiss A. Cleaver; President, Miss
K ::\Iitchell; Secretary, Miss L. MacNair, 91 \ïctoria
.\ ve.; Assistant Secretary, :\1iss T. Rainey; Tre88urer,
:\liBl! A. MacDonald; Flower Convener, :\IiNi Uuther-
Cord; Repreeentative to The CanadIan NUTl1e and Press
Heprf'!\f'ntati\"e, :\Iiss :\1. Vandyke.
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
Hon. President, :\liBB S. A. Cam()bell, Supt. Guelph
General Hospital; President, !\.Iiss C. S. Zeil!:ler; First
\'ice-President, :\lisfO n. Lambert; :-:econd \'ice-Presi-
dent, Miss
I. Darby;
ecretary, Miss N. Kenney;
freaeurer, :\liBl! J. \\atson; Committt'el1: FIO\\er, Mis"
R. Speers, MiBl! I. Wilson; Social, Mrs. M. C'ock"ell
(Convener); Proll:ramme, Miss K 1\1. F.by (Convener);
Repreeentati\'e to The Canadian NUTI1t', :\lill8 !\Iarion
\\'000.
293
HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, !\fiss E. C. Rayside; President, :\lrs.
H. Hess; \'ice-Preeident, Miss M. Bain; Recording
ecretary, Miss M. Matheson; Corresponding Serre-
tary, Miss H. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
TreMurer, 1\-liss J. Jackson, 326 :\fain W.; Assistant
Tre88urer,
liB8 G. Hodgson;
ecretary- Treasurer,
Iutual Benefit Association, MiB8 O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee ConVeneTI1: Executive, MiB8 H.
Aitken; Flo"er, Miss A. Squiree; Programme, Miss
L Gosnell; Registry, MiB8 N. Thompson; Bud
et,
Mrs.
1. Barlo\\; Representative to The Canadian
NUTl1e,
liB8 A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother Martina; PreEident, Miss
Eva Moran; Vice-President, Miss F. l'icholson; Secre-
tary, :\fiss ::\label :\lacIntosh. 168 Ray St.; Treasurer,
::\Iiss ::\1. Kelly; Representative to The Canadian .NuT8e,
Miss B. ::\lcKenna, 277 Herkimer St.; Representati\'e
R.N.A.O., :\IiBB J. !\lorin.
KINGSTO:'l:
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
:\lrs. \\. G. Elder; Vice-President, Mrs. A. Hearn;
Secretary, Miss Olive McDermott; Treasurer, Miss
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
Iisses K.
lcGarry, M. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visitinll:
Committee.
Iisses
. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, \Irs. R. W
rlarke,
liBBes N. Hickey, B. Watson.
A.A., Kin
ston General Hospital
Hon. President, :\liB8 Lousie D. Acton; President,
::\Iiss Ann Baillie; First Vice-President, MiBB Carrie
::\lilton; Second Vice-President, Miss Olivia 1\1. Wilson,
Third Vice-President, Miss A. Walsh; Secretary, Mif'!'
Anna Davis, 464 Frontenac St.; Treasurer. Mrs. C. \\.
:\lallory. 203 Albert St.; Convener: Flo"er Committee,
Mrs. Sidney Smith, 151 Alfred St.; Press Representa-
tive, !\Iiss :\lary Wheeler, Iiingston General Hospital;
PTivate Duty Section. Miss Constance
and"ith, :?:l.'"
Alfred
treet.
....1TCHE
ER
A.A., ....itchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. Preeident. Miss K. W. Scott; President, :\lrs.
Walter Ziegler; First \ïre-Pre"ident, :\Iiss Thelma
:-;itler; Second \'ice-President, :\Iis!l Elsie Trouse;
ecretary, :\Iiss .Jf'an Sindair, 144 Water
t. S.; A!I8is-
tant Seeretary, :\Ii..s ::\Iarion Ballant
'ne; Tre88urer,
:\liss ::\Iary ()rr.
Ur-iUSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
IIon. President, ::\liBB E. S. Reid; Preeident, :\liBl! I.
J. Harding; First \'ice-President, :\lrs. O. Walling;
Second \ïce-Pr6l!ident, :\1rs. M. I. Thurston; Corree-
pondin
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Morrison, 46 Colborne
:-:1. W.; Treasurer, Mrs. G. R. Allen; Flo\\er Convener,
:\Iiss D.
1. Smith; Social Com'ener, l\IiBB K. R.
'lortimnre.
1.0:'l:DO;o...
A.A., Ontario Hospital
}fon. Pre."dent, :\Iis!\ Mary I.. Jlu'obs; President,
:\Iiss
. M. Williams, 55 Fd"ard St.; First \ïct'-Prf'si-
dent. :\lrs. \'. :\1. Reilly; Second \'i('e-Pre5ident, !\Iiss
F. R. Ball; Secretary, :\Irs. E. D. GruS\ enor, 5:? Doulton
Ave.; Tre88urf'r, Miss E. Kf'nnedy, Ontario Hospital;
So('ial Committee, :\Iisses I. Lindsay, L. Kelly; Prt'-8I!
Rpprt'!\f'ntati\'P, :\Iiss F. Burls.
A.A., St. Jo,.('ph's H.'Rpltal
Hon. President. :\Iother !\L Patricia; lion. \ ice-
Presidf'nt, Siflter :\1. Ruth; Presidf'nt,
Iiss Olive
O'
eil; First \ïce-Pre'lidf'nt. :\liBl! Madalene Baker;
erond \ iCf'-President, !\.lis!! Erla Rejrf'r; Uet'ording
:-;erretary, Miss Glad,.,s :\lartin; Cnrrf'flpondinll: Secre-
tary, :\Iiss Irene Griffen; freMurpr, :\Iiss Gladys Ora,."
Prf"!lll Repreflentati\'e, l\IiBl! Stella Gili:nac; UeprHenta-
tivf's to Uell:istr)' Board, !\li
f'S Rhf'a ROllatt. Cecile
Slattery, Oli\'e O'Neil.
294
THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Hilda Stuart; Hon. \ï<:e-Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, Miss M. M.
Jones, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-President, Miss H.
Huston; Sef'ond Vice-President, l\Iiss M. McLaughlin;
Treasurer, Miss D. .-\tkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary, Miss F. Quigley; Corresponding Secretary, I\1i!;ls
M. Smith, \"i(.toria Hospital; Board of Directors, MiRses
C. Gillies, A. Malloch, J. Mortimf'r,
1. Yule, C.
Rkinnf'r, :\fr!'. C. RORf'.
:"IiIA{;ARA FALLS
A.A., Nla
ara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, :\fiss :\1. R. Park; President, :\Iiss .-\.
In'"Íng; First \'ice-President, :\liss \'. Coutts; Se('ond
\"ice-President, :\Irs. H. English; Se('retary-Treasurer,
:\Iiss F. J. Loftus, 823 :\1('Rae :-;t. Corresponding f'ecre-
tary, Miss A. Pirie; .-\uditors, :\liss Day, :\lrs. Sharpe;
ick Committee, :\1rs. Teal,
1iBB Carson, :\Iiss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Dufferln Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. O. Fleming; President,
liss
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, Miss V. Lee;
Second Vice-President, Miss I. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
Miss E. :\1. Hayward; Treasurer, Miss ,-\. Burke.
ORILLIA
A.A., Orlllla Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon, President, Miss E. Johnston; President, :\Iiss
G. M. Went; First Vice-President, Miss L. Whitton;
Second Vice-President, Miss M. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Alice M. Smith, 112 Peter St. N.
Regular Meeting-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA W A
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, :\liss E. :\Iac\\ illiams, General Hos-
pital; President, Miss J. McIntosh, 414 :\Iasson 1't.;
First \'ice-President, :\Iiss J. Thompson, 115 Agnes St.;
Second \'ice-President, Miss R. Post, General Hoøpital;
Secretary, Miss :\1. Chappell, 259 Celina f:t.; Assistant
Secretary, Miss :\1. Tribble, 91 Conn aught St.; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss E. Clark, 97 -\thol St.;
Treasurer, Miss E. Dickinson, 534 Mary St.
OTTAWA
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. Prp",idf'nt, :\Iiss :\1..-\ Catton; Prl':<id(.nt, :\li",,,,
.h'an myth; \'icl"-Prf',.,idf'nt, :\lis,", :\1. :\1f'
ïef'P; SI'f'rf'-
tary, :\li",,,, Gf'rtrude Halpl'nny, Protl'>;tant Childrl'lÙi
\'illagp; Trf'a",urf'r, :\Iis>; :\1. Slinn. :W-l Stanl('y -\ Vf'.;
Roard of Dirl'dor",: .\Ii",se,", E. :\1('('011. S. :\h'(
uadp.
I.. B"dford. :\1. :O:tf'\\ art; Committee rom:eneT8: Flo\\ pr.
'\lr",. \. Rolps; Prp",s, :\lrs. \\'. C. Elmitt; Hl'prp,",Pnta-
tivp to Thp Canadian Nurse. :\li",,, ,-\. Ehbs.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
lIon. President, :\liss Gertrude Bennett; President,
:\Iiss Edna Osborne; First \'ice-President, :\liss D('rothy
:\loxley; Second \'ice-President, Miss E. Curry; Re-
cording Secretary,
Iiss MarJo' Lamb; Corresponding
8ecretary, :\Iiss Downey; Treasurer,
Iiss Winnifred
Gemmell; E"ecutive Committee, :\fiss :\Iulvaugh, :\liss
I era Barry, Miss Bertha Farmer, :\Iiss D. Johnston,
:\lisB D. Kelly; Representatives to Central Rell'istry,
:\Iiss Katie Clark, :\Iiss L. Boyle; Convener Flower
Committee, :\Iiss G. Ferguson; PreBB Representati\'e,
:\liss E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitillf'; President,
.\liss K. Bayley; First Vif'e-President, :\liss G. Clark;
econd \'if'e-President. :\Iiss :\1. :\Iunroe; Secretarv-
Treasurer, :\fiss Dorothy Kno", Ottawa General nõ,,-
pital; 1\lembership Secretary. l\IiRs F. Poitras; Sick
Committee, Miss P. BiBBonnette, :\lisR S. J{earnf<. :\lif's
B. Legris; Representati\e to The ('anadian Nurlle.
Miss E. Kennedy; Represf'ntatives to Local Coun"il
of \Vomen, l\lrs. Latimer, :\Irs. Dunne and .\lrf'. }.e
Clair; Representatives to Central Hegi!'try, :\Iiss
Rogers, :\lil's
l. I.andreville.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
HOll. President, Miss E. Maxwell; President,
liss
1\1. MacLaren; \'ice-President, MiBB 1\1. Lunan; Secre-
tary, Miss 1\1. Nelson, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
I. _-\llan, 1188 Gladstone Ave.; Central Registry, Misses
1. Wilson, S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
Iisses S. Clark, S. Carmichael, E. Young; Representa-
tIve to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss 1\1. Drummond, Civic
Hospital.
OWEN SOU!,;D
A.A., O"'en Sound General and Marine Hospital
Hon. President.
liss B. Hall; Pref'ident, Miss F.
Rae; First Vice-President,
Iiss :\1. Paton; Second
Vice-President. Miss J. A
new; Secretary, :\liBB .\.
Robertson, 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer, Miss A.
'\"eedon; Pianist, :\liBB R. DUlloon; Flower Committee.
Mrs. Mc
lillan; Programme Committee. Miss 1\1.
Cruickshank; Sick Committee, Miss M. Sim; Press
Representative, Miss H. Walden; Refreshment Com-
mittee, Miss C. Penner; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, Mi!!s
_-\. Dobbin; First \'ice-President, MiBB H. Russell,
Second Vice-President, Miss L. Simpson; Secretary;
:\lisEi S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Treasurer, Miss
S. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Secretary;
Iiss E. Wagar, 273 Park f:t.; Social Com'ener, :\Iil's
1\1. \\' atson.
SARNIA
A.A., Sarnla General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss :\1. Lee; PreRident, Miss L.
ðegrist; Vice-President, :\liss A. Cation; Secretary,
Miss A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson,
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e. MiBB C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), Miss D. Shaw;
Programme and Social Committee, 1\liss L. Segrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss .-\. M.
Iunn; President, l\liBB
L. Attwood; Vice-President, :\Iiss
1.
lcMaster;
Secretary- Treasurer, Mrs. J{. Snider, 36 Douglas St.;
Social Convener, 1\fiss A. Rock; Flower Convener;
Miss C. Staples.
ST. CATHERIr-<ES
A.A., Mack Tralnln
School
Hon. President, :\Iiss .-\nne Wright, General Hospi-
tal; President, :\fiss .Nora Nold, General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss
largaret McClunie, 39
Chaplin Ave.; Second Vice-President, Miss Evelyn
Horton, Louth St.; Secretary-Treasurer. MiBB J. Hastie,
General Hospital; Social Committee. :\-liss Aileen
Johnston, General Hoøpital, Miss Donalda Veale, 35
.-\cademy St., Miss Bernice Rule. 146 Weiland Ave.;
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss Feather-
Rtone, 17 Hainer St.; Correspondent. Miss Current;
Programme Committee, Miss Brubaker, 1 Fitzgerald St.
ST. THOMAS
A.A., :\-lemorlal Hospital
Hon. President. :\fiss Armstrong; Hon. President.
\liBB Buchanan; President. :\Iiss Bella Mitchener;
First Vice-President,
Iiss _-\nnie Campbell; Second
\'ice-President, :\liss Jervell; Rec-ording Secretary;
:\1Í!
s EsseItine; Corresponding Secretary, :\Iiss Lamond,
Treasurf'r, Mil's Claypole; Executives. :\Iiss :\1('Alpine.
fiss Irvine, Miss Nona Mannix, Miss Hazel Hastinll:s.
Miss L. Crane; Committt'e COnlJenerR: Nominating,
Miss J. Grant; Sick Nursing, Miss E. Lanyon; Social.
liss C. Robertson; PurchasinJl;,
Iis" L. Ronson; \\"ays
and :\Ieans, :\Iiss Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nur,
('. :\liss ,-\my Prin"e; Reprf'sentativp
to the R.N..-\.O., !\fiss \Iary :\lay,
TORONTO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President. :\lrs. C. .J. Currie; President,
liss
.\. O. Bell; Re('{,rding Se('retary, .\liss Doria L. ]<i:ent;
f'orrespondinll'
e('retary. :\liss May Hood, Grace
Hospital. Toronto; Treasurer,
Iiss \. .\1. Elliott, 194
Cottingham St.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., The Grant \lacDonald Trainin!! School
for X"urses
Hon. President, 'liss Esther :\1. Cook, 1:J0 Dunn
.-\ve.; President, :\Iiss Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn .-\ve.;
\'ice-President, :\Irs. :\Iarion :-:\mith; Reeordinjl; :-;ecre-
tary, :\liBB
orma :\lcLeod; Corresponding :-:e<'teta
y,
:\liBB Ethel Watson. 130 Dunn .-\ ve.: Treasurer, :\llss
Phyllis La\\rence; Social Convener, :\Iiss Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Mck Children
Hon. Presidents, :\Irs. Goodson, :\liss F. Potts; Hon.
Vice-President, :\liBB Austin; President, Mrs. Strachan;
Vice-Presidents, :\Irs. Cassan, Mrs. Raymond; Reco
d-
ing
ecretary, :\liss E. Langman; Correspondmg
Secretary, :\liBB M. Black\\ood; Treasurer, :\liBB Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee Con"ener8: Social. :\Irs. A.
Russell; Flo\\er, Miss H. Fisher; Prop:ramme, :\liBB
Elliott; Publirations, :\Iiss H. E. Le\\is; Rejl;istry, :\Iiss
Currie; \\elfare, :\liBB Parker; R.N.A.O.,
Iiss :\1 iller.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
PresIdent, :\Iiss Armstrong; First Vice-President,
:\Iiss Gastrili; Second \'ice-President, :\liss :\1. Thomp-
son; Secretary, :\Iiss Staples, Riverdale Hospital;
Treasurer, :\Irs. H. Dunbar, 1\3 Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, :\lil'lI ;\Iathieson. :\lil's :-;tratton, :\liBB Breeze.
:\Iiss Baxter, :\Iiss Lo\\rie, Riverdale Hospital.
.\.A., St. John's Hospital
Hon. i'rp!ooidl'II1, :-;istpr Rpatrirp, :-;upt>rintpndpnt, :-;t.
,Iohn'" Covpnt; Prp"idpnt, :\lisR
:\Iorjl;an; First \ïrp-
Prp"idpnt. :\Ii"... .J. \'andpr\\pll; HI'pond \ i('p-Prp"idpnt.
:\liss X. Jlpthl'rinl!;ton; :-;pI'rl'tary. :\Ii..,.. W Wpbb, ïï
:-;ullllllprhill \ve.; fn.a....un.r, :\Ii",.. D. \\"hiting; Corn',,-
ponding Sl'erptary :\li!oo!oo:\1. :\lartin; Conveners: Entl'r-
tainnwnt COlli IIIitt N', :\li!oo",:\1 Da\ iI''';
irk \ï,.itinjl;,
:\Ii,."... H. Frost; Pn'''''' HI'pn'!ooI'ntatin'. :\Ii",,,, F \ oun
.
'.!'2ï :\Iih-prton Blvd., Toronto Ii.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister
Iary :\Iargaret; Presi.
dent, MiBl! M. Kelly; First Vice-President, :\liBB O.
Kidd: Second Vice-President, :\liBB :\1. Daly; Hecord-
ing Secretary, 'Iisll M. Goodfriend; Corre."pondinp:
Secretary, Mi!!!! V. Hanley; Treasurer, !\liBB F. Robin-
!Ion; Councillorll. :\Ii!!!!es A. Timlin, L. Dunbar. I.
PIJ\\er, R. :\lrC'ue.
A.A., St. \Ilchael's Hospital
Hon. Prt>sident, Rev. Sister
orine; Hon. \ïcE'-
Prellident, Rev. Sister .Jeanne; President, :\Iiss :\Iarie
:\Ielody; Firllt \'ice-President, :\Iif's Crocker;
erond
\'ire-President, :\Iiss R. Grogan; Third \'ire-President,
:\Iiss .J. O'Connor; Treasurer. :\liBl! G. Coulter. Apt.
404.42 Isabelle St.; ABI!istant Treasurer. :\liBB I. Xealon;
Uecordinp: Secretary, Miss :\1. Doherty, Ht. :\Iir,hael's
Hospital; Corre8pondinjl; Heeretary, :\liBB h. :\lrAuliffe,
Eastwood Apt.. Sherbourne Ht.; Pri"ale Duty Repre-
.."ntali"" :\Iisf' )leGuire; Pllblic Health R"pre8"ntatiu,
:\liBII H. Kerr; Prell!! Hepre!!f'ntative.
Iis!! Regan;
("ouneillorll, :\li"sP!I :\1. Bro\\n. L. :\lrGurk, C. Cronin.
.\.A., Toronto General Hospital
lion. Vice-President, :\liM Jean Gunn; President.
'liBB N. Fidler, Ontario Hospital, \\ hitby; First
Vice-President, :\-liss .J. -\nderson; Herond \'il'e-
President, Mi"f' Eo l\Ianniujl;; Serretary. :\Irs. .-\. W.
Farmer, 89 Brf'adalbane St.; Treasurer. :\liBB E.
Hobson, T.G.H. Rf'!!idenre; .-\BBistant Treasurer.
liBII
Forp:ie; Archivi"t, ;\lil's Kniseley; ('1I\1I\eillors. :\Ii!ls J.
Wilson. Mil's Dix. Misll Cryderman; Committee Con-
ener8: Flower, :\h!!11 :\1. l\IeKay; Prop:ramme. !\Ii",s
E. Stuart; PreRl!, l\IiBII :\1. fo:te\\art, Ki. 5165; Insuranef'.
:\liss :\1. nix; Nominatiun!!. !\li!!1! C.
ul1d\\ith;
n('ial.
'li!!11 .J. :\litchell; EIi7Rhpt', Fiplrl
",it'"; "('''",rinl
FUlld, 'Ii,,!! Hannant
295
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital TralnlnA School for 1';ursell
Hon. President, :\Iiss E. )fcLean, Torunto East
General Hospital; President, Mrs. E. Philips, 15.')
Donlands Ave.; \'ice-President, )liss J. :\lc
laster,
155 DOIllands Ave.; Secretary-Treasurer. MiBl! N. Y.
Wilson, 50 CO\\ an .-\ ve.; Representative to Central
Registry, MiBB M. Beston, 753 Glencairn Ave.; :\Iisl'
B. MacInto,h, 748 Soudan Ave.; Representative to
R.N..-\.O.. MiBl! B.
lacIntosh, 748 Soudan Ave.
A.A., Toronto "estern HOllpltal
Hon. President,
IiBB B. L. Ellis; President, :\hf'F
F. :\Iatthews, 74 West mount Ave.; Vice-Prf"Sident.
:\liBB U. Colwell; Recording Secretary, MiBl! G. Patter-
f'on; Secretary-Treasurer, MiBB Helen Stewsrt. Toronto
Western Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
.Vur8e, l\li!ls F. Greenaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President, MiBl! ROBB; President, :\liBl!
1.
:\lcClinchey; '"ice-President, MiBB Jessie Gordon;
Correspondinjl; Secretary, MiBl! :\Iargaret Anderson.
freasurer,
liBl! I. Archibald, 659 Huron
t.; Corres-
pondent to The Canadian Nurae, :\Iiss I. Onslow.
A.A., "omen's College Hospital
Hon. Prf'sident, Mrs. Bo\\man; Hon. ''ice-President.
:\liBB :\Ieiklejohn; President, !\liBl! Worth, 93 Scarboro
fleaeh Blvd.; Seeretary, Miss Free, 48 Nurthumberlanr!
t. Treasurer; MiBB Fraser, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Hospital Instructors and Administrators,
University of Toronto
Hon. President, :\liBl! E. K. RUBBell; Hon. \'iee-
President, MiBB G. Hiscocks; President,
liBB Glad\\yn
.Tones; First \"ice-President, :\Iiss 1\1. :\lcCamus;
econd \'ice-President. Miss E. Young; F'ecretary,
:\liBl! C.
1. Cardwell. Toronto General HOI!pital;
Treasurer, Miss M. McKay, Toronto General Huspital.
A.A., Connau!!ht Trainln!! School for !';urse,;
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President, :\Iiss F. :\laeP. Dickson. Toronto
Hospital. Weston; Vice-President, :\liss Ann Bolwell,
Toronto Hospital. Weston;
ecretary. :\liBB G. Leem-
inp:, Turonto Hospital, We8ton; Treasurer, l\liM R
:\lcKay. Toronto Hospital, Weston; Convener uf
Social Committee, :\Iiss :\1. .Tonef', Torontu Ho!!pitnl,
\Y f'"ton.
\\l
DSOR
A.A., Grace Hospital
lIulI. Pn'sidpnt, .\djutant .\_ Butt; Pn'sidl'nt, :\Ii,s
E. WillialJl!oo: \ il'I'-Prp"idpnt. \lis" G. :-;uthpr!and:
:-;I'I'fI'tary, :\Ii, 8 Glady" Dutnl'ld, 21X Pl'tl'r St. \\.,
Sand\\il.h; Trf'asurpr, :\Ii.,,\\ :\Il'nin: Pn'8":-:I'I'n'tary,
:\Iis" C :\...J.an'n.
.\..\., Hotel Dieu, Windsor
PresIdent. :\IiBB Mary Perrin; First \'ice-l'rellident,
:\liBl! Marie Odette; Hf'cond \'ice-President. Miss ZUf'
Londeau; Secretary, MiBB :\1. ðpence; Treasurer, !\Ii!\/!
:\Iary Fener; l'rojl;rarnme Committee, :\liBl!es II.
Mahuney, A. lIarvey, II.
lattery;
ick Committee.
:\fislles H. Farrf'II, 11. Green\\ay,
1. :\leGlnry; F'ocial
('lJJnmittee. Mis"es.J. I.ondt'au, N. "'ebllter.I. Rf'allme;
Corref'pondf'nt tu The ('arn1dian Nurse. :\li8l'l Mary
Finllf'jI;an. \Ief'tinl[sf'conr! :\Ionday every month,
p.m.
\\OODSTOCII.
.\.A., General Hospital
First Hon. Prellident. :\llss Franeell
harve; :--el'ond
lion. President, :\1 i!<!! Helen Pottll; President, :\1 i8l'l
:\Iabel Costello; \'ice-Presidf'nt..
Iis!! .\nna Cook;
Hecordinp: :-;eerf'tary.
Iisl' I ila Jal'kson; Corretopond-
i np: Sf'I'rt'tarv and Pre!!" Reprt'l!t'ntati\ e. :\1 i!!1! Doris
('rail/:; .')10 Genrl/:t' :-;t.; .-\BBilltant :-;erretary. MiBl! Jt'an
I\:elly; Treasllrt'r,
Iil!ll :\Iaudt'
Iap:ht; ('ofllløn,.,." 0/
('OInmitt.ell: I'rr.jI;ralllme, \I iBB Fila Ehy; Flo\\er, !\Ii!'1!
E. WatMon; S....iRI, \lr!l. \1,'DinrmiIJ, :\Ir.. P J..luII''''',
\li,.!1 IIn"ting".
296
THE CANADIAN NURSE
QUEBEC
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. I're
id{'nt, :\Iiss :\1. L. Brown; Presidr-nt. :\Irs.
L. Jobber, 16-tG Van Horn{' Ave.; \ïr{'-Presidl'nt '. :\Ii>,s
R. Goodfellow, La('hutr-; f:r-rretary-Tr{'asur{'r! ;\hss A.
Roy, 379 f:t. Cathprin{'>, :-:t., Larhinf'; Ex{'('utl\'{' Cont-
nliu{'c, :\liss{'s :\1. 'Ie;\utt, E. Dpwar.
\IONTREAL
A.A., Children's "\Iemorial Hospital
lion. President, :\Iiss A. Kinder; President, :\Iif's H.
Paterson' \ïre-President., Miss H. Nutall;
errf'tary,
:\Iiss ,J. {'orhrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasun:
, :\Iiss
L. Df"Btromp; Exenltive Committee, Mif's E. Hlllya,:d,
:\Ii..s :\1. Flander; Soeial Committee, convener, Ahss
:\1. Gill, :\liS!! A. Adlington, Miss M. :\lcCallum a.nd
Miss M. Robinson; Representative to Tile. Canadt
n
Nur8e,
Iiss Y.
{'hneider;
i{'k NUr!'{'s Commltt{'e. :\11
1I
II. Easterbrook.
.\.A., Homeopathic Hospital
Pref'id{'nt, :\liss _-\. Porteouf'; \'ice-President, 'Ii
s
,1. Hayden; Treasurer, :\liBB D. .:\1 iller , Homf'op.atlue
Hospital; Assif'tant Treasurer, :\llss N. Horner;
erre-
tary, )Iiss S. Holland; Assi"ta!lt :-;el'retary, :\l1s.. ,J.
Gray; Primte Duty Sectinn, 'h
A. Porteuu
; Pro-
gramme Committee. MiS!! H. BTlght; Ent
rtamIllent
Committee. :\IiBB :\1. Hayden; RepresentatIVe to '[he
Canadian Nur8e, :\Iiss ,J. \Vhitmore; H.epresentahve.
:\Iontreal Graduate Nurses Assodation, :\liBB :\1.
BriJZ:ht; Si('k Benefit Society, :\Irs. ,J. "'arren.
L'Association des Gardes-:\Ialades Graduêes de
I'H(\pital Notre-Dame
Executif: )Iesdemoiselles Alice Lepine, Présid
nte;
Alice Gelinas, \Ïce-Présidente; Aline Leduc, 21ème
\Ïce-Prl-sidente; Suzanne Giroux, TrÉ'sorière; )llI;rgue-
rite Pauze,
ecr{otaire; Cunseillères: ;\1
sdemOJselles
Germaine BriBl!et, Irene H.ouillard, Eugeme Tremblah
Francoise Chevrier, Juliette Beaulieu.
A.A., \Iontreal General Hospital
Hun. Preflidents, J\liBB ,J. Webster, MiBB N. Tedford,
'liss F. E. Strumm; Hon. Treasurf'r, l\1iBB H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, :\Iiss ,J. Craig; President, Miss E.
Frances Upton, Rte. 221. 1396 St. Catherine St. W.;
First Yice-Pref'ident, :\Ii"s M. Mathe\\son; Serond
\'ire-Pref'ident, :\1rs. L. H. Fisher; Recordine Rerretary,
'Iiss D. Snow; Correspondinp: Se{'rf'tary, Mrs. E. C.
:\Ienzies, 6635 LMalle ßlvrl., Verdun; Treas';lrer (.-\IUl.n-
nae Association and l\1utual Benefit Committee), MISII
I. Davies, )iontreal General Hospital; Executive .COIl1-
mittee. !\Iiiif' :\1. K. Holt. Miss H.
ewton, 1\hlls L.
Sutton, l\Iisf' O. Lilly, Miss B. Herman; Representa-
tives to Primte DItty Sl'rtinn. Miss E. Gruer (Con,:ener),
'liBB C. Cole, :\Iiss Eo \larshall; RepresentatIve to
The ranadian Nurse, :\liss I. Welling (Convener).
:\iontreal General Hospital; Representat!ves to Loeal
Couneil of Women. :\li8s G. Colley, MIss ;\1. !loss;
Sick \'isitin
Committee, :\I
ss F. E.. :-;trumm,. :\hss .s.
Herman' Prol!;ramme Committee, 1\l1ss I. DavIes, \h..f'
:\1. Bats
n; Refreshment Committee,. Miss
. und{'r-
hill (Convener),
liBS C. ('oomOO, :\IIss C, Fitzgerald,
:\Iisll D. :\lcRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President. :\iiss E. A. Draper; President, :\lis8
:\1. F. Hereey; First Vice-President. \iiBB J.
teVf'nson;
Second "ice-President, :\1rfl. Grieve; RecordmJZ: Serre-
tary, Miss E. B. ROl!;ers; Secretary-Tre
surer,
Ii
s K.
.Tamer, Royal \Ïrtoria Hospital; Executive Com.mltte{',
Mrs. E. Roberts. :\1rs. G. C. :\Ielhado, :\Ir". PTldeam..
:\fi"ses E. Etter, E. Reid. A. Bulman;
onrp!!e.r
of
rnmmittees: Financ{', \Ii"" B. Campbell; Sick \ ISI
mg.
:\liss R. Fellows; Programme, :\Irf'. K. Hutrluson;
Refreshments, Miss :\1. Rowley; Private Duly Sectio".
MiBB R. Cochrane; Representatives to Local Couneil
of Women, Miss J. Stevenson, Mrs. E. Cooper; Repre-
"ent.at.ive to The Canadian Nur8e, Mise E. Allder.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
Hon. President.s. :\Iiss F. George, :\Iiss E. Trench;
President, :\Irs. L. M. Cre\\e; First \Ïce-President,
\liss E. Moore; Second \ïee-President, Miss }(,
Iar-
tin; Recordin
::'eer{'tary. :\Iiss R.
ixsmith; ('orres-
pondinJZ: Seeretary, !\Iiss
. Bro\\ n, Apt.. 5, 1187 Hope
.-\ ve.; Treasurer, :\Iiss E. L. Francis; Biek \'isiting.
Iiss G. Wilson, \Iiss L. Jensen; Private Duty, :\Irs.
A. Chisholm,
Iiss G. Wilson; Representative to The
Canadian Nur8e. Miss C. :\Iorrow; So{'ial Conunitt{'e,
:\Irll. Drake. :\Iiss Clark. Re
ular monthly meetinl!;
every third W('dnf'sday, .., p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate !\urses, McGill
University
Hon. President, Miss Mary Samuel; Hon. \',:e-
President, MiBB Bertha Harmer; Hon.
Iembers, r.hss
1. F. Herse)-,
IiBB Graee M. Fairley. J?r. Helen
H. Y. Ueid, Dr. Maude Abbott, Mrs. R. \\. Reford,
:\liBB :\1. L.
Ioag; President, \liBB Madeline Taylor,
\Ïctorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.; Vice-
President, Miss
1arion E. Nash, Victorian Order .of
urses, 1246 Bishop St.; Secretary-Treasurer, r.IIBB
:\1. E. Orr, The
hriners' Hospital. Cedar Ave., Mont-
real' Chairman, Flora
Iadeline f-:haw, Memorial Fund,
:\Ii
E. Frances Upton. 1396
t. Catherine f-:t. W.;
Programme Convener, Miss F. :\IcQua
e, \Vomen's
General Hospital. Montreal; RepresentatIves to Loeal
Council of "omen, Miss Lig
ett, :\liBB Parry; Repre-
"entatives to The Canadian Nurse. Admini".ration,
:\liBB B. Herman. Western Division, :\iontreal G.ener!,l
HOf!pital; Tearhinp:,
Iiss E. B. Rogers, Royal'ylCto.rla
HOf!pital; Public Health. MiBB E. Church, \ lrtorlan
Order of Nursef', 1246 Bishop St.
QLTEBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
Hon. President.
Irs. Barrow; President! :\liBB. n.
,Jackson: First ''ice-President, :\liss E. Fltzpatrl
k;
f-:econd \Ïee-Pref'ident. \Irs. C. Young; Recordm
:-;ecretary, MiBB E. :\leCallum; Corre
ponding ::'e,'re-
tary, \liBB :\1. Fischer; Treasurer, :\11!'8 E. :\1!'Hflr
;
Representative to The Ca1ladia!1 Nur.
e, !\
ISS ..N.
:\Iartin; Private Duty Section:
11S!! G. :\Iartlll.;
Irk
\ïsitinl!; Committee, :\Ir... Barrow an
:\Irs.
uttl!TIore;
HefreRhment Committ{'e, :\Irs. :\felhng, :\
If'S \\ ea,:y,
:\1 if's Hanspn, :\Ii.." \1,'Clintoch; Counrlllorf'. 1\1
f's
I mrif', :\Irs. Craip:, :\1 rs. .Jaekf'on, :\1 iss :\lal'kay, :\hN'
B. .\dßJllf'.
SHERBROOKE
A.A., Sherbrooke Hospital
!Ion. Presid{'nts, 'liBB E. Franrcs rpton, :\IiBB Verna
Beane; Pre"ident, l\lrs. Gordon 1\faI'Kar.; First .\'ire-
President, :\Iiss O. Harvey; f-:erond
Ice-Presl
ent,
:\Irs. ,\. Havage; Hf'rording Bf'rretary, :\11f's
1.
ehnas;
Correspondin
Serretary, :\Irf'. Her,?er
:\Iac( allm!!;
Treasurer. \liBB Alire Lyst{'r, lOa \\elhngton
t.
\;
Hepresentat.ive to The Ca1ladian VIlr8e, :\11"s F.
Wardleworth.
SASKATCHEWAN
.\.:\., Saskatoon City Hospital
Hun. President, :\1:itll! G. 1\1. \Vatson; President, :\lisf'
:\1. R. Chisholm; First \Ïce-President, \liBB G. Munr
)e;
econd \ïee-President! MiBl! H. .Johnst
n;
ecordm
ecretary. :\iiss .J. \\ ells; Correspon
mg Secretary,
:\liBl! L. Kirk, 419-9th St.; Treasurer, :\l1ss .
. Ferll;uson,
('onrener8: Pref's, :\liss 1\1. E. Grant; Reh!f, \I1!1s G.
:\Iunroe; Si.,k Visiting, :\Iisll :\1. Graha11,l; f.durahonal.
:\Irs. G. Pendleton; \\- ays and :\Ieans, :\l1ss :\1. OU11r8n;
Sorial, 'Ir". H. Huck.
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Editor ond Business Monoger:
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VOL. XXX, No. 7
The
Canad ian
Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of Canada
PublIshed by the Canadian Nurses Association
VOL. XXX
No.7
MONTREAL, QUE.. JULY, 1934
NURSE-PATIENT RATIOS IN CANADIAN HOSPITALS
'ITH AND WITHOUT TRAINING SCHOOLS
G. HARVEY AGNEW, M.D.. Secretary, Department of Hospital Service,
Canadian Mpdical Association.
Recently, on the suggestion of the
National Joint Study Committee 1.""IJ1
Nursing Education, the Department ùf
Hosp,tal Service of the Canadian MedicJ.I
Association made a study of the nun;.
'
patient ratios in Canadian hospitals, with
and without training schools. Since the
publication of .. A Survey of Nursing
Education in Canada", prepared by Pro'
fessor G. M. Weir, with its strong
recommenddtions for the more serious
consider.ttion of the necessity of control,
ling the training of nurses in CanadJ.,
directors of training schools and hospital
executives have made serious attempt';
to reduce the number of nurses being
graduated and have endeavoured to 5)
J.d just their nursing personnel th
t more
graduates could be employed. As this
changed reldtionship èetween under
graduate and graduate personnel has
affected the a ver dg
ratio, hospital and
training school directors have found
that ratios and set,ups formerly accepteJ
as correct do not now portray the aver'
a
e picture of today.
Scope of Inl'est;gat;ofJ
Questionnaires were sent to all gen'
er.ll huspitals with training schools anJ
to general hospitals without tr.lÏnillg
schools with a capacIty of twenty,five
beds or over. Questionnaires were sent
also to tuberculosis sanatoria but, inas
JULY. 1934
much as the nursing problem in suc
institutions differs considerably from that
in general hospitals, the results were kept
separate. Up to the time of the compila'
tion of the data, repLes had been received
from 125 general hospitals with training
schools, from 67 general hospitals with-
out training schools and from 20 sanJ.'
toria. The institutions replying represent
an exceedingly well d
stributed cross'
section of the hospitals in Canada, both
as to location and to size. Belated repli
s
since received are very close to the aver-
ages obtained in the study and, therefor
,
the results given may be considered as
reasonably typical of the situation in
Canada. Inasmuch as the ratios would
vary according to the si.;:;e of the hospital,
t Wd.S deemed d.dvisable to establish th...e
generd.l groups: (1) 200 beds and ov
r,
(2) 75-199 beds and (3) under 75 beds.
As the only general hospital over 200
beds without a training school had very
Lxtcnsive affiliation, its conclusion did nut
seem advisable in this category; after
eliminating certain others with extensive
affiliations, the group "under 75 beds"
in this category was divided further into
two groups: (a) 50,74 beds and (b)
under SO 'beds. The Toronto Hospital
for Consumptivcs, Weston, was not in'
cluded because it is now in the tral15i,
tion stage of giving up its training
school.
JOJ
302
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Occupancy Ratio
Inasmuch as the nursing personnd
required is affected more by occupant;y
than by bed capacitYt a study of the ratio
of occupancy to capacity was made for
the different groups. The average occu-
pancy of the hospitals with training
schools was found to be but 58.4%t and
in the hospitals without training school.::
the average occupancy was hut 50.8%
of capacity as shown in the accompanying
table.
No. of Beds
200 and over ........
75-199 .... . . . . .
Under 75 ...........
50-74 ...............
Under 50 ...........
Total ...............
TABLE I
With T.S.
65.0f1c
45.9%
61.3Cfr
This is an abnormally low occupancy
precentagc, being in contrast with an
average of 75 to 80 per cent prevailing
a few years ago and which is the optimum
dt:sired in a hospital. Undoubtedly, the
financial stringency and the resultant d
-
creased occupancy of the private wards
plus, in certain areas t injudicious hospital
expansion in the heyday of our prosper-
ity, are the paramount factors. As would
be expected, the tuberculosis sanatoria t
with an average occupancy of 94.1 %,
are really overcrowded and indicate the
need of expansion to permit of proper
segregation.
No. of Beds
200 and over
75.199 ..................
Under 75 ................
Total .............. . . . . .
Separate Principal of Training School
Of the 125 training schools heard from,
80 had a principal other than the superin-
tendent of the hospital. Among the lar
e
hospitals, only one out of 37 comhined
the positions; on the other hand, in thL'
group under 75 beds, 23 of the 33 com.
bined the two positions.
Student Enrolment
In the compilation of this data, the
replies received indicated that it would
be necessary to include the probationers
\Vithout T.S.
Sanatona
95.0%
91.3%
90.0%
62.5%
58.4%
47.4%
35.1%
50.8%
')4.1%
in the first year in order to utilize the
information obtained. In the accom.
panying table (Table II), it will be noteJ
that the enrolment in the first year is
almost that of the third year, even allow-
ing for the normal wastage among the
probationers, and it is doubtful if th
ultimate enrolment will be as low as the
second year. This result should be
noted in the consideration of the ratio
of hospitals reporting reduction in the
enrolment to be considered below.
Employment of Graduates
The accompanying table (Table Ill),
indicates the number of graduate nurSC3
TABLE II
I st year
(incl. prob.)
1237
618
160
2nd year
1048
606
149
3 rd year
L256
664
136
2015
2056
1803
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TABLE III
NURSE PATIENT RATIOS
303
No. of Bed"
With T.S.
200 and uver ...................
75,100 ........................
Under 75 ......................
Total
Without T.S.
75,199 ........................
50-74 .........................
Under 50 ......................
TOtal
Sanatoria
200 and over ..................
75, I 00 .........................
Under 75 ..................,....
Total .........................
permanently employed by these hospitals.
Included are all nurses engaged in hoa,
pital administrcttion, in supervision, on
floor duty anù in special departments.
The table also indicates the number of
graduates intermittently employed by th.:
hospItal in 1933.
TABLE IV
No. of Graduate"
per 100 Beds
200 Beds and over
75-199 Beds ...........
Under 75 Beds ...,..
50,74 Beds ...........
Under 50 Bcd
........
With T.S.
7.8
5.7
9.8
Total ..............
7.2.
No. of Graduates
per 100 Patients
200 Beds and over
75,199 Beds ........
under 75 Bcds .....
50,74 Beds .........
Under 50 Beds ......
12.2
12.4
16.0
Total ..............
12.4.
Graduates
Permanently
Employed
Graduates
Intermittently
Employed
1155
466
160
1314
303
98
1781
1715
120
117
202
49
59
11 í
439
223
221
98
11
101
20
3
330
124
Ratio oj Graduates to Beds and Patients
The average number of graduate nurxs
(excluding those intermittently employ-
eù) per 100 beds and also per 100
pcttients is indicated in the following
table:
Without T.S.
Sanatoria
6.9
10.4
22.0
18.4
15.2
12.5
14.4.
7.9*
29.5
7.2
11 4
24A
32.0
23.2
27.0.
8.3.
.The average total is obtained, not from the three group avera
es, but from the data
totalled a" a whole. This i
mOre accurate and permits deduction of incomplete data.
JULY, 1934
304
THE CANADIAN NURSE
It will be noted that in the hospitals
with training schools the average ratio
is approximately one graduate to eig/H
þatients, while in the general hospitals
without training schools the ratio is
approximately one to four. This is or
interest because the statement is som
-
times quoted that in the absence of a
training school there should be on
graduate to every four beds. Actually,
by this analysis, in the absence of th
training school there is but one graduate
to every seven beds, 3. hasis of calculation
which is not nearly as helpful as that
based on the nurse-patient ratio.
Table V indicates the average number
of pupil nurses per 100 beds, and per 100
patients; and also the total number ('f
all nurses (excluding special nurses eat-
ployed by the patient or intermittently
employed by the hospital) per 100 beds
and per 100 patients.
Hospital Group
200 Bcds and over .............
ï5-1
9 BeJs ...................
Under 73 Beds .....,
T ot,tl
Hosp
tal Group
200 Beds and over .. . . . . . . . . . . . .
75, 199 Bcds ....... .......
Under 75 Bcds ...............
Total
This table would indicate that onr
general hospitals now utilize the services
of approximately two pupil nurses to
every five patients, and that the total of
all nurses employed is approximately on
-
half that of the average patient censns.
Ratio of Students to Graduates
In considering the ratio of Students to
Graduates (Table VI) those graduate
nurses employed on the þermanent staff
either on floor duty or as supervisors or
in other administrative capacities only
are included.
TABLE VI
No. of Student Nurses
per 100 Graduates
200 Beds and ovcr ............... 306.5
7 5-199 Bcd
...... . . . . . . . .. .. 405.1
Undcr 75 Beds .................. 278.1
All general hospitals with Training
Schools ...................... 329.8
Reduction in Enrolment
For several years there has been c.l
general feeling throughout Canada th3.t
there should be a definite reduction in
the number of nurses graduated by our
Training Schools and there has been 311
increasing conviction that it would be
in the best interests of both the pub1 ic
and the nursing profession if the number
of training schools was decreased. A.:-
cording to the Survey, on January 1,
1930, there were 218 training schools fJr
nurses. According to the Directory of
Hospitals, published by the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics, the last complet
TABLE V
Numbcr of Pupil Nurscs
Pcr 100 Bcds Pcr 100 Patienb
24.1 36.9
23.0 49,6
27.2 44.7
23.9
40.7
All NUrse
Pcrmancntly Employed
Pcr 100 Bcds Pcr 100 Paticnts
31.9 49.1
28.7 62.0
37.0 f,O.7
31.2
53.2
report of which is for June 1, 1931, there
were on thd.t date 156 training schols far
nurses. While this enquiry based upon
data obtained in the Dominion Census of
that year permitted a more complete CO:ll-
pilation of hospital statistics than was
availahle perhaps at the time of the Sü.{-
vey, the Dominion Report included a
number of training schools in private hos'
pitals, which fact might explain
he
difference in total.
Of more value to us in connection witt}
this study is the comparison between
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NURSE-PATIENT RATIOS
the number of hospitals reporting a reduc,
tion in the training school enrolment in
the last four years and those reporting
no reduction in enrolment. Of the 115
hospitals answering this question, 85
(including 8 whose training schools w
re
closed) reported a reduction, and 30
reported no reduction. In other words,
almost three-quarters of the hospitals
replying reported a reduction in th
training school. The reduction was most
pronounced in the largest and smallest
groups, and less pronounced in the inter-
mediate groups. At first sight, it woulJ
seem difficult to reconcile this widc-
spread response to the request for enrl)l-
ment reduction with the data quoted
earlier in this analysis, which showed
that in these same schools the enrolment
in the first year was greater than that nf
the second year and almost as large J.S
that of the third year.
Presuming that the replies received
Under $35.00 per month
$35.00-$49.99 per month
$50.00-$64.99 per month
$65.00 and over .......
TABLE VII
General
Hospitals
With T.S.
17
18
42
IS
were correct and bearing in mind that
the request was for information concern-
ing reductions in the past four years,
one might draw the inference that t
1C
reduction in enrolment, the skipping of
certain years, etc., might have taken place
in large measure three or four years
ago, that the reduction was continued a
year ago (hence the smaller second year),
and that hospitals are finding that further
reductions this last year have been diffi-
cult to arrange. It would be necessary
to keep in mind also that, owing to addi-
tional accommodation being added, some
hospitals have found it necessary to in
crease their enrolment, although at the
same time endeavouring to keep faith
with the principle of reduced output.
JULY, 1934
305
Salaries oj Intermittently Employed
Graduates
Owing to the wide fluctuation in salary
schedules in different hospitals, data 0.1
the salary range of intermittently em-
ployed graduates was obtained. The
majority of such nurses were employed on
floor duty, although some had special
duties. These are set forth in Table
VII, the figures indicating the number
of hospitals which pay that particubr
salary range.
It was of interest to observe that th
most commonly noted salary, $50.00 to
$64.99, was most frequently found III
the larger hospitals with training schools;
but in the hospitals without training
schools, this higher figure was more frc-
quently noted in those hospitals having
under fifty beds. It will be noted also
that in the Sa.natoria group the higher
salary range prevailed.
General
Hospitals
Without T.S.
4
9
16
8
Tuberculosis
Sanatoria
o
1
4
10
Summary
1. Bed occupancy is unusually low JJl
general hospitals, being but 58.4 per cent
where there is a training school and but
50.8 per cent in the comparatively
smaller hospitals without a training
school.
2. While three out of four hospitals
report a reduction in student enrolment
during the past four years, the 1933
enrolment would appear to be great
r
than that of 1932 and but little low'?r
than that of 1931.
3. In the gener,ll hospitals wIth train-
ing schools the average graduate ratio is
one to eight patients, there are two pup:!
nurses to every five patients and the tot=11
of all nurses is approximately one-half of
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
the average patient census. There aæ
3.3 pupils to every graduate permanendy
employed.
4. In general hospitals without train'
ing schools the average ratio of graduat
s
is approximately one to four patients
(27% ).
5. There would seem to be a laudable
effort, particularly. on the part of the
large general hospitals with training
schools, to give intermittent employment
to a considerable number of graduate
nurses.
PROGRESS IN NURSING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
KA THERINE M. MacLENNAN, Assistant to the Superintendent of Nurses. and
Instructor. Alexandra Hospital for Communicable Diseases. Montreal.
"Unclean! Unclean!" the wailing cry
of warning, forced from the lepers in
the Roman empire, represents the older
attitude of the community at large
towards patients suffering from an infe..:'
tious disease. So far as the modern
attitude is one of scientific and sym'
pathetic interest, the gulf between the
two is bridged by the development of
the medical knowledge and nursing care.
Fear is largely based on ignorance; it 1S
only through sympathetic interest amI
adequate knowledge of conditions that
scientific progress can be made. and that
the mind can become calm and unafraid.
In the Middle Ages
In the fourteenth century Chaucer
speaks of the fear that was felt in "the
death", that is. "the plague"; what
plague, what epidemic, he'refers to, \1JC
do not know because, in general, even
those who were forced to stay by the
sick and to bury them, were too terrified
to take note of the onset and progress
of the disease. Hardly until the seven'
teenth century do we find medical men
calm enough to observe these details and
set them down; when they did so, they
laid a firm foundation for scientific dis'
covery and treatment. Late in that cen'
tury, Leeuwenhoek, making examinations
under lens and really inventing the
microscope, discovered many minut
organisms, although he never thought of
them as carriers of disease. It was Pas'
teur and Lister, building on this know'
ledge and fearless in their wish to help
the sick, who discovered the causes of
infection and sought to prevent it.
Within a Century
Fifty years ago nursing in Canada
was neither scientific nor professional;
today we shudder at the conditions of the
so' called treatment in hospitals at that
time. Thirty years ago sufferers from
scarlet fever or diphtheria were herded
together into "pest houses", more in an
attempt to safeguard the community than
to give the patients proper medical treat'
ment and nursing care. The idea W,\S
prevalent that the germs of these and
other diseases were air,borne rather tha.n
spread by contact as we believe today.
Very seldom was a building intend
d
for these patients an integral part of a
general hospital. It is only within th
last few years that any hospital for the
treatment of these diseases has been bUJIt
in the centre of the city instead of its
outskirts.
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NURSING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
As recently as twenty years ago it was
difficult to secure nurses for the care of
these infectious diseases because some
were afraid of contracting the diseases,
and all their friends, afraid that the
diseases might be transmitted, were r'
'
luctant to see the nurses even when off
duty. In the hospitals themselves the prin'
ciple was one of physical isolation. Sepa-
rate pavilions were often built for separate
diseases for example, scarlet fever, diph
theria and measles, although it was
realized that patients during their sta.y
in the hospital ran the risk of contract-
ing other diseases than the one which
they already had. This condition fr
'
quently came about ,when a patient, with,
in a few days of being admitted, develop-
ed a second disease to which he, unknO\v-
ingly, had been exposed before his
arrival.
The practice at this time was to have
the nurses live in the pavilion containing
the cases of one particular disease. They
had their meals there and did not mingle
with other nurses except outside the hos-
pital. When a nurse was transferred
from the measles pavilion to the scarlet
fever pavilion, she was given a day or
more off; she took a disinfectant bath,
and washed her hair with disinfectant.
Medical Asepsis
By the introduction of medical asepsis,
which is surgical cleanliness rigidly en
forced in the nursing of communicable
diseases, striking changes have been
brought about. A nurse today is ex-
pected to know the prevention, cause,
onset, course, complications, and last, but
not least, the nursing care of the disease
and she is expected to know how
o
protect herself and others from contract'
ing it. Various forms of illness arc
nursed under the doctor's orders by mem'
bers of the household who may not ha\'e
special training or experience, but ar2
careful and interested. In nursing com-
municable diseases, however, care and
interest are not enough; the nurse must
JULY, 19J4
307
have a thorough knowledge of the r
'
quired technique. As in the operating
room the surgical nurse does not tOUC!1
unsterile objects, so the nurse treating
a patient with a communicable disea3c,
does not touch anything clean or uncon-
taminated untIl her hands are thoroughly
scrubbed. In the first case the aim is to
keep infection from the patient; in the
latter the aim is to leave the infection
with the patient.
If the scientific principle of medical
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, f
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UNIT" \\'HI;RI DIffl RI::-:T DISEASfS ARF CARrn
FOR BY THI- SAME NCRSF
asepsis is thoroughly understood and
rigidly ohserved by the nurses, the fear,
still common among the laity, of con'
tracting communicable diseases from
visiting the hospital where they arc
treated, or from meeting the nurses off
duty, will be discovered to be unfounded.
As a student nurse wrote in this maga-
zine some 10 years ago:
The first impressions on entering this hos-
pital for a few months' training in the care
of infectious diseaseo;, are those of dread and
horror of being met at every COrner by a
different germ. This feeling of awe is, how-
ever, very short-lived when one
ces the
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308
THE CANADIAN NURSE
bright, airy wards where everything is so
spotlessly clean, and the cheerful way the
nurses, in perfect confidence, go from a case
of scarlet fever to one of measles, then per-
haps to one of chickenpox or whooping cough,
knowing that cross-infection is impossible if
gowns are properly changed, if her hands
before leaving the cubicle or rOom are sur-
gically clean, and if individual equipment is
used throughout for each patient.
Today, in the most modern hospitals,
all nurses sleep and have their meals in
the same building and disinfectants are
not relied upon. It never occurs to the
modern scientific mind that nurses should
be segregated with the patients suffering
from one particular disease. And, gradu-
ally, the lay mind is coming to recogni.:e
that infection is not carried through the
air except possibly for a few feet in th
case of diseases accompanied by coughing
or sneeÛng, but is conveyed from on
patient to another by direct or indirect
contact. Consequently, the nurse in an
"infectious hospital" is no longer a soci,\l
outcast; her friends realize that she, by
using modern aseptic measures, is no
more likely to carry disease organisms
into their homes than any other visitor.
Aseptic Measures
What are these modern aseptic
measures which have to such a great
extent removed this fear of infection?
When a patient is admitted to th
hospital there is the possibility of his or
her incubating a second disease and th
practice is to have the patient isolated
from the others. The ideal unit has one
patient with individual furniture, ther-
mometer, bedside utensils, and a basin
with running water for the use of the
nurse. In each unit, a short-sleeveJ
gown is hanging which the nurse puts on
before she touches the patient. The pur-
pose of this garment is to keep her own
hospital uniform, with the sleeves rollcJ
well up above the elbows, free of infe
-
tion at all times. After she has give!1
the patient the proper care, she scrubs
her hands, and washes her arms for one
minute, timing the process by a sand-
glass--for she never wears her watch if)
such a unit-taking temperature, puls
,
and respiration with the help of a hos-
pital watch which has been placed on a
clean piece of paper on the bedside table.
After she has hung up the gown with
the contaminated side inside, she scrubs
and washes for the remainder of the
three-minute period indicated by the
sand-glass.
Concurrent Disinfection
During the progress of any case of
communicable disease a continuing pro-
cess of what is known as concurrent
disinfection is systematically carried on.
All contaminated articles which permit
of boiling, are boiled for fifteen mmutes
and then washed. Other articles, such
as bed rubbers are scrubbed and aired,
and articles which cannot be boiled or
washed, are exposed to the fresh air and
sunshine for at least one hour.
Individual Units
This principle of the individual UnIt
has rendered unnecessary and obsolete
the older 'principle of a separate pavilion
for a number of patients suffering from
the same disease. T oda y a unit with a
case of scarlet fever may be close beside
a unit with a case of whooping cough-
separated only by a glass partition, but,
because the risk of contact is eliminated,
the two, although physically near, are
far apart as far as danger of infection
concerned. When the two units are
separated, not by a glass partition, bl1t
merely by a screen, rope, or placar.:l,
the space between the two must obviously
be greater. In fact, it should be not less
than six feet, because the greatest danger
of infection is through contact. There
is also the risk that a child in the next
unit may throw an infected toy to the
patient in the next unit, or that droplet
infection may be caused by sneeÛng or
a spasm of coughing.
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NURSING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Debatable Practices
The use of masks and their value
seems to be a much-debated topic. To the
minds of many the constant wearing of
masks gives to the nurse a false feeling
of security, and seems to lessen the value
of the nursing technique which should be
applied rigidly at all times in the pre-
vention of the spread of disease organ-
isms. The natural tendency frequent!y
is for the nurse to touch her mask wIth
contaminated hands in an attempt to
make it more comfortable. In the Alexan-
dra Hospital we feel that rigid aseptic
measures and the proper handling uf
the patient have much greater value than
pieces of gauze placed over the moutns
of the nurses.
The question of the use of gloves ib
as much discussed as the wearing ('If
masks. It is to be remembered that patho-
genic organisms maybe found on the
hands of any individual, but, in order
for an infection to occur, these organisms
must invade the tissues through some
open lesion. In our hospital no nurse is
allowed to come in contact with the pa-
tients when she has any abrasion on her
hands or arms. The use of gloves in
medical asepsis is considered unneces-
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sary, and from the financial standpoint,
is a tremendous saving. In the modern
communicable disease hospital of today,
caps entirely covering the head are not
worn because, with proper handling
f
the patient and good technique, this
practice is unnecessary. The affiliated
student nurses at this hospital wear th.-:
ordinary caps of their respective hos-
pitals.
Terminal Disinfection
What is known as terminal disinfec-
tion has gone through various adapta-
tions. No longer are disinfectant baths
and shampoos given patients when they
are discharged. Instead the patient, prior
to his discharge, is given a simple soap
and water bath and is dressed in clean
clothing. Fresh air, sunshine, and soap
and water are the only disinfectants used.
These have proven more effective in th
sterili 4 ation of mattresses and pillows
than the autoclave, the use of which has
been discontinued in this hospital. Nù
longer is it necessary to sterilize linen,
blankets, etc., before they are handled by
the laundry staff for, with careful instruc-
tion in the technique used in handling
contaminated articles, perfect safety can
be maintained.
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FLORA MADELINE SHAW
A beautiful and moving ceremony took
place recently in the residence of the
School of Nursing of The Montreal
General Hospital when a bronze memo-
rial tablet, erected to the memory of Flora
Madeline Shaw, by the Alumnae Asso
ciation of the School of Nursing of the
Montreal General Hospital, was unveiled
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FLORA MADELINE SHAW
by Miss E. Frances Upton, president cf
the Association, who, on behalf of the
Association, confided the tablet to the
care of Miss Mabel K. Holt, superintew
dent of nurses. The dedicatory prayers
were said by the Rev. Canon W. H.
Daviso'n, and Miss Elizabeth Smell ie,
C.B.E., R.R.C., Chief Superintendent of
the Victorian Order of Nurses for
Canada, spoke feelingly of the beneficent
influence of the life and work of Miss
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Shaw, making special reference to her un'
failing loyalty to the fine traditions of her
own schooL
The memorial tablet shows the crest
of the hospital and a portrait, in bas'
relief, of Miss Shaw together with th
following inscription:
In honour and loving memory of Flora
Madeline Shaw, Graduate of this School,
1898; Instructor at the Montreal General Hos-
pital in the first preliminary course in Nursi'lg
Education in Canada, 1906: First Directvr,
School for Graduate Nurses, McGill Univcr-
ity, 1920-1927; President, The Canadian
Nurses Association, 1926-27; Born Janu.uy
15th, 1864, and entered into Life Augll"t
27th, 1927.
These simple lines are in themselves
an outline of a remarkable profession3-1
Ccireer, the details of which are already
familiar to Canadian nurses. There i
,
however, another aspect of the life-work
of Miss Shaw concerning which less has
been made known. For SlX years, under
the auspices of the Women's Division ùf
the Canadian Patriotic Fund, Miss Shaw,
w
th the assistance of a staff of fifty
volunteer workers, visited and assisted
hundreds of soldiers' families. Her gen'
tleness, tact, and devotion found fun
scope in this labour of love.
Shortly after Miss Shciw's death,
which occurred in 1927, the Alumn,lc
Association of the School for Graduat
Nurses of McGill University organized
a plan to establish what is now known
as "The Flora Madeline Shaw Memorial
Fund for the advancement of nursing
education." Four scholarships have al-
ready been awarded and a fifth is offered
for the coming academic year. The bene.
ficiaries of this Fund have taken courses
at the McGill School and all are render'
ing excellent service in various fields of
nursing.
Of Flora Madeline Shaw it may indeeJ
be said that she, being dead, yet speaketh.
VOL. xxx, No. 7
THE SCHOOL GOES ON
Anuther year of successful activity in the
School for Graduate Nurses of McGill Univer-
sity came to a close at the recent Convocation
of McGill University. The graduates of the
school had the honour of the first place in tlw
students' marching column as the long colour-
ful procession of Faculty members and stu-
dents wended its way over the campus <l.nd
through the Roddick Memorial gates to the
building where the ceremony was held.
Twenty-one
tudents received certificates 111
the following classifications: Teaching in
Schools of Nursing; Supervision in Schools
of Nursing; Public Health Nursing. The
Lieutenant-Governor's silver medal was
awarded to Miss Mildred Weir of the Western
Hospital, Toronto, for highest standing in the
course in teaching, and the Lieutenant-
Governor's bron
e medal was won by Miss
Colette Noël, of Quebec, for highest standing
In the course in public health nursing.
The standard of achievement during the
year is to be commended, the students having
made satisfactory grades not only in profes-
sional subjects, but in COurses taken within
the Faculty of Arts and Science. Many of the
students received substantial assistance from
scholarship funds, awarded by the several hos'
pitals in Montreal, the Victorian Order of
Nurses for Canada, the Association of Regis-
tered Nurses of the Province of Quebec, and
by the Alumnae Association of the School.
These scholarships are much appreciated and
in view of the great benefit to the selected
students, who otherwise would be unable to
undertake graduate study, money thus spent
is well invested.
The school is most appreciative of t1-te
support which it always receives from the
staffs of hospitals and public health organiza-
tions in making the practice work of the
students a valuable experience. Adminis-
trators, supervisors and teaching membet s
within the hospitals of Montreal have bern
most co-operative in arranging for observatian
and practice in the classrooms and clinical
services. The facilities afforded, and the liberal
contributions in terms of time and effort made
by staff members of the several public health
nursing organizations and other hea1th
agencies in Montreal, constitute a varied and
well,organized practice field in the course In
public health nursing.
Through the strenuous efforts of the mem-
bers of the provincial nurses associations
throughout Canada, and through the organized
effort of the Alumnae Association of the
School, under the able direction of Miss E.
Frances Upton, sufficient funds have been
raised for another year, and the authorities
of McGill University have announced the
continuation of the School for that period.
The school is already planning its programme
fur the coming session, and several applicants
have been accepted for the September da
s.
A NATIONAL LOSS
The must Rev. Neil McNeil, D.D. Ph.D.,
LL.D., ArchbIshop of Toronto, died
n May
26, 1934. in St. Michaels Hospital, To-
ronto. His death was more than a com-
munity or diocesan loss. It was a national
une. Few have contributed mOre than he to
the growth of religion, the cultivation of the
spirit of charity, brotherly love and justice,
and the spiritual and intellectual advance of
his city and his people. A model of priestly
piety, humility and goodness, he was a perfect
exemplar uf the spirit of Christian charity,
which through a long life he never ceased to
inculcate and practice. An apostle of peace
and good-wIll and a harmonizer of differences
that might lead to misunder..tanding between
vdrious groups in a great cosmupolltan pupula-
tiun, he was beloved for his broad sympathips,
his deep erudition and his wise counsel, not
only hy people of his own immediate jurisdic-
tion but by those who respected and rever,:d
JULY, 1934
the Man of God and the friend ut the poor,
however much they might differ from him in
theuluglcal opinions.
His Excellency had consented tv addre'is
the opening meeting of the Canadian Nurses
Assuciation and had asked for a copy of th("
\Veir Report that he might again cunsider
certain points therein, before speaking to the
group. Whatever might have been his mes-
sage to nurses, on that occasion, we may be
sure that it would have included a plea fur
the continuing of unselfishness in service
which has always characterized the prufes
iun,
fur this he !'poke of frequently in his contacts
with nurses. Tu those who knew and loved
the "Beluved Archbi
hop" it is a consolation
tu know that he died in a hospital of which
he was proud, surrounded then, and for days
before, by all the loving care that religious
.lI1d lay nurses could give.
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THE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL
GRACE M. FAIRLEY, Convener of the Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee
of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Interest in the Foundation is being well
maintained as is evidenced by the list ('f
donations which appears below. From head-
quarters comes news of a meeting of the Inter-
national Council of Nurses Foundation Com-
mIttee to be held in Paris in June and also
on July 5 a conference of delegates from the
member countries in London. At the London
conference policies relative to the Foundation
and the Bedford College course are to be dis-
cussed and it is disappointing that none of
the members of the Canadian Committee will
be present. However, it is hoped that a mem-
ber of the C.N.A. at present in Britain may
be free to attend and, if so, a report will he
presented at a later date.
Alberta
Previously forwarded ............. $ 53.30
Alberta Association of Registered
Nurses .......................
Ponoka Nurses Association ........
Overseas Nurses, Edmonton .......
Miss Deane, Red Deer ...........
Miss Hulett, Red Deer.. . . . . . . . . . .
British Columbia
Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale 15.00
Fern
e General Hospital, Fernie 12.00
New Brunswick
Fredericton Chapter of the New
Brunswick Association of Registered
Nurses ....................... 15.00
A.A., Saint John General Hospital,
Saint John .................... 10.00
Saint John Chapter of the New Bruns-
wick Association of Registered
Nurses ....................... 10.GO
A.A., Soldiers Memorial Hospital,
Campbellton .................. 10.00
Moncton Chapter of the New Bruns-
wick Association of Registered
Nurses ....................... 10.00
A.A., Fisher Memorial Hospital,
\\,' oodstock ................... 10.0,)
Student Nurses, Saint John General
Hospital, Sa:nt John ............ 10.l:0
Staff Nurses, Saint John Tuberculosis
Hospitd, East Saint John.... .... 5.75
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Saint John 5.00
Student Nurses, Moncton City Hospital 4.00
Staff Nurses, Jordan Memorial Sani-
to ri Uill .......................
Student Nurses, The J. H. Dunn Hos'
pital, Bathurst ................
Student Nurses, Chipman Memorial
Hospital, St. Stephen ...........
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Student N urses, Soldiers' Memorial
Hospital, Cdmpbellton ..........
Student Nurses, Hôtel Dieu Hospital,
Ca:npbellto:l ..................
Student Nurses, Hôtel Dleu Hospital,
Chathaln .....................
50.00
10.0')
10JjO
1.00
1.00
Omario
Victoria Hospital School of Nursing,
London ,.....................
A.A., St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
A.A., Mack Training School, St.
Catharines ...,................
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Chatham
A.A., Connaught Training School,
Weston ......................
University of Western Ontario Alum-
nae Association ........ L. . . . . .
Florence Nightingale Club, Brantford
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island Registered
Nurses
\ssociation (annually for
five years) ....................
Quebec
A.A., The Montreal General Hospital
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital .....
The Montreal General Hospital Stu-
dent Nurses ..................
Children's Memonal Hospital, Mont-
real .........................
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Alexandra Hospital, Montreal ......
St. Mary's Hospital, Montreal ......
VictorÍdn Order of Nurses, Montreal
Branch ......................
Hôtcl Dieu, Montreal ............
Notre Dame Hosp:tal, Montreal ....
Shriners Hospital, Montreal .......
Ste. Agathe Sanatorium ...........
The Montreal Baby and Foundling
Hospital (Miss Lawrence) .......
A.A., Jeffery Hale's Hospital, Quebec
A.A., Hòtel Dieu (Jeanne Mance
Association), Montreal .........
Student Nurses, Jeffery Hale's Hos-
pital, Quebec .................
Homeopathic Hospital, Montreal ...
LO.D.E. Edith Cavell Chapter .....
Miss Richardson, Shawinigan Falls.
Que. ........................
Saskatcheu- all
Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Asso-
ciation .......................
3.00
2.50
2.50
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2.50
1.70
1.00
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10.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
2.00
50.00
50.00
50.CO
25.00
25.00
25.00
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20.00
12.00
10.00
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THE EDITOR'S DESK
Student Enrolment
Our leading artic'e this month. writt
n
by Dr. G. Harvey Agnew, secretary of
the department of hospital service of the
Canadian Medical Association. is worthy
of close study from more angles than
one. As its title indicates, it is a com'
parative study of nurse'patient ratios in
Canadian hospitals, with and without
sehools of nursing. Several somewhat
d:sconcerting realities. having both econ'
omic and educational significance, emerge
sharply. The first is the very low bed,
occupancy which prevails in most Can'l'
dian hospitals and wh:ch creates an
acute financ;al problem for hospit.ll
administrators, and the second is th
evidence that, after a brief recession, the
enrolment of student nurses in our
schools of nursing is undergoing a fairly
rapid increase. Apparently what has
happened is this: A number of the weak,
er small schools have been closed; some
of the larger schools have limited their
intake to a slight extent; there have been
sufficient additions to the enrolment of
some of the medium-sized schools not
only to offset all reductions, but probably
to bring about a net increase for the
country as a whole. Obviously there .is
.l relc:\tionship between the economic
stress occasioned by a low bed'occupancy,
.1Ild the increase in enrolment of schools
of nursing. Here is the crux of the whole
situatIon and we are indebted to Dr.
Agnew for this clear and impartial state'
ment of our chief problem.
A Happy Coincidence
In v:ew of the situation disclosed in
Dr. Agnew's article it seems appropriate
to give prominence in the same issue of
the Journal to certain administrative
pDlicies which might reduce student
enrolment and, at the same time,
trengthen ami enrich our educational
rCSüurces. Umler the caption of "The
opening of d. door" reference is made to
the commendahle action of the Children's
JUL Y, 1934
Memorial Hospital of Montreal in dis,
continuing its undergraduate school
while continuing to make available to
graduate nurses and affiliating studems
its fine clinical and teaching resources.
There is perhaps reason to hope that,
gradually, the enrolment in undergradu,
ate schools may be kept within reason-
able bounds, and that we may utilize
more fully our relatively undevelop
d
facilities for graduate study and clinic;).l
experience in special hospitals.
Where Honour Is Due
The list of honours marking the occa-
sion of the King's Birthday includes the
name of the president of the Interna-
tional Council of Nurses who henceforth
will be known as Dame Alicia Lloyd
Still of the Order of the British Empir
.
This royal recognition of a distinguished
nurse comes at a specially appropriate
juncture and will be a source of satisfac'
tion to nurses in every part of the worlJ.
A W" ord of Encouragement
In the editorial columns of a recent
issue of the Winnipeg Free Press, J.
newspd.per which has always displayed a
sympathetic understanding of nurses and
of nursing, we find this timely word of
praise:
No profcs<on hds heen ha: cler hIt during
the past few years than that of nursing and
no profcss:on has shown greater courage in
mceting its difficutlcs. With littlc or no
appcal.. to governmcnts or other public hodie!'.
it ha
dC'\.-ised plans for helping thosc in It-
ranks who needed help and mvariahly thc1>c
plans have helped not only the individual
nurse but the sick public.
Look for the August Number
The current issue of the Journal goes
to press just on the eve of the BiennÍ.lI
Meeting and therefore cannot report
upon that important event. In the August
issue, however, we expect to do full
justice to the Silver Jubilee and are plan
ning a special enlarged numher to mark
the auspicious occasion.
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CANADIAN COUNCIL ON CHILD AND FAMILY
WELFARE
A Svnopsis of a Report of the Annual Meeting.
The Canadian Council on Child and
Family Welfare held its annual meeting in
Hamilton, on May 28. The committee on
relations between public and private agencies
in the famIly welfare field met, with Mr. A.
W. Laver, of Toronto, presiding. While the
discussion related primarily to the family wel-
fare field, the same principles were enun-
ciated as those that are considered funda-
mental in the field of public health nursing.
Approval was voiced of definite working
relationships between public and private
agencies based upon a study of community
needs and the possible contribution of each
agency. In the afternoon a conference on
interprovincial placement agreements was
called. From the discussion it would secm
that there is need of definite planning in
respect to this problem. The varying degrees
of responsibility assumed by child-caring
agencies is startling at first thought, but it
is quite comparable to certain situations in the
field of public health. The family welfare
division meeting was convened under the
chairmanship of Mr. G. B. Clarke of MOf1t-
real. The topic discussed was that of trans-
portation agreements between agencies in
different parts of the country and the methods
of securing return reports with the least
expenditure of time and money. It was the
consensus of opinion that the inquiring
agency should make it clear to the other
organization just what was required. As such
inquiries might frequently be addressed to
Public Health nursing agencies, this discus-
sion was of particular interest. The report of
the Executive Director, Miss Charlotte Whit-
ton, dealt with the activities of the organiza-
tion in considerable detail, and reference was
made to similar activities in other countries.
The reports of the secretaries of the division
on maternal and child hygiene, French-spe'lk-
mg service and leisure time activities were
presented.
TWO Il\1PORTANT APPOINTMENTS
Mi:.s Constance E, Brewster has recently
been appointed to succeed Miss Edith Ray-
side, C.B.E., as superintendent of nurses at
the Hamilton General Hospital. Miss Brewster
possesses outstanding qualifications for hcr
new duties. She holds the degree of Bachelor
of Arts from Toronto University, a graduate
of the School of Nursing of The Royal Vic-
toria Hospital, Montreal and, in 1925, under-
took postgraduate study at the School for
Graduate Nurses of McGill University. She
has served successively as instructor in the
School of Nursing of the Hamilton General
Hospital and as assistant superintendent of
nurses in that institution. Before entering
upon her professional career Miss Brewster
had wide experience in general education alld
has recently made a notable contribution as
a member of the committee on curriculum of
the Canadian Nurses Association. She is at
present chairman of District 4, Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario and second
vice-chairman of the provincial association.
The School of Nursing of the Hamilton G
i1'
eral Hospital is to be congratulated on the
fact that its former distinguished principal has
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so worthy a successor.
From the West comes the news that Miss
Annie Lawrie, a graduate of the School of
Nursing of the Royal Alexandra Hospit
1.
Edmonton, has received an appointment to
succeed Miss Helen Smith as superintendent
of nUrses at the Regina General Hospital.
Regina, Saskatchewan. MISS Lawrie holds the
degree of Bachelor of Science conferred bv
Columbia University, where she took courses
in hospital and training school administration.
She has served in her own hosp
tal as instruc-
tor and assistant superintendent of nurses and
also acted as superintendent of nurses for ('ne
year during the absence of Miss F. Munroe
at Columbia University, and brings to her
new position a broad and varied experience in
nursing problems which will ensure her
success.
The Journal extends its best wishes to Miçs
Brewster and to Miss Lawrie and offers to two
representative schools of nursing, one in ::he
East and the other in the West, its con-
gratulations on having secured the serviccs
of such well qualified women as directors 01
nursing service and nursing education.
VOL. XXX, No. 7
Department of Nursing Education
CONVENER or PUBLICATIONS: Miss Mildred Reid. Wmnipeg General Hospital. Winnipeg. Man.
THE OPENING OF A DOOR
A significant trend in nursing educk
tion in Canada is the greatly increaseJ
demand for the further development of
facilities for postgraduate study in hos,
pitals within our own borders. In the
past there h
s been a natural tendency
to avail ourselves of the excellent oppor,
tunities which were so readily access:b]
to us in the United States, but recently
the long waiting lists of American schools
have forced an explorat;on of our own
resources, the value of which has not prc'
viously been fully understood. Further'
more, the preliminary studies made by
the committee on curriculum of the
Canadian Nurses Associat;on amply
demonstrate that, in some schools, stu
dent nurses do not have adequate clinicccl
instruction in the basic nursing services,
especially in certain services not invari,
ably found in general hospitals, such as
pediatrics, psychiatry and communicable
diseases. There is then a dual need; ,)n
the one hand for postgraduate courses,
and on the other for a broader founda,
tion on which to base the undergraduate
courses.
In these days of economic stress it Ï3
hardly to be expected that many hospitals
can make the drastic change in their
administrative policies which would help
to bring such reforms into being, anJ
yet, one hospital in Canada, The Chil-
dren's Memorial Hospital of Montre 11,
has recently taken a long forward step
in this direction. Thanks to its Com-
mittee of Administration under the gen'
eral direction of the president, Mr. v,,'.
J. Morrice. a cour,lgeous and fars:ght
d
policy in nursing education has bc
n
formulated and put into action which
opens a new door of opportunity to
Canadian nurses. It is particularly
encour,lgmg to find that the medical
staff of the hospital, and its medical
JULY, 1934
super;ntendent, Dr. Howard S. Mitchell.
are actively interested in this develop-
ment. In fact no better description can
be given of the new policy and its under'
lying principles than to quote from an
address given by Dr. H. B. Cushing.
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HOSPITAL
(CouTtesy 0/ the Hospital)
chairman of the medical board of the
hospital, at the recent ceremony whicn
marked the graduation of the final cla
s
to enter for the three'year course. Dr.
Cushing spoke as follows:
It is with a great feeling of regret that we
have to dnnounce that this is the final gradua-
tion ceremony of the Children's Memori,ll
Ho!opital School for Nurses. With the gradua-
tion of thi!'o c1a
s the school goes out of
cxi"tence and thi!o ho
pltal will no lon
cr
give a genel al training. It i!o thirty year
1>1I1ce the school was establÙ.hed dnd the
present is the twenty-seventh c1a
s to gra-
dUdte. It may well be d1>ked why the "choul
i!> being do;;cd dt the height of its <;ucces!o.
when we are overwhelmed with ,lpp'ication!o
for entry, when the school h,I' grad:lllb
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acquired reputation and tradition, and when
the growing army of our alumnae are begin-
ning to pro\"e a comfort and support to the
hospital.
The decision to close the school was the
I esult of careful and prolonged consideration
by the whole staff and executive of the hos-
pital and consultation with leaders of nursi:1g
education throughout the province, and a
few moments might well be spared to explain
exactly why this serious step was thought to
be in the best interests of the hospital, and of
the public served by the hospital. There IS
a growing feeling among those responsible
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(CouTte$Y of the HO$pital)
for the standards of modern nursing education
that it is not j ustifÏable or advisable for a
specialized hospital, t:-eating only one class of
patients, to conduct a general course of
training for nurses. This for two reasons:
first, it is not to the advantage of the nurses
trained in the school, and their experience is
one'sided. In the past we have endeavoured
to overcome this difficulty by affiliation with
other schoo!s, and the nurses graduating today
have had extensive experience in at least th:-ee
other hospitals, treating other classes of pa,
tients, but still the difficulty remains. Second.
,md possibly more important, it is felt that
the specialized hospital owes a duty to the
public and to the advance of nursing educd'
tlOn to afford intensive training in its own
specialty to as many nurses as possible, as this
special training cannot be obtained elsewhc;'e.
Our present intention is to replace the
former general training school by a short,
carefully planned course of instruction in
children's diseases alone. This course is offered
to postgraduate students and to undergradu-
ates of other schools. With our enormous
material for demonstration, with the facilities
and equipment only found in a large children's
hospital, with a specially trained corps of
instructors and specialists in the care of chil,
dren, we feel that we can offer a practical
course that can be equalled by few institutions
in Canada. Moreover, this means that we
afford the advantage of this course to twelve
times as many nurses as if we continued to
conduct the former three-year course of
general training. It is fully realized that the
new system will cause some inconvenience
to our hospital from the frequent change of
nursing staff, but it is felt that the arrange'
ment is eventually in the best interests of
our own institution and also of nursing
education in Canada.
The Children's Memorial Hospital
has much to offer postgraduate and affi,
liating students. Its fine buildings are
enhanced by the beauty of its site. It I'
one of a group of hospitals, associate
with the medical school of McGill Uni-
versity, which offer clinical and teaching
facilities unexcelled on this continent.
The superintendent of nurses is Miss
Annie S. Kinder who, throughout h
r
professional career, has made pediatr
c
nursing her principal interest and was
previously associated with the Hospital
for Sick Children in Toronto and with
the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg
before being appointed to the position
she now holds. Her teaching and super-
vising staff are specialists in the difficult
art of nursing children, and adequate
teaching facilities are available for
instruction in both theory and practice.
The opening of this door of oppor-
tunity has not been accomplished without
sacrifice and Canadian nurses will watch
with gratitude and with pride the fur-
ther development of this courageous
experiment in nursing education.
VOL. XXX, No. 7
A STIMULA TING EXPERIENCE
FRANCES E. BROWN, Department of Public Health. Toronto.
The refresher course on mental hygiene
held recently under the auspices of the School
of Nursing, University of Toronto, was the
first of its kind to be given in the province
and was most successful, both from the point
of view of the content of the course and the
large attendance. The enrolment for full,time
work was forty'one and for part time, six.
Nurses came from twenty towns and cities
in Ontario all the way between Ottawa and
Sarnia. The students were largely of the
executive, or more experienced class, and the
various nursing groups were represented as
follows: Public health, 26; Institutional, 7;
Visiting, 5; Industrial, 2; Red Cross, 1. The
programme was as follows:
Introduction to mental hygiene: Dr. B. T.
McGhie, Director of Hospital Services for
Ontario; Relation of mental hygiene to the
adult: Dr. G. H. Stevenson, Superintendent,
Ontario Hospital, Whitby; Objectives in men'
tal hygiene work: Dr. C. M. Hincks, Director,
Canadian National Committee for Mental
Hygiene; Theory of mental hygiene and the
place of the nursery school in public health:
Dr. W. E. Blatz, Director, St. George's School
for Child Study, University of Toronto; The
mental hygiene of the child: Dr. C. G.
Stogdill, Director, Mental Hygiene Division,
Department of Public Health, Toronto; Me
'
tal conditions associated with organic disor'
ders: Dr. E. P. Lewis, Director; o lit
patient Department, Psychiatric Hospital,
Toronto; Parent education: Mrs. Helen Bott,
Director of Parent Education, St. George's
School, Toronto; The child'parent relation,
ship: Miss Mildred Mann, Superintendent,
The Haven, Toronto; Mental health clinics:
Miss L. Oliver, Social Worker, Mental Health
Clinic, Ontario Hospital; Mental hygiene
nursing: Miss Edna Moore, Chief Nurse. De'
partment of Health, Toronto; The mental
health of the nurse: Miss N. Fidler, Superin-
tendent of Nurses, Ontario Hospital, Whitby.
Observation visits included a tour of the
Psychiatric Hospital; an all,day trip to the
Hospital for the Mentally Subnormal at Oril,
lia; a visit to the Family Court where the
students were addressed by Judge H. S. Mott
and by Dr. G. W. Anderson, court psychia'
trist; to the offices of the Canadian National
Committee for Mental Hygiene; to the St.
George's School for Child Study. The nurses
were also invited to attend two case study
conferences at the Psychiatric Hospital. There
were two round table conferences at which
JULY, 1934
the following topics were discussed: Mental
hygiene and generalized public health nursing;
mental hygiene nursing.
There was so much of interest and value in
each of the papers given that one would wish
to reproduce them for the benefit of those
who were unable to attend but space permits
mention of only two or three points which
are of special interest to nurses in their per'
sonal and professional life. Dr. Stevenson,
in his address, defined the mentally healthy
individual as follows: '.One who attains a
reasonable amount of happiness out of living,
not at the expense of others, who contribute"
something to life, and who, in times of stress,
is able to retain his poise and some degree
of efficiency." Miss Fidler, in speaking on
the mental health of the nurse, stressed the
point that the nurse should be sturdier in
mental and physical health than other workers.
Her mental health should be adequate to
begin with and, to attain this, candidates for
hospital training schools should be given
mental and personality tests. The public
health nurse, concluded Miss Fidler, is able
to interpret health to others only to the
degree that she has insight into her own
health. Miss Moore, in outlining the reasons
why nurses should have mental hygiene train'
ing, quoted the aims laid down by a joint
committee of the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing and the American
Association of Psychiatric Social Workers in
recommending that a mental health content
be put into public health training.
Throughout the course, it was emphasized
by one speaker after another that sound habit
training, beginning with the infant, is the
best foundation for mental health in the
adult. For this, parent education is necessary,
and the person who has the greatest oppor'
tunity to give this teaching is the public health
nurse.
I think that those of us who took part in
this first course on mental hygiene feel that we
have received a great stimulus to further
study of the subject. To those who gave so
generously of their time and effort in making
the course possible, it must be at least some
reward to know that forty,one women from
twenty,one centres in Ontario will return to
their own fields. with a new attitude toward
and a better understanding of their work.
and that they will carry into thousands of
homes a message which is new and much
needed.
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Department of Public Health Nursing
CONVENEIl OP PUIILlC^TION5: Mrs. Agnes Haygarth. 21 Su.sex St.. Toronto. Ont.
UNDERSTANDING THE REACTIONS OF CHILDREN
DAISY HALLY, Reg. N., Ps}-chiatric Social Worker, Neurological Clinic,
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
In their zeal not to overlook any
manifestations of abnormal behaviour,
there is grave danger that. perhaps 3.
normal reaction to a certain situation
ma y be interpreted by the parent, teacher
or nurse as falling into the category of
the abnormal and, if treated as such,
may result in the development of a neu'
rosis or a serious personality problem.
It is a quite normal response for a child
to feel sensitive, to have a sense f)f
inferiority, to show a tendency to become
seclusive and to withdraw because
f
some physical handicap-a feeling th3.t
he is different from others, or has been
made to feel that he is.
Type of Reaction
Every organic disease and deficiency
presents a psychological problem of vary'
ing degrees of importance, according to
the physical, emotional, intellectual and
social make,up of the individual. A child
who is in the grip of a conviction of
inferiority may seek compensation in one
of two ways. Either, he may employ
the active method of aggression and
pugnacity, or the passive one of retrer.i.t
and withdrawal, depending upon his
type of personality and his environment.
The active method of striking out anJ
fighting back, that of retaliation, is a
much more healthy, wholesome reaction
in that any damage is done without,
rather than within the personality.
Parents usually seek advice for the5e
children because of the annoyance anJ
often humiliation to which they are sub,
jected by their behaviour. In the þassive
method there is the desire to withdraw
and to avoid people. Instead of fighting
Read before the School Health Section. Ontario
Educational Association. Toronto. April 4. 1934.
318
back, this child, because he lacks the
courage and initiative to contend with
his problems, accepts defeat and retires
from the scene of strife. Although this
type of reaction can and does lead to
serious personality problems, parents
rarely seek advice and help for theæ
children, Only too often they are pleaseJ
that their child is so good and is so
little trouble to them. The danger of
the passive reaction lies in the fact that
the child may construct an unreal .x
imaginary world for himself if the one
in which he lives is too distressing and
unsatisfactory, and also of the imaginary
world proving too satisfying, so thJ.t
there will be less inclination on his pJ.rt
to meet the real world.
How To Deal With These Reactions
It depends largely on the way in which
these reactions are met, or not met,
whether the child is to develop a normal,
workable personality or become a socially
maladjusted individual whose attituùe
toward life will be greatly influenced
thereby. If ability to get along with
others is part of the criteria of gooJ
mental health, then should we not con-
sider quarrelsomeness or timidity dangzr
signals of some faulty functioning within
the personality?
We would not ignore a sore throat
or a rash. We would seek adv
ce an,-!
would do something about physical symp'
toms. Health is not measurable in terms
of physical well,being alone. Does it not
include some recognition of social ade'
quacy and adaptability?
A Case History
The case of a boy, John ]., aged 14
years, with a pituitary dysfunction anJ
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UNDERSTANDING THE REACTIONS OF CHILDREN 319
habit spasms will illustrate the passive
reaction to feelings of inferiority. For
the past two years John had not wanteJ
to play out,doors with the other children.
He had no friends. He infinitely preferr,
d
doing things around the house with hi!::
father, a calm, stable type of man. He
always p05tponed going to Boy Scout
meetings or Boys' Clubs. He dislikeJ
school. During the holidays, or if absent
through illness, he always became rest'
less and uneasy as the time for returning
to school approached. His happiest
moments were those spent in bed for the
treatment of habit spasms, which would
clear up, only to return in a few months
after he was allowed up. This boy, who
was the youngest of three children, h3.d
been brought up in an atmosphere of
anxiety and apprehension due to the
mother's fear that she "would never raise
him." A sister, four years of age, had
died of diphtheria two days after the
patient's birth. Then, too, like many
families of today there has been constant
\Vorry over finances, due to unemploy'
ment. The entire family has been emo'
tionally upset over accepting relief.
John has been terr
fied "that the kids at
school would find out."
He is a stockily built youngster with
a high colour and rdther feminine can
tour; is rather old,fashioned in his ma:l'
ner and inclined to be painfully shy and
easily embarrassed; at such times he
blushes, jerks his head about and twitC'l'
ing of the face and eyes is quite marked.
He has ga.ined 40 Ibs. in the past year.
At school he is in the Junior Fourth
and has an intelligence quotient of 103.
Under treatment this boy has mdde
steady progress, both physiologically and
psychologically. Through careful ad,
herence to diet, which consisted in the
elimination of carbohydrates, and more
physical activity, this boy has loot 20 lbs.
with the minimum amount of discomfort
111 the process. The school nurse's ex'
pldndtion to the tcacher of the boy's
JULY, 1934
attitude toward school, his I.Q., his phy,
sical condition and the psychologica 1
factors involved, has been largely respon'
sible for a better school adjustment. John
no longer worries about going to school,
he now e
joys it. The nurse has als;J
seen that he has been drawn into school
activities, as well as arranging for him to
attend the Y.M.C.A. where he is making
a good contact with the boys and group
leaders.
Formerly the family complained of
John being around the house too much
and of his unhappy, emotional outbursts.
Now they practically only see him at
meal times. He is out skating or hiking
with the boys. To quote the parents,
"He is a different kid now. He is always
bright and cheerful." Recently, when a
boy called him ....fatty." he "licked" him.
Formerly he would have let it pass be'
cause, as he says, he would not have felt
like fighting. John now exhibits greater
confidence in himself and although he
may not be entirely free from all feeling
of inferiority, yet he is able to make a
good social adjustment because of having
a better understanding of his difficulties,
and of having built up the necessary
courage and confidence with which to
meet them.
One of the chief factors contributing
to the success of this case was the chal,
lenge which was issued to this boy to
assume his share of -responsibility in
carrying out treatment plans. He was
given a careful explanation of the need
for his co'operation and of what we hoped
to accomplish, and then made to feel thu
it was his job and that he could do it.
In consequence clinic visits took on a
different meaning for him after ne
realized that something WdS expected .)f
him, that he had something to contribute.
Have we any conception of the in'
fluence and far'reaching effect on this
hay's future adjustment in life, in having
overcome his difficulties in the adolescent
period?
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
The Right Approach
You have probably come across children
who were possibly less markedly intro-
verted than John. Children who seem
to stand off by themselves and who arc
unable to mingle fredy with other chil-
dren in the school yard. Much can be
done through the combined efforts of
the parents, the teacher, the nurse anJ
the recreational centres to help these
children overcome their difficult:es with-
out their becoming too conscious or
aware of them.
For this reason a child should never b
present when he or another child is being
discussed. It either tends to give him an
exaggerated idea of his importance and
of the seriousness of his symptoms, or to
increase his feelings of inferiority. One
would almost conclude that children wer
inanimate objects in view of the way in
which they have been sinned against in
this regard. Frequently the effects of
treatment have been markedly delay.d
and interfered with on this account.
Then, too, so much is dependent on
the attitude of the nurse and of the
teacher, not only toward the child anJ
his problem, but toward his family. If
they are too critical and harsh in their
judgment the child is apt to build up
resistances which are difficult later to
overcome in the treatment of his prob-
lems. Perhaps Sammy's mother has not
been very co-operative in the past. She
may not have attended to his tonsils
and his teeth. Shall we let this influence
us and so anticipate failure, or shall we
approach this mother with the same hope-
ful optimistic attitude in discussing
Sammy's temper outbursts as we would
if this were our first contact with her?
We cannot expect positive results if we
ourselves use a negative method of
approach.
Tolerance and patience, a sympathetic
understanding, a spirit of adventure and
an experimental attitude are all most
essential for the successful treatment of
the many and varied problems about
which the advice of the public health
nurse is constantly being sought.
PLANNED SUPERVISION
MARION E. NASH. Educational Director, Montreal Branch, Victorian Order of Nurses.
.
Supervision at its best is based on a
philosophy that recognizes education tiS
growth. Intelligent supervision promotes
development through co-operat
ve effort
that releases creative thinking and results
in a maximum of service. Having set up
an ideal for supervision, how is life to b
breathed into this ideal? Mr. Buckalow
in his article, "The Fine Art of Super-
vision", defines a philosophic leader as
"one who is thoughtful, who makes pla.'1s
carefully and seeks new truths." The
supervisor whose teaching is based on
sound educational principles mu;;t,
through collaboration with her staff, SLt
for herself a goal to be achieved within
a given time. It is only in this way that
she can hope to measure the results of
their joint achievement. A well-thought-
out plan is proof that the situation has
been analyzed and the programme de.
veloped around the needs of a particuhr
individual or group. It exhibits an aware'
ness of strength and weakness and an
ability to think concretely and objectively
about a given situation.
VOL. XXX, No. 7
PLANNED SUPERVISION
If the supervisor is to formulate 3
plan based on the needs of the individual
or group, what knowledge must she
possess and how can she acquire th-lt
knowledge? The public health nurse's
function is to sell the idea of positive
health to the families in her community.
On her ability to make herself acceptable
to those whom she serves, on her teach,
ing skill, her knowledge of communi
y
resources and their use, her appreciation
of and skill in record-keeping, depen.h
the nurse's success in public health nurs-
ing. Since the supervisor's aim is t:0
help the nurse perfect herself in all these
skills, she must evaluate the nurse's work
on these several counts.
The home visit with the staff worker
is perhaps the supervisor's most impor-
tant tool in this process of evaluatioi1.
Through it she becomes a ware of the
nurse's problems, her resourcefulness, h
r
approach to her families, their reaction tJ
the visitor, her nursing and teach
ng
skill. From a sufficiently large number
of visits the supervisor can form a fairly
good estimate of the nurse's work in the
field. Her use of community resources,
her ability to do good team work, her
skill in record-keeping, can best be judged
through personal contact and observation
in the office.
When the supervisor has collected her
facts she should then proceed to seek for
the underlying causes of either strength
or weakness. Having done so, she i3
reddy for a conference with the indivi-
dual whom she is planning to help. If
supervisory visits are made on reque.
t,
dS we presume they are. the interview
follows naturally, and a routine proce-
dure is best established that assures the
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staff worker of the supervisor's undivided
attention. The spirit of the interview
should be one of friendly interest. It
should feature appreciation of good
work. discussion of weak points, analysis
by the worker, and helpful suggestions
that enable the nurse to see improvement
as her personal responsibility. Effort
should be crystallized by encouraging th
nurse to set for herself a definite time
limit within which to reach her objective.
After this conference, it is well for
the supervisor to give a little thought tl)
self-analysis, to consider whether she has
given to the worker the help and stimulus
required for her future development. It
is likewise advisable to consider this
individual nurse's work in its relati0n
to the group, and the practical implica-
tions presented for group planning. The
supervisor is the link between the admi-
nistrative and the nursing group. On
her skill in interpreting the policies of the
organization, her ability to inspire her
staff to see their work as a glorious ad,
venture, depends the degree of success the
field nurse'will achieve in the ho
e and
the repute which the organization will
enjoy in the community.
Bibliography
Fourth Yearbook of Department of Super-
visors of the N.E.A. "The Evaluation of
Supervision. "
Elliott, H. S.: "The Process of Group
Thinking. "
Overstreet: "Influencing Human Behav-
iour", pp. 217.237.
The Family: "Concerning Objectivity in
Supervision", Oct. 1932, p. ::!02.
Public Health Nursing: Mar. 1933, p. 139,
"Executive Leadership", by O. Tead.
Journal of Educational Method: Dec. 1931.
"The Fine Art of Supervision", by Buckalow.
School and Society: Vol. :!8, p. 728-730.
"Supervision is Teaching", by R. V. Hunkin...
The Central Registry Graduate Nurses
Phone Garfield 0382
Registrar:
ROBENA BURNETT, Reg.N.
91 Balsam Ave., Hamilton, Onto
JULY, 1934
Private Duty Nurses Forum
The Eight-Hour Plan
The introduction of eight-hour duty for
nurses went into effect in London, Ontario.
on March 1, 1934, the purpose and object
being threefold:
1. More work for nurses;
2. More even distribution of work;
3. Extra service to the public.
This new type of nursing service does not
of course interfere with the twelve-hour duty
and the twenty-hour duty now in effect, but
is simply an additional service making it pos-
sible for patients to have two nurses in the
place of one, three in the place of two, at a
slightly reduced cost. Possibly when a patient
cannot afford a nUrse for twelve hours, they
may do so for eight hours. The new rate is
$3.00 for eight hours, making $9.00 for a
twenty-four nursing day, divided into three
shifts. By the twelve-hour duty schedule, the
full day is divided into two instead of three
shifts, at a rate of $5.00 for twelve hours or
$10.00 for twenty-four hours, with only two
instead of three nurses employed. This sche-
dule covers general medical and surgical cases.
The hours for eight-hour duty in hospital are
7.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m., 3.00 p.m. to 11.00
p.m., 11.00 p.m to 7.00 a.m. In a private
home any eight consecutive hours desired by
patient or doctor may be arranged.
At the Alumnae Association meetings the
matter was discussed and a committee chosen
to interview the authorities of the local hos-
pitals, from whom we were promised full
support and co-operation. At a staff meeting
of the doctors at each hospital, the committee
placed the proposed plan before them and
explained what we hoped to do, asking their
support and co-operation. The committees
were given a courteous heanng; most of the
doctors seemed to favour the plan. Following
these conferences a general mass meeting of
the nurses was held, when the matter was
voted upon and carried by a big majority.
Though it is rather too soon to judge what
success this will have, we are hoping for a
big improvement in the local nursing situation.
A CORRESPONDENT,
London, Ontario.
From Another Angle
May I be allowed to comment on some of
the nursing problems of today and probably
from another angle from those most frequently
used. I spent ten years in nursing service'
private duty and three years hospital wor1c,
and have been away from active nursing for
ten years. and now see things from the sta
d-
322
point of a country home and community.
As I read of the higher and higher standards
set for training schools, I have very grave
doubts whether these highly educated young
ladies will consider the needy and country
districts where nursing care is so badly needed
and so often is not available. It seems to me
that some form of state medicine and nursing
care will have to be the outcome of these
times, for there just is not the money among
workers and farmers to pay for expensive
nursing care. I do not think hospitals should
cut down on their classes to any great extent,
but all candidates should understand on enter'
ing, or on being accepted, that their gradua-
tion does not mean a supply of available
positions but may mean very little perhaps a
far as money goes. I believe the training
itself will be of untold value and help in
the home life in which many will eventually
find themselves. Our high schools do not
close their doors to applicants for the reason
that there are already too many school-
teachers.
I never knew what eight-hour duty meant.
Three and four dollars a day seemed ample
remuneration. and I had full-time charge of
the patient. Nurses' fees are too high in
comparison with the producer's earnings.
Three dollars for eight hours leaves the
patient without intelligent nursing care for
sixteen hours of the day. I fancy that three
dollars a day through this depression would
have meant many weeks of work to idle
nurses, but of COurse if you cannot get the
five dollars a day set down by your particular
association, why better sit in idleness, even if
people do need care-Five dollars Or nothinul
Our neighbour a year ago had to put '"
mortgage on his farm to pay a nurse's fe
s:
he says he sees nothing but debt ahead. Sick
people should be cared for and nurses should
have reasonable earnings. If the nursing
organizations can plan a way, to find out
how people with very little funds, and many
with nothing at all, could be cared for in
illness with a reasonable amount of intelligent
care, it would indeed be a God-se'nd to many
a worried mother and make for happier homes.
Too many have gone into the nursing pro-
fession with money as the first consideration
and the patient second.
Where two nurses are employed on twelve-
hour duty in a hospital, does it not seem a
rather unfair proposition to expect that the
patient shall pay board bills for two nurses,
besides the tive-dollar-a-day wage? Can One
wonder at the slow recovery and awful sense
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PRIVATE DUTY NURSES FORUM
of defeat in many a home, when perhaps all
the money has to be borrowed or a chattel
mortgage put on the family belongmgs to pay
the bills.
New problems have arisen and new methods
and adjustments will have to be made,
nd
may we hope for a fairer distribution to brIng
in a happier day.
MTY LEE. Ontario.
UnempLoyed?
Not all nurses are living in the cities and
larger centres and many of us, because of
unemployment, have found it necessary to
return home to the farm or village. Unfor-
tunately, not all nurses have been so favored
as to return to a welcome home. They have
my sincere sympathy and I marvel at thÓr
stamina and resourcefulness, but I am for the
moment not concerned with them but wIth
those who have a comfortable home and SUlfÏ,
cient food. Why do we, many of us, because
we arc unemployed simply sit and bemoan
the fact, making ourselves and everyone about
us unhappy? There is work to be done. ev
n
if we never receive a penny. Of necessli.y
this is terribly overloaded with ''1'' and "mc"
but it is hoped that the reader will see beyo'1d
this to the thing meant, for I do hope to stir
some of our sorrowful ones to action.
For two years I've been unemployed in
so far dS a regular position is concerned, but
never have I been idle or unhappy. I live in
a small country village of nine hundred
population, in the garden of old Ontario,
where we pat ourselves on the back, but have
failed to do much along health lines. This
community is in no way served by a puhlic
health or school nurse. The following is a
list of the things I have done which have
contributed to my happiness and, I hope, to
the welfare of the community:
I taught first aid to a C.C.LT. group last
yedr. and thIs year have given the same gr
ur
a course in home hygiene and care of the sick.
The Boy Scouts then came along an
Ire'
sponded to their desire for some help m first
aid work. One day, while out in the country,
I SdW a child of eight years of age with badly
deformed feet. I later made enquiries, found
his people could not afford to care for
perat-
ive work, and went to the Rotary Club In our
ounty town. The
e men a;e finanCIng the
necessary surgical work and the child is being
made whole, I invited the school teachers,
including the principal's wife, to my home for
dfternoon tea and talked about parent teacher"
a
sociatlOn. We have one now, struggling,
but on its way. I dttended a school-board
meeting, a thing no woman has ever done
JULY, 1934
323
here, and we now have two drinking fountains
instead of the old tin cup, and paper towels
too. We had basins in our school but rlQ
towels (yes, m the heart of old Ontario) .
Girl Guides have been organiz.ed in our
village this year. I am to help in that work
and am now acting as sponsor and guide to
a young girl of twenty who is organiÚng a
Brownie pack for the little folk. I have done
a good bIt of hour
y nursing, gratis of course,
and la
t winter was a sort of social inves-
tigator for the village welfare society.
Now for my latest and dearest project. I
have had three meetings at my home for th
nUlses of this community in order to áC-
quaint them with the Survey. Our members
are as follows: A doctor's wife, graduated 17
years ago; a minister's wife, graduated 20
years ago; a business man's wife, graduate,
29 years ago. These women have in no way
retained even a speaking acquaintance with
the profession. A young girl, graduated this
year from a small school and unemployed, and
another mere child, fresh from a school where
she had splendid advantages, were also mem-
bers of this study group. Thus far I'm the
teacher and, while I'm mterested in rekindlin
a feeling for the profession and its standards
in these elderly women, yet it is really these
young women whom I am most anxious to
aid. They must be kept in touch.
Now maybe every nurse isn't such a blun-
derIng creature as to suppose she can be
"Jack of all Trades", nevertheless she can
surely see much to do if she forgets that
money isn't all. I need a job, yet shouldn't
we see beyond ourselves? I hope, although
I never expect it to happen, that when I do
get a job this community will feel they need
a nurse and set about getting one. I am still
looking ahead and next year if I'm still here,
and it looks as if I would be, I hope to gain
the consent and co-operation of the school
board and the Parent Teachers Association
to allow me to go into the school as a sch)ol
nurse. I'm sure many defects would be
brought to lIght and corrected. Then, too, in
our little public library the lighting IS atro-
cious. New lights wouldn't cost a great deal
and next fall I'm going to call on the town
fathers.
Other nurses I'm sure have been busy.
Won't you exchange ideas? I am enthusiastic
about what can be done in my community.
If you are not doing community work,
ta.t
now and let us hear, through the Journal. ot
your accomplishments.
-AN ONTARIO NURSt:.
Notes from the National Office
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
An International Appointment
At the Congress of the International
Council of Nurses in July, 1933, the
Board of Directors appointed a special
committee to consider the reorganization
of Headquarters in Geneva. Recently
this committee, through the Board of
Directors, announced that Miss Anna
Schwarzenberg, formerly superintende:1t
of nurses of the University Children's
Hospital, Graz, Austria, had been ap'
pointed executive secretary of the LC.N.
for a period of two years. Miss Schwar-
2;enberg commenced her duties on May
22, and in future all correspondence
should be addressed to her at Head-
quarters, 14 Quai Gustave Ador,
Geneva, Switzerland.
Executive Officers
Recently we were asked to make an
nouncement whereby the members ùf
the Canadian Nurses Association could
be reminded that there is an executive
secretary for the C.N.A. and for ea
h
provincial association of registerel.l
nurses.
As each provincial assocIatIon of
graduate nurses in Canada obtained an
Act for the Registration of Nurses,
registration became the prime requisite
for eligibility of membership and provin-
cial membership became individual; each
association appointed an executive secre-
tary. Except in the Province of Ontario,
the executive secretary acts as the pro'
vincial registrar. These officers. all of
whom are registered nurses, are provided
w
th office space, equipment, and steno-
graphic assistance. They receive =in
honorarium for their services. Space does
not permit giving in detail the duties of
these officers which are delegated to them
by the governing body of the provinci3.1
association by which they are appointed.
324
The executive secretary in a provincial,
national and international office shoulJ
(and does) aim toward being in a posi-
tion to give information as may be needed
by the individual nurse as well as local
groups. It is admitted that there are
occasions when information in detail
cannot be given immediately but these
officers usually are able to procure th
required data or to advise the source t,)
which the request should be made. We
have been informed that recently, several
weeks of time could have been saved, if
an inquiry had been made to either the
national or to a certain provincial exe-
cutive secretary instead of which the
letter was addressed in succession to tW0
non'professional persons, then to two
hospital executives before it eventually
reached the office of the provincial asso'
ciation. The names and addresses o)f
provincial executive secretaries are pub.
lished monthly in the Official D
rectory
of the Journal under the heading "Pro'
vincial Associations of Registered
Nurses." fu there has been a change of
executive officer in two provinces within
recent months, a list of these officers
together with the address of each office
is published herewith:
Alberta: Mrs. A. E. Vango, 11107-82nd
Ave., Edmonton.
British Columbia: Miss Helen Randal, 516
Vancouver Block, Vancouver.
Manitoba: Mrs. S. Gordon Kerr, 510
Medical Arts Building, Winnipeg.
New Brunswic1{.: Miss Maude E. RetallicK.
:262 Charlotte Street, West Saint John.
Nova Scotia: Miss Muriel J. Graham, 4 L 3
Dennis Building, Halifax.
Ontario: Miss M. E. Fitzgerald, 380 Jane
Street, Toronto.
Prince Edward Island: Miss H. Margaret
Campbell, 8 Grafton Street, Charlottetown.
U(
bec: Miss E. Frances Upton, 406, 1396
St. Catherine Street West, Montreal.
Sas1{.atchewan: Miss Margaret A. Ross, 45
Angus Crescent. Regina.
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Notes
ALBERT A
EDMONTON: The biennial scholarship for
1934, granted by the Alberta Association of
Registered Nurses, has been awarded to Miss
Claretta Dean, graduate of the School of
Nursing of the Royal Alexandra Hospital,
Edmonton, class of 1929. Miss Dean has
done active work with the Travelling Clinic
in Alberta, was nursing instructress at Olds
School of Agriculture for the term 1932-33,
and for the past year has been on the staff
of the Red Deer Full-time Health Distri.::t.
Miss Dean plans taking a course in public
health nursing.
UMOKT: Miss Jessie Archer (Lamont,
1933), is enjoying a postgraduate course in
pediatrics at the Children's Hospital, Toronto.
Miss JessIe Nikiforuk (Lamont, 1932), i!!
taking a postgraduate course in psychiatry at
Ponoka Mental Hospital. Miss Grace Wright
(Lamont, 1932), has recently returned fro'D
the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, aft
1
completing a postgraduate course in obstetrics.
Prior to that course she completed a course
in pediatrics at the Winnipeg General Hos-
pital. Miss Grace Oyama (Lamont, 1928),
took a postgraduate course at the Royal Vic-
toria Hospital, Montreal, prior to going to
Tokyo.
MARRIED: Recently, at Elk Point, Mis!>
hobel Antoniuk (Lamont, 1932), to Mr.
Harold Pinder.
MARRIED: Recently, at Cold Lake, Miss
Nellie Duckett (Lamont, 1932), to Mr.
Edward Felix.
MARRIED: Recently, in Japan, Miss Grace
Oyama (Lamont, 1928), to Mr. M. Sugita,
of Tokyo.
LETHBRIDGE: The fourth successful annual
dinner and bridge was held by the Graduate
Nurses Association on April 16 when thirty-
six nurses from the city and district partook
of an enjoyable repast. Miss Jean Brodie, in
the absence of Miss MacKenzie, spoke in
appreciation of the attendance and interest
shown by the members, and also conveyed
best wishes from two of the first members
of the Association, Miss Mildred Harvey of
Logan, Utah, and Mrs. Wilson of Nova
Scotia. Mrs. Thomas Lanier gave an intere5t-
ing reading on the inhabitants of the Ten-
nessee Mountain district. BrIdge was
enjoyed, the prizes being won by Mrs. A. A.
Haig and Mrs. McLeod. The affair was con-
vened by Miss Bertha Ford, assisted by MIss
J. Brodie.
JULY, 1934
MEDICINE HAT: The monthly meeting of
the Medicine Hat Graduate Nurses Associa-
tion was held on May 5 and, following the
business meeting, Mrs. Keohane and Mrs.
Devlin were hostesses to a farewell party for
Miss Ida Henderson (M.G.H.), operating
room supervisor of the Medicine Hat General
Hospital, who has accepted a position on the
staff of the Mòntreal General Hospital. She
was presented with a small remembrance.
Her place has been filled by Miss E. Pederson
(Medicine Hat General Hospital).
MEDICINE HAT: The graduation exercise
of the School of Nursing of the Medicine
Hat General Hospital took place on April 12,
when sixteen nurses received their medals and
diplomas. Dr. Howard Dixon addressed the
class and administered the Florence Nightin-
gale pledge. He also expressed regret at the
passing of Dr. Oliver Boyd, who for many
years was a member of the Hospital Board.
Addresses were given by His Worship, Mayor
Bullivant and Rev. Mr. Binning. Miss J. Mc-
Williams gave the valedIctory address. The
diplomas were presented by Mr. H. Norman
Davis and Miss Mary Murray, superintendent
of nurses. The special prizes were awarded as
follows: for general proficiency: Miss V.
Crandall; practical nursing, Miss M. Hutch-
croft; obstetrics: Miss M. Reimcke; surgery.
Miss K. Horvey. Following the exercises a
reception and dance was held.
MARRIED: Recently, Miss Olaf Hanson
(Medicine Hat General Hospital, 1933), to
Mr. Arthur Forster.
MARRIED: In April, Miss H. Wichtrom
(Medicine Hat General HospItal, 1934), to
Mr. Sidney Wade.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TRANQUILLE: The affiliating clðss of April
and May are fortunate to have spent two of
the finest months of the year at TranqUllle
Sanatorium. Congeniality prevailed between
the students from the different schools, both
at work and play and, although we found the
routine very different to that of a general
hospital, we enjoyed our associations wi:.h
both supervisors and patients. Our first social
gathering took the form of a picnic at the laKe
shore and how we did enjoy the coffee m,\de
over the beach bonfire. Wednesday evenin
!-
were reserved for the weekly talking picture
and the tennis Courts were an added attraction.
Now that the Course is completed we retul n
to OUr respective schools feeling we all have
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
greatly benefited from our lectures and prac-
tical experiences. The student nurses com-
posing this group were: Misses Markle, Grant,
and Harwood of St. Paul's Hospital, Vancoù-
vcr; Misses Foster, Morris and Olund of the
Vancouver General Hospital; Miss J. Robin.
son of the Kootenay Lake Hospital, Nelsoa;
Miss D. Robinson of the Royal Columbian
Hospital, New Westminster; Miss W. Fensom
of Cranbrook; Miss W. Johnston of the Roy:!l
Inland Hospital, Kamloops; Miss E. Edwards
of Prince Rupert.
VANCOUVER: Examinations' were held rc-
cently in various centres of British Columbia
for title and certificate of Registered Nurse.
One hundred and thirty. nine nurses took this
examination. The following is the result in
order of merit:
First Class (80% and over)-D. L.
Robinson, Ha
elton General Hospital (affiliate
Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westmins.
ter) ; D. M. A. Hibberson, Royal Jubilee
Hospital, Victoria; A. G. Owens, St. Joseph's
Hospital, Victoria; E. P. L. Tay:or, Vancouver
General Hospital; L. B. Robson, J. W. Ross,
C. I. Cockell, H. J. Fagerlid, (M. J. S. Kelly,
E. F. Welch, equal); K. E. Sheppard, B. J.
Penson, A. R. Carton, H. B. Wilson.Murray,
(H. M. Cretney, L. M. Malkin, equal); (Mrs.
H. C. A. Brown, 1. C. Donald, equal); (M.
J. Rooke, M. D. Baines, equal); G. H.
Williamson, M. B. Nelson, B. W. Ansell.
Second Class (65% to 80% )-S. L. Ander'
son, A. M. Thompson, (M. O. Loney, H. M.
Marshall, equal); (M. P. Alston, N. W. R.
Donnelly, E. E. Field, M. E. Hardy, C. N.
Purney, M. C. Rankins, equal); M. E. Minor,
L. P. Cockell, Mrs. F. E. Smith, A. O. Mosier,
Sister M. Laurena, S. K. M. Scott, (N. C.
Brankin, A. W. Ion, E. M. W ortendyke,
equal); (E. H. G. Barnes, D. G. Roy, equal):
(V. C. Helgesen, W. H. Russel, E. M. Wel,
lington, equal); (E. S. Lipsey, J. A. McNabb,
equal); (W. J. Blackburn, C. G. Bryant,
equal): M. F. Roach, (M. W. Green, E. C.
Hood, D. J. R. Watson, equal): (F. T. Camp.
bell, F. G. Hall, equal); (P. Fitzpatrick, E
Knox, equal); M. B. Butler, (B. Hayden, A.
Y. May, E. M. Topper, equal); (B. Braley,
M. E. W. Ker, equal); B. H. Bose, (}. M.
Barr.Hall, J. C. McTavish, G. S. Smith, C.
M. Swanson, equal); (E. M, Henderson, 1.
McL. Wright, equal); J. L. Tymick, C. Nichol.
son, J. C. Chambers, (H. E. Home, F. E.
Waugh, equal); (E. M. Davis, J. C. Seggie,
D. M. Mann, equal); (D. Kahle, A. E. Van.
Valkenberg, equal); (B. E. Cousins, A. E,
Moore, M. O. Phelps, equal); E. Carbonneau,
(H. J. Edgett, M. 1. Kerr, equal); (C. J.
Hodson, W. P. Lawrence, equal); (K. H.
Simmons, E. P. E. Williamson, equal); F. H.
Mollett, (A. M. Beamish, M. Fishwick, M.
A. Morrison, equal); M. A. M. Wetton, K.
M. Thompson, E. A. Ohlson, B. B. Cornwall,
V. Hembury, E. B. Cummins, (K. A. Murray.
J. M. Scott, equal); J. R. Brasell, F. E. Cooper,
M. E. Smith, D. A. Kosakosk, J. E. Mc.
Eachren, M. M. Chubra, (E. J. S. Cooper,
S. E. Reilly, equal); M. Johnston, 1. D. Reid,
M. G. Jamieson, M. C. McCaffrey, A. L.
Welch, J. F. Frost.
Pass (60% to 65%)-E. M. Brier, G. B.
Davis, H. K. Richards, K. A. Fatke, V. R.
Johnson, (A. F. Anderson, S. A. M. Dawe.
equal); D. M. H. Bird, M. M. Dobbie, H.
M. Tuttle, Mrs. G. Morrison.
Passed supplementals:-W. E. Courtney,
(1 ); J. G. Gillespie, (1); G. Lowe, (1); F.
B. Thompson, (1); G. L. Reynolds, (1).
VICTORIA: On March 7 the fourteenth
annual meeting of the Alumnae Association
of the Royal Jubilee Hospital was held. The
annual report was read and officers wele
elected for the coming year. On May 7,
members of the Jubilee Alumnae Association
entertained the 1934 Graduating Class at a
dinner. Among the guests was Mi
s J. F. Mac.
KenÚe, Our former Director of Nursing, whom
we had invited specially and were very pleased
to see. After dinner a short programme was
given by some of the hostesses, which proved
to be very entertaining.
On May 10, the graduation exercises took
place when thirty.six nurses grad uated and
Miss E. Hallas received a dip!oma for the
completion of a course in radiological tech.
nique. Following the exercises, refreshments
were served in the Nurses Home.
MARRIED: On April 4, 1934, at Vancouver.
by the Rev. A. E. Roberts, Miss Ida C. Lind
(graduate of the School of Nursing of the
Moose Jaw General Hospital, class of 1919),
to Mr. George Henry Stevenson, of Atlin.
British Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson
will reside in Atlin.
MANITOBA
BRA?-;DON: The Brandon Graduate Nurses
Association held their annual dinner on Mav
5 when the graduating class of the Gener
l
Hospital were honor guests. Present also w
re
three former superintendents of the hospital.
Miss Birtles, Mrs. W. H. Shillinglaw, and
Mrs. Robert Darrach. Mrs. S. J. S. Peirce
extended to the members of the graduating
class good wishes and congratulations. Miss
Eva McNally was chairman for the evening.
To honor the memory -of one who had been
ever a friend of the association and of all
the activities of the hospital those assembled
stood in silence remembering the late Mrs. H.
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S. Sharpe. Miss Marjorie McKenzie was the
guest speaker at the dinner and gave a delight.
ful pIcture of the beauty of real service. A
vote of thanks was made by Miss Margaret
Finlayson. A business meeting included the
reading of reports from the different branches
of the association. The following officers were
elected for the coming year: Honorary
President, Miss Birtles; Honorary Vice. Presi.
dent, Mrs. W. H. Shillinglaw; President, Miss
Eva McNally; Vice. Presidents, Mrs. L. Flet.
cher and Miss M. Parsons; Secretary, Miss
Dorothy Longley; Treasurer, Mrs. M. Long:
Committees: Registrar, Miss C. Macleod:
Press, Miss Helen Morrison; Cook.books,
Mrs. A. Kains; Sick Visitor, Mrs. J. R. Fisher:
Welfare, MIss E. M. Higgens; Social and
Programme, Mrs. E. Hanna; Private Duty,
Mrs. L. Fletcher and Miss Isobel Knox.
SAINT BO?-;IFACE: The Saint Boniface
Alumnae Association entertamed at a silver
tea on May 19, when Miss K. McCallum,
president of the association, received the many
guests. The committee in charge of a
rangf'
ments were Miss Ellen Banks, convener, Miss
s
J. Williamson, Anne Nelson, Stella Madill,
Margaret Spooner, Charlotte Dermody.
Assisting in the tea room were: Mrs. J. D.
Adamson, Mrs. Gordon Fahrni, Mrs. C. R.
Rice, Mrs. S. Herbert, Mrs. E. Dwyer, M,s.
A. P. McKinnon, Mrs. L. D. Collin, Mrs. P.
Ray, Mrs. J. Williamson, Mrs. T. Spooner.
Mrs. W. McCallum, Miss E. Shirley.
MARRIED: On June 1, in St. John's Cathe.
dral, Winnipeg, Edna March (S.B.H. 1932),
to Mr. Earl Grey. Mr. and Mrs. Grey will
reside in Winnipeg.
WINNIPEG: The annual commencement
exercIses of the Winnipeg General Hospital
School of Nursing took place on May H,
when sixty.six young women received their
diplomas at a very impressive and beautiful
service. Archbishop Matheson pronounced
the invocation and Mr. C. S. RIley, President
of the Winnipeg General Hospital Board of
Trustees, presided, and welcomed the large
number of friends and relatives present. Al.
derman Margaret McWilliams addressed the
graduates and compared them to the pioneers
of the Red River. Dr. George Stephenc;,
medical superintendent of the Hospital, intro,
duced the members of the class, Mr. Ril
y
presented the diplomas, and Miss K. W. Ellis
the medals. HIghest honors were given the
following members: Miss Marjorie Dyck
received the McTavi
h,CdmpbeIl scholarship
for general proficiency; Miss Willa Muirhead,
the Alumnae award for practical nursing, and
Mis
Elva Honey, the H.E. Sellers scholarship
for highe
t
tanding. The Baccalauredte
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327
Service for the members of the 1934 graduat.
ing class of the Winnipeg General Hospital
was held on May 27 at Holy Trinity Church,
when the class attended in uniform. The
members of the class were guests of honor at
a dinner given on May 29 by the Alumnae
Association. The guest speaker for the occa'
sion was Mrs. Stuart Langille, Miss Helen
Ross, president of the 1934 class. replying.
Miss K. W. Ellis, superintendent of nurses,
gave a farewell address to the class. which was
replied to by Miss Marjorie Dyck. Miss
Beaulah Bourns. who has been in a mission
hospital in Korea. has recently been sent to
Manchuria where she is doing public health
work as well as teaching the native nurses at
the Lungchingtsun Hospital. Miss Lucy Junod
who, before her recent furlough was at Tan.
ganyika. East Africa, has left to resume her
work, this time going far inland to French
Equatorial Africa where she will open a mis.
sion dispensary.
\\'I
NIPEG: The graduation exercises of
the School of Nursing of the Children's Hos.
pital of Winnipeg were held on May 30,
when sixteen nurses received their diplomas
and awards. Mrs. Fred Bawlf. president of
the board, presided. and with her on the
platform were: Mrs. E. C. Harte, Mrs. John
Bracken. Mrs. J. H. R. Bond (founder of the
hospital), Miss M. B. Allan (supeintendent
of nurses), Dr. Bruce Chown (president of
the medical statT), Rev. G. A. Woodside. Rev.
H. M. Pearson and Dr. G. S. Williams. Dr.
Chown delivered the address to the graduates
and the Rev. H. M. Pearson spoke of the
spiritual influence a nurse may have on her
patients. The diplomas were presented by
Mrs. John Bracken. and Mrs. E. C. Harte
presented the following pn
es: The Mary
W alker pri
e for general proficiency, to Mis,;
Reavely James; pri
e in theory (semor divI'
s.on). gIven by the St. Agnes Guild, to Miss
Cora Collen; pri
e in theory (junior division).
gIven by the McKinnon Guild, to Miss Isla
Iverach; and the pri
e for charting. given by
Mrs. McArthur, in memory of Dr. Campbell
McArthur. to Miss Doris Henderson.
WINNIPEG: The last meeting of the sea
on
was held by the Alumnae Association of the
School of Nursing of the Children's Hospitdl
on May 8 and took the form of a socldl
evemng. It was decIded to donate $10.00 rer-
year, for a period of five years, to the Nightin-
gale Memorial Foundation Fund. The Asso.
ciation held a dinner recently III honor of the
1934 grad udting clas
. The toast to the
gradudtes WdS given by Mi:>s A. McAuley and
replied to by Mi
s Dafoe. The toast to Mi
1\lldll, our superintendent, and the school Wd:-
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
iven by Mrs. Wilson. and replied to by Miss
Allan. Entertainment was provided by two
little girls in costume dances. a singer and
elocutionist. The only regret of the evening
was that Mrs. Bond. founder of the hospit:ll.
was ill and unable to attend.
WINNIPEG: The graduating exercises of tne
School of Nursing of the Misericordia Hos'
pital took place on May 16. when thirty'two
nurses received their diplomas. The following
medals were awarded as priz.es for proficiency
in special subjects: Theory of nursing to Miss
Peters. presented by Dr. Beaton; surgical
nursing, to Miss Ballantyne, by Dr. J. D.
McEachern; medical nursing to Miss Bald,
win, by Dr. H. F. Murdotf; general profi,
ciency, to Miss Paquin, by Dr. James Mc'
Kenty; practical nursing, to Mi
s Ego, by Dr.
F. C. Brereton; obstetrics, to Miss Shewcz.uk,
by Dr. Claud McRae. Dr. Beaton gave the
address to the graduat'ng class. The members
of the Alumnae entertained recently in hon,>ur
of the 1934 graduates. The toast to the King
was proposed by Miss A. Bannatyne. Miss
Mary Lang proposed the toast to the gradu,
ates, and gave encouraging advice to those
starting forth in their new profession. In
responding for the class, Miss Mary Ego
expressed the appreciation of the graduates
for the honor accorded them. The toast to
Alma Mdter was proposed by Miss A. Nickel,
to which Miss Rolande M. Paquin replied.
Miss Blain proposed the toast to Miss Geor-
gina Thompson, assistant superintendent ùf
nurses, which was enthusiastically received.
Following is the list of graduates: Jessie Bald,
win, Dorothy M. Ballantyne, Doris Carlson,
Margaret Currie, Mary J. Ego. Mary !-J.
Grier, Lee Holochuk, Emily M. Hopkins,
Evelyn M. Henderson, Elsie L. Hollingurn,
Astrid M. Johnson, Sylvia P. Kelly, Elsie D.
La Boutillier, Rosalie Lasko, Adrienne D.
Morton, Heather J. Munroe, Lillian M. Me'
Kellar, Elizabeth E. Mcivor, Audray Oke,
Isobel H. Pickett, Julia Pariseau, EIÜabe:h
Peters, Eileen T. Ross, Helen T. Smith, Esther
Sutherland, Mollie Whiteside, Rolande M.
Paquin, Margaret Barker, R. Shewcz.'.Ik,
Gladys Swain, Ada Whicher, Myla G. Sando.
WIN NIPEG: A maternal care institute was
held on May 30 and 31, in the University of
Manitoba, under the auspices of the Mani-
toba Association of Registered Nurses, and
the supervis:on of the Victorian O. der ,"}f
Nurses. The classes dealt with pre'natal,
delivery, and post'partum care, the latter
including practical demonstrations.
NEW BRUNSWICK
MONCTON: The graduating exercises of
the Moncton Hospital Training School were
held on May 12, when thirteen nurses received
their diplomas. Class pins were presented by
Miss MacMaster, superintendent of nurses,
and flowers by Mrs. Givan, president of the
Ladies' Hospital Aid. Dr. W. A. Ferguson
addressed the graduating class. Among the
priz.es prescnted was a case of instruments
given by the local chapter of the N .B.A.R.N.,
and won by Miss Mary E. McLean for highest
marks in theory of nursing. At the conclusion
of the exercises the graduates and their friends
were entertained at a reception. On May 14
a dinner was given by the members of the
local chapter for the graduating classes of
1932, 1933 and 1934.
SAINT JOHN: The graduating exercises of
the class of 1934 of the Training School of
the Saint John General Hospital took place on
June 7, with Mr. M. E. Ager, M.L.A., preSl'
dent of the Board of Commissioners, presiding.
Mr. Ager presented the diplomas to the
twenty'one graduates and Miss Murdoch.
superintendent of nurses, presented the school
pins. Miss Charter, the valedictorian, won
the Alumnae Association priz.e for highest
marks, the Women's Hospital Aid prize for
obstetrics and also the Ela McGaffigan priz.e
for thco: y and practice of nursing. Mic:
Roberts won the Saint John Medical Society
prize for the second highest marks and al..o
Dr. Addy"s prize for surgery. Vocal solo
were rendered by Miss Louise Knight and Mr.
Murray Thomson, and Dr. Roberts and the
Rev. Canon Young addressed the class.
SAINT JOHN: The executive committee of
the New Brunswick Association of Registert'd
Nurses met in Moncton on May 21 and made
plans for the annual meeting to be held in
Saint John, September 11 and 12. The Sdint
John Chapter of the New Brunswick Associa'
tion of Registered Nurses met at the Saint
John General Hospital with Mrs. Van Dorser,
vice'president, in the chair. A discussion of
eight,hour duty followed the usual business
session. The private duty section met with
Miss Haz.el Reicker in the chair. A paper on
the private duty chapter of the Weir report
was read by Miss Vivian Colpits. Miss Martina
Wallace addressed the meeting, showing ways
that the unemployed may be helped. The
advertising. of hourly nursing was discussed
and a social hour followed. Under the COIl-
venership of Mrs. G. L. Dunlop the gradu-tt,
ing c:ass of 1934 of the Saint John General
Hospital were guests of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation at a dinner, bridge and dance on J U:1e
5. Miss Eli
abeth Robinson Scovil, of whom
her native province of New Brunswick IS
justly proud and who is heralded as the olde!>t
graduate nurse in North America, wai chief
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speaker at a meeting of the South Carolina
Nurses Association, held recently in Green-
vil!e. S.C. Miss Scovil, who spent the winter
at Greenville, is now visiting friends in
England. Miss Belle Howe, matron of The
Home for Incurables, spent a very enjoyable
vacðtion visiting friends in England.
MARRIED: On April 19, 1934, at Montreal,
Miss Margaret Barnes of Saint John, to 11r.
James H. Payne, of Toronto. Mr. and Mr
.
Payne will reside in Capreol, Onto
MARRIl:.D: On April 26, 1934, Miss Jean
Giggey (S.J.G.H.), to Mr. Robert G. White.
Mr. and Mrs. White wil1 reside in Millidge-
ville.
ST. STEPHEN: The St. Stephen Chapter of
the N.B.A.R.N. was held on May 9, the
president, Miss McMullen, presiding. The
sum of ten dollars was voted from the regIs-
tered nurses and alumnae associations for the
Nightingale Memorial Fund. Miss Myrtle
Dunbar was appointed official delegate to the
annual meeting in September. Fortunes were
read by our professional cup-reader, Miss Mc'
Mullen. Much sympathy is extended to Miss
Helen Boone in the passing of her mother,
Miss Flo
ence Cunningham has returned to
St. Stephen and is convalescing at the home
uf Miss Myrtle Dunbar. Congratulations are
extended to Misses Doris and Bertha Gal
,
McMakin, Ellingwood, Harvey, Dow and Mrs.
R. D. Bartlett on successfully passing the
registration examinations. The regular meeti.1g
of the C.M.H. Alumnae met on May 31 with
the president, Miss Dunbar, in the chair. The
sum of thirty dollars was voted towards the
graduation reception and dance.
WOODSTOCK: The regular monthly meeting
of the Alumnae A
ociation of the L. P. Fisher
Memorial Hospital was held on May 15. l\
successful dance under the auspices of the
Alumnae Association of the L. P. Fisher
Memorial Hospital was held on May 29. The
gue
t were received by the president, Mrs.
Harry Dunbar, and Miss Tulloch, superinten-
dent of nurses.
ONT ARlO
DISTRICT 1
WINDSOR: District 1 R.N.A.O. meeting was
held on April 28 at the Hôtel Dieu, Windsor,
with one hundred and fifty in attendance.
Nurses from London, Chatham, Sarnia and
other points in Western Ontario registered.
Miss Mildred \\' alker of London was in the
chair and after the invocation by the Rev.
H. M. Pauhu, an address of welcome wa
given by Mayor Croll. Rev. F. Bordeau spoke
on need for nurses to co-operate with one
another with doctors and patients. He urged
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329
all nurses to attend meetings of Nurses Asso-
ciations and closed his address with a poem:
"Only a smile, a word, a touch", which can
mean much to all nurses. Dr. McCabe gave
a very helpful address on "Early signs of
Cancer"; he suggested as early means of
recogniÛng the disease, loss of appetite and
dyspepsia, and urged immediate X-rays in
such symptoms. He pointed out that cancer
is not on the increase and one of the impor-
tant duties we have is to prevent people from
worrying lest they may have a cancer; if
anyone thinks he has a cancer encourage him
to see a doctor, for frequently growths be-
lieved to be cancer are not and, if they are.
the mOre quickly they are recognized the
better. Dr. Wigles' talk was devoted to
"Water" and he explained that, while a per-
son may live thirty days without food, he
could not go that long without water. Eighty-
five per cent of the food we eat is water and
everybody should drink at least six glasses a
day. He pointed out abnormal means ot
losing water from the body, through the
skin, the lungs in pneumonia, and described
the means of trying to prevent water loss as
in control of fever by drugs and sponge.
Solos were sung by Mrs. Wm. Dewar, accofTI-
panied by Mrs. Robert Denning, and violin
solos by Miss Dorothy Curtin, accompanied
by Miss M. Marion, student nurse at the
Hôtel Dieu. Following the session the guests
were transported to the Metropohtan General
Hospital where they were the guests of the
staff at high tea, Miss Caroline La Rose being
in charge. The executive were entertained at
lunch by Miss Hoy and Miss Perrin of Wind-
SOr. Each nurse was presented with a jubilee
year book from the Hôtel Dieu.
LONDON: At a recent meeting of the
Ontario Hospital Alumnae Association, Miss
Mary L. Jacobs, M.B.C.N., made a strong
appeal for membership in the R.N.A.O..
especially this year, being the Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario Silver Anni-
versary. A delightful lunch was serv
d.
Misses I. Lindsay and D. Kennedy were hos-
tesses, assisted by Misses F. Burls and L.
Kelly. The Ontario Hospital Alumnae Asso-
ciation held a successful party in aid of
charitable purposes. A large gathering was
in attendance. Prize winners were as follow.;:
Mr. Wm. Jones, Misses Angela Bowers, Doro-
thy Kennedy, Ivy Dean, Mrs. Archie Wright.
Mrs. Nevius, Miss Catherine Nevius, Mi<;s
Jones, Mrs. McDougal, Miss Stevenson.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BR:\NTI-ORD: The graduating exercises of
the Brantford General Hospital School for
Nurses, The Galt General Hospital School
330
THE CANADIAN NURSE
tor Nurses, Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth
and the Women's Hospital, Toronto, took
place on 1 une 2, when twenty' nine nurses
received their diplomas. The address to the
graduating classes was given by Miss E. L.
Smellie, C.B.E., R.R.C., Chief Superintendent
of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Following
the exercises a reception was held and the
graduates made an attractive picture as they
received their friends. The following nurses
received scholarships and prizes: First prize
for general proficiency: Miss Edith Read;
second prize for general proficiency: Miss
Gladys Rodman; scholarship for excellent
practical and executive work: Miss Edith
Read; special scholal ship for excellent pr IL-
tical and executive work: Miss Gladys Rod,
man; Scholarship for obstetrics: Mis" Lorna
Macdonald; scholarship for general prolj,
ciency in intermediate year: Miss Edna L.
Morgenroth; prize for gener
l proficiency in
junior year: Miss Margaret K. Copeland.
Following is the list of the students graduating
from the different schools: Brantford General
HosPital School for Nurses: Dorothy D. Bow.
den, Melita A. Brooke, Dorothy G. Daniels,
H. Mildred Gehman, G. Olwen Jones, Erie
W. Laird, Lorna G. Macdonald, Ed:th H.
Norsworthy, M. Eleanor Irene Patterson,
Margaret R. Pierce, Janet M. Preston, Edith
M. Read, Gladys A. Rodman, Lillian M.
Spence, Ellen M. Widdup, Annie Olivia
Young. Galt General HosPital School for
Nurses: Florence M. Clarke, Florence \V.
Co!e, Kathleen P. Grant, Lydia H. H()ll
y,
Lenore B. Parsons, Helen A. Paterson. Scutt
Memorial Hosþital, Seaforth, School for
Nurses: Evelyn I. Golding, M. Jean Kerr,
L. Kathleen Snider. Women's Hospital. 'To'
ronto, School for Nurses: W. Madeline Hill,
Amelia Moskwa, Bessie Plant, Flossie E.
.f.
Wigclsworth. Among thc visitors who at'
tended the exercises were Miss A. M. Munn,
inspector of schools of nursing for Ontario:
Miss A. Cleaver, superintendent of the Galt
General Hospital, Miss Margaret Wilso:],
superintendent of the Scott Memorial Hos.
pital, Seaforth, and Major H. Aldridge of the
Women's Hospital, Toronto. The Board of
Governors of the Brantford General Hospital
entertained the graduating classes at a delight-
ful dance on June 2, and on June 4, the
graduating classes of the Brantford General
Hospital, Galt General Hospital, Scott Memo.
lial Hospital, Seaforth, and the Women's Hos,
pital, Toronto, were entertained at a banquet
by the Alumnae Association of the Brantford
General Hospital. Miss Florence Westbrook.
Ann Arbour, Michigan (B.G.H., 19:! 1), i,
...pending her vacation in Brantford. Miss W.
Chute, Umversity of Toronto School d
Nursing, was a recent visitor in Brantford.
GUELPH: A meeting of the Guelph G
n'
eral Hüspital Alumnae Association was held
recently, at which Dr. Baugh, of the Hom
'
wood Sanitarium, gave a very interesting talk
on "Progress in the treatment of the mentaHy
ill:' The Guelph General Hospital Alumnae
Association din ner in honour of the 1934
graduating class, was held dunng May. MelT.'
bers of the St. Joseph's Hospital Alumnae
Association recently gave a dinner in honour
of the 1934 grad uating class.
STRATFORD: Miss M. McMaster (Stratford
General Hospital, 193:!), Mrs. K. Snid..r.
(class of 1933), Miss M. Feldpusch (cla
s
of 1933), are tðkmg postgraduate courses <It
the Children's Memorial Hospital, Montreal.
DISTRICT 4
ST. CATHARINES: The quðrtcrly meeting
of District 4, R.N.A.O., was held in St. Cath,
arines on May 18 and was well attended.
representatives being present from Hðmilton.
S1. Catha rines, Niagara Falls and Welland.
The meeting was addressed by Dr. W. K.
Colbeck on the history of the medical pro-
fession in the Niagara peninsula. Miss Helen
Brown, of the staff of the St. Catharin':'
General Hospital, followed with the history
of the nursing profession in the Niagara
peninsula. A wcial hour, at which St. Catha-
rines nurses were hostesses, concluded tl1,:
evening.
HAMIL TON: The graduating exercises of the
training school for nurses, Hamilton General
Hospital, were held on June 1, with Mr. W,
H. Cooper, chairman of the board of gov'
ernors presiding. Addresses to the graduates
were given by Chancellor H. P. Whidden of
McMaster University and Miss E. K. Russell
of the School of Nursing, University of To,
ronto. The university scholarships were won
by Misses Olga Friesen and Irene Mayall.
Other prize winners were: Medicine, Miss
Una Mathews; surgery, Miss Catherine
Wyatt; obstetrics, Miss Gladys Coulthart;
general proficiency, Miss Agnes Scott. The
eventful day was brought to a happy close
by a dance given by the staff. On May :;0
the members of the class were guests of honour
at a charmingly arranged tea given by the
Alumnae A
sociation of the General Hospital.
Mrs. Rose Hess, president of the Associatior!.
Miss Constance Brewster and Miss Clark
received the guests. The Alumnae Association
appointed the following members as represen-
tatives to the Biennial Meeting of the C.N.A.
to be he1d in Toronto: Mrs. Hess, Misses
Merle Watson and Ada Schicfele. Of much
interest IS the appointment of Miss Constan:e
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Brewster as superintendent of nurses in the
Hamilton General Hospital to succeed Miss
Edith Rayside, who recently retired. Mi<;s
Brewster, who is chairman of Dist.i
t 4 of
the R.N.A.O., was fo, merly assistant to Miss
Rayside.
DISTRICT 5
BRAMPTON: The regular spring meeting of
district :; R.N .A.O., was held at Bram1)'
ton on May 19, with a large attendance fro
n
d fferent points including Toronto, Barrie,
Olillia ,1I1d Co!hngwood. The g_ oups arriving
ðt the Pee: Men:orial Hospital were received
by M:ss Mdrgaret Jamieson, the sup
linten-
dent, and conducted over the hospital. Sun
was streaming into all the wards, as the
building has an Ideal situation on the out'
kirts of the town. The Dale Estate had
invited the visitors to inspect their lar
e
plant ðnd everyone enjoyed seeing the row,;
of tall tomato plants with ripening fruit, 111
the long glas,; houses, the ferns, palms and
wonderful orchid!'. We gasped with wonder
and admiration to see hundreds of roses,
carnations and snapdragon stand ng in h
1.{e
vases ready for pack:ng, but \';ere rcnder
d
reechless Vvhen each one of us was handed
a box of one dozen lovely rink ro!'e bud...
One hundred and thirty sat down to tea, and
as the Brampton nurses came in later, there
were one hundred and sIxty at the evening
meeting. Mr. E. McCulloch welcomed the
nurses on b_half of the Council and Mr. E.
B. Graham brought greetings from the Hos'
pital Board. Miss Dorothy Mickleborough,
chairman of District 5, presented tne
report of the last meet1l1g of the Board of
Directors of the R.N.A.O. The following
resolution WCi:. mO\ed by Miss E. McPherson
Dickson, seconded by MIss Millman and car'
ried: "Whereas it has been brought tu the
notice of District 5 that cons'dcratio:1 1<;
being given to proposals tu increase the num'
ber of student nurses and to decrease the
number of graduate nurses in Victoria Hos'
pital, London, be it resolved that the members
of District 5 now in meeting go on reco;d
dS protesting against a policy which would
materially add to the already distressing sur'
plus of nurses with the resulting problems of
unemployment in Ontario, and be it resolved
that a copy of this solutIOn be forward:d
to the Board of Directors of the R.N.A.G.
with a request for action in this matter"
Miss Marion Stewart and her committee h.td
ðrranged an interesting group of papers on
the
ubJect of "Methods of Economy 111
Fields of Nursing," MIss jðmilson said that
by chJ.nging their cu!-tom of bUY1l1g sm:!:1
,lmolmts of supplils at a time to a sy!-tem of
JULY, 1934
331
University of Toronto
SCHOOL OF
NURSING
An accredited school under the
Registration Act of the
Province of Ontario
1. Undergraduate Training
for Nursing.
A three-year course in nursing
which gives preparation for staff
work in both hospital nursing and
public health nursing. This leads
to the School Diploma and pre-
pares for provincial registration
examinations.
2. Courses for Graduate
Nurses.
One-year courses which lead to
certiFicates from the School. Grad-
uate nurses may enrol for èny cne
of the following:
(a) Public Health Nursing (a
preliminary course).
(b) Public Health Nursing (ad-
vanced work in special Fields).
(c) Educational Theory and Prac-
tice, including Psychology, Prin-
ciples of Education, Teaching
Methods.
(d) Pre - M e d i c a I S c i e n c e, a
selection from the subjects of
Chemistry, Biology, Anatomy
and Physiology.
Undergraduates will live in resi-
dence and a certain amount of
residence accommodation wi II also
be available for graduate students.
For further information apply to:-
The Secretary
School of Nursing
University of Toronto
332
THE CAN ADIAN NURSE
larger orders at wholesale prices, they
:ld
reduced cost as well as avoiding sales tdX.
Miss Canon, of the Women's College Hos,
pital, also spoke from the hospital viewpoint.
Miss Anderson, speaking for the private duty
nurse, felt she could assist the patient in
reducing expenditure in many ways such as
economiz.ing in linen, dre:,sings and supplies
and by advising annual health examination >;u
avoid illness. Miss Farquharson, public
health nurse for East York, thought it to be
an economy to have mothers with children
come to her by appointment rather than to
make many home visits. Miss Harmer, Vic-
torian Order Nurse, East York Branch, 1S
convinced that time, and therefore mom'y,
is saved by teaching the family to help with
nursing care. Miss Edna Moore gave a brief
summary of the discussion. A paper on the
preparation and use of the "Hecktograph"
was given, this having been prepared sin.:c
Miss Mickleborough's recent visit to Brant'
ford, where this device is used to make dupli-
cate copies of letters.
TORONTO: The folloWIng news items have
been contributed by the Alumnae Association
of the School of Nursing of the Toronto
General Hospital: Miss Edna McKinnon
( 192 2), has been appointed assistant superin-
tendent of nurses, at the Toronto Hospital for
Consumptives, Weston. Miss Lillian BaIley
(1923), has been given charge of Ward I.,
Toronto General Hospital. Miss Margaret
McKay (1930), has accepted the position of
medical supervisor. Miss Elsie Bain (1920),
is in charge of the third floor, Dunlop
Building, with Miss Frances McGarry (1929),
as her assistant. Miss Grace Frome (1930),
has been appointed assistant head nurse on
Ward G and Miss Kay Gordon ( 1934),
Miss M
rjorie Pick (1933), and Miss Anne
Holgate (1933), have been assigned to the
private wards operating room as assistant
head nurses. Miss Sadie Williams (1926).
has accepted the position of head nurse (",11
the second floor, Dunlop Building, with Mi-;s
Ruth Hunter (1929), as assistant. Miss Mona
Rae (T.G.H. 1929), left in January to take
a position with an Imperial Oil Co. hosplta!
in Peru. Mrs. H. D. Hedley of Moose Jaw.
Sask. (Emily Donald, T.G.H. 1917), received
the O.B.E. for her work in relief and welfare
in the New Year's honour list. A refresher
course, held every Wednesday evening during
March, gave us an opportunity of hearing
four very interesting speakers on the following
topics: Dr. E. P. Lewis, Director Out-Doar
Department, Toronto Psychiatric Hospit11,
"Some Aspects of Mental Hygiene"; Dr. G.
E. Richards, Directo " Depal tment of Radio,
logy, Toronto General HospItal; Miss Bell,
Director, Visiting Housekeepers Association,
"The viÙing housekeeper in co-operation
with the nurse"; Dr. Ja.mes C. Goodwin,
"Racial mixture as a factor in labour:' The<;e
lectures were well attended, and proved to be
most instructive as well as enjoyable.
MARRIED: At Toronto, on December 16,
1933, Miss Merle Bruce (T.G.H. 1926), to
Dr. F. Connall, of Kmgston.
TORONTO: The first annual meeting
of the new Alumnae Association of the School
of Nursl11g of Toronto University was held
on June 5, at the School. As each of the
executive committees of the two previous
alumnae associations, that is, the public health
nurses alumnae association and the hospital
instructors and administrators alumnae aS30-
ciation, had can ied on independently for part
of the year, it was felt wise to have reports
from the standing committees of both sec-
tions. Brief reports were given by the two
pres:dents, Miss Gamble and Miss Jones. An
election of officers for the executive of toe
new year took place. Miss Wickson, of the
staff of the Toronto Public Library, gave Zon
extremely interesting and delightful talk on
the letters of Jane Austen, Jane Carlyle and
KatherIne Mansfield. The meeting was fol,
lowed by an enjoyable social hour.
TORONTO: A general meeting of the Com'
munity Health Association of Greater Ta-
ronto was held on May 14, with Miss Gamble,
the president of the association, presiding. The
purpose of the meeting was to discuss the
different aspects involved in including IdY
and other professional workers in the mem'
bership of the association. Mr. F. Staplefo,'d,
general secretary of the Neighborhood
Workers' Association, gave an ad
re
.; on.
"The RelatIOn of Health in Social Welfare."
Dr. Bell, Deputy Minister of the Province of
Ontario and chairman of the committee on
preventive medicine of the Academy of
Medicine, spoke on, "Ho'v C )011 u it Hedi:h
Organi
ations are fostered in Ontario." Miss
Edna Moore, of the division of nursing In
the provincial department of health, reviewed
the history of organi
ations in other places
attempting to do community welfare work.
Dr. Jacbon, medical officer of health for
Toronto, made a plea to the members to have
the organization of the Community Health
Association remain as it is and presented
reasons why he felt that there was nothing
to gain by change in constitution or policies.
The discussion resulted in the association
deciding to consider two plans of future
action, one without and one w,th the admls,
sion of non-technical membership.
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NEWS NOTES
TORONTO: The graduation exercises of the
Grant MacDonald School of Nursing w
.-c
held on May 30, when eleven students re-
..:eived their diplomas and pT!
e:>. Fullow;n
the exercises, a reception and dance was held
.lI1d a dinner was given recently folluwed by
.1 theatre pa
ty, also in honour of the class.
TORONTO: The graduating exercis::s of !'
.
Michael's Hospital School of Nurs:ng took
pldce on May 16, when sixty,three nurses and
one Si:>ter of St. Joseph received their diplo-
mas and medals. Reverend Father McGarri::y
addressed the g. aduating class. In the evening
the graduating class and their friends were
guests of the Ladies' Auxiliary at a charming
dance. The Alumnae Association entertained
the cla
s at a banquet on MdY 22, wh
n
graduates of other years returned and enjoy
Ù
meeting the Sisters, renewing old a.::quain'
tances, and welcoming the new class. Th
r cd and white caps of the g. aduatlng CLIS"
were very effective and blended with the r.:d
tulips and roses, decorating the attra.ti',;e
tables.
lisc; Ma
garet Kelman has returned
tu Toronto after spending the winter In
Floïida. La
t December Mi...s Kelman resigned
from the St. Ebabeth Visiting Nurses }\.S50-
..:iation, after serving for over a quarter uf a
..:entury. Miss Kelman is one of the early
g.aduates of the Mack Training SchooL St.
Catharines.
M.-\RRII:D: Mis... Helen Turner (St. Mi.
..:hael's Hospital, class of 1933), was married
un March 16. 1934, to Mr. Bruce Dems
.:r,
Toronto.
TORONTO: The graduating class of the
School of Nursing of St. John's Hospital,
Toronto, were entertained at a dinner and
bridge by the Alumnae Association on May
30, at the Windsor Arms Hotel.
TORONTO: The twentieth W el" e...ley gradu.l'
tion exercises touk place on June 1. when
thirteen gl aduates were favoured with a beau'
tlful day to make their garden party a perfect
event to rememher through life. Later m the
month vanuu... entertainment:> are being given
fur these new nurse!', one bemg a dance dt
the Old Mill, given by the Alumnae A..soci.1'
tion. The \Vellesley graduates held a dance
in January which was very succe..sfuL
he
rroceed
being uc;ed for sick benefit.
MARRII:D. In May, 1934, Durio. Stuke...
(\V elle
ley Hospit.ll, Toronto), to Doctor
Carrol, Stiner, Ontario.
TORONTO: The graduating eXl'Tc;ses uf
Ri"crdale Hu
rital were held on June 7 when
e;ght nurses received diplumas and pri7.es were
.lwa
dcd to the following: The Gordun P.
J ack...on pri
e for general profi..:iency. to Mi-"
Ruth \\'all.\ce: pnze for pr.lCtI..:.d nur"l
g.
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Experienced
urses know that thesc famous
English powders are ideal for fretful bables-
durinp: teething-to relieve feverishness and
constipation-whenever a safe and gentle laxa-
tive is needed. Free samples gladly suppliec1,
also copies of concise practical booklet, "Hint!'
to :\Iothers." .-\ddr('ss JOH'" SrEED\-IA
& CO., 504 St. r a\Henc{' Blvd.. :\Iontrpal.
awarded by Mr. Rowland, to Miss Edna Mav
Smith; the Riverdale Alumnae Association
prize for highest standing during the course,
to Miss Alice N udds; second highest "tanding
in exammations and neatness in bedside
nursmg, awarded by Mrs. R. B. Hamilton.
to MIss Edna May Smith. The Alumnae
Association recently cnte; tained the class at
a delightful dance.
DISTRICT 6
LINDSAY: The Alumnae Açsociation of the
School of Nursing of the Ross Memorial Has'
pital is startmg on its third year. During the
winter, as well as giving financial assistance
to local relief, we have procured and dis'
tributed cod liver oil. winter underwear.
clothing, mitts and stockings for the needy
children of the town. In April we enjoyed
a pleasant visit from the District 6, R.N.A.G.
during which Dr. F. A. Logan gave a very
instructive address on "\Vork among Crippled
Children:' At the regular May meeting Mrç.
L. Stewart delivered an interesting talk un
Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's wurk in Labrador
After the June meeting, which will be held
at the home of the President, Miss L. Harding,
the ..(Kiety will adjourn until Fall
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
PI:.TERBOROCGH: A meeting of District 6
was held at St. Joseph's Hospital, Peterbo-
rough, on June 1, with a large attendance.
A number of nurses were present from Lind,
say, Belleville, Port Hope, Bowmanville and
Cobourg. An interesting address was givl
n
hy Mr. F. D. Kerr, K.C., on "The nurse and
her problems from the point of view of the
public." Musical numbers were enjoyed awl
ref reshments served by the social committ
of Chapter C.
DISTRICT 10
PORT ARTHUR: Sister Melani, head of
he
school of nursing of St. Joseph's General
Hospital, gave an interesting and instructive
talk on nursing at the regular meeting of the
Registered Nurses Association, District N um-
ber 10, held recently at St. Joseph's Hospit,ll.
Miss Vera Lovelace presided, and several of
the student nurses gave musical selections.
Members of the hospital staff served refresh-
ments.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: The School of Nursing of
Notre-Dame Hospital recently graduated fifty
nurses including .five Sisters. We wish them
every success. Our Registrar, Miss Alice Lé-
pine, R.N., has resigned her position and has
been replaced by Miss Evelyne Gauvin, R.N.
During April and May Dr. Antonio Barbeau
delivered two lectures, the topics of which
were "Physionomy" and "Psychiatry." His
natural and accurate insight into character.
as a mental disease specialist, was greatly ap-
preciated. On May 8 the Reverend Father
Ceslas Forest, O.P., addressed us on "E!I
e-
nics." This meeting closed the annual day
that Catholic Hospitals hold to discuss their
common interests.
The sudden death, on May 15, of nur
most devoted President, Dr. Louis de Lotbi-
nière Harwood, has caused a loss that is
gene.rally grieved. We wish to pay a most
respectful and grateful tribute to his memory.
QUEBEC: Mrs. Melling, former supervisor
of the tuberculosis wing, is now in St. Johns,
Que., where she is engaged in district nursing.
Mrs. Melling's position at the Jeffery Hale
Hospital is being temporarily .filled by Miss M.
Allison.
MARRIED: On June 2, 1934, Miss Ina
Allison (J.H.H. 1929), to Mr. Harry Coles,
of Montreal.
SASKA TCHEW AN
SASkATOON: The School of Nursing of tla..
C:ty Hospital, Saskatoon, held its graduation
exercises on May 18, when twenty,folJr
nurses received the diplomas and pins of the
school. Mr. J. M. Stevenson, K.C., presided,
and Rev. Professor A. S. Orton pronounced
the invocation and benediction. A short
address was given by Mayor J. S. Mills, and
Dr. Andrew Croll, president of the medical
staff, gave the address to the graduating cla
s.
Mr. Leonard Shaw, superintendent of the
hospital, presented the diplomas to the
graduates, and Miss G. M. Watson, Director
of Nurses, presented the pins. Following the
repetition of the Florence Nightingale pledge
by the graduating class, the valedictory
address was given by Miss Beatrice Sanderson.
The Alumnae Association entertained on MJ.Y
21 in honour of the class. Miss G. M. Watson,
honorary president of the Association, and
eighty guests and members were present.
Miss Mary Chisholm, president of the AS3o-
ciation, welcomed the guests and Mrs. L. D.
Anderson delighted those present with a vocal
solo. The toast to "The School" was proposed
by Miss Anne Ferguson and replied to by
Miss Gertrude M. Watson, Superintendent of
the School. An enjoyable reading was given
by Mrs. J. A. Duncan and a piano solo by
Miss Laura Walker. The toast to the class
was given by Miss E. Amas, and the reply by
Miss Jamieson. A toast to "The Absent Mem-
bers" was proposed by Miss M. Chisholm.
The members of the class were guests of
honour at a delightful tea given by Dr. and
Mrs. Andrew Croll and among other social
events was a bowling tournament, when t":le
1935 Juniors were hostesses; a gypsy party
was given by the 1935 Seniors; a theatre
party as guests of the 1936 Juniors, followed
by supper, when Miss G. M. Watson "-",IS
hostess, and a handkerchief shower by the
1936 Senior class. The Student Club enter-
tained at a dance at which Mrs. N. C. Byers,
Mrs. Andrew Croll, Miss M. Chisholm :-:nd
Miss G. M. Watson were patronesses.
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
VICTORIA: Florence Nightingale's birthday
was the occasion for an outing for our club
arranged for by two members: Sisters Hodge
and Franks. The drive from Victoria by way
of the Gorge road, the Island Highway, and
the old Metchosin road was entrancing. As
the road wound its way through the fragrant
pines, one caught glimpses, through the open
spaces, of the deep blue sea, as calm as
glass, bordered by the American coast line
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OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA 335
and the gorgeous snow'capped Olympics,
radiant with the glory of God's sunshine. We
sat down, twenty strong, a merry congenial
group of Overseas Sisters, to do justice to our
"bully beef" sandwiches and other good things
provided by our hostesses. Six o'clock came
all too soon. dnd we reluctantly started for
home. Sister Benvie led the race, with Sister
Louise McDonald a close second, but Sistas
O'Leary (Sterratt), Forbes and Robert30n
(Jack), were not far behind.
LONDOr-< : The London branch of the
Overseas N ursi ng Sisters Association has been
organhed since October, 1926, and our activ'
ities during this year consist of a bridge during
the winter, a picnic in summer, and the Armis,
tice dinner. All Our social affairs have been
fairly well attended, averaging ab a rule
thirty members. It was our happy privilege
to have as our guest of honor, Matron Mc'
Clachy, R.R.C., of Halifax, who has been
the guest of our President, Miss Hubley, and
to offer our own MIss Bertha Smith, O.B.E..
our congratulations on her recent honours.
The officers of the association are: President.
Miss 1. Hubley, Wolsley Barrack, London;
Vice'President, Miss Alice Turner, Westmins'
ter Hospital, London; Secretary, Miss D. M.
A. Birrell, Queen Alexandra Sanatorium,
London; Treasurer, Mrs. Jack Campbell, c/o
Dr. J. Campbell, Westminster Hospital;
Executive, Mrs. J. Hunt: Miss J. Little, Mis"
A. M. Forrest, R.R.C., Miss Bertha Smith,
R.R.C., O.B.E., Mrs. Wilfrid Mare.
OBITUARY
BRITTON-The death o
cur,ed in Toronto,
on May 21. IY34, of Miss Myra Britton,
.l member of the class of 1927 of the
School of Nursing of Stratford General
Ho
pital, Stratford. Onto
McKEAGE-The death occurred on May 31,
1934, at Lennoxville, Que., after a leng
11Y
ill nes
, of Sarah Agnes (MICkey) McKeage
at the early age of twenty'seven years. Miss
McKeage \Va
a memb
r of the class of 1928
of the School of Nur
ing of Jeffery Hale's
Hospital, Quebec.
SHARPE-The death occurred sudden!v,
May 1st, 1934, at Brandon, Mdnitoba,
f
Agnes Houston, beloved wife of Dr. H. S,
Sharpe and a graduate of the Royal Ho..,
pital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scot-
land. Mrs. Sharpe was the first tÇ> advocJ.te
district nursing in Brandon and as a result
of her efforts the child welfare department
has developed. She was an ardent worker
in child welfare, the Ladies' Hospital Aid.
and the Brandon Graduate Nurses Associd-
tion, and will be greatly missed in the com'
munity to which she had endeared herself.
SHINKOD:\-Recently at the Vancou'ler
General Hospital, Mrs. E. Shinkoda, (Chiyo
Kubo). pa!>sed away leaving an infant
daughter. Miss Kubo was born in Ja:-,an
coming to this country when quite young.
She received her preliminary education in
JULY, 1934
Victoria, British Columbia, and graduated
from the School of Nursing of Lamont
Hospital in 1928. After a short period of
practice in this province she returned to
the coast, and in Vancouver gave herscl f
wholeheartedly to the practice of her profes'
sion among the people of her own race. The
news of her death will come as a shock
to many as she was a woman of sterling
qualities and had won the highest este.:P1
among a wide circle of friends in both the
nursing and medical profess:on.
YUILL -On April 9, 1934, at the Toron':o
General Hospital, Jean Yuill, night super'
visor of the Toronto General HospitaL
Miss Yuill graduated from the Glasgow
Training School for Nurses in 1906 .l:1.:l
took postgraduate work in the Women's
Hospital, New York. She served as night
supervi
or in the Knickerbocker Hospi
al.
New York, for one yedr, Idter as night
supervisor in the \\,' omen's Hospital 'lnd
subsequently held the pos:tion of superin'
tendent of nurses in that institution for
two years. She was appointed night super'
vi
or of the Toronto General Hospital on
Nov. 4, 1915 and rendered outstanding
"ervice in that capacity. Miss Yuill is
deeply mourned by her numerous friends
and her nursing colleagues. She is sur'
vived by the Misses Isabel and Elizabeh
Yuill of Lo<: Angeles and hy :vii", Anne
Coleman.
. . . OFF. . . DUTY.
We occas.oMlly interrupt our literary labours . . . and attend a moving
Picture show .. Usually we forget all professioMI cares . . . and suffer our'
selves to be lulled . . . into a pleasant sort of coma . . . by Mick..ey Mouse o-r
a Silly Symphony . . . But occasionally we are roused from our lethargy . . .
when a nurse appears upon the screen . . . Some of the damsels who thus hold
the nursing mirror up to nature . . . can be depended upon to awak..en anyone
. . . out of the soundest sleep . . . and if it be true that the silver screen . .
reflects life as it is lived . . . it may be instructive to watch our own shadows
. . . and listen to our own voices . . . even though the experience . . . may
turn out to be . . . both painful and salutary . . . We have not yet completed
our investigations . . . but a superficial study indicates . . . that according to
Hollywood . . . our principal nursing activities are . . . bringing the doctor
hls hat and coat . . . bestowing melting glances upon a handsome patient
while g
ving him a cooling drink.. . . . with the glass held at an angle . .
which in actual practice . . . would result in most of the liquid . . . POUY-
ing over his manly chest . . . shedding glycerine tears after being chided by
a heartless superintendent . . . being consoled by the chief surgeon . . . and
fainting gracefully over the foot of the patient's bed . . . Somehow all this docs
not resemble our fast experience . . . We have carried many burdens for member"
of the medical profession . . . but always drew the line firmly at their hats and
coats . . . handsome patients seldom came our way . . . the ones we remember
with affection . . . were unshaven and far from beautIful . . . and rather
reminded us of spoiled children . . . Of course there was one never-to-be forgotten
occasion . . . when we had the leading man of the local stodt company . . .
as our very own patient . . . but the glamour faded . . . when we tenden,v
placed his false teeth in a glass of water . . . when he left for the operating room
. . . life is full of these disillusionments . . . 'The only occasion upon which
we nearly fainted . . . cannot be said to have been romantic . . . We managed
to "-noc"- over an irrigator stand . . . to which we had dung in an effort to stic
on our feet. . and thus spilt a purple flood of potassium permangaMte .
all over the operating room . . . the chief surgeon did nothing to console us . . .
either by word or deed . . . all he said was . . . "'T ak..e her out of the w...ty
and mop uþ this mess" . . . We must admit however that some details shown on
the screen are true to life . . . caps are worn at the correct absurd angle . . .
heels are usuaUy hIgh . . . and ma"-e as much noise on the tile floors , . . a'i
they do in real life . . . and there were a few moments in "Men in White" when
the swift, sure team-play of a modern operating room was shown with a breathless
realism . . . but in a flash we were bac"- again . . . handing hats and coats
. . . and being consoled by chief surgeons . . . or pushing wheel chairs . . .
an occupation which does not lend itself to sinuous grace . . . So we went out
into the night . . . dreaming of a scenario which might show nursing as it really
is . ... 'That would be a feature picture . . . Mick..ey Mouse would hide his
diminished head at the sight of it . . . and the board of censors might not lik..e it
. . . but it wouU be melodrama, comedy, tragedy, farce . . . Something teHs
us that sceMrio can never be written . oecause no one but a nurse could'
write it . . . and no nurse ever will . . .
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VOL xxx, No. 7
Official
Directory
International Council of l'iurses:
Secretary, :\liss Christiane Reimann, 14 Quai des Eaux-\ïves, Geneva, Switzerland
Pr
sid
n t
First Vice-Pr
sident ....
Second Vice- Presiden t. .
Honorary Secretary. ..
Honorary Treasurer.
CA
ADIA
URSES ASSOCIA TIO!\!
Officers
...Miss F. H. 1\1. Emory, üniHr
ity uf Turulltu, Torontu 0111.
.. __ ..,.:l\Iiss R. 1\1. Simpson, Parliament Bldgs., Regina, Sas\-,
...........Miss G. 1\1. Bennett, Ottawa Civic Hospital. Ottawa, Ont.
..............Miss Nora Moore, City Hall, Room 309, Toronto, Onto
. l\liss 1\1. Murdoch, St. John General Hospital, Saint John,
.B.
COUNCILLORS AND OTHER ME
BERS OF EXECUTIVE COM
ITrEE
Numerals pruedinu names indicate office held, 1!Ü: (I) President, Pr01l'Încial Nurses Association; (2) Chairman,
Nursinu Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section; (4) Chairman, PrifJate Dutil Section.
Alberta: (I) :\Iiss F. Munroe, Royal Alexalldra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2) Miss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal, Calgary; (3) :\liBB B. A. EmersoIl, 604 Civic
Block, EdmontoIl; (4) :\1ÏB8 J. ('low, 11138-82nd
Ave., Edmontoll.
British Columbia: (1) Miss 1\1. F. Gray, Dept. of
NursiIlg, University of British Columbia, \'allcouver;
(2) Miss L. :\Iitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; (3) Miss 1\1. Duffield, 175 Broad\\ay East,
\"allcouver; (4) Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft !Ilursing
Home, Cook St., Victoria.
Ianitoba: (I)
liss
Iildred Reid, Nurses Residence.
Willnipeg General Hospital, Winnipeg; (2) Sister St.
.-\lbert, St. Joseph's Hospital, Winnipeg; (3) MiBS E.
McKelvey, 603 Medical Arts Building, Winnipeg;
(4) Miss K. :\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Crescent, Nor-
wood.
i\ew Brunswick: (I) Miss A. J. MacMaster, Moncton
Hospital, Moncton; (2) Sister Corillne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) MiB8 Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saint John; (4) MiB8 Mabel Mc-
Mullen, St. Stephen.
'ova Scotia: (I) :\IiBB AnIle Slattery, Box 173,
Windsor; (2) Mrs. Murray :\-lacKay, Nova Scotia
Huspital, Dartmouth; (3) MiB8 A. Edith Fenton,
Dalbùusip Health Clinic, Morris St., Halifax; (4)
MiB8 Christille MacLeod, 97 South Kline St., Halifax.
Ontario: (I) Miss Marjorie Buck, Norfolk Hospitall
Simcoe; (2) Miss S. M. Jamieson, Peel Memoria,
Hospital, BramptoIl; (3)
Irs. AgIleS Haygarth,
21 SUB8ex St., Toronto; (4) Miss Clara Brown, 23
Kendal Ave., Toronto.
Prince Edward Island: (I) Miss Lillian Pidgeon,
Prince Co. Hospital, Summerside, (2) Miss F.
Lavers, Prince Co. Hospital, Summerside; (3) Miss
I. Gillan, 59 Grafton St., Charlotteto\\n; (4) :\fiB8 M.
Gamble, 51 Ambrose St., Charlotteto\\Il.
Quebec: (1) 1\hss C. V. Barrett, Royal Victoria Mater-
nity Hospital, :\fontreal; (2) :\-liss Martha Batson,
:\Iontreal General Hospital, 1\lontreal; (3) Miss
Christine Dowling, 1246 Bishop Street. Montreal;
(4) 1\liss C. 1\1. WaUing, 1230 Bishop Street, Montreal.
Saskatchewan: (I) :\liss Edith Amas, City Hospital.
a.skatooIl; (2) Miss G.
1. Watson, City Hospital,
I"askatoon; (3) Mrs. E. ì\1. Feeny, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament Bldgs., Hegina; (4) :\fiBB M. R.
Chisholm, 805 7th Ave. N., Saskatoon.
CHAIR \1 EN NATIONAL SECTIOr\S
NURSING EDUCATION: 1\liss G. :\1. Fairley, Vancouver
General Hospital, Vancouver; PUBLIC HEALTH: Miss
M.
Ioal!:, 1246 Bishop St., Montreal; PRIVATE
DUTY: MiB8 Isabel MacIntosh, Queenscourt Apt.,
75 Queen St. S., Hamilton.
Executive Secretary:
fiss Jean S. Wilson,
ational Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
Montreal, P.O.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF CANADIA!\ Nt:RSES ASSOCIATIOr\
NURSING EDUCATIOr\ SECTIOi\'
CHAIRMAN: MiB8 G. M. Fairley, Vancouver General
Hospital, Vancouver; VICE-CHAIRMAN: ::\liB8 1\1. F.
Gray, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
SECRETARY:
liss E. F. Upton, Suite 221, 1
96 f't.
Catherine St. West, :\Iontreal; TREASURER: !\Iiss M.
Blanche Andersoll. Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa.
COUNCILLoRs--Alberta: :\liBB J. COllnal, General Hos-
pital, Calgary. British Columbia: Miss L. :\Iitchell,
Royal Jubilee Hospital, \ïctoria. Manitoba: f'ister
t. Albert, St. Joseph's HOl'pital, Winnipeg.
New Brunswick: Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel Dieu,
Campbellton. Nova Scotia: :\Irs. Murray MacKay,
Nova Scotia Hospital, Dartmouth. Ontario: Miss
S. M. Jamieson, Peel Memorial Hospital, Bramptoll.
Prince Edward Island: Miss M. Lavers, Prince
Co. Hospital, 8ummerside. Quebec: !\IiBB Martha
Batson, :\Iontreal General Hospital, Montreal. Sas-
katchewan: MiB8 G. 1\1. Watson, City Hospital.
Saskatoon. CONVENER OF PUBLICATIONS, Miss M.
:\1. Rpid, Winnipeg General Hospital, Winnipe!l:.
PRIVATE DUTY SECTIO
('HURMAN: Miss Isabel MacIntosh, Queenscourt .-\pt.,
75 Queen St. S., Hamilton; VICE-CHAIRMAN: 1\liss
:\label McMullen, Box 338, St. Stephen;
ECRETARY-
TREASURER: Mrø. Rose lIeBS, 139 Wellingtoll St.,
Hamiitoll.
COUNCILLORS: Alberta: :\Iisl! J. Clow. 11138-82nd
Ave., Edmonton. British Columbia: Miss 1\1.
Mirfield, Beachcroft :-.lursing Home, Victoria.
JULY, 1934
Manitoba: Miss K. McCallum, 181 Enfield Creø.,
Norwood. New Brunswick: Miss Mabel McMullen,
t. Stephen. Nova Scotia: Mil's Christille MacLeod,
97 South Kline St., Halifax. Ontario: !\Ii!'!! Clara
BroWIl, 23 Kendal Ave., Toronto. Prince Edward
Island: :\Iiss M. Gamble, 51 Ambrose St.. Charlotte-
tOYon. Quebec: Miss C. 1\1. Watling, 1230 Bishop
f't., :\Iontreal. Saskatchewan: MiBB 1\1. R. Chis-
holm, 805 7th Ave. N., Sa.skatoon. CONVENER OF
Pt"BLICATIONS: Mil!!! Jean Davidson, Paris.
Pl.BLIC IlEAL TH SECTIO!\
CHAiitMAN: MiBB M. :\Ioall:, 1246 Bishop St., :\Iontreal ò
VICE-CHAIRMAN: MiB8 ì\1. Kerr, 946 20th Ave. W.,
Vancouver; SECRETARy-TREASURER: MiBB :\Iary
Mathewson, 464 Strathcona Ave., Weetmount, P.Q.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: Miss B. A. Emerson, 604
Civic Block, Edmonton. British Columbia: :\liB8
M. Duffield, 175 Broadway Eut, \'ancouyer.
\1anltoba: Miss E. :\J r Kelvry, 603 :\froiral Arts
Buildinl!:, \\ïnnippg. New Brunswick: Mil'B Ada
llurns, Health Centre, Saint John. :\ova Scotia:
:\Iil<l< Edith Fenton, Dalhousie Health Clinic. :\1urri!ò'
St., Halifax. Ontario: !\Jrs. .\gnes lIaygarth, 21
Sussex St., Toronto. Prince Ed\\ard Island: :\Iiss
Ian Gillan, 59 Grafton St., CharlottetoYo n. Quebec:
:\Iiss Christine DOYolin
, 124f\ Bishop St., Montreal.
Saskatchewan: :\frs. E. :\1. Feeney. Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament Buildings, Rpp:ina. CON\ ENER
OF PU"LICATIONS: :\fr:!!. .-\gnps II nY!l:arth. 21
uBBex
t. Toronto.
337
338
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of Registered Nurses
President, Miss F. ì\lunroe, Royal Alexanùra
Hospital, Edmonton; First Vice-President, Mrs. de
::5atge, Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary; Second Vice-
President, Miss S. Macdonald, General Hospital,
Calgary; Secretary-Treasurer-Registrar, Miss Kate S.
Brighty, Administration Building, Edmonton; Chair-
men: Nursing Education Section, Miss J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Public Health Section. Miss
B. A. Emerson, 604 Civic Block, Edmonton; Private
Duty Section, MiB8 J. C. Clow, 11l38-82nd Ave.
BRITISH COLU:\1BIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
President, M. F. Gray, 1466 W.14th Ave., Vancouver;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, M. Kerr, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vallcouver; Conveners of Committees: Nursing
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; Public Health, M. Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
Vancouver; Private Duty, Miss M. l\Iirfield, Beachcroft
Nursing Home, Cook St., \íctoria; Councillors, M. P.
Campbell, M. Dutton, L. McAUister, K. Sanderson.
MANITOBA
Manitoba Association of Re
istered Nurses
President,
liss M. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospi tal;
First Vice-President, !\Iiss S. Wright, Metropolitan
Life, Winnipeg; Second Vice-PresideIlt, Miss C. Mc-
Leod, Brandon General Hospital; Third \"ice-President,
Sister Krause, St. Boniface Hospital; Members of
Board: !\Iiss
1. Lang, !\Iiss E. Carruthers, Sister Mary,
:\Iiss K. W. Ellis, l\liss K. !\IcLearn, Miss 1\1. Meehan,
:\fiB8 E. JohnsoIl, Sister St. Albert; Conveners of Sec-
tions: P1,blic Health, :\Iiss E. McKelvey; Private Duty,
Miss K. McCallum; Nursing Education, Sister St.
-\lbert. Conveners of Committee8: Directory, Mifl! J.
Kerr, 74 Cobourg Ave.; Social, :\Iiss S. Pollexfen, !)54
Palmerston Ave.; Sick \"isiting, Miss L. Gray, \ïc-
torian Order of Nurses; Membership, :\Iiss E. Ironside,
Willnipeg General Hospital; Librarian, !\fiss W. Gric'e
and Miss A. Starr, 753 Wolseley Ave.; Press and Pub-
lication, Miss E. Banks, 64 St. Cross St.; Representa-
tive8: Local Council of Women, Mrs. Willard Hill and
Mrs. Emmett D"'yer; Central Council of Social Agen-
eies, Miss F. Robertson; \Ïctoriall Order of Nurses,
:\liss E. A. Russell; Junior Red Cross, Miss E. Parker;
Red Cross Enrolment, :\Irs. J. F. :\1orrison; Executive
Secretary and Rep:istrar, Mrs. Stella Gordon Kerr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Association of Re
lstered Nurses
President,
\liss _-\. J. :\lac:\laster, Moncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First Vice-President, Miss Margaret
Murdoch; Second Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
Kay; Honorary Secretary, Rev. Sister Kenny; Council
Members: :\liss Florence Coleman, Miss H. R. Dyke-
man, Mrs. A. G. Woodcock, Miss Elsie :\1. Tulloch;
Conveners: Public Health Section. Miss Ada A. Burns;
Private Duty Section, :\1iss Mabel -:\lcMullin; Nur8ing
Education Section. Sister Kerr; Committee Conveners:
The Canadian Nurse, Miss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-Laws, Miss S. E. Brophy; Secretary-
Treasurer-Rep:istrar. Miss Maude E. Retallick, 2f\2
Charlotte St. West, Saint John, N.B.
NOVA SCOTIA
Re
lstered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia
President, Miss Anne Slattery, Windsor; First Vice-
President, Miss \ïctoria Winslow, Halifax; Secolld
Vice-President, Miss :\larion Boa, New Glasp:ow;
Third Vice-President. Sister Anna Seton. Halifax;
Recording Secretary, :\frs. Donald Gillis, 123 Vernon
St., Halifax; Treasurer and Rep:istrar, l\lil's L. F.
Fraser, 10 El\Rtern Trust Bldg., Halifa
.
ONTARIO
Re
lstered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1925)
President, MiB8 Marjorie Buck, Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Perey, Room 321 Jackson Bldg., Ottawa; Second Vice-
President, :\-fiss Constance BreVlster, General Hospital,
Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Matilda E. Fitz-
gerald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman, Nurse Educa-
tion Section, Miss S. Margaret Jamieson, Peel Memorial
Hospital, Brampton; Chairman, Private Duty Section,
:\Iiss Clara Brown, 23 Kendal Ave., Toronto; Chairman,
Public H eaith Section, Mrs. Agnes Haygarth, Provincial
Department of Health, Parliament BldJ!s., Toronto;
District No.1: Chairman, Miss Mildred Walker, Insti-
tute of Public Health, London; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\liss Mildred Chambers, Institute of Public Health,
London; Districts 2 and S: Chairman, Miss A. E. Binge-
man, Freeport Sanatorium, I{itchener; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mi
s Edith Jones, 253 Gren",ich St., Brant-
ford; District No.4: Chairman, Miss Constance BreVl-
ster, General Hospital, Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\Irs. Eva Barlow, 211 Stinson St.. Hamilton; District
No.5: Chairman, Miss Dorothy Mickleborough, Pro-
vincial Dept. of Health, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Isabelle Park, 1348 Y onp:e
St., Toronto; District No.6: Chairman, Miss Helen 1\1.
.-\ndersoIl, 709 \Vater St., Peterboroup:h; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Dorothy MacBrien, Nicholls Hospital,
Peterborough; District No.7: Chairman, Miss Louise
D. Acton, General Hospital, Kinp:stoIl; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Olivia Wilson, General Hospital,
Kingston; District No.8: Chairman, Miss M. Blanche
Anderson, Otta",a Civic Hospital, Ottawa; Secretary-
Miss A. G. Tanner, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa;
Treasurer, Miss Mary Acland, Strathcolla Hospital,
Ottawa; District No.9: Chairman, Miss Katherine
:\1"acKenzie, 155 Second Ave. \V., North Bay; Secretary-
Treasurer, l\liss Robena Buchanan, 197 First Ave. E.,
North Bay; District No. 10: Chairman, !\fiss Vera
I,ovelacp. 3 \Yiley Rd.. Port Arthur; Secretary-Treas-
urer, Miss Ethel Stewardson, McKellar General
Hospital, Fort William.
District
o. 8 Re
istered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, !\fiss 1\1. B. Anderson; \'ice-Chairman,
Miss J. L. Church; Secretary, Miss A. G. Tanner,
Ottawa Civic Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M. E. Acland;
Councillors, :\Iisses G. Clarke, A. Ebt.s, :\1. Graham,
E. C. McIlraith. C'. C. Murray, 1\1. Slinn; C'onveners
of Committees: Memhership, Miss G. Clarke; Publica-
tions, :\Iiss E. C. McIlraith; Nursing Education, -:\fiss
C. C. Murray; Private Duty, :\fiss J. L. Church; Public
llealth, Miss II. O'-:\'1eara.
District :-':0. C) Re
lstered I\urses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, :\Iii<s K. :\laI"Kcnzip; \ïep-Chairman,
:'olrs. .T. :\lcCallsland; Serrctary-Trpai<urpr, -:\Ii
s n.
Huc'hanan, Hlï First .-\venup E.. Xorth Bay; Coun-
cillor
: Rev. Sister Felidtas. :\lis!'es .T. Smith, F.
))oc.kpr, :\1. Carson, E. Tromblry, A. Quinlan.
District No. 10 Re
lstered Nurses Association
of On tarlo
President, Miss V. Lovelace, Vice-President, Miss M,
HamiltoIl; Secretary Treasurer, Miss E. Stewardson,
McKellar General Hospital, Fort William; Councillors:
l\liss Jane Hogarth. Miss M. Wallace, Miss C. Lemon,
:\Iiss C. Chivers Wilson, Mis!' Flannigan, Miss Irene
Hibditch.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Re
istered Nurses
Association
President, Miss Lillian Pidp:eon, Prince Co. Hospital,
Rummerside; \Ïce-President, Miss :\1. King, Charlotte-
town Hospital; Secretary, Miss M. Campbell, 8 Grafton
St., Charlottetown; Treasurer and Registrar,
fiss
Edna Green, 257Y2 Queen St., Charlottetown; Nursing
Education, Mis
M. Lavers, Prince Co. Hospital,
RUlllmerside; Public Health, Miss I. Gillan, 59 Grafton
St., Charlottetown; Private Duty, Miss :\1. Gamble, 51
4.mbrose St., Charlotteto\\n; Representative to The
C'anadian Nurse, :\liss Anna Mair, P.E.I. Hospital,
Charlotteto", n.
QUEBEC
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
339
Association of R
18tered r...UrBes of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
_-\dvisory Board: Misses Mary Samuel, Mabel F.
Hersey, C. :\1. WatliIlg, Rév. Mère 1\1. Y. Allaire, Rév.
:5oeur Ste. 19idora; President, Miss C" V. Barrett,
Royal Victuria :\lontreal :\Iaternity Huspital; \'ice-
President (English), :\liB8 M. L. Muag, Victorian Order
uf Nurses, 1246 Bishop :St., l\lontrea!; Vice-President
(French), Rév. Soeur Allard, Hôtel-Dieu de St. Joseph,
)1:oIltreal; Hon. Secretary, MiB8 Esther Beith, Child
Welfare Association, Forum Bldg., Montreal; Hon.
Treasnrer, lVliB8l\1. E.
ash, Yictorian Order of Nurses,
1246 Bishop St., :\Iontreal. Other Members: :\liB8
:\label K. Holt, The Montreal Gelleral Hospital,
:\Iademoiselle Edna Lynch. NursiIlg Supervisor, :\Ietro-
politan Life Insurance Co., Montreal, Rév. ::O:oeur Ht.
Jean de I'Eucharistie, Hôpital Notre Dame, :\Iontreal,
:\liss Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate Nurses,
:\lcGill University, :\lontreal, Mademoiselle .-\lexina
:\larchessault, Ecole d'Hygiène Social Appliquée,
Université de :\Iontreal. Conveners of Sections: Private
Duty, (English), :\Iiss C. ;\1. Watlin
, 1230 Bishop St.,
:\Iontreal; Private Duly (French), :\Iademoiselle Alice
L('pine, Hôpital
otre Dame. l\lontreal; Nursing Edu-
cfltion (Emdish), :\Iiss :\lartha Batson, The :.\Iontreal
General Hospital, :\Iontreal; Nursing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur .-\uguetine, Hôpital St. Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Health, Miss Christine
Dowling, Victorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.,
:\luntreal; Hoard of Examiners, ì\liss Olga V. Lill}
(Convener), Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Hos-
pital, ì\liss !\Iarion Lilldeburgh, School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, :\Iolltreal; :\liss Katherine
MacN. ì\lacLennan, _-\lexalldra Hospital, l\lontreal;
ì\lelle. Edn.a LYIlCh, 4642 rue St. Denis St., Montreal;
:\1f'1I('. :\Iarie Anysie Déland. Instit ut Bruchési, :\Iont-
réal; :\1('lle. A. :\larehessault, 32.'i6 a\"t'nue Larombe,
:\Iuntrl'al; Ex('cutive Spcretary. Rf'p:istrar and ()ffieial
Sehool \'isitor, :\Iio;" E. Franees l'pton, Room :?:?I,
l:m6 St. Catherine Sl. \\'., :\Iontn'al.
SASKA TCHEW.\
Saskatchewan Re
lstered Nurses Association
(Incorporated :\-1 arch, 1917)
President, Miss Edith Amas, City Hospital, :-:aska-
toon; First Vice-President, Miss Ruby :.\1. :::iimpsolI,
Department of Public Health, Regina; Second \ïce-
President, Miss Helen B. Smith, General Hospital,
Regina; Councillors, Miss Jean McDonald, 1122 Rae
St., Regina, MiB8 Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
Moose Jaw; Convener8 of Standing Committees: Nursing
Education, :\'Iiss Gertrude 1\1. Watson, City Hospital,
Sa.skatoon; Public Health, Mrs. E. 1\'1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Public Health, Regina; Private Duty, l\liss
1.
R. Chisholm, 805-7th _-\ve. N., Saskatoon; Legislation,
:\Iiss R. 1\1. Simpson, Regina; Secretary-Treasurer and
Registrar, !\Iiss \Iargaret Ross, 45 4.ngus Crescent,
Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate r...urses
Hon. President, Dr. II. .-\. Gibson; President, Miss
P. Gilbert; First Vice-President, :\Iiss K. Lynn; Second
\ ice-President, :\liss F. Shaw; Recurding and Actinl!:
Corresponding Secretary, :\Irs. F. V. Kennedy, 1307
First St. W.; Treasurer, Mil!8 !\I. Watt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate
ur8es
President, ì\1iB8 Ida Johnson; First \'iC'e-President,
:\Iiss Turner; Second Vice-President, :\Iiss O'Brien;
Hecording and Correspollding Sec.-retary, :\Iiss \'iolet
Chapman, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton;
Treasurer, :\Iiss Gavin; Rel!:istrar, :\liB8 Sproule, 11138
Whyte Ave., Edmontoll.
Medicine Hat Graduate Nurses Association
President, Mrs. J. Keohane; First Vice-President,
:\Irs. :\1. Tobin; Second Vice-President, l\liss ì\1. Gil-
christ; Secretary, :\Iiss A. :\lcI eod, 2 Diana Court;
Treasurer, Miss F. Smith; Committee Conreners:
:\Iembership, :\Iiss A. AUan; Flower, 1\lrs. W. Fraser;
Private Duty Section, :.\Irs. Chas. Pickering; Correspon-
({pnt, The Canadian Nurse, Mi
s M. Hal!:erman.
BRITISH COLU
fßIA
Nelson Graduate Nurses Association
Hun. President, !\fiBS V. B. Eidt, Acting Superinten-
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital; President
:\Iiss K. Gordon; First Vice-President, l\liss :\1. Mad-
den; Second \'ice-President, :\liss R. Archibald; Secre-
.
:Treaeurer, Miss EdIla Fraser, Box 1105, Nelson,
Vancouver Graduate Nurses Association
President, ì\lrs. \Vestman, 800 CBBllair St., Vancouver'
First Vice-President. Miss Jane Johnstone,
teve,.ton:
RC.; Second Vice-President, !\Ii",,! E. Berry, St. Paul's
Ho!!pital; ReC'retary, :\liss F. \Valker, \"anrouver Gen-
eral Hospital; Treasurer, :\Iiss L. Archibald, 536 West
12th Ave.; Council, :\Iisses K. Sanderson, I\:ilburn, G.
M. Fairley, Wismer and l\1. F. Gray. Finance. l\liss
Teulon, 1385 West 11th Ave.; Directory, :\Iiss K.
:\Iotherwell, 194 7 West 10th Ave.; Social. !\IiB8 A. J.
Mad eod, Vancouver General Hospital; Proll;ramme,
:\fiRs B. Donaldson,
t. Paul's Hospital; Sick Visitinp:,
:\Ii!ls C. Cooker. Vancouver General Hospital; :\Ielll-
bership, Mrs. Blankenbach, 1816 West 36th Ave.;
Local Coullcil of Women, :\Iisses Duffield and Gray;
PreS8, 1\1rs. E. Simms, Yancouver General Hospital.
Victoria Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. Presidents, Miss L.
litcheU, :::iister :::iuperior
Ludovic; President, 1\liss E. J. Herbert; First \'ice-
President, 1\liss ì\1. :\Iirfield; I'econd \'ice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Kirkness; Secretary, :\Iiss 1. Hplgesen;
Trea.surer, l\liss W. Cuoke; Registrar, :\Iiss E. Franks,
1035 Fairfield Road, \'ictoria; Exp('utive Committee,
:\lrs. E. B. Strachan, :\fiss E. :\1 (.Donald, :\liss r
Kenny, :\Iiss E. Cameron, :\1iss D. Frampton.
\lANITOBA
Brandon Graduate Nurses As
oclatlon
Hon
President, :\liB8 E. Birtles; Hon. \'ice-Pr"!lident,
:\lrs. W. Shillingla\\; President, Miss E. G. 1\lcNally;
First Vice-President, !\Iiss Janet Anderson; Second
\'ice-President, !\Irs. Lula Fletcher; Secretary, Miss
Jel!8ie Munro, 243 12th St.; Treasurer, !\frs. :\1. Long;
Conveners of Committee8: Rocial and Programme, :\frs.
Eldon Han
ah; Sick and \'isitinp:, Mrs. Rowe Fisher;
Welfare, MIB8 Gertrude Hall; Prel!8 Reporter. Mis!!
Helen ì\lorrisoIl; Cook Book, !\Irs. J. 1\1. Kains'
Registrar, :.\liM C. M. Macleod. '
QUEBEC
Graduate Nurses Association of the .'astt>rn
To\\nshlps
lIun. President, l\IiR8 \'. Heane; President, Miss E.
Bean; Vice-President, :\Iiss G. D"aine; Corrp!lponding
:-:eeretary, !\I iss F. \\. ardle" orth: Re('ordi nl!:
ecretary,
Miss Harvey; Treuurer, Mis" :\Iarl!:!\rpt Hobins-
Repreeentativp to The Ca"adian Nurse, 1\1 iB8 C. Horn;
by, Box 324, Sherbrooke, Representati,'e, Pritattl Dllty
Section, MiM E. MorriB8ette.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
SASKA TCHEW AN
MUNTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Miss L. C. Phillips; PresideIlt, Mil!s
Christille Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First Vice-Presi-
dent, MiB8 G, AllisoIl; Second Vice-President, Mrl!. A.
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Registrar,
Miss Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrar,
Miss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar, :\oliss H. l\1.
Sutherland; Convener Griffinto\\n Club, Mil!s G.
Colley. Regular Meeting, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, October and December
l\loose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Mrs. M. Young; President, i\-liss
R. Last; First 'ïce-President, MiB8 C. Kier; Secolld
\ïce-President, Mrs. \V. Metcalfe; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss J. Moir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; Conveners
of Committees: Nursing Education, Mrs. M. Young,
Sr.
1ary Raphael, Miss E. Jensen; Private Duty, :\Iiss
E. Wallace, Miss E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, Miss
J. Casey; Public Health. Registrar, Miss C. Rier; Pro-
gramme, Miss G. Taylor; Sick Yisiting, Miss L. Trench;
Social, Miss M. ArmstroIlg; Constitution and By-Laws,
Miss E. Lamond; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss M. Gall; Press Representative, 1\Irs. J.
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA MANITOBA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ary
President, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-President, Miss
A. Willison; Recording Secretary, Miss E. Thorn;
CorrespoIldiIlg Secretary, Miss P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, Miss S. Craig; Honorary l\lembers, Rev. Soeur
St. Jean de I'Eucharistie, Miss M. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. :\olunroe; President, :\o1iss K.
Brighty; Vice-Presidpnt, l\-lis" I. Johnson; Second Vice-
President, Miss E. :\Iillpr l\-lc:\lanus; Secretary, Miss
L. Einarson; Corresponding Secretary, :\Iiss G. Mc-
Diarmid; Treasurer, l\Iiss A. Oliver; Committee Con-
vener8: Programme, 1\li
s G. Allyn; Social, :\oliss V.
Kelly l\-lcNei.; Sick Visiting, Mis:" J. 1\IuIlI'0; ::\If'mber-
ship, :\liss
1. Cullerne.
A.A. University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President,
liss E. Fenv.-ick; President, Miss
l\1. Reed; First Vice-President, :\lil!s L. Gourlay;
Second Vice-President, :Vliss B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss A. Revell; Correspollding Secretary, Miss
D. Duxbury, University Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M.
Rowles, University Hospital; Executive, Misses M.
Gordon, I. Ross, A. Baker,
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, :\lrs. A. E. Archer; Pre"ideIlt, :\Irs.
H. I. Love; Vice-PresideIlt, Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss F, E. Reid, lOO9-20th Avenue, W.,
Calgary; Convener, Social Committee, Mrs. R. f'hears.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. ''ice-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, Miss B.
Geddes; Vice-President, Miss R. McKernan; Secretary,
:Vliss F. Treavor, Assistant Secretary, Miss V. Dyer;
Treasurer, MiB8 B. Muir; Executhe, Misses M. l\lc-
DOllald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, S. Christie,
R. McGillivary, K. McDonald.
A.A., Vancouver General Hospital
President, Miss M. Lunan; First Vice-President,
:\Irs. C. H. C. Bell; Second Vice-President, Mrs. K.
Craig; Secretary, Miss I. Collier; Correspollding Secre-
tary, Miss K. Heaney, Vancouver General Hospital;
Committee Conveners: Programme, Miss A. Croll.
Membership, Miss V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; Refreshments, Miss J. Hunter; Press, Mrs. G. E.
Gillies; Treasurer and Bonds, Miss Geary, 3176 Wpst
2nd Ave.; Representative, V.G.N.A., Miss Rhodes.
Royal
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
HOIl. Prpsident, :\Ii"s L. :VIitcheU; PresideIlt, :\Iiss
.L Moore; First ''ice-President, Mrs. Yorke; Second
\ïce-President, :\Iiss M. :\Iirfield; Secretary, Mrs. -\.
Dowell, 30 Howe St.; Assistant Secretary, :\liss C. :\1.
(;0"; Treasurer, l\Iiss J. Ste\\art; Elltertainment Com-
mittee, :\Irs. Russell; Sick
urse, Miss E. Xewman.
A.A., Children's Hospital, Winnipe
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss M. B. Allan; Prer!Îdpnt, Miss
Catherine Day; First Vice-Pre!\ident, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, MiB8 W. M. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M. D. Hughes; Sick ''isitinp:,
'\fiSB Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, Mrs. Geo. Wilson.
A.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
HOIl. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, Miss K
!\IcCallum, 181 Enfield Cr., Norwood; First Vice-
President, l\liss H. Stephen, 15 Ruth Apts., Maryland
St., Winnipeg; Second 'ïce-President, Miss M. Madill,
St. Boniface Hospital; Secretary, Miss J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hospital, Winnipeg; Treasurer, Miss E.
Shirley, 14 King George Ct., Winnipeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (Convener), 64 Cross St.,
Winnipeg, Miss J. Williamson, Miss A. NelBoIl; Sick
Visiting Committee, Miss T. Grellville (Convener), 211
Hill St., Norwood; Miss K. Rowan, Miss J. Greig;
Press Representative, Miss B. Altman, 420 College
Ave., \Vinnipeg; Representatives to Local Council of
'Vomen, :\1iss B. Altman (Convener), !\Iiss B. Chandler,
Miss M. Spooner.
A.A., Winnlpe
General Hospital
Hon. Prp"ident, Mrs. .-\. W. :\loody, 97 -\sh f't.;
Plesident, :\Iiss E. Parker, :::;te. 23, Carlyle .-\pts., ,')80
Rroad\\ay; First 'ïce-Prpsidpnt, :\Irs. C. Y. Combe",
,ï:m Dominion
t.; :-'eeond \ïce-Prf'sident, :\Ii",s J. :\lc-
Donald, Depr Lodge Ho"'pital; Third Yice-President,
:\Ir". J. S. Ward, 197 Rpaverbrook f't.; Hecording
Secretary, l\lis" A. Effler, f'te. 12% Dialla Crt.; Corrp",-
ponding :;;ef'rptary, !\Ii"s :\1. Graham, 'Winnipeg
Gpneral Hospital; Trpasurer, l\Ii"s 1\1. Duncan, 'Win-
nippg General Hospital; Heprcsentative on Training
f'chool Committee: :\Iiss K.
1('Learn, Shriner's
Hospital; Membership, Miss I. Ham
ay. Central
Tubpreulosis Clinic; f'ick 'ï..iting, :\Ii"s J. :\lorgan,
102 Rosp f't.; Enter taimllpnt, :\Irs. C. :\Ir:\lillan,
Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of .Tournal, :\Iiss F.
:\lcRae, 4-1 Evanson St.; .-\ssiptant Editor, :\Iiss J.
:\Ioody, 7t) \\ alnut St.; llui"i npss :\Ianager, :\Ii!'s E.
TimliC'k, "innippg G('IlPlal Hospital;
pecial Com-
mittee, l\Iiss P. Bro\\ Ilell, 215 Chestnut St.; Alumnae
nub, l\lÏss F. Tretiak, Broad Yalley, Man.; Archivi:"t,
Miss S. J. Pollpxfen, !"1M Palmerston Ave.
NEW BRUNSWICK
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. President. Miss E. J. Mitchell; President, :\Irs.
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, Miss Ethel Hen-
derson; Second ''ice-President, Mrs. F. :\'!cKelvey;
Secretary. :\lrs. J. Edgar Beyea, 121 Ullion St.; Trea-
surer, :\oIiss Kate Holt; E"ecutive Committee, l\-liss
Margaret Murdoch, Miss R. Reid, :\'Irs. J. H. Yaughan.
A.A., L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital, Woodstock
Hon. President, Miss Elsie Tulloch; President, l\Irs
Harry Dunbar; Vice-President, Miss Gladys Hayward;
Secretary-Treasurer, l\'!iss Pauline Palmer; Board of
Directors: Miss G. Tams, :\trs. B. Sutton, Mrs. Fulton,
l\Iiss M. Samphier, :\oliss N. YeneBs; Committee Con-
veners: Programme, :\olrs. P. Caldwell, !\Iiss E. Kerr,
Miss E. Dunbar, Miss B. Bellis; Sick Visiting, Miss H.
Cummings, Miss D. Peabody, :\Iiss :\Iersereau;
Editor, MiB8 M. Samphier.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
O
TARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 Fiorellce
lcIndoo; President,
:\Iiss Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President, :\Irs. J. Andrews;
Secretary, !\Iiss L. Smith; Treasurer, Miss Marioll
:\lacFarlane; Flower Committee, Miss Betty McEwan;
Represelltative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss H.
Thompson.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss E. M. McKee; PresideIlt,
Iiss
K. Charnley; Vice-President, MiB8 G. Turnbull;
Secretary, Miss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., BraIlt-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. BuckweU; Tre88urer,
:\liss L. R. GiUespie, Gelleral Hospital; Social COIlveIler,
:\Ir.e. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
:\liss W. Laird, Miss M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
MiB8 J. EdmoIldsoIl, Mrs. E. Claridge; The Canadian
Nurse alld PreB8 Represelltative, Miss H. Diamond;
Chairman. Private Duty COUIlcil, Miss P. Cole;
Representative to Local Goullcil of \Vomen, Miss R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockvllle General Hospital
HOIl. President, :\liss A. L. Shannette; President,
:\Irs. H. B. White; First \ïce-PresideIlt, MiB8 M.
Amold; Second Vice-President, Mi!!s J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. ReYIlolds; Secretary,
:\1iB8 B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Yalldusen, 65 Church St.;
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss V.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
Hon. President, l\liss P. Campbell; President, Miss
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crack!e; Second
Vice-President, MiB8 F. Houston; Recordinl!: Secretary,
:\Iiss E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, :\Iiss R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretary, 1\liss M. Stacey; Treasurer,
:\1iss n. Haley; Press Correspolldent. l\Iiss R. Baker;
{"'ommittee Convener8: Refreshment, Miss 1\1. Wickett;
Buyin
, Misses J. Fillney, M. McNaughton and :\Irs.
R. F. l\litchell; Floral, Miss E. Orr; Social, Mrs. T.
Burke; Councillors, Misses V. Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
Iiss P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President. Mother :\Iary; Hon. Vice-President,
ister M. Consolata; President, :\Iiss Ruth Winter;
\ïce-President, :\Iiss M. Kearns; Sepretary- Treasurer,
:\Iiss J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; E"\ecutives, Misses
H. Gray, I. Poissant, Z. :\lartin, Mrs. R. Hodgin; Rep-
resentative District No. I, R.N.A.O., Miss Jeøeie Ross;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, :\'Iiss Y. L.
Chauvin.
CORNWALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
Hon. President, :\[rs. I. P. :\'IacIntosh; Pn-'8ident.
:\lis!' \'crna !\Ieldrum; First \ïce-President. :\lisf-
Kathlef"Il Burke;
ecolld Vice-President, :\liss Elva
J ;mpey ; Secretary-Treasurer, J\li!>s C. Droppo, Corn-
wall General Ho:o<pital; Hepresentativf" to The Canadian
Nurse, !\Iiss H. C. \\TilsoIl, Corn\\all Gf'neral I1o"pital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 A. Cleaver; President, Miss
S. :\litchell; Secretary, Miss L. MacNair, !H \'ictoria
:\ ve.; Assistant :Secretary, :\Iiss T. Rainey; Treasurer,
MiB8 A. MacDonald; Flower Convener. Miss Ruther-
ford; Representative to The Canadian Nurse and Prese
Representative, MiB8 :\1. Vandyke.
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
Hon. Pr<,sident, :\Ii...!! S. A. CalUplx>II,
UJWrinten-
dent, Guelph Genpral Hospital; Presid<,nt, \liss L.
Ferguson; First \ï('f'-PrPllident, :\Ii...s K. Clp
horn;
pcond Vice-Pr<,sidcnt, :\Iiss :\1. Wood; Secretary,
Mi
s N. I\:enney, Guelph Genpral Hospital; Treasllrpr,
Mi!'s J. \Yatson; Conveners of Commit/ees: Social, :\Irs.
L. Japkson; Programme, :\Ii!'s E. Fby; Flower, :\Iis'l
I. WilSOIl; Representative to The Canatf;(l>! ,Vur<e,
\li
s L. Sinclair.
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HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss E. C. Rayside; PresideIlt, l\lr!!.
R. Hess; \ïce-President, Miss M. Bain; Recording
Secretary, Miss M. MathesoIl; CorrespondiIlg Secre-
tary, l\liB8 H. Hauert, Hamilton Gelleral Hospital;
Trea.
urer, MiB8 J. JackBon, 326 Main W.; Assistant
Treasurer, Miss G. Hodgson; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Bellefit Association, l\liss O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee Convener8: Executive, MiB8 H.
AitkeIl; Flower, Miss A. Squires; Programme. Miss
M. Gosnell; Registry, Miss N. ThompsoIl; Bud
et,
Mrs. M. Barlow; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e, Miss A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. PresideIlt, Mother Martina; President, l\1iB8
Eva l\'IoraIl; Vice-President, Miss F. NicholsoIl; Secre-
tar
', Miss l\-Iabel MacIntosh, 168 Ray St.; Treasurer.
:\-liss 1\1. Kelly; Representative to The Canadwn Nurse,
Miss B. McKeIlna, 277 Herkimer St.; Representative
R.N.A.O., Miss J. Morin.
KINGSTOl'\
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
Hon. PresideIlt, Rev. Sister Donovan; PresideIlt,
'Irs. W. G. Elder; Vice-President, Mrs. A. Hearn;
Secretary, Miss Olive McDermott; Treasurer, Miss
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
Misses K. l\lcGarry, 1\1. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Yisitinl/:
Committee, Misses N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. W.
Clarke, MiB8es N. Hickey, B. Watsoll.
A.A., Kln
ston General Hospital
Hon. President, !\Iiss Louise D. -\pton; Pre"ident,
:\Iiss Alln Baillie; Vice-President, :\Ii,,
Florence
Smart; Secretary, :\liss YonIlie :\lap:\lartin, King"ton
Gelleral Ho-,pital; Treasurer, :\Ir8. C. "'. :\Iallory,
203 Albert f't.; Corresponding
ecretary, :\IiS8 Emma
harp, Kingl'<ton General HOl'<pital.
h..ITCHENER
A.A., kitchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President. :\-liss K. W. Scott; President, l\Ir!!.
Walter Ziegler; First \ïce-President, Miss Thelma
Sitler; Second Vice-President. Miss Elsie TrousE';
Secretary, Miss Jean Sinclair, 144 Water St. R.; -\s"i!!-
tant Secretary, :\.Iiss :\Iarion Ballantyne; TreRflllrer.
'Ii"s :\fary Orr.
Lli'lDSA \-
A.A., Ross \.femorial Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 E. S. Reid; President, l\IiB8 L
J. Harding; First Vice-President. Mrs. O. WaUing;
Second \ïce-President, Mrs. M. I. Thurston; Corre!!-
pOlldinp: Secretary. Mrs. J. S. Morrison, 46 Colborne
t. \Y.; Treasurer, Mrs. G. R. AUeIl; Flo\\er Convener,
Miss D. 1\1. Smith; Social Convener, MiB8 K. R
Mortimore.
LOl'.DON
A.A., Ontario Hospital
Hon. President, :\Iiss
fary L. Jacobs; PresideIlt,
liss
. :\1. Williafils, 55 Edward St.; First \ïce-Prffli-
dent, :\Irs. V. 1\1. Reilly; Second \ïce-Pre6ident, !\Iiss
F. R. Ball; Secretary, :\frs. E. D. Grosvenor, 52 Doultnn
.\ve.; Treasurer, Miss E. Kennedy. Ontario Hospital;
Rocial Committee. Mi!!ses I. Lindsay, L. Kelly; Pre8ll
Representative, l\liss F. Burls.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
HOIl. Preflident, Mother !\.1. Patricia; Hon. \ ice-
President, Sister 1\1. Ruth; President, Miss Olive
O'Neil; First Vice-President, !\.Iiss
Iadalene Baker;
ec()nd \tt'e-Pre!!ident, Miss Erla Bep:er; Recordinl/:
Recretary, Miss Gladys :\Iartin; ('orrespondinp: Secre-
tary, Miss Irf"ne Griffen; Trea"urer,
1iB8 Gladys Gray.
Press Represpntative, Mis:o< Stella Gignar; RepreeE'ntø-
tives to Rep:istry Board, Mi""pA Rhea RO\latt. ('1'(,.11'
Slattery, Olive O'Neil.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Victoria Hospital
HOIl. President,
1iss Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, MiB8 l\
. M.
Jones, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-President, MIss H.
Huston' Second Vice-President, Miss M. McLaughlin;
Treasur
r, Miss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Sec
e-
tary, MiB8 F. Quigley; Corresponding !?ecretary,
{II!S
M. Smith, \ïctoria Hospital; Board of DIrectors, Misses
C. Gillies, A.
1"alloch, J. Mortimer, 1\1. Yule, C.
Rkinner, :\frs. C. Rose.
NIAGARA FALLS
A.A., Nia
ara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss :\1. S. Park; President, :\Iiss A.
Irving; First Vice-President, Miss V. Coutts; Second
\ïce-President, :\lrs. H. English; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\fiss F. J. Loftus, 823 McRae St. Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss A. Pirie; Auditors, Miss Day, ;\frs. Sharpe;
Sick Committee, Mrs. Teal, Miss Carson, Miss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Dufferln Hospital
Hon. President, l\frs. O. Fleming; President, ;\Iiss
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, Miss V. Lee;
Second Vice-President, Miss 1. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
;\fiB8 E. 1\1. Hayward; Treasurer, Miss .-\. Burke.
ORILUA
A.A., Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Johnston; President, ;\liss
G. !\1. Went; First Vice-President, Miss L. Whitton;
Recond Vice-President, Miss M. Harvie: Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Alice M. Smith, 112 Peter Rt. N.
Regular Meeting-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA W A
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, ;\Iiss E. MacWilliams, General Hos-
pital; President, ;\liss J. McIntosh, 414 MaB80n Rt.;
First \"ice-President, Miss J. Thompson, 115 Agnes St.;
Second Vice-President, Miss R. Post, General Hospital;
Secretary, :\liss 1\1. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; Assistant
Secretary, Miss M. Tribble, 91 Connaught St.; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss E. ('lark, 97 Athol St.;
Trf'asurer, Miss E. Dickinson, 534 Mary St.
OTT A W A
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. Presidpnt, :\Iiss 2\1. .\. Catton; Pre:<idl'nt, 1\liss
.'pan Blyth; \ïcc-Pre!'idl'nt, :\Iis!' :\1. :\1"Xi"r,,; Io:,,"r('-
tary, :\Iiss G"rtrude Halpcnny, Protestant Childn'n's
VilIap;"; Tr('B..<;urer, 1\Iiss :\1. i"linn, 204 Stanl('y A,'e.;
Board of Dircctor!': :\Iisses E. :\1cC'olI, S. :\IrQuad(',
I.. Bl'dford, :\1. Rt('wart; Committee Convencrs: Flowpr,
:\Irs. \'. Bol",,; Pr('ss, :\Irs. \\. C. Elmitt; Rl'pr('sl'nla-
li,'c to The Canadian Nurse, :\Ii,,!' A. Ebbs.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon. President, :\fiss Gertrude Bennett; President,
:\fiss Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
:\loxley; Second \ïce-President, l\liss E. Curry; Re-
cording Secretary, Miss Mary Lamb; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss Downey; Treasurer, Miss \Vinnifred
Gemmell; Executive Committee, Miss :\lulvaugh, Miss
Lera Barry, Miss Bertha Farmer, Miss D. Johnston,
:\ofiss D. Kelly; Representatives to Central Re
istry,
:\fiB8 Katie rJark, Miss L. Boyle; Convener Flo"er
Committee, l\fiss G. Ferguson; Press Representative,
:\oliss E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
lIon. President, Rev. Sr. Fla\-ie Domitille; President,
:\liss K. Bayley; First Vire-President, ;\liss G. Clark;
econd Vire-President, Miss M. Munroe; SecretlW'Y-
Treasurer, l\fiB8 Dorothy Kno"" , Otta"a GellE'rlLl Hos-
pital; 1\lembership Recretl1ry, Miss F. Poitras; Rirk
Committee, Miss P. llissonllette, :\fiss S. Kearn". :\Iis..o;
B. lenis: RepresPlltntÏ\'p t.. TIt(' ('llllmfiall Nursp,
:\Ii"" E. Kpml('c1
': Heprp"p,.talivp" to 1."('111 ('oIlPr.il
of \\'0111 ell , :\Irs. I.atilller. VI's. DUlinI' alii' :\In<. I I'
Clair; np\lr('senta
i\'f'" to f'entral Hel-!istr.\", ;\li8S
ROl!;ers,
lil's
f. Landreville.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
Hon. Presiden
, Miss .E. Max'YeIl; President, Miss
M. Mac
areIl; VICe-PresIdent, MIss M. Lunan; Secre-
tary, MIss M. NelsoIl, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
I. AIla
, 1188 !31adsto
e Ave.; Central Registry, Misses
:\1: Wilson, S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
llsses S. Clark, S: Carmichael. E. Young; Representa-
tIve t? The Canadwn Nurse, Miss M. Drummond, Civic
HospItal.
OWEN SOUND
A.A., Owen Sound General and Marine Hosplta
Hon. President, Miss B. Hall; President MiB8 F.
R
e; Fir
t \Tice-P
esident, Miss M. Pato
; Second
VICe-PresldeIlt, !\hB8 J. Agnew; Secretary, Miss "-
Robertson, 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer, Miss A.
Weedon; Pi
nist, Miss R. Dunoon; Flower Committee,
Mrs; Mcl\-hIlaIl; Programme Committee, Miss M.
CrU1ckshan
; Sick. Committee, Miss M. Sim; Press
Representative, 1\lIss H. 'WaldeIl; Refreshment Com-
mittee, Miss C. Penner; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nichol1s Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, !\li8s
A. Dobbin; First Vice-President, Miss H. Russell
Second \ïce-President, Miss L. Simpson; Secretary;
Miss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridall St.; Treasurer, Mis!!
S. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Secretary;
:\liss E. Wagar, 273 Park St.; Sodal Convener, Mi!!s
!\1. Watson.
SARl';"IA
A.A., Sarnla General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss 1\1. Lee; PreAident, l\Iiss L.
Segrist; \ïce-President, MiB8 A. Cation; Secretary.
:\liss A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson,
Representative to The Canadian NUr8e. Miss C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), Miss D. Shaw;
Programme and Social Committee, Mis8 L. Regri!!t.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. M. Munn; President, l\liss
L. Attwood; \"ice-President, :\liss 1\1. McMaster;
Hecretary- Treasurer, Mrs. K. Snider, 36 DoulI;las St.;
Rocial Convener, Miss A. Rock; Flower COH\"ener;
:\liss C. Staples.
ST. CA THERINES
A.A., Mack Training School
Hon. President, Miss Anne Wright, General Hospi-
tal; President, :\liss Nora Nold, General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss
largaret .!\fcClunie, 3f1
Chaplin Ave.; Secolld Vice-President, Miss Evelyn
Horton, Louth St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Mil's J. Hastie,
General Hospital; Social Committee. :\fi!!s Aileen
Johnston, General Hospital, Miss Donalda Veale, 35
Academy St., Miss Bernice Rule, 146 \\' elland A ve.;
Representative to The Canadian Nursc, Miss Feather-
Atone, 17 Hainer St.; Correspondent. Mil's Current;
Proll;ramme Committee, Miss Brubaker, I Fitzp:erald St.
ST. THO:\1AS
A.A., Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Armstrong; Hon. President,
.MiB8 Buchanan; President, Miss Bella :\litchener;
First Vice-President, Miss Annie Campbell: SE'cond
Vice-President, Miss Jervell; Recording Secretary;
:\lies Esseltine; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Lamond,
Treasurer, Miss Claypole; Executives,
liss :\Ic.-\lpine,
:\fiss Irvine, Miss Nona Mannix, Miss Hazel Hastings,
Miss L. Crane; Committee Conveners: Nominatinp:,
Miss J. Grant; Sick Nursinp:, Miss E. Lanyon; Social,
Miss C. Robertson; Purchasinp:, Miss L. Ronson; \\'ays
and
leans, Miss Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse. MiB8 Amy Prince; Representative
to the R.N..\.O., Miss Mary May.
TORONTO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
lion. PrC'sident, :\Irs. C. J. Currie; Prpsiùellt, :\Ii...s
-\. O. Hel!: Re"nr lin!!
erretllry. I\lif's Drr;s T '. }'f'nt;
('orr{'spondinl/: f'1','rptßf", :\lif'A :\Tay TI..od. ('ra,'e
IffJSJ,itnl. Tor..nto: Trensurer, 'lis!! \". :\1. Elliott. 1f14
Cottinp:halll Rt.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., The Grant \lacDonald Training School
for Nurses
Hon. President, :\lis8 Esther :\1. Cook, 130 Dunn
Ave.; President, :\li88 Ida Weeke8, 130 Dunn _-\ ve.;
Vice-President, :\lrs. :\larion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, :\li88 Norma :\lcLeod; Corresponding Serreta
y,
:\liss Ethel "-at80n, 130 Dunn Ave.; Trea8urer, MIss
Phylli8 La\\TenCe; Social Convener, :\li88 Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
lion. Pre8ident8, :\lrs. Goodson, l\1iss F. Potts; Hon.
\'ice-President, l\1iBs Austin; President, Mrs. !'trachan;
Vice-PreBidents, :\lrs. Cassan, :\lrs. Raymond; Record-
ing Secretary, :\liB8 E. Lanjl;man; Corresponding
!'ecretary, ;\li88 :\1. Blackwood; TreaBurer, :\liss Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee Conllener8: Social, :\lrs. A.
RU88eU; Flo",er, :\1i88 H. Fisher; ProjUamme, Mis8
Elliott; Publications, :\1i88 S. E. Le\\is; ReJl:istry, :\lis8
Currie; Welfare, MiBB Parker; R.N.A.O., Mis8 :\1 iller.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, :\1iss Armstronl!;; First Vice-Prl'Bident,
:\Iiss GastriU; Second Vice-Prl'Bident, :\1iS8 :\1. Thomp-
son; Secretary, :\liss !'taples, Riverdale Hospital;
Treasurer, :\lrs. H. Dunbar, 1\3 Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, :\liss :\lathieson, l\liss Stratton, :\lis8 Breeze,
:\lis8 Baxter, :\lis8 LO\\Tie, Riverdale HOBpital.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
lion. PrcNidpnt, :O;i"tcr Bpatrire,
upprintl'ndpnt. St.
,John ',.. ('on-nt; Prp,..ident, :\Iiss S. !\Iorgan; Fir"t \ ire-
Prpbidcnt. :\Iis!< J. YandprwPll; Se('ond \'ipe-President,
:\liss N. Hptherinl!;ton; f;eeretary, :\Ii"s "-. \\"pbb, 77
Summerhill A\'e.; Trpasurpr, :\lis!< D. \Vhiting; C'orrp!<-
pondinJl: Secretary, :\Ii"s :\1. :\Iartin; ContJener8: Entpr-
tainment Committee, :\Ii"s :\1. Da\ ip!<:
il'k \ï...itinJl:,
:\Iis!< H. Frost; PreA!< Rcpre!'ocntative, :\Ii"s F. YounJl:,
"227 :\Iilverton Rh'd., Toronto 6.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. Pre'lident. Rev. Sister Mary :\largaret: Presi-
dent, Miss :\1. Kelly; First \'ipe-Prl'Bident, :\lis8 O.
Kidd; Second Vice-PreBident, Miss !\L Daly; Record-
ing Secretary, :\li"" :\1. Goodfriend; ('orre!<pondinJl:
e('retary, Mis8 V. Hanley; Treasurer, :\li!'B F. Rohin-
lOon; Councillors, :\1iS8es A. Timlin, I,. Dunbar, I.
P<)wer, R. :\lcCue.
A.A., St. \lichael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. !'ister Norine; Hon. \'ipe-
Prpsident, Rev. Rister Jeanne; Preøident, :\1iBB :\1arie
:\Ielody; First \'ice-Prl'Bident, l\liBB ('rocker; f'econd
\ ice-President, Miss R. Grogan; Third \'ipe-President,
-'Iiss J. O'Connor; Trea8urer, :\lis8 G. Coulter, Apt.
404,42 Isabelle St.; AS8istant Treasurer, Mis8 I.
ealon;
Recordinlt Secretary, Mis8 1\1. Doherty, St. :\Iiphael's
Hospital; ('orre8pondinl!; Secretary, MiBS K. :\1('Auliffe,
E8Bt",ood Apt., f'herbourne St.; Prirn.te Duty Rl'pre-
/lentatirl', \liss :\lcGuire; Public Health Rl'presentn.tire,
-'fiss II. Kerr; PreBs Representative, MisB Regan;
('ouncillors, -'Iisses :\1. Bro" n, L. :\lcGurk. C. ('ronin.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
Hon. Prc"ident, :\Ii,,!' .Jean Gunn; Pre8idcnt, \Ii!'!!'
.Ican -\ndcr!'on, I-t!l Glenholme \ve.; Fir!'t \'ice-
Pre..idf.nt, :\Iis" l\1argarf't I>ullllaltc;
PPond \'ipe-
Prpsidpnt. :\Ii,..!' Elvira :\Ianninl!;: :O;prretary, :\1i8,.
:\Iary Fidler, 2., Braemar .\ve.; Trpasurer, :\Ii,..,.. Hilda
:\Iadennan, 14 I.ynwood ,\ve.; \,,,,istant frpa"urer.
'lis8 Evelyn Hobson: Arehivist. :\lis8Jean Kniseley;
ContJener.< of Commillees: PrOjl;ramlllf', :\li",,, Clara
BrU\\n: Prf's"" \Ii,s :\Iarion
tc\\art: F'flf'ial. :\h I:!.
,J. II. Thur..,!'on: :\"omination", :\li..." l'au!illP :-;tc\-ps;
IIl"uralll'c, \I i"" Fffìf' Fnrgip: llmwr, \1 i,,!' :\farltarct
'Icl\:ay; Eli7aheth Field
lIIith :\ff'morial Fund, :\fi-s
Gretta no,..".
343
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Trainin
School for Nurses
Hon. Presidcnt, :\Iiss E. :\1('LE'an, Toronto I"a"t
General Huspital; Pres.ident, :\Iiss H. Louis, 1800
Danforth _-\ ve.; Sepretary-TrcaNurer, l\1is!< X. \,
\\ïlson, 50 Co", an Ave.; Representatives to Cent ral
Hegistry, :\Ii"s B.
lacIntosh, ;- -lIS fo:oudan ,\ ve.,
:\liss :\1. Beston, 232 :\lilIwood Hd.; Hepresentative to
H.
.A.U., :\liss B. :\lacIntosh.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Mis8 B. L. Ellis; President, i\1iBl'
F. :\latthe\\s, 74 Westmount Ave.; \'ice-PrE'sident,
:\li88 U. Colwell; Recordinl!; Secretary, Mis8 G. Pntter-
son; Secretary-Treasurer, Mis8 Helen Stewart, Toronto
Western Hospital; Representative to The Canadmn
NUr8l', l\1iS8 F. Greenaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President, :\1ibB Ross; President, !\1isb Je!'bie
Gordon; \'ice-President, :\1iss Lind!'ay; Corresponding
Secretary, :\Iiss :\1. Andcrson, 168 Isabella St.; ReC'ord-
ing Secretary, :\[iss Bungay; Treasurer, :\li!'B Little,
16S Isabella F't.; Correspondent to The Canadian
.\"urse, :\1iss I. On810\\.
A.A., Women's Colle
e Hospital
Hon. President, l\lrs. Bo\\man; Hon. \ïce-President,
!\liss :\leiklejohn; President, Miss Worth, 93 Scarboro
Beach Blvd.; Secretary, Miss Free, 48 Northumberland
t. Treasurer; MiBB Fraser, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Hospital Instructors and Administrators,
University of Toronto
Hon. President, :'.1iS8 E. K. RU88ell; Hon. \'ice-
President, Miss G. Hiscocks; President, ;\lis8 Glad",yn
Jones; First \Ïce-President, Miss i\1. :\lcC'amus;
Second \'ice-President, Mis8 E. Young; Secretary,
!\liss C. 1\1. Cardwell, Toronto General Hospital;
Treasurer, 1\lis8 1\1. :\lcKay, Toronto General Hospitslo
A.A.. Connau
ht Trainin
School for )\;urse"
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President. l\liss E. :\lacP. Dickson, Toronto
Hospital. Weston; \'ice-Preøident, :'.liBs Ann Bol\\ell,
Toronto Hospital. Weston; f'ecretary, :\lis8 G. I eem-
inl!;, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Treasurer. l\1iBs R.
:\lcKay, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Com'E'nE'r of
!'ocial Committee, :\1ÏBB 1\1. Jones, Toronto Hospital,
". eBton.
WINDSOR
A.A.. Grace Hospital
lion. I'rP!',ident, \djutant \. Butt; I'rpsidpnt, :\Ii"s
E. \\ iIIiams: \'ipe-Prcsidpnt, :\Ii,,!< G. :O;uthcrland;
el'rt.tary, :\Ii,s Glady,.. Dufficld, 211' I'pter :O;t. \\..
:O;alld"iph; Treasurf'r, :\fi'!o \\. :\Iervin; Prr!<!<F'pprctary,
l\liR'" ('. :\IPI an'n.
\.:\., Hotel Dieu, Windsor
lion. I'n."idf'lIt, Be\'. :\Iotht'r :\laril' dp I a Ferre;
I'rpsidf'nt. :\Ii",.. :\Iary Perrin: Fir,..t \'ipe-Prp
idpnt,
:\Ii"" :\Iari... Odf'th o ; :'f'(.ond \'ipe-Pre...idcnt, :\Iis" Zop
I.ondl'au; :O:crretary, :\Iis" :\1. F'pcn('e; Trea"urpr, :\li
I'
:\fary F('nnpr; Conreners of Committees: :\Ii"",cs J.
londcau, II. :\Iahoney, :\1. :\lcC'lory.
WOODSTOCK
:\.A., General Hospital
l'ir,..t lIun. I'residpnt, :\Ii"s Francf'''' :O:harvp. :'p('()nd
lion. I'residpnt, :\Iiss 1If'I..n Pott,,: Pre"idcnt, :\Ii...s
:\Iabel ('<),..tello: \'ipe-Pre,..idcnt, :\[i,.." Anna ('(HII..;
Hepording
eprf'tl\ry, :\Iisl' I.ila Ja('kson; ('orrt'"pondinp:
:O;c('rptaryand Prp!,s Hcpre,.clltath 1', Mi
:\Iay I>a\- i,on,
.,li7 \dPlaid...
t.; \"si,..tant :'ccretary, :\li,..H Jpall
1
P1ly; Trcasurpr, :\Ii,s :\Iaud :O;laght; .\ssi"tant Trpas-
urer, :\Iiss :\1. :\fad'hcrson; Conrl'n"s of Commi/lee.':
PrOl!;ramme, :\Ii!'s 1>. ('railt: Flo"cr an1 (:ift. :\fi,,
I).
1I0bbs;
odal, -'Iiss J. Anderson.
QUEBEC
THE CANADIAN NURSE
344
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. President, l\Iiss M. L. Brown; President, :\lrs.
L. Jobber, 1646 Van Horne Ave.; Vice-President, :\liss
R. Goodfellow, La('hute; F'ecretary-Treasurer, Miss A.
Roy, 379 St. Cathcrines St., Lachine; Exeputi\"e Com-
mittpe, :\Ii!'sps :\1. :\I(';\utt, E. Dewar.
\10NTREAL
A.A., Children's Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, .Miss A. Kinder; President, .Miss H.
Paterson; Vice-President, Miss H. N utall; Secretary,
:\Iiss J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, Miss E. Hillyard,
liss M. Flander; Social Committee, convener, Miss
:\1. Gill, Miss A. Adlington, Miss M. McCallum and
Miss M. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e, Miss V. F'chneider; Sick Nurses Committee. :\Iiss
H. Easterbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
President, Miss .-\. Porteous; \ïpe-Presidellt, :\liss
:\1. Hayden; Treasurer, Miss D. :\filler, Homeopathic
Hospital; Assistant Treasurer, Miss N. Horner; Secre-
tary, :\Iiss S. Holland; Assistant Sl'<'retary, l\fiss J.
Gray; Private Duty Section, :\Iiss A. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee, :\liss H. Bright; Entertainment
Committee, :\Iiss :\1. Hayden; Representative to The
Canadian Nur8e, :\fiss J. Whitmore; Representath"e.
:\fontreal Graduate Nurses Association, Miss :\1.
Bright; Sick Benefit Society, Mrs. J. Warren.
L' Association des Gardes-\1alades Gradu
.,s de
I'Hôpltal Notre-Dame
Exécutif: :\Iesdemoisellt's :o-uzallne Giroux, Prési-
dente; Iri'np Rouillard, \ïf'e-Prpsidpntp; .Juliettc
Beaulieu, :!PlIle \Ïpe-Prèsidf'nte; LUf'ri'l'e Bouphcr,
Tré80rière; :\Iarguerite Pau71\ -12;:14 St. Hubert
t.,
ef'rétaire; Conseill
'es: :\Iesdemoisdles Franl,'oisp
Chevrier, Geor
!;('tte Hébprt, (;ermaine Bris-<ct, Ludi-
vine Rí.rubé.
A.A., Montreal General Hospital
Hon. Presidents, Miss J. Webster, Miss N. Tedford,
:\1iss F. E. Strumm; Hon. Treasurer, Miss H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, :\fiss J. Craig; President, Miss E.
Frances Upton, Ste. 221, 1396 St. Catherine St. W.;
First \'ice-President,
Iiss 1\1. Mathewson; F'econd
Vice-President, :\frs. L. H. Fisher; Recordinl! Secretary,
:\liss D. Snow; Correspondinl!; Secretar
', Mrs. E. C.
:\fenzies, 6635 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun; Treasurer (Alum-
nae Association and Mutual Benefit Committee), Miss
I. Davies, Montreal General Hospital; Executive Com-
mittee, Miss M. K. Holt, Miss H. Newton, Miss L.
Sutton, Miss O. Lilly, Miss B. Herman; Representa-
tives to PrÏt.ate Duty Section, Miss E. Gruer (Convener),
:\Iiss C. Cole, l\fiss E. Marshall; Representative to
The Canadian Nur8e, Miss I. Welling (Convener),
:\fontreal General Hospital; Representatives to Local
Council of Women, :\1iss G. Colley, Miss l\1. Ross'
Sick Visiting Committee, Miss F. E. Strumm, Miss B:
Herman; Pro
amme Committee, Miss I. Davies, Miss
l\1. Batson; Refre8hment Committee, Miss B. Under-
hill (Convener),
Iiss C. Coombes, :\fiss C. FitzJl;erald,
!\fiss D. McRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, :\fiss E. A. Draper; President, :\Iiss
:\1. F. Hersey; First Vi('e-President, Miss J. Stevenson'
Second Vipe-President, Mrs. Grieve; RemrdinJ!: Sef're
tary, Miss E. B. Rogers; Secretary-Treasurer, l\liss K.
,Tamer, Royal Vi('toria Hospital; Executive Committee,
:\1rs. E. Roberts, :\Irs. G. (', :\lelhado, :\lrs. Prideaux,
\1isSE'B E. Etter, E. Reid, :\. Bulman; Convener8 of
rnmmittpP.
: Finanpp, :\1il'8 R. Campbell; Sick VisitinJ!:,
:\Hss R. Fellows.; Programme, Mrs. K. Hutchison'
R
freshments, MI88 M. Rowley; Prirote Duty Section'
MIss R. Coch!ane; Representatives to Local Councii
of WO!llen, MIss J. Stevenson, Mrs. E. Cooper; Repre-
sentatIve to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss E. Allder.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
Hç>n. Presidents, l\liss F. George, Miss E. Trench;
Pr
sldent, Mrs. L, M. Crewe; First Vice-President
lIss E. Mo.ore; Sepond \'ice-President, Miss K. Mar
tm;
ecordlng Secretary, Miss R. Sixsmith; Corres-
pond
nl!: Secretary,
1iss N. Brown, Apt. 5, 1187 Hope
.-\':1.'., TreaT
urer, M.Iss E. L. Francis; Sick Visiting.
MISS, <;;. \\ 1Ison,. MIss L;. Jensen; Private Duty, Mrs.
A. Chl!,holm, :\118S 9. \\ 1Ison; Representative to The
Ca'1ladtan Nurse! l\lIss C. Morrow; Social Committee,
Mrs. Dr!lke, 1\IISS Clark. Regular monthly meeting
every third \VednE'8day, 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University
) II,?II. Presi
{,lIt, Mis!' 1\Iary Samuel; Hon. \Ï('e-
II'
sldl'nt,. :\h8!' Bert.ha Harmer; Hon. :\Iembers,
:\hs
:\1.
, HE'rf't'Y, 1\hss Grace 1\1. Fairley, Dr. HelE'n
H.. \. Held, Dr. 1\laude..-\bbott, Mrs. R. W. Reford,
.\.
ISS
I. L.
\loag; PresldE'nt, l\Ii
s Mad...line Taylor,
\ Ict<<?rJan Or
pr o
;\ ursps, 124fì Bi
'hop S1.; ''i(,E'-
Pre
lc;lpnt, .:\11"" FIIppn C. Flanagan, Royal \'i('toria
Hospital; f'pl"rpt!lry- T
ea
urer, 1\lifS K. 1\la('LE'nnan,
-\Iexandra HospItal; Chalrn.an, Flora :\Iadeline fha\\
Iemor:ial fund, Mi!'s E. Frances l"pton, 1:J!I{j St.
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Y ESTERDA Y AND TOMORROW
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Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of Canada
Publtshed by the Canadian Nurses Association
VOL. XXX
No.8
MONTREAL, QUE., AUGUST, 1934
YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
FLORENCE H. M. EMORY, President of the Canadian Nurses Association,
from June, 1930, to June, 1934.
More than twenty' five significant years
have left their mark upon the Canadian
profession since the Canadian Nurses
Association held its inaugural meeting in
Otta wa, in October of the year 1908
and it is that occasion, together with
those who planned it, that we wish to
honour in a celebration of the Silver
Jubilee of the organi:ed profession in
Canada. As we look back over the years
,llld contemplate the growth of nursing
in this country, the truth of Emerson's
dictum is borne in upon us: "There is
properly no history, only biography." For
in Canadian nursing history there are two
figures which stand out in relief against
a background of inspired idealism and of
indomitable courage; the one a daughter
of France, the other of Canada; the one
personifying the introduction of nursing
into this country, the other the Found
r
of the organized profession.
The Inspiration of Idealism
The biographer, Foran, in his story of
the life of Jeanne Mance, portrays with
insight and charm the idealism and
courage of this woman, this lay nurse.
He tells of her vision of the mission
a waiting her in the New Wodd; of her
sailing from France in a vessel which
took six weeks to reach Quebec; of the
hardships of a rigorous Canadian winter
,1S she waited an opportunity to go up to
Prt'sidential address delivered at the Biennial Meetini
of the CanadIan Nunes Association. in Toronto, on
lune 26, 1'))4
AUGUST, 1934
share in the founding of Montreal, and
in the establishment of the Hôtel Dieu
with provision for nursing the sick and
those wounded from Indian attacks in a
new colony. Says Foran:
There was courage in her breast and hope
in her eye. She felt that success would crown
her efforts; she reall:;:ed the true greatness of
the enterprise; she appreciated all the sacrifice
that awaited her; and she l",ged for the hour
when, quitting the repose of Saint Michel, she
would set eyes upon the Royal Mountain
beneath the shades of which she could In
imagination see the stately proportions of the
Institution that many decades later were to
testify to the sublimity of her vision.
In an account of the unveiling of the
monument erected to her memory at the
Hôtel Dieu in Montreal, the historian
reveals further the degree to which the
tradition of her idealism and tender
ministrations had become a part of the
history, not only of nursing, but of the
city itself. He relates:
At that moment the covering was seem to
detach itself from the statue, to fall slowly
earthward, and to disappear. From out Its
folds, as if rising from the shroud of two
centuries and a half, appeared the stately fo;oln
of the immortal heroine of Montreal's first
years and, as her arms entwined in raising
up the old man stricken with wounds, :;he
seemed once mOre to have come back to the
place which knew her of old to continue the
work she had set herself in the days of her
activity on earth.
With a discovery of the source of the
Canadian nursing stream, high up in the
hi11s of individual endeavor nCJ.l'ly thru'
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centuries ago, we trace its course. now
winding now bending, until in the early
years of this century is detected the in'
fluence which directed the flow into a
river of organized effort. That influence
was Mary Agnes Snively, Founder of
the Canadian Nurses Association. Nor
was her idealism less potent or high than
that of her forerunner, Jeanne Mance.
Hear her as she sponsors the formation of
an organized association in order that
Canadian nurses might, through group
effort, maintain high standards of nursing
in Canada and through that become
affiliated with the International Council
of Nurses. "Let us remember", said she,
"that privilege means responsibility; that
a better century does not mean that it
should minister unto us, but we to it;
and also that we can only be worthy of
the great inheritance which has been be'
queathed to us as we use our large oppor,
tunities to make our country and the
world better, and brighter, and purer
with each succeeding year." This ideal,
ism it was which created the Canadian
Nurses Association, which moulded its
policies and which has influenced its
activities during the past quarter of a
l:entury. For the Congress of the Inter'
national Council of Nurses held in Paris
and Brussels in 1933, Miss Snively was
asked to prepare greetings which might
be conveyed to that body from a former
honorary'treasurer and a charter mem,
ber of the International body. She con'
sented and a paragraph is quoted from
those greetings, now incorporated in the
proceedings of the Congress of last year:
May the spirit of the Congress be worthy
of the great cause it represents-benificence.
May national and lingual barriers disappedr
and everywhere may the Golden Rule prevail
during the sessions of the Congress. May
dspiration be re,kindled, faith and courage
renewed and hope revived as you mingle there
in loving sympathy one with another. And,
in addition, may you have learned that with
the multitude of councillors there has been
wisdom. In returning to your varied places
of responsibility, your minds quickened, your
hearts aglow, believing that hate is ever
destructive and love always and everywhere
the greatest thing in the world, may you
endeavour afresh to cement the ties which
bind natIOn to nation in unity and concord
and thus hasten the glad day when peace and
good'will shall prevail throughout the world.
Thus with respect and humility we
pay affectionate tribute to two pioneers
in nursing, to Jeanne Mance and particu,
larly to Mary Agnes Snively, our late
Founder and Honorary President; a vital
spirit with a lofty idealism that has
inspired more than any other the growth
of the profession in Canada.
'They wa.l
in the CÙy
'That they have builded.
'The City of God
From Evil shielded.
The Strength 0/ Solidarity
And so we have noted the beginnings
of nursing and of the organized profes,
sion in Canada, conceived in a courageous
idealism which has conditioned so
markedly nursing activities during the
last decade. But happily for nursing,
the profession has been characterized not
only by an inspired idealism, but by
solidarity of action, that is, the units
comprising the whole have taken new
ground together and through that have
gathered strength to consolidate their
position. Many examples may be cited in
proof of this; one that comes vividly to
mind is the memorial erected by the
nurses of Canada in the Hall of Fame
of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa,
in commemoration of those nurses who
gave their lives in the Great War;
another achievement, nearer at hand, is
the Report of the Survey of Nursing
Education in Canada, published in 193:!.
It is too early to appraise fully the
effectiveness of the Weir Report; suffice
it to say that its recommendations, if
taken seriously and acted upon vigour,
ousty, are sufficient to keep the profession
on its toes for some years to come. Still
another instance was the entertainment
of the International Council of Nurses
in Montreal in 1929; a very big task--:-
well done-and closely associated with
that, the sending of seven Canadian
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YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
representatIves to attend the Interna'
tional Congress of Nurses in Paris and
Brussels U1 July last, six delegates and
the Executive Secretary. A further proof
of belief in international relationships is
t,U1gible participation in the Florence
NIghtingale Memorial Foundation
through the sendmg of a scholarship
student to Bedford College for the year
1
3 4,35. On the other side of the ledger
is a token of the belief of the Mother
Country in us; the awarding in honour
of the twenty,fifth anniversary of the
founding of our Association of a scho,
larship for Bedford College by the
graduates of the Nightingale School of
St. Thomas's Hospital (The Nightingale
Fellowship) to a Canadian for 1934,35.
In the minds of many, this is the happiest
and most acceptable gesture that has
been made toward the CanadIan profes'
sion since its founding. These, then, are
some indications of strength resultant
upon solidarity.
To complete the picture should be
ctdded one or two evidences that <I re very
concrete. It is of importance to remind
the profession that in 1930 the Canadian
Nurses Association became a federatioi1
of nine provincial units and that the total
membership of these units was 6,632.
In spite of the unprecedented depression
with its train of adversity, the national
membership has increased in 1934 to
upwards of 10,000 and this through a
virility and loyalty common to all the
nine provincial associations. Again, the
,tppointment of a full-time editor and
husiness man<Jger for the official organ
of the Association, 'The Canadian Nurse,
has tested the solidarity of the group.
It is possible, however, to state quite
definitely that the project has been
financed so far without calling on the
reserve funds of the organization. It
'ihould be added that there are at least
two other major interests which must be
"'cen through to a favourable outcome:
1. The placing of crhe Canadian NUTse on
J. self-supporting basi.;,
o thJ.t the org.lO
which plays so basic a pJ.rt in the development
AUGUST, 19J4
351
of the profe
siOn through an integratiOn of
Its ideals and practices, may do so with a
feeling of freedom and securIty. Twen!;y'
even per cent only of the membership suI:>-
scribe to the magaÚne. I submit that an
inherent pride cannot permit us to play with
this matter longer: the magaÚne should be-
come self-
upporting within an mterval of
five years, and that means an mCrease of five
hundred subscriptions in each year of the fiw.
2. The support of the Florence Nighting lie
Memorial Foundation in a manner befittIug
the traditions of the organized profession in
Canada; this too will mean concerted and
generous action. These matters and others
not mentioned necessitate a perpetuatIOn of
that degree of
olidarity which has character'
ized the profession during the past two and
one half decades.
The Need for Experimentation
So far in this address consIderable of
an encouraging nature has been said.
But we should be quite unfair to actual
conditions were we to infer that an
inspired idealism together with profes'
sional solidarity had solved our profes'
sional problems. Not so. Never have
we assembled in convention when prob,
lems pressing for a solution were as vital
and as diverse as now. Granted that as
an organized group we are intact; that
we do enjoy the strength of solidarity,
the message which I want to drive home
is this-we must attempt to direct these
assets into channels which will bring to
the people of the community the nursing
services of which they are sorely in ne
d
on the one hand, and on the other hand
we must attempt to protect the profession
now practising through a limitation of
graduates from the schools of nursing of
this country. At the risk of irritation
and of conscious repetition I have put
down some factors in the situation, :ill
of which will be considered in their many
ramifications during the sessions of this
Biennial Meeting.
1. The need for a reduction of schoo],. of
nursing and of undergradua
es in the remain'
ing schools.
2. The need for replaCIng large numbers
of undergraduates by graduate nurses; thus
lessening the 'Yearly output of the nur!>ing
schools
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
3. The need for organized effort on the
part of the profession, say through a com'
munity nursing bureau. Such a bureau would
make available types of nursing service offered
m the community, with an attempt to meet
these nursing needs in an amount and un
terms commensurate with the ability of the
families of the community to pay.
In an elaboration of the third point,
let me be more intimate and put the
matter in three simple propositions:
1. There is need for change within the
professIOn, notably in the private duty group.
2. That change must be based on pres
nt
economic needs.
3. The need having been analyzed, must
be met largely through experiment.
1 am aware that for months past
national and provincial Joint Study Com'
mittees have been pondering these
problems and in some instances study has
resulted in action. On the whole, how'
ever, there is need of corporate introspec'
tion and for a willingness to face the
facts, having discovered them. I have no
dear'cut philosophy to set down other
than to repeat that the experimental
attitude is the only one which in my
opinion will meet the situation. Not long
since the Prince of Wales addressed an
audi
ncc in the Albert Hall, London,
when he called upon England not to
stand dumbfounded at the vastness of
the problem of unemployment but to split
it up into bits and to think over what
could be done locally all over the country
to make the enforced leisure of men and
women something better than a curse
to them. Now it appears that the Prince
of Wales has given us a cue in the solu,
tion of nursing problems in Canada.
Why not break up the problem intv
small geographical areas, into towns and
cities if you will, and through experi-
mental effort deduce certain facts as to
what is best and seek to conserve that
best. As St. Paul puts it: "Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good."
That is the scientific method and that, it
seems, we shall have to apply in small
groups and in large ones.
What really matters is that we should
have a right attitude toward truth, an
appreciation of it and a willingness to
experiment on its behalf. Let us push
out from the land of conservatism and
put down our line in the deep waters of
experimentation; it may be that we shall
catch one or two ideas which will prove
to be at once scientific and practical. If
through these sessions we see the possi,
bilities of experiment, of breaking up the
problem into bits, it may be that we shall
find a way of bringing to bear upon a
solution the idealism and the strength
inherent in the professional traditions of
nursing in Canada. To sum up the mat'
ter-the belief is held and held strongly,
that with the inspiration of yesterday
and the solidarity of to' day, given
patience and a will to experiment, we can
determine to a surprising degree the
adequacy of the nursing of tomorrow:
For while the tired wav.es vainly brea1{ing
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far bac
through cree1{s and inlets brea
'
ing
Comes silent flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only
When daylight comes, comes in the light.
In front the sun climbs slow-how
slowly-
But westward loo
, the land is bright'
VOL. XXX, No. 8
THE NEW PRESIDENT
Within the current year two signal
honours have been conferred on Miss
Ruby Simpson. On New Year's Day her
name appeared in the honours list of His
Majesty the King as having been appoint'
ed an Officer of the Civil Division of
the Order of the British Empire in recog'
nition of fine social services rendered in
the Province of Saskatchewan. On June
28, Miss Simpson was elected by acclama,
tion to the highest office in the gift of the
Canadian Nurses Association, and for the
next two years will direct its destinies in
the capacity of its President.
Miss Simpson has issued strict injunc,
tions that no biographical detail is to be
published. As a matter of fact it is
unnecessary to do so beca use her fine
professional accomplishment is already
well known to Canadian nurses. Miss
Simpson is a born Westerner and is a
graduate of the School of Nursing of the
Winnipeg General Hospital. She has for
some years served as director of nursing
services in the division of public health
nursing of the Department of Public
Health in the Government of the Pro'
vince of Saskatchewan. Her broad ex'
perience as well as her qualities of mine.l
.mò heart renòer her well eyuipped for
the important position to which she has
unanimously been called. Her attitude
toward her responsible task is reflected in
the words of her brief adùress of accept-
ance:
"We have just closed, reluctantly, per'
haps a bit sadly, a wonderful week, the
celebration of our twenty,fifth birthday.
A birthday party, indeed, and one of rare
yuality and high inspiration such as few
of us have previously experienced. Ade,
yuate expression of feeling is impossible.
But, today, our birthday party is over
and, as always with birthdays, we must
write ourselves older today than yester-
ùay, older in years, older in experience.
Our Silver Jubilee celebration is com'"
pleted. We turn Our faces now toward
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T, 1934
the next. What will it bring? Where
will it find us? Who can tell? Yet the
week just over has shed much light upon
our way."
"The Founder of the Canadian Nurses
Association, so fondly and so reverently
remembered many times during this meet'
ing, in a communication addressed to one
of our officials, not so many months ago,
. "
.,
...
MIss RUBY E. SIMPSON. O.B.E.
epitomized our aspiration in a single sen-
tence: Into the future oþen a. better way.
It is a clarion call to action, the call we
need. Shall we accept it as her legacy
and as our slogan for the coming years?"
Thus, with courage and humility our
new President sets out upon her journey.
She will be heartened by the united sup'
port of Canadian nurses, who one and all
echo the words so aptly quoted by the
retiring President . . . "but Westward
1001{. the land is bright."
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A CHALLENGE TO THE PROFESSION
ROBERT C. WALLACE, M.A., Ph.D., D.Se., F.G.S., LL.D.,
President of the University of Alberta.
Today the nursing profession of Can'
ada looks back with a justifiable pride
over a quarter of a century of organiza'
tion under the Association. I have been
interested in the records. It is worthy of
note that the aim of the pioneers in or'
ganization was in pari that through a
Canadian body there would be the means
at hand to express Canadian viewpoints
officially in the world councils in the
profession. Canada was suffering from
growing pains in those early days of the
century, and in the realm of nursing, the
formation of the Association gave some
relief. The nurses of Canada took their
part proudly in the International Con'
gress of Nurses, by right of their Asso,
ciation which they represented, and by
their own right - for there were able
women at the helm - and Canada's posi,
tion was - made secure. There was the
opportunity as well through their official
position to express their loyalty to the
Motherland through their tribute to the
memory of Queen Victoria. The bonds
which had been welded in the profession
were not fetters which hampered: they
were symbols of free personality within
the Empire and in the wider claims of
professional service in the world at large.
But the Association had other aims.
There were many local organizations .of
trained nurses in Canada. They were
provincial or city organizations, or alum'
nae groups connected with individual
training schools. Their aims were paro,
chiaL It was necessary to give them a
unity of aims and of outlook. Three years
,,-ftef the Association was formed, twenty,
one nursing organizations had affiliated
with the central body, which was to be
for them, and for the local organizations
which were yet to be formed, the unify'
ing principle and the vitalizing force. To
what extent this has been accomplished
(An address delivered before the Canadian Nurses
Association, at the General Meeting, in Toronto, June
26. 1934 )
354
I am not in a position to judge. The
interest displayed by the members of the
profession in this anniversary of the for'
mation of the central body would seem to
indicate that the Association has won the
loyalty and support of the constituent
organizations throughout Canada from
east to west.
There was a third and a stIll more
fundamental purpose specifically express'
ed in the constitution of twenty,five years
ago. It was to promote the usefulness
and honour of the nursing profession.
That was the central thought in the
minds of the pioneers of twenty' five years
ago, and that is our central thought to'
day. It is to this aim that I propose to
devote consideration in the address this
evening. In looking forward over the next
quarter of a century, there would be gen,
eral agreement that notwithstanding what
has been accomplished, the main function
of the Association will still be to further
the usefulness and the honour of the pro'
fession. I have been interested in investi,
gating the directions in which this aim
has been striven for. The Association
has gIVen much thought to public health
nursing, and the training which might be
most suitable under the conditions which
have to be faced in Canada. It has dealt
w
th conditions of work in private nurs-
ing and has suggested remedies. It has
taken up the problems of hospital admin'
istration. It has considered the difficult
problem of trained attendants and their
need in outlying territory. It has not
been remiss. I am encouraged to consider
the problems in this field which now con,
front the profession by the interest which
has been displayed in promoting the
greater usefulness of the profession dur-
ing the past quarter of a century.
And what are the issues? They are
mainly concerned with the education of
the nurse, and with the more practical
adaptation of that education to the needs
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A CHALLENGE TO THE PROFESSION
of our times. You are addressing your-
selves with much care to the question at
the present time. If I can be of any
assistance to you at this convention in
the matter of professional education, it
will be a great satisfaction to me.
Many who have responsibilities for the
administration of hospitals in which nurs-
ing schools are mainta
ned are much con-
cerned with the conditions of nursing
education. It is unquestionably the case
that nurses in training are being used for
the purposes of a hospital as much as for
the purpo.ses of their own training. In
other words, nurs
ng training is as yet in
the apprenticeship stage, from which
other professional training has long since
passed. There is something to be said
for the apprenticeship system. It pro-
vides a practical knowledge which is of
great'value in later professional activity.
But if it is combined with the under
graduate training, there is always tl:e
grave danger that, because of the finan-
cial needs of the institutions, the fun-
damental theoretical education will be
sacrificed because of the time taken up in
supplying, inadequately enough, the nurs-
ing services which should be performed
by graduate nurses. Such was at one
time the system in the training of
teachers, and the old pupil teacher sys-
tem will be recalled by those who had ex
perience of it. Such was the system in the
training for the legal profession, and only
recently has the tendency shown itself to
confine the year of practice to the period
following the obtaining of the degree.
And in medical professional training the
apprenticeship, or internship, takes place
after graduation, and hospitals or private
clinics do not rely on undergraduates to
assist in any way in shouldering the final1'
cid.l responsibility- of the institution.
In this respect, then, nursing educa-
tion is unique in holding on to an anti-
quated system. Not only so but it has
emphasized, to a greater degree than any
of the other professions have done, the
dangers of the syst
m. The needs of the
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355
hospital are so great that there is little
compunction in enlisting the services of
the nurses in training. To such an extent
IS thi
the case that only in the little time
that may remain after floor duty from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. is there opportunity for
study. As a result a breakdown or poor
work in the fundamental subjects may be
e\.pected, and may be found. In none of
the professions is there today placed on
the student in training so heavy a strain
as in nursing. I ha \'e no hes:tation in
stating that the strain is unjustifiably
heavy, and must be relieved.
How can this be done? It should in
any event be clear that the training of
nurses IS a function which the smaller
hospital can no longer adequately per-
form. It will be necessary to limit the
facilities. gradually but definitely, to the
larger well-equipped institutions in close
affiliation with univers
ties. It will be
necessary as well for the universities to
take control of the schools, and to use the
hospitals only for such practice training
as may be necessary for adequate train-
ing. In this \\iav two things may be ac-
complished. In the first place the time on
actual practice, lectures and study will be
reduced to an amount comparable to that
demanded by the other professions. In
the second place, the over-emphasis now
placed on the training which may be
given within a hospital will be corrected.
It is a necessary corollary to the fact that
the hospital administers the school, but
the nursing profession is fully aware of
the condition that, notwithstanding the
work of the Association in that connec-
tion, the training in public health nurs
ing which is given in the diploma course
leaves very much to be desired, while
practically no knowledge is obtained of
the conditions of nursing in the home.
I t is not to be expected that this cen
tralization of nursing education will come
in a day or a year. It is my function to
point out tendencies and trends rather
than to overthrow systems If the goal is
dear. we may leave to time and circum
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stance the way and the time in which the
goal will be reached. It is only necessary
at the present time to emphasize the great
significance of the school of nursing
which is being carried on by the Univer,
sity of Toronto with the assistance of the
Rockefeller Foundation on the lines
which have been indicated in the above
discussion. The students are fee' paying
students of the university, and the hos'
pitals are made available in the same way
as schools are to students of the College
of Education. The progress of this school
will be followed with great interest
throughout Canada.
There is a further consideration in this
connection. If it be the case that nursing
education will in the future be more
directly connected with the universities
than at present, the diploma standing.
will gradually give place to the degree.
The numbers of candidates who take the
degree in nursing is small. As the de..
mand for higher qualifications increases,
so also will the degree course be more
widely sought after. That is the experi-
ence in the teaching profession. It will
also be the experience in nursmg and
wIth that experience the prestige of the
profession will increase. At the present
t'Jlle, as has already been indicóted, the
quality of training in fields outside hos'
PItal nursing is limited or practically
He n-existent. The wide field of public
health nursing can only be covered by
addItional courses and experience: and in
psychopathic experience the diploma
course gives little or nothing. In any
vocótion which assumes the right to call
itself a profession, the demands in educa..
tllJn are such as cannot be satisfied by the
level of culture and training which are
inòJcated by diploma standards, and
which mean at best two years of theo-
retical work above the level of junior
matriculation. For this reason much more
attention will be given to the degree
course and its content than it has yet re'
ceived from the Association.
You may ask whether there is sufficient
justification under present day conditions
for this intensity and breadth of training,
or whether it is simply the product of the
exclusiveness of the academic mind. May
1 be permitted to lay the background?
Thoughtful men and women are becom,
ing concerned, to a greater and greater
degree, with the load of weakness, mental
and physical, which has to be borne by
the relatively healthy members of the
human race on behalf of the less fortu'
nate. We need to rear a healthier and
fitter stock, else the race will go under:
This will not be brought about by better
hospital nursing, which has already
reached a stage of efficiency higher than
that in other fields of nursing. It will be
brought about by a much keener social
consciousness of eugenic values, by cour'
age in the face of sentimental loose think-
ing, and by a still wider development of
the gospel of public health. It is in this
last field in particular that the nurse is
playing her part, and will in the future
playa still more significant part.
There is no better agency in incul-
cating the public health consciousness
than the nurse who has the freedom of
the home in the community. To date the
nursing profession has been more effec-
tive than the medical profession in this
field. If we may look forward to a
measure of state medicine in Canada the'
two professions will then join hands in
the field of prevention, which is intrinsi..
cally much more important than that of
remedial treatment. To meet this situa'
tion when it comes, no nurse should leave
her institution of training without a
sound knowledge, in theory and in prac-
tice, of the principles of public health. It
will be a rare instance where a nurse will
not be called on, and called on frequently,
to put these principles into practice in
the course of her professional career.
There is a specialized department
which nurses have avoided. Unless a psy'
chopathic ward is established in the train-
ing hospital, which is rarely the case, the
nurse has practically no knowledge of
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A CHALLENGE TO THE PROFESSION
mental disease, and has indeed deliber'
ately stood aloof from contact with this
difficult and increasingly challenging dis,
ability. It is not to be expected, nor is it
necessary, that a large number of nurses
should become interested in the institu,
tional treatment of mental disease. It is
of great importance, however, that they
should understand types of mental in'
stability which do not demand institu,
tional care, and which they meet with,
and possibly have little patience with in
the course of their regular work. This
can only be done by a relationship estab,
lished with mental institutions during the
course of training. It is encouraging to
note that this relationship is being estab,
lished in some centres for students who
have already completed their diploma
work.
There is another consideration, apart
entirely from the need for wider profes'
sional knowledge, which must be given
weight in the training for nursing as a
profession, because of its general signifi,
cance in the training for any profession.
That is the second aspect of the question
with which I set out to deal. It has been
the history of all professional education
that it began in independent institutions,
separate from the universities, and gradu,
ally found harbourage within the walls
of the ever,expanding university. And a
change took place in the process. The
university said to each new professional
body that asked for admission : "We will
widen our doors and extend our premises
to let you in. We will break down an'
cient prejudices in order to admit you,
but we will make a condition which must
obtain if you enter. We are the home of
liberal culture, and we must deal with
your professional training, not in the
narrow sense of mere preparation for a
vocation, but in the wider sense of pre'
paration for life as well. We must be
permitted to liberalize your narrow pro'
fessional outlook, else you may not be
admitted here." This has taken place in
applied science, medicine, dentistry, law,
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357
household economics, teaching, and it will
also take place in nursing, if it seeks the
closer affiliation with the university.
What does this entail? It means that
junior matriculation would be every'
where the minimum standard of en'
trance. It means that some subjects would
be provided in the curriculum which
would stimulate interests which might
continue through life, though they have
apparently little relationship to the prac'
tice of nursing as such. That has been
done in household economics: why not in
nursing? For life is more than mere
living, and the alert mind will ever roam
beyond the confines of the sick, room.
Is it not a psychologically sound maxim
that the keener the intellectual range of
the patient, the less morbid will be the
reaction to his own condition, and the
better will be his physical tone? If the
nurse is mentally alert, if she is enthusi'
astic about something which is outside
professional routine, if she has the quality
of intellectual richness and colour, it will
react on the patient. You have heard so
frequently in graduation addresses of the
womanly qualities which the profession
of nursing tends to cultivate, that there
is a danger of forgetting that it is through
intellectual labour that the race has risen.
and through intellectual sloth that the
race may fall. No profession can rely on
qualities of personality alone, indispen'
sable though they are in the profession of
nursing. A professional man or woman
is, or should be, a man or woman whose
personality grows not only through force
of character, but through those wider
contacts that come from intelligent in'
terest in the things which other people
are doing or saying or writing, entirely
outside the range of the routine of the
day's work. That is the secret of rich,
ness and depth in personality, and of the
wider influence that men may exert on
their fellow' men. And it can only come
if some time during the day may be de'
voted to literature, to art, to music, to
philosophy, to history, to social problems,
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
to anything that has been our own intel,
lectual pursuit through life, stimulated
by a training which we received in our
student years. It is that type of man or
woman which the university, in taking
over the field of education for the pro'
fessions, aspires to produce - men and
women soundly grounded in the funda,
mental sciences on which the profession
is based, skilled in technique, and wide in
their intellectual interests, in order that
they may count in their professions and
in their lives. The ability to lift ourselves
out of our professional environment and
look on ourselves and our narrowing in'
terests from the outside objectively, an
ability so necessary to a well,balanced
life, can only come to us if we have the
power to live intellectually in other
worlds.
But, it may be objected, this is a very
high'pitched ideal. Not if nursing is one
of the professions. And my outlook is
not for an immediate tomorrow. We are
thinking of anniversaries this evening,
and are, retrospectIvely and prospectively,
dealing with periods of quarters of a
century. Not all of this will be achieved
in a quarter of a century, but I am indeed
a halting prophet if the way which I have
outlined is not the one which nursing
education will traverse before the next
quarter-century of the Association is
observed. Many who are taking part in
the conference this year will not be con'
cerned so much with distant goals as
with immediate steps, for nursing is not
a life vocation for a large percentage of
its practitioners. To the immediate steps
the nursing profession is addressing itself
with a seriousness which few other pro'
fessions can emulate. The exhaustive and
penetrating report of Dr. Weir, obtained
at the instance of the professional body,
has provided the groundwork on which
your educational committee has been
seriously at work during the last two
years. They will advise you during the
conference as to the steps whIch to them
appear feasible. May I be permitted to
indicate what to me appear to be the
practical steps in the immediate future in
the direction of the goal which I have
described?
1. It is imper dtive that the hours on
duty for nurses in training be reduced to
a reasonable load consistent with the fact
that much study is required as well as
prdctical training if present day demands
are to be made. Student nurses have not
now the time or energy for brain work,
becduse of the selfish demands of the hos,
pitdl on their services. The hospital
exists primarily for hospitalization, and
secondarily - a long way behind - for
student training. If hospitals cannot af,
ford to give this necessary time to the
nurses in training, in order that they mar
be able to lay the foundations of a
edu'
cation, they should relinquish the re'
sponsibility which they have undertaken.
All hospital authorities are a ware of the
strain under which student nurses now
do their work.
2. The example set by the University
of Toronto in establishing a School of
Nursing not under the control of a hos'
pital shou.1d be followed, when conditions
permit, in other centres of medical educa,
tion throughout Canada. The idea of a
university school of nursing will grow
only as the plan proves successful: and
the success will need to be demonstrated
in various parts of the country. The idea
that student nurses should pay fees, as
students in training in all other profes'
sions must do, will take time to commend
itself, But only by so doing will the pro'
fession have the necessdry control in the
quality of the training.
The degree courses must be better
articulated into the general plan of edu,
cation than at present. That can not be
done hy forcing. It will come only when
the demands for specialized education
find their fulfilment in specialized courses
of a degree standard adapted to their
needs I fully realize that I am dealing
with a subject in dispute among your
members, and to which no serious
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A CHALLENGE TO THE PROFESSION
thought of the Association at large has
yet been given. But there are the experi-
ences and demands of the sister profes-
sions to guide. The sound balance be'
tween undergraduate diploma, postgradu-
d.te diploma, and degree needs as yet to
be established. But in the long view each
must have its proper place if the profes-
sion is to be worthy of the demands
which are to be met of each and which
must obtain the sympathy and the en'
couragement which it deserves. As one
who represents an institution where both
standards of training are in operation I
would commend to you a serious study of
the relationship between these courses in
the best interests of the honour and use-
fulness of the profession.
So much for immediate problems.
Many details in connection with curri-
culum and training will come before you
at the instance of the Committee on Edu-
cational Methods. There is a wider issue.
In any endeavour to raise the qualifica-
tions of admission to a profession the
objection has to be faced that by that
very process the services of the members
of the profession are no longer available
to those with moderate or small ability to
pay. If we may contemplate state health
insurance for the future, the questión is
less urgent, because the cost will be dis-
tributed at large, and those who have
small means will not be deprived of the
necessary services. But we are still at the
stage where the responsibility and the
cost of health rests mainly with the in-
dividual. In thus aiming at a more effi-
ciently trained profession, must we make
provision at the same time for a moder-
ately trained nursing attendant, who may
at small cost perform some of the ser-
vices which only the trained nurse now
performs? I feel that the Association
must face this question seriously, in the
interest of the public which must be
served, and of the profession where ade-
l}uate standards must be maintained. At
the 1924 meeting of the Association at
HamIlton, the recommendation was en-
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359
dorsed that the training and supervision
of nursing housekeepers be extended to
assist registered nurses in outlying rural
communities. Such a system has worked
in Great Britain with considerable ad-
vantage to the public and on the whole
with little serious trouble to the profes-
sion. There is, in our judgment, a need
for it in Canada unless the governments
of the provinces are prepared to take full
responsibility for such services and em-
ploy an adequate force of trained nurses
for the work. No system of training has
as yet been provided for such assistants
or housekeepers. Those who so act are
in the main untrained. The Victorian
Order of Nurses, a body with a trained
personnel, has to some extent and with
great ability supplied the need by pro-
viding service on an hourly basis in cases
where continuous service would not be
within the financial reach of the patient.
But it is impossible for the Victorian
Order to reach beyond the main centres.
This is a problem in constructive service
towards which a profession, jealous of its
quality and standing, can give unselfish
assistance, for it demands a knowledge of
conditions and needs which only nurses
possess. I would commend it to your con-
sideration.
I have dealt almost exclusively with
the matter of education and training. I
have done so because it is a matter much
before you at the present time. You have
for your guidance one of the most care-
fully prepared reports that has been got
together for the guidance of any profes-
sion in that of the present Minister of
Education of the Province of British Col-
umbia. I have done so also because I am
more intimately concerned with educa-
tion than with the practice of the profes-
sions. May I be permitted to close on
another note.
In the social reconstruction which the
world needs, and for which there is an
insistent demand from all quarters in oUi
time, there is a factor on which sufficient
emphasis is not being laid. It is not
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enough that economic conditions be made
more favorable in order that human
personality may be permitted to develop
into richer and fuller fruition. There is
indeed a real danger that an undue
emphasis is being laid on economic re'
adjustment as a key to the solution. Fun'
damentally, we are not creatures of
economic circumstances, Marxian phil,
osophy to the contrary, and readjusted
economic environment, important to our
well, being though it may be, may leave
us unchanged in our inner being. We
are carrying with us as well a load of
physical and mental disequilibrium which
is preventing us from achieving that
higher level of which the human spirit is
capable. We carry it in part because of
inherited weakness which we should not,
as rational beings, permit to be perpetu'
ated. We carry it in part because of
social sins which carry their marks over
into the next generation. We carry it in
part because of ignorance of the under,
lying laws of inheritance, in part because
of a fatalistic attitude which we are apt
to disguise under the cloak of humani,
tarianism. In our generation there will
come, if I mistake not, an insistent de'
mand that we produce a purer and
healthier stock, more capable of achieve'
ment than we now are, and less bur'
dened with the inefficient and incapable.
This is essentially a scientific viewpoint:
and in the long run the scientific view'
point proves itself to be sound, no matter
what difficultÍPs it may encounter in the
process.
10 the duty of being born well and
of being well, in order that physical and
mental forces may have fullest play
for the highest achievement, the public
conscience will be aroused through the
guidance of the geneticist, the eugenist,
the psychiatrist, the social scientist, the
economist, and the medical and nursing
professions. It is the greatest task in co'
operative action that confronts the human
race: and it will need the highest scientific
ability and the best practical training.
And it can only be accomplished if it is
supported by an alert and informed pub,
lic opinion. In this task the work of the
nurse, in the past mainly remedial, will
become more and more preventive, as we
become more and more concerned with
the removal of the cause of disease. The
more fundamental we feel our work to
be, the greater is our satisfaction. The
future will bring with it a magnificent
challenge. It will be met by the profes'
sian and the Association in a spirit
worthy of the traditions of the past.
To me personally it is a great satisfac'
tion that it will be met by women who
will never forget that in our dealings with
men and women in distress we are deal,
ing with human hearts. The key to the
greatest success for the future in nursing
and in everything else is in a better un'
derstanding of the human heart. As an
able doctor said to me today: "The good
nurse is the woman who anticipates the
needs of the patient before the request
is made." In that remark lies a pro'
found philosophy of life.
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A MEMORABLE OCCASION
The twenty,fifth anniversary of the
Canadian Nurses Association will go
down in nursing history as a most mem'
orable occasion. A number of factors
contributed to the outstanding success of
the whole undertaking. The programme
committee, under the direction of Miss
Florence H. M. Emory, displayed cour'
age, wisdom and imagination. The ar'
rangements committee, directed by Miss
Mary Millman, ably seconded by Miss
Matilda Fitzgerald, demonstrated just
how large gatherings of women may be
handled with smoothness, good temper
and despatch. Hospitality, both public
anò private, left nothing to be desired.
And Toronto was at its loveliest and be.:;t
-which is saying a great deal.
T he Welcome
The Association was cordially greeted
by His Worship the Mayor of Toronto,
Mr. William J. Stewart. The president
of the Ontario Medical Association, Dr.
F. C. Neal, conveyed the best wishes of
the medical profession, and Miss Marjorie
Buck, president of the Registered Nurses
of Ontario, presided at the open meet'
ing with a dignity and grace which were
worthy of the important occasion.
Attendance
Every province in the Dom:nion was
represented and every branch of nursing
service was present in full force. A spe,
cially pleasing feature was the presence
of a large number of student nurses. The
total registration was over nine hundred,
and the actual attendance more than one
thousand. The section meetings were
packed, and the informal discussions
which are such an important feature of
the activities of these special groups were
animated in manner and valuable in
content.
The Programme
Reference has already been made to
the excellence of the programme itself. It
took all nursing for its province; it dealt
with the past, the present, the future.
Yet, running all through it there was a
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sense of clanty and continuity. It was
as though we stood upon a clear space
on a mountainside and saw far below us
the winding track by which we have
come, and high above us the steep path
upon which our feet are set. Perhaps
never before has there been so keen a
realization of national unity in profes,
sional ideals and policies. The trials of
the past few years have brought us to'
gether at ldst for the common good.
There was a frank acceptance of the
principle that no one division of nursing
practice can be left to grapple with its
problems alone. The artificial barriers
which have risen up between public
health nursing, hospital nursing and pri,
vate nursing were recognized as illusory
and, at this meeting, almost disappeared.
Furthermore there was a quality of
emotion which pervaded every session
and which cannot be set down in so
many words. There was an urge toward
constructive action and a definite con'
viction that suffiicient careful planning
has been done to justify such action. We
have strucl{ our tents and are once more
on the march.
The Speakers
There can be no doubt that we were
happy in our choice of speakers. It will
be the pleasure and privilege of the Jour'
nal to publish in succeeding issues all the
addresses given by notable men and wo-
men at this meeting. Those of us who
were so fortunate as to be present will
en joy calling to mind the personalities of
the various speakers but even in the writ-
ten word much of their vividness has
been retained. The broad humanity of
President Wallace, the thought'provok-
ing philosophy of Dean MacKay will re-
main a source of unfailing inspiration to
us all. Dr. Lusk, himself an embodiment
of "the beloved physician," revived in us
an appreciation of certain spiritual values
w
have lately been too prone to forget,
and did it with such kindly humour that
we had to laugh at ourselves. The presi-
dential address, delivered by Miss Flor-
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ence H. M. Emory, was in itself a deJ.r
call to action and struck a chord which
vibrated throughout the proceedings.
Professor H. M. Cassidy made us face
squarely some economic aspects of our
present dilemma, and Dr. J. M. Robb,
retiring Minister of Health, showed such
.t sympathetic understanding of nursing
affairs that the audænce (regardless of
individual political affiliations) made it
clear to him that they regretted the re-
cent elections in the Province of Ontario.
Miss Smellie's able presentation of the
gOdl of public health nursing in the fu-
ture was broad in its scope and sound in
its fundamental principles and, as part
01 the same symposium, the aims and
objectives of private duty nurses were
aJmirably presented in an address pre-
pared by Miss Mabel McMullen, who
unfortunately was prevented from de-
livering it in person. An address ùe-
livered by Miss Gunn, in which she
outlined the immediate steps which
should be taken to bring about modifica-
tions in our present system, can best be
described as inspired common sense. The
clarity of the thinking and the courage
and vigour of its presentation are char-
acteristic of the woman herself.
The National Joint Study Committee
In an early issue of the Journal we
hope to publish a full account of the
present status of the work of this imp or- .
tant group. In the meantime, the official
report of its secretary, Miss Jean E.
Browne, together with the recommenda-
tions arising therefrom, will be found in
this issue under the caption of Notes from
the National Office. These recommenda-
tions should be carefully studied; their
Implications are most far-reaching and
will .tffect nursing practice in Canada to
a marked extent. In this connection it is
intt>resting to note the progressive imple-
Ir.entation of the Survey of Nursing Edu-
cation in Canada which is being gradu-
ally brought about through the agency
,)[ the National Joint Study Committee
a'1:l its provincial units.
Campaign for Membership
That the Canadian Nurses AssocIa-
tion now has ten thousand members in
good standing is due largely to the ener-
getic campaign carried on by the mem-
bership committee under the competent
direction of Miss Mary Millman. The re-
port appears in full under the caption of
Notes from the National Office and
shows a fine response. particularly in thc
Province of Saskatchewan.
National Enrolment
It may.ts well be frankly acknowledged
that Canadian nurses have not as yet
mc.tsured up to their responsibilities in
respect to enrolment for service in time
of war or disaster. Although facilities for
Joing so have been available for some time
under the joint auspices of the Canadian
Red Cross Society and the Canadian
Nurses Association, there has been a
Jeplorable lack of interest. Dr.]. L.
Biggar, National Commissioner of the
Canadian Red Cross Society, had some
pointeù remarks to make when this re-
port came up for discussion and made
them with his accustomed tolerance and
humour. Nevertheless they were taken
to hedrt .tI1J we are sure that, in 1936,
there will be a very different story to tell.
Educational l1,terests
The work of the special committee
appointed at the meeting of Saint John
to deal with the co-ordination of nursing
education interests was reported upon by
its con"\-ener, Miss Marion Nash, with
such logic and conviction that it will un-
questionably lead to action in the near
future. It Wd.S most encouraging to note
the keen interest of the audience in the
excellent report presented by Miss Nettie
Fidler, convener of the special committee
appointed to make recommendations for
a curriculum for nurses-in-training in
mental hospitals. It goes without saying
that all these reports will appear shortly
in the Journal and that they will form
the basis for constructive thinking on the
part of nursing organizations the country
over.
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A MEMORABLE OCCASION
N at;onal Projects
Under the caption of N,otes from the
National Office the executive secretary
of the Canadian Nurses Association will
present in this and succeeding issues of
the Journal the full text of the reports
dealing with the activities of the stand
ing committees and the resolutions and
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will constitute a basis for the continuing
work of both the national and provincial
curriculum committees.
Miss Grace M. Fairley, convener of
the Nightingale Memorial Committee of
the Canadian Nurses Association, gave
an interesting and det
iled account of
the present status of that enterprise and
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recommendations arising therefrom. Con-
spicuous among these was that of the
national standing committee on curricu-
lum prepared by its convener, Miss
Marion Lindeburgh. This outstanding
piece of work, together with the excel-
lent papers presented by way of discus-
sion by Miss M. Blanche Anderson, Miss
Maude H. Hall and Miss Ruth Tallman,
presented certain recommendations which
point toward the strengthenmg of the
course of study organized under the aus-
pices of the Foundation. Miss Cory
Taylor, in her study of the Memorial
from a provincial standpoint, put for
ward some excellent ideas concerning a
further campaign.
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T he Scholarships
The eagerly awaited announcement of
the a wards of the two scholarships which
will enable two Canadian nurses to
attend the International courses at Bed,
ford College and the College of Nursing
was received with marked interest. The
successful candidates are Miss Elizabeth
Smith and Miss Christina Murray.
Miss Elizabeth Smith, B.A., who is a
graduate of the School of Nursing of the
Vancouver General Hospital and instruc'
tor of health education at Moose Jaw
Normal School, Saskatchewan, receives
the Canadian Nurses Association Schol,
arship for the Course in Public Health
for Nurses. l\1iss Christina C. Murray,
B.A., who is a graduate of Royal Vic,
toria Hospital, Montreal, and practical
instructor of nurses at the Civic Hos,
pital, Ottawa, receives the Scholarship
given by the Nightingale School of St.
Thomas's Hospital, London, for the
Course for Nurse Administrators and
Teachers in Schools of Nursing.
By a happy coincidence both Miss
Smith and Miss Murray are graduates of
the University of Saskatchewan. Miss
Smith, unfortunately, was not able to be
present, but Miss Murray made a brief
acknowledgment 0f her deep sense of
appreciation of the opportunity afforded
her through the generous action of the
Nightingale School.
From the Floor
Informal discussion from the floor is
necessarily difficult when the audience is
very large. The terror of facing the
microphone (that abominable but neces'
sary contraption) doubtless prevented
many from participating. Fortunately,
however, the programme committee had
provided for a genera] summing,up of
the proceedings at each session and had
made a wise choice of the nurses who
were assigned this exacting task. Among
those who thus helped us to integrate our
thinking were Miss Margaret Moag, Miss
Isabel MacIntosh, Miss Mabel Holt, Miss
Eileen Flanagan, Miss E. Kathleen Rus,
sell and Miss Ruby Simpson. The resolu-
tions committee, under the convenership
of Miss Helen Randal, held midnight ses'
sions and had everything in order for the
closing session. Miss Mabel F. Gray did
us a real service by continuing to think
clearly and express herself logically when,
as a group, we tended to stray off the
reservation and get lost in the mazes of
our constitution and by-laws. Miss
Eunice Dyke, fresh from the tour of
observation which carried her into nearly
every province in Canada, made many
valuable contributions. The order of
business was greatly facilitated by Miss
Christina Watling upon whom the Presi'
dent's eye invariably rested when she
wished to get a report adopted in order
to get it before the meeting. It is un-
necessary to state that Miss Randal
moved most of the adJournments and
that Miss Jean Browne was appealed to
frequently on knotty questions of parlia
mentary procedure.
Reports from the Provinces
In the September issue of the J ourna.l
all the reports from the various provinces
will be given in full. Each and everyone
is worthy of close analysis for in them
will be found not only a magnificent
record of accomplishment but also a point
of departure for further undertakings.
We may perhaps be forgiven for sing'
ling out Prince Edward Island for special
mention and we are sure that our readers
will be pleased to hear that "the Island"
in the person of Miss Anna Mair, newly-
elected president of the Prince Edward
Island Registered Nurses Association, re'
ceived specially hearty applause when she
told us of the progress made by her
Association.
Exhibits
The professional exhibits were of a
very high order. A number of hIghly
practical nursing devices were shown and
the posters on display indicate the pres'
ence of considerable artistic talent among
our membership which deserves com'
mendation and invites encouragement.
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A MEMORABLE OCCASION
A special artIcle is being planned which
will deal in some detail with the whole
LJ.uestion of e)\.hibits of this type. The
hooths of the commercial exhibitors were
well patronized and the firms who thus
manifested their interest in our national
L15sociation expressed themselves as being
well satisfied.
Our Charter lvlembers
An (\ffectionate tribute to the Charter
Members of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation took the form of a rising vote,
.tccompanied by hearty (\ pplause, ten-
dered at the banquet, and grac
ously
acknowledged by Mrs. Brent Goodson
(Louise C. Brent) in a brief but touch-
ing reply.
The Gllests of Honour
One of the happiest features of an
eventful week was the presence of the
guests of honour from Britain and the
United States of America. Mrs. E. Mac-
Gregor Rome represented, with dignity
and charm, the International Council of
Nurses and the College of Nursing in
London. Miss M. S. Cochrane, R.R.C.,
vice-president of the National Council
of Nurses of Great Britain, acted as the
representative and the able interpreter of
the aspirations of that professional group.
The grace and distinction of Mrs.
Christian Bedford Fenwick, daughter-in-
law of Mrs. Bedford FenwIck, rendered
her an ideal personal representative of the
distinguished founder of the Interna-
tional Council of Nurses. Miss Daisy
Bridges, who will be remembered for her
d.l5Sic portr.tval of Florence Nightingale
in the pageant of nursing given at the
International Congress of Nurses, was
delegated by Dame Alicia Lloyd Still 0
cunvey the greetings and good wishes of
The Nightingale School of St. Thomas's
Hospital, London. The newly-elected
president of the American Nurses Asso.
(Ùtion, Miss Susan C. Francis, by a de.
Iightf ul coincidence made her first public
.lddress in her new presidential capacity,
to an audience of Canadian nurses. An
;nddatigable interest in Canadian nurs.
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365
ing affairs was displayed by all our
guests. They participated freely in dis,
cussion and gave many interesting side.
lights derived from their own experience
in dealing with problems similar to ours.
1'he Banquet
No convention is complete without its
banquet and the one which celebrated our
twenty-fifth anniversary was entirely
worthy of the occasion. About eight
hundred guests were present and the gay
summer gowns were a pretty sight. The
event of the evening was a masterly
address entitled "The Care of Life",
delivered by Dean MacKay, who was in.
troduced to the audience by Miss Mabel
Hersey. Another pleasant feature was
the presentation of greetings and con.
gratulations by our visitors from overseas,
Mrs. MacGregor Rome, Miss M. S.
Cochrane, Mrs. Christian Bedford Fen.
wick and Miss Daisy Bridges. In a brief
but inspiring address Miss Susan C. Fran.
cis, President of the American Nurses
Association, paid a generous tribute to
Canadian nurses who have contributed to
the progress of nursing in the United
States of America. A felicitous reply to
these expressions of goodwill was made
by Miss E. MacP. DICkson, who for-
merly served the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation in the capacity of its president.
EXLJ.uis
te bouquets of flowers were pre-
sented to the President of the Canadian
Nurses Association on behalf of the Col-
lege of Nursing and of the American
Nurses Association and Miss Emory
seemed very pleased with these well-
merited honours which she accepted, as
usual, with unaffected modesty.
VaJlcowt'er ;11 1936
A stirring plea that the next BIennial
Meeting be held in Alberta was made
by Miss Fanny Munroe, president of
the Alberta Association of Registered
Nurses. The charms of the PaÓfic Coast
were, however, so .tdmirably put forward
by Miss Mabel Gray, president of the
Graduate Nurses Associat!on of Briti"h
Columbia, that the AssoclLltion voted. by
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a narrow margin, to meet in Vancouver
in 1936.
T he Press
The Canadian Nurses Association
owes a debt of gratitude to the Press
throughout the Dominion for the excel,
lent reports which appeared daily while
the meeting was in session. At a time
when there was a great pressure on their
space the daily papers, especially those
of Toronto, were most generous. The
editor of this Journal was the convener
of the publicity committee and wishes to
record here her deep appreciation of the
patience and courtesy of the reporters
whose harassing duty it was to "cover"
our crowded sessions and multitudinous
social events. Thanks to their ungrudg'
ing efforts the reading public was
provided with a clear, intell
gent amI
sympathetic account of the policies and
aspirations of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation.
The Pageant
Discussion of the Pageant of Nursing
in Canada has been deferred until the last
for obvious reasons. It was a magnificent
climax to an eventful meeting and will
never be forgotten by those who witness'
ed it. Elsewhere in the Journal will be
found a full list of the men and women
to whom Canadian nurses owe this pro-
found and moving dramatization of the
epic of nursing in Canada. Only one
name will be mentioned here and it is
that of Jean Gunn, under whose leader-
ship this project was carried to the suc'
cess it so richly deserved.
Possibly the most searching comment
made concerning the Pageant was that of
one of the many French nuns who were
keenly interested spectators: It was for
me a sþiritual exþerience, full of beauty,
truth and reverence. In that sentence is
expressed the tide of emotion which
swept over the audience again and again
as the impressive scenes succeeded one
another. From the arrival of Jeanne
Mance, through the perilous days of
French Canada, the gracious figure of
Patience pointed the way. The reception
of Dr. Mack, the founder of the first
School of Nursing in Canada, by Flor-
ence Nightingale was an unforgettable
picture. Pasteur, Lister and Simpson
lived again, in their habit, as they work-
ed. Sairey Camp and Betsy Prigg re-
vis
ted the glimpses of the moon. The
Founder of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation, Mary Agnes Snively, was 50
heautifully portrayed that the large audi-
ence burst into a transport of applause.
The scenes descriptive of military nursing
service in the South African campaign
and in the World War were presented
with genuine dramatic feeling and were
greeted with tumultuous appreciation. In
sheer beauty, dignity and pathos the por-
trayal of the loss of the hospital ship
Llandovery Castle in which so many
Nursing Sisters lost their lives, transcend-
ed all else. The symbolism of the slow
fading out of the figures of the Sisters
into the black background followed by
the dazzling white light which fell upon
the lifebelt bearing the name of the
doomed vessel was 50 overwhelming in its
emotional impact that the audience was
moved to tears.
The good cause of public health nurs-
ing could not have been better advocated
than by the scenes showing the arrival of
a Red Cross outpost nurse by airplane
and the gay clinic flooded with sunshine
and good cheer. A delightful touch was
the calm ånd businesslike arrival of a
member of the Victorian Order of
Nurses who rolled up her sleeves and put
on her apron and went to work for her
patient in just the matter-of, fact fashion
which characterizes such doings in actual
practice.
The final scene, showing Canada be-
stowing flowers upon nurses and religious
sisters representing the nine Provinces,
hrought to its close this magnificent
spectacle regarding which there can be
only one regret - that it could not be
witnessed by every nurse, lay or religious,
in Canada.
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367
One Word More
No account of the twenty,fifth anni,
versary of the Canadian Nurses Associa'
tion would be complete if it did not
include some mention of the woman who
presided over its deliberations in the
capacity of its President. Thibute has h..td
,llready been paid in the Journal to Flor'
ence H. M. Emory concerning her fine
achievement during the past four years.
Throughout long sessions which would
have tried the patience and good humour
of a saint, Miss Emory consistently dis,
played those qualities of mind and heart
which have won for her an abiding place
in the respect and affection of her sister
nurses.
BRIT AIN TO CANADA
One of the brightest memories of our
tw
nty,fìfth anniversary will be the affec,
tionate interest displayed by our sister
nurses in Britain in our celebration of
this important event. Nursing organiza
tions in the Mother Country sent ambas,
sadors who, as recorded elsewhere, enter'
d fully into the spirit of the occasion
.mJ added greatly to our joy and edifica'
tion. And they came bearing messages
.1I1d gifts which will be treasured during
the corning years. In order that all Call'
adian nurses may share in the happiness
these evidcnces of goodwill gave to those
who were present at the meeting they
.lre here transcr;bed in full.
F rom a Royal Nurse
The following letter addressed to
Miss Emory by Her Royal Highness the
Princess Arthur of Connaught, R.R.C.,
herself a state registered nurse and Presi'
dent of the Royal British Nurses Asso,
ciation, will be a source of pride and
plcrlsure to all Canadian nurses:
Will you please convey to the Canadian
Nurses Association the congratulations of my
.1ssociation on having reached the twenty,fifth
J.nniversary of its foundation and upon all
the splendtd work which it has achieved
during the past quarter of a century for the
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advancement and organi
ation of nurses In
Canada and for the progress of the profession
internationally. To my association's good
wishes I would add my own congratulations
and best wishes to you and to the members
of your splendid association.
ALEXAKDR:\.
From the President oj the International
Council oj Nurses
Dame Alicia Lloyd Still cabled the
following message of encouragement and
goodwill while the meeting was in
seSSIOn:
Affectionate greeting and every good wi"h
for your twenty,fifth anniversary. May the
future hold all good for the work and the
workers. May mutual understanding, good
wishes and peace crown every effort.
ALICIA LLOYD STILL.
From the Natif!nal COUflcil of Nurst>s
The National Council of Nurses of Great
Britain held its half yearly meeting on April
24 and we unanimously agteed to invite Miss
M. S. Cochrane, R.R.C., Matron of the
Charing Cross Hospital, to represent us at
the Silver Jubilee of the Canadian Nurses
Association and to convey our congratulations
and also two gifts which we hope you will
dccept wtth our admiration and affection:
1. A brick from the last home of Mis!>
Florence Nightingale at 10 South Street, LO:1'
don, now in process of demolition
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2. A small bronze bust of Queen Victoria,
a personal portrait by the late Sir Edgar
Boehm, Bt., R.A., really exquisite and which
we hope may find a niche at headquarters.
ETHEL G. FENWICK,
President.
From the British College of Nurses
The following communication was re-
ceived by Miss Emory and presented by
her to a most appreciative audience:
On the joyful occasion of the Silver Jubilee
of the Canadian Nurses Association we are
sending to you, on behalf of the British
College of Nurses, a bound copy of the His-
tory of the International Council of Nurses
(1899- 1925), believing that the Association
will value this record of the LC.N. with which
Miss M. A. Snively, the revered and beloved
founder of the Canadian Nurses AssoClation,
was so intimately associated, as a founder
member (councillor), as its hunorary treas-
urer from 1901- 1904, and as president since
1909 and many subsequent years, of an
affiliated association. The volume contains
an account of the reception of the Canadian
Nurses Association into the International
Cuuncil of Nurses in London in 1909, and
of the special honour conferred upon the
Canadian delegation at that time by King
Edward VII by permitting them to place
upon the tomb of the late Queen Victoria,
in the Ruyal Mausoleum at Frogmore, a
wreath bearing an inscription expressing their
luyalty and devotion to the Crown-a cere-
mony performed by Miss Snively as president
of the Canadian National Association of
Trained Nurses with impressive dignity. We
have signed the inscription on the title page
of the history as its joint authors. With every
good wish for the continued progress and
prosperity of your Association.
MARGARET BREA Y,
Vice-President, The British College of Nurses;
foundatIOn member and honorary treasurer
( 1904- 19:!:; ), of the International CounClI
of Nurses.
ETHEL G. FENWICK,
President, The British College of Nurses;
fuunder and honórary president, InternatioTl.Il
Council of Nurses.
On the evening of the Pageant the
President of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation was presented with a beautiful
houquet of flowers, carried out in the
national colours. yet another gift from
the British College of Nurses.
From the College of Nursing
Inscribed on a beautifully illuminated
scroll the College of Nursing sends us its
greeting:
The Council of the College of Nursing
sends hearty congratulations to the Canadian
Nurses Association on the occasion of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their foundation,
sincere felicitations of their splendid record
of work and every good wish for a successful
future.
From the Nightingale School
A member of the nursing staff of St.
Thomas's Hospital herself prepared the
scroll upon which is set down in exquisite
lettering a message written by Florence
Nightingale herself and passed on to us
by her spiritual successors:
To Our Canadian sisters, on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the founding of their associa-
tion. Greeting from the Nightingale Training
School of St. Thomas's Hospital. We send
you our earnest good wishes. We thank you
for having accepted our birthday gift for
your twenty-fifth year which we offered in
the name of our foundress, Florence Nighti'1-
gale, deeming it would be her wish that we,
with you, should link our work and develop
OUr vocation throughout the British Empire
and the world over. For the twenty-five yeaís'
work achieved, we rejoice with you. We pa.;s
to you her own words, in a message given
to the nurses of her school, in the midst of
her work for our Empire, "Aim higher all
your lives. Train yourself on the foundation
you have had in your training school and
when you put your hand to the plough, don't
luok back. 'J,,' e must fight the good fight
steadily, with all our heart, and all our mind.
and all our strength; true to our colours,
true workers, true women, true nUrses, banded
tugether for mutual good-will."
Signed for the School,
ALICIA LLOYD STILL.
From the Association of Hospital
Matrons
Another cabled message which was
much appreciated was the following:
Affectionate greeting and congratulations
from your colleagues, the Association of Hos-
pital Matrons, England.
And 1'his From Bonnie Scotland
The Scottish Nurses Association send cor-
dial congratulations to the Canadian Nurses
Association on the attainment of its Silver
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WHY WE ALL ENJOYED OURSELVES
369
Jubilee and warmest wishes for ever increasing
prosperity and success.
From An Ambassador
This characteristic letter is from Miss
Cochrane and accompanied a gift copy
uf her textbook on nursmg:
To the Canadian Nurses Association as a
high acknowledgment of their welcome and
hospitality and their gift to me of a happy
memory, to last for always. "A small gift,
but mine own."
MARY S. COCHRANE, R.R.C.,
Matron of Charing Cross Hospital; Vice-Presi-
dent of the National Council of Nurses of
Great Britain: Fellow of British College of
Nursing.
WHY WE ALL ENJOYED OLTRSEL YES
In organi.zing any such undertaking as
our twenty-fifth anniversary one indis-
pensable factor must be kept in mind-
there must be a competent committee on
arrangements and that committee must
have a capable convener and a good sec-
retary. Furthermore, everyone concern-
ed must first know what they are ex-
pected to do and then proceed to do it;
which apparently explains just why the
wheels revolved without fuss or friction
dUrIng that eventful week in Toronto.
For that is the sort of arrangements com-
m ittee we were so fortunate as to possess.
The convener of the committee w,'.s
Miss Mary Millman and its secretary was
Miss Matilùa Fitzgeralù. The member-
ship included Misses Jean I. Gunn, P.
Bcatrice Austin, Rahno Beamish, C.
Ethel Creenwooù, Ruhy Hamilton, Mil-
drcù Mann, Dorothy Mickleborough,
Elvira Manning, Helen Hefferman,
Mctuùe Campbell, Sister M. Jeanne, Sis-
ter Norine, Sister Mary MJ.rgaret, Sister
Stanislaus and Miss Marjorie Buck.
Miss Millman commenced the organi-
z,ltion of sub-committees in November,
1932, nearly a year and a half prior to
the mlXting and, while it is not possible
to describe fully the functions performed
by each, it is perhaps in order to make
brief reference to a few. The responsi,
hility for registratIon arrangements rested
AUGUST, 1934
upon Miss Fitzgerald and it will be
agreed that she performed her heavy task
admirably. Nine hundred registrations
take a bit of handling but Miss Fitzgerald
and her willing assistants at the desk
were equal to the demands made upon
them. Miss Ruby Hamilton ably directed
the arrangements for the events in which
the Overseas Nursing Sisters Association
were specially interested. Miss Rahno
Miss MARY MILLMAN
370
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Beamish performed the same service for
the innumerable Alumnae Associations
which foregathered at breakfasts, lun-
cheons, teas and suppers, and there was
not a single conflicting event. Miss Aus-
tin assumed charge of, and was an official
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hostess at, the delightful high tea at
Thistletown given by the Board of Direc,
tors of the Hospital for Sick Chtldren.
Miss Mickleborough qualified as a traffic
officer for the "motorcade" which con'
veyed the guests to Thistletown and en
route gave them a delightful glimpse of
Toronto. Miss Greenwood did a tre-
mendous amount of work in connection
with the arrangements as well as taking
an active part in the Pageant. Miss MCln'
ning made sure that everything went well
at the garden party at Hart House, given
by associated groups of Toronto nurses.
Miss Heffennan directed the arrange'
ments for social events of special interest
to lay Catholic nurses. Sister Mary
Jeanne, with the co-operation of the Rev'
erend Sister Superior of St. Michael's
Hospital, arranged for hospitality for the
religious Sisters who were in attendance.
Miss Buck was responsible for the direc,
tion of the delightful tea given by the
Registered Nurses Association of On'
tario and Miss Mann assumed the direc,
tion of that delightful dinner given by
District Five, R.N.A.O., in honour of
the Executive Committee of the Can'
adian Nurses Association at which there
were no speeches. Miss Millman was per'
sonally responsihle for the general ar'
r d.ngements for the banquet which made
a fitting climax to the social programme.
It was not made clear to thIs reporter
exactly what Miss Gunn did. Perhaps it
would have been easier to Sd.Y what she
did not do. One of the most laudable
activities of the committee was the plan
whereby it was made possible to billet
thirty'six student nurses from Ontario
among the various Toronto hospitals and
thus give them the privilege of attending
the meetings.
This brief account is necessarily hope'
lessly inadequate. The pages of the whole
Journal could easily be filled with de'
scriptions of the lavish hospitality with
which we were welcomed. We cannot
mention even the names of all those who
ga ve ungrudgingly of time and effort, nor
are we sure they would wish us to do so.
For theirs was a labour of love and
brought its own reward.
VOL XXX, No. 8
THE EDITOR'S DESK
Aftermath
At the close of the Biennial Meeting
we watched, with envious eyes, the cap'
tains and the kings depart. They had had
a glorious if strenuous week and had
earned their holiday. Nothing like that
for us. So far as we are concerned the
Biennial Meeting is still on and will con-
tinue to be for the next six inonths at
least; because it is now our privilege and
responsibility to report upon and inter'
pret that historical occasion for the bene'
fit of thousands of nurses who had not
the happiness of personally sharing in it.
In This Issue
Our procedure in this issue is as fol,
lows: Under the caption of N.otes from
the N.atIOnal Office the Executive Secre-
tary presents some of the reports dealing
with the major activities of the Canadian
Nurses Association together with the
recommendations arising out of them.
Her own report should be read very
carefully by way of preparation since it
gives a comprehensive historical back-
ground against which the proceedings at
the General Meeting may be viewed in
their proper perspective. In an article
entitled UA Memorable Occasion" an
attempt has been made to give a general
impression of the meeting as a whole,
including its social aspects as well as its
official and professional activities. It goes
without saying that the keynote addresses
given by the retiring President of the
Canadian Nurses Association and by
President Wallace have been included in
the current number.
Why Didn't the Journal . . . ?
We are painfully aware that even our
best efforts will not satisfy the nurses
who were in actual attendance and we
propose to forestall possible criticism by
telling them why. A volume as thick as
Webster's Dictionary would be needed
to describe, at one sitting, all that hap-
pened during that eventful six days. All
that we have tried to do here is to give
the high lights of a memorable occasion.
AUGUST, 1934
But in subsequent issues we propose to do
far more.
For Instance. . .
All papers given at the general sessions
and the meetings of the three sections
will be given in fulL All reports from
the nine Provinces will be published. The
professional and social activities of groups
such as the Overseas Nursing Sisters As'
sociation will be duly reported upon, and
other threads will gradually be gathered
up into an orderly skein.
A Gift
A member of the Canadian Nurses
Association, who insists upon remaining
anonymous, presented the editor with a
check for twenty-five dollars to be used
to pay for the illustrations in this special
number of the Journal. Our deep grati'
tude for this generous and timely help is
tendered to this good friend and staunch
supporter.
A Word of Appreciation
All through the meetings The Can-
adian Nurse had a little desk of its own.
At that desk day in, day out, no matter
what exciting events were going on, then.'
sat one or other of the voluntary workers
who persuaded so many new subscribers
to sign on the dotted line. They relieved
one another at stated intervals in hospital
fashion, and there were many of them,
not all of them known to us personally.
We thank them all, each and every one,
and especially Mrs. T. A. James, Mrs. H.
E. Clutterbuck, Miss Martha A. Patter,
son, Miss M. F. Weir, Miss Gertrude
O'Hara, Miss Helen Keaney, Miss T. B.
Jordan, Miss Olive Secord, Miss Geral-
dine Conley, Miss K. MacKenzie, MISS
Dorothy Mickleborough and Miss Rose
Hally.
A French Page
A long cherished ambition will, we
hope, be realized in the September num
ber when we expect to publish a brief de'
scriptive article in French dealing with
the outstanding events of our twenty
fifth anniversary.
371
AN INTERESTING APPOINTMENT
The Canadian Council on Child and
Family Welfare has announced the ap'
pointment, for a limited period, of Miss
Eunice Dyke as secretary of its division
on maternal and child hygiene. This divi'
sion is one of eight which unite in an
effort to advance the standards of home
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MI
EUNICE DYKE
and national life by seeking to create
throughout the Dominion of Canada an
informed public opinion on problems in
the field of social welfare. The Council
endeavours to assist in the promotion of
standards and services which are based on
scientific principles and which have been
proved effective in practical experience.
Miss Dyke brings to her new work
years of experience in relating the con.
tribution of the nursing profession and
372
private philanthropy to the responsibility
of the official agencies. She secured her
certificate as a kindergarten director from
the Toronto Normal School and as a
nurse from the Johns Hopkins School of
Nursing. Shortly after graduation 3he
returned to her home city as tuberculosis
visiting nurse with the Department of
Public Health of Toronto and continued
with that department as director of
Public Health Nursing through twenty'
one of its pioneer years, developing a
system known as "generali 4 ed" but which
she prefers to describe as "unified."
With the purpose in view of support'
ing efforts in Toronto for the develop'
ment of the schools for nurses, Miss Dyke
secured a postgraduate course given in
association with Simmons College in
Boston, after four years experience in
community work which had revealed the
need for funòamental changes in the
existing systems of nurs
ng education.
She was the first nurse to secure special
preparation, other than apprenticeship,
for public health work in Canada. Sh
is one of a growing group of pioneers
who seek to relate nursing to the services
of other professional and non-professional
workers, on a community basis.
Miss Dyke has formerly had oppor-
tunities of observing public health
activities in Europe and has recently com-
pleted a year of intensive study and
travel in the United States and Canada
under the auspices of the Rockefeller
Foundation. This valuable experience
will doubtless prove an ideal preparation
for the responsible task she has under'
taken and in which her profession'il
associates and many friends will wish
her every success. There is probably no
other nurse in Canada who possesses so
broad a background in civics as Miss
Dyke nor as wide a knowledge of the
principles of public health nursing admi- .
nistration. The Council is to be congra-
tulated on obtaining her services.
VOL. xxx, No. 8
Notes From the National OfFice
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretar}.
The General Meetillg
It is recognized that early publication
of all reports presented at the recent
General Meeting of the Canadian Nurses
Association is desirable but unfortunately
the limitations of space make it impos-
sIble to include all of them in a single
issue of the Journal. It has therefor
been arranged to publish these in 10gicJ.I
order in successive issues. In the current
number wIll be found the reports of the
Executive Secretary, the National Joint
Study Committee. the Committee on
Exchange of Nurses. the Scholarship
A ward Committee. the Committee on
National Enrolment of Nurses for Emer-
gency Service. the Membership Cam-
paign Committee. the Committee on the
Interpretation of the Historical Develop'
ment of Nursing in Canada.
Recommendations arising out of these
reports which have been duly approved
by the C.N.A. are included in the reports
of the National Joint Study Committee
of the Canadian Medical Association and
the Canadian Nurses Association. and
of the Committee on National Enrolme:1t
of Nurses for Emergency Service. In
subsequent numbers of the Journal there
will be presented the remaining reports
including the extremely valuable records
of the provincial units for the past bien-
nial period.
Newly-elected 0 Ricers
Election of officers to serve during the
coming two-year period took place at the
General Meeting and resulted as follows:
President, Miss R. M. Simpson. Parkì-
ment Buildings, Regina, Sask.; First Vice-
President: Miss G. M. Fairley, General
Hospital, Vancouver. B.C.; Second Vice-
President: Miss M. 1. Moag, 1246 Bis
hop Street, Montreal, P.Q.; Honoracy
Secretary: Miss Elsie Wilson. 668 Ban-
natyne Ave.. Winnipeg, Man.; Honorary
Treasurer: Miss M. Murdoch, Genera.l
Hospital, Saint John, N.B.; Chairmen of
Sections: Nursing Education: Miss 1-Ia.,
rion Lindeburgh. School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, Montreal;
Pnvate Duty: Miss M. R. Chisholm. 803
7th Ave. N.. Saskatoon; Public Health:
Miss A. E. Wells, Dept. of Health,
Legislative Buildings, Winnipeg.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Madam President and Members:
This is the seventeenth General
Meeting of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation, my twelfth year as your Exe'
cutive Secretary. It is desirable and .fit'
ting in this report to record the recogni,
tion of the Canadian Nurses Association
to professional growth which is the
result of the voluntary contribution of
many nurses during the past twenty-fiv
years.
In October 1908. during the TInt
annual meeting of the Canadian Society
of Superintendents of Training Schools
AUGUST, 1934
for Nurses. which was held in Ottawa,
MIss Mary Agnes Snively. in her presi
dential address, said: "Do we wish to
form a Canadian National Organization
of Trained Nurses at once or shall it he
a Provisional Organization of a Cana
dian National Society? The foundation
of such a provisional organization would
enable us to enter the International
Council of Nurses. We could thus form
a nucleus around which other organiz l-
tions would grow, a constitution could
be adopted and the provisional committee
become the Canadian National Associa-
373
374
THE CANADIAN NURSE
tion." An invitation had been received
by MISS Snively from Mrs. Bedford Fea-
wick, founder of the International Coun'
cil of Nurses, inviting Canada to the
Congress of 1909 in London and sug-
gesting that the nurses of Canada be'
come provisionally organi 4 ed in order to
he eligible for affiliation with the IC.N.
Miss Snively had sent a letter to .111
organi 4 ed bodies of nurses throughout
Canada, asking them to meet by delega-
tion to consider the formation of a
National Society of Nurses. In response,
representatives of thirteen organizations
met and after listening to the addrcss
by Miss Snively and the discussion which
followed, it was decided unanimously to
adopt the provisional scheme. Four
organizations, unable to send delegates,
signified by letter their sympathy with
the movement. The objects of an organ-
ization, to be known as the Canadi'1n
National Association of Trained Nurses,
were adopted:
1. To promote mutual understanding and
unity between associations of trained nurses
in the Dominion of Canada.
2. Through affiliation with the International
Council of Nurses to acquire a knowledge of
nursing conditions in every country, to en-
courage a spirit of sympathy with nurses of
other countries and to afford facilities for
national hospitality.
3. To promote the usefulness and honour
of the nursing profession.
Today, these objects remain part of th
constitution of the C.N.A.
All associations of trained nurses
whose members were graduates of
general hospitals requiring not less than
two full years of training were eligibl.:
for membership. The annual affiliation
fee was five dollars; also each affiliated
association paid two dollars annually for
each delegate appointed to attend
meetings of the national associat;on. Offi-
cers elected for the Provisional Organi 4 :l.-
tion were: President, Miss Mary Agnes
Snively; Vice- President
Miss Louise
Brent; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Flora
Madeline Shaw. The first general
meeting was held at Niagara Falls on
May 22, 1911. From that year and untIl
1922, annual meetings were held except
in 1915 when the meeting was cancelled.
Since 1922, general meetings have been
biennially. The constitution and by,
laws have been revised several times :"0
make provision for amendments due t.J
development.
The Canadian Society of Superintel1-
dents of Training Schools for Nurs
s,
affiliated with the C.N.A.T.N. at the
time of the provisional organization,
changed its name in 1916 to the Cana-
dian Association of N urs;ng Education
and in 1924 that association became th
Nursing Education Section of the nat-
ional body which in the same ye:tr
changed its name to the Canadian N ur.ses
Association. Membership in the C.N.A.
continued as originally adopted until
1930 by which time there were forty-
nine organi 4 ations in affiliation. In 1930,
by unanimous decision, reorgani 4 ation
was effected whereby membership w.lS
limited to the nine provincial registereJ
nurses' associations.
Members who have been elected Presi-
dent of the C.N.A. are, in order of their
appointment:
Miss Mary Agnes Snively, 1908-1911.
Miss Mary Ard MackenÛe, 1911 - 1914.
Miss Shirley Wright (Mrs. Bryce Browne),
1914-1917.
Miss Jean I. Gunn, 1917-1920.
Miss E. MacPherson Dickson, 1920-192
.
Miss Jean E. Browne, 1922-1926.
Miss Flora Madeline Shaw, 1926-1927.
Miss Mabel F. Gray (Acting President),
1927-1928.
Miss Mabel F. Hersey, 1928-1930.
Miss Florence H. M. Emory, 1930-1934.
From organi:at;on and until 1918, the
President and other officers were sup-
ported by a Council of six members,
regionally representative of Canada.
Then from 1918 to 1924, the Council
consisted of 18 members, two memb
rs
appointed by each provincial associa-
tion. For the past ten years the Executiv
committee personnel has been the offi-
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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
cers, the chairmen of the three nation.l1
sections-Nursing Education, Private
Duty and Public Health, and four coun'
cillors from each province, who, by vir
tue of their provincial office become
members of the C.N.A. Executive COOl'
mittee. These provincial representativ
s
are, the president and the chairmen of
the three sections or committees.
A perusal of the records shows tha t
throughout there runs the thread of
enùeavour toward the provision of a
better nursing service for Canada and
improved conditions for nurses from th
educational, legislative, social and econ'
omic standpoints. Possibilities for dll
Act for the Dominion Registration of
Nurses were consiùered in the first years
of organization: these enquiries show
ù
that according to the Constitution of the
Dominion of Canada, such legislation
helongeù to the provinces. In 1908, there
were only two provinces in which there
was a provincial association of nurses-
Manitoba and Ontario. Between th.
years 1910 and 1922, the provincial asso'
ciations of graduate nurses were succes,::,'
ful in obtaining Acts for the Registration
of Nurses. Today Dominion Registration
remains an objective. Subjects of exten'
sive and serious discussion, some .:>f
which continue to be present. day prob,
lems, were: the eight.hour day for stJ.l-
dent nurses; the ten,hour day for private
duty nurses in hospitals; curricula in
schools for nursing; postgraduate stu::ly
for nurses incluùing university courses;
physical examination of student an.J
graduate staffs and physical examination
of all students entering schools of nurs-
ing; the trained attendant, the midwife;
vanous nursing services as nation.Li,
rural, amlY, visItmg, public health and
voluntary emergency enrolment.
Projects involving financIal expenditur
are mentioneù in the orùer in whi.:h
they occurred: - The purchase of The
Canadwn Nurse in 1916, payment of
whIch extenùeù over a four-year period.
AUGUST, 1934
375
Since purchase, the Journal has been sub,
sidized from the general treasury as
necessary. A scholarship award cf
$500.00 in 1921, in recognition of M.:,
Gill University opening its doors to
nurses for postgraduate study. The open,
ing of the National Office and the
appointment of an Executive Secretary
early in 1923. The compilation of a
brief history of the C.N.A. 1908,1924:
the sale of copies met the cost of printing.
The presentation to the people of Canada
of a Memorial Panel in memory of Cana,
ùIan Nurses 1641' 1918, which by con.
sent of the Federal Government was
placed in the Hall of Fame, Parliament
Buildings, at Ottawa and unveiled in
August 1926. Meeting the responsibility
of arrangements for the Sixth Congre:;s
of the International Council of Nurses
which was held in Montreal in July 1929.
The Survey of Nursing Education In
Canada under the ùirection of a Joint
Committee, representing the CanadÜn
Medical Association and the Canadian
Nurses Association, and the publication
of the Survey Report, between Novemhe:"
1929 and February 1932.
The International Council of Nurses
W.lS founded in 1899 by Mrs. BedforJ
Fenwick when Miss Mary Agnes Snively
and Miss Murray became members of
the Provisional Committee. The follow,
ing year this committee met in London
when Miss Snively was appointeù
honorary treasurer, an office which she
relinquisheù
n 1904. It was not until
1909 that the C.N.A. became affiliated
with the l.C.N.; until that date interna'
tional relationship for Canada was main.
tained by inùividual membership. Whil
attenù
ng the Congress in 1909 in Lon'
don, the dcleg.ltion from Canada, by per'
mission of His Majesty, King Edw.lrJ
VII, was privileged to visit Frogmorc
Mausoleum amI there to renùer homage
to their late beloved Sovereign Queen
V ictoria. An admirable aùdress suitable
to the occasion was made by Miss Snively,
376
THE CANADIAN NURSE
president of the Canadian National
Association of Trained Nurses, after she
had placed a beautiful wreath on the
tomb of Queen Victoria. It was requi-
site that Miss Snively's address be illu-
minated and sent to His Majesty King
Edward VII. A copy of the address and
the wreath are among the archives at
the National Office.
The C.N.A. has been officially repre-
sented at each International Congre:),) :
in 1909 by twenty nurses and in 1933,
the official registration at the Sevent.h
Congress was one hundred and seventy-
five nurses from Canada. Naturally the
largest attendance was in 1929 at the
Congress in Montreal.
International relationships have be.
n
in evidence at several general meeting.3,
when members of other national organiza-
tions have been guests of the C.N.A.
Most happily and fittingly, the C.N.A.
is honoured today by the presence of
representatives from other countries wh'J
have come to join in the celebration of
the Silver Anniversary of national
organization of nurses in Canada.
Report of the Past Two-Year Period
Your Executive Committee has held
nine meetings: the first at the close of
the general meeting 1932, in SaÍ11t
John; one at the National Office anJ
seven in Toronto. During this biennial
period and for the first time sin-:e
appointment, your Executive Secretary
has attended the majority of Executive
Meetings with the result that the
minutes of meetings could be more com-
prehensively and promptly compiled in
preparation for distribution to the forty'
four members of the Executive Commi
-
tee.
Between general meetings matters cf
business are the responsibility of your
Executive Committee. It is impossible
for all members to attend these interim
meetings. To acquaint the Executive
personnel of the order of business and
to give them an opportunity of submIt-
ting any correspondence they desire, the
call to meeting and proposed agenda arc
sent out three weeks previous to the
date of each meeting. In addition to the
minutes of the Executive Committee
Meetings the members receive copies uf
interim reports of committees whenever
the content of these should be brought
to the attention of the entire Executive.
Later, reports will be submitted by the
Standing and Special Committees and by
the three national sections. During the
past two years there has been a tremen-
dous increase in the secretarial, stenog-
raphic and clerical assistance given by
the C.N.A. staff at National Office to
the officers, the sections, and the com'
mittees in promotmg the activities of the
National Organization. The Provinci:11
Associations of Registered Nurses in
federation CCj1stitute the Canadi:tn
Nurses Association. Each of the nine
units possesses complete autonomy over
its members. Excellent reports are to be
presented by these associations. Brief
reference is made here to the co-opera-
tion built up whereby the Executive
Committee now receives interim reports
for each quarterly meeting from the
provincial units. These interim reports
are summarized and published in the
Journal. An increasing awareness is
apparent in the Provincial Associations
towards the advantages of having the
chairmen of the three sections or com-
mittees, viz: - Nursing Education,
Private Duty and Public Health, mem-
bers of the Provincial Executive Body
From the national viewpoint it seems
incongruous that those chairmen, by vir-
tue of their office, are members of the
C.N.A. Executive and yet, in a number
of provinces they are not members of
their provincial executive.
Registration Laws
The desire of having greater uniform-
ity in the laws for the registration of
nurses and provision for national regis-
tration was embodied in a resolution
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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
adopted at the general meetmg, 1932:
That the C.N.A. present to the members
the desirability of planning a measure, where'
by the Provincial Registered Nurses Asso'
ciatlOn might confer, through specially
selected representatives, on the subject of law
amendments, in the hope that all such might
provide more uniform demands; and also that
provision for national registration be consi,
dered before the next general meeting of the
dssociation in 1934.
To put into effect the ideds expressed
in the resolution a committee was ap'
pointed consisting of the nine provincial
registrars with the executive secretary
C.N.A., as convener. A study was made
of the Acts for Registration of Nur
s
and that section of the Survey Report
which deals with registration. The study
showed that:-
1. In the opinion of the committee it would
be inadvisable at present for some provincial
associations to become active in any way
whereby the Registration Act for Nurses
might gain the attention of the Legislature;
2. It is stated in the Survey Report, that
while the Registration Acts and Regulations
thereto show many evidences of compromise
before being formulated into law, their
general framework and the import of their
many prOVlSlons bear a considerable similarity;
and
3. The study of arrangements for Dominion
Registration has become an activity of the
Provincial Joint Study Committees.
In consideration of these findings the
committee recommended its dissolution
to the C.N.A. Executive Committee in
order to prevent over-lapping and con'
fusion of undertakings in the provinces.
This recommendation received the 1P'
proval of the Executive on March 24,
1933.
Reciprocity ß.'ith Engla1Jd and Wales
At the general meeting in 1932 the
C.N.A. went on record as expressing the
wish to enter into negotiations with the
General Nursing Council of England and
Wale3 for the purpose of establishinJ
reciprocal registration between Canada
and England. When advised of this
desire, the General Nursing Council
assured the C.N.A. that they were
AUGUST, 1934
377
prepared to enter into negotiations for
the establishment of reciprocal registra'
tion with those parts of His Majesty's
Dominions in which there was an enac;t'
ment having the force of law for th
registration of nurses, provided that the
standard of training and examination
required for admission to the Register of
Nurses was not lower than the standard
of training and examination required
under the Nurses' Registration Act {or
England and Wales. As there is no Fed,
eral Act for the Reg
stration of Nurses
in Canada, the Provincial Registrars were
advised that the General Nursing COU11'
cil would be glad to receive representa,
tions from the individual provinces: to
date reciprocal arrangements have be
l1
completed between the General Nursing
Council of England and Wales and the
provinces of British Columbia and Mani,
toba, while in Ontario arrangements are
progressing toward fulfilment of the wish
expressed at the general meeting, 1932.
Forms for Pro'Vincial Registration by
Reciprocity
In September 1933, the Register
d
Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia asked
that the C.N.A. draft a uniform simpli,
fied form of registration for use in cases
of reciprocity between provinces pending
the inauguration of Dominion registra,
tion. With the aid of the provincial
registrars, a study of application forms
for registration was made. The result
of the study showed that the prime
factor toward eliminating the existing
difficulties of inter, provincial reciprocal
registration was the need for great
r
similarity in educational admissif'll1
requirements and in curricula in schools
of nursing. It is apparent that until there
is similarity in these standards it is im'
possible to draft a form of application
for reciprocal registration that would be
satisfactory to all provinces.
Dominion Council of Health
At the previous general meeting, the
Public Health Section asked that the
378
THE CANADIAN NURSE
C.N.A. send a resolution to the Minist
r
of the Department of Pensions and
National Health requesting that a repre,
sentative from the C.N.A. be appointed
to the Dominion Council of Health. In
reply to the resolution sent forward, th2
C. N .A. was advised that the request in
the resolution would receive considera'
tion, and the present personnel of the
Dominion Council was explained, v
. :-
The Council consists of a representative
from the Federal and each of the Provin,
cial Departments of Health, and fiv
other representatives who represent
science, agriculture, labour, rural women,
and women's organi 4 ations and child
welfare.
Hospital Boards of Trustees
In August, 1932, copies of sevcn
resolutions passed at the general meeting
were sent to the boards of trustees of
two hundred and seven hospitals in
Canada. In preparation for distributioa,
each resolution was followed by a not.!'
tion of the chapters in the Survey Report
in which were included recommenda,
tions relating specifically to the resolu'
tion. Less than three per cent of the
boards of trustees acknowledged tht>ir
receiving the foregoing correspondenc
from the C.N.A.
Floral Tributes
Floral tributes in the name of the
Canadian Nurses Association were made
to: The memory of Miss Florence Night:,
ingale during Nightingale Week Ù1
London, in July 1932; the memory of
Miss Mary Agnes Snively In September
1933; the Canadian Nurses' Memorial
at Ottawa on Remembrance Day, 1932
and 1933; and in Paris and Brussels in
July, 1933, Canadian nurses joined with
the nurses of the other British Overseas
Dominions in rendering tribute before
the graves of the Unknown Soldier of
France and of Belgium.
International Relationships
During the past two years the most
Important activities arising from affilia-
tion with the International Council of
Nurses have been the Quadrennial Con'
gress in July, 1933, and the promotion of
the Florence Nightingale Memorial Fou
1'
dation scheme. The Congress was held in
Paris and Brussels from July 8 to 15,
1933; the C.N.A. was represented offi,
cially by the full quota to which national
associations are entitled, vi4.: the Presi'
dent and four duly appointed delegates;
the latter represented each of the thr.::e
national sections and the French-speaking
members of the C.N.A. A sixth repre
sentative was Miss Jean 1. Gunn, seco!1J
vice-president of the LC.N. At the
general meeting in 1932. the delegates
gave approval to the proposal that the
C.N.A., through the staff at National
Office, should undertake the organÏ4ation
of its own tours in co'operation with the
Thos. Cook &' Son Travel Agency, for
members attend
ng the Congress. An
early survey anticipated an enrolment ()f
not more than forty nurses. It is very
gratifying to report that from early ill
1933 there was widespread interest m
the Congress and that the tours' enrol,
ment totalled 132 members. Certificates
of membershIp in the C.N.A. were
issued and Congress registration fees cùl-
l
cted prior to departure from Canada.
As at a later session the Florence
Nightingale Memorial Foundati
n
scheme is to be considered and as there
has been extensive publicity in the
J ourna.l to the immediate participation
of the C.N.A. in the project, only a
brief statement is made herewith J.1
reference to the scholarships offered
recently for the year 1934,35. Early in
March last, the Executive Committee
announced that the C.N.A. offered a
scholarship to a Canadian nurse to
attend the International Courses for
Nurses at Bedford College, London: the
Nightingale Foundation Fund is the
objective for the endowment of the.se
courses. A few days later. the President
received a letter from the President of the
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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
Nightingale Fellowship of the Nightin'
gale School of Nursing, St. Thomas's
Hospital, London, announcing that the
Nightingale Fellowship wished to make
recognition of the twenty-fifth anniver,
sary of the C.N.A. by awarding a
Nightingale Fellowship Scholarship to J.
student chosen by the C.N.A. This
generous offer was gladly accepted, :first
by cablegram and later by letter. Wide'
spread publicity was given to these sch'],
larships. Early in April the first reque::;ts
for application forms were received at
National Office and by May 31, th
final date on which applications could
be received, forms had been issued to 96
nurses. All secretarial work in connec,
tion with the scholarships was done :-tt
the National Office, the conduction of
which left little time for other duties
during April and May.
The development of a central office fer
the C.N.A. under the direction of aa
executive secretary was internationally
recognized when your President was con-
sulted by a special committee of the Board
of Directors of the LC.N. appointed t:J
consider the reorganization of Interna,
tional headquarters. In reply, there WJ5
prepared a statement of administration
which after receIvmg presidential
approval was forwanled to the LC.N
Recently the Board of Directors an-
nounced the appointment of Miss Annrt
Schwarzenberg, formerly superintendent
of nurses of the University Children's
Hospital, Graz, Austri(l, as executiv
secretary of the LC.N. for a period of
two years.
Headquarters
The removal of the National Offic,,::
from Winnipeg to Montreal during th
dutumn of 1932, and while your execu'
tive secrctary continued as editor and
business manager of the Journal. brought
a series of varied experiences to the
National Office staff. The aim was' trJ
effect removal with as little embarrass,
ment as possible to your Executive Com'
AUGUST, 19J4
379
mittee. Reference is made here to the
splendid co'operation received from the
printers, both in Winnipeg and Mont'
real, and more especially to a staff mem'
ber, who after six years of most satis'
factory service as bookkeeper with th
C.N.A., was unable to remove to Mont'
real. Assistance from those sources WJ.S
responsible largely for any success by
which removal was acccomplished. Fol-
lowing the appointment of the editor of
The Canadian Nurse in January, 1933,
the C.N.A. staff at National Office has
consisted of the executive secretary anJ
an assistant. Since November, 1931, a
member of the C.N.A., with stenG-
graphic qualifications and experience, has
been engaged as assistant. Your execu'
tive secretary submits detailed reports
including assets, to quarterly meetings
of the Executive Committee; month!y
financ.
al statements are made to th
President, the Honorary Secretary an
Honorary Treasurer, while similar state-
ments are sent quarterly to all membe'
5
nf the Executive Committee. Correspon-
dence continues to be an important anJ
increasing factor in organization interests.
The contents of the information bureau
requires frequent revisions and addition3.
Early in 1933, the C.N.A. was asked
to prepare an historical sketch of the
Association for publication in a book
entitled "American and Canadian H%-
pitals." The privilege accorded th
C.N.A. of being included in the volum.:
was fully realized and the material wa3
prepared carefully, with constant refer-
ence to past records dnd files. The com'
pleted manuscript was approved by the
President. A complimentary copy of this
valuable book has become one of th
most used reference books at National
Office. Othcr recent additions to tho:
bookshelves have been:-a copy of "Th
'
History of Nursing", by Seymcr, a gift
from Miss Priscilla Campbell, of ChJ.'
tham, Onttlrio, and a copy of "A Shon
History of the Hospitals of Ontario".
380
THE CANADIAN NURSE
presented to the C.N.A. with the com'"
pliments of the Minister of Health for
the province of Ontario. Office demand':)
arising from the organization of th
C.N.A. tours in connection with
nurses from Canada attending the
LC.N. Congress in July, 1933, de...
layed the' accomplishment of anti...
cipated plans for clerical reorganiz3.
tion in the C.N.A. office early in 1933.
Later the records from 1908 to 1930
were checked and compiled according to
subject, numbered and catalogued. All
official records and relevant correspon
dence are included in that catalogue.
At the suggestion of the editor of 'The
Ca.nad:an Nurse and with the approval
of the Executive Committee arrang
'
ments were maùe for the monthly publiCi'
tion of C.N .A. activities at headquarter.,.
Since April, 1933, under the headie.g
Notes from the National Office your
Executive Secretary has contributed
monthly one or more pages of inform'
ative material and thus it has been
possible to keep the membership at large
in close touch with the policies and pro'
gramme of the national organization.
JEAN S. W.ILSON, Reg. N.,
Executive Secretary, Canadian Nurses
Association.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL ENROLMENT
Two meetings of the National Joint
Committee on enrolment of nurses for
emergency service in war or disaster were
held during the past two years. During
the last year the :first general follow'up
of enrolled nurses was carried out
throughout the whole Dominion. As the
result of this follow,up, together with
new enrolments, the number of enrolled
nurses at the end of October, when the
lists for the year were completed, was
944. This is a reduction of 51 from
the number on the lists in 1932. The
sub, joined table shows the number en...
rolled last year and the year before and
the increase or decrease which has
occurred in each province:
Division 1932 1933 Increase Decredse
BritishCol...215291 76
Alberta ..... 68 51 17
Saskatchewan 39 74 35
Manitoba .... 106 82 24
Ontario ..... 305 188 117
Quebec ..... 130 143 13
New Brunswick 34 19 15
Nova Scotia. 44 31 13
Prince Edward
Island ..... 10 26 16
Out of Canada 44 39 5
995 944 140 191
If the enrolment is to be maintained,
some means must be found to stimulate
and maintain interest in the plan and to
overcome the JlsJ.ppearance of interest
which originally prompteù the nurse to
enrol. The number of registered nurses
in Canada is approximately twenty thou,
sand. With fewer than one thousand
enrolled, no one could claim that the
enrolment has been successful. About
ten thousand of the registered nurses
are members of the Canadian Nurses
Association. Even among these the plan
of maintaining a Register of nurses for
emergency service has appealed to less
than ten per cent.
That the plan continues to be of value
to the Department of National Defence
was con:finned by the following letter
which was received from the Director'
General of Medical Services when the
corrected lists for 1933 were sent to him:
I wish to thank you for the lists and to s.\y
how very much we appreciate the trouble you
have gone to in compiling them.
These will be kept in our files for a ready
reference in the event of the Medical Service
being mobilized for any emergency.
From the manner in which the returns
carrie in to National Office it is obvious
that the task of keeping the lists correct
and securing replies from those already
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NATIONAL ENROLMENT
enrolled is far from simple. In all
instances the divisional offices found that
very large percentages of the enrolled
nurses failed to reply to the :first follow-
up card. A considerable number also
neglected to reply to a second follow-up
and in some of the divisions a third card
was sent to the defaulters. In view of
the fact that follow-up efforts began in
the Spnng and were not completed until
October, it seemed to be almost impos-
s
ble to have two complete follow-ups in
the year. It was, therefore, suggested to
the provincial joint committees that the
follow-up which had been planned for
December should be postponed to the
Spring. All the provincial joint com-
mittees agreed to the suggestion.
Another point, discovered as the result
of the follow-up, was the change of place
of residence by a nurse who had enrolled
and was on the enrolment list of one
province but had moved to another
province. In order to simplify the situa-
tion, it was suggested to the provincial
joint committees that the nurse's name be
struck off the enrolment list of the prov-
ince in which she had originally been
enrolled
nd added to the list of the
province in which she was living. This
suggestion was accepted by most of the
provincial joint committees but the Que-
bec committee took exception to it, and
after some correspondence and considera-
tion, adopted a resolution to the effect
that a nurse enrolled in some other
province than Quebec and moving from
that province to Quebec, should be re'
quested to report to the Quebec Asso,
ciation of Registered Nurses and to
present her credentials so that the transfer
of her enrolment from the province in
which she had previously resided to the
province of Quebec might be acceptable
to the Quebec Nurses Associ.ltion and
the Quebec joint com
1Íttee on enrol,
ment. The National Joint Committee
recommended to the provincial joint com'
mittees that the following classifications
be generally adopted:
AUGUST, 1934
3S1
Class A: Nurses enrolled for war and disaster.
Class B: Nurses enrolled for war only.
Class C: Nurses enrolled for disaster only.
Class D: Reserves including nurses over the
age of 45.
It was also considered advisable that
the records should indicate the special
experience of each enrolled nurse accord-
ing to some such grouping as follows:
administration; public health nursing;
operating room; private duty and X'ray.
The decrease in the number of nurses
enrolled and the cause of this decrease
has caused the committee considerable
concern, and it was generally agreed that
three factors were chiefly responsible,-
a rather marked general indifference
among the nurses to the plan of enrol-
ment; the fact that no emergency had
arisen, and the lack of a sufficient under-
standing among nurses of the value of
keeping their names on the registers. The
committee fully realizes that if an emer'
gency should actually occur a very large
number of nurses would be eager to serve,
and it was the general opinion that there
m!ght be a real advantage if a maximum
establishment of enrolled nurses were
adopted, because many nurses, fearing
that the quota for their province might
be completed, would hasten to enrol and
would be interested in seeing that their
names were kept on the Register.
The National Joint Committee sub-
mits the following recommendations to
the Canadian Nurses Association:
I. That a maximum establishment should
he laid down, the tutal for Canada not to
exceed 3,000 nurses in classes I, 2 and 3
comprising the ages up to 45. Nurses in
Class 4 might enrol in addition to this num-
ber and if the Canadian Nurses Association
agrees with the recommendation the proposal
should then be submitted to the provincial
joint committees.
2. That the provincial JOint committees
should meet at least once a year, one meeting
to be held in November or December, so that
the enrolment in the province might be rc.
viewed and a report be submitted to the
National Joint Committee not later than
January 31st.
RUBY E. HAMILTON,
Conl'ener
REPORT OF MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
In 1931 a convener of a committee, to
conduct a membership campaign with
power to appoint her own committee,
was appointed. The objective of this com-
mittee was to attain a membership of at
ICdst 10,000 by the time of the Biennidl
Meeting in 1934. At the Biennial Meet-
ing in Saint John, a meeting was held
with representatives from each province.
It was decided that each province could
best conduct its own campaign according
to the methods most suited to each. A
committee was formed in each province.
That the campaign has been sucæssful is
evidenced by the fact that on December
31, 1933, the membership in the Cana-
dian Nurses Association was exactly the
desired ten thousand. The membership
in June, 1930, the date on which dual
affiliation was discontinued, and when
the membership depended solely on
provincial membership, was 6,632 and
today in June, 1934, the membership is
10,431, an increase of 57.1 %. The pro-
vincial memberships on both those dates
and the percentage increase is as follows:
Percentage
Increa..e
49.4
13.5
33.6
87.7
140.1
70.5
Province
Alberta ........
British ColumbIa.
M,mitoba ......
New BrunswIck .
Nova Scotia ....
Ontario ........
Prince Edward
Island ....... 74 83 9.7
Quebec ........ 1,997 3,240 60.2
Sa katchewan ... 249 781 213.6
In all the provinces, except Ontario
and Prince Edward Island, membership
in the provincial association is coincident
with registration and re-registration
annually. In these two provinces member,
ship is voluntary, the registration fee
being paid to the government directly.
I wish here to state my appreciation of
the provincial conveners who have made
possible the success of this committee.
MARY B. MILLMAN,
Convener
1930
469
1,525
339
211
285
1,387
1934
701
1,731
453
396
680
2,366
REPORT OF THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
MEMORIAL AWARD COMMITTEE
The Florence Nightingale Memorial
Award Committee is composed of Miss
Fairley of Vancouver, Miss McPhedran
of Calgary, Miss Coleman of New Bruns-
wick, Miss Holt of Montreal, Miss Nora
Moore of Toronto, with Miss Hamilton
as convener and Miss Emory as member
ex officio. As the members were so scat-
tered much of the work of the committee
had to be done by correspondence. At
the first meeting of the Toronto members
it was decided that a special certificate
of professional training, signed by the
Principal of the Training School should
accompany each application. This was
approved by the committee as a whole.
All application forms for the scholarship
were sent out and returned to the Na-
tional Office and later forwarded to the
award committee.
382
Sixteen applications were received
from nurses for the Course in Public
Health for Nurses, and sixteen for the
Course for Nurse Administrators and
Teachers in Schools of Nursing. It is
very gratifying to the Canadian Nurses
Association that so many nurses with ex-
ceptional qualifications and experience
\vere sufficiently interested in the Inter-
national Memorial to Florence Nightin'
gale to make application for the scholar-
ship.
The Toronto members of the commit-
tee met on June 1 and examined all ap-
plications, making a selection, and then
the applications were forwarded to the
Western members and from there to the
New Brunswick member. Miss Holt had
the opportunity of seeing the applications
.lS they were received at National Office.
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THE PAGEANT COMMITTEE
U pan the receipt of the decision of the
members from other provinces a :final
meeting was called June 20th, at which
M
ss Fairley and the Toronto members
were present.
The successful candidates for the In-
ternational Courses at Bedford College
,111d College of Nursing, London, are:
Miss Eli2;abeth Smith, B.A., graduate of
the School of Nursing of the Vancouver
General Hospital and Instructor in
Health Education at the Moose Jaw Nor
mal School, Saskatchewan, receives the
r:anadian Nurses Association Scholar-
38.;
ship for the Course in Public Health for
Nurses.
Miss Christina C. Murray, B.A.,
graduate of the School of Nursing of the
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and
practicalmstructor of nurses at the CivIC
Hospital. Ottawa, receives the scholarship
g
ven by the Nightingale School of St.
Thomas's Hospital, London, for the
Course for Nurse Administrators and
Teachers in Schools of Nursing.
RL'BY E. H-\MILTON,
Convener
REPORT OF THE PAGEANT COMMITTEE
The special committee for the inter-
pretation of the historical development of
nursing in Canada has been at work since
January, 1933, in preparation for the
presentation of a Pageant of Nursing in
Canada at the Biennial Meeting: The
pasonnel of this committee was assigned
to sub-committees as follows:
Scenario--Convener: Miss Jean 1. Gunn,
Miss Gladys Sharpe, Miss Florence H. M.
Emory, Miss Ethel Greenwood.
Personnel-Convener: Miss Ethel Green-
wood, Miss Beatrice Austin, Miss Elizabeth
Regan, Miss Eileen Ditchburn, Miss Ruby
Hamilton, Miss Nora Moore.
'fic1{et-Convener: Miss Harriet Meikle-
john, Miss Ellen Collier, Miss Margaret Dul-
mage, Miss Winnie L. Chute.
Programme-Convener: Miss Ellis, MIss
Gladys Sharpe, Miss Muriel MacKay, Miss
Jean Browne.
Finance-Convener: Miss Margaret Dul-
mage, Miss Florence H. M. Emory.
Hotel Arrangements-Miss Mary Millman,
Miss Matilda Fitzgerald.
Additional Members-Miss Clara Brown,
Miss Isobel McEwen, Miss Edna Moore, Mi"s
Helen Heffernan.
The Lommittee feels very honoured in
having as their patrons Their Excellen-
cies the Right Honourable the Earl of
Bessborough, P.C., G.C.M.G., and Lady
Bessborough, and as vice-patrons the
Right Honourable R. B. Bennett, K.C.,
P.C., LL.B., LL.D., Prime Minister of
AUGUST, 1934
Canada; the Right Honourable W. L.
MackenÚe King, C.M.G., P.C., M.A.,
LL.B., LL.D., Leader of the Opposition;
G. A. B. Addy, M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.,
President, Canadian Medical Associa-
tion; Miss M. W. Kydd, M.A., C.B.E.,
President, The National Council of Wo-
men of Canada.
The Committee is indebted to the in-
structors' section of the Centralized Lec
ture Course Committee of Toronto for
the preparation of the historical data on
which the Pageant is based. The scenario
has been written by Me J E. Middleton,
who also directs the incidental music. Mr.
Edgar Stone, assisted by Mr. George R.
Young, formerly director and manager of
Hd.rt House Theatre, University of To-
ronto, directs the production. The nar-
ration is read by Mr. Horatio Purdy.
The personnel reÿuired is supplied by
the Schools of Nursing in Toronto, the
Division of Puhlic Health Nursing, To-
ronto, the Toronto Branch of the Vic-
torian Order of Nurses, the St. Eli4abeth
Visiting Nurses Association and the Ovcr-
seas Nurses Cluh of Toronto. We are spe
cially indebted to Miss Stephanie Jarvis
and to Mr. Hammond of &aton House
for interesting the men in the Pageant
and securing the necessary personnel to
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
take the male rôles, and to Mr. J. E. Mid-
dleton who has secured and trained a
choir of fifty-four voices for the necessary
mUSIC.
The Committee is undertaking to assist
in meeting the financial responsibility by
charging an admission fee of one dollar
which includes the amusement tax levied
by the Provincial Government. The full
report of the Committee cannot be pre-
sented until after the arrangements for
the Pageant are completed. For this rea-
son the committee asks the privilege of
presenting a further and final report at
a later date to the Executive Committee
of the Canadian Nurses Association
JEAN I. GUNN,
Convener
THE JOINT STUDY COMMITTEE
S
nce the last annual report to this
Association, the Joint Study Committee
on Nursing Education has carried on as
a national clearing house for the provill'
cial committees, and has given considera-
tion to matters submitted by the Execu-
tive of the Canadian Nurses Association.
In every province there is now a provin
cial Joint Study Committee, and these
committees are in close touch with the
National CommIttee. The distribution
of minutes from the provincial Joint
Study Committees of Manitoba, Alberta
and British Columbia has been arranged
at their request, and the National Com-
mittee will be pleased to extend this
service to the other provinces if they so
desire.
The Committee has held monthly
meetings throughout the fall and winter,
and has given a good deal of time to
investigation of problems growing out
of the Survey. As none of these have
reach the reporting stage, we can only
submit progress dt this time. Early in
the year the Committee asked the Presi-
dent of the Canadian Nurses Association
and the Secretary of the Department of
Hospital Service of the Canadian Medi.:al
Association to attend all meetings, there-
by strengthening the work of the Com-
mittee. It is the general opinion of the
members that the CommIttee should con-
tinue until the best form of permanent
organ
z.<ltion is decided upon and brought
into operation. We recommend that this
association by resolution concur in the
continuance of the Committee.
The representatives of the Canadian
Nurses Association on this Committee,
feeling that the special work for which
they were appointed has been completed
after a period of seven years, respect-
fully recommend that a new personnel
to represent the Canadian Nurses As.so-
ciation be appointed following this bien-
nial meeting.
JEAN E. BROWNE, Secretary.
The following resolutions submitted by
the National Joint Study Committee
were duly approved by the Canadian
Nurses Association:
I. That Dominion Registration, controlled
by the Canadian Nurses Association is
desirable.
2. (a.) That a nucleus of a Committee on
Dominion Registration should be appointed by
the C.N.A. in some locality and that a repre-
sentative of each province be added to this
committee by appointment of each of the
Provincial Associations.
(b) That this committee undertake to
study existing standards of nursing education
in the various provinces and to suggest desir-
able standards of Dominion Registration.
3. (a.) That all who nurse the sick for hire
should be licensed
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EXCHANGE OF NURSES
(b) That licensmg should be under pro'
vincial control.
(c) That each provincial association appoint
a body to study and act re clauses (a) and
385
(b), and that in each province the body
acting in this matter confer with the Provin-
cial Joint Study Committee, obtaining this
committee's opinion and help as far as possible.
COMMITTEE ON EXCHANGE OF NURSES
Your Exchange Committee has made
arrangements through the College of
Nursing for six months' experience in the
British Isles for the following Canadian
nurses :
iss Norena MacKenzie, Montreal, in
training school and hospital work.
Miss Eileen Flanagan, Montreal, in trainbg
school and hospital work.
Miss Dorothy Riches, Montreal, in training
school and hospital work.
Miss Pnscilla Campbell, Chatham, in train,
ing school and hospital work.
Mrs. Frances Weatherbe, Toronto, in public
health.
Through the College of Nursing, Miss
Dorothy Wood, an English public health
nurse, had six months' experience in Can
ada, and plans are being made for Miss
Taylor and Miss Holland of Guy's Hos-
pital, London, to spend two months in
Canada, commencing early in September
next.
Mlle. Marie Demol, a French nurse,
has just completed eight months' experi
LI1Ce in Canada. Correspondence in con
nection with Mlle. Demol was carried on
by Mlle. Chaptal, past' president of the
LC.N., who sponsored her. She asked
specially for experience in a children's
hospital, and Miss Austin, superinten
dent of the Training School of the Hos'
pital for Sick Children, Toronto, was
good enough to give her a special post
graduate course for a period of over six
months. In addition to this, Mlle. Demol
spent a week in the hospital social ser'
vice depdrtment of the Toronto General
Hospital, a month in the maternIty de
partment of the Royal Victoria Hospital,
AUGUST, 1934
Montreal, and approximately three weeks
in the rural health centres of Quebec.
In regard to interprovincial exchanges,
the following letter was sent in January,
1933, to the president of each Provincial
Nurses Association:
You will perhaps recall that the following
resolution was passed at the biennial meeting
of the Canadian Nurses Association in Saint
John: "That the Exchange of Nurses Com'
mittee be requested to develop some scheme
whereby the exchange of nurses within the
Dominion of Canada may be effected, and to
continue their efforts to establish some plan
for exchange abroad." This resolution was
referred to the Exchange of Nurses Committee,
and the Committee reported its willingness
to add to the duties already undertaken, the
developing of an inter-provincial scheme of
exchange of nurses, and if this is agreed to
by the Executive of the Canadian Nurses
Association the Committee will consider any
applications that are sent to the Convener, and
will try to make necessary arrangements for
exchange.
The ExecutIVe of the Canadian Nurses
Association dealt with this communication by
passing the following resolution: "That the
detail involved in the idea of interprovincial
exchange, together with notifying the provin'
cial associations, be left to this Special Com
mittee:' The m'ltter as I see it now resolves
itself into this: if nurses in your province
are desirous of securing an exchange with
some other province, application should be
made to the Committee on Exchange. The
Committee w1l1 then try to make the necessary
arrangements. The Committee feels that this
matter of interprovincial exchange should be
proceeded with experimentally and cautiously
at first, until there is sufficient experience to
formulate a definite policy.
So far, the Committee has had no
requests for interprovincial exchanges.
J 1-:\ 1'\ E. BROWN 1:..
Convener
. . . OFF. . . DUTY. . .
The only tIme we ever intend to mention names . . . on this irresponsIble page . . .
is when we are celebrating twents,fifth anniversaries. . . Fortunately these can 0111)'
occur four times in a century . . . so there is not much danger of our repeating this
indiscretion too uften . . . But it would be impossible . . . even to refer to a certam
memorable occaswn . . . which recently too
place in the fair city of 'Toronto . . .
without personal mentiol1 . . . of those who are described in journalistic circles as
ey people. . . All we want to do anyway is to as
a few questions about them. . .
FOT irutance, we should li
e to
now . . . how Miss Gunn managed to be in ten
different places simultaneously . . . tall{ing to ten persoru . . . about ten totally
unrelated toPics . . . without turning a single hair . . . or apþearing other than
cool, calm, and collected . . . We have wntten to Professor Albert Eirutein about
this. . . because we thin
it is a new phenomenon in astro'physics . . . and might
come in useful wh.en probmg the mysteries of time and space . . . 'Then, too, we
would li
e to
now. . how Miss Emory contrived. . after putting the
amendment to the amendme-n.t to the amendment before the meeting. . . for about
(aþþroximately) the twenty,fifth time . . . to respond amiably to a request that
it be put forward for the twenty'sixth time (approximateloy) . . . so that we might
all be quite clear. . . as to what it was all about. . . without undue strain on our
own mental processes . Whereupon our presiding officer too
it cleanly over its
twenty'sixth hurdle . . . and had sufficient breath left . . . to say with a smile . . .
"Well, we are getting alol1g very nicely". . . And so indeed we were . . . Now
we should now li
e to
now how Miss Fitzgerald managed to run the registration
des
. . . and at the same time provide such important utilities as adhesive plaster
and thumb tac
s . . . with the dexterity of a magician pulling rabbits out of a hat
. . . We should also li
e some information . . . as to the average number of foolish
questioru . . . patiently aruwered by Miss Millman in the course of the wee
. . .
here again we are concerned with astronomical numbers . . . We would li
e to go
on indefinitely . . . but cannot resist the temptation to steal space in order to record
. . . a few private thrills of our own . . . Every night when we creþt exhausted to
our couch . . . there was a blossoming branch of syringa beside it . . . miraculously
renewed we believe . . . by some good fairy who reþresented the R.7'x.A.O. . . .
The good deeds of that organization are many. . . and to them is now added the
grace of that flowering sþray . . . We would also li
e to nominate for the Hall of
Fame . . . an anonymous official of the palatial hostelry . . . in which the meetings
too
place. . . he was apparently the major,domo of the convention floor. . . and
was usually besieged by a seething mob of females . . . demanding chairs, tables,
þitchers of ice water, portable teLephones and "some one to fix the microphone" . . .
When he had satisfied the multitudinous demands of his feminine satellites . . . the
gentlemen in charge of the commeTcial exhibits too
him on . . . and as
ed for
hammers, nails, scantlings and electric wiring . . . We owe him an enormous debt
of gratitude for he furnished uS with a man and a ladder . . . and personally super'
intended the hanging of that magnificent poster of The Canadian Nurse. . . which
we wangled from the Calgary Graduate Nurses Association . . . Now for the
greatest thrill of all . . . With our own eyes we beheld potential subscribers standing
in line '. . . clamouring to be allowed to sign . . . on the dotted line . . . It must
have been that Calgary poster . . .
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ALBERTA
CALGARY: An invitation was extended by
the Medical Association to the registered
nurses in Calgary to attend the scientific
programmes of the Convention of the Cana'
dian Medical Association held in Calgary
during the week of June 18. Many of the
nurses took advantage of the opportunity and
also enjoyed seeing the exhibits shown by
various firms. At the meeting of the C.A.G.N.
held June 26, the chief business was the
nomination of officers for the coming two
Years. Election will take place at the Septem'
ber meeting. Mrs. Kennedy gave some notes
on interesting subjects which were being dis.
cussed at the Convention of the Canadian
Nurses Association then in session in Toronto.
NEW BRUNSWICK
ST. STEPHEN: On June 24, the annual
meeting of Chipman Memorial Hospital
Alumnae Association was held when satis'
factory reports on the year's work were
presented. Officers for the ensuing year were
elected. The graduation exercises of the school
of nursing took place on June 29, with Mr.
W. G. DeWolfe, president of the Hospital
Board, presiding. Dr. L. W. Brownngg
addressed the graduating class. Mr. A. D.
Ganong, M.P., presented the diplomas to the
graduates and Miss Moffat, superintendent of
nurses, presented the class pins. The prizes
for highest average were won by Miss Bessie
Moffat, Miss Elizabeth Caldwell, and Miss
Nellie McCullough. Following the exercises
a reception and dance was held.
MARRIED: On May 30, 1934, Miss Ada
Knowlton (C.M.H., 1931), to Mr. Watson
Young.
WOODSTOCK: The annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the L. P. Fisher
Memorial Hospital was held on June 19. The
usual business was transacted, all the officers
being re.elected for the coming year.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT 1
LONDON: A garden tea was given by Miss
Mary L. Jacobs, Mrs. Hedley V. Smith and
Miss Mildred Walker at the Ontario Hos.
pital, London, in honor of Miss Mildred
Chambers, who leaves London to assume her
duties as V.O.N. supervisor at Walkervilk.
Mrs. F. S. Vrooman, Mrs. George McNeil,
Mrs. A. C. McClennahan and Mrs. W.
Beckers presided at the tea table. Miss Ella
Grant, who is to succeed Miss Chambers. was
38
introduced. Miss M. Chambers was also the
guest of honor at a luncheon arranged by the
Board of the London branch of the V.O.N.
and held at the Hotel London. Miss Ella
Grant was also an honored guest. Professor
Landon voiced appreciation of service ren.
dered by Miss Chambers, who expre
sed her
gratitude to the Executive for a set of silver
candlesticks presented by Mrs. R. W. Travers.
CHATHAM: Mrs. Margaret Jones, Chatham
General Hospital, has charge of the Emer-
gency Hospital, Port Stanley, for the summer.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRANTFORD: The following attended the
C.N.A. General Meeting in Toronto: Misses
E. Norsworthy, H. Westbrook, M. Robertson,
K. Charnley, L. Gillespie, S. Livett, J. M.
Wilson, E. M. McKee, J. Edmondson, G.
Westbrook, R. Cleaves, M. Meggitt, L. Van
Every, H. D. Muir, A. Goodwin, F. Stewart,
E. Ruddy, E. M. Jones, D. Hill, V. Forsythe,
C. E. Jackson, A. McKee, J. McKee, Mrs. D.
Mortimer and Mrs. Jessie Maloney. Mi8s
AdelIa McKee (B.G.H., 1922), supervisor,
Victorian Order of Nurses, Calgary, was a
recent visitor at the hospital. Miss Lillian
Spence, student nurse, Brantford General
Hospital, was a guest at the Hospital for
Sick Children during the convention, and
Misses M. Terryberry and P. Johnson, affi.
liating students at the Toronto Psychiatric
Hospital, were privileged to attend many of
the meetings. Miss D. H. Arnold, who has
been ill, will return for duty shortly. Miss H.
Muir has left on a motor trip to Regina.
Miss Marion Lindeburgh is the guest of Mrs.
C. E. Bath, Paris, following the meeting in
Toronto. Miss Daisy Bridges, St. Thomas's
Hospital, London, England, who was the guest
of Miss I. Macintosh, Hamilton, during her
visit to Canada, was entertained at dinner by
Miss E. M. McKee and Miss J. M. Wilson.
GUELPH: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the Guelph General
Hospital was held on June 5. when the mem.
bers gave a kitchen shower in honor of Miss
Vera Forsythe, whose marriage is to take place
shortly. Miss S. A. Campbell, superintendent,
Guelph General Hospital, has left on a trip
to the West Indies.
KITCH ENER: The grad uation exercises of
the Kitchcner. Waterloo Hospital School for
Nurses were held June 2, when nine students
graduated. An address was given by Mr. E.
Tailby, and the address to the graduating class
by R
v. J. R. Webb. The pins and diplomas
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were presented by Mrs. Mary Kaufman and
Dr. Frank R. Harvey. Miss Marjorie C.
Ciceri received the prize for general profi.
ciency; Miss Elizabeth Wisler the prize for
surgical technique, and Miss Eleanor E. Hud.
gins the prize for obstetrics.
DISTRICT 4
HAMILTON: MARRIED: On June 4, Miss
Janet West (H.G.H., 19"28), for four ye.1rS
instructor of nurses at the Woodstock General
Hospital, to Mr. Morgan J. Tamphin, of Fal.
conbridge, Onto
MARRIED: On June 27, Miss Mabel Mc.
Intosh (graduate of St. Joseph's Hospital,
1931), to Mr. Joseph D. Goldthorpe, of Bay.
field, Onto
DISTRICT 5
TORONTO: Miss E. Ditchburn, director of
nursing of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital,
has resigned her position and will be succeed
d
by Mi5s Edith Dick, formerly superintendent
of nurses at the Ontario Hospital, Mimico.
TORONTO: The staff council of the Toronto
branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses
entertained at dinner on June 13, in honor
uf Miss Edith Campbell, retiring superinten'
dent. Miss Kathleen McNamara presided and
on behalf of the staff presented Miss Campbell
with a Sheffield tray and a basket of red roses.
Miss Ada Luxon, supervisor of Hillcrest Dis.
trict, V.O.N., Toronto, sailed on July 1 for
a two months' trip abroad.
DISTRICT 7
KINGSTON: The graduation exercises of the
Kingston General Hospital Training School
for Nurses were held on May 31 with Mr.
v..'. T. Minnes, chairman of the Board of
Governors, presiding. Thirty.nine nurses
. graduated and Miss Zelda Black carried off
the gold medal and Miss Mina Minahan won
the silver medal. Dr. McEachern, director of
Hospital Activities, American College of Sur'
geons, addressed the graduating class. Follow.
ing the exercises a reception was held. The
annual dinner given by the Alumnae Asso.
ciation in honor of the graduating class was
held and about one hundred members were
present. Plans were started for a Kingston
General Hospital re'union which is to take
place in 1936 to celebrate the fiftieth anni-
versary of the school. Miss Baillie, superin-
tendent of nurses, entertained the class and
the staff nurses at a dinner which will be long
remembered, and they were also entertained
at the homes of Mrs. R. F. Armstrong and
Mrs. W. T. Minnes. Among those attending
the C.N .A. Biennial Meeting were Misses A...
Baillie, O. Wilson, F. Smart, F. Thompson
(graduates of the KG.H.) and the Misses
Charland and French, students of the school.
Miss Hilda Seager, daughter of Bishop Seag
r
of London, and formerly of Kingston, ha!.
offered her services as a nurse, serving under
the Anglican Church Missions in the district
of Honan, China: Miss Seager is a recent
graduate of the KG.H. and has just com-
pleted a course in public health nursing in
the Western University, London. Her many
friends wish her success and happiness in thi
splendid work which she has undertaken.
MARRIED: On June 26, 1934, in Kingston.
Miss Edna Cliff (K.G.H., 1929), to Mr.
Bryan MacDermid, B.Sc., South Porcupine,
Onto
MARRIED: On May 6, 1934, in Kingston,
Miss Dorothy Porter (KG.H., 1932), to Mr.
Arthur L. Davies of Kingston.
MARRIED: On May 19, 1934, in Sydenham,
Ont., Miss Helen Spafford (K.G.H., 1932),
to Dr. W. J. Houghtling, Kingston.
MARRIED: In Bath, Ont., Miss O. Withers
(K.G.H., 1930), to Mr. E. L. Saylor, of
Hinsdale, N.Y.
DISTRICT 8
OTTAWA: The graduating exercises of the
School of Nursing of the Ottawa Civic Hos.
pital took place on June 8 when fifty.two
nurses received their pins and diplomas. Dr.
F. W. McKinnon and Mr. W. D. T. Atkin.
son, Principal of Glebe Collegiate Institute,
Ottawa, addressed the class. The pins and
diplomas were presented by Miss Gertrude
Bennett. Following the exercises, a garden
party was held on the lawn. Music was sur-
plied by the Governor.General's Guards Band.
In the evening, the class were guests of the
Hospital Board at a delightful dance. The
graduating class were guests of honor at a
dinner given by the Alumnae Association on
June 6. Miss Edna Osborne presided and
the toast to the King was proposed by Miss
Eleanor Fletcher. The toast to the guests was
offered by Miss Gertrude Bennett. Miss Edith
Rayside, C.B.E., R.R.C., addressed the gradu.
ating class in an interesting and appropriate
manner. She was introduced by Miss Elizabeth
Smellie, C.B.E., R.R.C., and thanked by Miss
Emily Maxwell. We were also privileged to
have as a guest, Miss Eunice Dyke. Miss
Gertrude MacDonald and Miss Ethel Webb
represented the Alumnae Association at the
C.N.A. Biennial Meeting.
MARRIED: At Ottawa, Miss Mary V. Ar-
buckle (Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1929), to Mr.
Neil C. Moodie, of Ottawa.
MARRIED: On June 9, 1934, Miss Dorothy
Knox Cameron (Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1932),
to Mr. Jared Chamberlain, of Ottawa.
MARRIED: Recently at Iroquois, Ont., Miss
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Ethel Lennox (Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1933),
to Mr. Burton Crappo of Flint, Mich.
MARRIED: On July 2, 1934, at Parkdale
United Church, Miss Ida McDowell (Ottawa
Civic Hospital, 1930), to the Rev. K. H.
Woodward of Elma, Onto
SMITH FALLS: The Alumnae Association
of the Smiths Falls Public Hospital has
decided to secure a Gatch Bed for hospital
use by means of a fund in memOíY of those
nurses who have passed on. Miss Viola
Hewitt (class of 1931), and Miss Muriel Hart
(class of 1932), are taking postgraduate
courses at the Royal Victoria Montreal Mater-
nity Hospital.
DISTRICT 10
FORT WILLIAM: Miss Catherine Lemon,
R.N., graduate of McKellar General Hospital,
completed a postgraduate course in conta-
gious diseases and has been appointed to a
temporary position with the V.O.N. at
Ottawa. .
PORT ARTHUR: At a recent meeting of
District 10, R.N.A.O., with Miss Vera Love-
lace presiding, it was announced that as a
special privilege, student nurses would be
representatives at the Dominion and provin-
cial meeting to be held in Toronto, June 25
to 30. Miss Evelyn Tweedley will be the
representative from the McKellar Hospital,
Fort William, and Miss Isabelle Hamer, from
the St. Joseph's General Hospital, Port Arthur.
Miss Vera Lovelace will also attend. After
the meeting, the graduates of 1934 from the
Fort William McKellar Hospital, the St.
Joseph's General Hospital, and the Port Ar-
thur General Hospital, were entertained by
the members of the R.N.A. The president,
Miss Vera Lovelace, acted as chairman. An
important item on the programme was an
address to the graduating classes by Mi<;s
Lovelace. Each of the graduates was presented
with a gift from the association: Miss Chiver.j-
Wilson making the presentation to the Port
Arthur general graduates; Miss Kirkpatrick
to the McKellar hospital graduates and Mi<;,;
May Hamilton to the St. Joseph's graduates.
PORT ARTHUR: Miss Gladys Young has
received word of her success in passing her
examinations in public health nursing at the
school of nursing connected with Toronto
University. Miss Young, who is a graduate
of the Port Arthur General Hospital training
school, class of 1931, will resume her position
on the staff of the Port Arthur Board of
Health.
SASKATCHEWAN
SASKATOON: The Saskatoon City Hospital
Alumnae Association entertained at the tea
hour in compliment to Miss Gertrude M.
Watson, when the members of the Alumnae
said farewell, previous to her departure from
Saskatoon, where she has held the position of
superintendent of the School of Nursing for
five years. Mrs. W. J. Pulley also entertained
at high tea in honor of Miss G. 'M. Watson.
MARRIED: On June 26, 1934, Miss Muriel
Pearl Hutson (S.C.H., 1929), to Mr. Reginald
C. Brook, Melfort, Sask.
OBITUARY
BEAUMONT-The death occurred, in To-
ronto, on February 15, 1934, of Mrs. Basil
Beaumont (Mary Kersteman), a member
of the class of 1918 of the School of
Nursing of the Toronto General Hospital.
LAMONT-The death occurred on April
28, 1934, in London, Ont., of Elizabeth
Lamont, a member of the class of 1902
of the School of Nursing of the Winnipeg
General Hospital. Miss Lamont practiced
for nearly thirty years as a private duty
nurse and was much beloved by her pa-
tients and fellow workers. For the last
two years she had made her home in
London with her sister, Mrs. John Taylor.
LINDENFIELD- The death occurred on
June 1, 1934, as a result of a motor acci-
dent, of Eleanor Lindenfield, aged twenty-
three years. Miss Lindenfield was a mem-
ber of the class of 1931 of the School of
Nursing of the Victoria Hospital, London.
Funeral services were conducted by the
Rev. Basil Thompson, and six of her class-
mates acted as pall bearers.
TESKEY -The death occurred, in Toronto,
on February 15, 1934, of Mrs. L. Teskey
(Margaret McGillivray), a member of the
class of 1918 of the School of Nursing of
the Toronto General Hospital.
WELSH-The death occurred in the Toronto
General Hospital, on February 15, 1934,
of Florence Welsh, a member of the class
of 1928 of the School of Nursing of the
Toronto General Hospital.
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Official
Directory
International Council of Nurses:
Secretary, Miss Anna Schwarzenberg, 14, Quai Gustav Ador, Geneva, Switzerland
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Officers
President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . Miss R. M Simpson, Parliament Buildings. Regina, Sask.
First Vice-President... . . . . . . . . . . . Miss G. M. Fairley, General Hospital, \'ancouver, B.c.
Second Vice-President. .. , . Miss M. 1.. Moag, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal, P.Q.
Honorary Secretary. . . . . .. Miss Elsie Wilson, 668 Bannatyne Ave., \Vinnipe
, Man.
Honorary Treasurer... . . . . . . . . . Miss 1\1. Murdoch, General Hospital, Saint John, 1\. R'
COUNCILLORS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Numerala preceding namea indicate office held, ft.: (1) Preaident, PrOTJincial Nuraea Association; (2) Chairman,
Nurring Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section; (4) Chairman, Private Duty Section.
Alberta: (1) Mil!l! F. Munroe, Royal Alexalldra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2) Miss J. Connal, Gelleral Hospi-
tal, Cal
ary; (3) MiB8 B. A. EmersoIl, 604 Civic
Block, EdmoIltoIl; (4)
fiss J. Clow, 11138-82Ild
Ave., Edmonton.
British Columbia: (1) Miss M. F. Gray, Dept. of
Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
(2) Miss L. Mitchell. Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; (3) MiB8 1\1. Duffield. 175 Broadway East,
Vancouver; (4) MiB8 M. Mirfield, Beachcroft NursiIlg
Home, Cook St., Victoria.
Manitoba: (1) :\Iiss Mildred Heid, X urses Residence,
\\ innippg Genpral Hospital, WinnipeJl;; (2) Miss G.
Thompson, Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg; (3)
'lis!' E. :\IcKelvpy, ß03 :\Ipdical \rts Building,
\\'innippg; (4) l\liss K. :\lc'Callum, liB Enfield
Crescent. Kor\\ood.
New Brunswick: (1) Miss A. J. MacMaster, Moncton
Hospital, Moncton; (2) Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) MiB8 Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saint John; (4) MiB8 Mabel Mc-
Mullen, St. Stephen.
'ova Scotia: (1) :\Iiss Lpnta G. Hall, \ïctorian Ordcr
of Nurse", Halifax; (2) :\Iiss H. Jonc'as, Victoria
Gpneral Hospital, Halifax; (3) :\Ii:is ì\I. U. Gray,
Xew Glasgow; (4) :\Iisb C. 1\lacLpan, 97 South
Kline St. Halifax.
Ontario: (1) :\Ii;.s :\Iajorie Buck, Xorfolk Ho;.pital,
Simcoe; (2) :\Iiss S. :\1. Jamieson, R.R.l. Brantford,
(3) :\Irs. Agnes Haygarth, 19 Dromorp Crpscpnt.
Wpstdalp, Hamilton; (4) Miss J. J.. Church, 120
Strathcona -\vp., Otta\\a.
Prince Edward Island: (1) :\Ii"s Anna :\Iair. P.E.I
Hospital, Charlottpto\\n; (2) Miss F. J awn'. Princ('
Co. Hospital, SUlllmcr,ide; (3) :\Iiss Dorothy :\Ir-
Kpnna, Hummprside; (4) ì\liss 1\1. Gamblp, "I
Ambrose St. Charlottptown.
Quebec: (1) Miss C. V. Barrett, Royal Victoria Mater-
nity Hospital, Montreal; (2) Miss Martha Batson,
Montreal General Hospital, Montreal; (3) MisH
Christine Dowling, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal;
(4) Miss C.M. WaUing, 1230 Bishop Street. Montreal.
Saskatchewan: (1) Miss Fdith -\mas, City HO!'pital,
Sa!'
atoon; (2) ì\li.8 Annie J a\uip, Gpnpral Hospital,
Hpgma; (:J) :\In:. E. !'II. Fppny, Dppt. of Public'
Hpalth, Parliament Rldg"., Regina; (4) 1\1i!'s 1\1. H.
Chi!'holm, 80.') 7th Ave. X., Saskatoon.
CHAIRMEN NATIONAL SECTIONS
",URSINO EDUCATION: :\Ii,.s :\Iarion Lindpburgh, :::;1'11001
for Graduate .:'IJ"unp!" !'IIcGiJI rnivpr
ity,
Iontrpal;
PUBLIC HE\LTH: :\Iis!' A. J
. \Vplls, Dept. of Hpalth,
Legi!'lative Bldgs., V,innippg; PRIVATE DUTY: 1\li.s
:\1. R. Chisholm, so.') 7th Ave.
., Saskatoon.
Executive Secretary: :\liss Jean S. Wilson. National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
fontreal. P.Q.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Nl'RSING EDl'CATION SECTION
CHAIRMAN: :\liRS :\Iarion Lindpburgh, 8rhool for Grad-
uate Nurses, ì\lcGill Univenity, l\Iontreal; VICE-
('HAIRM \N: I\liss Constance ßrf'\\ Hter, Gf'neral Hos-
pital, Hamilton; SECRET\RY: :\Iis:s ;'I;ora Xa
lp, 2iO
Cooper Street, Otta\\a; TRE\8l'Rt'R: 'Ii
s:\1 Blanehp
Ander
on, Otta\\a Civic JIof>pital, OUa\\a.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\lÏqS J. Connal, General
Hospital, CalJl;ary. British Columhla: 1\li;.s L.
:\Iitchell, Hoyal .Jubilee HOl'pital, \ïctoria. Mani-
toba: :\Ii,." G. Thomp"on, :\Ii"f'ricordia J1o
pital
\\ïllnipeg. New Brunswick: :-;istpr ('Qrillnp Kerr.
Hotpl Dipu, Call1pbl'llton. Nova Scotia: :\Iiss H.
Joncas, \ïf'toriaGenpral Ho;.pital, llalifax. Ontario:
Miss S.:\1. Jamipson, R.R.I. Brantford. Prinn-
Edward Island: :\Iis:- F. I aVl'r,., Prince Co. Hospital,
:-;ummer:-idc. Ouehec: :\Ii:i!' 'Iartha Batson, :\Iont-
rpal General Hospital, :\Iontrpal. Saskatchewan:
'Iiss \nnie I a\\ rif', General llo,.,pital, Hl'gina.
I'RIVAl'E DITTY SE(;l'IO
('H -\IR'\BN: :\Iiss ì\1. H. Chi!<holm, SO.) 7th he. i\.,
:-:a"katnon: \ ICE-CH\IR'\IAN: ;\Ii"" C. :\1. Watling,
12:m Bi,.,hop f'treet, 'Iontrpnl; f;tTRET\R1- TREAS-
URER: !\liss llplpn \\ ill", 2" to Hobin"on f"trpct,
Hpgina.
('OUNCILLoR
Alherta: "I
S .1. ('10\\, 11I:JS-82nd
Ave., Edmonton. British Columhla: :\Iiss 1\1.
:\Iirfield, Beachcroft Xur,.,ing llonlP. \ï..toria. Manl-
AUGUST, 1934
toba: :\Ii:ss K. :\leCallulII, lRl Enfield Cre!'., Kor-
wood. New ßruns"lck: :\liss :\Iabel :\11':\Iullpn
t. Htpphpn. Nova Scotia: Miss C'. :\la<'Lean ni
South Kline St., Halifax. Ontario: :\Ii
s l J..
Church. 120 Strathcona Avp., Utta\\a. Prince Ed-
ward IHland: :\Iiss 1\1. Gamblp, "I .\mbro!'e St.,
Charlotteto\\n. Quebec: :\Ii.!' C. :\1. Watling. 12:JO
Bishop 8treet, 1\I0ntrf'al. Saskatchewan: ì\Ii!'!' 1\1.
H. Chisholm, 80.') ith Ave. X., Ha!'katoon. CON-
VENER OF PUßLlC'ATIONS: 'Ib" :\1. H. Chhholm
XU.,} 7th <\ve. N.. Sa"katoon. '
PlTßLIC HEAL TlI SECTION
('H U!lMAN: :\Ii,.s l
: E: \\ ell", Dept. of Health, L('gi
-
lahve Rldl!;s., W mmpPI!;; "ICE-CD URMAN: l\Iiss :\1.
"-PH, n-tü 20th ^ ve. \\., Vancouvf'r; SECRt'T\R1-
Tm'\SlTnt:R: :\Ii,.s babel :\leDiarmid, :
Ii:J J ang
idf'
t., Winnipeg.
('OUNCILLORs-Alhprta: :\Iiss B. \. Fmprson fi04
Civir Block. Edmonton. British Columhia:':\liss
'I. Duffield. .li.') Broadway Ea;.t, \'ancom.pr.
Manltoha: .\lJss J;. \Il'h...lvey, fiO:.!
Jcdi('al \rb
Bldg., Winnipel!;. "Iew Bruns"lck: :\Iiss \da
Burn8, JIpalth C('lltrp, :--aint John. Nova Scotia:
:\Iiss 1\1. O. (;ray, ,,"P\\ Gla.lI:o\\. Untarlo: :\In..
\lI:ne
J [aygart h. l!l I )rornorp Crpspcnt. \\ p;.tdalr.
lIam.llton. Prince F:d"ard Island: :\!iss [)onthy
:\Ich.enna. f"ulllmprHdp. ()uehec: :\11,,8 Chri
tinf'
Do\\ linl!;, 1:?-tH Bi,.,hop
t., :\Iontreal. Saskatch('-
"an: :\lrH. E. \1. FpC'ny, [),'pt ,)f Hpnlth, Parlia-
'lII'nt Bldl!;"., Hpginn.
393
394
THE CAN ADIAN NURSE
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of Re
istered Nurses
President, ì\Iiss F. .\Iunroe, Hoyal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; First Vice-President, :'.Iiss J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Second Vice-President,
:'.Iiss E. l\IcPhedran, Central Alberta Sanatorium,
Calgary; Secretary- Treasurer-Registrar, l\Ir". A. E.
\'ango, 11107-
2nd --\ve., Edmonton; Chairman:
\'IITSing Education Section, :'.Ii:ss .J. Connal, General
Hospital, Calgary; Public Heal/h Section, .\liss B. A.
Emen'on, 604 Civic Block, Edmonton; Private Dut'Y
Section, :'.lis:s J. C'. Clow, lIl:38-82nd Ave., Edmonton.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
President, M. F. Gray, 1466 W.14th Ave., Vancouver;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; :5ecretary, 1\1. Kerr, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Convener8 of Committees: Nur8ing
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; Public Health, 1\1. Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
\ ancouver; Private Duty,
1iss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft
Nursing Home, Cook St., Victoria; Councillors, M. P.
Campbell, M. Dutton, L. McAllister, K. Sanderson.
MANITOBA
Manitoba Association of Re
istered Nurses
President, MiB8 M. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss S. Wright, Metropolitan
Life, Winnipeg; Second Vice-President, MiB8 C. Mc
Leod, Brandon Generaillospital; Third Vice-President,
ister Krause, St. Boniface Hospital; Members of
Board: Miss M. Lang, Miss E. Carruthers, Sister Mary,
MiB8 K. W. Ellis, Miss K. McLearn, MiB8 M. Meehan,
MiB8 E. Johnson, Sister St. Albert; Conveners of Sec-
tions: P1,blic Health, MiB8 E. McKelvey; Private Duty,
:'.Ii:ss I\:. :'.Ic('allum; .v ursing Education, :'.lis!'! G.
Thompson, .\Iisericordia HOl'pital, \\'innipeg. Conve-
ners of Committees: Directory, :'.liss.J. I\:err, 74 Cobourg
-\ ve.; Social, .\Iiss S. Polle"fen, 9,")4 Palmer"ton Ave.;
:-;ick \'isiting, :'.Iiss L. Gray, \'icturian Order of
ur"'es;
:'.Iembership. :'.Iiss E. lromide, Winnippg General Hos-
pital; Librarian, Miss W. GrÏl-e and :'.Ii:.;s .\. Io;tarr, 753
W olHeley .-\ ve.; PreRs and Publication, .\Iiss E. Banks,
û4 Cross St.; Representatives: Lo<'ai Council of "'omen,
:'.IrR. Willard Hill and .\Ir!'. Emmett n"yer; Central
Council of Social Agent'ies, .\Iis" F. Hobert!'on; \'ic-
torian Order of
urse", :'.Iiss E. -\. Hus
ell; Junior Red
Cross, .\Iiss E. Parker; Red Cross Enrolment, :'.Irs. J.
F. .\Iorrison; Exe"utive Secretary and Rf'gistrar, .\Irs,
:-;tplla Gordon Kerr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Association of Re
istered Nurses
President, MiB8 A. J. MacMaster, Moncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First Vice-President, MiB8 Margaret
Murdoch; Second Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
Kay; Honorary Secretary, Rev. Sister Kenny; Council
Members: MiB8 Florence Coleman, Miss H. S. Dyke-
man, Mrs. A. G. Woodcock, Miss Elsie M. Tulloch;
Conveners: Public Health Section. MiB8 Ada A. Burns;
Private Duty Section, Miss Mabel McMullin; Nursing
Education Section. Sister Kerr; Committee Conveners:
The Canadian Nur8e, Miss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-Laws, Miss S. E. Brophy; Secretary-
Treasurer-Registrar, Miss Maude E. Retallick, 262
Charlotte St. West, Saint John, N.B.
NOVA SCOTIA
Rel?,istered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia
Pre:sident, :'.Iiss Lenta Hall, Yi,.torian Ordpr of
:\"unes, Halifax; Fir:st \'ice-Prp:sident. :'.lis:s Rarah
Archard, \'ictoria Genf'ral HOHpital, Halifax; Second
\'ice-Pre:sidpnt, :'.Iiss Anna HilI('oat. .-\mherst; Third
\'ice-President, Sister -\nna :-;pton, Halifax Infirmary;
Hp('ording
ecrptary. \Irs. D. .J. (;illi", H \\ plsford St.,
Halifa,,: Treasurpr and Hpl!;istrar. :'.Iis!' :'.Iuripl Graham,
413 l)pnnis Bld
.. Halifa".
ONTARIO
Re9,istered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1925)
President, MiB8 Marjorie Buck, Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe; First Vice-President, MiB8 Dorothy
Percy, Room 321 Jackson Bldg., Ottawa; Second Vice
President, Miss Constance Brewster, General Hospital,
Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Matilda E. Fitz-
gerald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman, Nurse Educa-
tion Section, Miss S. Margaret Jamieson, Peel Memorial
Hospital, Brampton; Chairman, Private Duty Section,
:'.li8s J. L. Chun.h, 120 Strathcona Ave., Otta"a;
Chairman, Public Health Section,
Irs. Agnes Hay-
garth, HI Dromore Crescent, "ei>tdale, Hamilton;
District No.1: Chairman, Miss .:\Iildred Walker, Insti-
tute of Public Health, London; Secretary-Treasurer.
.:\liss Mildred Chambers, Institute of Public Health,
London; Districts
and S: Chairman, Miss A. E. Binge-
man, Freeport Sanatorium, Kitchener; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Edith Jones, 253 Gren"ich St., Brant-
ford; District No.4: Chairman, Miss Constance Brew-
ster, General Hospital, Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Eva Barlow, 211 Stinson St.. Hamilton; District
No.6: Chairman, Miss Dorothy Mickleborough, Pro-
vincial Dept. of Health, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto;
Secretary- Treas urer, Miss Isabelle Park, 1348 Y onge
St., Toronto; District No.6: Chairman, MiB8 Helen M.
Anderson, 709 Water St., Peterborough; Secretary-
Treasurer,
1iB8 Dorothy MacBrien, Nicholls Hospital,
Peterborough; District No.7: Chairman, Miss Louise
D. Acton, General Hospital, Kinl!:8ton; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Olivia Wilson, General Hospital,
Kingston; District No.8: Chairman, MiB8 M. Blanche
Anderson, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa; Secretary-
MiB8 A. G. Tanner, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa;
Treasurer, Miss Mary Acland, Strathcona Hospital,
Ottawa; Di8tn'ct No. D: Chairman, MiB8 Katherine
MacKenzie. 155 Second Ave. W., North Bay; Secretary-
Treasurer, l\IiB8 Robena Buchanan, 197 First Ave. E.,
North Bay; District No. 10: Chairman, MiB8 Vera
Lovelace, 3 Wiley Rd., Port Arthur; Secretary- Treas-
urer, MiB8 Ethel Stewardson, McKellar General
Hospital, Fort William.
District No.8 Rel?,istered Nurses Association
of On tario
Chairman, MiB8 M. B. Anderson; \'ice-Chairman.
1\1iB8 J. L. Church; Secretary, Miss A. G. Tanner.
Ottawa Civic Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M. E. Acland;
Councillors, Misses G. Clarke, A. Ebbs. M. Graham.
E. C. McIlraith, C. C. Murray, M. Slinn; Convener8
of Committees: Membership, Miss G. Clarke; Publica-
tions, Miss E. C. McIlraith; Nursing Education, Miss
C. C. Murray; Pri1late Duty, Miss J. L. Church; Public
Health, Miss H. O'Meara.
District No.9 Registered Nurses A88OCiatlon
of Ontario
Chairman, Miss K. MacKenzie; Vice-Chairman,
:\Irs. J. McCausland; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss R.
Buchanan, 197 First Avenue E., North Bay; Coun-
"ilIors: Rev. Sister Felicita8, Misses J. Smith, F.
Docker, M. Carson, E. Tromblpy, A. Quinlan.
District No. 10 Rel?istered Nurses Association
of Ontario
President, Miss V. Lovelace, Vice-President, Miss M.
Hamilton; Secretary Treasurer, MiB8 E. Stewardson,
McKellar General Hospital, Fort William; Councillors:
MiB8 Jane Hogarth, Miss M. Wallace, MiB8 C. Lemon,
Miss C. Chivers Wilson, Miss Flannigan, Miss Irpne
Hibditch.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Rel?istered Nurses
Association
President, MiB8 Anna Mail', P.E.I. Hospital,
Charlotte; Vice-President, MiB8 M. King, Charlotte-
town Hospital; Secretary, Miss M. Campbell, 8 Grafton
St., Charlottetown; Treasurer and Registrar, Miss
Edna Green, 257
Queen St., Charlottetown; Nursing
Education, :'.li88 F. Lavers, Prince Co. Ho!'pital.
Rummerside; Public Health, Miss Dorothy McKenna,
:-iummerside; Private Dut'Y, 1\liss 1\1. Gamble, 51 Am-
brose St. Charlottetown; Repre
entative to The
Canadian Nurse, :Vlis", Anna .:\Iair, P.E.I. Hospital,
Charlottetown.
QUEBEC
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
395
Association of Re
lstered Nurses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
Advisory Board: Misses
Iary
amuel, Mabel F.
Hersey, C. M. Watling, Rév. Mère M. V. Allaire, Rév.
::ioeur ::;te. Isidora; President, Miss C. V. Barrett,
Royal Victoria :\lontreal Maternity Hospital; \ïce-
President (English), Miss M. L. Moag, Victorian Order
of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St., Montreal; Vice-President
(French), Rév. Soeur Allard, Hôtel-Dieu de St. Joseph,
:\lontreal; Hon. Secretary, MiB8 Esther Beith, Child
Welfare AB8ociation, Forum Bldg., Montreal; Hon.
freaslUer, Miss M. E.
ash, Yictorian Order of Nurses,
1246 Bishop St., Montreal. Other Members: :\Iiss
Mabel K. Holt, The Montreal General Huspital,
:\lademoiselle Edna Lynch, Nursing Supervisor, Metro-
politan Life Insurance Co., Montreal, Rév. Soeur St.
Jean de l'Eucharistie, Hôpital Notre Dame, Montreal,
:\liss Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate Nurses,
:\lcGill University, Montreal, Mademoiselle Alexina
Marchessault, Ecole d'Hygiène Social Appliquée,
Université de :\lontreal. Convener8 of Section8: Pril!ate
Duty, (English), Miss C. M. Watling, 1230 Bishop St.,
:'olontreal; Pril!ate Duty (French), :\-lademoiselle Alice
Lepine, Hôpital Notre Dame, Montreal; Nur8ing Edu-
cation (English), Miss :\-1artha Batson. The Montreal
General Hospital, Montreal; Nur8ino Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Augustine, Hôpital St. .Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Health, Miss Christine
Dowling, Victorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.,
Montreal; Board of Examiners, l\litls Olga V. Lilly
(Convener), Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Hos-
pital, :\liB8 Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, Montreß.l; Miss Katherine
}'1acN. MacLennan, Alexandra Hospital, Montreal;
:\Ielle. Edna Lynch, 4642 rue St. Denis St., Montreal;
l\Ielle. Marie Anysie Déland, In15titut Bruchési, l\lont-
réal; Melle. A, :\-Iarchessault, 3256 avenue Lacombe,
:\Iontreal; Executive Secretary, Registrar and Official
8ehool Visitor, !\1i",15 E. Frances Upton, Room
21,
1396 St. Catherine :-:t. W., }'Iontreal.
SASKA TCHEW AN
Saskatchewan Re
istered Nurses Association
(Incorporated :\Iarch, 1917)
President, Miss Edith Amas, City Hospital, Saska-
toon; First Vice-President, Miss Ruby M. Simpeon,
Department of Public Health, Regina; Second Vice-
President, Miss Helen B. Smith, General Hospital,
Regina; Councillors, Miss Jean McDonald, 1122 Rae
St., RegiIla, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
Moose Jaw; Conflener8 of Standing Committee8: Nur8ing
Edu
alion, :\
iss -\nnil' La\\rie, General HOfpital,
Regma; Publrc llealth, :\lrs. E. :\1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Public Health, Regina; Private Duty, Miss M.
R. Chisholm, 805-7th Ave. N., Saskatoon; Legislation
Miss R. M. Simpson, Regina; Secretary-Treasurer and
Registrar, MiB8 Margaret ROB8, 45 Angus Crescent,
Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
(;al
ary Association of Graduate Nurses
Hon. President, Dr. H. A. Gibson; President, MiB8
P. Gilbert; First Vice-President, Miss K. Lynn; Second
Vice-President, Miss F. Shaw; Recording and Acting
Corresponding Secretary, Mrl!. F. V. Kennedy, 1307
First St. W.; Treasurer, MiBl! M. Watt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate Nurses
President, Miss Ida Johnson; First Vice-President,
:'otiss Turner; Second Vice-President, :\Iiss O'Brien;
Recording and Corresponding f'eeretary, :\Iiss '"iolet
Chapman, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton;
Treasurer, :\fiss Gavin; Registrar, :\fi""
prollie. 111
R
Whyte Ave., Edmonton.
:\-Iedicine Hat Graduate Nurses Association
President, Mrs. J. Keohane; First Vice-President,
Mrs.
1. Tobin; Recond Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Gil-
christ; Secretary, MiB8 A. McI eod, 2 Diana Court;
Treasurer, Miss F. Smith; Committee Convener8:
:\Iembership, MiB8 A. Allan; Flower, Mrs. W. Fraser;
Private Duty Section, Mrs. Chas. Pickering; Correspon-
dent, The Canadian Nur8e, l\1iss M. Hagerman.
BRITISH COLt..;'fßIA
!':eJson Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Miss V. ß. Eidt, Acting Superinten-
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital; President
:\1<iss K. Gordon; First Vice-President, Miss :\1. Mad-
den; Second Vice-President, :\lil!8 R. Archibald; Secre-
z
Treasurer, Miss Edna Fraser, Box 110
, Nelson,
Vancouver Graduate Nurses A"..ociatlon
President, Mrs. Westman, MOO Cal!8air St., V ancuuver;
l<'irst Vice-President, Miss Jane Johnstone, Steveston,
RC.; Second Vice-President, Miss E. Berry, St. Paul's
Hospital; Secretary, Mil!8 F. Walker, Vancouver Gen-
eral Hospital: Treasurer, :\JiBl! L. Archibald, 536 West
12th Ave.; Council, :\-lisses K. ðanderson, Kilburn, G.
M. Fairley, Wismer and M. F. Gray. Finanee, Miss
feulon, 1385 West 11th Ave.; Directory, MiB8 K.
Motherwell, 1947 West 10th Ave.; Social. MiB8 A. J.
M!lcLeod, Vancouver General Hospital; Programme,
:\1!ss B. Donaldson: St. Paul's Hospital; Sick Visitinl!,
1\has C. Cooker, \ ancouver General Hospital; l\lelll-
bership, Mrs. Blankenbach, 1816 West 36th Ave.'
Local Council of Women, :\-lisses Duffield and Gray:
Pre!'!", Mrs. E. Simms, Vancouver General Hospital '
Victoria Graduate
urses Association
Hon. Presidents, :\fiss L. :\1 itchell,
ister
uperiur
Ludovic; President, l\liss E. J. Herbert; First 'Ïce-
President, :\Iiss :\1. l\Iirfield; Sel'und \ï!'e-Presi-
dent, Mrs. hirknpss;
ecretary, :\Iiss I. Helgesen;
Treasurer, Miss \'". Cuoke; Registrar, l\IiB8 E. Franks
1035 Fairfield Road, \Ïetoria; Fxel'utive Committee:
:\-Irs. E. B. Rtrachan, Miss E. }'II'Donald, l\fisø C.
Kenny, Miss E. Cameron, Miss D. Frampton.
\lANITOHA
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association
lion. Prp
idpnt, :\lis:-; E. Birtlc!'; lI t1 n. \"if'!'-l'r,',idt'nt
:\.
rs. W. 1.1.
hillinl!:la\\; Prt'
ident, :\Ii".!- 1", a :\1l'Xally;
\ Ice-Presldt'nt!', :\1 rs. I.. Flptelwr, :\hs
:\1. Par! on!>;
::-;ecretary, :\lis8 }}orothy lonl!:ll'Y, }.Iental Hmpital,
Rrandon; rrea!ourer, :\Ir
. 1\1. long, lJoruinion Bank
Bldg., Brandon; Commilleeç: I'rel"!' , :\1 is!' 11l,1t'n :\Iorrri-
son; :-;i,'k \ i
iting, .\Irs. .1. H. Fi!-llt'r; Wp)fart', :\Iiss
E. :\1. II igl!:,'ns;
UI'ial and Programmp, :\In'. F. lIanna;
Cook Book
, :\Ir!'. .\. h.ain
: Prit'ale [July, }.Ir,... I.
Fletf'ht'r, \li!'!1" l!'oh"1 1-1.110"; Hl'gi
trnr. :\Ii", C. }.Ial'-
Ipoo.
QUEßEC
Graduate Nur!;...s Association of the Eastern
Townships
Hon. President, Miss V. Beane; President, Miss .E.
Bean; Vice-President, Miss G. D",aine; Corrpsponding
e
retary, Miss F. Wardle\\orth; Rel'ording f:o;ecretary,
I\hBl! Harvey; Treasurer, Miss Marg!lret Hobins-
Hl'prp
pntati"t' to The Canadian .\ IIrse, :\Ii,.. ('.
Hornby, Box :t! J, I"hprbrunJ.e; Ht'pr'hpntatiw',
Prit'ale [July S,dion, :\Ii
I:. :\Iurri"t'ttp
396
THE CANADIAN NURSE
SASKATCHEWAN
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, MiB8 L. C. PhiJlips; President, MiBB
Chri",tine W aUing, 1230 Bishop
t.; First \'ice- Presi-
dent, MiBB G. Allison; Second Vice-President, Mrs. A.
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Registrar,
:\liB8 Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrar,
:\lisB Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar. Miss H. M.
Sutherland; Convener Griffintown Club, Miss G.
Colle:v. Regular Meeting, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, October and December.
Moose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Mrs. M. Young; President, Miss
R. Last; First Vice-President, MiB8 C. Kier; Second
'"ice-President, Mrs. W. Metcalfe; Secretary-Treasurer,
MissJ. Moir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; Convener.
of Committee.: Nur.ing Education, Mrs. M. Young,
Sr. l\lary Raphael, MiBB E. Jensen; Private Duty, Miss
E. Wallace, MiB8 E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, Miss
J. Casey; Public Health. Registrar, Miss C. Kier; Pro-
gramme, MiB8 G. Taylor; Sick Visiting, MiB8 L. Trench;
Social, MiB8 M. Armstrong; Constitution and By-Laws,
Miss E. Lamond; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e, MiB8 M. Gall; Press Representative, Mrs. J.
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary
President, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-President, Miss
,-\. Willison; Recording Secretary, Miss E. Thom;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, Miss S. Craig; Honorary Members, Rev. Soeur
St. Jean de I'Eucharistie, Miss M. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. l\lunroe; Pn'sident, !\Iiss K
Brighty; Vic-p-President, I\li,..!:' I. Johm.on; Second Vice-
President, Miss E.
lilIt'r :\lc:\lanus; Sl'cretary, Miss
L. Einarson; Corrcsponding Re('retary, l\liss G. :\Ic-
Diarmid; Treasurer, J.\liss A. Oliver; Committee Con-
t'ener.: Programme, Mi5s G. Allyn; Social, Miss V.
Kelly J.\lcNci.; Sick Visiting, :\liss J. Munro; I\Iembf'r-
ship, Miss 1\1.. Cullerne.
A.A. University of Alberta HospItal, Edmonton
Hun. President, Miss E. Fenwick; President, Miss
:\1. Reed; First \'ice-President, Miee L. Gourlay;
econd Vice-President, Miss B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss A. Revell; Corresponding Secretary, Mi88
D. Duxbury, University Hospital; Treasurer, Miss 1\1.
Rowles, University Hospital; Executive, Misses 1\1.
Gordon, I. ROB8, A. Baker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Ilun. Pre!:'ident, Mrs. .-\. F. Archer; Pre
ident, :\lrs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, Miss O. Scheic; Secrctary-
Treasurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
":iecretary, Miss F. E. Reid, WOO-20th Avenue, W.,
Calgary; Convener, Social Committee, Mrs. R. Shears.
BRITISH COlU
tBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Hun. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. \"ice-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, Miss B.
Geddes; Vice-President, Miss R. McKernan; Secretary,
:\liss F. Treavor, Assistant Secretary, :\Iiss V. Dyer;
Treasurer, Miss B. Muir; Executhe. Misses M. Mc-
Donald, E. Berry. I. Clark, V. Pean
e, S. Christie,
R. :\lcGillivary, K. McDonald.
A.A., Vancouver General Hospital
Pre!'ident, Miss M. Lunan; First Vice-President,
:\Irs. C. H. C. Bell; Second Vice-President, Mrs. K.
Craig; Secretary, Miss I. Collier; Curresponding Secre-
tary, Miss K. Heaney, Vancouver General Hospital;
Committee Convener.: Programme, l\liss A. Croll.
Membership, Miss V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; Refreshments, Miss J. Hunter; Press, Mrs. G. E.
Gillies; Treasurer and Bonds, Miss Geary, 3176 West
2nd .-'h'e.; Representative, V.G.N.A., :\liss Rhodes.
Royal
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
Hon. President, l\li'is J,. I\litchell; President, Mis!'
.J. Moore; First Vice-President, Mrs. Yorke; Second
\'ice-President, Miss M. Mirfield; Secretary, Mrs. A.
Dowell, 30 Howe St.; Ao;sistant Secretary, Miss C. M.
Co-,:; Treasurer, Miss J. Stewart; EntertaiIlmeIlt Com-
mittee, Mrs. Russell; Sick Nurse, Miss E. Newman.
MANITOBA
A.A., Children's Hospital, Wlnnlpe
Hon. President, MiB8 M. B. Allan; Presidf'nt, Mis8
Catherine Day; First Vice-President, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss W. M. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, !\liss 1\1. D. Hughes; Sick Visitinl!;,
Miss Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, I\lrs. Geo. Wilson
A.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, Miss K
McCallum, 181 Enfield Cr., Norwood; First Vice-
President, Mis8 H. Stephen, 15 Ruth Apts., Maryland
St., Winnipeg; Second Vice-President, MiB8 M. Madill,
St. Boniface Hospital; Secretary, MiB8 J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hospital, Winnipeg; Treasurer, Miss E.
Shirley, 14 King George Ct., Winnipeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (Convener), 64 Cross St.,
Winnipeg, Miss J. Williamson, Miss A. Nelson; Sick
Visiting Committee, Miss T. Grenville (Convener), 211
Hill St., Norwood; MiB8 K. Rowan, Miss J. Greig;
Press Representative, MiB8 B. Altman, 420 College
Ave., Winnipeg; Representatives to Local Council of
Women, Miss B. Altman (Convener), Miss B. Chandler.
Miss M. Spooner.
A.A., Wlnnlpe
General Hospital
HOIl. President, Mrs. A. W. Moody, 97 Ash St.;
President, Miss E. Parker, Ste. 23, Carlyle Apts., 580
Broadway; First Vice-President, Mrl>. C. V. Combes,
530 Dominioll St.; Second Vice-Prpsident, Miss J. Mc-
Donald, Deer Lodge Hospital; Third Vice-President,
Mrs. J. S. 'Ward, 197 Beaverbrook St.; Recording
Secretary, I\lisl>.l\. Effier,Ste. 12
DianaCrt.;Corre5-
ponding Secretary, Miss 1\1. Graham, Winnipeg
General Hospital; Treasurer, Miss 1\1. Duncan, Win-
nipeg General Hospital; Representative on Training
School Committee: Miss K. l\lcLearn, Shriner's
Hospital; Membership, Miss I. Ramsay, Central
Tuberculosis Clinic; Sick Visiting, I\Iiss J. Morgan,
102 Rose St.; Entertainment, I\lrs. C. McMillan,
Hertford Blvd., Tu-..:edo; Editor of Journal, Miss F.
:\lcRae, 44 Evanson St.; Assil'tant Fditor, Miss J.
:\Ioody, ï6 \\'alnut St.; Businpss Manager, Miss E.
Timlick, Winnippg General Ho!'pital; Special Com-
mittee, Miss P. Bro\\nell, 215 Chestnut St.; Alumnae
Club, Miss F. Tretiak, Broad Valley, Man.; Archivi!'\t,
:\liss S. J. Pollexfen, 954 Palmerston Ave.
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOHN
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. J. Mitchell; President, Mrs.
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, Miss Ethel Hen-
derson' Second '"ice-President, Mrs. F. McKelvey;
Se{'fet
ry. Mrs. J. Edgar Beyea. 121 Union St.; Trea-
Burer, Miss Kate Holt; E"ecutive Committee, Miss
:\1argaret Murdoch, Miss R. Reid, Mrs. J, H. Vaughan.
ST. STEPHEN
-\-.A., Chipman Memorial Hospital, St. Stephen
Prc-idpnt, :\Iiss l\Iyrtle Dunbar; Fint '"ice-Pre
ident.
:\IT!'. H. W. Short; Re('ond '"ice-President, Miss ROt'a
:\Iadsen; Sp('retary, I\li!'!' Estella Gibbun, St. Stcphen:
Treasun.r, :\IT!'. Cedric H. Dim more; Board of Dirc{'-
tors: l\li!'\
es ,1. Sinclair, J. Hart, J. Bavis,
h-s. H.
Bartlctt. Committee Cnnuners: Prugramme, :\In' R.
:\Iallory: :\Iis
es E. Gibbon, E. Gill's, :\Irs. H. Short;
Hefreshment, :\lisses E.
pinncy. D. f'evlin, :\Irs. R.
Bartlett;
ominating, :\lisses F. Cunningham,!. Hart.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
WOODSTOCK
A.A., L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital, Woodstock
Hon. President, MiB8 Elsie Tulloch; President, Mrs
Harry Dunbar; Vice-President, Mis.s Gladys Hayward;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Pauline Palmer; Board of
Directors: Miss G. Tams, Mrs. B. Sutton, Mrs. Fulton,
MiB8 M. Samphier, MiB8 N. VeneBB; Committee Con-
ener.: Programme, 1\lrs. P. Caldwell, MiBB E. Kerr,
MiB8 E. Dunbar, Mis8 B. Bellis; Sick Vil!iting, Miss H.
Cummings, MiBB D. Peabody, Miss :\fersereau;
Editor, MiBB M. Samphier.
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB Florence Mclndoo; President,
MiBB Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President, Mrs. J. Andrews;
Secretary, MiBB L. Smith; Treasurer, MiB8 Marion
MacFarlane; Flower Committee, Miss Betty McEwan;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, MiB8 H,
Thompeon.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB E. M. McKee; President, MiBB
K. CharnJey; Vice-President, MiB8 G. Turnbull;
Secretary, Miss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
Mi8l! L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
Mr.. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
Miss W. Laird, Mil!s M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
MiBB J. EdmoIldeoIl, Mrs. E. Claridge; The Canadian
Nurse and Pre8B RepreøeIltative, MiB8 H. DiamoIld;
Chairmall. Private Duty Council, MiB8 P. Cole;
Represelltative to Local Council of Women, MiBB R.
Cleavel!.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President,
Mrl!. H. B. White; First Vice-President, MiB8 M.
Amold; Secolld Vice-President, Miss J. NicholsoIl;
Third Vice-PreBideIlt, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
MiBB B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Valldusen, 65 Church St.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss V.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss P. Campbell; President, Miss
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crack!e; Second
Vice-President, MiB8 F. Houston; Recording Secretary,
MiB8 E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, MiB8 R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretary, Miss M. Stacey; Treasurer,
Miss B. Haley; PreBB Correspondent, Miss R. Baker;
Committee ConlJeners: Refreshment, Miss M. 'Wickett;
Buying, MiB8es J. Finney, M. McNaughton and Mrs.
R. F. Mitchell; Floral, MiBB E. Orr; Social, Mrs. T.
Burke; Councillors, Misses V. Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
MiB8 P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Mother Mary; Hon. Vice-Prpsident,
:-iister 1\1. Consolata; President, Miss Ruth Winter;
Vice-President, Miss M. Kearns; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\liB8 J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; Executives, Misses
H. Gray, 1. Poissant, Z. Martin, Mrs. R. Hodgin; Rep-
resentative District No.1, R.N.A.O., Miss JeB8ie Ross;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, !\'liB8 Y. L.
Chauvin.
CORNWALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. I. P. MacTntosh; President,
:\lÏss Verna Meldrum; First Vice-President, :\Iiss
Kathleen Burke; Second Vice-President, Mbs Elva
Empey' Secretary-Treasurer, Miss C. Droppo, Corn-
\\all Ge'neral Hospital; HepreRpntative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss H. C. Wilson, Corn\\all General lIo"pital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 A. Cleaver; President, Mil!s
8. Mitchell; Secretary, Mise L. MacNair, 91 Victoria
Ave.; ABBistant Secretary, Mise T. Rainey; Treasurer,
Miss A. MacDonald; Flower Convener, Mise Ruther-
Cord; Representative to The Canadian Nurse and Press
Representative. MiB8 M. Vandyke.
397
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss S. A. Campbell,
uperinten-
dent, Guelph General Hospital; President, :\liss L,
Ferguson; First Vice-President, Miss K. Cleghorn;
Second Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Wood; Secretary,
Miss N. Kenney, Guelph General Hospital; Treasurer,
Miss J. \Vatson; ConlJeners 0/ Committees: Social, Mrs.
L. JacksoIl; Programme, 1\'hss E. Eby; Flower, Miss
I. Wilson; Represelltative to The Canadian Nurse,
:\liss L. Sinclair.
HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, Mise E. C. Rayside; PresideIlt, Mrs.
R. HeBB; Vice-President, MiBB M. Bain; Recording
Secretary, Miss M. Matheson; Corresponding Se<'re-
tary, Miss H. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
Trea.'Iurer, MiB8 J. Jackson, 326 Main W.; Aseistant
Treasurer, MiBB G. Hodgson; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Benefit Association, MiBB O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee COnlJener8: Executive, Mise H.
Aitken; Flower, MiB8 A. Squires; Programme. Mil!s
M. Gosnell; Registry, Mise N. Thompson; Budget,
Mrs. M. Barlow; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e, Mise A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother Martina; President, MiBB
Eva Moran; Vice-President, MiB8 F. Nicholson; Secre-
tary, Miss Mabel Macintosh, 168 Ray St.; Treasurer,
MiB/\ M. Kelly; Representative to The Canadian Nur8e,
MiB8 B. McKenna, 277 Herkimer St.; Representative
R.N.A.O., Miss J. Morin.
KINGSTON
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
Mrs. W. G. Elder; Vice-President, Mrs. A. Heam;
Secretary, Miss Olive McDermott; Treasurer, MÎB8
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
MiB8es K. McGarry, M. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
Committee, Misses N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. \\ .
Clarke, MiB8es N. Hickey, B. Watson.
A.A., Kingston General Hospital
Hon. President, !\liss Louise D. Acton; PresideIlt,
Miss Ann Baillie; Viee-President, Miss Fiorellce
Smart; Secretary, Miss Vonnie MacMartin, Kingston
General Hospital; Treasurer, Mrs. C. W. :\Iallory,
203 Albert St.; Corrpsponding Secretary, :\liss Fmma
Sharp, Kingston General Hospital.
KITCHENER
A.A., Kltchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, Mise K. W. Scott; President, Mrs.
Walter Ziegler; First Vice-President, MiB8 Thelma
Sitler; Second Vice-President, Mil'ls Elsie Trouse;
Secretary, MiB8 Jpan Sinclair, 144 Water St. S.; AB8ie-
tant Secretary, 1\liss Marion Ballantyne: Treasurer,
Miss Mary Orr.
LlNDSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
lion. Pre",idpnt, :\Iiss I:. Reid; President, :\Ii::.:s l.
IIarding; Firf>t \'icp-Pre",idpnt, MrR. O. Walling; !:5ecolld
Vice-President, :\Irs. 1\1. Thurston; COfrpsponding
Sccretary, :\Iiss I:. Dawson; Treasurpr, 1\lrs. G. H.
Allen; Flower Convener, ì\Iiss E. 1.0\\1';
ocial Con-
vener, '[is!' h. :\lortimore.
LONDON
A.A., Ontario Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Mary L. Jacobs; President,
:\liB8 N. 1\1. WilliamB, 55 Edward St.; First Vice-Presi-
dent, :\Irs. V, M. Reilly; Spcond Vice-President, Mis8
F. R. Ball; Secretary, Mrs. E. D. Grosvenor, 52 Doultoll
Ave.; Treasurer, Miss E. Kennedy, Ontario Hospital;
Social Committee, Misses I. LindBay, L. Kelly; Pres8
Rt'pre8f'ntative,
liBs F. Burls.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Mother M. Patricia; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister M. Ruth; President, MiB8 Olive
O'Neil' First Vice-Pre!'ident. !\'lise Madalelle Baker;
Recond' \"ict'-President, Miss Erla Beger; Recording
ecretary, Miss Gladys :\lartin; Corrt'sponding Secre-
tary MiB8 Irene Griffen; TreBllurer,
'lise Gladys Gray,
Pre
Representative, Miss
tella Gignac; Reprt'8en
a.
tives to Rel!;istry Board. MIMes Rhea Rouatt. Cpcll.
Slattery, Olive O'Neil.
398
THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, MiB8 M. M.
JOIles, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-President, MiB8 H.
Huston; Second Vice-President, Miss M. McLaughlin;
Treaaurer, Miss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary, MiB8 F. Quigley; Corresponding Secretary, Mias
1\1. Smith, Victoria Hospital; Board of Directors, MiB8es
C. Gillies, A. Malloch, J. Mortimer, M. Yule, C.
Skinner, Mrl!. C. Rose.
NIAGARA FALLS
A.A., Nia
ra Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. S. Park; President, Miss A.
Irving; First Vice-President, Miss V. Coutts; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. H. English; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss F. J. Loftus, 823 McRae St. Corresponding Secre-
tary, MiB8 A. Pirie; Auditors, Miss Day,
Irs.
harpe;
Sick Committee, Mrl!. Teal, Mil!s Carson, Miss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Duflerin Hospital
Hon. PreBident, Mrs. O. Fleming; President, :\1iB8
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, Miss V. Lee;
Secolld Vice-President, MiB8 I. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Bridgeman; RecordiIlg Secretary,
MiB8 E. M. Hayward; Tre
urer, MiB8 A. Burke.
ORILUA
A.A., Orillla Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
HOIl. PreBideIlt, MiB8 E. Johnston; President, MiB8
G. M. Went; First Vice-President, Miss L. Whitton;
Second Vice-President, MiB8 M. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Alice M. Smith, 112 Peter St. N.
Regular Meeting-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA W A
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 E. MacWilliams, General Hos-
pital; President, Miss J. McIntosh, 414 MaB80n
t.;
First Vice-President, Miss J. Thompson, 115 Agnes St.;
Second Vice-President, Miss R. Post, General Hospital;
Secretary, MiB8 1\1. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; AB8istant
Secretary, Miss M. Tribble, 91 Connaught St.; Corres-
ponding Secreta!y, Miss E. Clark, 97 Athol St.;
Treasurer, Miss E. Dickinson, 534 Mary St.
OTTA W A
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. President, Miss 1\1. A. Catton; Pref:ident, Miss
Jean Blyth; 'ïce-President, Miss 1\1. Mcl'\ieec; Hecre-
tary, Miss Gcrtrude Halpenny, Protestant Children's
Village; Treasurer, Miss M. SIinn. 204 Stanley Ave.;
Board of Directors: Misses E. McColl, S. McQuade
L. Bedfurd, M. Stewart; Committee COnlJener8: Flowcr:
lrs. V. Boles; PreB8, Mrs. W. C. Elmitt; Representa-
tive to The Canadian Nur8e, Mis." A. Ebb!'!.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 Gertrude Bennett; President,
MiB8 Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Moxley; Second Vice-President, Miss E. Curry; Re-
cording Secretary, MiB8 Mary Lamb; Corresponding
Secretary, Mil!l! Downey; Treasurer, Miss Winnifred
Gemmell; Executive Committee, Miss Mulvaugh, Miss
Lera Barry, MiB8 Bertha Farmer, Misl! D. Johnston,
Miss D. Kelly; Representatives to Central Re
istry,
Mil!8 Katie Clark, Miss L. Boyle; Convener Flower
Committee, Mil!8 G. Ferguson; Prel!8 Representative,
Misl! E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitille; President
Mil!8 K. Bayley; First Vice-President, Miss G. Clark:
Second Vice-President, Miss M. Munroe; Secretary
Treasurer, Mil!8 Dorothy Knox, Ottawa General Hos-
pital; Membership Secretary, Miss F. Poitras; Sick
Committee, Miss P. Bil!80Ilnette, Miss S. Kearns. Mil!8
B. Le
ris; Representative to The Canadian Nur8e,
Miss E. Kennedy; Representatives to Local Council
of 'Vomen, Mrs. Latimer, Mrs. Dunne ßnd Mrs. Le
Clair; Representatives to Central Registry, Miss
Rogers, Mil's M. Landreville.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 E. Maxwell; President, Mil!8
M. MacLaren; Vice-President, Miss M. Lunan; Secre-
tary, Miss M. NelsoIl, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, MiB8
I. Allan, 1188 Gladstone Ave.; Central Registry, Misses
M. Wilson, S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
Misses S. Clark, S. Carmichael, E. Young; Representa-
tive to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss M. Drummond, Civic
Hospital.
OWEN SOUND
A.A., Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital
Hon. President, Mil!8 B. Hall; President, Mil!8 F.
Rae; Firl!t Vice-President, Miss M. Paton; Second
Vice-President, Mil!8 J. Agnew; Secretary, Miss A.
Robertson, 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer, Miss A.
Weedon; Pianist, Miss R. Dunoon; Flower Committee,
Mrs. McMillan; Programme Committee, Miss M.
Cruickshank; Sick Committee, Miss M. Sim; PreB8
Representative, Miss H. "Talden; Refreshment Com-
mitt-ee, Mil!8 C. PenIler; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, Mise
A. Dobbin; First Vice-President, Miss H. Russell,
Second Vice-President. Miss L. Simpson; Secretary;
Miss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; TreRBurer, Miss
8. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Secretary;
MiB8 E. Wagar: 273 Park St.; Social Convener, Miss
1\1. Watson.
SARfIIIA
A.A., Sarnia General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. Lee; President, MiB8 L.
Segrist; Vice-President, MiB8 A. Cation; Secretary,
MiB8 A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson,
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e. Miss C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), MiB8 D. Shaw;
Programme and Social Committee, MiB8 L. Segrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. 1\1.
Iunn; President, Miss
L. Attwood; Vice-President, Miss M. McMaster;
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. K. Snider, 36 Douglas St.;
Social Convener, MÎ88 A. Rock; Flower Convener;
:\oHB8 C. Staples.
ST. CA THERINES
A.A., Mack Training School
Hon. President, Miss Anne Wright, General Hospi-
tal; President, Miss Nora Nold, General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss Margaret McClunie, 39
Chaplin Ave.; Second Vice-President, Miss EvelYIl
Horton, Louth St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss J. Hastie,
General Hospital; Social Committee, MiB8 Aileen
Johnston, General Hospital, Miss Donalda Veale, 35
Academy St., Miss Bernice Rule. 146 Weiland Ave.;
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss Feather-
stone, 17 Hainer St.; Correspondent. Miss Current;
Programme Committee, Miss Brubaker, 1 Fitzgerald St.
ST. THOMAS
A.A., Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Armstrong; Hon. President,
MiB8 Buchanan; President, Miss Bella
litchener;
Firl!t Vice-President, Miss Annie Campbell; Second
Vice-President, MiB8 Jervell; Recording Secretary;
Mil!s Esseltine; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Lamond,
TreRBurer, Miss Claypole; Executives, Miss McAlpine,
Miss Irvine, Miss Nona Mannix, MiB8 Hazel Hastings,
MiB8 L. Crane; Committee Convener8: Nominating,
MiB8 J. Grant; Sick Nursing, Miss E. Lanyon; Social,
Miss C. Robertson; Purchasing, MiB8 L. Ronson; Ways
and Means, Miss Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nur8e, MiB8 Amy Prince; Representative
to the R.N.A.O., MiB8 Mary May.
TORONTO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. C. J. Currie; President,
lisll
A. O. Bell; Recording Secretary, :\oHB8 Dorill L. Kent;
Corresponding Secretary. l\liss May Hood, Grace
Hospital, Toronto; Treasurer, Miss V. M. Elliott, 194
CottiIlgham St.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., The Grant
lacDonald Training School
for Nurses
Hon. President, Mi8B Esther 1\1. Cook, 130 Dunn
Ave.; President, Mi8B Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn Ave.:
Vice-President, Mrs. Marion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss Norma McLeod: Correaponding Secretary,
:\fiss Ethel Watson, 130 Dunn Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
Phyllis Lawrence; Social Convener, Mi8B Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Presidents, Mrs. Goodson, Mi8B F. Potts; Hon.
Vice-President, Miss Austin; President, Mrs. Strachan;
Vice-Presidents, Mrs. CaBBan, Mrs. Raymond; Record-
ing Secretary, Mi8B E. Langman: Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Blackwood: Treasurer, Mi8B Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee Convener8: Social, Mrs. A.
Russell; Flower, Miss H. Fisher; Proj1;ramme, Mi8B
Elliott; Publications, Miss S. E. Lewis: Registry, Miss
Currie; Welfare, Mi8B Parker; R.N.A.O.,
liss !\lilIer.
A.A., Rlverdale Hospital
President, Miss Armstrong; First Vice-President,
Miss GastriU; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Thomp-
son: Secretary, Miss Staples, Riverdale Hospital:
Treasurer, Mrs. H. Dunbar, 1\3 Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, Miss Mathieson, l\fi8B Stratton, Mi8B Breeze,
:\fi8B Baxter, Mi8B LO\\Tie, Riverdale Hospital.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
Hun. President. Sister Bpatrice, 8uperintPndent. St.
.John's Covent; Pre!'ident, Miss S. l\Iorj!:an; First Vice-
President, l\Iiss .J. Vanderwell; Second Vice-President,
:\Jiss N. Hetherington: Secrptary. Mis.'I W. Webb, 77
Summerhill Ave.; Trea!'Ufpr, ì\liss D. Whiting; Corres-
ponding Secretary, !\Ii..s :\1. :\Iartin; Conflener8: Enter-
tainment Committpe, :\fi,.;s :\1. Davies; Sick Visiting,
:\o1is!' H. Frost; Press Representative, Mi"s F. Young,
227 Milverton Bh d., Toronto 6.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Mary Margaret; Presi-
dent, Mi8B M. KeUy; First Vice-President, Miss O.
Kidd; Second Vice-President, Mi8B M. Daly; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss M. Goodfriend; C'orrespondinj1;
Secretary, Miss V. Hanley; Treasurer, :\-fiss F. Robin-
!Ion; Councillors, l\1isses A. Timlin, L. Dunbar, I.
Power, R. McCue.
A.A., St. Michael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; Hon. Vice-
President, Rev. Sister Jeanne; President., Miss Marie
Melody; First Vice-President, Mi8B Crocker; Second
Vice-President, Miss R. Grogan; Third Vice-President,
:\fiss J. O'Connor; Treasurer, Mi8B G. Coulter, Apt.
404,42 Isabelle St.; A8Bistant Treasurer, Mi8B I. Nealon;
Recording Secretary, Mi8B M. Doherty, St. Michael's
Hospital; Corresponding
ecretary, Mi8B K. McAuliffe,
Eaøtwood Apt., Sherbourne St.; Private Duty Repre-
8entative, Miss McGuire; Public Health Repre8entative,
l\fi8B H. Kerr; Pre8B Representative, Miss Regan;
t'ouncillors, Missea 1\1. Brown, L. l\lcGlIrk, C. Cronin.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
Hun. President, Miss .Jean Gunn; President, Miss
Jean Ander!'on, 14n Glenholme ,\ve.; First Vice-
Prcl-idpnt, Miss I\farl!:arpt Dulmage:
erond '"ice-
Pre!'idpnt, :\1i!"R Elvira :\Ianning: Serretary, 'liss
:\Jary Fidlcr, 2.') Braemar Ave.; Trpasurer, :\Ii!'!' Hilda
:\lacIennan, 14 Lyn\\ood .\Vf'.: As!'istant Trpasurer.
'Iiss Evelyn Hobson; Archivist, Mi8B Jean Kniseley;
Convener.< of Committee8: Proj1;ramrnf', :\Ii,..s Clara
BflJ\\n; Press, :\Ii!'s :\Iarion
tp\\art; Social, :\l1s.
.T. II. Thure..!'on; Nominations, :\Iiss Pau!inp
teves;
In,..urance, :\1i"s I:ffie Forl!:ie: Fln\\pr, :\Ii,..s l\Iarl!:aret
'lcKay: Elizabeth Fipld Smith :\Iemorial Fund, 'Ii"s
Gretta Ross.
399
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Training School for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss E. McLean, Torollto East
General Huspital; Pre&ident, Miss H. Loui8, 1806
Danforth Ave.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss N. V.
Wilson, 50 Co\\an Ave.; Representatives to Cf'ntral
Registry, Miss n. Macintosh, 74S Soudall Ave.,
:\fiss 1\1. Beston, 232 Millwood Rd.; Hepresentative to
R.N.A.O., Miss B. MacIntosh.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Bon. President, Miss B. L. Ellis; President, MiBB
F. Matthews, 74 Westmount Ave.; Vice-President.
Miss U. Colwell; RecordiIlJ!: Secretary, Mi8B G. Patter-
son; Secretary-Treasurer, 1\1iss Helen Stewart, Toronto
\Vestern Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
Nur8e, Miss F. Greenaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
HOIl. President, :\liss Ross; President, :\fi:ss Jessie
Gordon; Vice-President, :\Iiss Lindsay; Correspolldinl!:
ecretary, Miss 1\1. AndersoIl, 168 Isabella 8t.; Record-
mg Secretary, Miss Bungay; Treasurer, !\Iiss Little,
168 Isabella St.; Correspondent to The Canadian
Nurse, .:\liss I. Onslow.
A.A., Women's College Hospital
on.
rf'.I!i.dent, !\Irs: Bowman; Hon. Vice-President,
MIss MeIkleJohn; President, Mi8B Worth, 93 Scarboro
Beach Blvd.; Secretary, Miss Free, 48 Northumberland
St. Treaøurer; Miss Fraøer, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Connaught Training School for Nurses
Toronto Hospital, Weston
HO!1' President, Miss E. l'.lacP. Dickson, Toronto
Hospital. Wes
on; ':ice-President, Mias Ann Bolwell.
!oronto Hospital.
\ eston; Secretary, l\Ii8B G. Leem-
mg, .Toronto HospItal, Weston; Treasurer. Mi8B R.
McKay, Toronto Hospital, 'Veston; Convener of
S<;>eial Committee, Miss M. Jones, Toronto Huspital.
" eston.
WINDSOR
A.A., Grace Hospital
HOll. Pre::.idpllt, -\djutant A. Butt; Presidpnt, :\hs"
E. williams; \ïl'e-President, :\Iiss G.
utherland'
Secretary, :\Ih.s Gladys Duffield, 218 Peter f't. ".:
Sa!1d \\ ich; Treasurer, :\ Ii,,!, "'. :\Iervin; Pre"''' S('rretary,
1\1181' C. :\lrLan'n.
A.A., Hotel Dleu, Windsor
Hon. Prpsident, Rev. :\Iother :\Iarie de I a Fern';
Prcsidpnt, :\Iiss :\Iary Perrin; FirRt \'il'e-Presidcnt.
:\Ii"s :\Iarie Odette; Second \"ice-President, :\fisfl ZO{'
J ondeau; Secretary,
[iss .:\I. :O;pen<'t'; Treasurer, :\Ii""
:\Iary Fenner; Conveners of Committees: :\Ii...!'es .J.
Lnndeau, H. :\Iahollf'y, :\1.
Ic(,lory.
WOOOSTOCK
A.A., General Hospital
Fir,..t lion. Prp!'idpnt, ;\Ii,..s France::. f'harpe;
('r"nd
lion. I'rp!<idpnt, :\lisl< J-Iplen Potts: Prp"id('nt, :\Ii",..
:\Iabel Costello: \ il'e-Pre!'ident, :\li"l< '\nna Cook:
Becording
f'rrptary, 'Iiss Lila .J ackson; C'orre!'pundinj!:
:O;ccretaryalld Pn'>s Heprcspntative, I\liH' May I )avi"on.
,;ti7 \delaidc
t.: .\!'sistant
('crptary, I\li"", Jpan
I\:elly: Treasurer, :\oli..s :\Iaud :O;laght; Assi"tant Treas-
urer, :\liss 1\1. :\lacPherson; Conr:eners of Committees:
Prol/:ramme, l\liM' D. Crail!:: Flo\\er and Gift. :\1i1"I' D.
Hobbs; Social, ì\liss J. <\ndcrson.
400
THE CANADIAN NURSE
QUEBEC
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss 1\1. L. Brown; President, Mrs.
L. Jobber, 1646 Van Horne Ave.; Vice-President, I\li
!'\
R. Goodfellow, I achute; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss A.
Roy, 379 St. Catherinps St., Lachine; Executive Com-
mittee, Misse
M. l\lcNutt, E. Dewar.
MONTREAL
A.A., Children's Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. Kinder; President, Miss K
Paterson; Vice-President, Miss H. Nutall; Secretary,
:\Iiss J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasuru, Miss
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, Miss E. Hillyard,
:\Iiss :.\1. Flander; Social Committee. convener, Miss
:\1. Gill, :.\liss A. Adlington, MiB8 M. McCallum and
Misl! M. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
NUr8e, MiB8 V. Schneider; Sick Nurses Committee, Miss
H. Easterbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
President, Miss A. Porteous; Vice-President, :\liss
:\1. Hayden; Treasurer, MiB8 D. Miller, Homeopathic
Hospital; AB8istant Treasurer, Miss N. Horner; Secre-
tary, Miss S. Holland; AB8istant Secretary, Miss J.
Gray; Pri"ate Duty Section, Miss A. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee,
Iiss H. Bright; Entertainment
Committee, MiB8 M. Hayden; Representative to The
Canadian Nur8e, MiB8 J. Whitmore; Representative,
Iontreal Graduate Nurses Association, Miss M.
Bright;ßick Benefit Society, Mrs. J. Warren.
L'Assodation des Gardes-Malades Graduées de
I'Hôpital Notre-Dame
Exécutif: :\lesdemoiselles Suzanne Girou..., Prési-
rlente; Irène Rouillard, \ïce-Présidente; Juliette
Beaulieu, :!pme Vice-Prèsidente; Lurrèce Bouchpr,
Trésorière; :\Iarguerite Pau71\ 4234 St. Hubert f-:t.,
eprétaire; Conseill
res: :\Iesdemoisplles Françoisl'
Chevrier, Georgette Hébert, Germaine Bris..et, Ludi-
vine Bérubé.
A.A., Montreal General Hospital
Hon. PreøideIlts, MiB8 J. Webster, Miss N. Tedford,
Miss F. E. Strumm; Hon. Treasurer, Miss H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, Miss J. Craig; President, Miss E.
Frances Upton, Ste. 221, 1396 St. Catherine St. W.;
First Vice-President, l\liB8 M. Mathewson; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. L. H. Fisher; Recorrlinl! Secretary,
MiB8 D. Snow; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E. C.
Menzies, 6635 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun; Treasurer (Alum-
nae AB8ociation and Mutual Benefit Committee), Miss
I. Davies, Montreal General Hospital; Executive Com-
mittee, MiB8 M. K. Holt,
liB8 H. Newton, MiB8 L.
Sutton, Miss O. Lilly, Miss B. Herman; Representa-
tives to Private Duty Section, Miss E. Gruer (Convener),
MiB8 C. Cole, Miss E. Marshall; Representative to
The Canadian NUr8e, Miss I. Welling (Convener),
:\lontreal General Hospital; Representatives to Local
Council of Women. :\liss G. Colley, Miss M. Ross;
Sick Visiting Committee, Miss F. E. Strumm, Miss B.
Herman; Prol!;ramme Committee, Miss I. Davies, Miss
M. Batson; Refreshment Committee, Miss B. Under-
hill (Convener), Miss C. Coombes, MiB8 C. Fitzl/:erald,
Miss D. McRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, :\liB8 E. A. Draper; President, :\Iiss
:\1. F. Hersey; First Vice-President, Miss J. Stevenson;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. Grieve; Recording Secre-
tary, MiB8 E. B. Rogers; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss K.
,Tamer, Royal Victoria Hospital; Executive Committee.
Mrs. E. Roberts, Mrs. G. C. Melhado, Mrs. Prideaux,
Misses E. Etter, E. Reid, A. Bulman; Con"ener8 of
('ommittee8: Finance. Miss B. Campbell; Sick Visiting,
\1iss Il. Fellows; Programme, Mrs. K. Hutchison;
Refreshments, MiB8 M. Rowley; Pri"ale Duty Spction,
:\1iss R. Cochrane; Representativtls to Local Council
of Women, MiB8 J. Stevenson, Mrs. E. Cooper; Repre-
sentative to The Canadian Nur8e, MiB8 E. Allder.
A.A., St. Mary's Hospital
Hon. President, Sister Rozon; President, :\liss G.
:\lcLellan; \Ïce-President, I\liss :\1. Mc:-;eil; Secretary,
:\Iiss 1\.. Brady, Xune:; Residence, 18f\3 Dorchester St.
W.; Trpasurer, :\Iis,", A. Lalunde; Sick Committee,
:\lis
es B. Latour, I. I\IcDonell; Programme Committee,
:\lisse!'\ I. Kenny, .:\1. Lapointe, E. O'Hare.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
Hon. Presidents, Miss F. George, Miss E. Trench;
President, Mrs. L. l\1. Crewe; First Vice-President,
MiB8 E. Moore; Second Vice-President, MiB8 K. Mar-
tin; Recording Secretary, Miss R. Sixsmith; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss N. Bro\\n, Apt. 5, 1187 Hope
Ave.; Treasurer, Miss E. L. Francis; Sick Visiting.
Miss G. Wilson, Miss L. Jensen; Private Duty. Mrs.
A. Chisholm, :\liss G. Wilson; Representative to Thp
Canadian Nur8e, MiB8 C. Morrow; Social Committee,
Mrs. Drake, Miss Clark. Regular monthly meetinl/:
every third Wednesday, 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University
Hun. President, :\liss Mary Samuel; Hon. \Ïce-
Pcesidl'nt, Miss Bertha Harmer; Hon. l\Iemben"
:\Iisf' l\1. F. Hersey, Miss Grace 1\1. Fairley, Dr. Helen
H. Y. Reid, Dr. I\Iaude Abbott, Mrs. R. "". Reford,
:\Iiss M. L. Moag; President, Miss Madf'line Taylor.
\ïctorian Order of Kurses, 1246 Bishop St.; \ïce-
President, Miss Eilpen C. Flanagan, Royal Victoria
Hospital;
ecretary- Trpasurer, 1\1i
s K. MacLennan,
Ale"\andra Hospital; Chairman, Flora Madeline f'ha\\
:\Iemorial Fund, 1\li-s E. Franre", rpton, 139f\
t.
t'atherine St. v..; Programme, :\Ii. B Flora Georgf',
Women':; General Hm:pital; Representatives to Local
Council of Women, :\Ii,s Ethel Sharpt', :\Ii.,R Abil!:ail
Baker; Representatives to The Canadian l'.urse:
Admini!'\tration, :\Ii
s 1\1. DesBarres, Shriners' Ho
-
pital; Teaching, :\Iiss C. Mill!', Montreal General
Hospital; Public Health, :\Iiss L. Charland, :H2l
Grand Blvd.
QUEBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. Barrow; President, Miss D.
Jackson; First Vice-President. Miss E. Fitzpatrick;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. C. Young; Recording
Secretary, Miss E. McCallum; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss M. Fischer; Treasurer, MiB8 E. MrHarp;;
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e. MiB8 N.
:\lartin; Pri"ate Duty Section: Miss G. Martin;
irk
\ïsiting Committee, :\Irs. Barrow and Mrs. Buttimore;
Refreshment Committee. Mrs. Melling, Miss Weary,
Miss Hansen, Miss
IcClintoch; Councillors. :\Iisfl
Imrie, Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Jackson, MiB8 Mackay, :.\lisR
B. Adams.
SHERBROOKE
A.A.. Sherbrooke Hospital
Hun. Presidents, Miss E. Frances Upton,
liB8 \"ernø
Beane; President, Mrs. Gordon MacKay; First 'ïce-
President, Miss O. Harvey; Second Vice-President,
:\Irs. A.
avage; Recording Recretary, Miss 1\1. Gelinas;
CorrespondinjZ: Secretary, Mrs. Herbert MacCallum;
Treasurer, MiB8 Alice Lyster, lOa Wellington St. N.;
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss F
\V ardleworth.
SASKATCHEWAN
A.A., Saskatoon City Hospital
Hon. President, Miss G. 1\1. Watson; President, l\liss
M. R. Chisholm; First Vice-President, Miss G. Munroe;
econd ''ice-President, Miss H. Johnaton; Recording
f'ecretary. Miss J. Wells; Corresponding Secretary,
:\liB8 L. Kirk, 419-9th St.; Treasurer, Miss A. Ferl/:uson,
Con"ener8: Press,
1iB8 1\1. E. Grant; Relief. MiB8 G.
:\lunroe; Rick Yisitinl/:. Miss M. Graham; Educational.
:\Irs. G. Pendleton; ,\" ays and :\Ieans, MiB8 l\f. Dllnrl! n :
:-;orial, :\Irs. H. Buck.
'01. XXX
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VOL. XXX, No. 9
The
Canad ian
Nurse
A Monthly Journal for the Nurses of Canada
PublIshed by the Canadian Nurses Association
VOL. XXX
No.9
MONTREAL, QUE., SEPTEMBER. 1934
TOW ARDS ACTION
JEAN I. GUNN, Superintendent of Nurses, The Toronto General Hospital
For many years the need for construc,
tive thinking and a definite planning of
nursing service has been acutely realized
by the nurses of Canada and careful
thought has already been given by the
Canadian Nurses Association and by the
Provincial Associations of Nurses in the
nine provinces of Canada. Many plans
have been discussed but always there
seem to be insurmountable barriers over
which no nursing organization has as yet
found a way.
The point at which the most pressing
need is presented is the economic side of
nursing, involving both the nursing pro'
fession and the public. On one hand we
have large numbers of nurses unemployed
or employed so fitfully that it is not pos'
sible to earn an income which is adequate
for self'support. On the other hand we
have increasingly large numbers of people
in need of nursing service and unable to
pay for this service. This is the problem
for which the nursing profession must
"eek a solution.
Placillg Respollsibilil)
This question has usually heen con'
.;;idered as a definite problem of the pri,
vate duty nurses. This passing over of
the problem to the members of the pro'
fession engaged in private nursing is un'
fair as it is the concern of all nurses. We
should keep in mind the fact that while
many nurses choose private duty as the
(An address ddivered at the Biennial Mletm
of the
Canadian Nursa Asaociation. June 29, 1934. in Townto)
SEPTEMBI:R, 19
4
type of work they wish to do, many enter
this field through lack of opportunity of
employment in other fields. The reduction
in staff of all types of nursing service
means an increase in the number entering
private nursing. During the years the
other branches of nursing service have
passed their problems of unemployment
over quite unconcernedly to the private
duty group. It is no wonder that we find
practically all the problems of unemploy'
ment focused in the private duty group
since its members must of necessity ac'
cept, without protest, the unemployment
problems of all the other branches of
nursing service. This problem should be
considered the concern of all nurses and
the solution must be sought by the organ
ired profession of nursing.
Demalld alld Supply
Have we too many nurses in Canada?
Are the schools of nursing graduating
more nurses annually than can find em-
ployment? The answer to these questions
is contradictory. If we consider nursing
service as at present organized, the an'
swer is emphatically yes. If we consiJer
nursing service as it could and should be
organized, serving all the citizens of Can
ada, wherever located, the answer is just
as emphatically no. The Committee on
the Cost of Medical Care in the United
States, organized in 1927 and completing
the five'year programme of research and
study in 1932, stated for the United
St,ltes: "The supply of graduate nurses
405
406
THE CANADIAN NURSE
greatly exceeds the actual, though not the
potential, demand for their services." To
the question of the potential need for
nursing service in Canada the answer is
given in very definite figures. According
to the census of 1931 the population of
Canada was approximately 10,415.000,
which when compared with the area of
the country- 2,190,000 sqcdre miles-
averages five persons to every square mile
of territory. In 1931 there were 16,072
annually registered nurses in the nine
provinces of Canada, averaging one regis-
tered nurse for every 647 of the popula-
tion or one registered nurse for every 130
square miles. If the nurses were distri-
buted according to population and serving
all areas the problem of unemployment
would cease to exist.
Distribution
Considering the question in the light of
existing conditions throughout Canada,
there are undoubtedly too many nurses
seeking employment in certain restricted
areas. In the Survey of Nursing Educa-
Lion in Canada the density map of the
distribution of registered nurses shows
that the largest number of nurses is found
in practically three areas: the Western
Coast cities, the cities of southern On-
tario, and the south-western part of Quc-
hec. In the rem
ining provinces the
nurses are located very largely in the lar-
ger cities. The map shows in all provinces
vast areas in which practically no regis-
tered nurses are located.
Why This Faulty Distribution?
Why do th
r.urses congregate in these
comparatively few cities and towns? Is
it because they do not want to work in
any other area? Are they unwilling to do
pioneer work in outlying districts? Have
the nurses lost the spirit of service on
which their profession is based? To all
these questions the answer, on behalf of
the average nurse, is in the negative. The
reason is the complete lack of any kind of
organization that would make it possible
for the nurse to earn a livelihood in these
districts. Naturally the nurse settles in
those areas where some type of organiza-
tion makes it possible for her to work.
She finds this organization in the cities
and larger towns where the nurses them-
selves have organized registries for the
distribution of nurses to meet the nursing
needs of that individual community.
This individual and isolated method of
organization is one modification of the
present system which might be intro,
duced, not only in relation to the services
of the registered nurse, but the service of
all those who nurse the sick for hire. The
present system not only restricts the ser-
vice of the registry to one locality, but
also to one type of worker only: the regis-
tered nurse. Several registries have even
limited membership to nurses who gradu-
ate from the schools of nurses located in
the area the registry serves. The restrict-
ing to one locality is so extreme that dis-
tricts twenty or thirty miles apart are
entirely different in organization and
regulations. This isolation of one district
from another is increasing as the years
pass and the circle grows smaller and
smaller.
Economic Aspects
What should be the ultimate solution,
anJ what steps could be taken toward
that end? Eventually there should be es -
tablished provincial control of all nursing
service through which the nurses would
serve in all areas in pro p ortion to th
n eeds of the commun ity and would be
assured an income s ufl1c lëñt to ensure
them a proper liv ing. Ithas been proved
beyond question that the average citizen
cannot meet the cost of medical and nurs-
ing care. The Committee on the Cost of
Medical Care in the United States gave
as one of its findings the following state-
ment: "The nursing needs of the com-
munity are far from being met because
under existing economic conditions the
large majority of its members cannot af-
ford to pay for the nursing service they
require." For this reason the solution
must be along economic lines.
VOL. xxx, No. 9
TOWARDS ACTION
Health Insurance
Wh Ile a better distribution of nur si!2g
would increase the possibility of employ '
m ent it wou ld not in any way increase
the d b i li ty of th
erage citizen t
pã y
for- nursin
vic
The DloSt practical
solutIOn would seem to be some type o f
organization by which the citizen could
ëõñti-ibüteregularly towa rd the expense
o f any me d Ica ! ar
nu rsing se rvice he or
his fami ly mIg ht require. T his woul d
n ecessitate some form of legislation along
t he lme of health insurance . This can
only b e b roug h t into effect by the differ'
ent Provincial Governments and should
receive very serious consideration by the
citizens of each province. The urgent
need of employment for nurses is impor
tdnt, but is not as vital as the need for
nursing service to all citizens, regardless
of their ability to payor their place of
resIdence. The medical profession has
tdken much more active interest in the
study of health insurance than the nurs'
ing profession has taken. In many of the
provinces the medical profession has had
committees at work to co,operate with
the Provincial Government in seeking the
best solution to this problem. T he Can'
ad;an Medical Association has made a
ecial study of health insur ance, the
fin d mgs o f W h IC h were presented at the
recent meeting of that l' rganization.
Ì'.urses cannot expect to redp the benefits
of health insurance, as related to employ'
ment, unless active assistance is given in
bringing such a scheme into operation.
The place of the nurse in any health ill'
5lJranCe legisldtion should be largely de'
t.-.rmineJ by the organized nursing pro'
fpssion.
Varieties of Nursing Service
Umler any new policy or new type of
nrganization the Pdtient should be able to
pcure the type of nursing service re'
quired, both from the standpoint of the
hours of savice (md the type of nurse.
T he patient who at the present time em'
Dlovs a nurse tor prIvate d uty h as;- of
\cccssity ,
n}I
J oy the nurse for the
"PTlMBER, IQ34
407
number of hours outlined as a worki ng
day by the registry o f which the nurse is
a mem b er. 1 he patient mdY need the
nurse for on ly a p art of that time and,
therefore, he must p ayJ:!er for time when
she IS not really employed In n ursing ser'
m.. The tVDe of nurse the patient
wishes to have presents another problem
to the patient, to the doctor and to the
nursing profession as well. While it has
be en decided on many occasions that
there is a real need i n t h e community fur
the gractIcal nurse nQ...fQ..n structiv e plaQs
have b een ma d e by which her service s m
made easily available . She is found in
most communities, a free lance person,
calling herself a nurse. She is not re'
quired to have any training; she takes
no examinations; she nurses all types of
patients without any supervision; she
charges any fee she thinks the patient will
pay. This free lance so,called nurse has
been left severely alone by the profes,
sional nurses' registries and no effort has
been made to see that she takes her proper
place in the plan for nursing service of
the community. The time is long past due
when some definite action should be taken
by the nursing profession. L egislation
should be secured that would license to
practice all nurses, r e istered nd!lQn,
re
istered, who nurse the sick for hire .
Reorganization of Registries
In addition to licensing all who nurse
the sick as a means of livelihood, all pro'
fessional nurses' registries should be re'
organized to include all types of nurses.
It should be emphasized that the nurses'
registries could take action along this line
at any time. The licensing would mean
legislation and would, of necessity, be
slower in coming into effect. This action
on the part of the registries would greatly
facilitate the licensing of practical nurses
when the necessary legislation is secured.
Very little progress WIll be made until the
professional nurses' registries consider the
question from the standpoint of the nurs'
ing needs of the community and not, as
at present, only from the standpoint of
408
THE CANADIAN NURSE
securing employment for the
egistered
nurse who is fortunate enough to be in-
cluded in its membership.
While the nurses' registry is under dis-
cussion there is still another point which
needs emphasis. In the beginning of this
discussion it was stated that the economic
problem was one for all nurses and not
solely for the private duty group. The
solution must, therefore, be sought by all
nurses working as one unit. This can
never be effected under the existing
regulations of the majority of nurses'
registries The governing council of all
registries should include nurses from the
different branches of nursing if the re-
sponsibility of reorganization is to be
shared by all. This is not meant to deprive
the nurses doing private duty of the
privilege of directing their own affairs.
To a large extent this could contmue by
the broader policies of service which
involve the welfare of the community and
should not be limited, as at present, to the
consideration of anyone group of nurses.
Are There Too Many Nurses?
So far the potential demand for nurs-
ing service has been the basis of this dis-
cuss!on. Could we consider for a short
time the actual demands at present? Have
we too many nurses in Canada to meet
the present needs? Are the schools of
nursing graduating too many nurses an-
nuaally? Is any effort being made to
reduce the supply of nurses? In order to
report accurately on existing conditions,
information was secured from the nine
provinces which may be of interest. In
Canada since the beginning of registra
tion of nurses 38,989 nurses have regis-
tered. There has been an increasing
number registered annually. In 1930,
14,986 nurses registered in the nine pro-
vinces; in 1931, 16,072; in 1932, 16,977;
in 1933, 17,994. While the annual regis-
tration has steadily increased t;he number
of nurses registering for the first time
shows a very slight increase. In 1930,
2,760 nurses registered for their initial
registration; in 1931,2,808; in 1932,
2,708; in 1933, 2,583. The actual de-
crease since 1930 is 177 nurses and this
decrease is distributed over most of the
provinces. From these figures it will be
seen that there is practically no change in
the number of nurses being graduated
annually.
During the same period 40 schools of
nursing have been discontinued, eight in
British Columbia, three in Alberta, one
in Saskatchewan, 29 in Ontario, three in
Quebec and two in Nova Scotia. Two
schools have been organized, one in On-
tario and one in Manitoba. The actual
reduction since 1930 is 44 schools of nurs-
ing. Unfortunately this reduction does
not materially affect the number of nurses
graduating as these schools had a small
enrolment of nurses and a small annual
output of graduates. This is, of course, a
distinct advantage to nursing education
as the hospitals were small and lacking in
clinical material.
Restriction of Output
I would like to quote from an editorial
in the Nursing 'Times, the official organ
of the College of Nursing in London,
England:
After all, an estimate of the public's needs
is one thing, and it is vital that we search for
ways of satisfying these needs. But unless such
ways are found it is not very good policy to
say, "Here is a splendid army of nurses. All
you have to do is to come forward and pay
for them!"' The situation is surely analogous
to the over supply of cotton and coffee among
primary producers. We know that it seems
terrible to plough in thousands of acres of
plantations and to burn tons of coffee when
people are going unclothed and unfed, but
until the problem of distribution is solved have
the growers any alternative? Should they go
on producing cotton and coffee and trust that
by next year all will be well again? Should
we go on producing nurses in the hope that
in a year or two schemes of insurance, a hu-
manitarian Ministry of Health and a complete
return to prosperity will have solved the prob-
lem? The speakers at our conference gave us
an uneasy feeling that we might find the
coffee berry. the cotton seed and the proba-
tioner, all three in the same boat.
We cannot afford to continue to add
large numbers of nurses annually in the
VOL. xxx, No. 9
TOWARDS ACTION
409
hope that all will be well in a year or two. vinces. Six provinces have been experi,
The l'..olicy of establishin{! a definite ratio menting with an eight-hour day for
of student nur ses en roll
I}d .,ggdu ate nurses doing I2r!yate duty nursin g, the
n urses em p loyed by all hos pitals conduct- nurse's fee being considerably reduced.
ing school s o f nursing hãS b een app roved It was thought that this measure would
by the C anadia n Nurses Association at increase the employment of nurses. How-
t he Bi e..!!..ni
l Meetin g in 1932. but ap- ever, I I I. , '1 e Ir ounced
parently little progress has been made in this change a success . T he nurses have
this respect. The intiative will have to be not had anv morp. emplov
and their
t aken
the Provincial Nurses A ssocia- ëãimngs h ave b een consi d era b ly reduced
tions since all control of nursing educa - Some provinces rep
rt that no use had
t ion and hos pital service is vested in the been made of this special service by the
P rovincial Governme nts. The enforcing medical profession or by the public.
o f suc h a policy would have a two-fold T he same report is given b y those pro -
effect: the reduction in the number of vin ces in which hourly nursin
in g
nurses graduated and an increase in the offered by the nursinQ: reQ:ist ries. Very
employment of graduate nurses. little, if any, progress has been made in
Shortening HOUTS and Spreading Work the establishment of an hourly nursing
In many branches of industry the solu- system under the present type of organi-
tion to the unemployment problem is zation. In connection with this lack of
tending toward shorter hours for the success in these attempts to give the pub-
workers. This solution is not so much be' lic the opportunity of having the length
cause the present working day in industry of nursing service they require, I would
is too long, but from the standpoint of like to quote from a letter received from
spreading the work over a larger number one of the provinces: "Early in 1933 the
of employees, thus giving to an increased eight-hour day and the hourly nursing
number a means of livelihood. There will service were added to the schedule of
be, undoubtedly, an increase in the cost duties. These, however, have not met
of labor which will have to be met in with the success we would desire as yet,
some way. For the last twenty years the due partly I believe to lack of publicity,
shorter working day for nurses has been and to a large extent to the selfishness,
discussed but very little progress has been lack of knowledge and understanding of
made in changing existing conditions. the private duty nurses themselves. They
Could the solution of shorter hours also hesitate to recommend a service which
be applied to nursing? This would help may cut their daily income." And to
the economic situation and at the same quote from the reply sent by another pro'
time bring into effect proper working vince, "Due to the fact that private duty
conditions, the establishment of which nurses have been free,lancing and work,
has been too long delayed. As in in' ing without supervision for so long their
òustry, such a change will be more costly own attitude seems to be an obstacle in
from a financial standpoint. At present bringing about changes that seem almost
the cost is being paid to a large extent by necessary." From still another province,
the sacrifice of health and physical fitness, "Our greatest difficulty is indifference.
and by a decided lack of leisure time in No one seems to be able to present our
which to seek recreation and rest. need forcefully enough to make an im,
Some Exper;me1Jts pression. No one is interested enough
In considering the modifications that outside the private duty nurses and they
might be advisable or possible an effort are too timid to take a stand. I think we
was made to ascertain what changes, if could help ourselves very much if we had
.tny, had been made in the different pro- determination and would hold together."
SEPTEMBER, 1934
410
THE CANADIAN NURSE
I am quoting from these letters as they
come from the private duty groups in
the different provinces and indicate that
the leaders of this group throughout Can-
ada have been doing some constructive
thinking.
Things That Might Be Done
What is the solution for private duty
nursing in the future? The solution to-
ward which we should aim is to make
it possible for the majority of nurses to
be employed on the basis of a monthly
salary, such salary to compare favorably
with the salaries paid in other branches
of nursing. This change would also make
available to the public the services of
these nurses at a lower cost. The nurse
who wishes to be a free lance could con-
tinue, but the professional registries
would not limit their activities to secur-
ing her employment as is done under the
present system. All great changes have
small beginnings and this principle could
be experimented with quite easily by the
larger professional registries. Some in-
itiative must he taken and experiment
made if any change is to be effected. The
registry, assisted by the other nursing
groups in the community, could make
such an experiment by employing a small
group of nurses on a monthly salary and
the earnings of this group would be used
hy the registry to finance the under-
taking. A trial of one year would indi-
cate the practicability of the scheme from
the standpoint of the financial success and
the response from the medical profession
anJ the public. The chief responsibility
that the registry would have to assume
would be the possible deficit which might
occur. This deficit should prove a chal-
lenge to all nursing groups and could be
met if the undertaking were supported by
all nurses in the community.
This service could and should be limit-
ed to nursing in private homes, a field of
nursing which, at the present time, is
practically untouched by the private duty
nurse. In the city of Toronto in the past
year the professional nurses' registry had
a total of 11,973 requests for nurses of
which 90.17% came directly from hospi-
tals for nurses for special nursing duty.
Of the remaining 9.83 % sent to private
houses a certain number took the patients
into hospital so that the number of calls
for private duty in homes in the city of
Toronto is less than 9.83
of the total
requests received for nursing'service. This
cannot possibly represent the number of
patients being nursed at home and de-
monstrates very definitely the need for
careful study and the development of this
field of nursing. Such an experiment
would not materially affect present un-
employment but no scheme will ever be
found which will at once employ all un-
employed nurses. It would be a valuable
experiment in any community and would
be a step toward finding some means of
bridging the gap between the patient who
needs nursing service and cannot afford
tõ pay for it and the unemployed and
needy nurse.
Summary
In summing up this discussion I would
like to enumerate briefly the modifications
in nursing service toward whioh we as
a professional organization for nurses
should aim:
1. Legislation which will require all those
who nurse the sick for hire to be licensed to
practice.
2. Reorgani
ation of existing professIOnal
nurses' registries:
(a) To include in the governing board
representatives from all branches of nurs-
ing.
(b) To change the registry from a regis-
try for the securing of employment for
registered nurses to a Nmsing Service Bu-
reau on which the medical profession and
the public could depend for all types of
nursing service.
(c) To find a way of directing and su'
pervising the work of the practical nurse.
( d ) To seek closer co-operation with
other nurses' registries in an effort to over-
come the present isolation of the individual
registry and to work definitely toward some
type of provincial control of nursing service.
3. To study the means by which a better
distribution of nurses may be effected and a
VOL. XXX, No. 9
SIXTY YEARS YOUNG
development of nursing service in areas not
at present being served.
4. To advocate and to influence in any way
possible the passing of legislation for health
insurance in the different provinces, and to
o;ee that any scheme for health insurance in-
cludes nursing as well as medical service.
5. To take steps to materially reduce the
number of nurses graduated annually.
<Ó. To endeavour to secure shorter hours of
dury for nurses.
7. To encourage and promote experiments
in different localities in an effort to solve some
of the economic problems of the nursing pro-
411
fession and the unfilled nursing needs of our
Canadian people.
In closing may I stress once more the
need for united action in solving the
many difficulties facing our profession
today? May I repeat that sentence quoted
earlier in this discussion and coming from
one of the provincial groups of private
duty nurses, "I think we could help our'
selves very much if we had determination
and would hold together." That is the
challenge and I leave it with you.
SIXTY YEARS YOUNG
The month of June in the year 1934 will be
remembered as an important milestone in the
history of nursing in Canada. Within the
space of two weeks the Canadian Nurses
Association celebrated its twenty-fifth anni-
versary and the first School of Nursing in
Canada rounded out its first sixty years of
vigorous life. The Mack Training School of
Nurses associated with St. Catharine's Gen-
eral Hospital, St. Catharines, Ontario, is in
the direct line of the Nightingale succession
and its history has been outlined in an excel-
lent illustrated pamphlet compiled by Mi!'s
Helen Brown, instructor of nur!'es. The book-
let also gives the full text of the first Annual
Report of the school, its financial statement
and the "by-laws" which governed the nurses.
In the preamble, the aim of the school is de-
scribed thus: Every possible opportunity is
seized to impart instruction of a practical na-
ture in the art of nursing, while teachings will
be given in Chemistry, Sanitary Science, Poru-
lar Physiology and Anatomy, Hygiene and all
such branches of the healing art as a nurse
ought to be familiarized with. Canadian nurses
now engaged in the formulation of educational
programmes for schools of nursing might wen
ponder over this succinct statement made sixty
years ago by Dr. Theophilus Mack, the foun-
òer of the school which bears his name.
Nor does Dr. Mack belong to a remote pa!'t.
One of his nieces. Mrs. D. M. Muir, not only
assi!'ted in the preparation of Miss Brown's
pamphlet but also presented a huge birthday
cake, decorated with sixty candles, which was
cut by her si
ter, Mrs. Hubert Watt. Further-
mOre, the happiest feature of the whole occa-
sion was the presence of one of Dr. Mack's
SEPTE:MBFR. 1934
own medical colleagues, Dr: Frederick S.
Greenwood, who shared in the struggles and
triumphs of those early days. In a previous
issue. will be found the familiar photograph
taken in 1878 showing Dr. Mack and Dr.
Greenwood surrounded by a group of staff and
student nurses. In the charming photograph
which we now present, Dr. Greenwood, look-
ing very little older, is shown congratulating a
member of the graduating class of 1934. He
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DR. ^:-:D
RS. GREENWOOD (;RfET ....
tEMBI-R
OF THf CL^SS OF 1934
412
THE CANADIAN NURSE
is accompanied by his wife, who shares her
husband's many interests and herself takes an
active part in public life.
The celebratIOns extended over three days
and are described at length in the News Notes
'-
-1IftIt
MRS. WHITE, MRS. DOWLER AND MRS.
RYCKERT
section of the J ouma!. On June 20 the
members of the Alumnae Association were
hostesses at a dinner presided over by Miss
Anne Wright, superintendent of nurses, when
all the former superintendents of nurses since
1889, including Mrs. Thomas Dowler (Miss
Hollingworth), Miss Anne Hutchison, Miss
Lillian Wren and Miss Harriet Meiklejohn,
were among the guests of honour. Mrs. Dow-
ler is the central figure in the accompanying
photograph. Miss Annie Barr, a member of
the class of 1889, although she did not speak
in public, gave the younger generation some
amusing reminiscences of her training days.
About the only part of the residence which
she remembered was an old wooden bannister
which has survived the many structural
changes. "I came in one day,'" said Miss Barr,
"and found a big, good,looking stranger slid,
ing down that bannister just as a child would.
'That girl will never make a nurse,' said I, but
she did-and a good one. Later on she went
to New York and scrubbed for Dr. Bull and
Dr. MacBurney.'" Mrs. Charles Beattie, a
daughter of Ann Carline (look again at the
photograph taken in 1878) accompanied by
her daughter were also welcome guests. Mrs.
Beattie brought her mother's diploma, done in
India ink embellished with a picture of the
ho<;pital and a Red Cross design, together with
a symbol of the motto of the schoo], a lighted
candle in a bracket, which showed a tiny figure
with its fi nger to its lips.
On June 21 the principal event of the day
was the graduation ceremony when the im-
portance of the occasion was marked by the
presence of the Lieutenant-Governor of On'
tario and Mrs. Bruce. His Honour, who is
himseH a physician, in the course of a fine
address. gave high praise to the work of Miss
Anne Wright, the present superintendent of
nurses. Miss Florence H. M. Emory brought
the greetings and good wishes of the Canadian
Nurses Association of which she was, at that
time, the president. On June 22 the Board of
Governors of the Hospital gave a delightful
garden party which was largely attended by
many friends of the hospital and schoo1. And
<;0 the happy occasion came to an end, as all
things must - but the School goes on.
(*See The Canadian :NuTse. March, 1934. p. 107.)
NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
Further donations received
Lethhndge Graduate Nurses Associa-
tion .......................
A.A., Public General Hospital, Chat-
ham, Onto ..................
A.A., Owen Sound General and
Marine Hospital .............
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital .......
A.A., Grace Hospital, Walkerville,
Onto ......................
:\.A.. Orillia General and Orillia Sol-
diers' Memorial Hospital ......
Connaught Training School, Weston,
Onto (four years' donation) ....
$10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
20.00
5.00
Overseas Nursing Sisters Association,
Windsor, Onto .............. 3.00
Student Government, Royal Victoria
Hospital, Montreal ........... 15.00
Correction: I n the June issue a donation of
$10.00 was credited to the Kootenay Lake
General Hospita1. This should have read:
Nelson Graduate Nurses Association: $10.00.
GRACF. M. FAIRLEY,
Convener of the Florence Nightingale
Memorial Committee, Canadian Nurses
Association
VOL. XXX, No. 9
IMPRESSIONS SUR LE CONGRES BIENNAL
CAROLINE V, BARRETT, G.M.E., Présidente et déléguée officielle de l'Association des
Gardes-Malades enregistrées de la Province de Québec.
Le Congrès biennal de rAssociation
des Gardes-Malades du Canada qui s'est
tenu récemment à Toronto a marqué Ie
vingt-cinquième anniversaire de notre as-
sociation nationale et a été couronné du
plus grand succès. Les membres ont vive-
ment regretté que la vénérable fondatrice,
Mary Agnes Snively, ne fut pas là pour
recueillir les hommages et les palmes
d'honneur de rAssociation qu'eIle a vu
naÎtre.
Notre Association a coiffé Sainte-Ca-
therine: les plaisirs de radolescence ont
fait place à la vie sérieuse; la sagesse et Ie
courage sont désormais ses guides comme
on nous l'a clairement démontré au cours
des délibérations sérieuses du Congrès et
des sages directives qui s'en sont dégagées.
Le cri de railliement a été: "Gardes-rna-
lades du Canada, que pouvons-nous faire
pour mieux servir Ie public?" Les points
suivants ont été soulignés comme étant
très essentiels tant au bien-être de la pro-
fession qu'à celui de la population:
1 L'importance de diminuer Ie nombre de
ardes-malades que forment nos hôpitaux
chaque année.
2. L'obligation qui s'impose de n'accepter
dans nos écoles que des sujets dignes de de-
venir des gardes-malades.
3. Le devoir des écoles de donner un en-
"eignement tant pratique que théorique en
maladies mentales et en service social, ajouté
à celui que I'on donne déjà dans les quatre
matières fondamentales que sont: la chirurgie,
la médecine. l'obstétrique et la pédiatrie.
Les gardes-malades hygiénistes déplo-
rent Ie fait que les écoles de gardes-ma-
lades forrnent leur élèves exclusivement
en vue du soin des malades hospitalisés
et ne leur donnent pas ou que peu d'ex-
périence dans Ie soin des malades à domi-
cile. La prévention de la maladie n 'est
pas non plus suffisamment enseignée.
Des discours brillants ont illustré Ie
Congrès et pour n 'em mentionner que
quelques-uns, je mentionnerai l'allocution
<.Ie la présidente, MIle Florence H. M.
Emory, présentée de façon si vivante sous
sr:PTrMBER, 1914
Ie titre de: uHier et demain," nous fai-
sant envisager to utes les diflicultés de
rheure présente tout en no us laissant en-
trevoir la "terre promise." MIle Jean S.
Wilson, secrétaire exécutive de l'Associa
tion, nous a décrit de Ia manière la plus
intéressante rhistoire du quart de siècle
qui vient de s'écouler et qui couronne
cette année notre Association. MIle
Johns, rédactrice du Canadian NUTse
avertit sérieusement tous les membres de
la profession que Ie temps de l'inaction
est fini et que, désormais, iI faut agir
énergiquement. M. Ie professeur Robert
Wallace de rUniversité d'Alberta a cou-
rageusement exposé les principaux pro-
blêmes que la profession à envisager et les
solutions possibles à y apporter.
II y a eu aussi de vives discussions ct si
nos jeunes ont été parfois radicales dans
leurs demandes, les doyennes de la pro-
fession, avec leur sagesse habituelle et e
périmentée, étaient là pour mettre au he-
soin de l'eau dans Ie vin. Les rapports
des différentes provinces furent présenté
de façon très intéressantc et comme cem..
des différentes sections et des nombreux
Comités, ils ont démontré claircment Ie
travail accompli et ce qu'il reste encore à
faire pour arriver au but. Le rapport
présenté par MIle Lindeburgh ne nous a
donné 'iu 'un faible aperçu de la tâche
gigantesque que cette dernière a entre
prise si courageusement.
Toronto nous a reçues royalement.
déjeuners, diners et banquets puis récep-
tions de toutes sortes se sont succédés et
nous avons en plus été favorisées d'une
température idéale. Jc voudrais posséder
une plume d'écrivain pour décrire avec
justice la merveille qu 'a été la pageant ct
exprimer les émotions éprouvées par tous
ceux qui ont contemplé cette mise en
scène parfaite. C'est en effet à travers
les larmes que nous avons vu se dérouler
les differentes phases de la profession de
garde-maladcs depuis la fondation de
41 ,
414
THE CANADIAN NURSE
notre pays. Le pageant comprenait vingt'
deux scènes entrecoupés par d'agréables
programmes de musique, de chant et de
récitation.
La première scène représentait l'arrivée
des religieuses hospitalières à Québec, en
1639. Ces nobles femmes quittèrent leur
belle France pour venir en terre inconnue
soulager la détresse des colons et des sau-
vages de la Nouvelle France; nous avons
envers ces pionnières une dette d'éter'
nelle reconnaissance. Le deuxième tableau
nous a fait voir Jeanne Mance, cette hé,
roÏne qui vint au pays en 1642 pour fon'
der l'Hôtel, Dieu de Montréal, Jeanne
Mance restera touiours l'idéal de la garde'
malade laÏque.
A travers toutes ces scènes, la Patience,
sous forme d'une déesse apparaissait, tan'
tôt pour conquérir la paresse, tantôt pour
se rendre victorieuse de l'ignorance, de
l'indolence, de la malpropreté, autant
d'obstacles dom elle a su triompher: cette
vertu est une arme puissante dont nous
avons grandement besoin de nos jours
pour soutenir victorieusement la lutte
eontre la crise qui menace actuellement
notre profession et contre to us les maux
qu'elle entraîne avec elle.
Le compte rendu du Congrès sera don-
né en détail dans la revue et il n 'y a
aucun doute que les résolutions adoptées
seront lues avec beau coup d'intérêt. Plus
de neuf cents membres se sont inscrits au
Congrès et on a constaté avec plaisir la
présence d'un grand nombre de religieuses
dont la plupart étaient de langue fran-
çaise; plusieurs d'entre elles ont pris part
aux discussions.
La rédactrice du Canadian Nurse, avec
la permission de son Bureau de Régie, a
bien voulu insérer un article en français
dans sa revue, ce qu 'elle a rintention de
faire de temps en temps. Le geste est
gracieux et sera, je n 'en doute pas, appré-
cié à sa juste valeur.
Le Congrès a done eu pour objet de
nous faire voir clairement que beaucoup
de travail a été accompli durant les vingt'
cinq années qui viennent de s'écouler et
de nous démontrer non moins clairement
tout ce qu'il reste à faire avant d'arriver
au but. Que nous importe que Ie chemin
soit rude et Ie cicl nuageux; ne sommes'
nous pas filles de pionniers et n 'avons
nous'pas hérité du courage de nos ancê,
tres? lmitons ces vaillantes femmes L}Ul
nous ont si bien montré Ie chemin du
devoir.
AN INFORMAL TRANSLATION
In her charmingly written article Miss Bar-
rett has not attempted an official report of
the proceedings but has touched only upon
the salient features of that eventful week in
Toronto. She refers to the emphasis placed
upon the necessity of reducing the output
of graduates from schools of nursing and of
the importance of the careful selection of stu-
dents and mentions the desirability of includ,
ing the elements of public health and of
mental hygiene in the basic Course.
Miss Barrett makes reference to the many
excellent addresses, and speaks appreciatively
of the report of the national committee on cur-
riculum prepared by Miss Marion Lindeburg-h
and of the reports presented by the various
provinces. which. by the way, will be found
in this issue of the Journal. She describes
the Pageant with deep feeling and mentions
its overwhelming emotional impact. particu,
larly upon the reverend Sisters belonging to
the religious Orders in whose ranks were
found the pioneer nurses of Canada.-EditoT.
VOL. XXX, No. 9
SCHOLAR AND TEACHER
Owing to ill-health Miss Bertha Har-
mer has been obliged to relinquish the
direction of the School for Graduate
Nurses of McGill University. For the
past two years she has cctrried on under
exceptionally difficult circumstances, but
her medical advisers now insist that she
must have complete freedom
from professional responsibilit
es
in order that her health may he
thoroughly re-established. Miss
Harmer's accomplishment is al-
ready most outstanding. She is a
grLl,duate of the School of N urs-
ing of the Toronto General
Hospital and holds the degree of
B.Sc. and A.M. conferred hy
Columhia Univers
ty. She has
served ctS head nurse in almost
every department of nursing ser-
vice and was instructor and su-
pervisor in her own hospital, in
St. Luke's Hospit.tl, New York,
ctnd during the war, at the Vas-
Sdf Training Cctmp. Miss Har-
mer was closely assoc
atcd with
the development of the Yale
University School of Nursing in
the dual capacity of assistant
professor and first assistant in
administration in the New
Haven Hospital and in 1929
returned to Canada as director of the
McGill School for Graduate Nurses and
guided its development, especially during
the critical phase caused by the financial
depression, with courage and wisdom.
Miss Harmer is internationally known as
the author of her textbook, Principles and
Practice of Nursing, and the quality of
her mind is reflected in this ahle and
authoritative treatise. She has a native
capacity for research and a finn grasp of
the practical and technical aspects of
nursing: such a combination is unusual
and accounts for the sterling value of thIs
nursing classic. Nursing, as an art, a
r.:
. .
.
MISS BERTH^ H^RMFR
SCIence, a vocation is her chief pre-occu-
pcttion hut she has many other interests.
She is widely read, loves travel and h.ls
a most discriminating taste in art. With
returning health her untiring energy will
re-assert itself and we may confidently
look forward to her continued activity in
the nursing world.
The InsIde bac
cOl'er IS Interesting. . . Don't fall to read It.
SI:PTLMBER, 1934
41'
NATIONAL ENROLMENT
The Journal has already served notice
upon its readers that something has got
to be done about national enrolment for
service in war or disaster. Just by way of
refreshing your memory about one of our
conspicuous failures as a professional
group, look up our August issue, page
380, and read the report of the Commit,
tee on National Enrolment. A curious
aspect of the situation is that, If war or
other disaster were to come tomorrow,
nurses would be much incensed if the
civil and military authorities failed to
enlist their services. But that is exactly
what would happen. Why? Because, so
far, we have not responded as we should
to repeated invitations to enrol. We can
not be called unless the authorities know
where to find us.
At the Biennial Meeting in Toronto
there were some social events which were
almost as important as our regular ses-
sions. One of these was the luncheon
given under the auspices of the Canadian
Red Cross Society in honour of the Brit
ish guests of the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation, Mrs. E. MacGregor Rome, Mrs.
Christian Fenwick, Miss M. S. Cochrane
and Miss Daisy Bridges, who all gave
brief and informal addresses concerning
the rôle played by the Red Cross in
Britain during the war, particularly with
respect to the organization of the nursing
service given by the Voluntary Aid De'
tachment. It was apparent that all four
speakers took for granted the necessity
for the national enrolment of profession<ll
nurses. Each in her own way paid a tri,
bute to the contribution made by the Red
Cross Society to nursing. Mrs. Rome re'
ferred to the value of the Junior Red
Cross and its training for citizenship as
an excellent preparation for subsequent
formal training as a professional nurse.
She also mentioned the far' reaching effect
of the generous policy of the Red Cross
toward the university courses in nursing
which have been made possible in Canada
and in several other countries by means
of its moral and financial support. Miss
Bridges expressed her personal gratitude
because the Red Cross "gave me my pro'
fession "-for she, like so many others,
began her professional career as a V.A.D.
The National Commissioner of the
Red Cross Society, Dr. J. 1. Biggar, who
had previously addressed the General
Meeting, said that the Society is keenly
aware of its debt to nursing and only asks
that the bond between the Society and
nurses be strengthened. And the way to
do that is to carryon a co-ordinated cam
paign for enrolment.
Two reasons for the present unsatis-
f dctory state of affairs were heard fre'
lJ.uently in informal conversation. The
first was: "The younger generLition of
nurses do not understand what would
happen if war broke out suddenly and
therefore they are not interested. .. We
suggest that it is the function of the
nurses who were engaged in military
nursing service to educate the coming
generation. Once the younger nurses do
understand there will be no doubt about
their response. The second reason was:
"Canada has had few disasters and if one
were to occur the Americans would help
us as they did in Halifax." Quite true,
but this hardly seems to fit in with our
conception of Canadians as a rather in'
dependent people who are prepared to
stand on their own feet without asking
help from our good neighbours until our
own resources have first been drawn up'
on. Let us get on with the job.
The Inside bacl{ cover is interesting . . . Don't fail to read It.
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VOL. XXX, No. 9
TH E E D I TOR · 5 DES K
Did You Read the August Number?
No, this is not the "convention num'
ber." That appeared in August. Better
explore that unopened pile on your desk
or look behind the divan. Because if you
don't you will never know what you
should know about a memorable occasion
Bird's-eye View
Under the caption of N.otes from the
National Office will be found the reports
presented at the Biennial Meeting by the
nine Provinces. We have heard such re-
ports stigmatized as dulI but we make no
apology for publishing them in full. To
an alert observer of the contemporary
nursing scene they are significant because
a careful analysis of them will furnish an
answer to that foolish question sometimes
asked in all seriousness: What is the use
of joining the Provincial Association?
Compare the accomplishment of your
province with that of others and do not
let the result of that comparison m(lke
you feel either smug or discouraged. At
the same time make up your mind as to
the nature of any experiment which
might be profitahly carried on by your
provincial group
Bi-I in gual
It may have been a bit of a shock to
our Anglo-Saxon complacency to realize,
as we witnessed the Pageant of Nursing
in Canada, that we are rooted in French
soil. It may be news to many of our
readers that there is in Canada a nursing
journal publisheJ in the French language,
La Garde-Malade Canadienne-Prançaise,
which is much appreciated by its French
readers. Without any intention of en'
croaching upon the legitimate field of our
contemporary, the Journal presents this
month a brief account of the twenty fifth
,mniversary of the Canadian Nurses As-
soLÎ,ltion written in French hy MIss Caro-
line V. B.lrrett, presiùent of the Associa,
tion ofRegistereJ NUl ;::cs of the Province
Sf PTFMßI'R, ]934
of Quebec. At the Biennial Meetmg,
particularly in the discussions of the three
national sections, French nurses, lay and
religious, made a valuable contribution.
The French language, like the French
mind, has a clarity and logic all its own.
And it seems right and proper that upon
certain important occasions our national
Journal should be bi-lingual.
Towards Action
No one who attenJed the Bienl11al
Meeting in Toronto could fail to note
the thrust toward action which charac-
terized every session. The question étskeJ
on all sides was: "There are so many
things to do - which should be done
first?" The leading article in this issue of
the Journal is the address given hy Miss
Jean I. Gunn which formed an integral
part of "A symposium on moJifications
of nursing service toward which \\lC
should aim." In the concluding summary
Miss Gunn makes it perfectly plain that
certain things must be done and done
quickly. It is recommended that all who
nurse the sick for hire shall be licenseJ;
that registries shall be completely re-
organized both as to organization and
function; that the output of schools of
nursing shall be curtailed; that hours of
Juty shall be shortened; that nurses shall
actively support schemes for health insur-
ance. Most important of all, it is suggesteJ
thJ.t eXþeriments be underta
en in differ-
ent localities which may help to solve some
of the economic problems of nurses and
meet the unfilled nursing needs of the
community. Experiment,ttion involv
s
courage, intelligence and money. We
have the first two but we have got to get
the thIrd. So that it looks as though the
first thing thd.t every province has to do is
to put its best minds to work, let them
select the experiment best suited to the
local situation ,md get to work on the joh.
The rest of us will be kept busy raising
the money. Became money wIll he needed.
4]7
Book Reviews
PHARMACOLOGY. MATERIA MEDICA AND
THER!\PEUTICS. By Charles Solomon,
M.D., Associate Attending Physician
and Chief of the Medical Clinic at the
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn; Lecturer
on Materia Medica at the School of
Nursing of the Jewish Hospital; In-
structor in Medicine at the Long Island
Medical College; Visiting Physician to
the Jewish Sanitorium for Incurables.
Teachers' EJition; 90 illustrations.
Published by the J. B. Lippincott Com-
pany (Canadian branch: 525 Con-
federation Building, Montreal). Price,
$3.50.
Doctor Solomon has a technique in the
presentation of materia medica and its
allied subjects which he has built up out
of several years of experience Ù1 teaching
pupil nurses. This method he has given
in considerable detail in this teachers' edi-
tion of his book. He has a six-fold aim
which he conscientiously endeavours to
keep before his readers: first, he stresses
the method of drug administration; sec-
ond, he has determined that the infor-
mation be comprehensive (both official
d.nd non-official drugs, drugs used com-
monly and rarely, are included); thirdly,
attention is drawn to pharmacology in its
relationship to other therapeutical mea-
sures; fourthly, he has given a few of his
own teaching schemes; fifthly, because he
is an exponent of the "learn-by-doing"
doctrine, he has included suggestions for
elementary laboratory exercises; and,
sixthly, there is a phonetic guide. To
cover such a Herculean endeavour he has
divided his book into eight parts. Part
One is a panorama of the field - a most
comprehensive one. Taking the manifes-
tations of disease as his cue he builds up
the view with sections on types of treat
ment and discusses drugs in a general way
under such headings as: Action, Absorp-
tion and Excretion; Administration:
Classification; Official and Trade Names.
This introduction is, itself, indicative of
the task Dr. Solomon has set hefore him
418
In Part Two about forty pages are de-
voted to the subject matter and teaching
of drugs and solutions. To Part Three-
the section dealing with pharmacology -
has been given the major effort. He has
chosen the usual method in the teaching
of pharmacology in that he presents the
drugs according to the systems they af-
fect. Hence the introduction to each sy
-
tern is begun by a review of the physi-
ology, and followed by a short review of
the function of each constituent part. The
drugs affecting each constituent are pre-
sented, for the most part, according to
the following method which the author
has used to provide for economy in leélrn-
mg:
(a) The classification of drugs according to
their action.
(b) Materia medica.
(c) Therapeutica: local use, systemic use,
auxiliaries, contra-indications.
( d) Pharmacodynamics: action, effects,
toxicology and treatment, idiosyncrasies.
To emphasize the high-lights of each
lesson, he has used diagrams to illustrate
the action of drugs on various parts of the
system in question, to show the degrees
of action obtained by various prepara'
tions of the same drug (natural and syn'
thetic), and to show the relative toxicity
of different preparations of a drug. He
has tried earnestly to sharpen the stu-
dent's interest by such devices as, in the
chapter on the circulatory system, draw'
ing attention to such interesting phsyi-
ology as the increase of red cells heing
more rapid than the haemoglobin in liver
therapy, and in the section on the urinary
system shows, diagrammatically, the part
played by the laws of filtration and osmo-
sis. An outline on nutrition, biological
and organic products, is also included.
The last five parts of the book are given
to concise and practical outlines on
general principles and treatment of
poisoning; other forms of therapy; phar-
macology in the specialties; the treatment
of emergencies; practical laboratory exer-
clses.
VOL. XXX, No. 9
BOOK REVIEWS
The impression obtained from Dr.
Solomon's monumental task is that he
has striven to impress teachers and pupils
with the fact that drug therapy can be
appreciated only as it is thrown into re'
lief by related sciences. Whilst pharma,
cology is the subject, the introduction of
related subjects again emphasizes the im'
portance of placing the theme in its true
perspective. In one volume, containing
an exhaustive amount of information and
examples of pedagogically sound lesson,
presentation, Dr. Solomon has shown, by
example, that a teacher should be master
of his subject and of his method and be
certain of the purpose of his teaching.
Every instructor should have a copy.
NORENA MACKENZIE,
Assistant Instructor of Nurses,
Montreal General Hospital.
A REVIEW OF NURSING. By Helen F.
Hansen, R.N., A.B. (University of
Omaha), M.A. (University of Cali,
fornia); Chief, Bureau of Registration
of Nurses, State of California. 635
pages. Price, $3.50. Published, 1934,
by W. B. Saunders Company, London
and Philadelphia. Canadian Agents:
McAinsh &' Co. Limited, 388 Yonge
Street, Toronto.
The aim of this book is stated by the
author to be as follows:
When a student completes a subject in a
school of nursing and when she is about to
complete her entire course, she feels the need
of a systematic review. Such a review, if care'
fully planned, should not only prepare her
for an examination but also give her a view
of each subject as a whole and its relationship
to other subjects. With this need in view, a
,eries of outlines followed by objective ques,
1HE
Manitoba Nurses' Central Directory
Phone 27 700
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Winnipeg, M
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tions on each subject has been prepared. In
order that the questions may serve both as a
review and test, blanks have been inserted for
answers. Answers have been included at the
end of the volume in order that students may
correct their own answers. It is believed that
errors will be more forcibly brought to mind
in this way than if the answers accompanied
the statements and atso that this procedure
will inspire the students to took up questions
with which they are unfamiliar.
The range of subjects covered is very
wide and includes the basic sciences as
well as all the principal branches of nurs'
ing including psychiatric nursing. Chap'
ters are also devoted to dietetics and the
history of nursing and its ethical and
professional relationships. Four types of
questions are used in each chapter.
namely, Matching, Completion, True'
False, and Single or Multiple Choice
types. As an aid in review this book will
he extremely valuable to students. This
statement applies particularly to the
chapters dealing with the basic sciences.
The questions have been framed in
such a way as to stimulate independent
thinking and the answers do not lend
themselves to blind memorization but
encourage the student to seek further
information. This reviewer does not con'
sider that the attempt to apply this par'
ticular method of learning to the history
and ethics of nursing or to psychology
has been altogether successful.
Teachers in schools of nursing will
find the book invaluable when preparing
for reviews and, as a somewhat discon
certing means of finding out the extent
and accuracy of her own knowledge of
elementary facts, no better exercise could
be devised than to try some of the tests
on herself. We know because we tried.
The Central Registry Graduate Nurses
Phone Garfield 0382
Registrar:
ROBENA BURNETT, Reg.N.
91 Balsam Ave., Hamilton. Ont.
Notes from the National Office
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
As announced 111 the August issue of
the Journal, official reports submitted at
the Biennial Meeting will appear in Nott:"ì
from the National Office. This month the
reports of the Florence Nightingale Me-
morial Committee and of the Committee
on Curriculum for nurses-in-training in
Mental Hospitals are presented together
with those of the nine Provincial units
of the Canadian Nurses Association.
THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL
In presenting the subject of a Memo-
rial to Florence Nightingale from the
national point of view, I am doing so as
convener of the special committee ap-
pointed at the last biennial meetmg s)
that this must be in the nature of a
report of the activities since then as well
as an endeavour to present the opinion
of our members. You may remember
that in July, 1932, at the invitation of the
British Council of Nurses a "Florence
Nightingale Week" was arranged for
the purpose of discussing the whole que'5-
tion of a Memorial, and invitations were
received by the different countries to ap-
point a delegate to be present at this
conference. I was privileged to attend
that meeting and as full reports have
been presented in the Journal I will not
go into details; suffice to say that the con.
tact made and conversation with many
"Old Internationals", who had come tiS
the official delegates from their respective
countries, convinced me of the value of
the course as established by the League
of Red Cross Societies and which was
the basis of discussion as a suggested form
that a Memorial might take. The value
111 having taken this course appeared to
he the contribution they had been able
to make to their respective countries 111
nursing education and public health
education where these either did not exist
or only to a limited degree.
At this juncture the League of RcJ
Cross Societies had announced its deci-
sion to discontinue the International
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Course which it had financed for the past
eleven years, and which had been of
inestimable value to many of the coun-
tries from which graduates had returned
to put into application what they haJ
achieved both in kno,:,!ledge and inspira-
tion. This action on the part of the
League was not surprising, for you all
know what demands have been made on
the National Red Cross Societies in the
past few years for relief and other eCOIl-
omic reasons as well as an almost deplet-
ed treasury. This seemed a timely oppor-
tunity to discuss. or should one say revive
the discussions of, a Nurses Memorial to
Florence Nightingale. It had been a forc-
gone conclusion in the minds of the
majority of nurses that any Memori 11
to the leader of our profession should
be educational in form-for of all things
was she not an educationalist of the most
progressive type?
To stimulate the interest of the dele-
gates, visits were made to her home at
Embley Park, to her grave (so modestly
marked), to Manchester House, a truly
international residence for students whicb
was offered at that time by the League of
Red Cross Societies to the International
CouncIl of Nurses should the course at
Bedford College be continued, to the
Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hos-
pital and many other places of interest
that had played a part in Miss Nightin-
gale's life or in the suggested Memorial.
Later a final conference took place anll
the formation of a provisional memori3.1
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committee made recommendations to the
International Council of Nurses execu'
tive. I will not go into the details of
this Committee's achievements as a later
report from the delegate to the 1933
Conference will no doubt bring you up
to date. I should like to mention how,
ever, that while in Britain I was present
ed by Mrs. Bedford Fenwick with a brick
from Florence Nightingale's old home
at Chelsea. I felt that this should be at
National Headquarters but in a recent
communication from Mrs. Fenwick she
informed me that she was sending another
brick for the Association by one of our
British guests. During that week a most
fascinating exhibit was arranged jointly
by the courtesy of Miss Lloyd Still of
St. Thomas's Hospital and Miss A. M.
Bushby, historian of the British College
of Nurses. It was at this delightful and
interesting function that this brick was
presented.
Since the decision was made at the
International Council of Nurses Con-
ference last year to establish the course
.It Bedford College as a Memorial
our
national committee has been enlarged tJ
include the conveners of the nine provin'
cial Memorial Committees. These mem'
bers have all been communicated wit!l
and have formed provincial committees
and planned their own activities in an
effort to create interest and financial sup'
port for this project, for by this time we,
with all the other countries of the world,
had pledged our support, although to GO
fixed degree. I think the Canadian 8r
national point of view is answered by the
results of this committee's work. Up to
date the amount submitted from th
provinces is $1,838.46
Alberta, $124.45; British Columbia,
$250.00; Manitoba, $255.30; New Brunswick,
$140.20; Nova Scotia wrote stating that they
had sent $30.00 and were forwarding a further
$20.00; Ontario, $525.00; Prince Edward
Island announced that it would contribute
$50.00 annually for five year
; Quebec,
$343.00; Sasbtchcw.ln. $200.00. In some
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cases promises for annual donatIOns have been
made but they will be publIshed as received.
In endeavouring to gain the opinions
of our members as to their interest in
the Memorial, as a nurses' tribute to that
nurse whose foresight has made our pro-
fession as we know it today possible, I
think we have to think in terms of;
1. Personal gratitude and homage.
2. National appreciation.
3. The future of the profession.
I wonder if we can really answer thi5
question in terms of a national point of
view, thinking only of our own nation.
Must we not make our national contri'
bution, so that even if we in Canada
may not benefit to any marked extent
by the establishment of this course that
the contribution (that I am convinc
d
will be made) to the health programmes
of other nations at once challenges our
national responsibility. During the Flo'
rence Nightingale week in 1932, there
was a very delightful reunion of "Old
Internationals" and the presentation of
the diplomas at Bedford College that year
was made by Miss V enny Snellman who
many of you may know as the national
director of nursing education for Fin'
land. In one of the most progressive
addresses I have ever listened to on
nursing education, embodying a vision
of all that was finest in academic and
ethical standards of the profession, Miss
Snellman referred to the Bedford College
course as follows:
In having to prepare, during a very limited
period of time, uneven student material for
widely differing positions, Bedford College
has chosen to give the students a geneol
background for all nursing, stressing broad
common principles more than dctailed know'
ledgc of subject matter, aiming at creating the
right attitude of mind rather than giving
ready'made rules of procedure. In this way
the courses give the studcnt tools to work
with, tools which she can use in whatever
,itu.ltion her work may place her. The work,
ing together of mdny nurses of different
nationalities, besides furthering interna'
tional understanding in general, brings about
an exchange of ideas in nursing matters, and
leads to an oftcn continued personal cont.l('I
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between indivIdual nurses in different lands.
Such a contact benefits their work, teaches
open-mindedness and keeps the windows of
the profession open to fresh winds.
Since this, then, was the form our
international organization decreed the
Memorial should take
we, the nurses of
Canada would, of course, want to be
included in any project that represented
the considered opinion of the nurses of
the thirty member-countries of the Inter-
national Council of N urses. We keep
repeating when opportunity offers that
our profession has no national barriera.
If this be true, our national point of view
must be closely in sympathy with the
international.
There are some practical pomts which
should be discussed, for I think if this
course is to be successful either as 3.
dignified Memorial or as a sound acade-
mic contribution to the profession, we
must take our share in the responsibility
of its organization and development. I
will quote from a letter received from
one of our members which I think ex-
presses fairly clearly what is in the minds
of those who have given thought to the
International course:
What is the standing of the International
Course, what credits are given? Is the Course
recogni
ed by other Universities? If Canadian
nurses are going to be sent to London for a
year, and funds raised in Canada for the
Foundation, our nurses naturally expect that
the academic work will be of such a standard
that it will be recogni
ed elsewhere. Credits
loom large in the eyes of many on this side
of the Atlantic-I cannot remember hearing
the word even mentioned during the whole
year I spent in England-nor would I ex-
change the experience and lessons learned
during that year for a very large number of
credits offered elsewhere. The writer goes
on to say; the proposed Memorial must be
worthy of the ideals and vision of Florence
Nightingale, and must represent the highest
and best, professionally, but I trust due value
will forever be set upon that indefinable spirit
interwoven and developed as an integral part
of the International Course, during the past
decade.
The suggested points for discussion,
upon which I shall touch but briefly, an
:
1. That the ultimate objective be the estab
lishment of a faculty of nursing or better still
a college of nursing.
2. That a nurse with the necessary academic
standing be appointed as director.
3. That the International Council of Nurses
Memorial Committee receive suggestions from
the national committees as to the type of
course that would meet their national needs,
realizing that the success of the course depends
on the support of the various national asso-
ciations. (It is hoped that the course will
attract other graduates than the recipients
of the scholarships).
4. The course should be capable of develop-
ment so that it would finally be considerably
wider in scope than the postgraduate courses
available within countries from which the
students come.
5. As nurses from English-speaking coun-
tries (or with a good command of English)
would be able to carry a more comprehensive
course, that additional elective opportunities
be available for them.
As the inaugural meeting of the Inter-
national Foundation Committee takes
place in London on July 5 and I felt that
Canada should very definitely commit
itself as to policy I called a conference
of the provincial members, with the coa-
sent of the President. As a result a speci.ll
committee was appointed to prepare d.
report and a covering letter which, with
the approval of the executive committee
of the C.N .A. was forwarded to Sir
Arthur Stanley, C.B.E., C.B., M.V.a.,
Chairman of the Provisional Committee
of the proposed Florence Nightingale
International Foundation.
As we realize the importance of the inau-
gural meeting of the Florence Nightingale
International Foundation, it is with great
regret that we find ourselves unable to arrange
for a delegate to be present, July 5th, at 15
Manchester Square. We are therefore for-
warding a report from the Canadian Nurses
Association embodying recommendations
which have received careful consideration and
we would appreciate having this report
presented and discussed. We regret that this
report reaches you at such late date but it
could not be avoided as it was necessary to
hold it over until the Biennial Meeting of
the Canadian Nurses Association which ."
now in convention.
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REPORT ON CURRICULUM
Suggestions and Recommendationç
Whereas we find that in the provisional
draft the courses are entirely referred to as
"courses of postgraduate nursing education",
we feel that from the outset the scope of the
organiz;ation should be broader and should
ultimately lead to the establishment of a
Faculty of Nursing in the University of Lon-
don, the functions of which should be nursing
education research, as well as nursing educa-
tion in its broadest sense. The Canadian
Nurses Association considers it is essential
that the courses offered be much wider in
scope than the present courses available in
the countries from which the students come,
otherwise there will be little incentive for
prospective students to assume the additional
financial outlay, and naturally, aU countries
will look to this international course as some-
thing greatly in advance of existing facilities.
It is further recommended that at as early
a date as possible the director of courses should
be a nurse with the necessary academic quali-
fications, because the continuance of the
direction of the courses as at present organiz;ed
will be detrimental to the success of the
Foundation. It is also suggested that the
Foundation arrange for a definite study of
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the type of courses reqUired by the different
countries participating. This seems most essen-
tial as the success of the Foundation will
depend upon the support of the various
national associations. It IS also recommended
that elective opportunities be available for
nurses from English-speaking countries or
possessing a good command of English.
I feel that the greatest contribution
that the Canadian Nurses Associati0n
can make to the International Course is
suggestions or criticisms (if need be)
both as to faculty and curriculum con'
tent, for is the whole success of the Memo-
rial not dependent firstly on the found i-
tion of this course and finally on its
steady development and progress? While
these are all matters that would require
consideration, I trust that I have pre-
sented a point of view that can be con-
sidered national.
GRACE M. FAIRLEY.
Convener of the Florence Nightingale Memo'
lial Committee of the Canadian Nurses Asso,
ciation.
REPORT 011 CURRICULUM for NURSES-IN-TRAINING
in MENTAL HOSPITALS
On October 30, 1933, Dr. Grant
Fleming, Director of the Canadian
National Committee for Mental Hygien
,
wrote Miss Jean Wilson, Executive
Secretary of the Canadian Nurses Asso
ciation, asking with what committee d
the C.N .A. he could confer regarding
a request received from the Department
uf Pensions and National Health. He
haù received from the department, copy
of a resolution passed by the Dominion
Council of Health, meeting in Ottawa,
June 13 - 15, 1933, anù reading as follows:
Whereas most provinces are just commen-
,-"Ing to establish training schools in connection
with the mental hospitals for nurse-attendants
,lI1d attendants; and
Whereas there is no uniformity as to
l:ducational requirements for admission to
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such school, or as to curriculum or as to
length of course:
We the Dominion Council of Health,
recommend that the National Committee on
Mental Hygiene be requested to prepare a
minimum standard for such training and
education and to have this adopted through,
out Canada.
The Executive Committee of the
C.N.A. in meeting on December 8,
appointed a small committee for thIs
purpose. The committee was definitely
organized in January, with the following
membership: Miss Marion Lindeburgh,
Miss E. Frances Upton and Miss N. D.
Fidler, convener.
Durmg February and March the com
mittee corresponded on certam generdl
questions affecting the purdy educational
one, .is follows:
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1. Should mental hospitals be used as under'
graduate training schools?
2. If not, is it feasible now, or how soon,
to discontinue all such schools at present in
operation?
3. What contribution should the mental
hospital make to nursing education? What is
our policy with regard to (a) undergraduate
affiliation? (b) postgraduate psychiatric nurs'
ing courses?
4. Is there a place in mental nursing service
for male nurses?
5. (a) Is there a place for a subsidiary
group of workers?
(b) Should they be trained in the mental
hospital?
(c) What should be the ratio of these
workers to nurses?
6. The question of what mental hygiene is
taught to the undergraduate general hospital
,tudent has a bearing on the question of
affiliation.
Simultaneously Dr. Fleming organized
a sub'committee of the National Com'
mittee for Mental Hygiene for prelimi'
nary discussion of similar topics. Mem,
bers of this sub,committee were also
appointed to draw up suggested outlines
of courses for graduate nurses in mental
hospitals, for attendants. and for the
mental hygiene teaching of the under'
graduate general hospital student. These
outlines are still in process of construc,
tion, and no final suggestion as to content
has been made. This sub,committee has
met twice. and has reached the point
where it is guided by the following prin'
ciples:
1. Attendants (male and female) are
required in mental hospitals. but the number
of such attendants should be in a certain
ratio to the nursing personnel.
2. Attendants should receive training, but
this training should be limited to the duties
of attendants in order to prevent any sugges'
tion that attendants are qualified to act other
than as attendants.
3. Registered nurses should be in charge
of all wards (male and female) in mental
hospitals during both the day and the night.
4. The ultimate aim is to have only one
type of training for all undergraduate nurses
in general hospitals, with adequate outside
affiliations.
5. That registered nurses, graduates of
general hospitals, should be acceptable for
staff duty in mental hospitals if and when
general hospital training schools include
training in mental hygiene and psychiatry.
according to the standard set up by the Cana'
dian National Committee for Mental Hygiene.
6. Because of the need of mental hospitals
for male nurses, facilities should be provided
for male undergraduate nursing education
leading to a ""Reg. N."
7. In the meantime, training schools in
mental hospitals are required to provide quali,
fied nursing staffs in mental hospitals.
8. Training schools in mental hospitals
should be so organized that their graduates
will be eligible for their "Reg. N." diploma.
9. Mental hospitals should be so organized
as to provide training facilities for affiliated
institutions and for postgraduate nursi'1g
education.
10. That mental hospitals should lead the
way in requiring a personality and mental
examination of their student nurses and in
providing complete health service for the
nursing staff.
11. That the position of the Nursing Super'
intendent in mental hospitals should be
strengthened and that she should be directly
responsible for the nursing school. The
education of nurses is primarily the respo!1'
sibility of the nursing profession.
On June 9. your special committee met
in Montreal, and went over these ques,
tions very fully. The following points
appeared to stand out:
1. The committee approves the train'
ing of attendents. which should be in a
definite ratio to the nursing personnel. It
is not yet known what this should be; ob,
viously it would vary in different parts
of the same hospital. There should be
a systematic course of theory and prac'
tice planned, on a definite level. to dis,
criminate their responsibilities and duties
from more acute nursing situations. Their
work is nursing. and they should bE'
under the teaching and supervision of
the nursing staff.
2. The committee disagrees with the
principle laid down in No. 6 of the
preceding paragraphs. It is not clear to
us that there is a need for male nurses,
and the committee feels that there are at
present more pressing problems of nurs'
.J1g education to be dealt with.
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3. With regard to the undergraduate
school in the mental hospital, we point
out that these continue to exist princi'
pally because of the almost complete lack
uf affiliation of general hospital students
with mental hospitals. Therefore, w
find it difficult to quarrel with the Na'
tional Committee finding No.7, which
says that "in the meantime, training
schools in mental hospitals are required
to provide qualified nursing staffs in
mental hospitals", and we agree that
while such schools exist, they "should he
organized that their graduates will h
eligible for their registered nurse diplo,
ma." To do this, we feel that the general
hospital affiliation should be at least one
year, preferably the second, and that the
subjects for which the student is affiliat'
ing, should be taught, both as to class'
room and as to practice, in the general
hospital where the affiliation takes place.
This, however, can only be regarded
as an expedient, and as soon as possible,
training schools in mental hospitals
shuuld be replaced by the usual approvcJ
set' up : graduates, postgraduates, under'
graduates, and attendants; or in some
cases, by part of this. "Training schools
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in mental hospitals should be so organized
as to provide training facilities for affi,
liated institutions and for postgraduate
nursing education"; but these affiliations
should be established only with schools
that give proper basic training, that is
approved schools of nursing.
A summary of the findings of the com'
mittee up to this point is as follows:
1. As soon as possible training schools
in mental hospitals should be replaced by
general duty nurses and, where facilities
justify it, by postgraduate or undergradu,
ate affiliate students.
2. At present, and until affiliations
are arranged, it seems inevitable that a
certain number of training schools will
continue to operate in mental hospitals.
3. The committee does not recognize
the need for more than a very limited
number of male nurses.
4. The committee approves the prin'
ciple of the mental hospital training an
auxiliary staff of attendants, male and
female, with careful delineation of their
duties and supervision by the nursing
staff.
N. D. FIDLER. Reg. N., Convener.
REPORT OF THE ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
OF REGISTERED NURSES
Objecli'Ves
To protect the members of the Asso,
cid.tion; to maintain standards in the
nursing profession; to foster interest and
cuhesion among the members, and to fur'
ther the growth of the Association that
we may increase our efforts in giving ser'
vice to the public.
Membership
Every applicant for registration as a
registered nurse pursuant to the pruvi,
sÍl))1S of this Act shall:
(a) Have received at least three years' tral'l'
mg in medical, surgi(,J.1 and obstetrical work
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.It a general hospital Or hospitals recognized
by the Senate of the University of Alberta
or shall have received the Degree of B.Sc. 111
Nursing from a recognized university;
(b) pass the qualifying examination here'
inafter referred to;
(c) pay a fee of five dollars.
Any person who is registered as a
nurse under the law of any province,
state or country, may. upon payment of
the proper fee, be registered without fur'
ther examination if the Senate of the
University of Alberta is satisfied that the
standard of the qualification for registra'
tion required therein, is at least equiva,
lent to that requireù in Alberta. The
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Senate of the University of Alberta shall:
Satisfy itself that any person entering after
January, 1935, upon a course of ho
pital train'
ing leading to registration under this Act,
has passed the grade XI examination of !.he
Department of Education of the province or
has the equivalent educational standing.
The membership is 700. Percentage
subscribing to 'The Canadian Nurse is
37.1. Occasionally, registered nurses from
other provinces have not applied for reg'
istration, hence all registered nurses in
the province are not members of the Pro'
vincial Association.
Nursing Education Section
The Nursing Education Section of the
A.A.R.N. has been active during the past
year, its objectives being as follow:
1. Attempting to standardize the methods
uf teaching of practical nursing procedures
throughout the province.
2. The curriculum study.
There has been a good attendance at
all the meetings throughout the year, and
considerable interest has been displayed
in the demonstrations given.
Private Duty Section
The private duty nurses in Albert have
given a great deal of consideration, dur'
ing the past two years, to the question of
increasing employment for nurses, which
is our largest problem at present. The
nurses have, in the larger centres, adopted
the eight,hour day and hourly nursing
and some have reduced their fees for
twelve,hour duty, but without any in'
crease In the amount of work available.
In Calgary the nurses have dispensed
with their central registry and seem to be
able to carry on successfully with the two
large hospitals keeping their own regis,
tries. In Edmonton, the graduate nurses'
registry is able to carry on, thanks to the
support of some of our local hospitals
and is supplying a real service to the
nurses and the community in these diffi,
cult times. Owing to lack of employment
in the cities, there are a great many
nurses doing private duty work in the
country districts, where they can live at
their homes, and in this way there are
fewer nurses in the cities than there
would otherwise be.
Public Health Section
The activities of the public health sec'
tion are as follow:
I. Increased interest in the Public Health
Library in the addition of new books, and
encouraging increased use of the Library.
2. A course of lectures in psychology and
mental hygiene given by Dr. A. H. Smith of
the University of Alberta to a group of thirty
nurses of the Edmonton sub'section in 1933.
3. Delegates were sent to the annual con'
vention of the A.A.R.N. from each sub'section
in the province, and to the meeting of the
Provincial Public Health Association.
4. Studies were conducted in the various
,ub'sections of the Survey Report.
Standing and Special Committees
Joint Study
Legislative; Membership;
subscriptions to 'The Canadian Nurse:;
Florence Nightingale Memorial Founda'
tion; Committee on Curriculum; Loan
Fund, C.N .A. Membership Campaign.
The Association has a representative on
the Committee of Inspection of Training
Schools.
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the A.A.R.N.
was held on October 11 and 12, at the
Palliser Hotel, Calgary, with Miss F.
Munroe, president, in the chair. Two
hundred and fifty members were present.
The major interests were the president's
address and reports from the various sec'
tions and committees; the loan fund and
employment of nurses and the reduction
of registration fees, the Association
agreeing to set the amount at $5.00 in'
stead of $7.00, the $5.00 to include the
current annual fee of $2.00. This change
came into force after January, 1934.
MIss Munroe in her address made spe'
cial mention of the difficult problems
facing the nurses to,day. She stated that
the Legislative Commission appointed to
sit and make recommendations to the
Legislature as to "The best method of
making adequate medical and health ser'
vices available to all the people of Alber'
ta," had asked the Nurses Association to
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REPORTS FROM PROVINCES
present their views from a nursing angle;
the time given for study and preparation
had been madequate but various phases
of nursing and health were discussed and
suggestions presented to the Legislative
Commission. The inspection of schools
of nursing was referred to, also the Men-
tal Hospital at Ponoka being granted the
privilege of conducting a school of nurs-
ing. The attention of the nurses was also
drawn to the fact that in spite of hard
times the membership of the A.A.R.N.
was increasing. The meeting honoure.:1
the memory of Miss Mary Agnes Snively
by standing in silence for a few moments.
Miss Ethel Johns, editor of The Can-
adian Nurse. was the guest speaker. The
officers elected were:
President: Miss F. Munroe, Royal Alexan-
dra Hospital, Edmonton.
First Vice- President: Miss J. Connal, Gen-
eral Hospital, Calgary.
Second Vice-President: Miss E. McPhedran,
Central Alberta Sanatorium.
Registrar-Secretary-Treasurer: Mrs. A. E.
Vango, 11107 82nd Ave., Edmonton.
Other Councillors: Miss Kate S. Brighty,
Sister Tougas and Miss S. Macdonald.
Special Interests, Acti'Vities and
Accomplishments
Preparing and presenting an amend-
ment to the Registered Nurses Act of
Alberta. The major provisions in the
amended Act are:
(a) A degree of B.Sc.
n Nursing from a
recogmzed University is made a qualification
which may be accepted for registration.
(b) The standard of education required of
a person entering upon a course of hospital
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training leading to registration is raised from
Grade VIII to Grade XI.
The remaining sections of the Bill
amend the provisions relating to the in-
ternal management of the Association.
The Bill was successfully assented to in
the House and passed by the Legislative
Assembly of the Province of Alberta.
There is an increased membership in
the Association and an invitation is ex-
tended to the C.N.A. to hold the 1936
Biennial Convention at one of the moun-
tain resorts in Alberta.
Other Features and Trends which
Characterize the Work of the
Association
A new affiliated school has been estab-
lished in the Mental Hospital at Ponoka,
which is to a certain extent in the nature
of an experiment. It is proposed to estab-
lish this school on the basis of four years'
training; two years in the mental hospital,
and two years in a general hospital. An
instructress of nurses has been appointed
on whom will be placed the responsibility
of seeing that the first year of general
training, the lectures, classes and practical
work will be covered in the two years in
the mental hospital. In addition the men-
tal hospital pledges itself to establish post-
graduate courses for graduates who show
interest and aùaptability, this course to
be one year in length.
F. MUNROE,
President.
KA TE SHAW BRIGHTY,
Secretary-T reasureL
REPORT OF GRADUATE NURSES ASSOCIATION
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
o b jecti'Ve
The contmued effort to uphold nursing
t..-l.ndards in British Columhia.
Membership
(Ll) Basis of membership: graduate of an
a.:üedited training school in British Columbia
or a graduate of an accredited school outside
the province whose qualifications are equal
tll those demanded of our graduates. The
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educatIOnal standing of graduates from out-
side the province must be equal to th \t
demanded of British Columbia graduates of
the same year.
(b) The AssociatIOn has 1,938 members.
(c) All registered nurses in the prov1l\ce
are members of the Association.
(d) The percentage of members subscribil'g
to 'The CanaJian Nurse is unknown
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Sections
Nursing education. Private duty.
Public health.
Standing and Special Committees
STANDING:
Nomination
Legislation
Finance
Training school
inspection.
SPECIAL:
Red Cross Emergency Service
Provincial sub,committee on curriculum
Provincial J omt Stuùy
Unemployment
Provincial Florence Nightingale Memorial
Committee
The Canadian Nu.rse
New Office Committee
Refresher Course Committee.
Public health
Private duty
Nursing education
Programme
Press
Annual Meeting
(a) Date: Easter Monday of each year.
(b) Content of sessions: Similar to other
nursing organi
ations.
(c) Officers: President, Miss M. F. Gray;
First vice'president, Miss E. G. Bree
e; Second
vice'president, Miss G. M. Fairley; Registrar,
Miss Helen Randal, 516 Vancouver Block,
Vancouver; Secretary, Miss M. Kerr, 516
Vancouver Block, Vancouver.
Special Interests, Activities and
Accomplishments
Payment of $500.00 to McGill Univer,
sity School for Graduate Nurses in 1933.
Our special interests are to improve and
provide opportunities whenever possible
for postgraduate work in hospitals, re'
fresher courses and scholarships. Due to
the financial conditions of nurses, no spe,
cial effort has been made along this line
since 1932. A committee is now formed
to consider possibilities of holding are'
fresher course for head nurses to be given
next year. Special activities have been
taken up by committees as indicated by
their titles. Other features or trends
which characterize the work of the
organization are: Routine attention to
annual re'registration of our nurses; in'
spection of training schools in British
Columbia; control of arrangements and
financing of examinations for Registered
Nurses' certificate and registration of
nurses.
HELEN RANDAL, R.N.,
Registrar.
REPORT OF THE MANIl'OBA ASSOCIATION
OF REGISTERED NURSES
Objects
1. To advance the educational stan'
dards of nursing;
2. The standardization of training
schools in Manitoba;
3 . To maintain the honour and status
of the nursing profession and render ser'
vice in the interest of the public.
Membership
1. Graduate nurses are registered ac'
cording to the Nurses Act of Manitoba,
are eligible for membership in the Mani,
toba Association of Registered Nurses on
payment of the initial fee of $10.00, and
an annual renewal fee of $2.00.
2. There are 2,833 registrants 111 the
province since 1914.
3. The active membership for 1933
was 459.
4. Approximately ten per cent of the
active members subscribe to The Can'
adian Nurse magazine.
Sections
1. The Public Health Section was of'
ganized in Manitoba in 1919. During
1931,1933, this section sponsored anum'
ber of lectures on matters of interest to
their own group, and met to study the
chapters of the Weir Report which were
applicable to public health nurses.
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2. The Private Duty Section was or'
anized in 1921, and during the last two
years has been actively engaged in trying
to help solve the ever'present condition
of unemployment within their group. An
eight-hour day, advertising of private
duty nurses' fees, and a provincial survey
by questionnaire to private duty nurses
being some of the methods employed.
3. The Nursing Education Section
\Vas organized in 1924. The meetings of
this section during the past two years
ha ve been devoted largely to a study of
the Weir Report, summaries of the chap-
ters of this report having been despatched
to the rural training school superinten-
dents. The section has purchased a pro-
jectoscope for use within its group.
Conveners of all three sections have
heen members of a committee who have
hrought recommendations to the Board
of the M. A. R. N. regarding the re'
organization of the Central Directory
and M.A.R.N. staff.
Standing and Special Committees
The Association is managed by a Board
composed of fifteen members who are in
office for a period of two years and who
meet as often as necessary to attend to
the affairs of the Association.
1. The Legislative Committee is especia!1y
selected by the Board to attend to such m:lt-
ters as amending the by-laws and presentipg
these to the Provincial Legislature.
2. The Membership Committee endeavour
to secure new members and assist in the matter
of payment of renewal fees.
3. The Directory Committee is compo..cd
of members of the Manitoba Association of
Registered Nurses representing all branches
of nursing, and transact business relating tu
the Directory.
4. The Sick Visiting Committee visit all
members who are ill and report to the ne"\t
General Meeting.
5. The Social and Programme Committl'e
<lttend to the social and literary matters
which may be necessary for the welfare and
professional advancement of the Association.
6. The Nominating Committee is appointed
usually two months before the annual meetlllg
to nominate new members for the Board.
.7. The Librarian attends to the arrange-
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ment of books and magaÚnes of the Associa-
tion, also to the lending and return of same.
8. Press and Publication Committee keep
the Press informed of meetings and of other
matters that may further the interests of the
profession in relation to the public.
9. Joint Study Committee meets at intervals
to discuss certain phases of the Weir Report,
and recommendations which may be receiv
d
from the National Joint Study Committee.
The Manitoba Joint Study Committee per-
sonnel is representative of the Medinl,
Nursing, Professional and Educational grour s .
10. Interchange of Nurses Committee, spon-
sored by the M.A.R.N., enabled nurses within
the province to take postgraduate courses,
graduates from large hospitals going to small
hospitals and vice versa. A small salary was
granted by the Association and full main-
tenance by the hospitals co-operating.
The Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of this Association
is held in January of each year, usually
in the third week, but the date may be
arr dnged by the members of the Board.
The meetings usually compnse an after-
noon and evening session. The afternoon
session is devoted to the presenting of
annual reports submitted by the follow-
ing: President, Corresponding Secretdry,
Recordmg Secretary, Registrar, T reas-
urer; Sections: Private Duty, Nursing
Education, Public Health; Committees:
Leg
slative, Directory, Membership, Sick
Visiting, Social and Programme; Libra
rian; Representatives to Local Council
of Women, Central Council of Social
Agencies, Victorian Order of Nurses,
Canadian Red Cross. A dinner meeting is
held during the evening at which time we
have a guest speaker who delivers an ad-
dress on some current event. Officers arc
elected at the annual meeting to replace
members on the BOdrd whose term of
office has expired. Conveners of commit-
tees, and representatives to other affiliated
orgdnizations are also elected at this
time. Over the period from June, 1932,
until June, 1934, the Manitoba Associa-
tion of Registered Nurses have held
eighteen Board meetings and eight gen-
eral meetings, the business of the Asso-
ciation having heen conducted at the
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Board meetings. The general meetings
usually took the form of a dinner gather-
ing of the members, where a speaker of
some distinction later addressed the
meeting on some subject of current in-
terest.
During the period from June, 1932,
until June, 1934, the M.A.R.N. have
helped to alleviate the condition of un-
employment within the group, firstly by
arranging for relief nursing for special
cases in hospitals and homes, for patients
who could not afford to pay for this ser-
vice themselves; secondly, by a system of
interchange of nurses within the province
between the large hospital and the small.
The M.A.R.N. pay the nurses a small
salary and their transportation, while the
hospital provides full maintenance. A
total of $4,200 has been expended in this
way. A reduction in Central Directory
fees has recently been made and a general
reorganization of the office staff is being
established.
The M.A.R.N. has now arranged with
the Registrar of the University of Mani'
toba that the applications of all candi,
dates for R.N. examinations are submit-
ted to the Registration Committee of the
M.A. R.N. before the examination takes
place, so that they may be informed of
the professional qualifications of these
candidates. Some changes have been
made in the By-laws of the Association
chiefly affecting the Nurses Central Di-
rectory. The Library has been re-organ-
ized and a number of new books has
been placed with the former collection.
Negotiations are practically completed
for the establishment of reciprocal regis-
tration between the M.A.R.N. and the
General Nursing Council of England and
Wales. A number of Manitoba nurses
attended the 1933 International Congress
of Nurses, the Canadian delegate from
the Public Health Section being Miss A.
E. Wells, of the Manitoba Department
of Health and Public Welfare. The offices
of the M.A.R.N. and Central Directory
are now located at 5 10 Medical Arts
Building, Winnipeg.
This Association is affiliated with the
Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian
Red Cross, Local Council of Women,
Central Council of Social Agencies, and
contribute financially to the support of a
native nurse in Punjaub, India. The As-
sociation owns a set of lantern slides de-
picting the history of nursing, and these
slides are lent in turn to all the hospitals
with schools of nursing, in Manitoba.
MILDRED M. REID,
President. M.A. R.N..
REPORT OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK ASSOCIATION
OF REGISTERED NURSES
The New Brunswick Association of
Registered Nurses was incorporated and
its Registration Act became effective
April 29, 1916. The following are the
objectives of the Association: "To pro'
vide a body of well educated, thoroughly
trained nurses for the intelligent and
sympathetic care of the sick: to promote
professional and educational advance-
ment: to improve the character of nursing
service in all fields of nursing endeavour."
The qualification for membership in the
Association is registration under the New
Brunswick Act. Since 1931 all nurses
who have become registered have auto-
matically become members of the Asso-
ciation. Prior to this, membership was
voluntary. There are three classes of
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membershIp: active, which pays a yearly
fee of $3.00; non-resident, which pays a
membership fee of $1.00 yearly, and asso-
ciate, made up of nurses duly registered
in the province but who have retired from
cl.ctive duty or have engaged in other oc-
cupations. The yearly fee of the associate
member is $1.00. This membership is
ldrgdy made up of married nurses. In
January, 1934, a list of 469 members in
good standing was published in the Royal
Gazette. The total number of R.N. cer-
tificates issued to date is 1,135. There are
123 subscribers to The Canadian Nurse.
The affairs of the Association are man-
cl.ged largely by an Executive Council,
composed of twelve members at present,
representing the various districts of the
province. There are three sections: Public
health, Nursing Education and Private
Duty; four standing committees: Consti-
tution and by-laws, Canadian Nurse,
Provincial Joint Study, and Provincial
Curriculum Committees. There is a
BOdrd of Examiners whose membership
is made up of two doctors appointed by
the N .B. Council of Physicians and Sur-
geons, and three nurses appointed by the
N.B. Association of Registered Nurses.
All appointments are for three years'
duration, re-appointment to be possible,
if desired. The Board holds registration
examinations twice yearly on the :first
Wednesday and Thursday of each May
cl.nd November. The Board Meetings are
held after reports have been received
from the examinations, when certificates
,lre awarded to qualified candidates who
wrote the examinations and all matters
in connection with the holding of future
examinations are considered.
The annual meeting is held in the
month of September. At each annual
meeting, the place of the next meeting is
decided, but the date is usually settled
upon at the last Executive Council held
just before the summer recess. The con-
tent of session consists of the presidential
.lddress, reports of the secretary-treasurer-
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registrar, auditor, secretary of the Board
of Examiners, conveners of sections,
standmg committees and local Chapters.
Business arising from these reports re-
ceives full attention and free discussion
is held on problems presented. In addi-
tion, addresses are usually heard in con-
nection with special problems presented,
from speakers well able to deal with these,
dnd further analysis, advice and encour-
agement offered. The annual meeting
concludes with the election of officers
and council members, conveners of
standing committees and sections and
nurse members of the Board of Examin-
ers when these appointments fall due.
In reviewing the work of the Associa
tion s
næ the last report was prepared
for a Biennial Meeting, it seems that the
activities of the Association have been
largely centred in the efforts of the Pro-
vincial Joint Study and Provincial Cur-
riculum Committees. The minimum edu-
cational entrance requirement approved
for prospective students in New Bruns-
wick Nursing Schools is junior matricu-
l.ltion. An attempt to have this informa-
tion placed before the girl students no\\'
in provincial high schools was unsuccess-
ful.
Unemployment continues to constitute
a special problem. Too many nurses are
still being graduated in the province; in
thIs matter no difference or improvement
can be reported. There still seems an
economic wall of formidable height over
which we are unable to climb and which
remains as a solid block in the path of
progress. There are one or two bright
spots visible, however, in these past year
of unusual and discouraging conditions:
the New Brunswick Association of Regis-
tered Nurses has continued to add to it
membership dnd stand pdt on the finances.
This gives cause to continue hopeful for
the future
MAL'DE E. RETALLICk,
Secretary- T rea.mrer- Regis tra)
REPORT OF THE REGISTERED NURSES ASSOCIATION
OF NOVA SCOTIA
Objectives of our Association
1. To provide a special organi.zation
for graduate nurses, and to do all such
things as from time to time may be neces'
sary to elevate the status and advance the
purposes of the Association.
2. To unite the members of the pro'
fession into one general body; to provide
for the better definition and protection of
graduate nurses, and the supply of edu,
cated and trained members. This includes
the issuing of certificates.
3 . To promote and foster among the
members of the profession a high sense of
the importance of professional training
and to protect the mutual interests of the
members.
4 . To provide opportunities for inter'
course amongst the members, and to give
facilities for the reading of papers, the
delivery of lectures and for the acquisi'
tion and dissemination by other means of
the most approved methods and scientific
teaching of nursing.
5. To assist necessitous members, and
to act as trustees of any benevolent fund
or funds which may be contributed for
any purpose. Much thought has been
given to the unemployment situation
among our nurses, but no definite plan
for relieving them has so far been evolved.
Membership
(a) The basis of membership is: (1)
Graduation from an approved School of
Nursing; (2) preliminary education of at
least Grade X (Public Schools of Nova Sco,
tia), and of at least Grade XI after October
31, 1936; (3) a minimum age of twenty'two
years.
(b) The number of members is 680, of
which 425 are fully pald,up at the present
date.
(c) All nurses registered in Nova Scotia
are members of this Association.
(d) About twenty per cent of the members
subscribe to 'The Canadian Nurse.
Sections
Puhlic Health Committee; Private
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Duty Committee; Nursing Education
Committee. Other Standing Committees:
Library; Legislative
Programme and
Publications; Red Cross Emergency
Corps; Registrar's Advisory; Arrange'
ments; Nominating.
Annual Meeting
The date of the annual meetmg was
June 7 and 8, in Sydney, N.S. The COIl'
tent of the session was:
Reports of officers; reports of conveners of
committees; reports of various local branches of
the association; discussions and recommenda'
tions arising from above; discussion of ap'
pointment of an inspector'registrar; choosing
of delegates to the Biennial Meeting in To'
ronto; discussion of provincial fees, and
refunds to various local branches; election '.)f
officers for coming year.
S pedall nterests
The age limit for nurses registering in
this province has been raised from
twenty,one to twenty'two years, by legis,
lation recently passed. Although the pre'
liminary education of nurses graduating
in the present and in the future is being
raised, it has been made possible for old
graduates who possess the other qualifi,
cations necessary for registration, to do
so without examination, and regardless
of preliminary education. Although the
Associ;:! tion hoped to secure legislation
which would make a university'trained
instructor a necessary part of every train,
ing school, they were not successful in
having this part of their bill passed, but
expect to bring the matter up again next
year.
One hundred and forty new members
were admited in 1933, and 22 since the
beginning of 1934. Affiliation fees for
429 members were forwarded to the Can'
adian Nurses Association for 1933, and
for 482 members for 1934.
MURIEL J. GRAHAM.
Executive Secretary.
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REPORT OF THE REGISTERED NURSES ASSOCIATION
OF ONTARIO
Objectives
To advance the educational standards
of nursing; to maintain the honour and
status of the nursing profession; to ren'
der service in the interest of the public.
Membership
Memhership in the Association is vol,
untary, therefore all registered nurses in
Ontario are not members. On June 1,
the memebrship was 2,293. Thirty-five
per cent of the members are subscribers
to 'The Canadian Nurse.
Sections
Nursing education: private duty; pub-
lIc health.
Standing Committees
Membership; publications; arrange-
ments: programme; nomination; legisla
tion.
Special Committees
Exhibits; finance; permanent education
fund; provincial Florence Nightingale
Memorial; provincial joint enrolment :
Ontario study committee on nursing edu,
cation: curriculum sub-committee; com'
mitt
e to study all forms of insurance;
committee to map out the programme in
regard to the reduction of student nurses
and the substitution of graduate nursing
service; committee to study the distribu-
tion of nursing service.
Annual Meeting
The d.nnual meeting is usually held
Juring Easter week, but this year, as we
have the honour and pleasure of being
hostesses to the Canadian Nurses Asso-
ciation for their Biennial Meeting, it was
decided to hold only a one-day session.
This meeting is neing particularly devoted
to business, and an interesting and 111
structive round-table, with all sectIOns
participating.
Officers
The following officers were elected for
1934-1935:
President: Miss Marjorie Buck.
First Vice-President: Miss Dorothy Percy.
Second Vice' President: Miss Constance
Brewster.
Secretary-Treasurer: Miss Matilda Fitz,
gerald.
Membership
The total number of nurses registered
in Ontario since the passing of the Nur
c
Registration Act in 19:2 2 is 17,621.
Schools of Nursing
Twenty-nine hospitals in Ontario have
discontinued their training schools since
1930, making a total number of thirty-
four training schools closed. Only one
training school, at St. Joseph's Hospital,
North Bay, and the School of Nursing.
University of Toronto, have been organ'
ized since 1930.
Local Groups
One outstanding feature 111 our Asso,
ciation is the benefit that the formation
of local groups has been in a district in
Northern Ontario, where the distances
are so great that nurses were unable to
attend the district meetings. Local
groups were formed in two of the larger
centres and a third will be organized in
June, with the result that in one year the
membership increased from 24 to 87.
Local groups have been organized in other
districts but the increase in membership
has not been so marked.
MATH D/\ E. FITZGERALD,
Secretary' TrC(l
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REPORT OF THE GRADUATE NURSES ASSOCIATION
OF PRINCE EDW ARD ISLAND
Objects
1. To provide a special organization of
graduate nurses so that the members of the
profession may be united into one general
body to promote and protect the mutual in-
terests of the members.
2. To do all such things as from time to
tIme may be necessary to elevate and advance
the nursing profession in the province,
nd
to foster among the members, a sense of the
importance of a high standard of professional
training.
Membership
1. There shall be two classes of member-
ship, namely, active and inactive members.
Active members shall be those practising in
the province. Inactive members are those
residing in the province but who are not
practising nursing, and those located else-
where.
2. An active member becoming an inactive
member shall notify the Treasurer and Regis-
trar of change of address, the change of status
of dues to become effective at the annual
meeting following receipt of notice.
3. Members in arrears for two consecutive
years shall be notified by the secretary-treas-
urer. and those members failing to pay within
three months after such notice, shall forfeit
the right of membership, and their names
shall be taken from the roll of members.
4. Members who have been dropped for
non-payment may be reinstated by vote of the
Council and payment of back dues.
Registration Membership
The Incorporators under "The Regis,
tered Nurses Act" and every person who:
(a) Resides in and practices or proposes
to practIce the profession of nursing in the
Province; and
(b) Is a graduate of an approved training
chool; and
(c) Is at least twenty-one years of age; and
(d) Is of good moral character; and
(e) Has passed an examination before the
examiners as provided by this Act, shall, on
producing satisfactory evidence to the Council
in proof of such qualifications, and on Com-
plying with all other requirements contained
in the Act, be entitled to be registered as a
member of the Association.
(f) Persons who are registered as trained
nurses in any other province or country which
has substantially the same requirements for
registration as this province, and whose qual-
ifications are approved by the Board ûf
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Examiners. shall be registered without exam'
ination on presenting registration of province
or country to Registrar.
The names of two hundred and thirty-
eight (238) nurses have been enrolled on
our register since the Nurses Registration
Act was passed in May, 1922, only
seventy'nine of which remain on the
active list, and eight on the inactive list.
Of the remaining one hundred and forty'
seven (147) twenty,two names are still
on the list, being in arrears but one year.
The others, according to the by,laws,
have forfeIted their right to membership,
but may be reinstated upon payment of
initial registration fee. The board of
examiners for nurse registration consists
of one member of the medical staff and
the superintendent of the school from
each of the approved schools of nursing.
Examinations are held annually during
the first week of July in Charlottetown.
All nurses receiving registration in this
province automatically become members
of the Graduate Nurses' Association of
Prince Edward Island. Twenty per cent
of members are subscribers to 'The èana,
dian Nurse.
Sections
Conveners of Public Health, Private
Duty and Nursing Education Sections
are elected annually by the Association.
The private duty section has been organ-
ized and has held several meetings during
the year. It consists of the convener, and
members of the Association actually en'
gaged in or interested in private duty
nursing. The public health group, aI,
though not officially organized as a sec'
tion, is doing an extensive piece of work.
Standing Committees
The Standing Committees, which in-
clude programme, auditing, and sick
visiting, are appointed at the annual
meeting. The special committees include
the following: joint study; national enrol-
ment; Nightingale Memorial.
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Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the members
of the Association shall be held on every
second Tues.day in June or as near that
date as possible and at such hour and
place as agreed. Quarterly meetings are
held throughout the year.
The officers elected on June 12, 1934,
are:
President: Miss Anna Mair.
Vice-President: Miss Mae King (re-elected).
Treasurer and RegIstrar: Miss Edna L.
G I een (re-elected).
Recordmg Secretary: MIss H. Margaret
Carn pbell (re-elected).
Special Activities During the Year
1933-1934
The chief of these is the work done by
the joint study committee through its
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sub-committees on curriculum and stand-
ards for entrance to schools of nursing.
The minimum entrance requirement has
already been raised to Grade Eleven or
its equivalent in all the schools of the
Province and the provincial nurses asso-
cIation .is working toward junior matri-
culation as its next objective. The
appointment of a part-time fully quali-
fied instructor has been made in one
school and opportunity for district nurs-
ing experience for student nurses through
the social service department in another
hospital has been arranged. Efforts have
been made to remedy the unemployment
situation.
H MARGARET CAMPBELL,
Recording Secreta1'Y,
G.N..A. of P.E.I.
REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF REGISTERED
NURSES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC
Objectives
Our primary object is the protec-
tion of the patient and secunng for
him better nursing care by raising
the general standards of nursing edu-
cation and service within our pro-
vince. In order to realize our objec-
tives, Quebec has maintained a minimum
curriculum in all schools for nurses since
1922, and regular yearly inspection of
our schools has been conducted by a
registered nurse since the passing of our
Registration Act in 1920. An official list
of approved schools and members in good
standing is published annually and dis-
tributed widely throughout our province
and elsewhere.
Membership
Membership in the A. R. N, P. Q. is
secured automatically when a nurse re-
ceives her provincial registration. The
administration of the Act itself, and of
.Lll other affairs of the Association, are
under the direct control of a board of
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management elected by the members. Thc
regulations call for an annual renewal of
certificate and provide protection, with
out additional fees, for those nurses
who, once registered, leave the province.
or remain in it and retire from activc
practice. This arrangement provides what
is known as a non-active list, members ot
which are not enrolled through it into the
C.N.A. because of the fact that no fee is
required from them. We regret to report
that all nurses practicing in our province
are not members of our Association, bc-
cause there are always those who, having
received registration elsewhere, fail to
discharge their professional obligation to
be in good standing under the regula-
tions governing the local group. Other
factors affecting this situation include the
following:
(a) There exists d second law regulating
nursmg education in our province, governing
the "Catholic licensed Nurses," This regula'
tion covers Quebec City only.
(n) The rcgulatiom. of our Pronl1ci..1
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Health Department permit the employment of
nurses who are not registered in our province.
Miscellaneous Statistcs
Total nurses registered since the passing of
the Act to the end of 1933: 7,017.
Members in good standing at this date:
3,240.
Members on the non-active list: 1,072.
Classification of members into service
groups (the list is incomplete because all have
not furnished necessary data): Private duty,
1,500; institutional, 950; public health, 625;
registrars and physicians' offices, 15; taking
postgraduate courses, 40.
Total training schools in province: 44.
Total schools and hospitals visited in 1933:
40.
Total schools on approved list: 37.
Total students in approved schools: 1,765.
Total registered nurses on staff of approved
schools: 950.
Sections
Because our Association is bi,lingual,
the private duty and nursing education
sections are divided into two groups, each
carrying on their own particular plans.
The public health section is composed of
hoth French and English members with
officers chosen from each group. General
meetings of the sections are held three or
four times each year, their executive com-
mittees meeting more frequently. The
conveners of the sections who are not
members of the board of management are
notified of the monthly meetings of the
board to which they are expected to bring
reports and problems and through which
a co'ordination of interests and a division
of responsibility is effected.
Standing Committees
The executive committees of our sec'
tions are regarded as standing committees
within our Association; to these are re-
ferred special interests and problems
peculiar to their particular group. The
finance committee handles the duties
which its name implies. We have also
standing committees representing (1 )
joint study groups; (2) sub-committee on
curriculum.
Annual Meeting
The annual meetings are, according to
regulations, always held in the month of
January, in Montreal. These meetmgs
cover two days and include special and
general sessions with outstanding speakers
who contribute greatly to the general
welfare. The attendance increases as the
years advance.
Special Interests
The most outstanding interest from an
educational point of view, at the present
time, is the welfare of our two university
schools for graduate nurses, both of
which during the past two years, on ac,
count of financial depression, have been
threatened with extinction. While we
fully realize and appreciate the courage-
ous way in which many nurses through,
out Canada have come to the assistance
of the School at McGill University, it is
reasonable to admit that Quebec Province
nurses are bearing a very heavy burden to
keep this University door from closing
upon us. Through the efforts and per'
sonal sacrifice of many nurses and the
help of a few friends, the McGill School
has been successfully carried through this
past year, and a guarantee of next year's
expenses has been submitted to the Uni,
versity authorities, most of the required
amount being already in the bank, and
the nucleus of a permanent endowment
fund (thanks to the support of our col,
leagues in Ottawa) is already established.
Our French,speaking nurses are emulat,
ing our plans in their effort to support
their Ecole d'Hygiène sociale appliquée at
rUniversité de Montréal, for we all real,
ize what a catastrophe it would be to
nursing education, at least in this pro-
vince, if these schools were to close.
Scholarships
Our Association for years has award,
ed two scholarships annually to members
wishing to take the courses offered
through our University schools; we
douhled the number during 1933.
Registration Examinations
A board of examiners composed of six
members of our Association, three Eng-
I1sh and three French, are elected by the
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REPORTS FROM PROVINCES
hoard of management for a term of three
years. Examinations are conducted in
April and October. The pass mark is 60
per cent. The French members assist in
the examinations held at the Universities
of Montreal and Laval where eXdmina
tions are held once each year. The number
of candidates wr
ting, In all, each year,
is approximately six hundred.
Contribution of French Members
Our French'speaking members have
for some time past shown true leadership,
among their accomplishments being:
(a) The publication of their own nursing
journal. La Garde,Malade Canadienne-Fran-
çaise.
(b) The publication through the efforts of
a special committee composed of medical and
nurse members of text and reference books in-
cluding those on hygiene, bacteriology, diet-
etics, materia medica, nursing technique, and
professional ethics; also "The Life of Jeanne
Mance. ..
(c) At present, they -are engaged in writing
a history of French,Canadian nursing to
which each hospital is contributing. It is ex-
pected that this valuable piece of work will be
published in the near future.
National Enrolment
Although a copy of the plan of organi'
ation for the national enrolment of
nurses has been mailed with every regis-
tration certificate during the past four
years, we regret to report only 192 mem-
hers enrolled. Our joint committee, com-
posed of two members of the Quebec
Provincial Branch of the Canadian Red
Cross Society and five members repre-
senting the A.R.N.P.Q., meets accord,
ing to arrangements and as required. We
have expressed ourselves as feeling it
l'sscntial that any nurse enrolled in one
province, wishing to transfer her enrol,
ment to another province upon her trans-
fer to the second place, shall be required
to report to the headquarters of the local
,lssociation of registereù nurses anù pro-
duce her credentials of membership in the
Canadian Nurses Association.
Unemployment Situation
The board of management of our Asso-
ciation, the personnel of which inc1udl'-
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437
superintendents of schools, directors of
public health organizations, instructon:
and private duty nurses, is exercising its
influence throughout the province, in an
effort to relieve the unemployment situa-
tion with the result that schools have been
closed, classes reduced, and many stu-
dents replaced by graduates. Private duty
registries are re-organizing to create a
better distribution of calls.
Subsidiary Workers
The subsidiary worker continues to be
a serious problem in Quebec Province,
their numbers and types increasing stead-
ily, in many instances the need for "a
cheaper worker" being given as the rea-
son. There are two schools for trained
attendants, one for "aides-maternelle,"
and one for uaides-malades" in Montreal.
One would not wish to argue against
the value of a second type of nurse
worker in any community requiring her
services, but the lack of control of these
women in our province enables them, at
the present time, to almost control the
private nursing situation in the homes of
the people, where they work under direct
supervision of many of our medical prac-
titioners. It is estimated that the number
of subsidiary nurses graduating annually
in Montreal approximates two hundred.
Unity
In conclusion may I say that although
we represent in our Association, two na
tionalities, each group striving to work
out its own particular destiny in its own
particular way, yet we fully realize that
nursing service cannot admit of barrier
caused through race, creed or language
and therefore we are beginning to appre'
ciate that our bi-lingual situation creates
for us a greater opportunity for service
and fellowship than is found in any other
part of Canada.
E. FRANCES UPTON, R.N.,
E,-ecutive Secretary and Registrar,
and Official School Visitor
REPORT OF THE SASKATCHEWAN REGISTERED
NURSES ASSOCIATION
Objecti'Yes
(a) To advance the standards of
nursing education and nursing practice
in the Province of Saskatchewan in the
interests of service to the community.
(b) To participate with the nurses'
associations of other provinces in further-
ing the common objectives throughout
Canada.
(c) To foster, in the membership of
the Association, a sense of responsibility
for maintaining the honour and status of
the nursing profession.
Membership
The basis of membership is:
1. Graduates of recogni 4 ed training schools
having a three years' course and who have
passed the examination of the University of
Saskatchewan are eligible for membership m
the Association upon payment of the registra-
tion fee. The examinations are held in January
and June of each year, and the Association
is represented on the University Board of
Examiners by two nurse members.
2. Nurses from other provinces and states
maintaining standards of nursing registration
equal to those of Saskatchewan are eligible for
membership upon acceptance of their creden
tials by the Council of the Association.
3. Members who are in good standing at
the time of removal from the province may,
by notifying the registrar at the time of
removal, be carried in good standing as non-
resident without the payment of annual fees.
The number of members is:
I. Total registration is 2,168.
2. Total membership in good standing,
June 1, 1934, is 774.
Registration in Saskatchewan consti-
tutes membership in the Association; but
registered nurses failing to pay the an-
nual fees of the Association are not in
good standing and forfeit the privileges
of membership.
Sections
All the sections, Nursing Education,
Private Duty and Public Health, are or-
ganized and active.
Committees
The standing committees are: Nurs-
ing Education; Private Duty; Public
438
Health; Provincial Joint Study; Legisla-
tion; Scholarship. The special committees
are: Employment; Curriculum; Florence
Nightingale Memorial; Canadian Nurse.
Annual Meeting
Held annually on Thursday and Fri-
da y of Easter week. In 1934 the meeting
was held in Moose Jaw, April 5 and 6.
The programme and discussion centred
in the problems of the private duty
nurse, papers being read and discus-
sion introduced by members of the pri-
vate duty section. The convention also
had the benefit of an excellent address on
the subject by a member of the medical
profession, Dr. Vaughn Black, of Moose
Jaw. The business of the Association oc-
upied a full day' of the convention. The
most important decision reached was to
appoint an inspecttJr of nursing schools
as a full-time official and to include the
duties of registrar and secretary-treasurer
in the new position. The Employment
Committee was continued, arrangements
made for participation in the Florence
Nightingale Foundation, and two dele-
gates names to attend the Biennial Meet-
ing of the Canadian Nurses Association.
The following officers were elected:
President, Miss Edith Amas, Saskatoon;
First Vice-President, Miss Elizabeth
Smith, Moose Jaw; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, Sister Clotilda, Moose Jaw; Coun-
cillors, Misses Jean McDonald, Regina,
and Edith Stocker, Saskatoon.
Special Interests, Acti'Yities and
Accomplishments
Membe1"shiþ.-Legislation requiring all
graduate nurses employed in hospitals in
Saskatchewan to be registered and in
good standing with the Association as
from January 1., 1934. An active cam-
paign by the Council to extend the same
requirement to all nurses practising in
Saskatchewan, and special concessions al-
lowed in the matter of arrears of fees,
has placed the active membership of the
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43.}
Association on a more satisfactory basis.
The following figures will show the in'
crease in membership as a result of these
efforts:
Number of members in good standmg:
December 31, 1932 .... 386
December 31, 1933 .... 446
June I, 1934 ......... 774
Of this increase in membership 252
new registrations have been added since
November 1, 1933 (seven months). We
regret to state that only 15.6 per cent of
the present membership number are sub,
scribers to 'The Canadian Nurse.
Inspection of Nursing Schools. - The
appointment of a full,time official to com'
bine the work of inspection of nursing
schools and the duties of registrar and
secretary-treasurer has been referred to
above.
ScholarshJþ. - Because of this new
financial venture, the Saskatchewan Reg'
istered Nurses Association scholarship
for university postgraduate study insti,
tuted in 1929 and since awarded to four
students, will be discontinued for two
years, after which time it is hoped that
it will possible to resume it.
Legislation.-Certain amended regula-
tions of the Department of Public Health
have affected directly the nursing situa,
tion in Saskatchewan:
1. As from January I, 1936, any hospital
undertaking the conduct of a nursing school
must have an adult bed capacity of 70 with
a daily average of 45 patients; all students
entering nursing schools must have an acade-
mic standing of Grade XI or its equivalent
as recogniz.ed by the Department of Education
of Saskatchewan.
2. As from January I, 1934, all nurses em-
ployed On the staff of government-aided
hospitals must be registered in Saskatchewan.
Florence Nightingale Foundation. -
Nursing schools, alumnae and local nurses
associations are contributing toward the
Florence Nightingale Memorial Founda-
tion.
Employment.- The Employment Com-
mittee appointed in September, 1933, has
been responsible for placing ten nurses in
small hospitals since December 1, 193 3 .
The plan was that in return for mainten-
ance the nurse should give assistance in
the hospital and should be available for
nursing in the homes in the district at
the request of the local doctor. The As-
sociation provided a monthly allowance
for each nurse placed, a total of $390.00
being expended since December 1, 1933.
Several of the nurses placed by the com-
mittee were retained by the hospital on
permanent appointment at the comple-
tion of the six-months' plan. A greater
number of applications were received
from hospitals for nurses, than were re-
ceived from nurses for placement.
Through the Employment Committee
postgraduate work was given at the Pro-
vincial Sanataria for ten nurses in addi-
tion to the usual number. A private duty
nurse, Miss Helen Wills of Regina, is
chairman of the Employment Committee.
General Trends;n the Work oj the
A ssocíat;on
A noticeable feature in the past twO
years is the active and interested part
taken by the younger nurses in the work
of the Association. Their participation
in discussion, assistance in committee
work and willingness to assume responsi-
hility are most encouraging. This has
given a new impetus to nursing organiza'
tion in Saskatchewan and a keener in'
tcrest is shown than has previously been
apparent.
MARGARET A. Ross
Secretary,'T reasurer and Registrar.
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News
Ne". Items Intended lor publication in the enauing isaue mUSt reach the Journal not later than the el&hth of the
precedmg month In order to ensure accuracy all contflbutlons should be typewfltten and double..paced.
Notes
ALBERTA
EDMONTON: Miss Margaret Fraser (R.A.H.,
1
19), a grad uate of Teachers' College, Col.
umbia University, has joined the staff of the
Royal Alexandra School as instructor of nurs.
ing. She has filled simIlar positions in the
Vancouver General Hospital, the Hartford
Hospital, Hartford, Conn., and the Winnipeg
General Hospital. Her Alumnae Association
and her many friends welcome her home. Miss
Isabel Green (R.A.H., 1932), who has just
completed a course in ward administration and
supervision at the School of Nursing of To.
ronto University, has accepted a position as
night supervisor in the obstetrical department
of the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton.
MARRIED: On July 19, 1934, Miss Ruth
Lloyd (R.A.H., 1929), to Mr. Michael Ellis,
of Bridge River, B.C.
MARRIED: On July 2, 1934, Miss Faith Mos.
ley (R.A.H., 1928), to Mr. Oscar Johanson,
of Red Deer, Alta. Since completing a course
at the School for Graduate Nurses at McGill
University, Miss Mosley has been connected
with the educational department of the Royal
Alexandra School for Nurses. The best of
good wishes and appreciation follow her to
her new home.
LETHBRIDGE: In honour of the graduating
class of the School of Nursing of the Galt
Hosp;tal the Lethbridge Graduate Nurses As.
...ociation held a reception on June 13 with
Miss Jean McKenzie, president of the Asso.
ciation, and Miss Harriet Levenick, superin.
tendent of the hospital, welcoming the guests.
The tea table was presided over by Mrs. C. B.
Bowman, Mrs. R. Barrowman, Mrs. W. E.
Bryans and Miss A. M. Tilley. Miss Levenick
introduced each caller to the honour guests.
Tea room assistants inc1uded Mrs. Haig, Miss
Alice Pel1etier, Miss Lillian Parry, Mrs. R. W.
Lynn, Mrs. C. \V. Boulton, Mrs. I. K. Mur.
ray. The honour guests were Miss D. Loverin,
Miss 1. Lammle, Miss M. Boniface, Miss M.
Coutts, Miss M. Macdonald. Miss N. Ireland,
Miss G. Alexander, Miss B. Card, Miss M.
Colwell, Miss M. Davie, Miss M. Maxwel1.
Miss I. Hunter, Miss A. McDougall, Miss N.
Rodie, Miss B. Shelton. The officers of the
Lethbridge Graduate Nurses Association are
as follows: President. Miss Jean T. MacKen-
zie: vice'president. Miss J. Brodie: secretary.
Miss B. Clark: treasurer, Miss H. Davidson:
correspondent to 'The Canadian Nurse, Miss
Catherine M. S. \Vay.\Vhite: convener of the
--ocial committee. Miss B. Ford.
440
NOY A SCOTIA
HALlI'Ax: The annual meeting of the Reg.
Istered N UI ses Association of Nova Scotia was
held in Sydney on June 7 and 8, with a total
registratIOn of fifty.one. The delegates were
welcomed by His \Vorship Mayor Muggah,
and Dr. J. K. MacLeod, Medical Health Offi.
cer, who spoke of the French hospital at Louis.
bourg, where so much nursing was carried on
in the early d.lYs. Mayor Muggah spoke of
the regiment of soldiers stationed at Sydney
who had been transferred directly to the Cri.
mean Peninsula, during the Crimean War, re'
marking that doubtless some of these Cape
Breton lads had had the benefit of Miss Night.
ingale's nursing. The president stated that
affairs in the A:,sociation seemed to be in a
satisfactory condition, as membership is in.
creasing each year, and the finances corres'
pondingly. The local bi anch of Cape Breton.
Victoria Counties entertained at a delightful
drive to the old Town of Louisbourg, where
the ruins were viewed and explained by the
Mayor of Louisbourg. The chief business
taken up was in connection with the promo'
tion of registration in 1\:ova Scotia. Two
resolutions were forwarded to the Provincial
Government asking that the Hospitals Act be
amended to require that all graduate nurses
employed in hospitals receiving government.
aid be registered nurses in good standing in
the province; and secondly, that the Provin.
cial Government so regulate employment that
all graduate nUrses employed by the Provin.
cial Government be registered nurses in good
standing in the province. It was also decided
that an effort be made to form new branches
in the centres where nurses are employed. The
sum of fifty dol1ars was voted for the Nightin.
gale Foundation Scholarship. as a joint con'
tribution from the Provincial Association and
local branches. A tea at St. Rita's Hospital
conc1uded a successful session. The follow-
ing officers were elected: President, Miss Lenta
Hal1, V.O.N., Halifax: first vice'president.
MIss S. Archard, V.G.H.. Halifax: second
vice'president, Miss A. Hillcoat, Amherst.
third vice'president, Sister A. Seton, Halifax
Infirmary: recording secretary, Mrs. D. J. Gil.
lis, Halifax: registrar. Miss M. Graham, Hali.
fax. Miss Victoria \Vinslow. superintendent
of nurses at the Chilc-lren's Hospita1. Halifax.
and Miss Marion Haliburton. school nurse.
Halifax. attended the Biennial Meeting of the
C.N.A. Mic;s Lenta Ba11 has been appointed
<:uperintendent of tne Halifax brancn of tne
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NEWS NOTES
V.O.N., following the resignation of Miss
Mdry Campbell.
MARRIED: On June 27, 1934, Miss Laura
Archibald (V.G.H., Halifax, 1932), to Mr.
George Sinclair Arnburg, of Caledonia
(Queens Co.), N.S.
MARRIfD: On June 30, 1934, Miss Ruby
Hollett (V.G.H., 1931), to Mr. Thomas Boyd.
MARRIW: On July 19, 1934, Miss Emma
M. Taylor (V.G H., 1932), to Mr. Douglas
R. Arklie.
A!I<TIGONISH: Commencement day opened
at St. Martha's Hospital on June 14, with
Pontifical Mass. His Excellency the most Rev.
James Morrison, D.D., delivered an inspiring
sermon. The second event was the banquet
participated in by the entire student body.
Nineteen graduates in spotless white occupied
one long table in the centre of the refectory,
while the students were seated at tables form'
ing a circle around them. The class prophecy
was composed by Miss Eunice MacKinnon,
secretary of the Nurses' Sodality. The greatest
event of the day took place when the prizes
and pins were presented, and the diplomas
were conferred. Rev. J. R. MacDonald, Presi,
dent of the Board of Directors, acted as chair-
man. Prizes were awarded and diplomas con'
ferred by the Most Rev. James Morrison. The
"peaker of the evening was the Rev. R. Mac'
Gillivray, whose address was much appre,
ciated. The following young ladies received
dIplomas: Sister Mary Annette and the
Misses M. MacKinnon, H. MacMillan, D.
MacDonald, M. Landry, S. Riley, K. Red,
mond, H. McMahon, M. Cameron, S. Mc,
Sween, M. Campbell, L. MacGillivray, M.
MacDonald, H. Prendergast, V. Weatherbee,
D. West, M. Merner, I. MacDonald, M. Mac'
Donald. The prize list is as follows: Prize
donated by Dr. J. L. MacIsaac for the highest
mark in medical nursing, awarded to Miss
Kathleen Redmond: prize donated by Dr. W.
F. MacKinnon for the highest mark in sur-
gical nursing, awarded to Miss Kathleen Red,
mond; prize donated by Dr. J. J. Carroll for
the most efficient clinical chart nurse, awarded
to Miss Laura MacGillivray; prize donated by
Or. J. J. Cameron for the highest standing in
kIndness, vigilance and economy, awarded to
Mis
Dorothy MacDonald: prize donated by
Dr. R. F. MacDonald for the highest mark in
the diseases of eye, car, nose and throat,
,lwarded to Sister Mary Annette; first prize
donated by Mr. R. K. MacDonald for the
most efficient bedside nurse, awarded to Miss
Viola \Veatherbee; second prize donated by
the Alumnae Association for efficiency in hed,
"ide nursing. awarded to Sister Mary Annette;
third prize donated by Mr. E. D MacDonald,
SEPTEMBER, IQ34
441
ACIDOSIS
and COLDS
With the coming of colder weather
and the resultant retreat indoors,
comes the annual question of "what
to do for the common cold?"
Many an observer has noted the
close association between colds and
acidosis.
The course of treatment of a cold
should, in view of the acidotic con-
dition present, include alkalinization.
BiSoDoL
has been successful in shortening the
duration of colds because it alka
inizes
safely and, in addition, aids digestion,
which is so frequently upset during
the course of a cold.
B SoDol is an unusually palatable
form of balanced alkali, which al-
kalinizes without digestive distrub-
ances or other untoward effects.
SeJlJ FOR SAMPLES
AND LITERATURE
THE
B.SoDoL CoMpANY
WINDSOR; ONTARIO
442
THE CANADIAN NURSE
for efficiency in bedside nursing, awarded to
Miss Helen MacMillan; prize donated by Rev.
J. R. MacDonald for the highest aggregate in
the final examinations, awarded to Miss Viola
Weatherbee; pnze given by the School of
Nursing to the member of the junior class for
efficiency in bedside nursing, awarded to Miss
Lenora McKay; prize for efficiency in bed-
side nursing in freshman year, equally merited
by the Misses J. Paquet and H. Armstrong,
drawn by Miss Armstrong; prize donated by
Rev. S. Callan, for the highest mark in ethics,
awarded to Miss K. Redmond; special prize
donated by a friend for daily attendance dur-
ing the three years' course, awarded to Miss
M. Campbell; prize donated by Rev. W. Ro-
berts for the highest standing in religion in
sophomore year, awarded to Miss A. Ami-
rault.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT I
CHATHAM: The following members of the
Alumnae Association of the Public General
Hospital, Chatham, attended the biennial con-
vention in Toronto; Misses Priscilla Campbell,
W. Fair, D. Thomas, H. Greeves, E. Orr, H.
Simpson and B. Pardo. Miss Ruby Runnings,
student nurse, was a guest of the Western
Hospital during the convention. A modern
operating table has been donated to the hos-
pital by the Association in loving memory of
Lottie Fanazick McRitchie, Berta Kennedy
Agar. Ethel Wood and Frances Murray. The
members of the Association held their annual
picnic in July. An enjoyable afternoon was
spent in races, games and swimming. Six re-
Lent graduates have become members of the
Alumnae Association: M. \Vood, A. Wood,
]. Cosbey, J. D'Clute, M. Meredith and T.
Mosev. Miss Bessie Lavell, a graduate of the
Public General Hospital, has returned on fur-
lough from missionary service in \Vest Africa.
LONDON: Miss M. 1. Jacobs entertained at
tea in honour of Miss Mary Cochrane, R.R.C.,
Matron of the Charing Cross Hospital, Lon-
Ion, England, and Mrs. Christian Bedford Fen-
wick of Newcastle, England, who were her
guests in June prior to the Biennial Meeting.
Assisting were Mrs. H. V. Smith, Mrs. E. J.
Kitchen, Miss E. McClenehan, Miss P. Staple-
ton Miss D. E. Kennedy. Mrs. F. S. Vrooman
and' Miss M. 1. Jacobs were joint hostesses at
a luncheon in honour of Miss Daisy Bridges
of St. Thomas's Hospital, London. The guests
included Miss I. MacIntosh, Mrs. Taylor, Miss
O. \Vatson, Mrs. H. V. Smith, Miss M.
Walker, Miss D. E. Kennedy, Miss J. \Valker
and Miss B. Taylor. The party then pro-
ceeded to Chatham, where they were the
guests of Miss Priscilla CampbelL The On-
tario Hospital A.A., held their annual picnic
recently. Guests of honour included Miss M.
1. Jacobs, Dr. and Mrs. C. A. McClenehan,
Mrs. F. S. Vrooman, Miss B. Vrooman and
Mr. W. Soutar, Mrs. S. Grosvenor and Miss
P. Stapleton were in charge of arrangements.
DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
BRANTFORD: Miss J. M. Wilson has return-
ed to the hospital after spending her vacation
at Ingersoll and Southampton. Miss H. D.
Muir has returned from a motor trip to Re-
gina. Miss E. M. McKee has left for Montreal,
where she will spend the month of August.
MARRIED: Miss Grace H. Turnbull (B.G.H.,
class 1927), to Mr. James Davison.
GALT: The Alumnae Association held an
enjoyable picnic on June 11, when Miss Ruth
Nanz, a graduate of the Galt Hospital, was
the guest of honour. Miss Nanz is on fur-
lough from the Philippine Islands where she
is connected with St. Luke's Hospital, Manilla.
She gave an interesting talk on her work and
was presented with a book. Miss Caroline La
Ro
e, Superintendent of Metropolitan Hospi-
tal, Windsor, was also a guest. Miss La Rose
was formerly superintendent of Galt Hospital.
The following attended the Biennial Meeting
held in Toronto: Misses A. Cleaver, A. Mac-
Donald, B. Baker. E. Law, I. MacNair, G.
Rainey and F. Archibald. The nursing staff
presented Miss D. Turnbull, graduate of the
Galt Hospital, with a gift in view of her ap-
proaching marriage.
DISTRICT 4
HAMILTON: The graduating exercises of the
School of Nursing, St. Joseph's Hospital, were
held on June 6, when thirty-four nurses re-
ceived their diplomas. The prizes were award-
ed as follows: Highest standing in theory,
Miss Ruth Dooley; general proficiency, Miss
Violet Bassindale; preventive medicine, Sister
Mary Grace; surgical nursing, Miss Helen
Zettel' medical nursing, Miss Vera Selkirk;
obstetrical nursing, Miss O. Harvey; gyneco-
logical nursing, Miss Betty WeIsman. A re-
ception was held followed in the evening by
a dance. On June 12 the Alumnae Associa-
tion held a dinner in honour of the graduates
For the first time in the history of the school
a year-book has been published and is proving
a gratifying success.
MARRIED: In June, 1934, Miss Mabe1 Mac.
Intosh (St. J.H., 1930), to Mr. J. O. Gold-
thorpe of Goderich.
MARRIED: In June, 1934, Miss Eileen Gol-
den (St. J.H., 1929), to Mr. W. Ardour of
South Porcupine.
ST. CATHARINES: A general description of
the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the
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This question 0 f
HALIBUT OR COD
Unquestionably, Halibut Liver Oil has definite
therapeutic merit -so has, of course, Cod Liv!r
Oil. But Halibut Liver Oil cannot t.':!ke the place
of Cod Liver Oi!. Halibut Liver Oi! is being
widely advertised as a substitute for Cod Liver
Oil. It is NOT a true substitute and cannot properly
be described as "Cod Liver Oil by the drop".
Halibut Liver Oil is rich in vitamin A and provides
an excellent medium for VITAMIN A THERAPY,
but, being relatively low in vitamin D, it cannot be
used economically as an ami-rachitic agent.
Cod Liver Oil is the "gold standard" of vitamin
A and 0 therapy, and long clinical experience has
established the fact that the vitamin A and D ratio
in Cod Liver Oil is sound and practical. Every
physician appreciates the value of Cod Liver Oil
"by the teaspoonful", and it is probable that Hali-
but Liver OJ I has had its greatest appeal because
of the convenience of its capsule form. Where
convenience is a factor in Cod Liver Oil therapy
we offer Alphamette Liquid, and the capsules
forms, Alphamettes and "Calcium A". These three
products are prepared for the convenient applica-
tion of Cod Liver Oil therapy and faithfully retain
the same "gold standard" values of vitamins A and
o as exhibited in good medicinal Cod Liver Oil.
Each Alphamette exhibits the full vitamin value of
three teaspoonfuls of Cod Liver Oil and each
"Calcium A" capsule that of one teaspoonful in
association with organically combined calcium and
phosphorus. The choice as between Halibut Liver
Oil and Cod Liver Oil rests primarily with the
physician. We endeavour to supply products which
meet the demands of the profession, and therefore
offer capsules of Halibut Liver Oil "Plain" and
"250-0" which conform with the stdndards of
potency set up by the Council on Pharmacy and
Chemistry of the A.M.A.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
dck Training School for Nurses will be
found in the body of the Journa
and the de.
tailed information given here is supplementary
tu it. MIss Anne Wright was untiring in her
efforts to make everyone feel happy and at
hume and the success of the celebration is
ldrgely due to her. The Board of Directors
uf the hospital, the medical staff and the
Ladies' Aid entered into the spirit of the occa'
sion and participated in all the social events.
At the banquet Dr. John Sheahan was the
guest speaker and gave high praise to Miss
W right and her predecessors in office. Dr.
Chapman spoke in a most happy vein con'
cerning amusing episodes of the past. A letter
of congratulation was received from the Alum.
nae Association of the Victoria Hospital,
London, where Sister Florence, who gra.
duated from the Mack Training School
in 188
, was the first superintendent.
Letters were also received from Miss Breu.
baker, Guatemala, Central America; Miss
Rundle of Aklavik, N.W.T.; the Misses
Gobert of Whitby, and many others. On June
21 the residence and hospital were open to
visitors, and Miss MacDougall, now Mrs. Beck
uf Dearborn, Mich., arrived. Mrs. Beattie, of
Seaforth, who is a daughter of Ann Carline,
a nurse of the first graduating class, brought
her mother's diploma and several pictures
(some of which were tintypes) of the nurses
and of Dr. Mack. Many hostesses entertained
the visitors, one of whom was Mrs. R. L.
Dunn, in honour of Miss Hollingworth and
Miss \Vren and her class. On June 22 the
graduation exercises took place under the dis.
tinguished patronage of His Honor the Lieut.
enant.Governor of Ontario. The Reverend E.
J. Harper pronounced the invocation and Mr.
Murton Seymour, secretary of the Board of
Governors, presided. Dr. John C. Ball con.
gratulated the class on behalf of the medical
profession. Prizes were awarded as follows:-
Senior Year: General proficiency medal, given
by the Mack Training School Alumnae Asso.
ciation and presented by Miss Nora Todd, was
won by Jean McLellan: highest standing in
practical work, given by the Board of Govern.
ors, Jean McLellan; highest standing in oper.
.tting.room technique, given by Dr. W. J.
Chapman. Phyllis Archer: highest standing in
eye, ear. nose and throat examination, given by
Dr. R. G. Sheppard, Alice Hoare: highest
tanding in obstetrical nursing, given by Dr.
W. H. Cunningham, Mabel Eggleton: highest
tanding in paediatric nursing, given by Dr.
:'\. R. Lindsay, Margaret Barclay. Interme.
di:tte Year: General profficiency prize, given
hy the Board of Governors, Edith Rich.
ardson: highest standing in general medicine
cxammatlUns, given by Dr. Graham Harkness,
Helen Oashwood; highest standing in surgery
exammatiun, gIVen by Dr. A. H. Greenwood,
Florence Richardsun.
Amung the graduates from a distance who
attended the celebrations were: Mrs. Mac.
donald, Dundas (Annie Allan, 1896); Mrs.
George Badke, Toronto (Esther Armbrust,
192 3); Mrs. Kelsie, Lakefield (Minnie Arm.
stlOng, 1918); MIss Anme Barr, New York
( 1889); Mrs. B. W. Cornwall, Batavia (Lydia
Bates, 1893); Mrs. A. H. Wilson, Woodstock
(Cura Canfield, 1903); Mrs. Dickson, Toron.
to (Henrietta Curran, 1921); Mrs. A. Jacques,
Toronto (Ethel Dell, 1922); Mrs. J. Frieden.
mann, Kansas City (Alberta Dietrich, 1919);
Miss Emma Elliott, Superintendent of Port
Hupe Hospital (1904); Mrs. Norma Harris,
Toronto (Una Emery, 1915); Miss Nellie
Fewster, Tillsonburg (1922); Miss Elizabeth
Gillies, London (1921); Miss Ina Grenville,
Sault Ste. Marie (1913); Mrs. L. Bell, Free.
man (Grace Hallett, 1916); Mrs. H. Petti.
bone, Capreol (Esther Hanna, 1927); Miss
G. Honey, Fort Erie (192 2); Miss M. Chal.
mers, Fort Erie (1929); Miss Anne Hutchi.
son, Dalrymple (1892); Mrs. W. Deverell
(Ella Hutchison, 1892); Mrs. F. Darnell, To.
ronto (Margaret Jackson, 1928); Miss Mar.
garet Kelman, Toronto (1892); Miss Ethel
Lambden, Tillsonburg (1921); Mrs. Roden,
Toronto (Mabel Land, 1901); Mrs. \Vhite,
Kenmore (Theresa Laughlin, 1899); Miss
Margaret Laughlin, Kenmore (1893); Miss
Marie Larle, Buffalo (1911); Miss C. Lym.
burner, Niagara Falls (1904); Mrs. C. Beck,
Dearborn, Mich. (Charlotte Macdougall.
1908); Mrs. Clapp, Buffalo (Martha Marrott,
1900); Miss Gladys Motley, Haileybury
(192 7); Mrs. Grand, Beaverton (Janet Mc.
Hattie, 1906); Mrs. A. Platt, Sault Ste. Marie
(Frances Olton, 1929); Mrs. F. Howard,
Montreal (Helen Pierce, 1929); Mrs. W. Du.
thie, Toronto (Theresa Reid, 1928); Miss
Annie Rultan, North Bay (1931): Mrs. A.
Rychert, Dundas (Nellie Shaw, 1894): Mrs.
A. Mitchell, Fleming, Sask. (Mary Smith,
1899); Mrs. E. Bruhacher, Grimsby (M. Sni.
der, 1918); Mrs. R. 1. Carefoot, Markdale
(Clara Swayze, 1915); Mrs. S. Brubacher,
Waterloo (Stella, Swertzer, 1925); Mrs. L.
Craly, New York (Helen Trotter, 1907); Mrs.
1. H. Erb, Toronto (Olive Troxell. 1912):
Mrs. L. Galway, Muskoka (Mildred Walker,
1930); Mrs. M. Clemens, Kitchener (Alvena
Cressman, 1917). Perhaps no better impres.
sion of the happy atmosphere which prevailed
can he given than to quote the answer given
by one of the older graduates when an en.
quiry was made as to the good things served
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NEWS NOTES
445
dt the banquet: "1 was so interested in what
was going on that I can't be sure," said she,
"although, now I come to think of it, I do
eem to remember having seen a chicken leg."
Her grown,up son says that his mother "never
ets excited." \Vell, sixtieth anniversaries don't
come every day, even in the oldest school of
nursing in Canada.
DISTRICT 5
TORONTO: The Board of Directors of the
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
were hostesses at a reception, on June 26, in
honour of the members of the Executive Com'
mittee of the Canadian Nurses Association.
The president, Miss Marjorie Buck, with Miss
Dorothy Percy and Miss Matilda Fitzgerald,
received the guests, among whom were: Dr.
Robert C. Wallace, President of the Univer-
"ity of Alberta; Dr. F. C. and Mrs. Neale, of
Peterboro; Mrs. E. MacGregor Rome, Miss S.
M. Cochrane, Miss Daisy Bridges and Mrs. C.
Bedford Fenwick from England; Miss Hills
Young, of Khartoum: Miss Florence H. M.
Emory, President of the Canadian Nurses As'
"ociation, and the following members of the
Executive: Miss Munroe and Miss P. Gilbert,
of Alberta: Miss M. F. Gray, Miss M. Duf,
field and Miss G. Fairley of British Columbia;
Miss M. Reid and Miss K. McCallum of Mani,
toba: Miss A. T. McMaster and Miss M. Mur,
doch of New Brunswick: Miss G. M. Bennett.
Mi"s I. MacIntosh and Miss Nora Moore. of
Ontario: Miss C. Barrett. Miss M. Batson.
Mi
C. Dowling, Miss C. M. Watson and
Miss M. Moag. of Quebec, and Miss Ruby
Simpson. of Saskatchewan. Other guests
were: Mi"ses E. Smel1ie. M. Lindeburgh. C.
Ta'Vlor. H. Wil1s. H. Randal. E. Ravside. E.
Tohns. C. Graham. T. I. Gunn. F. J. Potts.
E K. Russen, E. Dickc;on. K. Mathieson. E. C.
<;ampbe1t. :\.
. Munn. and others
DISTRICT 7
KTNr.STON: The regular meeting of District
7. R.N.A.G., wac; held at Smiths Falls on
July 10 and wac; we1l attended. Miss Shaw.
our delegatE" to thl' Biennial Meeting of the
r:.N.A.. gave an interesting report. She
brought the National Association very near to
us and made t},o"c w},o were unable to attend
realize t},e'V },ad missed an imf'ortant week in
the hÜ:tory of nur"ing. Miss D. Frenc},. ref'-
resentative of t},e c;tudent nun:ec; of t},e K.G.H.
at t},e Biennial Meeting. also gave },er im,
T'ressions. Lunc}, wac; c;erved by Mi"c; B1is"
assi"ted by graduates of t},e hoc;pital Dic;trirt
7 has accepted an invitation to },o1d it" Grto-
brr mreting in Perth Mise: Miriam Mitc},ell
(K G H.. 1927). of t},e v.a N. in Pictou.
N.S., has been transferred to Sydney. Misc;
SEPTEMBER, 1934
Pearl Reid (K.G.H., 1927), formerly assistant
supervisor of Isolation Hospital, Kingston, has
accepted d post in China and is sailing in the
near future. One of the early graduates of the
Kingston General Hospital School for Nurses
was recently a patient in the local institution.
She is Mrs. Kimmerly of Belleville, who was
P,mline Revere when she took her training.
She still retains the nursing uniform she wore
when she was in training. She graduated
forty,eight years ago.
MARRIED: On March 30, 1934, in Brock,
ville, Miss Verna Bancroft of the Ontario
Hospital, Brockville, Class 1929, was united
in marriage with Mr. Thomas E. Guest.
MARRIED: On July 25, 1934, in Ottawa, by
the Rev. J. A. Waddell, Margaret Alice.
daughter of the Rev. J. I. Hughes, of Russell,
Ont., and the late Mrs. Hughes, to Mr. \Vil,
fred Dawson, son of Mr. and Mrs. \V. H.
Carruthers, of Bowmanville. The bride is a
graduate of the Kingston General Hospital
School of Nursing, Class 1933.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: The forty,third graduation ex'
ercises of the Montreal General Hospital
School of Nurses took place on June 7, when
forty' five graduates received their medals and
diplomas. Following the Invocation by the
Rev. T. B. Jeakins, Lt.'Cot. Herbert Molson,
C.M.G., M.C., President of the Board of
Management, gave the address of welcome and
presented the medals and diplomas. The Mont-
real General Hospital Pledge was then re,
peated by the graduating c1ass, this pledge
replacing the Florence Nightingale Pledge
which has been used on previous occasions.
Dr. R. R. Struthers, B.A., chief pediatrician,
gave the address to the class, in which he
reminded liS that the whole question of nurs'
ing education in undergoing a critical review.
with the probability of many alterations in the
methods now in vogue. He emphasized the
important function of the c;upervising Or
charge nurse, who has great influence over the
student nurse since t},e most satisfactory
teaching takes place at the bedside. He also
commented on the need for pride in our occu-
pation. firstly. pride of achievement, which is
rarely seen because those who reach their
objecti\'es in the face of difficult odds are usu-
ally humbled by their experiences, and see,
ondly. pride of personality, or rather pride of
being found worthy of association wit}, an
ancient institution possessing grand and we1t.
established traditions of sen'ice and of pres-
tige He t},en quoted the qualifications of a
good nurse as outlined by Thomas Putter. an
early EngJic;h physician, who first described
chickenpox:
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
"Though it is impossible to meet with a
Nurse every day so Qualify'd for the Business,
as to have no Faults or Failings, yet the more
she cometh up to the following Particulars,
the more she is to be liked. It is therefore
desirable that she be: of a middle age, fit and
able to go through with the necessary fatigue
of her Undertaking; healthy, especially free
from Vapours, and Cough; a good Watcher,
that can hold sitting up the whole Course of
the Sickness; quick of Hearing, and always
ready at the first call; quiet and still, so as to
talk low, and but little, and tread softly; of
good Sight, to observe the Pocks, their Colour,
Manner and Growth, and all Alterations that
may happen; handy to do every Thing the best
way, without Blundering and Noise; nimble
and Quick-a-going, coming and doing every
Thing; cleanly, to make all she dresseth ac-
ceptable; well-Tempered, to humour, and
please the Sick as much as she can; cheerful
and Pleasant; to make the best of every Thing,
without being at any time Cross, Melancholy
or Timorous; constantly careful, and diligent
hy Night and Day; sober and Temperate; not
given to Gluttony, Drinking Or Smoking; ob-
servant to follow the Physician's Orders duly;
and not to be so conceited of her own skiH,
as to give her own Medicines privately."
Prizes were presented by the Board of Man-
agement for general proficiency to: Miss M.
A. Shaw and Miss M. 1. Ross. The Mildred
Hope Forbes Prizes for highest aggregate
marks during the three years were awarded to:
Miss F. E. Eaves, B.A., and Miss A. 1. Ten-
nant. Following the National Anthem and the
Benediction a reception was held for the
graduates and their friends. An enjoyable
house party was also hc1d by the graduating
class on June 8, and the members of the class
were entertained at dinner by the Alumnae
Association on June 5 when Miss Edith Ray-
side, C.B.E., R.R.C., was the guest speaker.
About one hundred and twenty-five guests
were present. The toast to "The King" was
proposed by the president, Miss E. Frances
Upton, who also delivered an address of wel-
come The toast to the dass was proposed by
Mrs. L. H. Fisher, with response by Miss
Gladys McLean. A toast to "Our Superinten-
dent" was proposed hv Mrs. Donald White.
The toast to "The Former Graduates" was
proposed by Miss Agnes Tennant of the
graduating dass, and was responded to by
Miss Marv Mathewson. The dass prophecy
wac: read hy Miss R. L Porter and the toast
to "The Western Hospital Members" was pro-
posed by Miss Blanche Herman, with response
by Miss Agnes Costigan. The toast to "The
Doctors" was proposed by Miss Flora E.
Strumm, the toast to "The Board of Manage-
ment" by Miss Christine M. Watling, and to
"Absent Friends" by Miss Esther Lewis. Seat-
ed at the head tables were Miss Edith Rayside
and Miss Jane Craig, honorary members of
the Alumnae Association; Miss M. K. Holt,
Principal of the School; Miss Nora Tedford
and Miss F. E. Strumm, honorary presidents
of the Alumnae Association; Miss Henrietta
Dunlop, honorary treasurer of the mutual
benefit association, and the president, Miss E.
Frances Upton.
MONTREAL: The October meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the School of Nursing
of the Montreal General Hospital will take the
form of a symposium on the Silver Jubilee
Convention of the C.N.A. Discussion will be
led by members who were in attendance: Pri-
vate Duty Nursing, Miss Lottie Urquhart;
Nursing Education, Miss Martha Batson; Pub-
lic Health Nursing. Miss Mary Mathewson;
Nightingale Memorial, Miss Mabel K. Holt:
summary of resolutions and general impres-
c:ions, Miss E. Frances Upton.
MONTREAL: Miss Christina Murray, B.A.
(R.v.H., 1924). has been awarded the Night-
ingale Memorial Scholarship for 1934-35 and
will commence her studies at Bedford College.
London, England, immediatc1y. Miss Dorothy
Donnelly, B.A. (R.V.H., 1928), has been
awarded the Flora Madeline Shaw Memorial
Scholarship for 1934-135, and will take the
course in public health at the School for
Graduate Nurses, McGill University. Miss
Nora Nagle, M.A. (R.V.H., 1916), has been
appointed supervisor of the teaching depart-
ment of the Training School for Nurses. Royal
Victoria Hospital.
MARRIED: On July 27,1934, Miss Jean E.
Stewart (R.V.H., 1928), to Mr. Clayton
Elderkin.
SASKA TCHEW AN
SASKATOON: MARRIED: In July, 1934. Miss
lna Douglas (S.C.H., 1926), to Mr. E. H.
Youngstrom, of Greenan.
MARRIED: On June 21, 1934, Miss Winni-
fred Emma Guy (S.C.H., 1931). to Mr. Wil-
fred James Irvine, of Saskatoon.
MARRIED: On July 11, 1934, Miss Mary
Amanda Ruthven (S.C.H., 1930), to Mr.
Joseph William Pooke, of Edmonton.
VOL. XXX. No. C)
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
TORONTO: One hundred and ninety,eight
members of the Overseas Nursing Sisters As'
sociation of Canada attended the Biennial
Meeting immediately following a luncheon in
the roof garden of the Royal York Hotel,
Toronto, on June 28. With Miss Edith Ray.
side, president of the Association, at the head
table were members of the National Executive
and representatives from all units excepting
Regina and Victoria. A telegram was read
from Matron.in.Chief MacDonald expressing
regret that, as she had sailed for England the
day before, she was unable to be present. In
her report, the president mentioned the names
of members of the Association who had been
honoured by His Majesty the King and re.
ferred in her humorous way to her own share
in such recognition of service. Miss Harriet
Mieklejohn presented the report of the secre'
tary. There was no election of officers pos,
!':ible as the province in which the meeting of
the C.N.A. for 1936 will be held had not then
heen announced As it is the policy of the
Association to elect a majority of its officers
from the unit most adjacent to the ciry chosen.
it was left to the retiring executive to appoint
the group to serve until 1936.
KINGSTON: The members of the Kingston
Unit of the a.N.S.A. met in Napanee on Julv
6. A dinner was arranged at which N.S.
Marguerite Patterson was the guest of honour.
Miss Patterson has been at her home in Mos,
cow, Ont., for the past two years and ha!':
been a very active member of the local Unit.
She is returning to Mexico to resume her hos,
pital work there.
WINNIPEG: A brief memorial service, for
Nursing Sisters who gave their lives in the
Great War was held on June 26. the anni,
versary of the sinking of the Llandovery
Castle. Chaplain Major Carruthers officiated,
The Central Registry of
Graduate Nurses, Toronto
Furnish Nurses at any hour
DAY OR NIGHT
Telephone Kingsdale 2136
Physicians' and Surgeons' Bldg.,
86 Bloor Stleet, West.
TORONTO
HELEN CARRUTHERS Reg. N.
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and the service was attended by the executIve
members of the Nursing Sisters Club and a
wreath was placed by the president, Nursing
Sister Margaret Meehan.
TOR01"TO: During the Biennial Meeting of
the Canadian Nurses Association, Sir Joseph
Flavelle very kindly entertained, through the
Toronto Unit, all Nursing Sisters attending
the conference. HIS beautiful residence, Hol.
wood, made an ideal setting for such an occa'
sion. Sir Joseph received, with the president
of the Toronto Unit, at the entrance to the
lovely garden, and a further welcome was
e"\.tended by his three daughters, Mrs. Barrett,
Mrs. McEachren and Mrs. Ellsworth Flavelle.
Tea was served from a marquee on the lawn.
More than three hundred Nursing Sisters from
..11 parts of Canada met on this happy occa'
sion and, for a busy hour or two, recalled
many memories of the months spent in France,
Salonika, Egypt and England, from 1914 to
1918. Sir Joseph had very thoughtfully ar'
ranged with the University of Toronto to
have the carillon in the Soldiers' Memorial
Tower of Hart House play during the tea
hour and the soft music of those famous bells
hrought a real and personal message to every
Sister present. Miss Macdonald's absence was
greatly regretted. but everyone was delighted
to see Miss Rayside. The guests of honour
were the officers of the Canadian Nurses As'
sociation. Miss E. MacGregor Rome, repre.
senting the International Council of Nurses
and the College of Nursing, London: Miss
Cochrane from the National Council of
Nurses of Great Britain; Miss Bridges of the
Nightingale SchooL St. Thomas' Hospital,
London: Mrs. C. Bedford Fenwick, London.
and Miss S. Francis, president of the Ameri.
can Nurses Association. Several former officers
of the C.A.M.C. and Chaplains were alc:o
present.
MONTREAL GRADUATE NURSES'
ASSOCIATION REGISTER
Nurses Called Day or Night
Telephone PLateau 7841
KATHLEEN BLISS, Reg. N..
Registrar,
1230 Bishop St., MONTREAL, P.Q.
Club House Phone PL. 300(t
44-
A FIRST AID DRESSING
In the management of the ordinary acci-
dent and wound cases local treatment gene-
rally requires a surgical dressing which, also,
is an efficient antiseptic. To be an ideal anti-
septic, however, it must be one which, while
inhibiting the bacteria in vivo, will not de-
stroy the tissues and break down their natural
resistance. It must be one which will nounsh,
support and promote the cells in their reha-
bilitating process while exercising their anti-
septic powers.
There are, of course, countless antiseptics
and surgical dressings for the practitioner to
select from, but as an application, fulfilling
the requirements of an ideal antiseptic sur-
gical dressing, few preparations are better
adapted for the purpose than is Antiphlogis-
tine. A glance at its formula-45% c.p.
glycerine, boric acid, a minute quantity of
salicylic acid, iodine, oils of peppermint, gaul-
theria and eucalyptus, blended in a base of
the finest dehydrated silicate of aluminium-
will easily explain the reason for its efficacy
in the treatment of injuries and accidents.
When applied direct to a punctured, con-
tused, Or incised wound, Antiphlogistine les-
sens the chances of infection. In suppurative
wounds it aids in diminishing the amount of
wound exudate. A spreading lymphangitis
may be inhibited or diminished through it
use. In cases of dislocations, sprains and
synovitis it helps to relieve inflammation,
swelling and pain. In burns it should be
applied cold, when it favors healing, promotes
growth of epithelium with minimum of scar
tissue. It is not a dressing that causes pain
on application and removal, nor is there the
least danger of its bleaching or macerating
the skin. Soothing, decongesting and healing,
it lends protection to a wound
. . . OFF. . . DUTY.
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phrase . . . all too frequently addressed to us supposedly as a compliment
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amusmg. . Notice to printer: Please fill up the remaining space with dots
it may be safer . Thank you
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Official
Directory
International Council of !';urses:
ccretar\'.
Iiss Anna Sch\\'arz('nherg. 14, Quai Gustav Ador. Ceneya, S\\ itzerland
CA
ADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Officers
President. . . . . . . .. " . . 1\liss R. I\I Simpson, Parliament Ru;ldings. Regina. Sask.
First Vice-President... . .l\Iiss G. 1\1. Fairley, General Hospital. \ ancouver, R.C.
Second Vice-President . . . Miss M. L l\Ioag, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal, P.Q.
Honorary Secretary.. . Miss EJsi(' Wilson, 668 Bannatyne Aye., Winnjpe
, :\1an.
Honorary Treasurer.. .l\1iss 1\1. Murdoch, Gem'ral Hospital, Saint John, :\".B'
COUNCILLORS Ar>òD OTHER MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Numn-als preceding names indicate office held, "Ü: (I) President, Pr011Ï7Icial Nurses Association; (2) Chairman,
Nursing Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section; (4) Chairman, PrÙJale Duty Secticm.
Alberta: (I) Miss F. Munroe, Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2) :\-liss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal, Calgary; (3) Miss B. .-\. Emerson, 604 Civic
Rlock. Edmonton; (4) :\IiS8 J. ('low, 11138-82nd
A ve., Edmonton.
IIritish Columbia: (I) Miss :\-1. F. Gray, Dept. of
ursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
(2) MiBB L. Mitchell. Royal Jubilee Hospital. Vic-
toria; (3) Miss M. Duffield, 175 Broad\\ ay East,
\'ancouver; (4) Miss M. Mirfield. Beachcroft Nursing
Home, Cook St., Victoria.
Manitoba: (I) :\Iis8 :\Iildn.d Heid. :\"ur,es Hp"idcm'e.
\\ mnipcg Gelwral Ho
pital, \\ innippg; (2) :\Ii -
G.
fhompson, :\li
l'ri!'Ordia Hospital, \\ innirpl!:; (:!)
.\Ii"" E. .\lcKf'lwy, 1103 .\IPdiC'a] .-\rts Buildinl!:,
\\ innipeg; (-I) :\Ii.." K. .\Ir'\'allum, 1"1 Enfield
CreSl"Pllt, :\"or\\ood.
!\ew Bruns"lck: (I) MiBB A. J. Mac
laster, Moncton
Hospital, :\loncton; (2) Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) Miss Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saint John; (4) Miss Mabel Mc-
.\1 ullen, St. Stephen.
'\ova S::otia: (I) :\Ii.
Ll'nta U. Hall, \ ir.toriall ()rd,'r
of :\"ur'e
, Halifax; (2) :\li"R II. .Jonc'a
, \'iC'toria
(3pneral lIo"pital, lIalifax; (3) .\Iis
.\1. O. Gray.
:\"e\\ Gla8g0\\; (-t) .\li
" C :\Iad ean, 9i :'outh
Kline
t. Halifax.
Ontario: (I) :\Ii
:, .\Iajorie J
uck, :\"orfolk Ho,-,pital.
:'imcot>; (2)
Ii!'s
. :\1. Jamie
on, R.n. 1. Brantford,
(:n .\In. .-\gnes Haygarth, 19 Dromore Crescent
Wp
tdale, Hamilton; (-I) l\1i8
iJ. L. Chureh, 12
Stratheona Ave., Otta\\a.
I>rince Edward Island: (I) .\Iiss Anna :\Iair, P.E.I
lIo
pital, Charlotteto\\n; (2) :\Ii8
F. Laven, Prifil'('
\'0. Ho. pital, SUlumenide; (
) :\Ii
Dorothy :\11'-
Kpnna, Summer'ide; (4) :\Iiss :\1. Gamble, .il
.\mbro
p St. Charlotteto\\n.
Quebec: (I) l\IiBB C. V. Barrett, Royal Victoria :\Iater-
nity Hospital, Montreal; (2) l\IiBB Martha Batson.
:\Iontreal General Hospital, Montreal; (3) Mil'
Christine Do
linp;, 1246 Bishop Street. Montreal;
(4) Miss C.l\I. Watling, 1230 Bishop Street, Montreal.
Saskatche
an: (I) l\lif's Edith Ama!', City Jlo
pital.
a!'katoon; (2) :\Ii
s Annie I a\\ rie, Genpral Hospitai.
Hegina; (3)
In'. F. :\1. FePnY, Dept. of Publi.'
Health, Parliament B1dgs.. Rpgina; (4) l\1if s :\1. H.
\'hi
holm, 805 ith Ave. :\"., Sa!'katoon.
CIIAIRME)\; NATIOr>òAL SECTIO
S
:'10 l:HSI!IIG EDUCATION: .\Ii8
l\Iarion Lindeburp;h, ::::ehool
for Graduate
ur8P8, l\lcGiIl l'nivenity, :\Iontrpal;
Pm LlC HE\LTn: :\Ii
!' A. E. "elll;', I>ept. of Health,
I el!:i.lative Bldgs., \\ innipeg; PRIVATE Dun: :\Ii>s
.\1. H. Chisholm, f;U;; 7th Ave. N., Saskatoon.
Executive Secretary:
liss Jean S, \Vilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St"
\lontreal, P.O.
OFFICERS OF SECTIOKS OF CANADIA
NURSES AsSOCIATIOK
Nt RSI)\;C EDl CATIOI\" SECTIO:-.i
('HAIR'HN: :\Iiss .\Iadon Lindeburp:h, SC'hool for Grad-
uate Xur
es, .\lcGiIl Univpr
ity, .\Iontreal; \'ICE-
CHAIR\lAN: .\li8S Con!'tance Brp\\",t"r, General Hos-
pital, Hamilton; SFCRET\RV:
Iis I Sora 1\ul!:le, 2iO
f'ooper Street, Otta\\a; TRt.\SlIU.R: \li"
.\1. BlanC'h('
\ndcrson, Otta\\a CiviC' lIo
pital, Otta\\a.
('OUNCILLOR8- \Ibcrta: :\Ii
" .J. Connal, (;('Ileral
Hospital, Calgary. British Columhla: l\lis!' L.
.\lit,.hpIl. Hoyal .Iubilee Ho
pital, \ ictoria !\1anl-
roha: .\lisR (ì. Thomp""n, 1\li",pri('ordia IIOf pital
Willnipel!:. Nl'W nruns
kk: :-:i
t"r ('orinllP K('rr,
Hotel I>ipu, Ca"'pbdItoll. '\OV"d Scotia: .\Ii..
II
.Jom'as, \ÏC'toria (;"llI'ralll"spital, Halifax Ontario:
'Iiss
.:\1. .Jan,i"Ron, R.R.I. Hrantford Prinn'
FlI
ard Island: .\Ii
F. 1 aVl'n, I'rinC'e \'0. Ho"'pital,
SUlllrnpr"ide. Quebec: .\Iis!' :\Iartha Batf'on, .\Iont-
rpal Gen('ral Ho..pital, .\Iontrpal. Saskatche
an:
\Iiss .\nllie J a\\rip, Gplleral HII
pital, H"l!:ina.
I'RI\ :\1'10" 1)( 1'Y SFCTIO'\
('H \IR\I \N: :\Ii .. .\1. H. ('hi"llOlrn. 'Oi ith \\(' :'10.,
Sa..katnon; \ let-CH \ lit \I \s: :\li ,.. C. \1. \\ atIing.
I:!.m Hi-hllp Strppt, \J..ntrpal: :'H'HtT\R\-THE\S-
1 IU:R: 'Ii-s lIelNI \\ ill
, :!' (() nllhin
nn
trept,
HI'!!:ina.
('OUXCILI.fllI-< .\lIwn
': \11 .I. (111\\, III !1\-
2nn
\ve, I'drnolllon Brill!.h Columhia: \Ii
\J.
\Iirfield, Bt-a,'h"roft "\"lIr' illJ( 11"111,', \ i.,toriR .\Ianl-
'il P 11:!\1HI R, I Q H
toba: :\Ii
K. .\1C'CallullI, ISI Enfield Crps., :\"or-
\\ood. r>òew Hruns
lck: Mi!'!' Mabel :\lc:\lullE'n,
t.
tephpn.
ova Scotia: :\Iiss ('. .\Iad ean, !I;
South Kline
t., Halifax. Ontario: .\IÜ8 J. I..
(,h, urr.h I
O Stratheona Av('.. Otta\\a. I>rince Fd-
ward Island: :\li!'8 :\1. Gamble,.')1 \lIIbro
p !-'t.,
Charlotteto\\n. Qu('bec: :\Ii
C. .\1. Watlinp:. I
:m
Bishop Strppt, \Iontrpal. Saskatche
an: :\Ii
:\1.
H. Chi
holm.
O"i 7th Ave. S., !-'1I.>katoon. \'os-
"ESER OF I'UBLlC\TIONS: .\li,s.\1 H. Chi holm,
"U:; 7th -\ ve. :\"., Sa
katoon.
PLHLlC HEALTH SECTI01\'
('IHIR'HN: .\Iif'!:! A. F. \\PlI". Dc-pt. of IIpalth. I,"p;i -
lative Bldg
, Winnipc-p:; \"ICE-Cn -\IR\lAN; :\lis8 :\1.
h.c-rr, {) Ifi 20th Av('. \\., \"anC'ouvpr;
ECRET\R\-
THt:\SJ RER: \Ii
!' l
abPl .\Iclliarmid, 31i3 J ang"id,'
t., Winnip"p;.
('ouNeILLoR
-\lberta: .\Ii
s B. \. Fmermn, 1)04
('Ï\ iC' HloC'k. I'nmonton. British Columbia: :\Ii
B
\1 DuffiPld. Ii,,) Broad\\ay Fast, \'aneouvf>r.
\lanltoha: :\Ii..
E. :\lr.K,.lvey, 1iI);i \Ipdi('al 'rtB
Bing., \\ innip..p:.
e" ßruns
kk: \Ii
f' ,\da
Burns, II,-alth CNltrp, :'aint John I\"o\a Scotia:
\Ii,,
1\1. n. Gray, 'l;P\\ Gla'g(J\\. Ontario: :\Ir,...
\I!:n('", lIaY!!:IIrth, 19 Drnmorp ('rp,,('pnt. \\ p
tdalp.
lIamilton. Prince F d"anJ Island: .\Iis!' 1I0rothy
\1 (' hpnna, :'unlllll'n inp. Qut.'hec: :\Ii!'!' Chri, til,p
"0\\ lill!!:. I:! 'Ii Bi
hop
t , \Iolltrpal. Saskat
'h('-
"all: \Jr
. F. :\1. F,..'n), lI..pt of Hl'nlth, I'nrlin
II 11'11 t Bld!!:,,_. Hpl!:ina.
449
450
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of Registered Nurses
Pre!>ident,
Iiss .F.
Iunroe, Uoyal Ale'\:andra Ho,,-
pital, Edmonton; First \Ïce-Presidt'nt, :\Iiss J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Second Vi('e-President,
:\Iiss E.
IcPhedran, Central Alberta Sanatorium,
Calgary; Secretary- Treasurer-Registrar, l\Irf'. A. E.
\'ango, 11107-82nd Ave., Edmonton; Chairman:
.Vursing Education Section, :\Iis!< J. Connal, General
Hospital, Calgary; Public Health Section,
Ji:-:>, :H. :\.
Emermn, f;0-l Civic Blc)('k, Fdmonton; Pri1'ute Duty
.....ection, :\liss J. C'. Clow, 1113S-S2nd Ave., Fdmonton
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
President, M. F. Gray, 1466 W.14thAve., Vancouver;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, 1\1. I{err, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Conveners of Committees: Nursi'1lll
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; Public Health, l\L Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
\. ancouver; Private Duty, Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft
r\ursing Home, Cook St., Victoria; Councillors, M. P.
C'ampbell, M. Dutton, L. :\Jc.-\llister, K. Sanderson.
MANITOBA
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses
President, l\Iiss l\I. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss S. Wright, Metropolitan
Life, Winnipeg; Second Vice-President, l\1iBB C. Mc-
Leod, Brandon General Hospital; Third Vice-President,
::;ister IÜause, St. Boniface Hospital; Members of
Board: Miss 1\1. Lang, Miss E. Carruthers, Sister Mary,
l\IiSB K. W. Ellis, MiSB K. I\1cLearn, Miss 1\1. Meehan,
MiBB E. Johnson, Sister St. Albert; Conveners of Sec-
tions: Public Health, Miss E. McKelvey; Prirate Duty,
:\Jiss K. :\J('Callum; .Vursing Education, .\Iiss G.
Thompson, :\Ii-eric'ordia Ho:;pital, \\ïnnipeg. Conve-
ners ojCommi/lees: Direetory, :\Iiss J. Kerr, 74 Cobourg
\ ve.; Social, :\Jiss S. Polle"fen, 9.")4 Palmerston Ave.;
i('k \Ïsiting, .\Jj,,1" L. Gray, \Ïctorian Ordt'r of Xur:-:es;
:\Jember:-:hip, .\IiH' E. I rom ide, "innipeg Gt'neral Hm.-
pital; Librarian, i\1i:-:r" W. Grice and ;\li"s A. Starr, 75
Wol"eley -\ve.; Pres" and Publi('ation, :\Jiss E. Banks,
li-l Cross St.; Reþresentatit'es: LoC'al Council of ". omen,
\Irs. Willard Hill and .\Jrl". Enunett Dwyer; Central
Council of Social Agenpies, :\Jiss F. Robertmn; \ ic-
torian Order of :'IJ"ur-es, .\Ii,..s E. .\. RUHell; Junior Red
Cross,
Jiss E. Parker; Red Crol"l" Enrolment, ..\JfE'. J.
F. :\Jorrison; Executive Secretary and Registrar, :\Ir!<.
tella Gordon I{t'rr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Association of Registered Nurses
President, Miss A. J. MacMaster, Moncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First Vice-President, Miss Margaret
Murdoch; Second Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
Kay; Honorary Secretary, Rev. Sister Kenny; Council
Members: Miss Florence Coleman, MiBB H. S. Dyke-
man, Mrs. A. G. \V oodcock, Miss Elsie M. Tulloch;
Conveners: Public Health Section. Miss Ada A. Burns;
Private Duty Section, Miss Mabel McMullin; Nursi'1lll
Education Section. Sister Kerr; Committee Conveners:
The Canadian Nurse, MiBB Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-Laws, Miss S. E. Brophy; Secretary-
Treasurer-Rej!:istrar, Miss Maude E. Retallick, 262
Charlotte St. West, Saint John, N.B.
NOVA SCOTIA
Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia
President, .\Iiss Lenta Hall, Vietorian Order of
urses, Halifax; Firl"t \Ïee-Pre!>ident, :\Jiss Sarah
.\r('hard, \Ïctoria General Hospital, Halifa,,; St'('ond
\Ïce-President, .\lis:-, Anna lIillC'oat, Amherst; Third
\'ice-Pre"ident, Sister -\nna Seton, Halifa" Infirmary;
He('()rdinl!: SeC'retary, .\Jrf'. 1>. .J. (;illis, 9 Welsford St.,
Halifax; Treasurer and H('gj
trar, :\Jis
:\lurif'l (;raham,
n:
J>pnnis Hldg., Halifa".
ONTARIO
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1925)
President, Miss Marjorie Buck, Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe; First Yi ce-Presi dent, MiBB Dorothy
Percy, Room 321 Jacksoll Bldg., Ottawa; Second \ iCE-
President, Miss Constance Brewster, General Hospital,
Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Matilda E. Fitz-
gerald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman, Nurse Educa-
tion Section, Miss S. Margaret Jamieson, Peel Memorial
Hospital, Brampton; Chairman, Private Duty Sectio'1l,
.\Iiss J. L. Chun.h, 120 Strathcona Ave., Ottawa;
C'hairmalJ, Public Health See/ion, 1\Ir s. -\gnes Hay-
garth, I!J Dromflre Crt','cent, \\ef'tdale, Hamilton:
District No.1: Chairman, Miss Mildred Walker, Insti-
tute of Public Health, London; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss Mildred Chambers, Institute of Public Health,
London; Districts 2 and S: Chairman, Miss A. E. Binge-
man, Freeport Sanatorium, Kitchener; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mil;1s Edith Jones, 253 Gren\\ich St., BraIlt-
ford; District No.4: Chairman, MiSB Constance Brew-
ster, General Hospital, Hamilton; Secretary-TreasurEr,
Mrs. Eva Barlow, 211 Stinson St., Hamilton; Distn'ct
No.5: Chairman, Miss Dorothy Mickleborough, Pro-
vincial Dept. of Health, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Isabelle Park, 1348 Y ol1j!:e
St., Toronto; District No.6: Chairman, Miss Helen M.
Allderson, 709 \Vater St., Peterborough; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Dorothy 1\JacDrien, Nicholls Hospital,
Peterboroul!:h; District No.7: Chairman, Miss Louise
D. Acton, General Hospital, I\:inl!ston; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Olivia Wilson, General Hospital,
Kingston; District No.8: Chairman, MiSB M. Blanche
Anderson, Otta\\a Civic Hospital, Ottawa; Secretary-
Miss A. G. Tanner, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa;
Treasurer, MiSB Mary Acland, Strathcolla Hospital,
Ottawa; District No.9: Chairman, MiBB Katherine
MacKenzie, 155 Second Ave. W., North Bay; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Robena Buchanan, 197 First Ave. E.,
North Bay; District No. 10: Chairman, Miss Vera
Lovelace, 3 Wiley Rd., Port Arthur; Secretary-Treas-
urer, Miss Ethel Stewardson, McKellar General
Hospital, Fort William.
District No. 8 Re
lstered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, Miss M. B. Anderson; Vice-Chairman,
Miss J. L. Church; Secretary, MiBB A. G. Tanner,
Ottawa Civic Hospital; Treasurer, MiBB M. E. Acland;
Councillors, Misses G. Clarke, A. Ebbs, M. Graham,
E. C. McIlraith, C. C. Murray, M. Slinn; Conveners
of Committees: Membership, Miss G. Clarke; Publica-
tions, Miss E. C. l\1cIlraith; Nursing Education, Miss
C. C. Murray; Private Duty, Miss J. L. Church; Public
Health, Miss II. O'Meara.
District No.9 Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, Miss !{. MacKenzie; Vice-Chairman,
Mrs. J. l\.lcCausland; Secretary-Treasurt'r, l\'1iI"f' R.
Bu('hanan, 197 First Avenue E., North Bay; Coun-
('illors: Rev. Sister Felicitaf', Misses .r. Smith, F.
Docker, M. Carson, E. Trombley, A. Quinlan.
District No. 1fI Re
lstered Nurses Association
of Ontario
President, MiBB V. Lovelace, Vice-President, Miss M.
Hamilton; Secretary Treasurer, Miss E. Stewardson,
McKellar General Hospital, Fort William; Councillors:
MiBB Jane Hogarth, Miss M. 'Wallace, Miss C. Lemon,
Miss C. Chivers Wilson, Miss Flannigan, Miss Trent'
Hibditch.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Re
lstered Nurses
Association
Pre..ident, :\Iiss Anna .\Iair, P.E.!. Hospital.
Charlottt'to\\n; \ïee-Pre"idpnt, :\Ii"s ]\1. I\:ing, Char-
lottC'to\\ n Hospital; St'cretary, .\Jiss .\1. Call1pbell,
Grafton St.. Charlotteto\\n; Tr('asurer and Rt'gistrar,
:\Iiss Edna Grel'n. 2,'i7% Quet'n
t., Charlottetown:
Nursi'1lll Education, l\Ji,.,s F. La\'ers, Prim't' Co. Ho' pita!.
uIllIller,.,id..; Public lIealth, .\Jiss Dorothy .\IeKenna,
ulllnlC'rsidc: Private Duty, :\lis<; :\1. Gamble, .")] ,-\IlI-
brose St., CharJotfeto\\n; Heprt'sentativt' to The
Canadian Nurse. :\Iiss .\nna .\lair. P.LI Ho,",pitHI
C'ha.llottetown
QUEBEC
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
451
'\ssociatlon of Re
istered :'Iòurses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
Advisory Board: Misses l\Iary Samuel, l\Iabel F.
Hersey, C.
1. Watling, Rev.
Ière M. \'. Allaire, Rév.
::;oeur Ste. 1;!Ïdora; President, MiBB C. V. Barrett,
Royal Victoria Montreal :\Iaternity Hospital; 'ïce-
President (English), Miss M. L. Moag, Victorian Order
of Nurses, 1
46 Bishop St., Montreal; Vice-President
tFrench), Rév. Soeur Allard, Hôtel-Dieu de St. Joseph,
.\Iontreal; Hon. Secretary, :\Iiss Esther Beith, Child
Welfare AS8ociation, Forum Bldg., Montreal; Hon.
freasnrer,
Iiss M. E. Nash, Victorian Order of Nurses,
1246 Bishop St., Montreal. Other
Iembers: Miss
.\Iabel K. Holt, The Montreal General Hospital,
.\Iademoiselle Edna Lynch, Nursing Supervisor, Metro-
politan Life Insurance Co., :\Iontreal, Rév. Soeur St.
Jean de I'Eucharistie, Hôpital Notre Dame, Montreal,
.\liS8 Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate :'Ilurses,
.\lcGill University, .\Iontreal, Mademoiselle Alexina
\Iarchessault, Ecole d'Hygiène Social Appliquée,
Université de Montreal. Convener8 of Sections: Private
Duty, (EngUsh), Miss C. M. Watlinlt, 1230 Bishop St.,
\Iontreal; Private Duty (French), Mademoiselle Alice
Lepine, Hôpital Notre Dame. .\Iontreal; Nursing Edu-
cation (Enll;lish), Miss Martha Batson, The .\Iontreal
General Hospital, Montreal; Nursing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Augustine, Hôpital St. Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Health, ::\Iiss Christine
Dowling, Victorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.,
.\Iontreal; Board of Examiners, Miss Olga V. Lill)
(Convener), Royal Victoria .\Iontreal Maternity Hos-
pital,
\'IiBB .\larion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate
Nurse!!, McGill University, Montreal; :l\Iiss Katherine
.\Iac:'ll. MacLennan, Alexandra Hospital, .\Iontreal;
.\Ielle. Eclna Lynch, 4642 rue St. Denis St., Montreal;
.\Idle. l\Iarie Anysie Deland, Institut Bruchési, .\Iont-
réal; .\Ielle. A, :.\Iarchessault. 3256 a\ enue Lacombe,
.\Iontrcal; Executive Secretary, Rel!;istrar and Official
:O;chool Vi...itor. J\Iis.'i E. Frances Upton, Room 221
1396 St Catherinc Rt. W., .\Iontreal.
SASKATCHEWAN
Saskatchewan Re
lstered Nurses Association
(Incorporated
larch, 1917)
President, Miss Edith Amas, City Hospital, Saska-
toon; First Vice-President, MiBB Ruby .\1. Simpson,
Department of Public Health, Regina; Second \'ice-
President, Miss Helen B. Smith, General Hospital,
Regina; Councillors. l\IiBB Jean McDonald, 1122 Rae
St., Regina, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
Moose Jaw; Conveners of Standing Committees: Nursing
Fducalion, .\Iiss Annie T a\Hie, General HOfpital.
Hl'gina; Public I/ealth, .\In-. E. .\1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Public Health, Regina; Private Duty, .\liS8 !\1.
R. Chisholm, 805-7th -\ve. N., Saskatoon; Legislation,
.\liS8 R. 1\1. Simpson, Regina; Secretary-Treasurer and
Registrar, i\1iBB 'fargaret RoS8, 45 Angus ('rescent.
Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary '\ssoclatlon of Graduate Nurses
lion. Pre'iident, Dr. H. A. Gibson; President, Miss
P. Gilbert; First Vice-President, !\liBB K. Lynn; Second
\"ice-President, Miss F. Shaw; Recordinl!; and Actinp;
t 'orresponding Secretary, .\Irs. F. V. Kennedy, 1307
First St. W.; Treasurer, Miss M. \\-att.
Edmonton Association of Graduate :\urses
President, .\liBB Ida Johnson; First \ ice-President,
:\liss Turner; Second \'ice-President, .\Iiss O'Brien;
l-tecording and Correspondinjl; !'ecretary, .\Iiss \ïolet
Chapman, Royal Alexandra Huspital, Edmonton;
freasurer, .\.Iiss Gavin; Rel(istrar, .\IiS8 fo:pwule, 1113R
Whyte Ave., rdmonton.
\ledlclne lIat Graduate Nurses Association
President, .\Irs. J. Keohane; First Vice-President.
:\lrs. .\1. Tobin; Second \'ice-President, l\1iBB .\1. Gil-
christ; Secretary, ;\lis8 A. McLeod, 2 Diana Court;
freasurer, Mi!'B F. Smith; Committee Conveners:
\Iembership, .\1iS8 A. Allan; Flower, l\Irs. W. Fraser;
l'rimte Duty Section, J\lrs. Chas. Pickering; CorrespoJl-
dpnt, The Canadian Nurse,
fiss .\1. H!\P;erman.
BRITISH COLU\IBI.\
elson Graduate !'I;urses Association
lion. President, MiBB V. B. Fidt, Actin!!: Superinten-
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital; President
;\nBB K. Gordon; First Vice-President, !\IiBB .\1. .\fad-
den; Second Vice-President, MiBB S. Archihald; Secre-
tary-Treaeurer, MiBB Edna Fraser, Box 1105, Nell!on,
B.C.
Vancouver Graduate Nurses Association
President, Mrs. \Vestman, HOO Cassair St., \'ancouver.
First Vice-President, Miss Jane Johnstone, Ste\,('ston:
B.C.; Second Vice-Pre!\ident, :\Iiss E. Berry, St. Paul's
Hospital; Se('retary, Miss F. Walker, Vancouver Gen-
ral I1ospit..I; Trpa
llrpr, \Ii
T. \r('hih!\lrl, 536 \\. {'st
12th Ave.; Council,
lisses K. Sanderson, I\:ilburn, G.
M. Fairley, Wismer and 1\1. F. Gray. Finance, Miss
feulon, 13R5 West 11th Ave.; Directory. l\IiS8 K
.\fotherwell, 1947 West 10th -\ve.; Social. Miss A. J.
MacI eud, Vancouver General Hospital; Programme,
\Iiss B. Donaldson, St. Paul's Hospital: Sick \ïsitin!!:,
;\Iiss C. Cooker, \'ancoU\'er General Hospital; .\Iem-
bership, Mrs. Blankenbach, 1816 West 36th Ave.;
Local Council o
Worne?, .\liS8es Duffield and Gray;
Press, Mrs. E. Simms, \ ancouver General Hospital.
Victoria Craduate l\urses Association
Hon. Presidents. :\Iirss 1.. .\Iitchell, Sister Superiur
Lud?"ic; President. .\Ii:-s E. J. Herbert; First \"ice-
President, .\Iiss M. :\Iirfield;
econd \ïce-Presi-
dent, :l\Irs. hirkness; Secretary, .\Iiss I. lIelp;esen'
Treasurer, Miss \\ . Cooke; Rel!;ifltrar, .\I1BB E. Franks:
1035 Fairfield Road, \ïctoria; E"ecutive Committee.
.\Irs. E. B. Strachan, .\Iiss E.
lcDonald, .\li!18 ('
Kenny, :\fiRR E. Cameron, !\IisR D. Frampton.
\1 Al\i ITO ß:\
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association
lIon. Pre..ident, :\lirsrs I:. Dirties; Hon. \ïce-Prersidcnt
.\
rs. W. .1;1. Shillingla\\, Pre...id('nt,
li:<s FV8 l\Ic:\'ally;
Vice-Presidents,
lrs. L. Fletcher, 'Ii!'!> :\1. Parfons;
:-;pcretary, l\li"s Dorothy Lonjl;l{'y, !\I{'ntal lIo!'pital,
Brandon; Trea..urer, .\lr!'. 1\1. lonp:, Dominion Hank
Bldl!;., Brandon; Committee': Pr{'s!' , .\lis!' Helen :\Iorrri-
..on; SiC'k \ï..itinl/:, :\Irs. J. H. Fi>h{'r; \\'{'!far(', l\Iis!;
I:. :\1. I1igl!;{'n,.; So('ial and Prol!;ramme, .\Ir:<. E. Hanna;
Cook Book'!, :\Irs. \. ".ain..: Prit'ale Duly, :\Irs I.
Fl('tC'her, .\Ii,,!, I
ohf'1 hnox; H,'!!:i..trar, .\Iiss C. .\18f'-
leoo.
QCEßEC
Grad lIatc l\ urses '\ssoclatlon of the Eastern
Townships
Hon. President, l\lills \'. Beane; President, MiBB F.
Bean: \ ice-President, .\li88 G. D\\aine; ("orrellpondinl/:
:-:e
'retary, Mi!'s F. \\ardle\\orth; HeC'ordinl!;
eC'retar}',
MIBB Har\'ey; Treasurer, ;\liss .\larl!;!Lret Hobinl!-
Hppn'>f'ntati\'p to The Canadian .\'urse, 'Ii." ('
Hornby, Box :i21, :-;Iwrbrookl'; Hppn"entatin',
I'rit',II, Du/\ .....ulinn, \Ii>> I'. 'Iorri
.{'tt.,
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
SASKA TCHEW AN
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Miss L. C. Phillips; President, Miss
Christine Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First Vice-Pref!i-
dent, Miss G. Allison; Second Vice-President, Mrs. A.
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Reg!strar,
;\liBB Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day RegIstrar,
:\Iiss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar, Miss H. M.
Sutherland; Convener Griffintown Club, Miss G.
Colley. Regular Meeting, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, October and December.
:\-Ioose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
lion. President, Mrs. M. Young; President, Miss
R. Last; First Vice-President, Miss C. Kier; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. 'V. A'IetcaUe; SecriJtary-Treasurer,
;\'liBBJ.Moir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; ComenerB
of Committees: Nursin(J Education, Mrs. 1\1. Young,
Sr. Mary Raphael, Miss E. Jensen; Private Duty, ::\-liBB
E. Wallace, MiBB E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, MiBB
J. Casey; Public Health. Registrar, Miss C. Kier; Pro-
p;ramme, Miss G. Taylor; Sick Visiting, Miss L. Trench;
Social, Miss M. Armstrong; Constitution and By-Lay,s,
MiBB E. Lamond; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, MiBB M. Gall; PreBB Representative, Mrs. ,1.
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Call?,ary
President, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-President, MiBB
-\. Willison; Recording Secretary, MiBB E. Thom;
Corresponding Secretary, 1\'liBB P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, Miss S, Craig; Honorary Members, Rev. Soeur
:-'t. Jean de l'Eucharistie, MiBB 1\1. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
lion. President, :Miss F. Munroe; PreRident, Miss K.
Brighty; ViC'e-President. Mis8 I. Johnson; Second Vi('e-
President, Miss B. :\Iiller McManus; Serretary, Miss
L. Einarson; Corresponding Secretary, Miss G. Mc-
Diarmid' Treasurer, l\liss A. Oliver; Committee Con-
veners: Programme. Miss G. Allyn; Social, Miss V.
Kelly :\IcNeit; Sick Visiting, Miss J. Munro; MC'mber-
ship, Miss 1\1. Cullerne.
A.A. University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, !\1iss E. Fenwick; President, Miss
:\1. Reed; First Vice-President, Mi8s L. Gourlay;
econd Vice-President, MiBB B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss A. Revell; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
D. Duxbury, University Hospital; Treasurer, Mis!! M.
Rowles, University Hospital; Executive, Misses M.
Gordon, I. Ross, A. Baker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Hon. Pre8Ïdent, Mrs. .-\. E. Archer; Pre8ident, :\Irs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss F. E. Reid, lO09
20th Avenue, W.,
Calgary; Convener, Social Committee, Mrs. R. Shears.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancou"er
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President. Miss B.
Geddes; Vice-President, Miss R. McKernan; Secretary,
:\liBB F. Treavor, AS8istant Secretary, Miss V. Dyer;
freasurer, MiBB B. Muir; Executive, Misses M. Mc-
Donald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, R. C'hristie,
R. :\-IcGillivary, K. McDonald.
A.A., Vancouver General Hospital
Pre:;<ident, Miss M. Lunan; First Vice-President,
:\Irs. C. H. C. Bell; Second Vice-President, Mrs. K.
Craig; Secretary, Miss I. Collier; Corresponding S
cre-
tary, MiBB K. Heaney, Vancouver Gen
ral HospItal;
Committee Conveners: Programme, 1\fIss A. Croll.
Membership. Miss V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; Refreshments, Miss J. Hun
er; Press, Mrs. G. E.
Gillies' Treasurer and Bonds, MISS Geary, 3176 West
2nd A
'e.; Representative, V.G.N.A., Miss Rhodes.
Royal
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
Hon. President, :\Ii<;s L. Mitchell; President, !\Iiss
.J. Moore; First Vice-Presi4ent, Mrs. Yorke; Second
Vice-President, Miss M. Mlrfield; Secretary, 1\11':;<. A.
Dowell, 30 Howe S
.; Assistant Secretary! Miss C. 1\-1.
Co't; Treasurer, l\b
s J. .Stewart; Ent
rtamment Com-
mittee, 1\lrs. Rusf'elI; SIck Nurse, l\flss E. Newman.
MANITOBA
A.A., Children's Hospital, Winnlpel?,
Hon. President, MiS8 M. B. Allan; Prel!ident, MiBB
Catherine Day; First Vice-President, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss W. M. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, :\Jis8 1\1. D. Hughes; Sick Visiting,
Miss Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, Mrs. Geo. Wilson
A.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
lion. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, Miss K
:\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Cr., Nory,ood; First Vice-
President, Miss H. Stephen, 15 Ruth Apts., Maryland
St., Winnipeg; Second Yice-President, Miss M. Madill,
St. BOlliface Hospital; Secretary, Miss J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hospital, Winnipeg; Treasurer, Miss E.
Shirley, 14 King George Ct., Winnipeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (Convener), 64 Cross St.,
Winnipeg, Miss J. Williamson, Miss A. Nelson; Sick
Visiting Committee, Miss T. Grenville (Convener), 211
Hill St., Norwood; MiS8 K. Rowan, Miss J. Greig;
Pres8 Representative, MiBB B. Altman, 420 College
Ave., 'Vinnipeg; Representatives to Local Council of
Women, Miss B. Altman (Convener), Miss B. Chandler,
Miss M. Spooner.
A.A., Wlnnlpe
General Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. A. W. Moody, 97 Ash St.;
PIPsident, Miss E. Parker, Ste. 25, Carlyle Apts., 580
Hroady,ay; First Vice-President, J\Jrs. C. V. Combes,
fi30 Dominion St.; Se('ond Vice-President, Miss J. Mc-
Donald, Deer Lodge Hospital; Third Vice-President,
:\lrs. J. S. 'Yard, 197 Beaverbrook St.; Recording
Secrptary, l\IissA. Effier,Ste. 12% DianaCrt.;Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss 1\1. Graham, Winnipeg
General Hospital; Trpasurer, 1\liss 1\1. Dunmn, \\ïn-
nipeg General Hospital; Representative on Trailling
('hool Committee: ;\lis
K. 'lc'Learn, Shriner'l'o
Hospital; J\lcmbenship, Mi",s I. Ramsay, Central
Tuber('ulosis Clinic; Sick Visiting, Miss J. Morgan,
102 Rose St.; Entertainment, Mrs. C. l\IcMillan,
Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Fditor of Journal, Miss F.
:\lcRae, 44 Evanson St.; Assil"tant Editor, 1\liss .J.
:\Ioody, ï6 Walnut St.; Business Manager, Miss E.
Timlick, Winnipeg General Hospital; Special Com-
mittee, Miss P. Brownell, 215 Chestnut St.; Alumnac
Club, Miss F. Tretiak, Broad Yalley, Man.; Archivist,
:\Iiss S. ,r. Pollexfen, !J54 Palmerston Avp.
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOHN
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. J. Mitchell; President, 1\Irs
G. L. Dunlop; First \ïce-President, Miss Ethel Hen-
derson; Second \'ice-President, :\Irs. F. McKelvey;
Secretary, Mrs. J. Edgar Beyea, 121 Union St.; Trea-
surer, Miss Kate Holt; Executive Committee, Miss
Marl1;aret Murdoch, Miss R. Reid, Mrs. J. H. Vaughan.
ST. STEPHEN
A.A., Chipman Memorial Hospital, St. Stephen
President, :\lisE-l\Iyrtle Dunbar: Fint Vice-Pre8ident,
:\11'8. H. \\. Short; Second nce-Prebident, l\1i
s R08a
.\Iadsen; :-;f'cretary, :\Iis!' Estella Gibbon, St. Stpphen:
Trea
urer, :\Irs. C'edriC' H. Dinsmore; Board of DireC'-
tors: :\Ii",ses J. Sindair, 1. Hart. J. Ravi:" l\lrs. R.
Bartlett; Commitlee COIl1'eners: Programme, .\Irs n.
Mallory, :\Iisses E. Gibbun, E. Giles, :\Irs. H. Short;
Refreshment, Misses E. Spinncy, D. Devlin, :\11'8. R.
Bartlett; Nominating, :\Iisse!o F. Cunningham, I Hart.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
\\OOUSTOCK
A.A., L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital, \\oodstock
Hon. President, Miss Elsie Tulloch; President. Mrs
Harry Dunbar; Vice-President, Miss Gladys Hayward;
Secretary-Treasurer, l\-1iBB Pauline Palmer; Board of
Directors: MiBB G. Tams,
Irs. B. Sutton, Mrs. Fulton,
:\IiBB 1\1. Samphier, l\IiBB N. Veness; Committee Con-
reners: Programme, Mrs. P. Caldwell. MiBB E. Kerr,
:\liss E. Dunbar, Miss B. Bellis; Sick Visiting, MiBB H.
Cummings, ì\IiBB D. Peabody, Miss Merspreau;
Editor, Miss !\f.
amphier.
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
lIun. President, .l\IiBB Florence McIndoo; President,
:\Iiss Reta Fitzgerald; \Ïce-President, :\-Irs. J. Andrews;
ecretary, Mil!s L. Smith; Treasurer, MiBB Marion
:\IacFarlane; Flower Committee, MiBB Betty McEwan;
Representative to The Canadian NUTse. Mise H.
fhompson.
BRAl'.TFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
lIon. President, MiBB E. M. McKee; President, :\IiB8
K. Charnley; Vice-President, Miss G. Turnbull;
Secretary, MiBB F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
furd; ABBistant-Secretary, MiB8 V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
:\Iiss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
:\Irs. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
:\liss W. Laird, MiBB M. l\I. Nichol; Gift Committee,
MiBB J. Edmondson, Mrs. E. Claridge; The Canadian
NUT8e and Prel!8 Representative, MiBB H. Diamond;
Chairman. Private Duty Council, MiBB P. Cole;
Representative to Local Council of Women, Miss R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
lIon. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President,
:\lrs. H. B. White; First Vice-President, MiBB M.
Arnold; Second Vice-President, Mies J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
:\IiBB B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Yandul!en, 65 Church St.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss V.
J\:endrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
lIon. President, MiBB P. Campbell; President. l\Iise
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crack!e; Second
Vice-President, l\1iBB F. Houston; Recording Secretary,
:\'IiBB E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, Miss R. Will-
more; AB8t. Secretary, Mise M. Stace:y; Treasurer,
:\'1iss R. Haley; PreBl! Correspondent, MIf'S R. Baker;
rommittee ConlJeners: Refreshment, Miss M. \Vickett;
Buying, MiBBes J. Finney, M. Mc
aujl:hton and Mrs.
lC F. Mitchell; Floral, Miss E. Orr; Social, Mrs. T.
Burke; Councillors, Misses V. Dyer, I.. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
\Iiss P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lion. President, "Iother :\Iary; Hon. Vice-President,
Sister M. Consolata; President, :\liBB Ruth Winter;
\Ice-President, MiBB M. Kearns; Secretary-Treasurer.
:\Iiss J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; Executives, l\liBBes
II. Gray, I. Poissant, Z. Martin, !\Irs. R. Hodgin; Rep-
resentative District No.1, R.N.A.O., Mise JeMie Roes;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, !\.Ii!ls Y L
Chauvin.
CORNW ALL
A.A., Cornwall General lIospltal
lion. President, Mrs. I. P. "IaC'lntosh; Pre:-idf'nt,
\Iiss Verna Meldrum; First 'ict'-President, :\Iis:-
Kathleen Burke; Second \Ire-President, !\Ii
s Elva
Fmpey; Secretary-Treasurt'r, l\Jj"s C. Droppo, Corn-
nail Generalllo!'pital; Repre!'entative to The Canadia"
.vuTse, :\Ii"s II. C. Wilson, Corn\\all General Ho..pital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
11011. President, MiBB A. Cleaver; President. :\IiBB
. :\Iitchell; Secretary, MiBB L. MacNair, 91 Victoria
\ve.; o\BBistant Secretary, MiBB T. Rainey: Treasurer,
:\Iiss -\. MacDonald: Flower Convener. :\fiBB Ruther-
rord; Uepresentative to The Canadian Nurse anrl Prell"
neprf'
ent:!.ti, e. :\Iis!' :\1. Vandyke.
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GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
lIon. President, :\Ii"s
. A. Campbell, Superinten.
dent, Guelph General Hospital; President, Miss L.
Ferguson; Fint "ice-President, l\Ii!'s K. Cleghorn;
Second Vice-Pre!>ident, :\Ii
s :\1. "ood; Se('retary,
l\Ii-s
. Kenney, Guelph General Hospital; Treasurer,
l\Ii,,!' J. Watson; ConlJeners of Committees: Social, :\Irs.
L. Jack!'on; Programme,
Iiss E. Eby; Flower, :\Iis,>
l. Wil!'on; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
:\Ii
!' L.
inclair.
HAMILTOl\
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 E. C. Rayside; President, Mrs.
R. Hess; Vice-President, MiBB M. Bain; Recordin
Secretary, MiBB M. Matheson; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss H. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
Trea.'Iurer, Miss J. Jackson. 326 Main ".; Assistant
Treasurer, MiBB G. Hodgson; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Benefit Aseociation, MiBB O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; CommiUee Conveners: Executive. Miss H.
Aitken; Flower, MiBB A. Squires; Programme, !\fiss
M. Gosnell; Registry, l\fiBB N. Thompson; Budll;et,
Mrs. M. Barlow; Representative to The Canadian
^'uTse, MiBB A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother Martina; President, MiBB
Eva Moran; Vice-President, MiBB F. Nicholson; Secre-
tary, MiBB Mabel MacIntosh, 168 Ray St.; Treasurer,
MiBB M. l\elly; Representative to The Canadian NUTse,
MiBB B. McKenna, 277 Herkimer St.; Reprellentative
R.N.A.O.. Miss J. Morin.
KINGSTOl\
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kingston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
Mrs. W. G. Elder; Vice-President, l\lrs. A. Hearn;
Secretary, Miss Olive McDermott; Treasurer, Mise
Genevieve Pelo
; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
MiBBes K. McGarry, l\f. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
Committee, MiBBes N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. W.
Clarke, Mis!les N. Hickey, B. Watson.
A.A., Kingston General Hospital
Hon. President,
Ii
!' Louise D. -\cton; Pre-ident,
:\liss Ann Raillie; \"ice-President, :\Ii"s Florence
mart;
ecretary, Mi..,s Vonnie :\Iac:\Iartin, h.ing>-ton
General Ho
pital: Trea!>urer, Mrs. C. \\. 1\Iallory,
203 Albert St.; Corresponding Seeretary, :\Ii>-
Fmma
Sharp, h.ingston General Ho!'pital.
KITCHENER
A.A., ....,tchener and \\'aterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, !\IiBB I{. W. Scott; President, Mrs.
Walter Ziegler; First Vice-President, !\IiBB Thelma
it1er; Second Vice-President,
liss Elsie TroUBe;
Secretary, l\IiBB Jean Sinclair, 144 Water St. S.; Assis-
tant Secretary, :\liBB :\Iarion Rallantynp; Trpallurer,
l\fiss Mary Orr.
Ur-;USA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Ho...pital
lion. President, :\Ii.." E. Rt'id; Pre-ident, :\Ii"" I.
Harding; Fir".t 'iC'e-Pre!'ident. :\Ir!' U. \\ ailing; Seeond
'Ice-President, :\Ir!'. 1\1. Thur..ton; Corre
pondinll:
e('retary, :\Ii,., J:. Da\\!'on; Trea
urer,
Ir". li. R.
\lIen; Flo\\er Convener, l\Iis:- E J 0"1';
ocial ("on-
,-ener. \Ii-,. h.. :\Iortin.ort'.
LOKDO:'\
\. .\., Ontario Hospital
lIon. President, Miss Mary L. Jacobs; Pre"idel.lt,
:\IiBB N. M. Williallls, 55 Ed\\ard
t.; First \lce-Presi-
rlent, :\Irs. ". l\I. Reilly; f:emnd 'Ice-President, :\lil'1'
F. R. Ball; Secretary, :\lrs. E. D. Gros"enl r, 52 Doulton
-\ve.; Treasurer, l\liss E. hennedy, Ontario H""f'ital;
Social Committee, :\Iillses I. I ind!llw. L. l\pllv: Pres"
Represpntativt', !\Iiss F. Burls. .
A.A., St. Joseph's Huspltal
linn. President, Mother :\1. Patricia; Hon. 'lee-
President, Sister M. Ruth; President, MiBB OliH
O'Neil; First 'I('e-President, \Ii!ls !\fadalene Baker;
Serond 'Ice-President, :\Iillll Erla H
er; Recordin
Secretary, !\fiss Glad
s :\Iartin; C"rresp..ndinll; St'cre-
tary, :\Iiss Irene Grifferl: Tresllucer, :\liBB Glad)s Gray,
Press Representative. l\Iis" Stella Gijl:na('; Representa-
tivl'l! to Re
istry, B
ard, Mis!'e!' Hhps Rnnatt, Cp('jlt'
Slattery, Ohve 0 Nell
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Pr
si-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, Miss M. l\'I.
Jones, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-President, Miss H.
Huston; Second Vice-President, MiBB M. McLaughlin;
Treasurer, :\'Iiss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary, Miss F. Quigley; Corresponding Secretary, Mil's
M. Smith, Victoria Hospital; Board of Directors, MiBBes
C, Gillies, A. Malloch, J. Mortimer, 1\1. Yule, C'
Skinner, Mrs. C. Rose.
NIAGARA FALLS
A.A., Niagara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. S. Park; President, Miss A.
Irving; First Vice-President, MiBB V. Coutts; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. H. English; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\-liss F. J. Loftus, 823 McRae St. Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss A. Pirie; Auditors, Miss Day, :\'Irs.
harpe;
Sick Committee, Mrs. Teal, Miss Carson, Miss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Dulferin Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. O. Fleming; President, l'IiBB
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, MiBB V. Lee;
Second Vice-President, Miss 1. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
i\IiBB E. 1\1. Hayward; Treasurer, MiBB A. Burke.
ORILUA
A.A., OrUlia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB E. Johnston; President, Miss
G. M. Went; First Vice-President, Miss L. Whitton;
Second Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Alice M. Smith, 112 Peter St. N.
Regular Meeting-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA W A
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. l\lacWilliams, General Hos-
pital; President, MiBB J. McIntosh, 414 Masson St.;
First Vice-President, Miss J. Thompson, 115 Agnes St.;
Second Vice-President, MiBB R. Post, General Hospital;
Secretary, Miss M. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; Assistant
Secretary, Miss M. Tribble, 91 Connaught St.: Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss E, Clark, 97 Athol St.;
Treasurer, Miss E. Dickinson, 534 Mary::';t.
OTI A W A
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. President, Miss 1'1. A. Catton; President, :\Iiss
Jean Blyth; Yice-President,1\Iiss ::\1. Mc
ic('e;
pcre-
tary, Miss Gertrude Halpenny, Protpstant Childrf'n's
ViJIage; Treasurer, l\Iiss 1\1. Slinn, 204 Stanley A ve.;
Board of Direct<?rs: Misses E. McColl. S. McQuade,
L. Bedford, 1\1. :stewart; Committee Conveners: Flo\\er,
:\Irs. V. Boles; Press, Mrs. W. C. Elmitt; Rf'presenta-
tive to The Canadian Nurse, Miss A. Ebbs.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB Gertrude Bennett; President,
Miss Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
l\loxley; Second Vice-President, Miss E. Curry; Re-
cording Secretary, Miss Mary Lamb; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss Downey; Treasurer, Miss \Vinnifred
Gemmell; Executive Committee, Miss Mulvaugh, Miss
Lera Barry, Miss Bertha Farmer, :l\Iiss D. Johnston,
2\fis.8 D. Kelly; Representatives to Central Registry,
Miss Katie Clark, Miss L. Boyle; Convener Flower
Committee, MiBB G. Ferguson; PreBB Representative,
:\fiss E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitille; President,
MiBB K. Bayley; First Vice-President, Miss G. Clark'
Second Vice-President, Miss M. Munroe; Secretary
Treasurer, :Miss Dorothy Knox, Ottawa General Hos-
pital; Membership Secretary, Miss F. Poitras; Sick
Committee, Miss P. Bissonnette, Miss S. Kearns, Miss
B. Le
is; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
Miss E. Kennedy; Representatives to Local Council
of Women, Mrs. Latimer, :l\Irs. Dunne and Mrs. Le
Clair; Representatives to Central Registry. Miss
Rogers, MiM M. Landreville. .
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Maxwell; President, MiBB
M. MacLaren; Vice-President, MiB8 M. Lunan; Secre-
tary, Miss M. Nelson, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
I. Allan, 1188 Gladstone Ave.; Central Registry, Misses
M. Wilson. S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
lisses S. Clark, S. Carmichael, E. Young; Representa-
tive to The Canadian Nurse, MiBB M. Drummond, Civic
HospitaJ.
OWEN SOUND
A.A., Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital
Hon. President, Mil!s B. Hall; President, Miss F.
Rae; First Vice-President, Miss M. Paton; Second
Vice-President, MiBB J. Agnew; Secretary, Miss A.
Robertson. 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer, MiBB A.
Weedon; Pianist, Miss R. Dunoon; Flower Committee,
Mrs. Mcl\fillan; Programme Committee, Miss M.
Cruickshank; Sick Committee. Miss M. Sim; Press
Representative, MiBB H. Walden; Refreshment Com-
mittee, MiBB C. Penner; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, l\Iiss
A. Dobbin; First Vice-President, Miss H. Russell,
Second Vice-President. Miss L. Simpson; Secretary;
Miss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Treasurer, Miss
S. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Secretary;
MiBB E. Wagar, 273 Park St.; Social Convener, Miss
M. Watson.
SARr--IA
A.A., Sarnla General Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB M. Lee; President, MiBB L.
Segrist; Vice-President, Miss A. Cation; Secretary,
:\'liss A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson.
Representative to The Canadian NUr8e. Miss C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener). MiBB D. Shaw;
Programme and Social Committee, MiB8 L.
egrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. 1\1.
lunn; President, !\fiss
L. Attwood; Yice-President, Miss 1\1. McMaster;
Secretary-Treasurer. Mrs. K. Snider, 36 Douglas St.;
Social Convener, Miss A. Rock; Flo\\er Convener;
Miss C. Rtaples.
ST. CATHERINES
A.A., Mack Training School
Hon. President, Miss Anne Wright, General Hospi-
tal; President, Miss Nora Nold, General Hospital;
First Vice-President, MiBB Margaret l\IcClunie, 39
Chaplin Ave.; Second Vice-President, Miss Evelyn
Horton, Louth St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss J. Hastie.
General Hospital; Social Committee, Miss Aileen
Johnston, General Hospital, 1\liss Donalda Veale. 35
Academy St., Miss Bernice Rule, 146 Weiland Ave.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, MiBB Feather-
stone, 17 Hainer St.; Correspondent. Miss Current;
Programme Committee, Miss Brubaker, I Fitzgerald St.
ST. THO
IAS
A.A., Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Armstrong; Hon. President.
Miss Buchanan; President, Miss Bella :\Iitchener;
First Vice-President, Miss Annie Campbell; Second
Vice-President, MiBB Jervell; Recording Secretary;
Mi
s Esseltine; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Lamond,
Treasurer, Miss Claypole: Executives, MiBB McAlpine,
Miss Irvine. MiBB Nona Mannix, Miss Hazel Hastings,
Miss L. Crane; Committee Conveners: Nominating,
Miss J. Grant; Sick Nursinl!:. Mil;s E. Lanyon; Social,
MiB8 C. Robertson; Purchasing. Miss L. Ronson; \Vays
and Means, Miss Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, 1\'liss Amy Prince; Representative
to the R.N.A.O., Miss Mary May.
TORONTO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. r. J. Currie; President. Miss
A. O. Bell; Recording Secretary, ;\Iiss Doris L. Kent:
Corresponding Secretary, Miss May Hood, Grace
Hospital. Toronto; TreasllTPr. Mil''' V. 'I. Elliott, 194
Cottingham
t.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
:\.A., The Grant MacDonald Trainin
School
for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss Esther M. Cook, 130 Dunn
Ave.; President, Miss Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn Ave.;
Vice-President, Mrs. Marion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, MiBB Norma :\lcLeod; Corresponding Sef'retary,
:\liss Ethel Watson, 130 Dunn Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
Phyllis Lav.rence; Social Convener, MiBB Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Presidents, Mrs. Goodson, MiBB F. Potts; Hon.
"ice-President, MiBB Austin; President, Mrs. Strachan;
\"ice-Presidents, Mrs. Cassan, Mrs. Raymond; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss E. Lanl!;man; Corresponding
Secretary, :\liBB M. Blackv.-ood; Treasurer, MiB8 Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee COnIJener8: Social, Mrs. A.
Russell; Flower, Miss H. Fisher; Programme, Miss
Elliott; Publications, MiBB S. E. Lewis; Rel!;istry, MiBB
C'urrie; Welfare, MiBB Parker; R.N.A.O., Miss Miller.
A.A., Rlverdale Hospital
President, :\liss Armstrong; First Vice-President,
:\Iiss Gastrill; Second Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Thomp-
son; Secretary, Miss Staples, Riverdale Hospital;
Treasurer, l\lrs. H. Dunbar. fì3 Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, Miss Mathieson, MiBB Stratton, Miss Breeze,
\IiBB Baxter, MiBB Lo\\rie, Riverdale Hospital.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
lIun. President,
i!'t('r Beatrice, Superint('ndent. St.
.Juhn'!, CO\ ('nt; Pre"ident, :\Iiss S. 1\lorgan; First Vice-
President. 1\liss J. \'anderweIl; R('cond Vi('e-President.
:\Iiss N. Hetherington; Secr('tary, :\Ii"... "'. Webb, 77
Summerhill Ave.; Trea<,ur('r, :\Ii<;s D. Whiting; Corres-
ponding Secretary, :\Ii!'s 1\1. :\Iartin; Conveners: Enter-
tainment Committ('e, :\liN!
1. Davit's; Sick Visiting,
Miss H. Frost; Pre!<
Representative, :\1i8S F Young,
"2'27 Milverton BI\ d., Toronto 6.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
lIun. President, Rev. Sister Mary Margaret; Presi-
dent, Miss :\1. Kelly; First Vice-President, :\Iiss O.
Kidd; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Daly; Record-
ing Secretary, MiS/! M. Goodfriend; Correflponding
:;;ecretary, Mise V. Hanley; Treasurer, !\.Iiss F. Rubin-
..on; Councillors, Mi8f1ee A. Timlin. L. Dunbar. I
Po\\er, R. Mc('ue.
A.A., St. Michael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; lion. \ ice-
President, Rev.
ister Jeanne; President, :\liBB Marie
:\Ielndy; First \"ice-President, Miss Crocker; Second
\"ice-President, Miss R. Grogan; Third Vice-President,
\Iiss J. O'Connor; Treasurer, MiBB G. Coulter, Apt.
404,42 Isabelle St.;
ssistant Treasurer, Miss I. Nealon;
Recordinl!; Secretary, Miss M. Doherty, St. Michael's
Hospital; Corresponding
ecretary, Miss K. l\fcAuliffe,
East\\ood Apt., Sherbuurne St.; PriIJate Duly Repre-
.
entatire. Miss :\lcGuire; Public Health Representative,
\fiBB H. Kerr; Press Representative, MiBB Rel!;an;
('ounf'i\lorfl. Misses !\1. firo\\ n, L. :\lcGurk, ('. ('ronin.
A.A., Toronto Gencral Hospital
lIun. Pre...idcnt, :\Ii...s Jean Gunn; Pre"idcnt, :\Iiss
Jean Ander
un, I H) Glenhulrne .\ve.; First \Ïce-
Pre...ident, :\ti!'s :\Iargarpt Pulmage; Se('ond \Ïce-
Presid('nt, :\Ii
!! I1vira :\IanninJ!:; Recretary, :\Ii'!!!
\Iary Fidler, "2.) ßraemar -\ve.; Tr('a"urer, :\fis!' I1ilda
\1aclennan, H Lyn\\ood <\ve.; \s...i:-tant Tr('a!!urer,
'Ii"s Evelyn Hob"on; Archivist. MiBB Jean Kniseley;
Convener.' of Committus: Prul!:ramme, :\ti..s Clara
Bro\\n: Prr -. :\Ii"s Marion
te\\art; Rodal, :\hs.
./. fl. Thurl' ,n; !\olllilJation
. :\fi!'s Pall!ine
teve
;
fn
uran<
, :\fi- Fffie F.,rl!;ie: FIO\\('r, :\Ii..." l\farl!;aret
\lcI\.ay; Eli.laheth Field Smith \fPnlOrial Fund. :\Ii
s
(--:retta RnQF.
455
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Tralnin
School for Nurses
lion. President, :\liss E.
cLean, Toronto Fa
t
General Hospital; Pce:o;ident, Miss H. Lotill<, 1806
Danforth Ave. ; Secretary-Treasurer, l\fiss N. Y.
Wilson, 50 Co\\an Ave.; Representatives to Central
Hegistry, Miss B. l\lacIntosh, 748 Soudan Ave.,
:\IiSb
1. Beston, 232 l\IiIlwood Rd.; Hepresentative to
H.N.A.O., Miss B.
Iaclntosh.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB B. L. Ellis; President, l\1i!'!'
F. Matthews, 74 Westmount Ave.; Vice-President.
Miss U. Colwell; Recordinl!; Secretary, MiBB G. Patter-
son; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Helen Ste\\art, Toronto
Western Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss F. Greenaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
Hon. President, :\liss Ross; President, :\IiS8 Je!'8ie
Gordon; Vice-President, Miss Lind
ay; Correspondinp;
Secretary, Mi
s :\1. Anderson, 168 l8abella 8t.; Hecord-
ing Secretary, l\Ii"s Bungay; Treasurer, Mis/! Littl(',
168 habella St.; Corre8pondent to The Canadian
Nurse,
liss I. On 1'10\\ .
A.:\., Women's Colleg,e Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. Bowman; Hon. Vice-President.
:\fiss l\feiklejohn; President, MiBB Worth, 93 Scarboro
Beach Blvd.; Secretary, Miss Free, 48 Northumberland
St. Treasurer; MiB8 Fraser, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Connau
ht Training, School for l'\urses
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President, Miss E. MacP. Dickson, Torontr,
Hospital. Weston; \,ice-Pref'ident, Miss Ann Bolwell.
Toronto Hospital. 'Veston; Recretary. !\.Iiss G. l.eem-
inl!;, Toronto Hospital, Weston: Treasurer. 1\liB8 R.
McKay, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Cunvener of
Social Committee, Miss 1\1. Jones, Toronto Hospital.
Weston.
WINDSOR
A.A., Grace Hospital
lIun. President, \djutant.-\. Butt; Pre"Jdent,
lJs
E. Williams: \"ice-Presidpnt. :\Iiss G. Sutht'rlond;
ecrt'tary, :\fi>s Glady:- Duffield, 218 Peter St. \\.,
and\\if'h; Trea'urer, :\fi-!<\\. :\fervin; Pres8
ecretary,
!\li:-8 C'. :\1.. f ar('n.
A.A., Hotel Dleu, \\'Indsor
Hon. Pre,..ident, Re\'. :\Iother :\Iarie de f a Ferr(';
President, :\fiss :\Iary Perrin; FirlSt \"ice-Prc,..id('nt,
:\li!<s :\farie Odette;
econd \ ice-President, :\Ii!'!' Zop
I ondeau; Secretary, :\liss :\1. Spence; Treasurer, :\li
!'
:\lary Fenner: Conveners of Committees: :\Ii":-e!< .I
J ondenu, H. :\lahoney, :\1. :\Ic('lory.
WOODSTOCK
.-\.A., General Hospital
Fir,..t HUll Prp,..idpnt, :\Ii,..s Frances
harpe;
('....n"
Hon. Pr('!<idcnt, \lis!' Helen Pott!<; Pre,..id,'nt, :\fi-s
:\label Co
tellu; \ïf'e-Prcsident, :\fi:-
.\nna ('00),.;
Hecordinp; :-:ef'r('tary, :\Iis
Lila Jaek,..un; ('orre,..pundinl!;
f=ecrt'tary and I'r('
s Heprpsentath e, l\fi- f !\lay DB'- i:-on,
,-,107 .\delaide
t.; bsi:-tant !-:ecretary,
Ii..:- J('an
!\('I1y; Tr('ssun'r. \fi-s :\laud
Iaght; As>ï,.,tant Trea
-
urer, :\liss 1\1. :\fal'l'herson; Con
eners of Commi/lu"
PrOl!;ramme, l\fi!'s D. ('rail!;; Flo\\ cr auoJ Gift. :\Ii!'!! I)
Hobbs;
ocial, :\Ii88 J. And('rson.
456
THE CANADIAN NURSE
QUEBEC
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss 1\1. L. Brown; President, Mrs.
J . Jobber, 1646 Van Horne Ave.; Vice-President, Miss
R. Goodfellow, Lachute; Secretary-Treasurer, Mi."" A.
Roy, 3ï9 St. Catherines St., Lachine; Executive Com-
mittee, Misses M. McNutt, E. Dewar.
1 ONTREAL
A.A., Children's "lemorial Hospital
Hon. President, Mi..ø A. Kinder; President, Miss !L
Paterson; Vice-President, Miss H. Nutall; Secretary,
Iiss J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasurer. Miss
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, Miss E. Hillyard,
!\liss M. Flander; Social Committee, convener, Miss
:\1. Gill, Miss A. Adlington, Miss M. McCallum and
:\liss M. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss V. Schneider; Sick Nurses Committee, MiBB
H. Easterbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
President, l\1iBB A. Porteous; Vice-President,
liss
:\1. Hayden; Treasurer, MiBB D. Miller, Homeopathic
Hospital; Assistant Treasurer, Miss N. Horner; Secre-
tary, MiBB S. Holland; Assistant Secretary, Miss J.
Gray; Private Duty Section, Miss A. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee, l\1iBB H. Bright; Entertainment
Committee, MiBB 1\1. Hayden; Representative to The
Canadian Nurse, Miss J. Whitmore; Representative,
:\lontreal Graduate Nurses ABBociation, MiBB M.
Bright;'Sick Benefit Society, Mrs. J. Warren,
L'Associatlon des Gardes-Malades Graduées de
l'Hôpital Notre-Dame
Lxécutif: :\Iesdemoiselles
uzanne GirOIl", Prési-
dente; Irène Rouillard, \"ice-Présidente; Juliette
Beaulieu, 2ème Vire-Prèsidentc; Lurrèce Boucher,
Trésorière; :\Iarguerite Pau2é, 4234 St. Hubert f't.,
eerétaire; Conseill
res: Mesdemoiselles Françoise
Chevrier, Georgette Hébert, Germaine Rris...et, Ludi-
dne Bérubé.
A.A., Montreal General Hospital
Hon. Presidents, MiBB J. Webster, Miss N. Tedford,
:\liss F. E. Strumm; Hon. Treasurer, Miss H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, Miss J. Craig; President, MiBB E.
Frances Upton, Ste. 221, 1396 St. Catherine St. W.;
First Vice-President, :\liss M. Mathey, son; Second
Vi
e-President, Mrs. L. H. Fisher; Recording Secretary,
:\11SS D. Snow; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E. C.
:\Ienzies, 6635 Lasalle Blvd., Yerdun; Treasurer (Alum-
nae ABBociation and Mutual Benefit Committee), MiS8
I. Davies, Montreal General Hospital; Executive Com-
mittee, Miss M. K. Holt, Miss H. Ney,ton, Miss L.
Sutton, Miss O. Lilly, Miss B. Herman; Representa-
tives to Pri1.'ate Duty Section, MiS8 E. Gruer (Convener),
Miss C. Cole, Miss E. Marshall; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, Miss I. Welling (Convener),
:\Iontreal General Hospital; Representatives to Local
Council of Women, MiBB G. Colley, Miss M. Ross;
ick Visiting Committee, Miss F. E. Strumm, Miss B.
Herman; Programme Committee, MiS8 I. Davies, MiBB
:\1. Batson; Refreshment Committee, Miss B. Under-
hill (Convener), !\tiss C. Coombes, Miss C. Fitzgerald,
:\liss D. McRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. A. Draper; President, Miss
\1. F. Hersey; First Yice-President, Miss J. Stevenson-
Second Vice-President, Mrs. Grieve; Recording Secre-:
tary, Miss E. B. ROl!;ers; Secretary-Treasurer, I\Iiss K.
.farner, Royal Victoria Hospital; Executive Committee,
:\Irs. E. Roberts, :\Irs. G. C. Melhado, Mrs. Prideaux,
:\tiBBes E. Etter, E. Reid. -\. Bulman; Conveners of
Committee8: Finance. !\tis!' B. Campbell: Sick Visiting,
\1iss tl. Fellows; Programme, Mrs. K. Hutchison-
Refreshments, Miss 1\1. Rowley; Private Duty Spclion'
:\Ii!'s R. Cochrane; Representatives to Lncal Councii
of Women, Miss J. Stevenson, Mrs. E. Cooper; Repre.
sentative to The Canadian Nur8e, MiBB E. Allder.
A.A., St. Mary's Hospital
Hon. Pre
ident, Sister Rozon; President, i\Iisl> G.
:\I
LelI_an; \"ice-President, Miss
1. :\Ic
eil; Secretary,
:\h"8 K. Brady, Nurôes Residence, 1803 Don.hester St.
W:: Treasurer, !\Ii
1' A. Lalonde; Sick Committee.
:\I
,,>es B. L.atour, I. McDonell; Programme Committee,
:\hs
e" I. I\.enny, 1\1. Lapointe, E. U'Hare
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
Hon. Presidents, MiB8 F. George, Miss E. Trench,
President, Mrs. L. M. Crewe; First \"ice-President,
MiBB E. Moore; Second Vice-President, MiBB K. :\Iar-
tin; Recording Secretary, !\fiBB R. Sixsmith; Correfl-
ponding Secretary, Miss N. Broy,n, Apt. 5, 1187 Hope
-\ve.; Treasurer, Miss E. L. Francis; Sick VisitinJ!.
Miss G. Wilson, !\fiss L. Jensen; Private Du'y, :\Irs.
A. Chisholm, Miss G. Wilson; Representative to Thl'
Canadian Nurse, Miss C. Morrow; Social Ccmmittee,
:\Irs. Drake, Miss Clark. Regular monthly meetin/l:
every third Wednesday, 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nur,,",s, McGill
University
HOil. Prebident, !\Iiss l\Iary Samuel; Hon. \ïce-
Presid{'nt, i\liss Bertha Harmer; lIon. i\Iember:-,
!VIiss M. F. Hersey, l\Ihs Grace 1\1. Fairley, Dr. Helen
n. Y. Reid, Dr. Maude .-\bbott, l\Ins. R. W. Reford,
:\Iiss 1\1. L. !\foag; President, Mil's Madeline Ta:rlor,
\"ictorian Order of Kurses, 1246 Bi>hop St.: \ïcl'-
President, !\li"s I ileen C. Flanagan, Royal Yictoria
Hospital; Secretary-Treasurer, I\li"s K. I\IacLennan,
Ale"andra Hospital; Chairman, Flora I\Iadeline Fhaw
:\Iemorial Fund, l\Ii"s J
. Frances L"pton, 1396 St.
Catherine St. W., Programme, Mi
s Flora Georgt',
"'"omen's General HOiSpital; Repre'ientatives to Local
Coundl of Women, :\1i,s Ethel Sharpe, Mi'R Abi/l:ail
Baker; Representatives to The Canadian Nurse:
Administration, :\Ii s :\1. DesBarres, Shriners' Hos-
pital; Teaching, :\Ii"s C. i\Iills, :\Iontreal General
Hospital; Public Health, Miss J,. Charland, :H21
Grand Bhd.
QUEBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. Barrow; President, :\IiBB D.
Jackson; First Vice-President, Miss E. Fitzpatrick;
Second Yice-President, Mrs. C. Young; Recording
Secretary, l\1iBB E. McCallum; Corresponding
ecre-
tary, i\Iiss M. Fischer; Treasurer, Miss E. McHan
;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, MÏlss r-.;.
Martin; Private Duty Section: Miss G. i\lartin: Sirk
\ïsiting Committee, Mrs. Barrow and Mrf'. Buttimore:
Refreshment Committee, Mrs. Melling, MiBB W eaQ.
MiBB Hansen. Miss McClintoch; Councillors. :\Iif<!'
Imrie. Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Jackson, :\Iiss Mackay, \Iif<s
B. Adams.
SHERBROOKE
A.A., Sherbrooke Hospital
Hon. Presidents, Miss E. Frances Upton, :\Iiss \ erna
Beane; President, Mrs. Gordon MacKay; First \"ice-
President, Miss O. Harvey; Second 'ice-President.
Mrs. A. Savage; Recording
ecretary, Miss I\L Gelinas:
Correspondinjl: Secretary, Mrs. Herbert MacCallum:
Treasurer, Miss AliC'e Lyster, lOa \\'e1lington Rt. N.:
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, :\Iil's F
Wardleworth.
SASKA TCHEW AN
A.A., Saskatoon City Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB G. M. Watson; President, :\liS8
1\1. R. Chisholm; First Vice-President, Miss G. l\I unroe;
econd '"ice-President, Miss H. Johnston; Recording
f'eeretary, Miss J. 'Vells; Corresponding Secretary,
Miss L. Kirk, 419-9th St.; Treasurer, Miss A. Ferjl:uson,
Conveners: PreBB. Miss 1\1. E. Grant; Relief, Miss G.
:\lunroe; Sick \,isitinjl:, Miss 1\1. Graham; Educational.
:\Irs. G. Pendleton; \Vays and :\Ieans. \fiss 1\1. n I nrl1/1:
Social, Mrs. H. Buck.
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CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1934
THE CARE OF LIFE
, The late Dean Ira A. MacKay
461
INAUGURATION OF THE NIGHTINGALE FOUNDATION
468
CORRESPONDENCE
470
OFF TO A GOOD START
472
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR '
473
SOME NEW ApPOINTMENTS'
474
REFRESHER COURSE FOR INDUSTRIAL NURSES
474
THE EDITOR'S DESK
475
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CURRICULUM
Marion Lindeburgh
476
HEALTH TEACHING IN BASIC COURSE .
Maude H. Hall
480
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Edna L Moore
483
THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE DUTY NURSING'
Mabel McMullen
484
BOOK REVIEWS
487
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
490
NEW BRUNSWICK ANNUAL MEETING '
491
NEWS NOTES
492
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY .
497
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VOL. XXX
No. 10
MONTREAL, QUE.. OCTOBER, 1934
THE CARE OF LIFE
The late Ira A. MacKay. M.A., LL.B., Ph.D., LL.D., Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
McGill University, Montreal.
It is a very great pleasure for me to
meet this Association of Nurses again. I
remember distinctly yåur last visit to
Montreal and I know that, if you return
to thd.t city next year or at any future
time, you will receive a greater and more
k
mlly welcome than ever before.
I fear, however, that I cannot say much
to you this evening with any great confi-
d
nce. I confess that my belief in the
value of the spoken word has decl
ned
greatly in recent ye,lrs. One oftcn feels, I
suspect, in the mood which Phocion felt
when he exclaimed: "What have I now
said amiss?" when the multitude applaud-
ed him. We seem to be living in a world
of futile words. Loose talking upon sub-
jects of great interest and importance is
undoubtedly one of the greatest dcll1gers
in our day. Loose talking ahout war, for
example, is probably the surest way of
mclking war itself inevitclble. No red.l
peace is possible where there is no peace
of mind. It is the imclges in our minds
and thc words of our mouths that control
the course of our lives. It docs not seem
to matter whether the ideas in our minds
he good or had; we are condemned to fol-
low them cll1d bccome like them. The law
of iùeo motor action is inevitab:e. It is
(An addrcss ddi\crcd before thl C.mad.an Nurs II
A',lciatlon. at [h.' (;.n. ral lI.l" IInI!. in T..r'I,I.'. JlllIo
27, IlJH.)
only by controlling the ideas in our minds
that we can control our lives. "'As a man
thinketh in his heart so is he.'-
If, to follow my example a little fur-
ther, we could only think less and talk
less about the tragic horrors of war and
more about the infinite promises and
bl
ssings of peace, I am sure that many of
our most dangerous prohlems would soon
begin to solve themselves: compctition in
homocidal armaments would soon bcgin
to ced.SC its fury; national economic arma-
ment by excessive tariffs, l}uotas, em-
bargoes and other restrictions on trade
would soon begin to crumble; the con'
duits of helpful commerce would begin to
lift thcir gates; the wheels of bcneficent
inòustry to turn again and the unwilling
unemployed to find the work they necò
and must have if their lives are not to be
wholly lost both in boòy and mind.
I confess that I sometimes wish, figu,
r.ltively at least, that the unlicensed pub-
lic pI.ltform and printing press had never
heen invented. There must, after all is
said, he some lImit to the right of free
public dòdress. I have clearly no right,
for e:-..ample, to adòrcss any asst.'mhly of
people f.tlsdy, misleaòingly or negli,
gently, not caring whether my words he
true or false. The only possible use of
language is to influence the livcs of other
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people for good or ill. If, for example,
the lectures which I offer to University
stuòents throughout the term do not help
them to lead better lives, then all my
work is vain and futile and if by any
chance these lectures should lead them
into a worse way of life then it were
better if I had never been born. I have
known the lives of good men to be spoiled
by a single malicious adjective and the
lives of bad men to be praised beyond the
limits of true human greatness.
Language is the instrument by which
men communicate ideas, sentiments and
emotions from one life to another life
and must never be used lightly, and if,
therefore, we are willing to hand over
this instrument, at once so powerful and
so delicate, into the hands of haranguing
dictators and demagogues, what do you
think is likely to become of our civiliza,
tion ? We seem to have come to a vast
human parting of the ways. May Heaven
send us men of experience, men of true
knowledge and sound learning, men of
probity and prayer, haloed men, Christ,
like men to guide us from now on! It
was, at any rate, when such rambling
thoughts as these were running through
my mind that I received your kind invi,
tation to be present this evening and I
then ran over the usual index of subjects
and they all looked so weary and worn
and battered that I threw them aside and
wrote down the subject which appears on
your agenda this evening: The Care of
Life.
I like this subject: The Care of Life.
The little serious thought which it con'
tains is my gift to you this evening in
return for your kindness to me. Further
than this, however, I should prefer that
you think it through each in relation to
her own life, for if you fail to do this
all my words will be lost. I am spe(l king
to you now as individuals and not as an
association.
The longer I live the more intimate
anò personal my philosophy of life be,
comes. Indeed, I am not sure that I am
not a pure individualist. My colleagues
and friends, the economists, sociologists
and anthropologists must, therefore, for'
give me if I tell them again that they
seem to me to be placing far too much
emphasis at the present time upon what
they call collective life or collective hu,
man action. I remind them that collective
(I ction is a very dangerous agency.
Crowds are always very difficult to direct
and only men of the greatest courage,
true knowledge and fineness can control
them. The principal results of collective
action hitherto have been wars, revolu,
tions, monopolies, strikes and all sorts of
factions. Collective action, in other
words, may lead to tribalism and not to
peace and goodwill among men, and I
must confess that it seems to me to be
travelling speedily in that direction at
present.
Let us not forget, then, that the
springs and sources of real life are always
individual. May I, for example, make
my meaning clear from a crude maxim in
public finance thus: "All public debts
must be paid from private pockets." I
wonder how many of the elected and
electors in our communities fully realize
the hard truth of that maxim! All public,
social obligations, in other words, are only
another name for those obligations which
the individual owes to the community,
each in his own way. As William James
points out in one of his admirable essays:
"Irreducible pluralism is the basic fact of
human society. All conscious life is per'
sonal. Your consciousness is yours and
mine is mine. There is no consciousness,
for example, anywhere in this room which
is nobody's consciousness." There is no
duty in all the world which is nobody's
duty.
When I look around me this evening,
for example, to find that Goddess of Light
and Mercy with a silver crown upon her
head, called the Canadian Nurses Asso'
ciation, she fails completely to appear and
I find only you and me. No matter what
science, philosophy or political theory
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THE CARE OF LIFE
may think, the performance of every
duty must begin here, now, and nowhere
else. "Do the duty, then, which lies
nearest thee and thy next duty will then
have become clearer!" This is the su'
preme law of life, the imperative first
principle of all human behaviour. As it
is written in The Everlasting Yea, "The
situation that has not its Duty, Its Ideal,
was never yet occupied by man. Yes,
here in this poor, miserable, hampered,
despicable actual wherein thou even now
standest (or sittest), here or nowhere is
thy ideal: work it out therefrom and
working, believe, live, be free." When I
speak, therefore, of the Care of Life, I
do not mean the Care of Life in the mass
or in the abstract, for these phrases have
no meaning for me. I mean the care of
real individual lives in body and mind, in
sickness and in health, the Care of Life
by you and me, curative, preventive,
beneficient.
There is one problem in the philosophy
of life which has perplexed all thoughtful
minds in the past-the problem of Mind
and Body. The most primitive tribes and
the most learned scientists have been
puzzled by this dualism. Traces of it are
found in the ritual amI literature of all
human history. We seem always to be
living in two worlds, a world of physical
material facts and a world of mental con,
scious facts, and these two worlds have
nothing in common. No one can explain,
for example, how a physical stimulus or
a bodIly process in the brain or nervous
system can become a conscious mental
process or how a mental process, a sensa'
tion, a memory, or an emotion can affect
the bodily organism. The anatomists and
physiologists cannot solve this problem
because they do not know, they do not
even pretend to know how this bodily
organism became sensitive and becoming
sensitive, became consciously aware of
the world of nature around us.
The curious fact is that we can only
know things by becoming conscious of
them If I were not conscious of things
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463
I would not know anything at all and in
some sense, therefore, my consciousness is
as vast as the universe. My conscious
mind is not, as some would have us be'
lieve, a mere speck on the surface of the
earth planet. Magnify the physical uni,
verse as much as you will, make it
billions of light years in magnitude, and
you are only paying an implied tribute to
this little conscious mind which can say,
Oh, boundless wonderful world.
Our conscious bodily senses are the
most wonderful things we know anything
about. Consider, for example, the human
skin, the most modest of the senses, with
its sensations of pressure and strain,
warmth, cold and pain, and all that these
sensations mean to life. Structurally, the
skin as you know is a layer or really six
or seven layers of integumentary tissue
which cover the outside of the body of
which the inner layers are living sensitive
cells and the outer layers dead and dying
cells. All the issues of life and death lie
hidden there. Strange things, then, go on
under this outermost wrap page of the
human body. Or consider again what it
means when I grasp you by the hand in
love or hate and know that two conscious
souls have met here-now on the way to
eternity. Consider and bow the head.
Many physiologists and some psycho,
logists, the behavlourists for example,
despairing of finding any satisfactory
solution to this problem, have attempted
to solve it by ignoring or denying alto'
gether the existence of consciousness.
Consciousness, they say, is a superstition,
a momentary shddow of reality, or, as
Huxley said, it is like the smoke from
an engine or the steam from a kettle
which soon fades away. A recent critic
of the behaviourists has said of them:
.. Psychology first lost its soul, then it lost
its mind and now it is losing conscious,
ness," and while this saying is no doubt
meant in humour, it seems to me to he
quite true. Clearly, we cannot solve the
problem in this way. We cannot turn
off the light and not live in darkness.
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Puzzling, however, as this problem is
in theory, we need only look at the facts
again with an unflinching eye to recognize
that the oneness of mind am.I boòy is an
obvious fact in every moment of our
lives. Whatever affects the body affects
the mind sooner or later and whatever
affects the mind affects the body imme-
diately. Even so simple an act as turning
my head or shifting my attention changes
my pathway of life appreciably both in
body and mind. Just, it seems, as two
organs in the body often perform entirely
different and opposite functions, so both
mind and body play their parts in the life
of all individual human beings. The
complementariness seems complete and,
therefore, both mind and body must be
equally respected in the care of life. I
commend thIs truth to you in the prac-
tice of your profession.
I do not wish you to think this evening.
however, that your profession has any
monopo
y in the care of life. Education
is also interested in this subject and I
insist upon sharing it with you. Indeed
education fully understood is only an-
other name for the beneficent care of life
in body and mind, especially during that
earlier period in the life of all known
living things, the period of growth from
birth to maturity. Too much learning
and too much sport are alike unhealthy
and dangerous to life. Too much learn-
ing maketh Jack a dull boy and mental
cases are far too frequent in this class.
On the other hand the aim of playing
games is neither to win or to lose but to
play. The play's the thing. Play all the
games and play them poorly is the best
sports maxim I know.
We must, however, be careful of our
definitions. By education we usually
mean the enlargement of true knowledge
in the community and the careful train-
ing of the students' mental powers of
perception, memory and reasoned dis-
course. At any rate, I think that you will
agree with me that this is the idea of
education upon which we proceed in
practice. Why then, I ask now, this
emphasis upon the mind in this narrow
sense of the term at the expense of the
moral, aesthetic anJ religious factors
which are always uppermost in human
lives? Too much knowledge, however
true, may be as great a burden on human
life as too great worldly possessions-and
I am convinced that this is the real reason
why so many of our students so soon
unburden themselves of nearly all that
they have learned in school and college-
and the training of the mind in this nar-
row sense can only produce at its best a
type of nude realism clothed in clever
literary wit which is all too common in
recent literature. Sinclair Lewis, for ex-
ample, in his late book Ann Vic1{ers,
aptly describes his own contribution to
literature as "corn-beef hash" and this is
no doubt true, but the real trouble is that
Mr. Lew
s, like so many of his contem-
poraries, does not seem to realize that the
hash is mostly rotten.
Is it not clear at once that the training
ing of the mind in this purely scientific
and logical sense is almost wholly imp Ie-
mental? As John Dewey insists so con-
stantly, all knowledge, however pure, is
merely instrumental. It is not the know-
ledge of truth, in other words, but the
being truthful that really counts and until
we make the truth we learn real in our
own lives there is no gain. I repeat it
again, unless our teaching helps our stu-
dents to live better lives, all our work is
vain and futile. Unless the truths we
teach take root in the deeper incentives of
life no new life will come.
I am always bewildered by some popu-
lar writers and lecturers on science,
always untrue to their own subject, who
claim with so much confidence that
science is only interested in discovery and
not in the consequences or human uses of
its discoveries; that, for example, it does
not matter to the scientific worker
whether he discover insulin, some other
agent meant to save life or a poison gas
meant to destroy it. Is, then, the scientific
VOL. XXX, No. 10
THE CARE OF LIFE
worker in his laboratory an amoral being?
Is he above good and evil, or is he only
like the investment banker caught in the
Frankenstein of his own devices not
knowing how to escape? Have science,
mech
nical invention and industry cow
spired to ignore the postulates of right
living? When was it then, I ask, that the
cardmal goods, truthfulness, honesty,
work well done, cleanliness and kindness
became unworthy of careful study in
the
chools and colleges? Are not the
ingredients of the good life as worthy of
careful study as the ingredients of gun-
powder? Has the attempt to construe the
humanities after the analogy and method
of the physicial sciences proved a dIsmal
and dangerous failure? Is that the huge
mIstake we are making?
Economics, for example, is obviously a
pure humanity. Economics is the study
of wealth and the essence of wealth is its
human utility and value and not its mere
physical existence. If economic commo-
dities were merely physical objects to be
produced, moved about and stored in
space, the study of economics would have
no medning. If gold were money then
mon
y would have no meaning. It is, I
think, an obvIOus scientific fact that all
human vdlues fall within the fields of
morals, aesthetics and religion. Of what
avail, then, that we try to adjust hours of
labour, wages, output, prices and profits
unless the attempt be based upon some
established, true philosophy of human
values? Are we trying to devise economic
controls when the only effective control
elre mor ell controls? These are vast ques-
tions, but we must answer them soon or
danger and death are at the gate and will
come in. Every scientific discovery and
every business transaction is a moral deed
and is, therefore, made up from eXdctly
the same elements as private deeds. The
real fallacy seems to be that when science
enters the field of the humanities, it
le,lves its own proper field. It leaves, in
other words, the field of understanding
and enters the field of appreciation and
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465
appreciation is always something greater
and better than understanding. Open
Aristotle and Plato, read The Republic
and The Nachomachean Ethics again and
learn and lay to heart that all science,
economics and politics are only means
which make the good life possible.
I almost hesitate to speak to you about
the importance of aesthetics in the Care
of Life, since the intuition of beauty is
usually supposed to be reserved for only
a few fine souls in this hard world. If we
only look about us, however, and try to
estimate the amount of effort and money
which we spend so anxiously and blindly
in the attempt to beautify our public
places, public huildings, homes and per-
sons we may perhaps be driven to the
conclusion that the only thing which men
really do desire most in their down most
heart is pure loveliness.
But you will ask me what c
n we do
to encourage aesthetic education in this
cold, rugged wilderness called Canada.
Europe has her music, art and literature
and her nohle ruins so redolent of human
memories, but what have be instead? The
answer to this question is that we have
all the best that Europe has to offer and
a new, clean, vast country all our own.
Tall{ not to me of summer lands and sunny
sl{ies.
Where wild flowers grow in murl{y meadows
by the sea!
I hate the heat and filth and stench and sicl{-
ening smells
Of all things tropical in hue.
Commend me to the Northern lands and
wintry climes.
Where crystal snowflal{es sparl{le in the air
And white-robed angels flit across the plains
And dance along the starry heavens o'night.
There I shall sing my clear-voiced winter's song
Beneath the great dome's clear eternal day,
Where God's pure countenance shines with a
clean cold light
Unl{nown to men in other lands than mine.
Then lay me low at last in some wilid wintry
place
And wrap my worn-out' body in a snowy
wreath
And bid my soul be gone on its lone way
'To dwell among the Northern stars forever
more.
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I know this country from sea to sea:
the Maritime Provinces by the sea, the
loveliest part of Canada, down the two
middle provinces by the wide, rushing
river, across the wide prairie lands, "the
land for which the tongue of England
hath no name", 'The Prairies, over the
giant multitudinous Rockies, gazing like
hooded clansmen far across the wide Paci,
fic-I see it all. It stands before me now
and it is the great health and cleanliness
of it all which has always appealed to me
most. Healthy clean bodies and healthy
clean minds must always be our ideal in
this new land.
The first duty of every government is
to maintain the health of its people; the
next duty the education of its people;
the next the administration of justice in
its Courts of Law; the next the practice
of honesty and truthfulness and the per'
formance of all promises in public affairs;
the next the practice of good manners,
that finest expression of the cultivated
mind, in all public offices. Let any nation
follow these postulates of good govern'
ment and it need not fear from extreme
Fascism or extreme Communism or from
any other danger coming from within.
I have no title to say anything to you
about religion and the Care of Life, but
I cannot finish my story without tres'
passing a little bit on this subject. I wish
to point out to you, then, that what I have
said about science is also true of aesthe,
tics. It is not the knowledge of truth and
the intuition of beauty which really
count. I repeat, unless we make both
truth and beauty real in our own lives,
there is no gain. This is the meaning of
the good life, the only thing in all the
world which makes the care of life worth,
while. He would surely be a craven soul,
however, who, having enjoyed these
priceless revelations, should still forget
those attitudes of gra
itude, confidence
and worship towards that spiritual unity
of all truth and beauty immanent in the
world of nature around us and implied in
all we know or can know. Truth, beauty
and goodness all lead by the shortest lmes
into the presence of God himself, the
fountain and source of all life. This is
the true meaning of religion.
The sun. the moon, the stars, the seas, the
hills and the plains
Are not these, 0 Soul. the Vision of Him who
reigns?
And "Is not the Vision He" who can also say
"I am I"?
Tennyson misnamed this poem "The
Higher Pantheism." He should have call,
ed it "The Higher Humanism."
Now I have only a little time left to
talk to you in a professional way. I took
this subject, The Care of Life, from your
profession and now I give it back to you
again, I hope with a larger meaning. I
shall not flatter you. I know the drudgery
and often ingratitude which attends the
daily practice of your profession. Ire'
mind you, however, that drudgery and
sometimes ingratitude are the best human
measures of work well done in all voca'
tions in life. It is your work by strong
and gentle hands to lift those who are ill
in body and mind back to health and
strength again, or perhaps to stand by the
portals at the great dawn and bid them a
fond farewell as they venture forth into
the greater life beyond. Do not think
that the art of gentleness has no tech,
nique for it is really the most difficult of
all human arts to master. Never take a
derisive or bitter attitude towards any'
thing in life. Be kind in all things, great
and small. There is a law which is higher
than the law of justice: it is the law of
kindness. Justice gives to each man his
rights and no more, but the law of kind,
ness is beneficent and god-like. I once
had a friend, very dear to me, who sang
and hummed a simple song thus:
If we err in human blindness. and forget tha.t
we are dust,
If we miss the law of
indness in the struggle
to be just.
And the refrain of this simple song, "If
we miss the law of kindness in the
struggle to be just" has been echoing in
my ears all these years and I know that
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THE CARE OF LIFE
it has made a very different man of me.
Two things are necessary in the treat'
ment of patients, their cure and their
care. The cure of patients is the task of
the medical profession and their care the
task of your profession, and I do not
know which is the nobler. The medical
profession is chiefly interested in the cure
of the body, but the oneness of mind and
body must always be the first axiom in
your profession. It is no doubt neces'
sary, therefore, that you learn all you
can about the science and practice of
medicine and surgery, but I see a far
greater opportunity than that for the
education of the nursing profession en'
gaged as you are in the care of life in all
467
its phases. Indeed, there is nothing that
is finest and best in the most liberal edu,
cation that should not be of the greatest
value to you in all your work and, if you
follow this suggestion, I know that your
profession will continue to grow in im,
portance in the future and you will then
be needed not only in the hospitals and
in the homes but in the schools and in'
dustries and public services and where,
ever the care of life is needed. And if
cruel and deadly war be thrust upon us
you will be there, too, to prove by your
presence and devotion that after all life
is worth living and caring for even in
extremis. God bless you and keep you
and prosper your Association.
SUNSET AND EVENING STAR
It is with deep regret that we record the
sudden death on August 19, of Dr. Ira Allan
MacKay, late Dean of the faculty of arts and
sciences of McGill University. At the Bien'
nial Meeting of the Canadian Nurses Associa'
tion Dean MacKay made what was destined
to be his last public utteranCe. All who heard
"The Care of Life" must have been impressed
by the sharp contrast between it and all the
other addresses which went to make up our
programme, for it challen
ed the value of
col!cctive thought and action and asserted that
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individua1." For good or ill the nursing pro-
fession seems to be committeed to collective
action and it may be well for us to pause
in our busy driving lives and to listen to thi
voice which comes to us from the brink of
eternal silence. Dean MacKay belonged to
Nova Scotia and it was there, down by the
sea, where he had gone in search of rest that
the end came He was a gentleman and a
scholar. May the Northern earth he Joved,
lie light above him.
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INAUGURATION OF THE NIGHTINGALE
FOUNDATION
On July 5, 1934, at 15 Manchester
Sl}uare, London, the Florence Nightjl1
gale International Foundation was inau'
gurated. This auspicious occasion W:1S
given Royal recognition by the Queen
herself who evinced her personal interc3t
in the following telegram:
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I am interested to learn that the Interna.
tional Memorial to Florence Nightingale is
being inaugurated today, and I am glad to
know that it is to take an educational form,
as this would undoubtedly have commended
itself to Miss Nightingale, who had so much
at heart the education of nurses and the
training of a great nursing service, not only
in this country but throughout the world. I
extend a warm welcome to all the delegates
from foreign lands and from the British Over-
seas Dominions who have assembled in London
for the inauguration of the memorial. I shall
follùw the progress of the Florence Nightin'
gale International Foundation with interest,
and I send to one and all concerned my
cordial good wishes.
MARY R.
The Grand Council
The Chairman, Sir Arthur Stanley,
explained that the purpose of the Foun-
468
dation is to provide postgraduate nursing
education, on a permanent basis, for a
selected group of fully trained profes
sional nurses drawn from those who stand
in the forefront of their profession in all
countries. The Foundation will be gov'
erned by a Grand Council, comprising
representatives of the International
Council of Nurses, the League of Red
Cross Societies and of each duly consti,
tuted National Florence Nightingale
Memorial Committee.
The Officers of the Grand Council
Dame Alicia Lloyd Still, President of
the International Council of Nurses anJ
Matron of St. Thomas's Hospital WdS
unanimously elected to the presidency
and Sir Arthur Stanley was chosen by
acclamation as honorary treasurer. Two
Honorary Presidents were elected by
unanimous vote: Mrs. Bedford Fenwick,
President of the National Council of
Great Britain, and Miss Mary Adelaide
Nutting, Emeritus Professor of Nursing,
Columbia University. It is largely owing
to the courage and vision of these two
distinguished nurses that the Foundation
originally came into heing and they w:Il
continue to be a source of inspiratio
and wise counsel during its formative
years. The following li
t of vice'pre5i
dents is interesting because it emphasizes
the international character of the enter'
prize: Mme Celmins (Latvia); MIle
Chap tal (France); Mrs. Draper (U.S.
A.); Miss Annie Goodrich (U.S.A.);
Miss Jean Gunn (Canada); Miss Hagi.
wara (Japan); MIle d'Haussonville
(France); MIle Hellemans (Belgium);
Miss Margaret Huxley (Irish Free State) ;
Miss Bergliot Larsson (N orwa y); Dr.
Alice Masarykova (Czechoslovakia);
MIle Odier (Switzerland); Miss Venny
Snell man (Finland); and Marchesa .:Ii
Targiana Giunti (Italy) . The GranJ
Council will meet again in the summe
of 1935 and thereafter every two years
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THE NIGHTINGALE FOUNDATION
and a committee of management has been
appointed of which Dame Alicia Lloyd
Still is chairman; its membership is as
follows:
League of Red Cross Societies (3):
Mlle Odier, Member of the International
Red C
oss Committee.
Mr. Ernest J. Swift, Secretary,General.
Mrs. Carter, Chief, Nursing Division.
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"Old Internationals" Association:
Miss Mechelynck (BelgIUm).
The secretary of the Foundation is Miss
Olive Baggallay who will retain h
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appointment as a tutor on the staff of
Bedford College. Miss Nan Dorseÿ.
whom successive groups of "internatio'
nals" will remember with affection, wIll
continue to act as warden.
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International Council of Nurses (3);
Mrs. Bedford Fenwick, President, National
Council of Nurses of Great Britain.
Miss Bergliot Larsson, President, Norwegian
Nurses' Association.
Mile Chaptal, President, National Trained
Nurses Association of France.
British Red Cross Society (2);
Lieutenant,General Sir Harold B. Fdwcus,
Director-General.
Dame Sarah Swift, Matron,in,Chief, Nurs'
ing Service.
National Council of Nurses (2);
Miss M. S. Cochrane, Vice'President.
Mi"s E. M. Musson, Vice' President.
Bedford College (1);
Miss G. E. M. Jcbb, Principal.
College of Nursing (1);
Miss Cox' Davies, President.
OCTOBFR, 1934
Fi1la1lce
In order to assure a proper financnl
basis for the new undertaking the sum
of 1:200.000 will be required. The raising
of this endowment is necessarily a difficult
task in times like these but the report of
the Provisional Committee presented by
Sir Arthur Stanley, showed that imme-
diate prospects are good and that the
ultimate financing of the Foundation on
a permanent basis is well under way. Jt
was announced that a committee set up
by the American Red Cross Society had
fixed a goal of $100,000 and in the mean-
time the committees in various countries
were endeavouring to provide scholar-
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THE CAN ADIAN NURSE
ships which would help to maintain the
courses from year to year.
The Gift of the League
As soon as the necessary formalities
have been complied with, the League of
Red Cross Societies will hand over as a
gift to the Foundation the lease and
equipment of 15 Manchester Square
which since 1925 has served as a home
for the students taking courses under the
auspices of the League. From the outs
t
therefore the new project will be Ha going
concern" and.. thanks to the generosity of
the League, will get into its stride at once
and be able to show results during the
difficult period of fund raising.
Canada Will Be There
Twenty scholarships have been made
available for the coming session and two
Canadian nurses. Miss Elizabeth Smith
and Miss Christina Murray, will repre-
sent Canada in this international student
group. We thus have a living link with
the new enterprise and shall watch its
development with interest and pride.
Correspondence
Nurses on the Screen
My dear Miss Johns:
I have read with interest the "Off Duty"
page in the J ul'y number of The Canadian
Nurse. This page was of particular interest
to me at this time because of the protests
which we are receiving from various members
of the American Nurses Association relative
to the motion pictures which have been
appearing within the last few years as por-
traying the life of the trained nurse. On June
28, 1934, I wrote to Mr. Jesse L. Lasky of
Hollywood, California, as follows:
"On behalf of the more than 100,000
members of the Association may I express to
you their appreciation of your desire to in-
sure authenticity of atmosphere and character
portrayal in the picture which 'you are plan-
ning to produce under the name of 'The White
Parade' and which is intended to be a real
story of nurses in training. I am sure I need
not say that the trained nurse as has she been
portrayed in certain motion pictures which
have been released during the past few years,
has not been the type of individual into whose
keeping any family would knowingly and
willingl'y give the care of a loved one; nor
has she been the type of person whom one
could visuali
e going about in a community
teaching people how to live healthier, happier
and better lives. I am confident there is so
much sentiment, adventure and heroism in
the day-by-day life of the nurse who quietly
and unostentatiously goes her usual round
of duty that there is no need to seek for
material for screen or story in the cheap or
sordid. May I say that on this SCore numerous
protests have been received in our Head-
quarters' office from members scattered through
the country. For this reason also it is gratify-
ing to read your letter. May I assure you
that should you desire to call upon them for
constructive criticism, the officers of the
American Nurses Association will be please.:!
to be of any possible assistance in the prepara-
tion of your proposed film."
Mr. Lasky states that he "plans to produce
in the near future a production entitled 'The
White Parade' which is designed to glorify
this magnificent profession:' Mr. Lasky refers
to the nursing profession. I wish he might
read this page of yours. I believe it would b
more effective than my letter.
May I take this occasion to tell you how
much I enjoyed my brief visit to Toronto and
the renewal of acquaintances with Canadian
friends. Thank 'you all again for your delight-
ful hospitality.
SUSAN C. FRANCIS.
President, American Nurses Association.
Speak Up in Meeting
Ever since graduation I have viewed with
growing concern the apparent indifference of
private duty nurses to subjects and conditions
that are vital to their own particular group.
True, there are the few courageous, ambitious
souls who keep the organizations going, at-
tend the meetings, and make the rules. But
the efforts of the majority are confined to
hurling destructive criticisms at their sincerest
efforts. One is reminded of the onlookers at
the baseball game who call out indignantly,
"Why didn't you throw it to third base?"
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CORRESPONDENCE
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It has always been easy for the spectator to
find fault. I never pass a hospItal but I
think of all the suffering men and women who
would be benefited by special nursing care,
and at the same time I know that there are
hundreds of nurses who want and need work.
Between these two groups stands the thick
high door of financial insufficiency. Who has
the key? Have we?
There is a great deal of feeling among
nurses amounting almost-I am sorry to say
-to bitterness in some cases, that nurses are
not called from the central register with any
degree of fairness. I have heard nurses not
only from my hospital but other hospitals as
well discuss this very thing. I hear it in the
dining room, in the dressing rooms, in th,
nurses' sitting room, in' fact anywhere nurses
are gathered, except the place it would do
any good-at the meetings. Now anyone with
any knowledge of human nature and psycho-
logy will admit that not all nurses suit all
patients by any means. However intelligent
pretty young Miss Jones is, she is obviously
not the best type of nurse for alcoholic Mr.
Brown. But nurses feel that this privilege of
hospitals and institutions to pick and choose
is very greatly abused. I shall not attempt
to comment on this personally except to quote
an old proverb, "Where there is a lot of
smoke there must be a little fire:' How much?
Why don't we find out?
Since I graduated I have tried to keep up
with the varied interesting movements of the
medical and nursing world. Research is going
on steadily and new techniques are being dis-
covered which far surpass the old. But books
and magazines are expensive, and I am de-
prived of reading much that would be both
interesting and profitable. Many nurses must
feel the same way, and if enough are inte-
rested why not begin a small library from
which such books might be borrowed. Think
about it, will you, and let us hear what you
have to say.
Another thing I would like to mention is
superannuation for nurses. Surely one would
not have to expend so very much each year
to ensure a small income later on. My letter
has been much longer than I intended but
there was much I wanted to say. I would be
happy to see anything I have mentioned dis-
cussed by other nurses.
A PRIVATE DUTY NURSE.
A Safe Confidant
Recently Mrs. C., who used to be a regular
attendant at our pre-school age clinic, made
an appointment to discuss "something that is
worrying me." Her small son, aged eight is
the youngest of a family of four. The mother
is a normal, healthy, reasonably intelligent,
practical woman of forty-eight. Her symptoms
were cessation of menstrual flow and enlarging
abdominal mass. These symptoms, among
others, were spoken of with a resigned air
toward impending trouble, and her recitation
of them ended with 'Tve read several articles
lately on cancer in women of my age, and I
strongly suspect this is the trouble, but I
felt I would like to speak to you before going
to the doctor." In reply I asked: "Mrs. C.,
are you absolutely certain that there is no
possibility of pregnancy?" A look of blank
amazement came over her face followed by a
broad smIle and quick flush of color and then
her reply-"Of course, how foolish of me,
and to think that I never thought of it." A
very happy Mrs. C. came again the next day
to my office. "I've been to the doctor and
he examIned me and all is well. As for my
husband, he is the happiest man in the world."
I think it is safe to deduce from an experience
of this kind that there are times when, through
a fear induced by a little knowledge, there is
a need for the professional knowledge com'
bined with sympathetic understanding that the
public health nurse is in a position to give.
A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE,
Prince Albert, Sask.
ALBERTA ANNUAL MEETING
The Alberta Association of Registered
Nurses has accepted an invitation from the
Alberta Hospital Association to hold their
Annual Meeting conjointly with that Associa'
tion. This Conjoint Convention will be held
OCTOBER, 1934
on October 9 and 10, 1934, in the Memorial
Hall, Edmonton, Alta. The guest speaker
will be Dr. Harvey Agnew, Secretary of the
Canadian Hospital Council.
OFF TO A GOOD START
Although registration is not yet com-
plete it is apparent that the McGill
School for Graduate Nurses is off to a
good start. Already the student group is
more numerous than last year and eight of
the Canadian Provinces are represented
although, as is to be expected, the major-
ity hail from the good old Province of
Quebec. Generous assistance, which will
enable certain students to take the course,
has been provided by various hospitals
and schools of nursing and by the Vic-
torian Order of Nurses.
The direction of the courses to be
given during the coming session will be
in the capable hands of Miss M<Jrion Lin-
deburgh, who possesses unusuLJlly high
qualifications from both a professional
and personal point of view. Miss Linde-
burgh is a native of Saskatchewan and
has nine years' experience of teaching in
the public and high schools of that pro-
vince to her credit. She is a graduate of
the School of Nursing of St. Luke's Hos-
pital, New York, and obtained the degree
of B.Sc. from Teachers College, Columbia
University, majoring in administration in
schools of nursing. She is also a gradu-
ate of the McGill School for Graduate
Nurses and has had considerable experi-
ence in school health service and health
education as a member of the staff of the
Regina High School. Miss Lindeburgh
has also served as head nurse and as
night superintendent in St. Luke's Hos-
pital and has thus rounded out a well-
balanced preparation for her responsible
task. At the Biennial Meeting Miss Lin-
deburgh was elected by acclamation as
chairman of the nursing education sec-
tion of the Canadian Nurses Associa
tion and her work as convener of the
national committee on curriculum has
been of outstanding value.
Associated with Miss Lindehurgh will
be Miss S. Mathewson, a graduate of the
School of Nursing of the Montreal Gen-
eral Hospital and of the McGill School
for Graduate Nurses where she carried
off the Lieutenant-Governor's medal for
highest standing in the public health
course. Miss Mathewson retains her as-
sociation with the nursing staff of the
Child Welfare Association thus afford-
ing a strong link between theory and
practice in the public health nursing
course.
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VOL. XXX, No. 10
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
It is good news to learn that an out-
standing British authority on maternal
and child welfare will shortly pay a visit
to Canada which will probably extend
over the months of October and Novem-
ber. This will be Dame Janet Campbell,
D.B.E., LL.D., M.D., M.S. (Lon.), who
has just retired as senior medical officer
for maternity and child welfare of the
British Ministry of Health and chief wo-
man medical adviser to the Board of Edu-
cation of Great Britain. Accompanied by
Miss Eunice Dyke, Reg.N., secretary of
the division on maternal and child hy-
giene of the Canadian Council on Child
and Family Welfare, Dame Janet will
visit all the larger cities in Canada as
part of an educational campaign to arouse
greater interest in maternal welfare. This
tour is being arranged under the joint
auspices of the division of maternal and
child hygiene of the Canadian Council
on Child and Family Welfare and vari,
ous co-operating nation
l, provincial and
local services in the health and welfare
fields.
Dame Janet was educated at the Lon-
don School of Medicine for \Vomen, fel-
lowed by postgraduate work in Vienna.
She served as house surgeon and house
physician at the Royal Free Hospital and
later as Senior R.M.O. at the Belgrave
Hospital for Children. Later she became
assistant medical inspector for the Lon-
don County Council in elementary
schools, secondary schools and training
colleges. In 190R, she was appointed
medical officer under the Board of Edu-
cation, on the staff of Sir George New-
man. In 1919, she was called to the Min-
istry of Health as senior medical officer
for maternity and child welfare, at the
Sc\.me time remaining in her post with
the Board of Education. In 1928, she
was named the medical member of the
committee on the training of midwives
and also of the committee on maternal
mortality and morbidity. It is in connec-
tion with her intensive work and studies
OC rOBER, 1934
in the intervening years that Dame Janet
is known throughout the English-speak-
ing world, and is regarded by the League
of Nations as one of the outstanding in-
ternéltional authorities on the subject. In
1926 she was appointed President of the
International Committee on Infant Mor-
tality set up by the Health Committee of
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the League of Nations, and in 1930 was
named the woman memher of the Health
Committee of the League. One of her
latest appointments has been as a mem-
ber of the Hospitals Construction Com-
mittee appointed by the Ministry of
Health.
This will not be Dame Janet's first ser'
vice to one of the great Dominions for
in 1929 she was invited by Australia to
dJvise on questions of maternal and child
welfare. She will he assured of as hearty
a welcome in Canada, especially from
nurses, who will certainly avail them'
sdves of this opportunity of hearing all
that the distinguished visitor has to tell
about a suhject which is of great interest
to us professionally as well as vitally
important to the nation as a whole.
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SOME NEW APPOINTMENTS
Miss Nora Nagle
To the great pleasure of her own school,
that of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal,
Miss Nora E. Nagle, M.A., has accepted the
position of director of its teaching department.
Miss Nagle brings to her new duties an excel-
lent preparation from both an academic and
a professional point of view and possesses a
fund of experience in the administrative as
well as the educational field. At the Biennial
Meeting of the Canadian Nurses Association
Miss Nagle was elected secretary of the
National Section of Nursing Education. She
is a close student of international aspects of
nursing; this interest grew out of the unusual
opportunities for observation afforded her
during the time that she served as health
advisor at International House in New York.
Miss Edith Amas
Miss Edith Amas has been 'appointed Direc-
tor of the School of Nursing of the Saskatoon
City Hospital, Saskatoon, Sask. Miss Amas
is a graduate of this school and also holds
the diploma of the McGill School for Gradu-
ate Nurses. She succeeds Miss Grace Watson
who recently retired. Miss Amas is the presi-
dent of the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses
Association.
Miss Ethel Hillyard
Miss Ethel M. Hillyard, who for the past
eight years has been instructor of nurses at
the Children's Memorial Hospital, Montreal,
has resigned to become instructor and assistant
superintendent of nurses at the Chipman
Memorial Hospital, St. Stephen, N.B. Miss
Hillyard is a graduate of the School of Nurs-
ing of the Children's Memorial Hospital and
also holds the diploma of the McGill School
for Graduate Nurses. Before she entered the
nursing profession she had had five years'
experience as a teacher. Miss Hillyard took
an active part in the work of the nursing
education section of the A.R.N.P.Q. and will
be very much missed. Prior to her departure
her Alumnae Association entertained in her
honour and presented her with a charming
gift. She is succeeded by Miss Madeline
Flander, who is also a graduate of the McGill
School for Graduate Nurses.
REFRESHER COURSE POR INDUSTRIAL NURSES
From October 24 to 27 (inclusive), the
School of Nursing, in co,operation with
the Department of University Extension,
University of Toronto, is offering a refresher
course for public health nurses in industry.
The enrolment will be limited to 40 and
applications will be accepted in the order in
which they are received until this number is
reached. If sufficient applications are not
received within a reasonable time, the course
will be withdrawn. Refunds of money paid
can he arranged, in case of inability to attend,
up to the first day of the course. The course
will consist of lectures, conferences and
observation visits. No credits will be given for
this work nor will any certificate be awarded.
The fee will be $3.00. The teaching will
include a consideration of: (1) Industrial
hygiene, emphasizing medical service in indus-
try; (2) Principles and .practices in industrial
nursing; (3) Mental hygiene in industry.
Round table discussions will be arranged. In
addition a visit will be made to an industrial
health service.
If you are loo1{ing for ..OFF DUTY," it may be found on the inside bac1{ cover.
VOL. XXX, No. 10
THE EDITOR'S DESK
o If the ReserJ'ation
Critical readers have noticed that for
the last three months the Journal has
been ranging wide and free and has ap'
parently disregarded the traditional limi'
tations of the three departments of
nursing education, public health nursing
and private duty. In this number we are
more decorous and have returned to the
familiar pattern. The question arises as
to why it was necessary to change tl:e
usual arrangement. The simple reason
was that the Biennial Meeting quite de'
clined either to be cooped up in anyone
division or neatly divided among all
three. When private nurses and public
health nurses insist on taking part in
planning educational programmes and
when institutional nurses and teachers of
nurses want to take a hand in solving the
problems of private duty, all fences
must come down, which is just about tl:e
best thing which could possibly hap'
pen. So, although the Journal will con'
tinue to carry the captions of the three
departments, we cannot guarantee that
occasionally the fences between may not
be more imaginary than real. All three
groups have their special interests and
responsibilities but the more each knows
about the others the better. After all
nursing is something greater than the
sum of all its parts.
1'he Curriculum
This month we present for the con'
sideration of our readers the full text of
the interim report of the ncltional com'
mittee on curriculum which was given at
the Biennial Meeting of the Canadicln
Nurses Association by the convener, Miss
Marion Lindeburgh. This report will re'
pay most careful study. In it will be
found a clear description of the objec'
tives of this committee and of the pro'
gress made toward attaining them. The
completion of the initial study and ques'
OCTOBER, 1934
tionaire marks distinct progress in the
building of the new curriculum. The
committee now has a foundation of con'
sidered opinion, gathered from all parts
of the country, upon which to build. No
curriculum can be put to effective use if
it is conceived in an academIc vacuum.
It must be related to the actual situation
in the nursing field and cannot ignor
the extraordinary demands of these diffi,
cult times. Fortunately there does not
seem to be any likelihood that the com'
mittee will allow its thinking to becom
visionary or unpractical. Progressive al,
ditions to its personnel have brought rep'
resentatives from every field of nursin6
into council with one another. PhY::ii,
clans, hospital administrators and educa'
tors who are also members will, now that
the preliminary spadework is accomplish,
ed, be able to take an active part in the
work that is being planned for the winter
months.
No Future?
We heard some one say the other day
that private duty nursmg had no future.
Before assenting to this dismal proposi'
tion read what Miss Mabel McMullen
has to say on this point It may surprise
you.
Entente Cordiale
Just as we were going to press we were
delighted to receive this cordial message
from the Reverenù Mother Audet of the
H(Îtd Dieu Hospital, Camphcllton, N.B.:
I wish to thank you for 'Your editorial note
"Bi,lingual", in the September is
ue, regarding
the French element in our Association. I am
sure that this act of courtesy and good,will
will be appreciated by every Canadian nur
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French or English. I enjoy 'The Canadian
Nurse mOre and mOre. I wish to express my
deep appreciation of the splendid work it is
doing for our profession.
MOTHER AUDET, R.N.,
Member of the Canadian Council on Nursing
Education of the Catholic Ho
pital
Association.
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REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON
CURRICULUM
The Standing Committee on Curricu-
lum was organized under the Nursing
Education Section of the Canadian
Nurses Association at the Biennial
Meeting in St. John in 1932. The work
assigned to this committee was the
preparation of a national curriculum for
schools of nursing in Canada. Wide
power was given this committee in regard
to both organization and function with
the obligation to report progress to the
Executive Committee of the Nursing
Education Section, and also to publish
at intervals a progress report in 'The
Canadian Nurse. Members appointed to
the committee at the time of its organi
3.-
tion were as follows:
Miss Jean Gunn, Toronto.
Miss Constance Brewster, Hamilton.
Miss Ethel Sharpe, Montreal.
Rev. Sister Allard, Montreal.
Miss Marion Lindeburgh, Montreal (Con-
vener) .
In an advisory capacity:
Miss B. Harmer, Montreal.
Rev. Sister Augustine, Montreal.
The organi
ation of a standing com-
mittee on curriculum was a natural out-
growth of the Survey of Nursing Educa-
tion in Canada. The Survey exposed
many defects relating to the administra-
tion of schools of nursing, and to the
education of the student nurse. Findings
were sufficiently objective and convincing
to indicate the need for certain immc-
diate adjustments, and it was therefore
with the definite objective of placing
schools of nursing on a sounder educa-
tional bas
s and of raising the status af
nursing education throughout Canada,
that this committee was appointed. After
considerable preliminary correspondence
the committee met in Montreal in De-
cember, 1932, to discuss the policy of
organization and procedure in the whale
476
undertaking. Conclusions reached are as
follows:
1. In that nursing education on an inde-
pendent financial basis and on a fully recog-
nized professional level cannot be secured by
any revolutionary measure, but inevitably
must come about through gradual improvement
of facilities and opportunities for education
in the hospital school of nursing, the con-
struction of a curriculum in this transition
period should provide for those immediate
adjustments and improvements which are
indicated in the Survey report, and which,
through an analysis of the field of profes-
sional service, would seem to be the most
generally needed.
It is through the avetlUe of the hospital
nursing school that schools of nursing will
finally . gain professional status, and in this
definite attempt to impro'ie the present situa-
tion, the way is being very consciously pre-
pared for the development of nursing educa-
tion, on a recognized professional level.
2. The work of the Standing Committee
on Curriculum is to be primarily concerned
with those aspects of the Survey report which
affect directly or indirectly the education of
the student nurse-and it is not to be con-
cerned with other parts of the report dealing
with problems of nursing service, and other
matters.
3. The committee is to be engaged in the
building of an educational programme which
will provide the essentials for the general
practice of nursing in the home and com-
munity, as well as in hospital institutions, and
it should be sufficiently broad and flexible
to provide a sound foundation for specializa-
tion in any particular field of nursing service.
4. It was the decision of the committee that
this curriculum should definitely provide fer
the three recognized basic essentials for the
intelligent and skilful practice of nursing:
(a) The fundamental scientific principles
which underly the practice of nursing;
(b) The technical skills which constitute
the art of nursing;
(c) The humanitarian and professional
ideals which determine the spirit and attitude
of the nurse.
5. It was agreed that the preparation of a
curriculum for schools of nursing in Canada
is a national enterprise, and demands the
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477
interest, effort, and participation of all mem'
bers of the nursing profession in Canada. It
cannot be confined to, or be the responsibility
of a few selected members, but it is a project
to which all branches of nursing service
should contribute. Members engaged in pro'
fessional service in the community should be
the most qualified to interpret community
needs to the profession, and it is from this
source that valuable information can be
secured, which should aid in determining the
essential educational content which can best
fit the student for efficient community service.
In that the representation on the com'
mittee was confined to administration
and teaching in schools of nursing it was
decided to enlarge the personnel to secure
a wider representation from the fields
of education and professional service.
The following members were added:
Mrs. W. Prince of the School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, representing
public health nursing education.
Miss M. Moag, District Superintendent,
Victorian Order of Nurses, Montreal.
Miss E. Beith, Executive Director, Child
Welfare Association, Montreal, representing
public health nursing service.
Miss I. Macintosh, Hamilton, representin
private duty nursing.
Dr. A. T. Bazin and Dr. E. P. Benoit,
representing general medical practice.
Dr. A. G. Fleming, McGill University,
representing public health and preventive
medicine.
Miss E. Flanagan, teaching staff, Royal
Victoria Hospital, representing teaching and
supervision in schools of nursing.
Miss E. Johns, editor and business manager,
'The Canadian 'Nurse.
Miss E. F. Upton, secretary.
To the advisory committee were addeJ
Dr. G. M. Weir, the director of the
Survey. and Professor F. Clarke, Depart'
ment of Education, McGill University.
In order to secure the participation
am} co'operation of all nursing groups
throughout the Dominion it was decided
to adopt a plan of provincial organization
which provided for the formation of prü'
vincial suh,committees, the personnel of
each to consist of the provincial presidellt
as convener, together with the cha
rman
of the three provincial sections, am} th
convener to he given power to aJJ to
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her committee, in order to secure a
strong provincial group.
The committee agreed to adopt the
technic of curriculum construction
which is generally recognized in scien'
tific practice, and which includes thr
e
main developmental stages:
Firstly, an analysis of the fields of nursing
service, for the purpose of securing data to
aid in determining the professional objectiv
s
of nursing education and service.
Secondly, assembling and evaluating ma'
terials submitted from these outside sources,
and selecting that information which would
seem to have the most direct bearing upon
the type of -professional preparation needed
to meet the growing and changing demands of
the modern community.
'Thirdly, setting up the whole content of
theory and practice, with definite regard to
sequence and continuity of experience in the
classroom, the clinical field, and the com'
munity.
As to the method of accomplishment
of the first analysis stage, it did not seem
possible nor practical to undertake an
expensive survey. It was therefore
decided to work within certain limits,
and to prepare a study and questionnaire
which would secure the opinion of the
nursing profession, as to the applicability
of certain recommendations in the Survey
report concerning the education of the
student nurse, and also in regard to
other fundamental problems which 3.re
seriously affecting progress in nursing
education. The three hundred copies of
this study, distributed throughout Cana,
da last January, and with which I fed
sure you are all more or less familiar,
was definitely prepared for the purpos
which I have just stated.
This study .md questionnaire with
which you have been engaged Juring the
last three or four months incluJe what
would seem to be the fundamental issues
of nursing education, both administrative
and teaching. This includes the considera,
tion of cert.lin influencing f.lCtors, other
than the actuJ.I educationdl programme
itself :n orJcr to s.lfegu.lrJ anJ insure
the cffiÓent function of the curriculum.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
An extract from the Survey suggests the
justification of this inclusion:
It is futile to attempt any real improvement
in nursing education by starting in on curri-
culum reform and overlooking other closely
allied and equally vital factors. More impor-
tant even than the formal curriculum is the
selection of the student personnel. Secondly,
the quality of the instruction can scarcely be
overestimated. Thirdly, adequate facilities and
teaching equipment should be available.
The study including these allied factors
show the following units:
Essentials of a Good School of Nursing
(a) Organization and finance.
(b) School of nursing committee.
( c) The budget.
(d) Student fees.
(e) The working day.
(f) Living conditions.
Staff of a School of Nursing
(a) Personnel.
(b) Qualifications.
(c) Staff education.
Students
(a) Health examination and supervision.
(b) Qualifications, intelligence, person-
ality.
(c) Academic standing.
(d) Age.
( e) Personal and social development.
(f) Discipline.
Opportunities for Experience
(a) Classroom, library, laboratory.
(b) The clinical field-size of hospital-
clinical services.
(c) The community.
'The Curriculum
(a) Objectives.
(b) Major functions of a nurse in a
modern community.
(c) Conspicuous criticisms made in
Survey report.
(d) Theory and practice. Time rati
of
classroom to clinical teaching.
Classroom
(e) Organization of classroom subjects.
Clinical Field
(f) Organization of clinical instruction
and practice.
(g) Educational programme in the cli-
nical field.
(h) Placing responsibility for clinical
teaching.
(i) Student assignments in the clinical
field.
(j) Elimination of non-nursing duties.
Community
(I{) Community experience (nursing
interneship) .
Methods of 'Teaching and Learning.
.(a) Statement of theory of method.
(b) Statement of committee on educa-
tion of the I.C.N.
(c) Summary of criticisms (Survey
Report) .
(d) Adjustments.
(e) Case study.
Educational Measurements
(a) Examinations.
(b) Records.
It might here be stated that serious
consideration was given to the selection
and arrangement of the above units, in
the hope that they might serve at a later
stage, as the skeleton of the curriculum
around which content is to be assembled.
Special reference should be made of a
separate project undertaken by Rev.
Soeur Allard of the Hôtel Dieu, Mont'
real, and a member of the Central Curri,
culum Committee. To meet the need of
the French hospital schools of nursing
in Quebec province, a French translation
of the study was prepared and fifty
copies were distributed to the several hos,
pitals and to community groups.
During the past few weeks the curri-
culum studies have been coming in to
the central office from the various prov,
inces, and we have been engaged in
assembling, tabulating and evaluating
answers submitted, making a general
statement as to response. The situation
is most hopeful and encouraging. Splen'
did work has been done. Studies under,
taken by groups within the hospital insti-
tutions, public health organizations, an..i
in the private duty field show the signs
of analytic and reflective thinking, and
on behalf of the Central Curriculum
Committee might I express our apprecia'
tion for the interest shown, and effort
made by all provincial committees in the
curriculum project. If you can visualize
our library room at the School for
Graduate Nurses, McGill University,
you will see long strips of paper upon
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which are assembled the answers from
all the studies sent in, and it is interesting
and enlightening to review the total re'
sponse in connection with anyone ques'
tion. Rev. Soeur Allard has undertaken
the task of assembling and evaluating the
answers in connection with the French
translation and it is significant to note
from her report submitted that the con'
census of opinion among the French,
speaking members correlates very closely
with the trend of thought and balance of
opinion as indicated in the larger survey.
Besides the task of handling the stu'
dies, which has been under the direction
of Miss Flanagan, three other pieces of
work are under way:
Firstly, the suggestion of a possible plan of
placing schools of nursing on a better financial
basis, is being undertaken by Miss Gunn;
secondly, a possible plan for the period of
affiliation with a public health nursing orga'
ni
ation suggesting educational content and
approximate cost is being undertaken by Mi!>s
Moag, with a special committee; and, thirdly,
a possible scheme is being worked out to secure
the co'operation of qualified teachers and
supervisors in schools of nursing in the selec,
tion and organi
ation of classroom subjects,
and of ward experience. As supplementary to
securing helpful data through the study and
questionnaire, curricula from recognized
schools of nursing in Canada has been ob,
tained. Information secured in this way,
indicated what the better schools are doing
under present conditions and will further aid
in determining a possible level of educational
achievement.
No specified time has been set for the
completion of this curriculum task. The
first preliminary analysis stage is just now
completed, and the much more difficult
undertLlking of actually setting up the
curriculum content is ahead of us. The
curriculum committee has discussed the
advisability of the first draft of the cur'
riculum being published in sufficiently
durable form to be submitted for trial
and constructive criticism for a certain
length of time, after which period revi,
sion should be considered. However, thIs
stage seems somewhat remote at the
moment, but the committee would he
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grateful for any suggestions from this
meeting.
As convener of the Standing Commit,
tee on Curriculum, might I say that
throughout the preparation of the study,
members of the committee have work
d
wholeheartedly and co,operatively to'
gether, and with the services, as a most
efficient secretary, of Miss Upton, the
work, although at times difficult has also
been stimulating and pleasurable. It has
been a regret that out'of,town members
have met but once with us in Montreal,
and in order to curtail expense the work
has been carried on by correspondenc
.
However it is gratifying that it was
possible to arrange what might be termed
a re'union meeting prior to this General
Meeting, and in discussing plans for
further development it was decided to
enlarge the membership of the committee,
in order that the work might be carried
forward more effectively.
In conclusion might I direct your
attention to the fact that as the Standing
Committee on Curriculum is organized
under the Nursing Education Section it
would imply that this report woulJ
naturally form a part of the programme
of that particular section, but in thJ.t
the project is definitely national in char'
acter and is so organized that all prov'
inces and all three sections are taking
part in the activity, an adjustment was
made whereby the curriculum report
could be presented at this general session,
and on behalf of all concerneJ we wish to
thank the programme committee for
making this possible. Such an arrange'
ment affords the opportunity for all three
sections to be represented in the discus,
sion which is to follow, and the topic tu
be undertaken by each suggests a specific
phase of the curriculum problem upon
which that particular group is most quali,
ficJ to speak.
M \RION LINDEBURGH,
Convener, Standing Committee on
Curriculum, Nursing Education Sec'
tlOn, Canadian Nurses A!>soci.ltion.
Department of Public Health Nursing
HEALTH TEACHING IN THE BASIC COURSE
MAUDE H. HALL, Assistant Superintendent, Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada.
With the phenomenal development in
the science and practice of medicine, the
possibilities of the promotion of health
and the prevention of disease have been
enormously increased. The potentialities
and responsibilities of the nurse have as-
sumed new aspects. A nurse can no
longer concern herself solely with the
physical needs and symptoms of her
patient and give complete nursing care.
She must know her patient as an indi-
vidual and have knowledge of all those
factors in his life which affect his health
and may even cause his illness and pre-
vent his recovery. This is as necessary
for the nurse in the hospital, or for the
private duty nurse, as for the public
health nurse giving visiting nursing care
to the patient in his home. It is therefore
not only to improve the preparation of
public health nurses and increase the
supply that we are interested in the pos-
sibilities of the development of the pre-
ventive and public health aspects of the
undergradute course, but, as well, to
prepare all nurses to meet their respon-
sibilities and to carry out their duties
most effectively. In the words of Miss
Gertrude Hodgeman, formerly Associate
Professor at the Yale School of Nursing:
Let us assume that basically nursing is one
thing whether it is carried on in the hospital,
in connection with one patient in private duty
or in some public health activity. If the needs
of the public health field seem to be empha-
sized, it is because of the belief that in these
aspects the public health nurse is functioning
more fully at the present time as a nurse. In
this field she has assumed more fully her
responsibility to care for her patient as a
human being, to bring to him the resources
of the community for his welfare and to co-
operate with these resources, to appreciate the
need and opportunity for teaching.
It is often said that every nurse is a
An address ddivered before the Canadian Nurses
Association at the Biennial Meeting in Toronto,
June 29, 1934.
480
public health nurse, but until preventive
measures are stressed more consistently
in the practice of the undergraduate
nurse, it will refer to the ideal rather
than the true state of affairs.
lntegration
While public health training has been
included in a small number of our train-
ing schools in Canada, it has usually been
introduced through affiliation with a
public health nursing organization in the
senior year of the student's course after
she has had certain special training in-
cluding obstetrics and operating room
technique. There is little doubt of th
value of this experience when the public
health nursing organization has assumed
its educational responsibility to the stu-
dent and the time allotted has been of
sufficient duration to give her an oppor-
tunity to become familiar with the new
and complex environment in which she
is working. Two months is the minimum
period approved by the Victorian Order
of Nurses for Canada for such an affilia-
tion. However, if the introduction to
this new aspect of nursing is delayed
until the senior year a great opportunity
has been lost, and interjected at this time,
it is a correction rather than the culmina-
tion of a sequence of experience for the
student. The preventive aspect of nurs-
ing and health teaching should be inte-
grated in her training from the early
days. To quote from a report of the
National League of Nursing Education:
It should be applied all the way through.
Community nursing experience is a more ad-
vanced step in the training and should be an
out-growth of interest and activities which
have been finally established in previous hos-
pital work. Pupil affiliation should be a unifi-
cation of all previous theory, practice and
observation.
Teaching Methods and Content
Perhaps one of the most practical ways
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of centering the student's attention on
the preventive aspect is through the care
of her own health. This can be done
through periodic physical examinations,
prompt correction of defects, immuniza,
tion against diphtheria, typhoid and
smallpox, instruction in personal hygiene
(mental, emotional and physical) and the
provision of an environment in which
these rules can be observed. The hours
for work, rest and recreation should be
balanced and some one member of the
professional staff should have the respon,
sibility for the oversight of the student's
health.
It would seem essential that at least
one member of the administrative or
teaching staff should have postgraduate
training in public health nursing or at
least public health experience. In the
Yale School of Nursing, which was
founded through a gift to the University
from the Rockefeller Foundation, one of
the conditions of the gift was that the
graduates of the school should be pre'
pared to undertake public health nurs'
ing. Experience in this field has, there'
fore, been considered a required quali,
fication for appointment to the faculty of
the School.
It would not seem necessary to add
more subjects to the curriculum for
schools of nursing but rather to augment
the content and change the emphasis of
those already taught. It is perhaps more
a question of developing a quality in
nursing and a point of view. From the
beginning the student should be taught
to regard her patient according to his
individuality rather than his disease. Pos,
sibly this can be done better through the
study of the patient from the standpoint
of his background, nationality, family,
responsibilities, occupation and person'
ality. The nursing care must be based on
the whole need of the patient and in
order to give such nursing care, all these
factors must be considered as well as the
disease from which the patient is suffeT'
ing. Careful case records should be kept
OCTOBER, 1934
481
and the result of the treatment studied,
otherwise the student will lose much of
the educational value of this method.
Home Contacts
It would seem an advantage for the
student nurse at some time very early in
her training to have some contact with
the home of a patient. If she could visit
the home of a patient whom she has
known in the hospital it would be more
significant but that might not be feasible
in many instances. A home contact can
sometimes be arranged through the social
service worker in the out'patient depart-
ment or through a visiting nursing or
other public health agency. Possibly this
might be one or two half days spent with
a health or social worker. The object of
these visits would not be for observation
of nursing care or technique but rather of
social and economic conditions found in
the homes, and through discussion, the
relationship of these conditions to the
health of the family would be emphasized.
The Hospital and Public Health
The out-patient department of a hos,
pital brings experiences to the student
which the wards do not afford. Here ill,
ness is seen in its incipient stages as well
as in acute and chronic form. The patient
comes for advice and the treatment or'
dered must be carried out in the home,
frequently by the patient himself or by
a member of his family. This calls for
careful instruction. Home conditions
must be inquired into to find whether
there are facilities for treatment and the
co-operation of the patient and family
must be gained. The patient is seen here
as a member of the community. Through
her work in the out'patient department
the nurse has a better opportunity to
learn the various social and health agen'
cies in the community and their func,
tions.
The various services in the hospital
provide opportunities for health teach,
ing. For example, in the paediatric de,
partment the parents who are taking a
convalescent child home need instruction
482
THE CANADIAN NURSE
as to his care and the prevention of fup
ther illness. Through her theory and
practice in the care of children the nurse
should be prepared to give this teaching.
In the obstetrical department the mother
going home with her young baby should
have the baby's bath demonstrated as it
would be given with the facilities which
the home provides. The method used by
the community public health agency
might well be the one employed as it has
been planned by workers familiar with
home conditions.
Community Resources
There should be familiarity with the
resources of the community which may
be called upon for the benefit of the pa-
tient. This may be accomplished through
having members of the various organiza-
tions address the nurses on their pro-
gramme of work and by following this
up by use of the organization as oppor-
tunity presents. Nursing care may be re-
quired after a patient is dismissed from
hospital. A school child may need special
oversight by teacher or school nurse.
Material relief may be required. Through
reference of patients to agencies and a
good system of reporting, the nurse will
appreciate the value of their work in re-
lation to the health and social welfare of
the community.
Field Super'Vision
In considering field supervision for the
students through affiliation with a public
health nursing organization, it should be
kept in mind that the experience must be
educational. The opportunity to do bed,
side nursing in the homes instead of in
the hospital is of doubtful value unless it
is associated with supervision, demon'
strations, conferences and co'operation
with other community workers. The
work of the student must be carefully
planned not only to give variety of ex'
perience but to furnish opportunity to
follow through cases where the results of
treatment and instruction are evident.
Both from the standpoint of the or'
ganization and the student, this affilia,
tion seems to fit in best during the senior
year. The student then has a richer store
of professional knowledge on which she
can build and is better able to benefit by
the new experience which she meets in
the more complex environment of the
community. Unless she is able to do
some independent work under super'
vision she will not get the best out of this.
On the other hand the first responsibility
of the organization is to the community
and while it offers valuable opportunities
for rounding-out the student's prepara'
tion, it can scarcely be expected to take
the risk involved unless the student's
training is sufficiently advanced tû war'
rant her acceptance of some responsi,
bility.
A Good Model
The three'year undergraduate course
initiated last autumn in the School for
Nursing of the University of Toronto
opens up new possibilities for nursing
education in Canada. Its objectives are
outlined by the Director, Miss E. K. Rus,
sell, as follows:
The first thing to emphasi
e about this
school, and perhaps the most important, is
that its work is all to be on an experimental
basis; it is to be looked upon as research into
various phases of the education and the train-
ing of nurses. We st'art with no fixed theories
unless perhaps the one simple idea that three
years is long enough for a nurse's training.
Rather do we start with certain suggestions
already long advocated by our profession or
accepted as beyond question in the general
field of education: working from these we
aim to discover.
The school will attempt to make this three-
year course in nursing a general practitioner's
course. Thus, it is not to be particularized
as a hospital training or a public health train-
ing; rather it is to be a training for nursing.
This procedure is based on the assumption
that the graduate of such a course should
make a better worker for both the public
health field and private duty, and also for
hospital work, than those being prepared in
the present manner. '
Such an approach will ensure, from
the beginning, the introduction of health
teaching into the basic course.
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THE CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
EDNA L. MOORE, Chief Public Health Nurse, Division of Child Hygiene and Public Health
Nutsing, Department of Health, Province of Ontario.
The CanaJian Puhlic Health Associa,
tion met for its twenty,thirJ annudl
meeting in Montreal, on June 11, 12 and
13, 1934, when each of the following
sections of the Association held one or
more sessions: Industrial Hygiene, V it'll
Statistics, Laboratory Workers, Public
Health Engineering and Public Health
Nursing. There were two combined
sessions, namely that of the laboratory
workers and public health engineering
sections and of the public health nursing
and mental hygiene sections. Two general
sessions and one joint session with the
Canadian Tuberculosis Association com'
pleted the programme. A dinner meeting
was addressed by the Honorary President,
the Honorable 1. A. David, K.C., Pro'
vincial Secretary for the Province of
Quebec. The attendance was upwards of
475 and included representatives from
every province. Excursions to the County
Units at St. Jerome and St. John were
greatly en joyed. For the past eight years,
health workers throughout the Dominion
have been following the development of
the County Health Unit system in Que'
bec with keen interest and this oppor,
tunity to study the set,up at first hand
was deeply appreciated.
Greetings from the American Publi.::
Health Association were brought by the
President, Dr. Haven Emerson, and by
Dr. John A. Ferrell of the International
Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation.
The programme was characterized by the
practical nature of the formal papers
presented. The discussions followed the
same trend. A tea, given by Miss Eliza'
heth Smellie, C.B.E., chairman of public
health nursing section, provided a delight,
ful opportunity for the renewing of
acquamtances and meeting new members.
The programme of the public health
nursing section centred arounJ the edu,
cational efforts of the public health nurse,
OCTOBER, 1934
beginning with the development of com'
munity responsibility for health activities.
The chairman emphasizeJ the need for
increased membership and participation
in the organization, particularly on the
part of administrators and supervisors
of public health nursing. She spoke of
the place of the public'spirited layman
in health work and in this connection
referred to an address given at the recent
convention of the American Nurses
Association, by E. C. Lindeman, Profes,
sor of Social Philosophy in the New York
School of Social Work. Speaking on the
topic of "Community Responsibility for
Health", Mr. Lindeman said: "The
moment community planning is done by
professionals, we have an autocracy;
professionals should be retained by t
e
people to carry out effectively the
demands and plans that the public ha\'c
made and this implies an enlightened
population." Two specific suggestions
were made and later acted upon by th
committee on resolutions:
1. That in future the term of office of the
chairman and secretary of the public health
nursing section be two years with the arrange'
ment that they retire alternate years and that
the vice,chairman be appointed yearly when
the place of meeting is decided upon.
2. That a small committee be appointed to
study such problems as may be referred to it,
as suggested in the General Secretary's memo'
randum and in the Chairman's report.
The attendance at the public health
nursing session was approximately 250,
and a nurses' lunéheon was well attendeJ
and greatly enjoyed if judgment may be
based upon the hum of conversation th'lt
pervaded the room. Dr. Haven Emerson
came in for a few minutes. and told of
the recent appointment of the first public
health nurse to be attached to the staif
of the United States Public Health Ser,
vice who will act as an associate consul,
t.mt to the various Divisions as well as
to St.lte Departments of Health.
483
Department of Private Duty Nursing
THE FUTURE OF PRIV ATE DUTY NURSING
MABEL McMULLEN, Private Duty Nurse, St. Stephen, N.B.
Into our nursing history are woven the
names of many nurses who have contri,
buted to the organization of the nursing
world with respect to education, profes'
sional ethics, civic spirit and public use'
fulness. Among these names are those of
many Canadian nurses who are aiding in
the adjustment of our present' day prob,
lems, for even in 1929 it was realized that
the nursing profession was involved in
the world'wide economic depression.
We are all familiar with the fact that,
as a result of the progress of medicine,
hospitals have sprung up all over the
country, training schools have increased
in number and large numbers of gradu,
ates have been released, the majority of
whom have entered the private duty
field. Nurses, like many other luxuries,
became necessities, but we have lived
through the days when we took so much
for granted until the present time when
only a reckless gambler would take the
longest odds that we shall see prosperity
again. I freely admit that many of the
ideas presented in that paper have been
taken from the Survey of Nursing Educa,
tion in Canada but I feel quite justified
in using them because I am certain of
their sterling value and I have chosen
three points, stressed in that Survey, as
being of vast importance to the future of
nursing.
Educational Requirements
I am aware that the selection of stu.
dents, their academic standing and their
professional training comes under the
jurisdiction of the nursing education
section. However, private duty nurses
realize that many nurses are handicapped
because of their lack of sufficient early
education. The recommendation of the
An address read at the Biennial Meeting of the
Canadian Nurses Association, June 27, 1934. in
Turonto.
484
Survey is "that the minimum academic
requirement for admission to an approved
school throughout Canada should be
Junior Matriculation." Before and since
the publication of the Survey, many
schools of nursing have raised their edu,
cational standards.. and the prediction is
that in future students entering aa
approved school of nursing will have
sufficient educational requirement to
enable them to study, absorb, and apply
the theoretical side of their training.
Over-Production of Nurses
Control of the number of nurses to be
released from training schools lies within
the power of the hospital administrators
and hospital managers. It seems as if
there could be no argument about the
question of over'production. Neverthe'
less, there is a possibility that there are
not too many nurses but, owing to the
present economic situation. there is lack
of employment for the large number of
nurses on the market. Private duty nurses
recommend that the output continue to
be decreased until the present unemploy'
ment situation can be controlled by some
form of organization.
The prediction for the future is that
gradually we shall reach the point where
all nurses will be continuously employed
on a salary basis and the present hap'
hazard way of earning a living will thus
be done away with. The ever'present
criticism of the .. exorbitant fees" charged
by nurses will be averted; private duty
nurses will work for small fees. or salaries
as they will be called in the future. There
will be shorter hours; an assured income;
time for rest, recreation, friendship and
other phases of nonnal living.
The Weir Report states that 40 per'
cent of nurses are continuously unem.
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THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE DUTY NURSING
ployed while 60 percent of our people,
acutely ill, cannot afford to pay for
nursing care. The anomaly is dealt with.
from time to time, in articles appearing
in medical and nursing publications, and
many stress the urgency of the nurses
clinching the situation for themselves. In
an address given before the Central
Council of Nursing Education in Chi,
cago, Dr. Hugh Cabot said: "If we fail
to face our problems, and they have to
be taken over by somebody else, that
somebody else will inevitably be repre'
sentative of the public and certainly less
qualified than we are. We still have 'our
tlight to howl' and I suggest that we will
be well advised to take advantage of it."
Federal and Provincial Councils
The immediate future is concerned
with finding a means whereby, to quote
the Survey, "the economic gap between
the nurse and the patient can be effective'
ly bridged." The Survey suggests these
plans:
1. A Federal Council on Nursing which
might be a creation of the federal government
and subject to a Dominion Board of Control.
Canadian nurses should ho!d ala: ge represen'
tation, with representatives from the medical
and leading lay organizations. Its functions
might include control of educational standards,
the curriculum, examination standards,
methods of teaching and of inspection and
supervision. Should serious opposition arise
to such a Federal Council receiving govern'
ment assistance, this Council might be formed
as a Division of the Canadian Nurses Associa'
tion.
2. Provincial Councils would exercise func'
tions which, with the advice of the Federal
Council of Nursing, would be of an executive
and administrative as well as an educational
nature. Their prime function would be to
organize and supervise the private duty nurses,
and various attendants, who care for the sick
for hire. Compulsory registration with these
Councils would be adopted, and would include
attendants, home helpers and practical women,
as well as trained nurses. At the outset there
would be no reason to modify the status of
the pubiic health or institutional nurse. Pri.
vate duty nurses working through the local
or district registries as a pa
t of the Provincial
Councils, would be given continuous employ'
OCTOBER, 1934
485
ment on a regular salary basis. These district
registries would serve as branches of the
Councils, working under the direction and
supervision of the Councils, and bringing types
of nursing to homes as required.
Obviously, the organization of the:;e
services would be largely conditioned by
the studies of local needs made by the
Council, and by the establishment of
effective contacts with the medical pro'
fession, training schools, hospitals, d
,
partments of health, and other agencies
concerned with the care of the sick. The
question arises as to whether all private
duty nurses should be obliged to worÌ\.
under the direction of the Provincial
Council and if there would be sufficient
work to keep all nurses employed. Ta
again quote from the Survey: "Nurses
who prefer to remain 'free' lance' amI
enjoy their so' called personal freedom
might be permitted to do so, but only
wealthy patients could compete finan'
cially with the services offered by the
Councils and registries."
Control and Supervision
Another question arises as to whethLr
the Provincial Councils could supply
scientific nursing supervision as a reason-
able assurance of efficient nursing
service. In the judgment of the Survey
this could be done though in some cas
s
not without difficulty. It would appea.r
to be more difficult to supervise a nurse
in a home than in the class' room. The
Victorian Order of Nurses supervises it.:;
members, and the principle of supervision
could be made effective and scientific in
the private duty field. Furthermore, the
supervision of those engaged in their
"nursing internship", as recommended in
the Survey as one of the additions to the
training of nurses, would be one of the
important functions of the Councils.
As a private duty nurse, I predict thJ.t
future nursing activities. will revolve
around these Provincial Nursing Councils
and will be financed through federal
assistance. I predict however, that the
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organization and operation of the system
will be under the control of the Canadian
Nurses Association.
It does not seem possible that any small
group or groups of nurses will be able
to meet the situation. Hourly. group,
and other types of nursing may aid em-
ployment in a small way and be a means
of informing the public that we are will-
ing to give service to those needing such
care, but this will not meet the need of
the large number requiring nursing care.
It will have to be done on a large scale,
with representation and co-operation
from all fields of nursing and on the foi-
lowing points private duty nurses should
be unanimous:
1. We should familiarize ourselves with the
situation.
2. We should recognize the fact that we
are expected to playa part in future arrange-
ments for the care of the sick.
3 . We should do something to show our
willingness to do our part.
4. We should teach the public that health
and nursing care are theirs by right and can
be obtained by co-operation with the nurses
of Canada. This educational process will be
slow, difficult, and discouraging but let us
keep "hammering away", to use an old-
fashioned expression. Let us impress upon
all concerned the necessity of establishing
funds and also that nursing care is not charity
and that there is danger of making paupers.
T he Distant H oriz.on
Now may I take a few minutes to
visualize the distant future from an
idealistic but nevertheless practical point
of view. Having graduated from an
approved school of nursing, the future
nurse will be an intelligent, healthy, cul-
tured young woman. versed in social
ethics, equipped to earn a living. and in
so doing, willing to be of service in the
community in which she lives. She will
have the desire to be a nurse for she will
have proved that by qualifying herself
for nursing, she will enter a well-orga-
nized nursing world; she will have many
fields to choose from. She may specialize
in psychiatric or neurological nursing,
for these will doubtless be included in the
future training of nurses; she may choose
to become a "flight nurse" in the aviation
service; she may choose private duty
work. If so. she will not drift into it in
a haphazard way. for she will have served
her "nursing internship" which will have
J5iven her insight into this line of work.
After at least one year of experience, she
will take her Dominion Registered Nurse
examinations; this will make her eligible
for practise in any province and she will
be known as a preferred nurse. She may
choose to be a community nurse: this
field will be under the supervision of the
Provincial Council and she will be em-
ployed on a salary basis. The funds for
this will be obtained from the State
Health Insurance Fund. From this salary
she will place a small sum, systematically,
in the reserve fund to meet the inevitably
recurring period of depression. The adop-
tion of a socialized nursing service will
bring her continuous nursing employ'
ment, a guaranteed salary, a systematic
saving plan. and after a stated number
of years of service. a superannuation
similar to that of the teaching profession.
Thus we have before us a vague but
ideal vision of the future of nursing.
Happily, all past experience in the world'"
history shows that ideals. in a real sense,
govern the world. and that a logical diffi.
culty is not necessarily a practical impos-
sibility. Applied to the nursing world,
a generous and noble idea of fair play
and the greatest good to the greatest num,
ber will work its own fulfilment. With
high ideals let us face the future and j 0
a practical way demonstrate these ideals.
Furthermore, let us not force the pace of
reform, or imagine that the ideal has be
n
reached before the preliminary founda-
tions have been laid.
VOL. XXX, No. 10
Book Reviews
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HEALTH NURSE. By V. May Mac'
donald, R.N., formerly secretary for
the Connecticut Society for Mental
Hygiene, formerly organizer of social
work, National Committee for Mental
Hygiene. Second edition, revised and
enlarged. 72 pages. Price $1.50. Puo,
lished by J. B. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia. Canadian branch: 525
Confederation Building, Montreal.
This book is divided into two sections,
the first of which is entitled "The public
health nurse and mental disorders" and
the second "The public health nurse and
mental health." It is obvious that in a
brief treatise which covers only seventy'
two pages that it is not possible to give
more than an outline of such a vast sub,
ject. Nevertheless this little book is useful
for two reasons: it gives practical advice
concerning the attitudes toward mental
hygiene which should be developed by
public health nurses and it furnishes a
wealth of references for collateral reading.
SURGICAL NURSING. arranged accordin
to. the unit method. By Sister MalY
Florence, R.S.M., B.S., R.N., lnstruc'
tor in surgical nursing, Mercy School
of Nursing, Mercy Hospital, Baltimore,
Md. 119 pages, including blank pages
for notes. Price $2.00. Published by
the W. B. Saunders Company, London
and Philadelphia. Canadian agents:
McAinsh and Co. Ltd.. 3RH Yonge St.,
Toronto.
The content of this book has been prc'
pared in accordance with the Morrison
unit method of teaching. This method
has five steps which may be summarized
as follows: ExploratIOn-to explore th
student's background or fitness for the
suhject; Presentation - to present an
overview of the unit to motivate the st:'l'
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OCTOBER, 1934
in a word, to master the subject; Organi,
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and to arrange data; Recitation-to
recite, to give evidence to the teacher that
she has mastered the unit.
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surgery; (5) thoracic surgery; (6) ortho,
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under the heading of assimilative mate'
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nurses who are making case studies. The
blank pages make it possible to preserve
the answers for future reference. lnstruc,
tors will find this book very helpful 1:1
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Notes from the National Office
ContrIbuted by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N" Executive Secretary.
As announced in the August issue of
the] oUn-ul-I. the official reports submitted
to the Biennial Meeting are appearing in
Notes from the National Office. The
majority of these reports were published
in August and September issues. This
month, the report of the Central Curri,
culum Committee will be found in the
Department of Nursing Education of the
] ournal while the report of the Commit,
tee on the Co,ordination of Nursing
Education Interests appears herewith.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE CO-ORDINATION
OF NURSING EDUCATION INTERESTS
I have the honour to present the report
of the Committee on Co,ordination of
Nursing Education. The appointment of
this committee resulted from the follow'
ing resolution presented by the Public
Health Section of the Association of
Registered Nurses of the Province of
Quebec at the Biennial Meeting in 1932.
"Whereas, nursing education is a subje.::t
of general and not sectional concern, and
requires for its best development, the contribu-
tions of all branches of nursing, Therefore,
be it resolved that the C.N .A. be request
d
to consider the formation of a central o;ganiza,
tion, apart from, and contributed to by, the
private duty, public health and hospital or
institutional sections, to carryon the study
and related activities of nursing education."
The Committee has communicated
with all the provincial conveners and has
received replies from eight provinces. I
will try as brief! y as possible to sum up the
findings of these various groups. Gener,
ally speaking, the thought expressed in'
dicated that there was a need for closer
co,operation on educational policies, but
it was also evident that a very real fear of
forming another section or committee
existed. This fear is understandable if we
are all thinking only in terms of the
present set,up in consequence of which
nearly all committees are composed of the
same groups of already overburdened ex'
ecutives. Can we not, however, reach out
and motivate some of the younger mem'
bers of the profession who are now taking
no part in the formation of policies, edu'
cational and otherwise, because they have
not been encouraged to accept responsl'
490
bility? One group asked this question-
"There is now a national organization
containing three sections, why form an-
other section?" The question of whether
or not we shall form a new section or
committee does not appear to be so impor'
tant as the realization that the need exists
for analysis of the functions of each sec'
tion, recognition that the major function
of the nurse in any field is, or should be,
educational, and that continuous growth
is as important for the nurse as for any
other member of the community. Are we
so sure that the present set,up is adequate
to meet present day needs that we must
not even dare to think in terms of change?
A frequent suggestion was that the
present curriculum committee was an
answer to the problem presented by the
resolution. The study of the curriculum
has brought all groups closer together and
I presume that the intention back of this
suggestion is that the Central Curricul urn
Committee would become a standing com'
mittee on education with power to en'
large both the personnel amI the scope of
the committee. At present the members
of the Central Curriculum Committee
represent to a great extent the adminis,
trative group, and the study deals almost
entirely with undergraduate education
and with education within hospital walls.
Other recommendations that seemed
worthy of your consideration were:
1. "That after the sectional group meetin(!s
a committee from each section (suggested th:lt
this be the educational committee), meet to
discuss problems in nursing which have arisen
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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
during the meeting of anyone of the sections
and which are the concern of all three sec-
tions. The recommendations from this co:n-
mittee are to be brought to the general meeti.lg
for full discussion. This will obviate the neces-
sity of the formation of the central organiza'
tion suggested in the communication from the
C.N .A. of February 12th. n This might be
practical and would necessitate
hat th
se
meetings become an integral part of the
programme.
2. "We consider the need for co-ordination
in nursing education as stated in the reso!u-
tion sent to the C.N.A. in 1932 of even
more importance at the present time, and
recommend that the convener of the special
committee appointed at Saint John, 1932, be
asked to continue her work fo. the next two-
year period."
3. "As a means of widening the scope ()f
this study provincial representation should he
increased, and we suggest that each provincial
6ection nominate two members, not necessarily
conveners, interested or engaged in educd-
tional activities, who would give this project
intensive study. As as result of such study
we should be better prepared to deal adequate-
ly with the whole subject of co-ordination in
nursing education:'
491
In conclusion it is apparent that the
profession, in company with the rest of
mankind, is living through a very difficult
phase of its existence, and that the rapid
changes in our social structure call for
many adaptations. The public health
nursing group believe that they have
something to contribute, and that the
time has come for pooling all resources
in the interest of the profession and the
community. Private duty nurses appear
to be more isolated than ever, and the
instItutional group are increasingly con'
scious of the fact that they are being
called upon to prepare nurses to fit com-
munity rather than hospital needs. The
problems are many and difficult, they are
closely interwoven, and the best thought
of aU groups would seem to be necessary
for the successful attainment of this joint
educational project, the reorganization of
nursing education.
MARION E. NASH,
Convener.
NEW BRUNSWICK ANNUAL MEETING
Pending the publication of the official report
which will appear in the November issue,
here are a few highlights of the very successful
annual meeting of the New Brunswick Asso-
ciation of Registered Nurses which took place
Sept. 11-12, in Saint John. The president,
Miss A. J. MacMaster, was in the chair and
reports of the various activities of the Asso-
ciation were given as follows: Secretary-
treasurer-registrar: Miss M. E. Retallick; Cur-
riculum Committee: Miss Margaret Murdoch;
Nightingale Memorial: Miss F. Coleman; The
Canadian Nurse: Miss Kathleen Lawson. The
three sections were reported upon by Reverend
Sister Kerr, Miss M. McMullen, Miss A.
Burns. Miss McMullen's excellent address
appears in this issue of the Journal. Miss
OCTOBFR, 1934
EUnIce Dyke was the guest speaker at a well,
attended dinner and gave a most thoughtful
and stimulating address. The election of offi-
cers resulted as follows: President: Miss A.
J. MacMaster; First Vice-President: Mrs. G.
E. VanDorsser; Second V ice' President: Mrs.
A. G. Woodcock; Honorary Secretary: Sister
Kenny; Councillors: Misses M. Kay, G. A. K.
Moffat, E. M. Tulloch and M. Murdoch; Con-
venor of SectIOns: Nursing Education: Sister
Kerr; Private Duty: Miss M. McMullen;
Public Hea.lth: Miss A. A. Burns; Convener
of constitution and by-laws committee, Mic;;s
S. Brophy; Secretary- Treasurer- Registrar.
Miss M. E. Retallick. The above constitute
the memhership of the Executive Council for
the coming year.
News
New. items intended for publication in the enlUinf: illlue mu't reach the Journal not later than the ei&hth of the
precedine month. In order to ensure accuracy all contribution. .hould be typewritten and double'aplced.
Notes
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOHN: Lady Bessborough was a
visitor to the patients of the Saint John
General Hospital while touring the Maritimes.
A special meeting of the Local Chapter of
the N.B.R.N.A. was held prior to the provin-
cial annual meeting held Sept. 12-13 at Saint
John. Congratulations are being extended to
Miss Vera McCarron for being the winner of
the fitted bag given to the members of the
1934 graduating class of St. Joseph's Hospital,
by the medical staff, for highest standing in
theory. Friends are glad to hear that Miss
Mary Murdoch has returned to new Bruns-
wick. Among the summer visitors to Saint
John were: Mrs. A. V. Thompson, Mrs. B.
Belyea, Mrs. Ibbett, Mrs. Manzer, Mrs. Man-
chester, Mrs. Chisholm, Misses C. Shand,
Stanley, Craig. Miss McDonald has been
appointed to the staff of the East Saint John
County Hospital.
ST. STEPHEN: The local chapter of the
N.B.R.N.A. met at the home of Miss Myrtle
Dunbar on Sept. 4 when Miss Mabel McMul-
len presided. Miss Jessie Murray has returned
after spending her vacation at her home in
Saint John. Miss J. Sanson of Mt. Kisco was
a recent visitor here. Miss Bessie Budd has
returned to Brookline, N.Y., after spending
her vacation here. Mrs. Maria Burton, matron
of the Nurses Home of the Chipman Memorial
Hospital for the past twenty years, has retired
to live with her son. Miss Etta Dewolfe of
St. Stephens succeeds her. Miss Estella Mur-
phy has gone to Whitby, Ont., to take a post-
graduate course in psychiatry.
NOVA SCOTIA
HALIFAX: The annual meeting of the Hos-
pital Asscoiation of Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward Island took place on August 28-29
in Charlottetown. The president, Rev. H. G.
Wright, pointed out that the only successful
way of coping with tuberculosis is by the
provision of free beds and the adoption of a
policy which will make our present sanitoria
available to all. Dr. Harvey Agnew spoke
on "The Canadian Hospital Council"; Mr.
W. K. Rogers of Charlottetown on "Building
a hospital"; Mr. L. D. Currie of Glace Bay,
on "What the public expects of our hospitals";
and Dr. G. S. Macintosh, Halifax, and Miss
Marion Boa, R.N., Superintendent of Nurses,
Aberdeen Hospital, New Glasgow, spoke
respectively on "What the medical profession
expects of our hospitals" and "What the nurs-
492
ing profession expects of our hospitals:' A
public meeting was held in the evening,
featured by a number of speeches relating to
the betterment of hospitals. On August 30,
Dr. J. G: MacDougall of Halifax was the
chief speaker, and the appointment of officers
and committees took place. The Rev. H. G.
Wright pointed out that in Nova Scotia there
is an active policy with respect to district
nurses and local annexes and, as the work
of the district health nurse brings her in
contact with homes where tuberculosis exists,
her part in rooting out the disease is extremely
important. More work should be done in the
public schools, particularly in the high schools
where scholars are old enough to grasp the
significance of the facts brought to their
attention.
HALIFAX: The following nurses were SUCI
cessful in passing the May examinations for
Registration of Nurses in Nova Scotia. The
first three are in order of merit, the rest are
alphabetically arranged: Effie MacDougall,
Glace Bay General Hospital; Viola Evelyn
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M. E. MacDonald, C. M. MacInnis, T. C.
MacKenzie, F. C. MacLaughlin, K. MacNeil,
S. B. MacSween, M. C. Martin, M. J. Merner,
M. I. Morrison, 1. M. Morton, P. M. Myra,
M. E. No:th, A. W. O'Toole, H. C. Prender-
gast, P. B. Publicover, A. E. Sanford.
HALIFAX: The annual Maritime Conference
of the Catholic Hospitals Association opened
at Halifax on Sept. 4, when Dr. G. H. Agnew
spoke on group health insurance and pointed
out the importance of adopting such a
measure. Dr. G. H. Murphy stressed the pre.
ventive side of medicine, and foresaw the
need of group health insurance to provide
means to carry out a preventive programme.
Sister Mary Peter, St. Martha's Hospital,
Antigonish, spoke of the progress made by
the Association during the past two years, in
spite of depressed times. She also referred to
the opening of the Halifax Infirmary, a new
staff home at Glace Bay, and annexes for
tuberculosis at Antigonish and Inverness. The
intellectual side of the work had not been
neglected and postgraduate courses and higher
studies had been taken by many nurses. A
highlight of the morning session was an
address on "Hospital Economics" by Mr. Gale,
an authority on the business side of hospital
administration. Twenty.four deiegates from
various points in the Maritimes attended,
together with local representatives.
HALIFAX: On August 15 the committee of
the Victorian Order of Nurses, Halifax, enter-
tained at a most enjoyable afternoon tea for
Miss Elizabeth Smellie, C.B.E., Chief Superin'
tendent of the V.O.N. Miss Anne Slattery
recently attended the meeting of the Hospital
Association of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island, which was held at Charlottetown,
P.E.I. Miss Lillian A. Ford who is now
Visiting Nurse in Orange, N.J., is visiting
friends in Halifax. Among those who have
entertained for her is Miss Victoria Winslow,
superintendent of nurses, the Children's Hos.
pital, who gave a delightful bridge party in
her honour.
MARRIED: On July 28, 1934, Miss Eileen
Westaway Booth (Halifax Children's Hos.
pital. 1934), to Mr. Horace Kent Cutten.
MARRIED: On June 20, 1934, Miss Florence
Agnes Byers (Victoria General Hospital.
1932), to Mr. Raymond Hartling.
MARRIED: Recently, Miss Lenora Amelia
Calder (St. Joseph's Hospital, 1928), to Mr.
Frank Copeland.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL: Miss
Martha MacDonald (M.G.H., 1927), has
been appointed assistant supervisor of the
Western Division of The Montreal General
Hospital. Miss Isabel M. McMann (M.G.H.,
1927), has been appointed sister.in.charge of
Surgical Ward L. Central Division, and she
has been replaced at the Western Division by
Miss Catherine Anderson (M.G.H., 1932).
Miss D. I. MacRae (M.G.H., 1927) and
Miss M. A. Shannon (M.G.H., 1932), have
been appointed to the night staff of the Cen-
tral Division. Miss Eunice McDonald (M.G.
H., 1930), has been appointed to the staff
in the metabolism department. Miss Jean
Home (M.G.H., 1918), has been appointed
assistant to the sister.in.charge of the Nurses'
Home. Among those taking COurses at the
McGill School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University, this coming year are: Miss D. M.
V. Flint (M.G.H., 1929); Miss G. M. Mac.
Kay (M.G.H., 1929); Miss B. C. Underhill
(M.G.H., 1932); Miss D. R. Colquhoun
(M.G.H., 1933). and Miss Anne Peverley
(M.G.H., 1933).
MARRIED: On August 25, 1934, Miss
Hazel Miller (M.G.H., 1922), to Mr. George
Cutler.
MARRIED: In August, Miss M. McVean
(M.G.H., 1929), to Mr. James Stewart Ar-
buckle.
MONTREAL: ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL:
MARRIED: On September 8, 1934, in Winni.
peg, Miss Florence Elizabeth McCormack
(R.V.H., 1929), to Dr. Maitland Boyd Perrin,
of Hartney, Man.
SASKA TCH:EW AN
SASKATOON: Miss Edith Amas (S.C.H.,
1923), who attended the School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, 1929, has been
appointed Director of the School of Nursing,
City Hospital, Saskatoon. Miss Marion Bie
(S.C.H., 1933). has been appointed assistant
instructor, and Miss Eleanor Grace Crosby
(S.C.H., 1933), as night supervisor.
M
RRIED: On August 18, 1934, Miss Mary
Hewitson Hagerman (S.C.H., 1926), to Mr.
George Alexander Tilden of Holstein, Onto
MARRIED: Miss Helen Burnett Sim (S.C.H.,
1923), to Mr. Headley Fraser, of Rosetown,
Sask.
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OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
TORONTO: Members of the Toronto Unit
enjoyed the Canadian Corps Reunion, which
was held from August 4 to 6 as a part of
Toronto's Centennial Celebrations. Matron
Hartley, Miss Ruby Hamilton, president of
the U nit, and Mrs. James were present, in
uniform, at the Memorial Service on August
4 and placed a wreath on the Cenotaph.
"Clink, Clink!" went the medals, as "Sisters"
assembled at the Red Cross and piled into
the bus which the Reunion Committee had
sent to take them to the Exhibition grounds
for the "March Past." It was thrilling to
watch the divisions assembling. The red berets
of the First Division and the green ones of
the Fourth blended together like a field of
waving poppies. Opposite the stand were the
navy blue and french blue berets of the Second
and Third Divisions. The salute was taken
by his Honour the Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario; Field Marshall Viscount Allenby and
Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt were with him
and gave brief addresses. Fifty members of
the Unit met later for dinner. On August 5,
the Unit members were again conveyed to
Riverdale Park where they took part in the
inspiring Drum Head Service. The climax of
the reunion was the Military Tattoo held at
the natural amphitheatre at Riverdale Park.
The b:oad valley was filled with massed bands
marching wIth torches and from the surround-
ing slopes where solid masses of people sat,
the effect was marvellous. The late summer
darkness fell and a beautiful display of fire-
works brought to a dramatic dose this remark-
able gathering.
OBITUARY
BARDEN-Nursing Sister Katherine E. Bar-
den, R.R.C., was laid to rest August 23,
1934, in the Field of Honour at Pointe
Claire, Que. Burial was preceded by a
funeral service at St. Ignatius Church,
Loyola College. Miss Barden was a native
of Quebec, a daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Barden, and was educated at
the Ursuline Convent, Quebec. She trained
as a nurse at St. Vincent's Hospital, New
York City. Upon the outbreak of war she
Joined the C.A.M.C., and landed in France
September, 1915; served throughout the war
and was decorated and mentioned in des-
patches. After the Armistice Miss Barden
returned to Canada and joined the staff of
the Christie Street Military Hospital, Toron-
to, and was appointed a member of the nurs-
ing staff at Ste. Anne's Hospital, Ste. Anne
de Bellevue, in 1926. Although she suffer-
ed great pain during her last illness she
bore it with the same courage with which
she performed her duties. Taps and reveille
496
were sounded at the graveside by Ex. Sergt.
Newman, late of the P.P.C.L.!., while over
fifty ex-service men stood at attention. At
the conclusion of the ceremony nurses
deposited flowers from their personal gar-
dens. Among those present were: ex-
Nursing Sisters, C. A. Donnelly; N. Enright
(President of the Overseas Nurses' Club,
Montreal Unit); M. McKenna; A. Snider,
L. E. Connerty, C. C. Thompson, M. De-
war, H. J. McArthur, 1. Stewart and the
Misses 1. M. Jordan, R.N., L. Stewart,
R.N.; Misses Harrington, Robb and La-
mont, Capt. G. H. Boyd, superintendent
of Ste. Anne's Hospital, Dr. Brennan,
headquarters D.P.N. & H., Montreal, Dr.
Kauffman, Dr. R. Hangrove, Dr. E. Mal-
lette, Dr. W. Dunn, Dr. Lemieux, Rev.
Canon WhItley and members of her family.
The ceremony was held under the auspices
of the Last Post Fund as a special mark of
honour to a Nursing Sister who rendered
distinguished services to her country.
VOL. XXX, No. 10
Official
Directory
International Council of Nurses:
Secretary, Miss Anna Schwarzenberg, 14, Quai Gustav Ador, Geneva, Switzerland
CA
ADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATIO'\1
Officers
President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l\Iiss R. M Simpson, Parliament Buildings, Regina, Sask.
First Vi("
-President... . . . . . . . . . . . Miss G. M. Fairley, General Hospital, Vancouver, B.c.
Second "Vice-President.... . . . . . . . . . Miss M. L. Moag, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal, P.Q.
Honorary Secretary.. . . . . . . . . .. Miss Elsie 'Wilson, 668 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, :\Ian.
Honorary Treasurer............... Miss M. l\Iurdoch, General Hospital, Saint John, N.B'
COUNCILLORS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Numerals preceding names indicate office held, .,Ü: (1) PreBident, PrOTlincial Nurses Association; (2) Chairman.
Nurtring Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section: (4) Chairman, PrifJate Dutil Section.
Alberta: (1) 1\liss F. Munroe, Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmont.on; (2) Miss J. Connal, General Hospi-
tal, Cal
ary; (3) Miss B. A. Emerson, 604 Civic
Block, Edmonton; (4) Miss J. Clow, 11138-82nd
A ve.. Edmonton.
British Columbia: (1) MiB8 M. F. Gray, Dept. of
Nursing, UIliverBity of British Columbia, Vancouver;
(2) Miss L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; (3) MiB8 M. Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
Vancouver; (4) Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft Nursing
Home, Cook St., Victoria.
Manitoba: (1) :\Iiss :\Iildred Reid, ='lurses Residence,
Winnipeg General Ho"pital, Winnipeg; (2) :\Iiss G.
Thompson,
Iisericordia Hospital, Winnipeg; (3)
:\Iiss E. :\IcKelvey, 603 :\Iedi!'al Arts Building,
Winnipeg; (4) :\liss K. :\IcCallum, 181 Enfield
Crescent, ='lorwood.
New Brunswick: (1) Miss A. J. MacMaster, Monctoll
Hospital, MOllcton; (2) Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) Miss Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saint John; (4) Miss Mabel Mc-
Mullen, St. Stephell.
Nova Scotia: (I) :\liss Lenta G. Hall, Victorian Order
of Nur,'e!', Halifax; (2)
Iiss H. Joncas, Victoria
Gf'neral Hospital, Halifax; (3) :\Iiss 1\1. O. Gray,
Xew Glasgo\\; (4) :\Iisl! C. MacLean, 97 South
Kline St. Halifax.
Ontario: (I) Miss 1\Iajorie Buck,
orfolk Hospital,
Simcoe; (2) Miss S. :\1. Jamiewn, R.R.l, Brantford,
(3) :\Irs. Agnes Haygarth, 19 Dromore Crescf'nt,
Wpstdale, Hamilton; (4) l\Iiss J. L. Church, 120
Strathcona Ave., Ottawa.
Prince Edward Island: (I)
fiss Anna :\Iair, P.E.I.
Hospital, Charlotteto\\n; (2) Mif's F. Laven, Prince
Co. Hospital, Summen.ide; (3) :\lis!' Dorothy :\11'-
Kenna, Summen.ide; (4) l\Iiss 1\1. Gamble, 51
Ambrose St. Charlottetown.
Quebec: (1) Miss C. V. Barrett, Royal Victoria Mater-
nity Hospital, Montreal; (2) Miss Martha Batson,
Montreal General Hospital, Montreal; (3) Miss
Christine Dowling, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal;
(4) MissC.l\I. Watling, 1230 Bishop Street. Montreal.
Saskatchewan: (1) Miss Fdith Ama!', City HO!'pital,
SaskatooIl; (2) l\IÜs Annie I a\Hie, General Hospita;,
Regina; (3) l\Irf'. E. :\1. Feeny, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament Bldgs., Rpgina; (4) Mif's 1\1. H.
Chisholm, 805 7th Ave. ::'oJ., Saskatoon.
CHAIRMEN NATIONAL SECnONS
URSING EDUCATION:
fi!'!' :\farion Lindeburgh, School
for Graduate Nune!!', McGill l"nivenity, :\Jontrpal;
PUBLIC HEALTH: l\Ii>'
A. E. "I'll!', Dept. of Hpalth,
Legislative llldgs., Winnipeg; PRIV-\TE DUTY: Mi
s
1\1. H.. Chisholm, 80.3 7th Ave. N., Saskatoon.
Executive Secretary: 'fiss Jean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
"\1ontreal, P.Q.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF CANADIAN
URSES ASSOCIATION
NliRSING ED(jCATION SECTION
CHAIRMAN:
Iiss :\Iarion Lindeburgh, School for Grad-
uate
une!', McGill Univenity,
Iontreal; VICE-
CHAIR'\IAN: :\Iiss Constance Brp\\!>tpr, General Ho!'-
pital, Hamilton; SECRET-\RY: :\1is!< Nora Xagle, 2iO
Cooper Street, Ottawa; TRE '!.SURER: :\'Ii,,!' :\1. Ulanche
Ander!'on, Ottawa Civic Ho
pital, Otta\\a.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\Jiss J. Connal, General
Ho!-pital, Calgary. British Columbia: Mis!' L.
:\Jitchell, Hoyal ,Jubilee Hospital, \ ictoria. Mani-
toba: Miss G. Thomp!<on. 1\li>pricordia 1I0
pital
\\ innippg. New Hrunswlck:
istpr Corinnp Kerr,
Hotpl I>ieu, Campbpllton. Nova Scotia: :\JiI!S II.
Joncas, \ïrtoria General Ho
pital, Halifax. Ontario:
:\liss S. 1\1. Jamieson, R.R.l, Brantford. Prince
Edward Island: :\lis
F. J aver
, Prince Co. Ho!<pital,
Rummer,.ide. Quebec: :\Iisl' :\Iartha Batson, :\Jont-
rpal General Hospital, Montrpal. Saskatchewan:
Iiss Annie La\\rie, General I1ol!pital, Hpgina.
PRIVATE DUTY SECTION
CH '!.IR'\IAN: Miss :\1. H.. Chisholm,
():; 7th ..\\ e. r>;.,
:-;a"kato
:m; VICE-CHAIRMAN:
Ii
f! C. :\1. \\ atling,
12;m Hl"hop f'trpet, :\Iontrpal; St'CRETARy-TREAS-
URER: 1\Iil!s Helen Wills, 2"'40 Hobinson f'trppt,
Hpgina.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\Ji"s J. ('10\\, 1l1:JS-S2nd
.\ ve., Edmonton. British Columbia: :\Iis,. 1\1.
:\Iirfield, Bea('hcroft Nursinjl; 110mI', \ïl'toria. Manl-
OCTOBER, 1934
toba: :\Iiss K. :\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Cre!'., Nor-
wood. New Bruns\\ick: Mis
:\Jabel :\lc:\Jullpn,
t. Stpphpn. Nova Scotia: :\Jiss C. :\Jarl ean, Y7
South hline St., Halifax. Ontario: :\Jiss J. I..
Church, 120 Strathcona Ave., Otta\\a. Prince Ed-
ward Island: :\Iiss 1\1. Gamblp, 51 .\mbro
e St..
Charlotteto\\ n. Quebec: :\liH C. 1\1. \\ atlinl/:, 12
0
Bishop Street, Montrpal. Saskatche\\an: :\Ji!'s 1\1.
It. Chi,.holm, SO.3 7th Ave. X., Sa>katoon. CON-
VENER OF PUBLICATIONS: :\Ii
s :\1. H. Chbholm,
80.) 7th Ave. N., :-;a
katoon.
PUBLIC HEALTH SECTION
CH -\IRM -\N: :\Iiss A. E. \\ ell!', Dl'Pt. of Hpalth, Lpgi>-
lative Uldjl;s., \\ innippjl;; \"ICE-CH '!.IRMAN: :\Iiss :\1.
Kerr, 946 20th Ave. \\., Vancouver; SECRETARY-
TREASURER: :\Jiss Isabel :\lcDiarmid, :J63 I ang!'ide
St., Winnipeg.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\Iif's B. A. Emenon, 604
Civic BJork, Edmonton. British Columbia: :\Jiss
:\1. Duffipld, li5 Broad\\ay Ea"t, \"ancoU\er.
Manitoba: :\Jiss E. :\lcI\:plvey, liO:i :\Jedil'al Arts
Bldg., \\ innipl'g. New Brunswick: :\Iis!' .\da
Burn!', Health Cpntrp,
aint John. Nova Scotia:
:\Jiss 1\1. O. Gray, Xe\\ Gla: goW. Ontario: :\Irs.
.\gnes lIaYRarth, 19 DrOlllon' C'rp"l'rnt. \\ estdale,
Hamilton. I'rlnce Ed"ard IsJand: .:\Ii"s Dorothy
:\J!'Kpnna, f'Ulumpnidp. Quebec: :\JiSf Christine
l>o\\lilljl;, 1241) Bi
hop [0;1., :\Jontn'al. Saskatche-
"an: :\1 rs. E. :\1. Fppny, ))ppt. of Health, Parlia-
IJIPnt Bldjl;!<., npp;ina.
497
498
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of R
istered Nurses
Pre!-ident, :\Iiss F. l\funroe, Royal Alexandra Ho:o-
pital, Edmonton; First Vice-President, l\lis
J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Second Vice-President,
:\Iiss E. :\lcPhedran, Central Alberta Sanatorium,
Calgary; Secretary- Treasurer-Registrar, l\In. A. E.
Vango, ll107-82nd Ave., Edmonton; Chairman:
Nursing Education Section, :\Iiss J. Connal, General
I1o
pital, Calgary; Public Health Section, 1\lis
B. A.
Emer!'on, fO-l Civic Rlock, Edmonton; Primte Duly
Section, :\Iiss J. C. Clow, 11138-82nd Ave., Fdmonton
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
President, M. F. Gray,1466 W.14th Ave., Vancouver;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-Prefi-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, 1\1. Kerr, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Conveners of Committees: Nursing
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; Public Health, 1\1. Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
Vancouver; Private Duty, Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft
r\ursing Home, Cook St., Victoria; Councillors, M. P.
Campbell, M. Dutton, L. McAllister, K. Sanderson.
MANITOBA
Manitoba Association of R
istered Nurses
PresideIlt, Miss M. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss S. Wright, Metropolitan
Life, Winnipeg; Second Vice-President, Miss C. Mc-
Leod, Brandon Generaillospital; Third Vice-President,
Sister Krause, St. Boniface Hospital; Members of
Board: Miss M. Lang, Miss E. Carruthers, Sister Mary,
Miss K. W. Ellis, Miss K. McLearn, Miss M. Meehan,
Miss E. Johnson, Sister St. Albert; Conveners of Sec-
tions: Public Health, Miss E. McKelvey; Private Duty,
:\Iiss K. :\IcCallum; Nursing Education, Mi<;s G.
Tho:npson, :\Iisericordia Ho:,pital, Winnipeg. Conve-
ners of Committees: Directory, :\liss J. Kerr, 74 Cobourg
Ave.; Social, Mi!'s S. Pollexfen, 954 Palmerston Ave.;
i('k Visiting, :\Ii!'!' L. Gray, Victorian Order of Nunes;
:\Ielllbenhip, :\Ii!'!' E. Iromide, Winnireg General Ho
-
pital; Librarian, 1\lif s W. Griee and :\li
f A. Starr, 753
Wohelt-y Ave.; Press and Publication, :\Iis!' E. Bank!',
Ii-t Cro
St.; Re þresentatit1es: Loc'al Couneil of \\. omen,
:\In'. \\ illard Hill and 1\Irs. Emmett Dwyer; Central
Council of Social Agencies,
Iiss F. Robert:'oIl; Vic-
torian Order of Nurses, MiF!' E. A. Russell; Junior Red
Cro:'f,
Iiss E. Parker; Red Cro!'8 Enrolment, 1\Irs. J.
F. l\Iorrison; Executive Secretary and Registrar, Mrs.
Stella Gordon Kerr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Association of R
istered Nurses
President, Miss A. J. MacMaster, Moncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First Vice-President, Miss Margaret
Murdoch; Secolld Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
Kay; Honorary Secretary. Rev. Sister Kenny; Council
Members: Miss Florence Coleman, Mi8B H. S. Dyke-
man, Mrs. A. G. Woodcock, Miss Elsie M. Tulloch;
Conveners: Public Health Section. Mi8B Ada A. Burns;
Private Duty Section, Miss Mabel McMullin; Nursing
Education Seelion. Sister Kerr; Committee Conveners:
The Cana(It"an Nurse, Miss Kathleen La\\son; Consti-
tution and Py-Laws, Miss S. E. Brophy; Secretary-
Treasurer-Registrar, Miss Maude E. Retallick, 262
Charlotte St. West, Saint John, N.B.
NOVA SCOTIA
Re
istered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia
President, Mis!' Lenta Hall, Victorian Order 0
unes, Halifax; Fint Vice-President, l\Iis!' Sarah
Arc.hard, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax; Second
Vice-Pre
id!'nt,
Iiss Anna Hillcoat, Amherst; Third
\ïce-PrNident, Si
ter Anna Seton. Halifax Infirmary;
Recording Secretary, :\Irs. D. J. Gilli!', 9 Welsford St.,
Halifax; Treasurer and Registrar,1\Iisf Muriel Graham,
41:i I>{'nnis Bldg., Halifax.
ONTARIO
Reg.istered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1925)
President, Miss Marjorie Buck, Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Percy, Room 321 JackBon Bldg., Ottawa; 8econd Vice-
President, Miss Constance Brewster, General Hospital.
Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Matilda E. Fitz-
gerald, 380 Jane St., Toronto; Chairman, Nurse Educa-
tion Section, Mi8B S. Margaret Jamieson, Peel Memorial
Hospital, Brampton; Chairman, Private Duty Sertion,
:\liss J. L. Church, 120 Strathcona Ave., Ottawa;
Chairman, Public Health Section, 1\Irs. Agnes Hay-
I!:arth, HI Dromore CreHent, "e!>tdale, Hamilton;
District No.1: Chairman, Miss Mildred Walker, Insti-
tute of Public Health, London; Secretary-Treasurer.
Mi8B Mildred Chambers, Institute of Public Health,
London; Districts 2 and S: Chairman, Miss A. E. Binge-
man, Freeport Sanatorium, Kitchener; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mil's Edith Jones, 253 Grenwich St., Brant-
ford; District No.4: Chairman, Mi8B Constance Brew-
ster, General Hospital, Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Eva Barlow, 211 Stinson St., Hamilton; District
No.5: Chairman, Miss Dorothy Mickleborough, Pro-
vincial Dept. of Health, Parliament Bldgs.. Toronto;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Isabelle Park, 1348 Y onge
St., Toronto; District No.6: Chairman, Miss Helen :\1-
Anderson, 709 Water St., Peterboroul[h; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Dorothy MacBrien, Nicholls Hospital,
Peterboroup;h; District No.7: Chairman, Miss Louise
D. Acton, General Hospital, Kingston; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Olivia Wilson, General Hospital,
Kingston; District No.8: Chairman, Miss M. Blanche
Anderson, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa; Secretary-
Miss A. G. Tanner, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa;
Treasurer, Miss Mary Acland, Strathcona Hospital,
Ottawa; District No.9: Chairman, Miss Katherine
MacKenzie, 155 Second Ave. W., North Bay; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Robena Buchanan, 197 First Ave. E.,
North Bay; District No. 10: Chairman, Miss Vera
Lovelace, 3 Wiley Rd., Port Arthur; Secretary- Treas-
urer, Miss Ethel Stewardson, McKellar General
Hospital, Fort William.
District No. 8 Re
istered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, Miss M. B. Anderson; Vice-Chairman,
Miss J. L. Church; Secretary, Miss A. G. Tanner,
Ottawa Civic Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M. E. Acland;
Councillors, Misses G. Clarke, A. Ebbs, M. Graham,
E. C. McIlraith, C. C. Murray, M. Slinn; Conveners
of Committees: Membership, Mi8B G. Clarke; Publica-
tions, Miss E. C. McIlraith; Nursing Education, Miss
C. C. Murray; Private Duty, Miss J. L. Church; Public
Health, Miss H. O'Meara.
District No. 9 Re
lstered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, Miss K. MacKenzie; Vice-Chairman,
Mrs. J. McCausland; Secretary-Treasurer, IVIÜf: R.
Buchanan, 197 First Avenue E., North Bay; Coun-
cillors: Rev. Sister Felicita!i', Misses .J. Smith, F.
Docker, M. CarsoIl, E. Trombley, A. Quiniall.
District No. 10 Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario
President, Miss V. Lovelace, Vice-President, Miss M.
Hamilton; Secretary Treasurer, Miss E. Stewardson,
McKellar General Hospital, Fort William; Councillors:
Miss Jane Hogarth, Miss M. Wallace, Miss C. LemoIl,
Miss C. Chivers Wilson, Miss Flannigan, Miss Irene
Hibditch.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Registered Nurses
Association
President, Miss Anna l\Iair, P.E.I. Hospital,
Charlottetown; Vit'e-President, Miss 1\1. King, Char-
lottetown Hospital; Secretary, Miss 1\1. Campbl'll, 8
Grafton St., Charlottetown; Trea<;urer and Registrar,
:\Ii..s Edna Gre{'n, 257
Queen Ht., Charlottetown;
Nursing Education, 1\Iiss F. Layers, Prin!'e Co. Hospital,
Hummerside; Public Health, :\[iss Dorothy :\IrKenna,
Summerside; Private Duty, l\liss 1\1. Gamble, 51 \01-
brose St., Charlottetown; Representative to The
Canadian Nurse. 1\Iiss Anna Mair. P.E-I. Hospital
Charlottetown.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
QUEBEC
Aasociatlon of R
lstered Surses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
Advisory Board: MiBSes Mary Samuel, Mabel F.
Hersey, C.
1. Watling, Rév. Mère :\1. V. Allaire, Rév.
::5oeur Ste. hidora; President, Miss C. V. Barrett,
Royal Victoria
Iontreal Maternity Hospital; \'ice-
President (Engli3h), Miss M. L. Moag, Victorian Order
of Nurøeø, 1246 Bishop St., Montreal; Vice-President
(French), Rév. Soeur Allard, Hôtel-Dieu de St. Joseph,
Montreal; Hon. Secretary, Miss Esther Beith, Child
Welfare ABSociation, Forum Bldg., Montreal; Hon.
Treasnrer, MiBS
1. E. Nash, Victorian Order of Nurses,
1246 Bishop St., Montreal. Other Members: Miss
:\Iabel K. Holt, The Montreal General Hospital,
:\Iademoiselle Edna Lynch, Nursing Supervisor, :\Ietro-
politan Life Insurance Co., Montreal, Rév. Soeur St.
Jean de l'Eucharistie, Hôpital Notre Dame, Montreal,
Mis3 Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate Nurses,
McGill University, Montreal, Mademoiselle Alexina
:\Iarchessault, Ecole d'Hygiène Social Appliquée,
Université de
Iontreal. Con7Jenprs of Sections: Pri7Jate
DU
lI, (English), Miss C. 1\1. Watling. 1230 Bishop St.,
Montreal; Prirote Duty (French), Mademoiselle Alice
Lepine, Hôpital Notre Dame, Montreal; Nursing Edu-
c"ltion (En
lish), Miss Martha Batson, The Montreal
General Hospital, Montreal; Nursing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Augustine, Hôpital St. ,Jean-de-
Dieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Hrolth, l\Ii!lS Christine
Dowling, Victorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.,
499
Montreal; Board of Examiners, Miss Olga V. Lilly
(Convener), Royal Victoria Montreal :\Iaternity Hos-
pital, Miss Marion Lindeburgh, School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, Montnml; Miss Katherine
MacN. MacLennan, Alexandra Hospital,
Iontreal;
Melle. Edna Lynch, 4642 rue St. Denis St., :\Iontreal;
Melle. :\Iarie Anysie Déland, Inslitut Bruchési, Mont-
réal; Melle. A. l\larches.<,ault, 32.36 a\enue Lacombe,
l\lontreal; Exccut i ve Secret ary, ReJ;!';ist rar and Official
School Visitor, !\1iss E. Frances Upton, Room 221,
1396 St. Catherine St. W., l\lontreal.
SASKATCHEWAN
Saskatchewan Re
lstered Nurses Association
(Incorporated March, 1917)
President, Miss Edith Amas, City Hospital, Saska-
toon; First Vice-President, Miss Ruby M. SimpsoIl,
Department of Public Health, Regina; Second Vice-
President, Miss Helen B. Smith, General Hospital,
Regina; Councillors, Miss Jean McDonald, 1122 Rae
St., Regina, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
Moose Jaw; Con7Jeners of Standing Committees: Nursing
Education, :\Iiss Annie Lay, rie, General HOE pital,
Hegina; Public llealth, :\Irs. E. :\1. Feeney, Depart-
ment of Public Health, Regina; Pri7Jate Duty, Miss M.
R. Chisholm, 805-7th Ave. N., Saskatoon; Legifllation,
Miss R. M. Simpson, Regina; Secretary-Treasurer and
Registrar, MiBS Margaret RoBS, 45 Angus Crescent,
Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate Nurses
Hon. President, Dr. H. A. Gibson; President, Miss
P. Gilbert; First Vice-President, Miss K. Lynn; Second
Vice-President, MÏt3s F. Shaw; Recordin
and Actinl!;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. V. Kennedy, 1307
First St. W.; Treasurer, MiB8 1\1. Watt.
Edmonton Association of Graduate Nurses
President, Miss Ida Johnson; First Vice-President,
:\Iiss Turner; Second Vice-President, Miss O'Brien;
Recording and Corresponding Secretary, :\Iiss Violet
Chapman, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton;
Treasurer, Miss Gavin; Registrar, Miss Sproule, 11138
Whyte Ave., Edmonton.
M"edlcine lIat Graduate Nurses Alssociatlon
President, Mrs. J. Keohane; First Vice-President,
Mrs. M. Tobin; Second Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Gil-
christ; Secretary, Miss A. McLeod, 2 Diana Court;
Treasurer, MiBB F. Smith; Committee Con7Jeners:
Membership, !\liss A. Allan; Flower, Mrs. W. Fraser;
Pri7Jate Duty Section, Mrs. Chas. Pickering; Correspon-
dent, The Canadian Nurse, MiBB M. Hagerman.
BRITISH COLUM BIA
Nelson Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Miss V. B. Eidt, Acting Superinten-
dent, Kootenay Lake General Hospital; President
:\"ss K. Gordon; First Vice-President, Miss M. Mad-
den; Second Vice-President, MiBB S. Archibald; Secre-
tary-Treaaurer, MÏB8 Edna Fraser, Box 1105, NelsoIl,
B.C.
Vancouver Graduate Nurses Association
President, Mrs. Westman, 800 C8I!I!air St., Vancouver'
First Vice-Prellident, MiBB Jane Johnstone, Rteveston'
B.C.; Second Vice-President, Miss E. Berry, St. Paul'
Hospital; Recretary, Miss F. Walker, Vancouver Gen-
eral Hos
ital; Treasurer, Miss L. Archibald, 536 West
12th Ave.; Council, MiBSes K. Sanderson, Kilburn, G.
M. Fairley, Wismer and M. F. Gray. Finance, MII
s
Teulon, 1385 West 11 th Ave.; Directory, Miss K.
Motherwell, 1947 West 10th Ave.; Social, MiBS A. J.
MacLeod, Vancouver General Hospital; Programme,
MiBB B. Donaldson, St. Paul's Hospital: Sick Visitinp:,
Miss C. Cooker, Vancouver General Hospital; Mem-
bership, Mrs. Blankenbach, 1816 West 36th Ave.;
Local Council of Women, MiBBes Duffield and Gray;
Press, Mrs. E. Simms, Vancouver General Hospital.
Victoria Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. Presidents, Miss L. Mitchell, Sister Supericr
Ludovic; President, Miss E. J. Herbert; First Vice-
President, :\Iiss M. Mirfield; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. KirkneBS; Secretary, Miss I. Helgesen;
Treasurer, MiBS W. Cooke; Registrar, Miss E. Franks,
1035 Fairfield Road, Victoria; Executive Committee,
Mrs. E. B. Strachan, Miss E. McDonald, Miss C.
Kenny, Miss E. Cameron, MiBB D. Frampton.
MAl"ITOBA
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Miss E. Birtle!!; HOIl. Vice-Pre
ident,
Mrs. W. H. Shillinglaw; Pre"idcnt, Mi!<!' f'va 1\IcNally;
Vice-Presidents, Mrs. L. Fletcher, l\libs 1\1. Parmns;
Secretary, Miss Dorothy longley, 1\Jental Hmpital,
Brandon; Treasurer, Mr::>. 1\1. Long, Dominion Bank
Bldg., llrandon; Committees: Pres", :\Iiss Helen :\Iorrri-
son;
i('k Visiting, Mrs. J. R. Fi!'her; Welfare, 1\1i::>s
E.
1. Higj/;ens; Social and Programme, :\Irs. F. Hanna;
Cook Uook", :\Ir!<. "-. Kainfo'; Private Duty, Mr!<. L.
Flet('her, :\Iiss Isobel b.nox; Hegistrar, :\Ii"s C'. Mac-
leod.
QUEBEC
Graduate Nurses Association of the Eastern
Townships
Hon. President, Miss V. Beane; President, Miss E.
Bean; Vice-President, MiBS G. D"aine; Corresponding
el'retary, Miss F. Wardley,orth; Recordinj1; Secretary,
MiBB Harvey; Treasurer, Miss Margaret Robins-
Hepre
entative to Th
Canadwn Nurs
, :\Ii,,!< C.
Hornby, Box :i2-l,
herbrooke; Hepre"entati\p,
Private Duty Section, Mi"b E.
Iorri""ette.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Miss L. C. Phillips; President, Miss
Chritltine Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First Vice-Presi-
dent, Miss G. Allison; Second Vice-President, Mrs. A.
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Registrar,
MiBS Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Reg
strar,
Miss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar, Miss H. l\f.
Sutherland; Convener Griffintown Club, Miss G.
Colley. Regular Meeting, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, October and December.
SASKATCHEWAN
Moose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Mrs. M. YOUIlg; President, Miss
R. LS8t; First Vice-President, Miss C. Kier; Secolld
Vice-President, Mrs. W. Metcalfe; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss J. Moir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; Convener.
of Committees: Nursing Education, Mrs. M. Young,
Sr. Mary Raphael, Miss E. Jensen; Private Duty, Miss
E. Wallace, Miss E. Farquhar, Miss T. Reynolds, Miss
J. Casey; Public Health. Registrar, Miss C. Kier; Pro-
gramme, Miss G. Taylor; Sick Visiting, MiBB L. Trench;
Social, Miss M. Armstrong; Constitution and By-Laws,
Miss E. Lamond; Representative to The Canad.an
Nurse, MiB8 M. Gall; Press Representative, Mrs. J.
Phillip!!.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ary
President, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-President, MiBB
ft}. Willison; Recording Secretary, Miss E. Thom;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
surer, Miss S. Craig; Honorary Members, Rev. Soeur
St. Jean de I'Eucharistie, Miss M. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. Munroe; President, Miss Ie
Brighty; Vice-Ple;ident, I\Ii:>
I. Johnson; Second Vice-
President, Miss K Miller McManus; Secretary, l\Iiss
L. Einarson; Corresponding Secretary, Miss G. I\Ic-
Diarmid; Treasurer, I\Iiss A. Oliver; Committee Con-
veners: Programme. Mi
s G. Allyn; Social, l\Iiss V.
Kelly l\IcNeil; Sick Visiting, l\Iiss J. Munro; Member-
ship, Miss M. Cullerne.
A.A. UnIversity of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss E. Fenwick; President, Miss
M. Reed; First Vice-President, Miss L. Gourlay;
Second Vice-President, Miss B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss A. Revell; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
D. Duxbury, University Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M.
Rowles, University Hospital; Executive, MiBSes 1\1.
Gordon, I. Ross, A. Baker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
lion. PresideIlt, Mrs. A. E. Archer; Pre
ident, Mrs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss F. E. Reid, 1009-20th Avenue, W.,
Calgary; Convener, Social Committee, Mrs. R. Shears.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, Miss B.
Geddes; Vice-President, Miss R. McKernan; Secretary,
Miss F. Treavor, Assistant Secretary, MiBS V. Dyer;
Treasurer, Miss B. Muir; Executive, Misses M. Mc-
Donald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, S. Christie,
R. McGillivary, K. McDonald.
A.A., Vilncouver General Hospital
President, Miss M. Lunan; First Vice-President,
:\Irs. C. H. C. Bell; Second Vice-President, Mrs. K.
Craig; Secretary, Miss I. Collier; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss K. Heaney, Vancouver Gen
ral Hospital;
Committee Conveners: Programme. MIss A. Croll.
Membership, Miss V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; Refreshments, Miss J. Hun
er; Press, Mrs. G. E.
Gillies; Treasurer and Bonds, MIBS Geary, 3176 West
2nd Ave.; Representative, V.G.N.A., Miss Rhodes.
Royal
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
Hon. President, l\Ii'Ss L. Mitchell; PresideIlt, Miss
J Moore; First Vice-President, Mrs. Yorke; Second
Vice-President, Miss M. Mirfield; Secretary, Mrs. A.
Dowell, 30 Howe St.; Assistant Secretary, Miss C. 1\-:1.
Co,,; Treasurer, Miss J..Stewart; En
rtainmellt Com-
mittee, Mrs. Russell; Sick Nurse, MIss E. Newmall.
MANITOBA
A.A., Children's Hospital, Winnipeg
Hon. President, Miss M. B. Allan; Presidf'nt, Miss
Catherine Day; First Vice-President, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss W. M. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, MiBS M. D. Hughes; Sick Visit-inp;,
Miss Edith Jarrett; Entertainment, Mrs. Geo. Wilson
A.A., St. Boniface HospItal, St. Boniface
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, Miss K
McCallum, 181 Enfield Cr., Norwood; First Vice-
President, Miss H. Stephen, 15 Ruth Apts., Maryland
St., Winnipeg; Second Vice-President, MiBS M. Madill,
St. BoIliface Hospital; Secretary, Miss J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hospital, Winnipeg; Treasurer, Miss E.
Shirley, 14 King George Ct., Winnipeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (Convener), 64 CroBB St.,
Winnipeg, Miss J. Williamson, Miss A. Nelson; Sick
Visiting Committee, Miss T. Grenville (Convener), 211
Hill St., Norwood; Miss K. Rowan, Miss J. Greig;
Press Représentative, Miss B. Altman, 420 College
Ave., Winnipeg; Representatives to Local Council of
Women, Miss B. Altman (Convener), Miss B. Chandler,
Miss M. Spooner.
A.A., Winnipeg General Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. A. W. Moody, 97 A
h St.;
PI esident, Miss E. Parker, Ste. 25, Carlyle Apts., 580
Broadway; First Vice-President, l\Irs. C. V. Combes,
530 Dominion St.; Second Vice-Prpsident, Miss J. Mc-
Donald, Deer Lodge Hospital; Third Vice-President,
Mrs. J. S. Ward, 197 Beaverbrook St.; Recording
Secretary, !\Iiss A. Effier, Ste. 12
Dialla Crt.; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss 1\1. Graham, Winnip( g
General Hospital; Treasurer, l\1iss M. Duncan, \\ïn-
nipeg General Hospital; Representative on Training
School Committee: Miss K. McLearn, Shriner's
Hospital; Membership, Miss I. Ramf:ay, Central
Tuberculosis Clinic; Sick Visiting, I\Ii
s J. Morgan,
102 Rose St.; EntertainmeIlt, I\-:lrs. C. McMillan,
Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of Journal, Miss F.
McRae, 44 Evanson St.; As
iftallt Editor, Miss J.
Moody, 76 Walnut St.; Bu!'inpss Manager, Miss E.
Timlick, Winnipeg Genelal Ho
pital; Special Com-
mittee, Mis
P. BrO\
nell, 215 Chestnut St.; Alumnae
Club, Miss F. Tretiak, Broad Valley, Man.; Archivist,
Miss S. J. Pollexfen, U54 Palmers ton Ave.
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOliN
A.A., SaInt John General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. J. Mitchell; President, Mrs
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, MiBS Ethel Hen-
derson; Second Vice-President, Mrs. F. McKelvey;
Secretary, Mrs. J. Edgar Beyea, 121 Union St.; Trea-
surer, Miss Kate Holt; Executive Committee, Miss
Margaret Murdoch, Miss R. Reid, Mrs. J. H. Vaughan.
ST. STEPHEN
A.A., Chipman Memorial Hospital, St. Stephen
Pre!'idpnt, !\lis!' Myrtle Dunbar; Fin t Vice-President,
:\Ir!'. H. W. Short; Second Vire-President, Miss Ro
a
:\ladsen; Secretary, I\li
!-" E
tella Gibbon, St. Stephen;
Treasurpr, !\Ir
. Cedrir H. Din!'Dlore; Board of Direc-
tors: l\1is!'es J. Sinclair, I. Hart, J. Bavi" I\Irs. R.
Bartlptt; Committee Conveners: Programme, l\Irl'; R.
!\Iallory, l\1isf:es E. Gibbon, E. Gile
, !\Ir
. H. Short;
Refrp
hmpnt, l\Ii
!-"es E. Spinney. D. Devlin, Mrs. R.
Bartlett; Nominating, Misses F. Cunningham, I. Hart.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
WOODSTOCK
A.A., L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital, Woodstock
Hon. President, MiBS Elsie Tulloch; President, Mrs
Harry Dunbar; Vice-President, MiBS Gladys Hayward;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Pauline Palmer; Board of
Director!!:
'Iiss G. Tams, Mrs. B. Sutton, Mrs. FUltOIl,
MiBB M. Samphier, Miss N. Veness; Committee Con-
"eners: Programme. Mrs. P. Caldwell, Miss E. Kerr,
l\IiB8 E. Dunbar, Miss B. Bellis; Sick Visiting, Miss H.
Cummin
s, Miss D. Peabody, Miss Mersereau;
Editor. Miss M. Samphier
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Florence McIndoo; President,
'Iiss Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President, Mrs. J. Andrews;
Secretary, MiBS L. Smith; Treasurer, Miss Marion
MacFarlane; Flower Committee, Miss Betty McEwan;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss H.
Thompøon.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. M. McKee; President, Miss
K. Charnley; Vice-President, Miss G. Turnbull;
Secretary, Miss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
ford;
ssistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
Miss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
'Irll. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
Miss W. Laird, Miss M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
Miss J. Edmolldeon, Mrs. E. Claridge; The Canadian
NUTse and Press Represelltative, MiBS H. Diamond;
C'hairman. Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole;
Representative to Local Council of Women, Miss R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockville General Hospital
lIon. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President,
Mrs. H. B. White; First Vice-President, MiBB M.
Arnold; Second Vice-President, Miss J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
Miss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Vandusen, 65 Church St.;
Representative to The Canadian NUTse, I\fiss V.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss p, Campbell; President, 1\1iB8
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crackle; Second
Vice-President, Miss F. Houston; Recordin
Secretary,
Miss E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, Miss R. \Vill-
more; Asst. Secretary, Miss M. Stacey; Treasurer,
Miss R. Haley; Press Correspondent. Miss R. Baker;
Committee Con"eners: Refreshment, Miss M. Wickett;
Buying, Misses J. Finney, M. McNau/o!;hton and Mrs.
R. F. Mitchell; Floral, Miss E. Orr; Social, Mrs. T.
Burke; CounciUors, Misses V. Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
!\fiB8 P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
I-Ion. Preøident, Mother Mary; Hon. Vice-President,
Sister 1\1. Consolata; President, Miss Ruth Winter;
Vice-President, Mi"s 1\1. Kearns; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; Executives, MiB8es
H. Gray, I. Poissant, Z. Martin. Mrs. H.. Hod/o!;in; Rep-
resentative District No.1, R.N.A.O.. MiB8 Je!'sie Ross;
Representative to The Canadian NUTse, Miss Y. L.
Chauvin.
CORNW ALL
A.A., Corn
all General Hospital
lion. President, Mrs. I. P. Madntosh; President,
:\Iillll Verna Meldrum; First Vice-Prpsident, Miss
Kathleen Burke; Recond Vice-President, MÏ:;s Elva
Empey; Secretary-Treasurer, I\rïss C. Droppo, Corn-
wall Generalllo!'pital; Reprp!'cntative to The Canadian
NUTse, Miss II. C. Wilson, Corn"all Genpral Ho!'pital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. Cleaver; President, Miss
S. Mitchell; Secretary, Miss L. MacNair, 91 Victoria
Ave.; Assistant Secretary, :\1iss T. Rainey; Treasurer,
Miss A. MacDonald; Flower Convener, Miss Ruther-
ford; Reprel!entative to The Canadian NUTse and Press
Repref\entati ve, I\f iss M. Vandyke.
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GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss S. A. Campbell, Superinten.
dent, Guelph General Hospital; President, Miss L.
Ferguson; First Vice-President, Mi!'s K. Cleghorn;
Second Vice-President, Miss 1\1. Wood; Secretary,
Miss N. KenIley, Guelph General Hospital; Treasurer,
Miss J. Watson; Conveners of Commit/us: Social, :\frs.
L. Jackson; Programme, Miss E. Eby; Flower, Miss
I. Wilson; Representative to The Canadian NUTse,
Miss L. Rinclair.
HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. C. Rayside; President, Mrs.
R. Hess; Vice-President, Miss M. Bain; Recording
Secretary, Miss M. Matheson; Cocrespollding Serre-
tary, MiBS H. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
Trea.'Iurer, Miss J. Jackson, 326 Main W.; Assistant
Treasurer, Miss G. Hodgson; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Benefit Association, MiBS O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee Con"eners: Executive, MiBS H.
Aitken; Flower, Miss A. Squires; Programme, Miss
M. Gosnell; Registry, Miss N. Thompson; BudJ!;et,
Mrs. I\'I. Barlow; Reprpsentative to The Canadian
^'uTse, Miss A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. President, Mother Martina; Pretident, !\fiss
Eva Moran; Vice-President, MiB8 F. Nicholson; Secre-
tary, !\fiss Mabel MacIntosh, 168 Ray St.; Treasurer,
Mis!! I\f. Kelly; Reprellentative to The Canadian Nurse,
Miss B. McKenna, 277 Herkimer St.; Repreøentath e
R.S.A.O., MiBS J. Morin.
KINGSTON
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Kin
ston
HOIl. Preeident, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
Mrs. W. G. Elder; \ïce-President, Mrs. A. Hearn;
Secretary, Miss Olive McDermott; Treasurer, Miss
Genevieve Pe1ow; Executive, I\lrs. L. Cochrane.
Misses K. McGarry, M. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
Committee, MiBSes N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. I a
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. \\.
Clarke, Misses N. Hickey, B. Watson.
A.A., Kln
ston General Hospital
Hon. President,
'Iiss Louh:e D. Acton; Pre!'ident,
Miss Ann Baillie; Vice-President, I\lil';s Florence
Rmart; Recretary, Miss VonIDe
lacl\1artin. ]\:ing,.toll
General Ho!'pital: Treasurer, !\Irs. C. \\. Mallory,
20a -\lbert Rt.; Corresponding
erretary, Miss Emma
Sharp, Kingstoll General Ho!'pital.
KITCHENER
A.A., Kitchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, MiBS K. W. Scott; President, !\frs.
Walter Ziegler; First Vice-President, Miss Thelma
Sitler; Second Vice-President. Miss Elsie Trouse;
Secretary, MiBB Jean Sinclair, 144 Water St. S.; Assis-
tant Recretary, l\liss I\farion Ballantyne; Treasurer,
Miss l\'Iary Ocr.
LlNDSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
lion. Pr('sidrnt, ;\li-;1'; E. Hrid; I'rp,idf'nt, Mi,.s J,
Harding; Fint \ i('p-Pre,.idl'nt,
In. O. Walling;
erond
\'ice-I're
ident, :\Ir!'. 1\1. Thur,.ton; Corrc!'ponding
Rcrretary, l\-li,.!' K f'a",.on; Trea-urer, :\In. G. H..
Allen; Flo\\er Convpner. I\liss E. Lo\\e;
opial Con-
vener,
Iis,. h.. Mortimore.
LONDON
A.A., Ontario Hospital
Hon. President, !\fiss Mary L. Jacobs; President,
Miss N. 1\1. Williams, 55 Ed\\ard St.; First \ïce-Prf'ei-
dent, Mrs. V. M. Reilly; Recond \ïce-Pre6ident, Miss
F. R. Ball; Secretary, Mrs. E. D. Grosvenor, 52 Doulton
Ave.; Treasurer, !\fiBe E. Kennedy, Ontario Ho!\pital;
Social Committee. Mis/!f'e I. Lindllay, L. Kelly; Press
Representative, Mis8 F. Burls.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. Preeident, Mother !\of. Patricia; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister !\f. Ruth; President. Miss Olive
O'Neil; First Vice-President, Miss I\fadalene Baker;
Se('ond \'ice-Prellident, Miss Erla Beger; Recording
Secretnry, !\fiBS Gladys Martin; Correl!pondin/o!; Recre-
tary, Miss Irene Griffen; Treasurf'r. :\fiss Gladys Gray,
reSl! Repreø
ntati\'e, Miss
tella Gignac: Represen
a-
bves to Re
lstry Board, MIssel! Rhea Rouatt, ('p(';Jf'
Slattery, Olive O'Neil.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. Pre!!ident, Miss Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, Miss M. M.
Jones, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-Preeident, Miss H.
HustOIl; Second Vice-President, Miss M. McLaughlin;
Treasurer, Miss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary, Miss F. Quigley; Correspondinj;!'; Secretary, Mi
s
M. Smith, Victoria Hospital; Board of Directors, Misses
C. Gillies, A. Malloch, J. Mortimer, M. Yule, C.
Skinner, Mrs. C. Rose.
NIAGARA FALLS
A.A., Nla
ara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. S. Park; President, Miss A.
Irving; First Vice-President, Miss V. Coutts; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. H. English; Secretary-Treasurer,
MiBS F. J. Loftus, 823 McRae St. Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss A. Pirie; Auditors, Miss Day, Mrs. Sharpe;
Sick Committee, Mrs. Teal, Miss Carson, Miss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Dufferln Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. O. Fleming; President, Miss
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, Miss V. Lee;
Second Vice-President, Miss I. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
Miss E. M. Hayward; Treasurer, Mi8B A. Burke.
ORILLIA
A.A., OrUUa Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
HOIl. President, MiBB E. JOhnstOIl; President, Miss
G. M. Went; First Vice-President, Miss L. Whitton;
Second Vice-President, MiBS M. Harvie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Alice M. Smith, 112 Peter St. N.
Regular MeetiIlg-First Thursday of each month.
OSHA W A
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Mac Williams, General Hos-
pital; President, Miss J. McIntosh, 414 MaBBon St.;
First Vice-President, Miss J. Thompson, 115 Ap:nes St.;
Second Vice-President, Miss R. Post, General Hospital;
Secretary, Miss M. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; Assistant
Secretary, Miss M. Tribble, 91 Connaup;ht St.; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss E. Clark, 97 Athol St.;
Treasurer, Miss E. Dickinson, 534 Mary St.
011 A W A
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. President, Miss M. A. Catton; Presidcnt, Miss
Jcan Blyth; Vice-Pref'ident, Miss M. McNiecc; Recre-
tary, !\fiss Gertrude Halpenny, Protestant Children's
Village; Treasurer, Miss M. Slinn, 204 Stanley Ave.;
Board of Directors: Mis...es E. l\IcColl. S. McQuade,
L. Bedford, M. Stewart; Committee ConfJeners: Flower,
!\frs. V. Boles; PreM, Mrs. W. C. Elmitt; Representa-
tive to The Canadian Nurse, Miss A. Ebbs.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Gertrude Bennett; President,
Miss Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, Miss Dcrothy
Moxley; Second Vice-President, MiB8 E. Curry; Re-
cording Secretary, Miss Mary Lamb; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss Downey; Treasurer, Miss \Vinnifred
Gemmell; Executive Committee, Miss Mulvaugh, Mi
s
Lera Barry, Mi8B Bertha Farmpr, Miss D. Johnston,
MiBB D. Kelly; Representatives to Central Rep:istry,
Miss Katie Clark, Miss L. Boyle; Convener Flower
C'ommittee, Miss G. Ferguson; Press Representative,
Miss E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitille; President,
Miss K. Bayley; First Vi ('e-President, Miss G. Clark;
Second VÍI::e-President, MiBS M. Munroe; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Dorothy Knox, Ottawa General Hos-
pital; Memhership Secretary, Miss F. Poitras; Sick
Committee. Miss P. Bissonnette, Miss S. Kearns. Miss
B. LellTis; Representative to The Canadian Nurse.
Miss E. Kennedy; Representatives to Local Counril
or Women. Mrs. Lntimer, Mrs. Dunne and !\frs. Le
Clair; Rppresentativps to Central Rej;!';istry, Miss
Rogers, Mi
s M. T .andreville.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Maxwell; President, Miss
M. MacLaren; Vice-President, MiBS M. Lunan; Secre-
tary, Miss M. Nelson, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
I. Allan, 1188 Gladstone Ave.; Central Registry, Misses
M. Wilson, S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
Misses S. Clark, S. Carmichael, E. Younjl;; Representa-
tive to The Canadian Nurse, Miss M. Drummolld. Civic
Hospital.
OWEN SOUND
A.A., Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss B. Hall; President, Miss F.
Rae; First Vice-President, Miss M. Paton; Second
Vice-PresideIlt, Miss J. Agnew; Secretary, Miss A.
Robertson, 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer, Miss A.
\Veedon; Pianist, Miss R. Dunoon; Flower Committee,
Mrs. McMillan; Programme Committee, Miss M.
Cruickshank; Sick Committee, Miss M. Sim; Press
Representative, Miss H. WaldeIl; Refreshment Com-
mittee, Miss C. Penner; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, Miss
A. Dobbin; First Vice-President, Miss H. Rusflell,
Second Vice-President. Miss L. Simpson; Secwtary;
Miss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Treasurer, Miss
S. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; Correeponding Secretmy;
Miss E. Wagar, 273 Park St.; Social Convener, Miss
M. Watson.
SARNIA
A.A., Sarnla General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 M. Lee; Preflident, Miss L.
Segrist; Vice-President, Miss A. Cation; Secretary,
Miss A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson,
Representative to The Canadian Nurse. Miss C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), Miss D. Shaw;
Programme and Social Committee, Miss L. Segrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. M. Munn; President, Miss
L. Attwood; Vice-President, MiBB M. McMaster;
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. K. Snider, 36 Douglas St.;
Social Convener, Miss A. Rock; Flower Convener;
MiBS C. Staples.
ST. CA THERINES
A.A., Mack Training School
Hon. President, Miss Anne Wright, General Hospi-
tal; President, Miss Nora Nold, General Hospital;
First Vice-President, Miss Marp:aret McClunie. 39
Chaplin Ave.; Second Vice-President, l\liss Evelyn
Horton, Louth St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss J. Hastie.
General Hospital; Social Committee, Miss Aileen
Johnston, General Hospital, Miss Donalda Veale, 35
Academy Rt., Miss Bernice Rule. 146 Weiland Ave.;
Repre.øentative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss Feather-
fit one, 17 Hainer St.; Correflpondent. MiBS Current;
Programme Committee, Miss Brubaker, 1 Fitzj;!';erald St.
ST. THOMAS
A.A., Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Armstrong; Hon. President,
Miss Buchanan; President, Miss Bella Mitchener;
First Vice-President, Miss Annie Campbell; Second
Vire-President, Miss Jervell; Rerordinj;!'; Secretary;
Mi
s Esseltine; Corre
ponding f'erretary, Miss Lamond,
Treasurer, Mi
s Claypole; ExecutÏ\'es, Mjs
McAlpine,
Miss Irvine. Miss Nona Mannix, Misfl Hazel Hastings,
l\fiss L. Crane; Committee ConfJeners: Nominatinp-,
Miss J. Grant; Sick Nursinp:, Miss E. Lanyon; Social,
Miss C. Robertson; Purchasing, Miss L. Ronson; 'Ways
and Means, Miss Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, Miss Amy Prince; Representati"e
to the R.KA.O., Miss Mary May.
TORONTO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. C. J. Currie; President. Miss
A. O. Bell; Recordinp: Secretary, Miss Doris L. Kent;
Correspondinj;!'; Secretary, Miss May Hood. Grace
Hospital, Toronto; Treasurer, Miss V. M. Elliott, 194
Cottingham St.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., The Grant MacDonald Trainin
School
for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss Esther M. Cook, 130 Dunn
Ave.; President, MiBB Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn Ave.;
Vice-President, Mrs. Marion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss Norma McLeod; Corresponding Se('retary,
1\fiBB Ethel Watson, 130 Dunn Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
Phyllis La\\TenCe; Social Convener, MiBB Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Presidents, Mrs. Goodson, Miss F. Potts; Hon.
Vice-President, Miss Austin; President, Mrs. Strachan;
Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Cassan, Mrs. Raymond; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss E. Lanp;man; Corresponding
ecretary, Miss M. Blackwood; Treasurer, Miss Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee ConJlener8: Social, Mrs. A.
RUBBell; Flower, Miss H. Fisher; ProlITamme, Miss
Elliott; Publications, Miss S. E. Lewis; Re/o!;istry, Miss
Currie; WeUare, MiBB Parker; R.N.A.O., Miss Miller.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, Miss Armstrong; First Vice-President,
Miss Gastrill; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Thomp-
son; Secretary, Miss Staples, Riverdale Hospital;
Treasurer, Mrs. H. Dunbar, 1>3 Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, Miss Mathieson, Miss Stratton, MiB8 Breeze,
Miss Baxter, MiBB Lo\\rie, Riverdale Hospital.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
Hon. Presidpnt, Sister B('atrice, Superintpndent, St.
.rohn's Covpnt; President, Miss S. Morgan; First Vice-
Presidpnt. Misø J. Vandprwell; Second Vice-President.
!\Iiss N. Hetherinp;ton; Secretary, Mi:>.... W. Webb, 77
Summerhill Ave.; Trpasurpr, l\liss D. "\\niting; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss 1\1. Martin; Con1ICmers: Enter-
tainment Committee, Miss 1\1. Davies; Sick Visiting.
!\Iiss H. Frost; Pres.. Representative, Miss F. Young,
227 Mil\"erton Blvd., Toronto 6.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. Pre.'1ident, Rev. Sister Mary Margaret; Preei-
dent, Miss M. Kelly; First Vice-President, Miss O.
Kidd; Second Vice-President, MiBB
f. Daly; Record-
ing Secretary, Miss M. Goodfriend; Corresponding
Secretary, 1\Iiss V. Hanley; Treasurer, Mil's F. Robin-
!Ion; Councillors, Misses A. Timlin. L. Dunbar, I.
Power, R. McCue.
A.A., St. Michael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; Hon. Vice-
President, Rev. Sister Jeanne; President, Miss Marie
Melody; First Vice-President, Miss Crocker; Second
Vice-PrCl!ident, Miss R. Grop;an; Third Vi('e-President,
!\Iiss J. O'Connor; Treasurer, MiBB G. CoultE'r, Apt.
404,42 Isabelle St.; Assistant TreasurE'r, Miss I. Nealon;
Recording Secretary, Miss M. Doherty, St. Michael's
Hospital; Corresponding Secretary, Mis/! K. McAuliffe,
Eastwood Apt., Sherbourne St.; PriJlate Duty Repre-
8entative, MiBB McGuire: Public Health Repre.entatiJle,
Miss H. Kerr; PreBB Representative, MiBB Re/o!;an;
Councillors, !\IiBBes M. Bro\\Il, J,. !\f('Gurk, C. Cronin.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
lion. Pre..ident, l\fi
s Jean Gunn; President, !\Iiss
,rpan AnderFon, 149 Glpnholme Ave.; First Vice-
Presidpnt, Miss !\fargarpt Dulmage: Secolld "ice-
Presidpnt, :\liF/! Elvira Manning; Secretary, !\fiss
:\fary Fidler, 2:) Rraemar Ave.; TrE'asurer, :\riss Hilda
Maclennan, 14 I.ynwood A vp.; .-\/!
i..tant Trpasurer,
Miss Evelyn Robson; Archivist, Miss Jean Kni!!eley;
Con1lenr:r.
of Committee8: Prop;rammp, :\fiss Clara
Brown; Press,
Ii
s Marion Ste\\art; Social, l\hs.
.1. H. Thuresson; Nominations, Mi..s Pauline Rteves;
IIlFuranCf', !\Ii.,s Effie Forl!;ie; Flo\\er, Miss l\Iarp;aret
McKay: Elizahpth Fi..ld Smith Mcmorial Fund, !\Iiss
Gretta ROSB.
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A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital TrainIng School for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss E. MCLeaIl, Torollto East
General Hospital; Pre
dent, :\fiss H. Louis, 1806
Danforth Ave. ; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss N. V.
Wilson, 50 Cowan Ave.; Representatives to Central
Registry, Miss B. MacIntosh, 748 Soudf\Il Ave.,
:\fiss 1\1. Beston, 232 Millwood Rd.; RepreseIltRtive to
R.N.A.O., Miss B. 1\IacIIltosh.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Miss B. L. Ellis; President, Miss
F. !\Iatthe\\s, 74 Westmount Ave.; Vice-President,
Miss U. Colwell; Recording Secretary, Miss G. Patter-
son; Secretary-Treasurer,
Iiss Helen Stewart, Toronto
Western Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, MiBB F. Greenaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
lIon. President, Miss Ross; President, !\lis" JCFl'ie
Gordon; Vice-President, Miss LindFay; CorrE'sponding
Secretary, Miss M. Anderson, 168 Isabella St.; Record-
ing Spcretary, Miss Bungay; Treasurer, Mi!'8 Littlp,
168 babella St.; Correspondent to The Canadian
NUTse, :\Iiss I. On
low.
A.A., Women's Coll
e Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. Bowman; Hon. Vice-President,
Miss :\leiklejohn; President, Miss Worth, 93 Scarboro
Beach Blvd.; Secretary, MiBS Free, 48 Northumberland
St. Treasurer; Miss Fraser, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Connau
ht Tralnln
School for Nurses
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President, Miss E. MacP. Dickson, Toronto
Hospital. Weston; Vice-President, Miss Ann Bolwell,
Toronto Hospital. \Veston; Secretary, !\fiss G. Leem-
ing, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Treasurer, Miss R.
McKay, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Convener 01
Social Committee, Miss M. Jones. Toronto Hospital,
Weston.
WINDSOR
A.A.. Grace Hospital
lIon. President, -\djutant A. Butt; President, :\Iiss
E. Williams: Vice-President. :\lisR G. SuthNland;
Secretary, l\li
s Gladys Duffield, 2]8 Peter
t. W.,
alld\\i('h; Treasurer, :\li
s \\ . :\Ien.in; Pre:<
e('retary,
1\liH C. l\1('LarPIl.
A.A., Hotel Dleu, Windsor
lion. Pre
ident, Rev. :\IQther :\Iarie de J a Fprre;
Pre8idcnt, l\Iiss !\Iary Perrin; First \ï('e-PreFident,
:\Ii!'s
Iarie Odctte; Se('ond Vice-President, l\Iis:< Zoo
Londeau; Secretary, Miss :\1. Spence; Treasurer, :\Ii:<s
1\lary Fenner; Conveners of Committees: :\Ii"',.,es J.
J ondcau, H. Mahoney, :\1. :\lcClory.
WOODSTOCK
A.A., General Hospital
Fir".t lIon. Pre",id('nt, Miss Frances f'harpe; Second
lion. Prpsident, :\lisl' Hplen Potts; Prp!'ident, :\Ii
s
:\fabel Co!otello; Vice-Pre",ident, :\Ii"s Anna Cook;
Re('ording Scnetary, :\Iis", Lila Ja('kson; CorrE'l'pondinl!;
SenE'taryand Prpss Hppresentative, I\lb" l\Iay Davi
on,
áH7 Adelaide f't.: Assi"'tant
ecrE'tary. I\liss Jpan
Kelly: Treasuf('r. :\Ii",,, Maud Slaght; As>istant Trpas-
lIrer, Miss
L :\larPherson; Conrenr:rs of Commit/us:
Programme, !\fis!! D. ('rail!;; Flo\\er anoJ Gift, :\Ii
s I).
Hobbs; Social, :\lis8 J. .-\ndpr8on.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
QUEBEC
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. President, !\fiss 1\1. L. Brown; President, Mrs.
L. Jobber, 1646 Van Horne Ave.; Vice-President. Mi!'s
R. Goodfellow, Lachute; Secretary-Trea!mrer, Mi:iS A.
Roy, 379 St. Catherines Rt., Larhine; Executive Com-
mittee, 1\Iisse:i 1\1. McNutt, E. Dewar.
MONTREAL
A.A., Children's Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Mi
s A. Kinder; President, Miss K
Paterson: Vice-Preeièent, Miss H. Nutall; Secretary,
Miss J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, Miss E. Hillyard,
Miss M. Flander; Social Committee. convener, Miss
M. Gill. Miss A. Adlington, Miss M. McCallum and
Miss 1\1. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss V. Schneider; Sick Nurses Committee, Miss
H. Easterbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
President, Miss A. Porteous: Vice-President, MiBB
M. Hayden; Treasurer, Miss D. Miller, Homeopathic
Hospital; Assistant Treasurer, Miss N. Horner; Secre-
tary, MiBS S. Holland; Assistant Secretary, Miss J.
Gray: Private Duty Section. Miss A. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee, MiBS H. Bright; Entertainment
Committee, Miss M. Hayden: Representative to The
Canadian Nurse, Miss J. Whitmore: Representative,
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association, Miss M.
Bright: Sick Benefit Society, Mrs. J. Warren.
L'Association des Gardes-Malades Graduées de
I'Hðpltal Notre-Dame
Exécutif: 1\IesdemoiEelles Suzanne Giroux, PréEi-
dente; Irène Rouillard, Vice-Précidente: Juliette
Beaulieu, 2ème Vice-Prè
idente; Lurrèce Boucher,
Trésorière: 1\larguerite Pauzé, 4234 St. Hubert St.,
Seprétaire; Conseill
res: Mesdemoisplles Françoi
e
Chevrier, Georgette Hébert, Germaine Bris...et, Ludi-
vine Bérubé.
A.A., Montreal General Hospital
HOIl. Presidents, MiBS J. Webster, Miss N. Tedford,
MiB8 F. E. Strumm; Hon. Treasurer, Miss H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, Miss J. Craig; President, Miss E.
Frances Upton, Ste. 221, 1396 St. Catherine St. W.:
First Vice-President, Miss M. Mathewson; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. L. H. Fisher; Recording Secretary,
MiB8 D. Snow: Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E. C.
Menzies, 6635 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun; Treasurcr (Alum-
nae Association and Mutual Benefit Committee), Miss
l. Davies, Montreal General Hospital; Executive Com-
mittee, Miss M. K. Holt. MiBS H. Newton, Miss L.
Sutton, Miss O. Lilly, MiBS B. Herman; Representa-
tives to Pril'ate Duty Section. Miss E. Gruer (Convener),
Miss C. Cole, Miss E. Marshall; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, Miss I. Welling (Convener),
Montreal General Hospital: Representatives to Local
Council of Women, Miss G. Colley, Miss M. Ross;
Sick Visitin
Committee, Miss F. E. Strumm, Miss B.
Herman; Prol!ramme Committee, Miss I. Davies, Miss
M. Batson; Refreshment Committee, Miss B. Under-
hill (Convener), MiBS C. Coombes, Miss C. Fitzgerald,
iss D. McRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Mis8 E. A. Draper; President, Miss
M. F. Hersey': First Vice-President, Miss J. Steven!!on;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. Grieve; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss E. B. Ro
ers: Secretary-Treasurer, Miss K.
.farner, Royal Victoria Hospital; Executive Committee,
Mrs. E. Roberts, Mrs. G. C. Melhado, Mrs. Prideaux,
Misses E. Etter, E. Reid, A. Bulman; Conveners of
Committees: Finance, Miss B. Campbell; Sick Visiting,
Mis!' tL Fellows; Programme, Mrs. K. Hutchison;
Refreshments, Miss M. Rowley: Private Duty Section,
Wifls R. Cochrane; Representatives to Local Council
of Women, Miss J. Stevenson, Mrs. E. Cooper: Repre-
sentative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss E. Allder.
A.A., St. Mary's Hospital ..
Hon. President, Sister Rozon; President, 1\1iES G .
:\lcLellan; Vice-President, Miss 1\1. I\1rNeil; Secretary,
MisE K. Brady, NurEes Residence, 18ö3 Dorchester St.
W.: Treasurer, Miss A. Lalonde; Sick Committee,
lis
esB. Latour, I.1\IcDonell; Programme Committee.
l\lisEes I. I{enny, 1\1. Lapointe, E. O'Hare.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
Hon. Presidents, Miss F. George, Miss E. Trench;
President, Mrs. L. M. Crewe: First Vice-President,
Miss E. Moore: Second Vice-President, Miss K. Mar-
tin; Recording Secretary, Miss R. Sixsmith; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss N. Bro\\n, Apt. 5, 1187 Hope
Ave.; Treasurer, Miss E. L. Francis; Sick Visiting.
Miss G. Wil80n, Miss L. Jen8en; Private Duty, Mrs.
A. Chisholm, Miss G. Wilson; Repreeentative to The
Canadian Nurse, Miss C. Morrow; Social Committee,
Mrs. Drake, Miss Clark. Regular monthly meeting
every third Wednesday, 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University
Hon. President, 1\1is8 l\Iary Samuel; Hon. Vice-
President, Miss Bertha Harmer; Hon. Memben,
Miss 1\1. F. Hen,ey, Miss Grace M. Fairley, Dr. Helen
R. Y. Reid, Dr. Maude Abbott, 1\Irs. R. W. Reford,
l\Ii:ss M. L. Moag; Presidpnt, Miss l\ladcline Taylor,
Victorian Order of NurEes, 1246 Bi
hop St.; Vice-
Pre!'ident, MiEs Eilepn C. Fiallagan, Royal Victoria
Hospital; Secretary-Treasurer, 1\lhs K. 1\lacLennan,
Alexandra Hospital; Chairman, Flora l\Iadeline Shaw
Memorial Fund, l\Iiss E. Franres Upton, 1396 Sf.
Catherine St. W.; Programme, Miss Flora George,
Women's General Hospital; Representatives to Local
Counc'il of Women,
VIi
s Ethel Sharpe, Mis'" Abig;ail
Baker; Representatives to The Canadian Nurse:
Administration, l\1i"s 1\1. DesBarres, Shriners' Hos-
pital; Teaching, Miss C. l\Iills, Montreal General
Hospital; Public Health, l\IiES L. Charland, 3421
Grand Blvd.
QUEBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
HOIl. President, Mrs. Barrow; President, MiBS D.
Jackson; First Vice-President, Miss E. Fitzpatrick;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. C. Y oun!!:; Recording
Secretary, Miss E. McCallum; Correspondin!!: Secre-
tary, Miss M. Fischer; Treasurer, l\IiBS E. McHarj;!';;
Representative to The Canadwn Nurse, Miss N.
l\Iartin; Private Duty Section: Mis8 G. Martin; Sick
Visitin
Committee, Mrs. Barrow and Mrs. Buttimore;
Refreshment Committee, Mrs. Mellin
, Miss Weary,
Miss Hansen, Mis", McClintoch: Councillors. Miss
Imrie, Mrs. Crail!:, I\frs. Jackson, Miss Mackay, MiRB
B. Adams.
SHERBROOKE
A.A., Sherbrooke Hm pltal
Hon. Presidents, Miss E. Frances Upton, !\fiBS Verna
Beane; President, Mrs. Gordon MacKay; First \ïce-
President, Miss O. Harvey; Second Vice-President,
Mrs. A. Savage; Recording Secretary, Miss 1\1. Gelinas;
Correspondinj;!'; Secretary, Mrs. Herbert MacCallum;
Treasurer, l\Iiæ Alice Lyster, lOa Wellington St. N.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, !\fiss F.
Wardlewc;rth.
SASKATCHEWAN
A.A., Saskatoon City Hospital
Ron. President, Miss G. M. Watson; President, Mifs
M. R. Chisholm; First Vice-President, Miss G. Munroe;
Second Vice-President, Miss H. Johnston; Recording
Secretary, Miss J. Wells; Corresponding Eecretary,
MiBS L. Kirk, 419-9th St.; Treasurer, Miss A. Ferguson,
Conveners: Press, Miss M. E. Grant; Relief, Miss G.
1 unroe; Sick Visitinj;!';, Mi8s M. Graham; Educational,
Mrs. G. Pendleton; \Vays and Means, l\Iifs M. DI:ncan:
Social, Mrs. H. Buck.
. OFF. . . DUTY. . .
When we retire . . . clad in a respectable blacl{ sil1{ dress . . . and accom..
panied by our parrot . . . to the shelter of the Old Ladies' Home . . . we expect
to ta1{e with us. . . a garland of memories . . . of odd noo1{s and corners . in
many parts of the world . . . which have won us to a smile . . . or c
armed us
to a tear . . . We don't mean such obvious grandeurs . . . as L' Arc de 'T riomphe
, . . or the Empire State Building . . . or the Cathedral of St. Mar1{ in Venice
. . . 'The sort of thing we have in mind . . . ma1{es no such assault upon the sense
of wonder . . . but comes only by observation sometimes long delayed . . . 'The
city of Montreal for example has many beauties . . . its mountai11: unprofaned by
motors . . . its flaming Cross . . . its bourdon of bells . . . all these are apparent
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Cruelty to Animals . . . and we have heard of memorials which seemed far less
appropriate . . . 'The fountain stands beside one of the busiest and most fashionable
streets in Montreal . . . the great clubs lool{ down upon it . . . and across the road
is the Ritz..Carlton Hotel . . . but these august surroundings . . . do not seem to
interfere with its purpose. . 'The truc1{ horses scent it from afar . . . and say
ha.! ha! among the motor horns . . . Regardless of the wishes of their drivers they
insist on stopping . . . just for a sip and a moment's respite from their load
. . . 'The other morning we came by . . . and there was one of Montreal's
fast..vanishing calèches . . . It had a fringed canopy . . . and the horse had scarlet
ear caps . . . to protect him from the flies . . . 'The driver had got down from
his high seat . . . and was bending over the rising jet of water . . . and an
irresponsible dog came 101l0Ping by . . . and lapped up a mouthful or two . . .
Man and horse and dog . . . a very ancient alliance . . . threatened but not quite
destroyed by the machine age . . . We thin1{ that the late President of the Society
for the Prevent10n of Cruelty to Animals . . . would approve of this tribute to his
memory . . . He would li1{e to meet the soft gaze of the great eyes of the horses
. . . he would chuc1{le if he heard the defiant snorts with which they pull up short
. . . and assert their right to refresh themselves . . . He would lil{e the 101l0Ping
dog . . . with the bright drops driPPing from hIS red tongue . . . and the chee1{y
sparrows who go to his fountain to bathe when no one is lool{ing . . . 'These things
belong to the world of 1907 . . . before the motors came . . . but nevertheless they
persist in 1934 . . . as do many other delightful anachronisms . . . which give
Montreal . . . the peculiar charm . . . which leads discriminating travellers to call
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MON TREAl, QUE., NOVEMBER, 1934
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
ELIZABETH L. SMELLIE, CB.E., Chief Superintendent, the Victorian Order of Nurses
for Canada.
It would be a reckless even if optimistic
individual who would venture to fore-
tell the future under present conditions,
nevertheless, that "we walk by faith, not
by sight" gives me courage to proceed
with my forecast although five years
from now neither you nor 1 may see
things in quite the same light. Dr. Cabot
said recently: "I suggest to you that we
have heard too much of the cost of
medical care and not enough of the
requirements of satisfactory medical
service. An important part of this
whole problem of supplying satisfactory
medical care will be found to lie in the
provision of sufficient public health and
welfare nursing to stop the innumerable
gaps between the knowledge and the
application of medical service."
The future preparation of the public
health nurse should not differ fundamen-
tally from that of any other nurse be'
cause all would receive the same basic
training. Public health nursing is just
as much a part of the development of an
adequate health service as is nursing
essential to and tied up with medical
care at home. The future of public
health nursing is dependent on many
factors, social, economic and evolution
ary. Some of these are: the advance of
medical science and medical practice;
An addrc88 delivcrcd .It the BiLnm,,1 Meeting of the
Can..dian Nur8C!1 Association in Toronto, June 27, 1<" 4.
NOVFMHI-'R, 1934
the attitude of hospitals, their advisory
medical boards and administrations
towards such questions as budgets for
training schools apart from hospitals;
adequate teaching staffs with public
health preparation; maintenance of suffi-
cient graduate staff; a longer probation
or testing period for the undergraduate
student; adaptation of, not necessarily
additions to, curricula; reduction of the
number of graduates, through careful
selection, with due regard to the ability
of the community to absorb them later:
extension of training or the withholding
of diploma during a trial period following
graduation.
Factors in development
More specifically the development of
public health nursing must depend 111
the future upon:
The effective application of knowledge to
health org
nization. As Dr. Kinlock once
said: "The achievements of medi.:al research
are already far in advance of their application
to practical living, dnd the failure of applicd'
tion dictates a closer relation between the
universities which are the main centres .>f
research, and the local authorities, which 3re
through their preventive and curative !oervices,
the agents to apply the guidance of biological
truth to the community."
The provision of medical care, including
nursing. for those otherwise unahle to secure It.
If the nurse's training i!o to continue to he
the basic requirement, the intake of and
stdnddrd O1dint,tined hy puhlic health nur
ing
org.mizatiom O1u
t depend upon the type of
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510
THE CANADIAN NURSE
student admitted to and graduated from hos-
pital and her qualifications, personnally and
academically.
The employment of full-time and well-
qualified public health personnel in depart-
ments and organÜ:atións.
The ability of the public health nurse to
work with and through the medical and nurs-
ing professions and with other people and
organizations.
The appreciation of public health workers
of the necessity of interesting legislators and
laymen in health in order to secure their
inteest and co-operation.
In so far as the individual nurse is con-
cerned, and until such time as undergraduate
training provides additional opportunitics,
postgraduate affiliations in paediatrics, obstc-
trics, communicable disease, mental hygiene
and psychiatry.
Extension of supervision and consultant
services.
More refresher courses.
Advanced postgraduate work for those
meaning to specialize, or to do administrati I!C
work.
More adequate training in obstetrics.
Provision for home helpers or visiting
housekeepers.
A broader type of registry or bu.eau to
supply the type of service required. Even-
tually, registration of all health workers.
A public health associate-secretary or con-
su;tant service available from the N ation.tl
Office of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Undoubtedly the future will reve.ll
greater assumption of responsibility on
the part of official health departments.
One would sincerely hope this might
evolve, preferably with greater depart-
mental administrative powers, but with
active participation and professional
direction on the part of the medical and
nursing professions in any proposed
health plan.
Health Insurance
Another future possibility is health
insurance and the rôle of the nurse in
any such prospective undertaking is of
interest. The problem from the nurse's
point of view is this, that few if any,
insurance plans include nursing as a
1
essential part of an insurance scheme.
To quote from a recent article in the
Nursing 'Times:
There is one thing, however, which is not
provided by the State, and that is home
nursing. Speaking in 1911, in connection
with the National Health Insurance Act, Me.
Lloyd George said, "Any system of doctoring
is hopelessly insufficient which is not supple-
mented by a good system of nursing." These
words were spoken when advocating a nursing
benefit in connection with the Act but though
twenty years have elapsed the National
Insurance Act does not include a nursing
benefit except in the case of a few approved
societies who offer it as an additional beneiÏt.
Organization and Correlation
Surely it behooves us in thinking of
the future to bestir ourselves to make con-
crete and constructive suggestions.
Whenever insurance schemes do evolve
there is extension of benefits in any event,
so why not in the future try to visualize
two divisions of departmental health
activity, the work of both sections cor-
related, with occasional interchange of
workers, along these lines:
Further provis:on fo; extension and devel-
opment of health education work.
LinkIng up and making full use of ,l
l
medical resources already available in the hos-
pital and home, subsidizing them when indi-
cated and demanding a satisfactory return in
terms of service.
The nurse doing health work from the
educational viewpoint, with only occa-
slOnal demonstration, can cover a much
wider territory. In the larger centres
where specialization is indicated, and in
the rural areas where distances are great
and natural conditions complicated it will
be a long time before either, in the one
case, a suffiCient number of visiting
nurses can be engaged to cover the whole
territory, or, in the other, that adequate
nursing care can reasonably be provided
unless through municipal or township
hosp
tals or outposts.
Registration of all public health offi
cials, including nurses, provides food for
thought. Unless there were a waiver
over a number of years, and because at
present the necessity still exists for em.
ploying half. time and not invariably
fully-qualified personnel, prematur
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FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
registration might lead to greater con'
fus
on and difficulty than exists at pre'
sent. Instead, every effort might be made
to strenghten the posItion of the officiai5
we already have.
Educational Opportunities
The one' year public health nursing
courses as at present given, must be con'
tinued but I think we may as well face
the fact that not every nurse who gradu,
ates or who takes postgraduate training,
is keen to nurse or has the personality to
fit her for it. She may have made a mis'
take in her vocation: her flair may be for
administration or teaching. Our ambi,
tion is to have more public health teach,
ers in schools of nursing and it is our
responsibility to prepare them so that
we are not found wanting when the
schools send out the appeal: "Come over
and help us." Present day training is
not sufficient to equip for public health
or social work and in the meantime,
other things being equal, university
public health training should continue to
be the usual requirement for a public
health nursing position. In considering
both present and future needs each de'
partment and organization might well
build up a sound system of staff educa'
tion to meet its individual requirements.
Obstetrical Nursing Care
Here may I refer to one subject which
I feel has been side-stepped by both
physicians and nurses. Our present
teaching in obstetrics is inadequatc.
Nurses on the whole are fearful of it.
I wish that we might have a joint com-
mittee from the Canadian Medical Asso'
ciation, the Canadian Puhlic HC.llth
Association and the Canadian Nurses
Association to study this matter. The
same conditions do not prcví.l11 in Canac<l
as abroad where the mid'wife is firmly
established, her ability recognized an.J
her duties outlined by the best ohstetrical
authorities and where supervision can
more easily be provided and the standan.l
NOVEMBER, 1934
511
is constantly being raised. To quote from
a report made on my return from Europe
two years ago:
I do not find myself entirely in agreement
with those authorities in the medical and
nursing professions who are enthusiastic for
the introduction of the midwife into this
country. The field is limited and the diffi,
culty of obtaining emergency assistance
presents complications just as does the
possible isolation from medical services, and
adequate supervision. I have an idea, not
based absolutely on fact, that what we need
is a fully'qualified public health nurse, with
additional obstetrical training.
It has been an appalling thing to have
had to compel nurses to face situations
necessitating their being called upon to
deliver patients with the limited prepara'
tion they have had, and some plan should
be evolved whereby more inten
ive train'
ing in obstetrics can be obtained; not to
launch midwives as such, but as occasion
demands to be able to send to such dis,
tricts as require her, a type of individual
who would really be primarily an excep'
tionally well'qualified public health
nurse, yet who incidentally might serve
in an emergency. There may also be a
field for obstetrical nursing assistants, as
there is for obstetrical supervisors.
Skilled nursing service, even where avail,
able on a visit basis and under medical
direction, is not used during the com'
plete maternity cycle to full capacity.
Why is this? There is a place in the
general scheme for the home helper or
visiting housekeeper, working under
nursing supervision; we may as well
recognize it and have her properly regis,
tered and supervised.
What of the Future?
What does the future hold for the
publIc health nurse? I do not know. Do
you? May one venture to suggest, that
surely nursing education is concerned,
not alone wIth un
ergraduate prepara'
tion but with postgraduate work and the
opportunity of future appointments for
nurses graduating. Consequently, it is
es.sential that private duty and puhlic
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health should be generously represented
and take an active part in nursing educa-
tion sessions. Just as institutional nurses,
whether in an administrative or staff
capacity, may well have their own sec-
tion, public health and private duty
nurses might prove equally effective on
a joint committee where nursing educa-
tion is the common problem of all.
There are those in the publIc health
field who believe the time has come to
merge educational and curative services.
Must we not creep before we walk? One
feels just a little apprehensive lest too
much is being demanded of the long-
suffering public health nurse without due
consideration of her physical and human
limitations and her natural desire to do
a more finished job. It can be done, but
a teaching programme including visiting
nursing implies a smaller area with a
concentrated population. Shall we not
probably accomplish more in the end jf
we attempt meanwhile to link up existing
services?
Recent studies ind
cate that individual
specialties in public health work have
not been developed as they should have
been and apparently there is need for
setting up standards of administrative
procedures in each field. When official
departments ha ve undertaken bedside
nursing, because of the overwhelming
amount of educational work to be done,
it has only been possible to give a limited
service. After being away from nursing
for a number of years, the urge to under-
take it is not likely to be so spontaneous
nor are opportunities sought for demon-
stration. This is perfectly natural
because routines and treatments change
-all the more reason for occasional
return to hospital. On the other hand,
nurses developing a bedside nursing
programme may be prone to neglect their
exceptional opportunity for teaching
with the result that during their visits
and in between times, they too frequently
accept responsibilities which should be
left with the family.
Visiting nurses have need to extend
rather than to limit their particular type
of service so that in working out future
plans they can collaborate with registries
and private duty nurses. Consequently
there seems reason to believe that, whIle
due consideration should be given to the
territory to be covered and the service
required, it is likely that for some years
to come, two types of public health
nurses will be required with their duties
properly correlated and with understand-
ing and effective leadership and super-
vision. We must continue to depend on
the universities for research and upon
organizations, official and unofficial, for
the pooling of knowledge and experi-
ence and for experiment along various
lines.
Keeping in Touch
Ma y I repeat, from none of our future
plans can we afford to exclude the public
or to overlook the necessity for bringing
them along with us, whether as citizens,
patients, contributors or benefactors,
through their responsibilities on hospital
boards, as advisers to health departments
or in administering voluntary organiza-
tions. Recently Edward C. Lindeman
said: "The moment community planning
is done by professionals we have an auto-
cracy-professionals should be retained
by the people effectively to carry out
the demands and plans that the public
have made. This implies an enlightened
population. ..
The Letter and the Spirit
It will be a forward step when It IS
fully appreciated that the hospital
in so
far as the pupil nurse is concerned, is
the practice field: care of the sick is the
direct objective. Nevertheless this is apt
to become a one-sided training unless the
patient is recognized as a memher of a
family and of a community and his ill-
ness is studied in relation to its cause
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and effect. Much curative work is pre'
ventive; to understand deviations implies
a better understanding of the normal anJ
a permeation of that attitude throughout
the training period. Hence the need for
instructors, themselves imbued with the
public health viewpoint, and for addi,
tional emphasis on paediatrics, obstetrics,
communicable disease and mental hygiene
from the preventive angle. Dr. Etienne
Burnet, of the Pasteur Institute. has said:
If we consider but the letter, it may be
thought to be a small matter, but not if we
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look at the spirit. The new objective will be
social, positive and preventive nO less than
curative medicine, in the scientific as well as
the practical aspect, aimed at promoting
health, combating degeneration and improving
the human race. The value of rules and
curricula will depend on the extent to which
they embody this spirit. We can only start
from what we know and seek to discover
from present conditions, which are already
an improvement on the past but which we
cannot regard as final, the tendenC!e<; that
will prevail in a future which can only b..-
dimly discerned. Above all, we must find
out in what direction we are moving.
.
THE RESOLUTIONS
RUBY M. SIMPSON, President, Canadian Nurses Association
Resolutions invariably excite interest.
Stripped of the personality of speaker:;,
of the enthusiasm and inspiration engen'
dered by contact with others of one's own
profession, they may be interpreted as
the practical and tangible outcome of an
association meeting, one gauge by which
its success may be judged. The Resolu
tions of the recent Biennial meeting of
the Canadian Nurses Association, printeJ
elsewhere in this Journal, should, there,
fore, be read with the keenest interest
by every nurse. In them will be founJ
the objectives of the Association for tih:
next two-year period.
At first glance these Resolutions appear
a bit overwhelming and bewildering and
we find it none too easy to see their im-
port clearly. There are business Resolu
tions for the attention of executive of Ii,
cials; there are Resolutions affecting
financial committments and obligations,
the Florence Nightingale Memorial
Foundation for instance, regarding which
planned action is definite; there arc
Section Resolutions, prominent among
them being the t,lsk whIch the Private
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Duty Section has set itself. in a study
to define the function. the preparatio
1
and the place in community service of
its own group; there are policy Resolu-
tions, one of which sets out definitely
non-affiliation of the Canadian Nurses
Association with other national organiza-
tIons and which means withdrawal from
affiliations and memberships now held.
All of these are important and the nUr::
who would know her Association and its
work should be familiar with them.
The Resolutions, however, which make
an insistent demand for immedia!.
attention are those which suggest !""Iew
plans and are, in a sense. a c,tll
ù action.
They are the outcomr of
,lreful study
in previous yea rs, so that the need IS
well known; they were formuI.lted fol-
lowing full d;scussion at the Biennial
Mectmg (J nd were in c,lch casc supported
by provincial association representativc3.
The first concerns Dominion registr,ltion
for nurses. It calls for a national study
committee on which c,lch province will
have representation and the report of
wl11ch, wlwn presented in I (ß(), will, it
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is hoped, lead to definite action in a mat-
ter long discussed and now timely.
The second concerns the licensing of
all who nurse the sick for hire. ProvincÜ.1
committees are to be formed. not only
for study but also for action in this mat-
ter. It presents knotty problems. The
keenest minds and strongest wills will bp
needed for their solution. At the earliest
possible moment these committees shoulJ
formulate plans and endeavor to get the
necessary machinery in motion. Progress
reports will be eagerly awaited.
The third venture also calls for provin-
cial action and must not be confuseJ
with the one just mentioned. It is to be
an experiment in an entirely new form
of Registry, in an attempt to make all
types of nursing service available to the
public. Such a Registry will enrol both
graduates and non-graduates, will try :0
place a group of its nurses on a monthly
salary and will be governed by a Board
comprised of representatives from all
branches of nursing, which will work out
plans for direction and supervision of
the service. Funds will be required for
so ambitious an undertaking and provi-
sion for this is made through money
grants of a stated amount from provinci1.1
and national associations.. for one such
effort in each province.
Anyone who is inclined to question
the need for these efforts should read and
re-read the first article in the Septemb
r
number of the ]ournal-"TowanJs
Action. ., This article might well be read
in local or provincial meetings, as ].
preparation for that attitude of mind
which every nurse member must have, If
success in these new ventures is to b
assured. The evidence presented is indis-
putable.
To the projects outlIned, serious atten-
tion is directed and active participation
and co-operation urged. National and
Provincial Joint Study Committees will
lend every possible assistance but every
nurse must do her part. No thought
s
entertained that achievement will be
simple. There will. indeed, be perplex-
ities, discouragements and obstacles in
plenty. But what are obstacles for, if not
to be overcome? Ten thousand Canadian
nurses will refuse to be deterred in efforts
which they are convinced are for (he
improvement of conditions among thos
who require nursing care and those who
proffer it.
The Resolutions of the Silver Jubilee
meeting are, indeed, the guide-posts for
our further journey.
The Resolutions referred to by the Presi-
dent of the Canadian Nurses Association will
be found in this issue under the caption of
Notes from the National Oifì.ce.-EDIToR.
ECHOES FROM BRITAIN
The September issue of the British
] ournal of 'Nursing devotes generous
space to a description of the Bienni3.1
Meeting in Toronto. In her leading
editorial under the caption of "The Care
of Life" Mrs. Bedford Fenwick in speak,
ing feelingly of the death of Dean Ira
Allan MacKay recalls that the Watch,
word of the International Council of
Nurses until 1912 was: "Life. Life in
its depth, variety and majesty."
The portrait of the new President of
the Canadian Nurses Association, Mi33
Ruby Simpson, a.B.E., adorns one of
the pages and excerpts are given from
the addresses of the retiring president,
Miss Florence H. M. Emory and Presi,
dent Wallace. Speaking of the Pageant,
Mrs. Bedford Fenwick closes with these
words : "We on this side of the Atlantic
wish that it had been possible for it to
be witnessed not by nurses in Canada
only, but by all nurses throughout the
world. "
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CANADA CALLING
It is taken for granted by the people
of Canada that in time of war or other
national emergency they can count upon
Canadian nurses to respond promptly to
the call of duty. But If that call came
tomorrow the response would be slow
and halting. Why? Because many of us
have not availed ourselves of the oppor,
tunity to enrol afforded us under the
joint auspices of the Canadian Nurses
Association and the Canadian Red Cross
Society.
Just to make sure that all our readers
will know what to do about it, Miss Ruby
Hamilton, convener of the committee on
national enrolment of nurses of the Cana'
dian Nurses Association, has prepared
these concise instructions:
How to Enrol
It is necessary to be a member of the
Canadian Nurses Association to be on enrol,
ment for service in war or disaster. If you
are a member of your provincial nurses asso'
ciation you automatically become a member
of the Canadian Nurses Association and are
eligible for enrolment. The secretary of
your provincial nurses association will supply
you with an application form. Fill it in and
return it to her and she will forward it to
the provincial division of the Canadian Red
Cross. There is no fee for enrolment. The
register of enrolled nurses is kept in the
office of the Canadian Red Cross Society in
each province. If you are enrolled you will
receive at regular intervals a communication
from the Provincial Red Cross Society, to
which you should reply, in order that your
file may be kept up to date with reference to
present address and continued willingness to
serve your country in case of war or disaster.
The national office of the Canadian Red
Cross Society transmits to the Director-General
of Medical Service at Ottawa a complete list
of the names of all nurses enrolled and avail,
able for service yearly. Is your name on this
list?
The Journal is glad to give all the
publicity it can to this enterprise and is
much encouraged by the kindly apprc'
ciation expressed in a recent letter from
Dr. J. 1. Biggar, National Commissioner
of the Red Cross Society:
I must congratulate you most sincerely
upon the admirable article in the Septemner
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issue of The Canadian Nurse on the enrol,
ment of nurses for emergencies. I am quite
sure that if the nurses in this country realize
just the points you make that the effect upon
the enrolment will be marked. There are
three main enemies to defeat if the scheme
is to be successful: indifference, procrastina'
tion and, ignorance. Articles such as the one
you have just published will be a very real
help in defeating them.
Indifference, procrastination and ignor'
ance; but you cannot say now that you
do not know how to enrol.
Emergency Sery;ce
After the preceding paragraphs had
been prepared for publication the follow'
ing communication, addressed to the edi,
tor, was received from Miss Helen
Randal, R.N.:
The caption of "National Enrolment" and
the article under that title appearing in the
September issue has roused me to the point of
writing you. I thought the title a printer's
errOr until I read the article. In checking up
the August issue for reports I find the same
title, though under it is placed what I had
thought to be the only correct title for any
such committee existing, viz.: National Joint
Committee, Enrolment of Registered Nurses
for Emergency Or War Service.
As the primary purpose for which the com'
mittee stands is "Emergency Service" it seems
strange that this article, whose author is not
designated, uses most of her space referring
to "Enrolment for War Services" and a small
portion for the main purpose of said commit,
tee, i.e., "Emergency Service Enrolment."
The whole tone of the article runs counter
to my idea of the purpose of this committef'.
Now war, the man-made horror, may be
prevented by the determination of enough
people, but disaster can occur at any time and
its SOS call does not wait for office hours and
can happen at night, or on Sundays and holi'
days. For private emergency, the Registrar
of local nursing associations, the hospitals,
police and firemen are always ready and
everyone 1{nows just where to telephone or
telegraph without delay. Very probably the
Red Cross does have a central place in each
province with a twenty' four-hour service, but,
and here is my point, who knows where to
send in the call for instant help? I don't for
one, but I am not an enrolled nurse. My
suggestion is that each issue of The Canadian
Nurse print a notice stating where in each
province such an office can be found and the
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
names of zones or districts in each province
with the name of the "key" nurse in each
zone, or, if that is not feasible, the name of
each hospital in the zone.
If each hospital is furnished with the list
of "key" or "chief nurse" and other enrolled
nurses in the district, I, for one, would feel
that much help had been provided for the
unexpected disaster, large or small. In this
way the smallest place would know what could
be done on the instant, and while waiting for
re-inforcements to come from the larger
centres. War service does not call for such
an instant answer to the summons, and the
thrill and excitement will bring every available
nurse and she knows where to apply. The
enrolled nurses can be blamed for carelessness
in filling renewal cards for R.N. renewals, etc.,
but with the lack of any information as to
methods for emergencies, one cannot wonder
that they do not take the call very seriously.
I am writing to you that nurses in all
provinces may read and pass on, as I intend
to do, these suggestions to each Provincial As-
sociation and particularly to those members of
the Joint Committee, with the hope that a
better plan for instant help may be evolved
and more definite guidance to any citizen as to
the quickest method to get help. Unless the
"Emergency Service" can be obtained by any-
one at any time, why have a committee at all?
If I am ignorant, many others may be, and
this knowledge should be wide-spread and
available to every Canadian nurse.
It goes wIthout saying that the Jou.rnal
.stands ready to co-operate in any m
a-
sures which will make emergency service
readily available in all parts of the Domi-
nion. By way of making a beginning in
carrying out Miss Randal's excellent
suggestions the addresses of the Provin'
cial Canadian Red Cross Headquarters
in eight provinces are here listed:
J. G. Corry Wood, Commissioner, 317 Bel-
mont House, Victoria, B.C.; D. H. Tomlinson,
Commissioner, 1009-20th Ave. W., Calgary,
Alta; W. F. Marshall, Commissioner, 2331
Victoria Ave., Regina, Sask.; Dr. F. W. Rout-
ley, Director, 410 Sherbourne St., Toronto,
Ont.; Col. J. F. Buckley, Manager, 1109 Sher-
brooke St. W., Montreal, Que.; C. H. Lee,
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer, 72!Æ Prince Wil-
liam St., Saint John, N.B.; Miss E. E. Pyke,
Secretary, Dennis Bldg., Granville St., Hali-
fax, N.S.; R. H. Rogers, Hon. Secretary,
Charlottetown, P.E.!.
THE CALGARY EXPERIMENT
By the time the current issue of the
J ou.rnal appears in print an important
experiment will be under way in Cal-
gary, Alberta. A group of registered
nurses in that city have formed the Cal-
gary Group Nursing Society and through
it are offering to provide nursing service
at a minimum cost on an insurance basis.
The experiment is regarded with sym-
pathetic attention by the Alberta Asso-
ciation of Registered Nurses, the Calgary
Graduate Nurses Association, and by
the local members of the medical profes-
sion. Exact details are not as yet available
but the essentials of the plan are here set
forth but naturally are subject to correc-
tion later.
Ser'JIices Offered
Thirty fully qualified registered nurses
are to be employed by the Society on =l
salary basis. Nurses will be available day
and night. The eight-hour system will
be adhered to as closely as possible.
Assignment to duty will be directed by
the Society and will be governed by the
circumstances of the case. Two automù-
biles are at the disposition of the Society
for use as needed.
Insurance Rates
Individual members of the community
wishing to participate in the scheme will
be charged a monthly fee of 50 cents.
The fee for family participation will be
$1.00 per month.
Promotion Measures
An energetic canvass of the community
is being carried on by the nurses who
are themselves members of the Society
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WE EXCHANGE
and the results are said to be encouraging.
Announcement of the service has been
made in the local press. addresses have
been given by radio and efforts are being
made to interest the women's organiza'
tions and service clubs.
The Leaders
The president and nursing director of
the Society is Miss Charlotte Maberley;
Miss A. Young is the vice' president, and
Miss Aileen Thorn is business secretary
and treasurer. The headquarters of th
Society are situated at Room 207 , York
Hotel, Calgary.
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Fortune Favors the Brave
Miss Eleanor McPhedran, second vice'
president of the Alberta RegistereJ
Nurses Association, speaks of this coura'
geous experiment as follows:
This enterprising group of nurses in Cal-
gary is making a very splendid effort to bridge
over the gap between those who need and
those who have it in their power to serve. The
nurses of Alberta admire their courage, and
watch with keen interest the experiment in
group nursing which they are carrying on. It
is a service which should commend itself to
the people.
And so say all of us!
WE EXCHANGE
In a recent issue of the J ou.rnal wiil
be found the report of the committee on
exchange of nurses of the Canadian
Nurses Association. Within the past
two years five Canadian nurses went tù
Britain, and one French and one British
nurse came to Canada, under the com'
mittee's auspices, for purposes of observa,
tion and study. Canada now has the
pleasure of welcoming two more parti'.:i,
.,.....
,
.,
"
NOVEMBER, 1934
MISS FLORFNCE TAYLOR AND MISS DOROTHY HùLL-\ND
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
pants in this excellent scheme. They are:
Miss Florence Taylor, Senior Sister Tutor
in Guy's Hospital, London, and Miss
Dorothy Holland, Sister Tutor in th
Preliminary Training School of the same
ancient hospitaL Both are on sabbatic-il
leave of absence, having completed seven
years of continuous service at Guy's
HospitaL
Miss Taylor and Miss Holland expect
to spend about a month in Montreal,
Toronto and New York respectively and
they are also planning to pay a visit to
the Yale School of Nursing. They have
already made a brief stay at the Montreal
General Hospital and the accompanying
photograph shows them in the garden of
the nurses' residence. Later we hope to
persuade them to give their "impressions"
of Canadian nurses and nursing. In the
meantime they seem to be bearing up
well under the heavy demands we in
Canada are wont to make upon our
visitors when we set out to be hospitable.
THE NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
GRACE M. FAIRLEY, Convener of the Nightingale Memorial Committee of the
Canadian Nurses Association.
Those who were present at the recent
Biennial Meeting will not soon forget
the interest that was manifested in the
Foundation, and the article published In
the October issue of the Journal describ,
ing the inaugural meeting of the Inter'
national Foundation must have given a
great sense of satisfaction. The Canadian
Nurses Association decided to endorse
the following policy:-
That the C.N.A. should make an effort to
provide one scholarship of ;(250 annually for
a period of five years, the first scholarship be,
ing awarded in 1934. That the total objective
for five years be ;(1,250 towards scholarships
and ;(1,250 towards the endowment fund and
that annually, for the next four years, the
C.N.A. raise at least sufficient money for a
scholarship of ;(250 and that all the extra
money raised each )rear be sent toward the
endowment. That at the General Meeting in
1936, a repo:t of progress made by the Foun,
dation be received and plans made at that
time for securing the balance of the endow,
ment fund.
This means that each province w(l1
have to shoulder considerable respon'
sibility during the next four year.".
Already the provincial conveners have
been notified of the decision of the Asso,
ciation and it IS sÏncerely hoped that
every alumnae or local nursing associJ.'
tion as well as student groups and indi'
vidual nurses will contribute to the cause.
Great emphasis was placed on nursing
research as well as nurs:ng education
when the policy of the Foundation WJS
discussed, and the C.N.A. went on
record as urging that these two objectiv
s
should be kept in the minds of the trus'
tees. One feels that the interests of the
profession will be protected by th
splendid board of directors that was
appointed at the inaugural meeting. Miss
Jean I. Gunn is not only the Canadian
representative but also one of the vic
'
presidents and her whole,hearted interest
in the C.N.A. and her truly international
sympathy and understanding will ensure
a valuable contribution to the buildini5
of the Foundation on a sound basis.
The message from Her Majesty the
Queen was not only gracious but showed
a shrewd understanding and appreciation
of the value of nursing to the world at
large. When sh
states: "I am glad :0
know that it (the Florence Nightingale
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SOME APPOINTMENTS
Memorial) is to take an educational form
as this would undoubtedly have com-
mended itself to Miss Nightingale, who
had so much at heart the education of
the nurse and the training of a great
nursing service", she puts into words what
must be in the mind of every thinking
nurse. The very generous response from
the provinces has already shown that this
interest has taken a tangible form but
each and every member of the C.N.A.
will have to support their provincial com-
mittee if we are to send $1,250.00
annually for the next four years.
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Fu.rther donations received
Manitoba Association of Regis-
tered Nurses. . . . . . . . . . . " $100.00
Registered N urses Associat
on
of Nova Scotia ........... 50.00
A.A., Children's Hospital, Win-
nipeg ................... 10.00
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton .......... 10.00
Student Government Associa-
tion, Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton .......... 10.00
A.A., East General and Ortho-
paedic Hospital, Toronto " 5.CO
SOME APPOINTMENTS
Miss Dorothy Percy has resigned as second
assistant superintend
nt of the Victorian Or.
der of Nurses for Canada to accept an ap-
pointment as instructor of practical nursing at
the School of Nursing, University of Toronto.
MIss Percy is a graduate of the Toronto Gen-
eral Hospital and of the course in public
health nursing, University of Toronto. Her
experience has included both institutional and
public health nursing and her appointment is
of especial interest in that it brings a nurse
with a broad public health experience in daily
contact with nurses during their undergradu-
ate training. Miss Percy is first vice-president
of the Registered Nurses Association of On-
tano.
Miss Dorothy Mickleborough has accepted
the position of Ontario Supervisor with the
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Miss
Mlckleborough is a graduate of the Seattle
General Hospital. Seattle, \Vashington, and of
the course in public health nursing, Univer-
sity of Toronto. She was formerly a supep
visor on the staff of the Department of Public
Health Nursing, Province of Ontario. Miss
Mickleborough is Chairman of District 5, Reg-
istered Nurses Association of Ontario.
Miss Ethel Cryderman, who has been On-
tario Supervisor of the Victorian Order of
Nurses for Canada for the past five and a
half years, has resigned from the National
Office staff to accept the appointment of dis-
tri:::t superintendent of the Toronto Branch
and entered her duties there October 1st. She
is a graduate of the Toronto General Hospital
and of the course in public health nursing,
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University of Toronto. Miss Cryderman has
also to her credit COUrses in midwifery and
mothercraft, the former taken at Oxford, Eng-
land, and the latter at the Mothercraft Centre
in London.
MONTREAL: ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL:
Miss Eileen Flanagan, B.A. (R.V.H., 1923)
has been appointed supervisor of the Montreal
Neurological Institute. Miss Helen Clarke
(R.V.H., 1925) has been appointed night
supervisor of the Ross Pavilion, R.V.H.
LONDON: Miss Gwendolyn M. Fowler has
accepted a position on the staff of Lady Minto
Hospital, Cochrane. She is a graduate of the
School of Nursing of the Victoria Hospital,
London, and a postgraduate of the University
of Western Ontario in public health nursing.
Miss Madeline McDonald has accepted the
position of public health nurse at St. Mary's,
Ontario, formerly held by Mrs. Moeller. Miss
McDonald is a graduate of the School of
N u
sing of the Victoria Hospital and a post-
graduate of the University of Western On-
tario in public health nursing.
SARNIA: Miss Pearl Lumby, formerly in-
structreso; of nursing at Sarnia General Hos-
pital, has accepted the position of superinten-
dent of Lady Minto Hospital, Cochrane: Miss
Lumby was vice-chairman of District 1, R.N.
A.O.
REGINA: Miss Kathleen Rowley (V.G.H.,
and of the McGill School for Graduate
Nurses, 1932) has been appointed instructor
of nurses at the Grey Nuns Hospital. Regina.
MI"s Kathleen Clearihue (S.C.H Toronto)
has been appointed to the teaching
taff of the
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Regina General Hospital. Recent appoint-
ments to the Provincial Public Health Nursing
staff are Miss Dorothy Hopkins (T.G .H.,
1925) and Mrs. Louise Le Cerf (St. Paul's
Hospital, Saskatoon).
PROVINCIAL PUBLIC HEAL TH NURSING
SERVICE OF ONTARIO: Miss 1. DesRoches has
resigned from the public health nursing staff
at North Bay and is succeeded by Miss A.
M. Cloutier. Mrs. M. E. Moeller has accepted
a position with the Canadian National Insti-
tute for the Blind. Miss 1. M McDonald
of the 1934 class of the Universit
of Westen;
Ontario, has commenced her duties as public
health nurse in St. Mary's. Mrs. S. Verral
has begun her duties as school nurse at Hum-
ber Bay where she succeeds Miss E. Hinch,
who resigned to be married. Miss M. R.
Blais (Ottawa General Hospital), a member
of the class of 1934 of the School of Nursing
of the University of Toronto, has been ap-
pointed at Sturgeon Falls to replace Miss E.
Ricdrd. MIss G . Young has returned to her
position in Port Arthur after attending the
University of Toronto public health nursi'1s
course.
Correspondence
F rom the Sudan
The following excerpts from a letter written
to the Executive Secretary of the Canadian
Nurses Association shows how far our little
candle sheds its beams:
I have been back home exactly one week
for I feel this is my home, although it is only
a tiny niche amongst the workers of the East.
I had a wonderful welcome on my return
from my fellow workers and fellow country-
men, but especially from my Sudanese patients
and workers. All were most anxious to hear
of my leave in the West and everybody
declared they had never seen me looking so
well. No wonder! J never had such a happy
nor more wonderful leave. The account of
Western hospitality is far from exaggerated
and we Britishers, especially those who do
not roam, have much to learn in that respect.
Today I received the August number of 'The
Canadian NUTse and I felt I must write and
ask you if you would convey my hearti\'c;t
thanks to all Canadian nurses for giving me
such a happy time. The week in Montreal,
the days in Winnipeg, and on lovely long
Pine Lake, and those spent in Torun
o will
long remain with me as an inspiration and
challenge. It was with great enthusiasm that
] tried to tell the folks in the Old Country
a little about your Biennial Meeting, termi-
nating (at least for me, as I had to catch
my boat the next day) with that perfect
Pageant-a true work of art. You were all
so busy and yet had time, together with
my own fellow "Old Internationals" to look
dfter this visitor from overseas.
E. HILLS- YOUNG,
Khartoum Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan.
A ud from Peru
There are several Canadian nurses in Talara
and we were bemoaning the fact that there is
so little news from our respective Alumnae
Associations when it dawned upon us that
we are no better than the rest of the unfaith-
ful because we too have a little bit of news
which might be welcomed. This explains my
sudden spurt of interest and I hope from
time to time to be able to contribute some-
thing from this part of the world for 'The
Canadian NUTse. Here are a few items to
begin with:
Dr. and Mrs. Ruddy (Anne McNaughton,
Toronto General Hospital, 1921), have
returned to Talara, Peru, from a three months'
holiddY spent in Canada dnd Europe. Miss
Margaret Lovett (Wellesley Hospital, To-
ronto, 1932) had arrived in Talara to fulfil
a three years' contract with the International
Petroleum Company. At Cristobal, Canal
Zone, on June 14, Miss Flora Smart (Toronto
General Hospital, 1925) was married to Mr.
D. D. Conway, of Sistersville, West Virginia.
They are now residing at Talara.
MABEL CUNNINGHAM,
International Petroleum Company,
Talara, Peru.
"Our Bit"
May ] say that I read every bit of 'The
Cana.dian NUTse including the advertisements
but excepting the Official Directory which I
only read when I need some special. informa-
tion. I think you should be glad some people
even read "Off Duty." Who knows but some
day they may read a page or two on each side
of it and then what? I recently read "Our
Bit" and think if it is Miss Clint's first book,
I hope it won't be her last. She has a way
of making one see things so vividly.
F. V. KENNEDY,
Calgary, Alta.
VOL. XXX, No. 11
THE EDITOR'S DESK
Horizons
The emphasis of this issue of the
Journal is on the future of public health
nursing. Probably no one is better quali-
fied than the Chief Superintendent of the
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canad:t
to tell us what lies upon the horizon.
Miss Smellie knows Canada from one en.:!
to the other and her contact with lay
groups makes her sensitive to the new
demands which they are making upon U3.
Relationships
The social pattern of our time is
changing so rapidly that nurses are not
always sure of their place in the design.
The activities of other groups have suc-
cessively impinged rather sharply upon
what in the past, we claimed as the
nursing field. First came the dietitians,
whose presence at one time we regardeJ
with dark suspicion and even a little
jealousy. We now recognize them as
friendly collaborators and freely admit
that they have their place in the scheme
of things.
A more subtle relationship is that )f
the public' nurse and the social worker
and it is difficult in practice to draw
any sharp line between the functions
which legitimately and acceptably may
be performed by each of these workers.
They shade off into one another almost
imperceptibly; yet, for the good of the
community, it is desirable that there shall
be neither overlapping nor friction.
In "New Frontiers in Public Health
Nursing" Miss Pease, herself a distin-
guished social worker and mental hygien-
ist, sheds considerable light on the whole
problem of professional inter-relation-
ships. Incidentally she displays a sym.
pathetic understanding of the real con
NOVEMBER, 1934
tribution made by nurses in the field of
social work.
T he Essayists
On the rare occasions when we really
do get hold of a good idea some one ]s
sure to "beat us to it." We sat down
at this desk the other day all ready to
make an impassioned plea for brief
articles, written in terse and simple
English, describing new d.nd interesting
nursing procedures, when our eye lighted
upon an editorial in the Nursing Times.
The title was "'The Essayists" and em-
bodied therein was what we thought our
perfectly good idea:
Long experience in this office has convinced
us that writers and lecturers find it far easier
to float about on a sea of scientific terms than
to land on solId earth with straight, forward
"household" advice. Half the contributed
articles we reject are sent back because they
are too theoretical, and so are of little real
value to the nurse in her work. In fact our
whole journal is rather like a balloon, always
struggling to leave the earth for the rarer at-
mosphere of medical science, while we, the
'groundsmen, try to keep it down to the level
of practical things.
What a comfort it is to find that somt
-
one else shares one's trials and tribula-
tions-and ideas-even though it is only
another editor!
A n Ex plauation
In order to indicate where the respon-
sibility lies for unsigned artIcles anJ
editorials which appear in The Canadian
Nurse the following explanation is offer-
ed: all such articles and editorials arc
written by the editor of this Journal.
This statement applIes to all sections of
the Journal except News Notes. the COil-
tent of which is compiled from materidl
sent in by correspondents in v.lrious parts
of the country.
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Department of Nursing Education
THE SELECTION OF STUDENTS
M. BLANCHE ANDERSON, Assistant Director of Nursing, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa.
Student nurses are a selected group.
What then shall be required with regard
to age, health, character, personality and
preliminary education? How can we best
evaluate each applicant?
Probably all wIll agree that the desir-
able admission age lies between twenty
or twenty-one and thirty. This would
ensure young women physically and men-
tally more mature, and emotionally better
balanced, than those of eighteen or nine-
teen years of age, who at present, make
up a large proportion of first-year stu-
dents. They would be young enough to
be adaptable and willing to learn. It is
also probable that they would be better
prepared to conform happily with the
discipline of nursing.
Health
Health is essential to success. A health
certificate from the family physician is
the logical first step in eliminating the
physically or mentally unfit. These cer-
tificates have been generally required, but
for various reasons have not given entire
satisfaction. If the physician were in-
formed that a thorough health examina-
tion is made on admission to the school
or shortly after, and that it is most
desirable that doubtful candidates should
not be put to unnecessary expense and
disappointment, might not a more careful
report be the result? The medical exam-
ination at the time of admission should
eliminate all who are doubtful, from the
standpoint of health, regardless of their
other qualifications.
Persouality and Character
Personality and character are not
readily determined. Testimonials from
persons whose names are submitted by
the applicant are, in most instances,
worthless. The best means at our com-
An address delivered at the Biennial Meeting of the
Canadian Nurses Association, June 29. 1934. in Toronto.
522
mand seem to be the personal interview,
frequently impossible because of distance;
a personal letter from the applicant her-
self in her own handwriting; an inter-
view by an older graduate of the school
living in the candidate's vicinity; con-
fidential reports from principals of
schools attended and personality inven-
tories. Preparation and use of a list of
questions to be asked of each applicant
when interviewed, has been suggested by
a psychologist who has made a careful
study of vocational guidance. This sug-
gestion seems worthy of consideration
Principals of schools should be a most
satisfactory source of information, espe-
CIally since vocational guidance is re-
ceiving more and more attention from all
who are interested in education. It is
our part to make our requirements known
and to inform teachers of the type ot
young woman likely to succeed in nurs-
ing. Interviews with students in the
faculty of education and possibly also
with teachers at conventions, are ways
which might help to bring about a desir-
able understanding with this group.
Personality inventories are considered
helpful by some who have used' them,
especiall y in confirming findings by other
means. The administration and inter-
pretation of these tests require experi-
enced psychologists, so that their use is
necessarily limited for the present.
Preliminary Education
The preliminary education requireJ
should depènd upon objectives. These
cannot be discussed in detail at this time
but doubtless all will agree that nursing
demands young women intellectually
capable of good academic standing anJ
ambitious enough to attain it. Graduate
nurses should be prepared to fill thelT
places in the social structure. They
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SELECTION OF STUDENTS
should command respect and considera-
tion, educationally and socially, from
other professional groups rendering
service to the public. The collegiate
institute or high school offers the preli-
minary education generally accepted as
the best available founda:ion for ad-
vanced study. Vocational schools fill an
undoubted need, but schools of nursing
are highly specialized in their own field,
therefore preliminary education for
nurses should be broad, cultural and
general rather than limited in its scope.
Nursing Matriculation
A "nursing matriculation", giving
uniformity of preparation, seems a desir-
able aim if meant to be the regular science
matriculation course with careful sele
-
tion of electives. If meant to be a special
matriculation, givmg admission only t:J
schools of nursing and schools for gradu-
ate nurses in universities. it would too
often present a handicap not easily jus-
tified by the apparent advantages. Con-
sider for example the early-teen-age girl
not mature enough to make permanent
decisions; the hundreds of young women
yearly rejected by schools of nursing,
some of whom will want to choose
another profession; the graduate nurse
who wishes to study in a university
faculty other than the school for gradu-
ate nurses and the young woman who
becomes interested in nursing after her
preliminary education has been com-
pleted.
The high schools also are to be con-
sidered. Many would be unable to gIve
special courses. or even special emphasis
to regular courses. If given, they would
tenò to be pseudo-scientific and of little
real worth. There would be much dis-
sipation of time and energy in hundreds
of schools for a handful of students in
each, and this would be at the expens
of the larger group. Is it not more logical
to look to the high schools for good
general courses of instructions? The
application of these, and the teachinl
NOVEMBER, 1934
523
of special subjects relating to nursing,
would be given in the school of nursing
where the background lends colour and
stimulates interest, and where the teacher
is keenly aware of the specific needs of
the students.
The Sele;tive Process
Should junior matriculation, stressing
the sciences, be accepted as a present
minimum educational requirement there
would still be need for careful discrimi-
nation. An analysis of the high school
record of each candidate should be made.
This would take into consideration age,
failures, general average and class stand-
ing. Rejection of those in the lower
third of the class is highly desirable.
The student who required an additional
year or two to complete the work, with-
out satisfactory reason, is also likely to
be a liability. Here again principals of
schools might be most helpful. If we
expect to have their interest and help
then schools of nursing must be centers
which offer educational and other oppor-
tunities, worthy of the ability of the
type of student we wish to secure. Too
long educators have considered these
schools legitimate dumping ground for
the mediocre and dull.
Intelligence tests are of proven value
in determining potential mental ability.
Schools of nursing which have had ex-
perience with them are emphatic in
declaring their worth. Probably the only
good reason for not putting them into
general use is the fact that the services
of a psychologist are. in many cases, not
available.
A Just Return
Having considered various WdYS and
means by which selection of student
nurses might be placed on a satisfactory
basis, it is necessary to keep in mind
that this can never be wholly accom-
plished untIl schools of nursing offer
adequate returns for what they require,
and until they are independent of the
needs of the hospital for nursing service.
Department of Public Health Nursing
NEW FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
SYBIL H. PEASE, Supervisor of Mental Hygiene, East Harlem Nursing
and Health Service, New York City.
Whatever may be true of what is
happening in the United States--evolu-
tion or revolution-it seems quite certain
that a process of evolution is going on
slowly and inevitably in the field of
public health nursing. The moment the
nurse leaves the hospital walls for the
community, it seems that she inevitably
moves from the relatively conservative
medical group into the relatively rådical
social workers' group. According to her
temperament, the individual nurse wel-
comes this change or shrinks from it. In
either case she cannot escape the neces-
sity of making an adaptation which is
not demanded in any other field of social
work: adapting her professional skills
(learned under medical auspices) in th
care of the sick in the hospital to the
care of the sick in the home, and then
learning how to fit into the network of
agencies for community betterment in
order to work at her other accepted func-
tion-the prevention of disease and the
promotion of health. She thus serves
both the sick and the well-the only
social worker to function in this double
capacity.
Aspects of Social Work
Social work has had, roughly, tWl1
types of workers-caseworkers, who
were concerned with "problem" indivi-
duals and families. and neighbourhood
workers, concerned primarily with groups
of people seeking recreational and educa-
tional opportunities. Evolution in the
casework field has brought about a fusion
between casework and mental hygiene,
especially, perhaps, in family casework,
but also in child-placing and in sevenl
An address delivered before the Public Health Nursing
Section of the CanadIan Nurses Association at the Bien-
nial Meeting, June 28, 1934, in Toronto.
524
other groups, largely through their close
community connection with the work and
workers of the child guidance clinics.
Through the dealings of all these case-
work agencies with disintegrating families
and maladjusted youngsters, information
has been steadily accumulating as to ways
and means of treating personality diffi-
culties. Slowly, too, the way in which
emotional development takes place in
individuals has been formulated after
long and patient research. This material
is the stuff from which prevention IS
made, and close union between casework-
ers and workers who have access to the
whole community is now essential in
order to use this material for the benefit
of all. The caseworker's point of vicw
is preventive, but she has a full-time joh
in her work with people already in diffi-
culties. The settlements have come nearer
to tþe field of prevention because they
were thinking in terms of everyone -in
their ncighhourhood and not only of those
who were maladjusted. Today they arc
still leaders in civic experiments, and
groups of neighbours are meeting at settle-
ment houses to use their enforced leisure
for recreation and for study. The tWQ
approaches to people, that of the case-
worker and that of the groupworker,
might be thought of, respectively, as
curative and preventive. For one worker
to combine both kinds of skill-casework
skill and educational -recreational skill--
has been rare in the social work field.
Healer aud Preventer
With the advent of the public health
nurse, however, a worker came into the
field of social work who. potentially ct.t
least, combined these two different func-
tions in hcr own person-the healer anù
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NEW FRONTIERS
the preventer. She gave bedside care to
the sick in their homes and vaccine to
the well in outpatient clinics. Above
all, she was available for consultation in
centers to which any mother might bring
any well child, thus creating a new piece
of social machinery, a setting in which
keeping an individual well was the reason
for the attention of a professional per'
son. The nurse has access to the whole
community to a degree paralleled only by
the cross-section contacted by the teacher
in the public schools. She is allied with
a profession which has made actual and
dramatic gains in the control of one after
another of the diseases most dreaded in
the past. Because preventive medicine
has been able to shift the emphasis from
the giving of tonics to the giving of tox-
oid, the nurse is the professional worker
most free at the present time to turn her
thoughts and energies to a really thor'
ough-going programme of prevention in
the field of health. both mental and phy,
sical. What she may do in the develop
ment of her tremendous potential value
in the field of health education and life'
enhancement depends upon her courage
and her vision. It is this opportunity of
hers which I think of as the new frontier
in public health nursing.
Waste
In a recent rcport of the Welfare
Council of New York City it was pointeJ
out that $225,000,000 had been spent
from publIc funds during the year for
relief, sickness, and the care of delin-
quents. For preventive work about
$10,000,000 had been spent on health
and crime prcvcntion. We know that
cities and private philanthropies hav
both been slow to put much money into
experimenting with preventive efforts
other than those of physical health,
although no one raises any question as to
the absurd discrepancy of the figur
s
given aoove. We know, too, that muni,
tions companies do not hesitate to spend
money lavishly in cxperimenting in the
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525
hope of inventing bigger and better
explosives and more deadly poison gas.
Why have we been so half-hearted in our
reaction to these facts---contented merely
"to view with alarm" as the columnists
say? I have wondered if it were not
because we really did not ourselves have
much confidence in or enthusiasm about
or skill available for prevention, except
in the field of preventive medicine. We
haven't thought, really, that we could
prevent the social evils of poverty, crime,
and war. Perhaps it is only the desperate
straits in which we now find ourselves
because of these ancient enemies which
will give us the necessary incentive to
really try to stamp them out.
New Light
This present age of science has been
called an age of skepticism as opposed to
other ages of belief, and we are told noW
with great finality that the only certainty
is uncertainty! Certainly when so many
seemingly fixed concepts in the realm of
physics are found decidedly open to ques'
tion, it does not seem too reckless to sug-
gest that perhaps this generation has also
seen an ancient axiom exploded. namely,
"You can't change human nature." Per-
haps this was always equivalent to saying.
"You can't understand human nature
nd therefore you can't change it", or
perhaps it was always just a comfortable
rationalization to excuse ourselves from
the effort which we would be bound to
make if we thought it could be done.
At any rate. the very doubting of the
axiom brings with it a new perspectiv
and we suddenly wonder if it can be that
our skeptical generation has stumbled
upon a new and audacious approach to
our inherited problems. What if wc
should be able to attack disease. poverty,
crime, and war all at once by attacking
their sourcc- human nature itself? Pcr-
haps other generations have been both too
optimistic and too pessimistic; willing to
believe that piccemeal reforms are really
good for anything. and at the same time
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held back from trying a more thorough,
going attack because of their belief th1.t
human nature is a mystery. Now that
psychiatry and psychoanalysis have
brought it from the realm of magic int.)
the clear light of day and persuaded us
to look at it and get acquainted with it
in ourselves and in others. we at last
think we know the worst and the best
of it and can for the first time honestly
and soberly face the enormously compli,
cated and difficult task of attempting to
work with it and through it, instead of
against it and in spite of it.
The Nurse as Social Worker
In speaking of parent education in th
report of the White House Conference
of 1932. Dr. Edward C. Lindeman says:
In one sense parent education is in the
same position as social work; both take their
main body of subject matter Lorn other dis-
ciplines, and what they contribute on their
own behalf is primarily empirical. Conse-
quently, parent education can never become
professionally distinct on the basis of its
subject matter or content. It utilizes content
from medicine, psychology, physiology, educa-
tion, psychiatry and sociology. Its distinguish-
ing feature derives from its application of
varied subject matter to the special problems
of a special group. Its p
ofessional status IS
achieved through its methodology rather than
its content. This fact in itself, namely, the
derived nature of the subject matter of parent
education, constitutes an initial problem of
delicate proportions. Any approach to the
family leads directly or indirectly toward the
inclusive, social context. and now that our
educational system 'embraces a special form
intended to funct:on directly on the positive
side of family building, we should be alert to
discover the means for making its educative
task truly social.
These remarks about parent education
seem -to me to help in clarifying the
position in which the nurse finds herself.
As the community begins to realize whJ.t
a strategic position this is, the nurse IS
under pressure especially in rural com-
munities to use it for aims which are
related to. but a definite extension of,
the work which is really her job. There-
fore, It seems necessary to define her posi-
tion in the social work field as definitely
as possible in order that she may not be
deflected from the truly preventive job
outlined above. For instance, she is often
expected to carry a good deal of casework
responsibility, and there is still much
difference of opinion as to whether shè:
should do this or not. I know that con-
cepts of social work vary and that it is
imposs
ble to be dogmatic about it. The
nurse will, of course, help a man to get
a job if she can. help a youngster to a
scholarship, and give many other such
services to her families. The reason why
she should not be given casework respon-
sibility seems to me to be that there is
a group already charged with this work
and there is no group which is in a
position to carryon the teaching of
health except the public health nursing
group. The nurse's slogan
'"Every public
health nurse a teacher". would seem to
indicate that she, unlike the caseworker,
thinks of herself as functioning in this
field.
It seems that as a member of the parent
education group she has her unique
opportunity to get at the very roots of
community life. especially through her
service to women in the ante-partum
period and to parents of little children
in regard to habit training, child develop'
ment, sex hygiene, and sex education as
well as instruction in regard to proper
diet and clothing.
It has been our experience that if a
nurse carries out this programme, plus the
bedside care and such clinic responsibility
as may be hers. she has a full-time job
Lmd one which demands as great flexibil-
ity as anyone worker should be expected
to possess. In order to save her time for
the function which we feel is truly hers
-that of a social worker who fits into
the scheme of social welfare agencies
between the settlement worker and the
caseworker and whose unique oppor,
tunity is that of a teacher in the field of
parent education-we have felt that case'
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NEW FRONTIERS
work situations should be referred by her
to some other agency. In fact, we think
of this job of referral to the proper
agencies as one of the natural outcomes
of her contact with the whole community.
In carrying out her job of education she
finds many who need referral to casework
or recreational agencies. She is the
natural lia:son person between the fam-
ilies and the agencies, in the nature of
the case. As Dr. Lindeman very truly
says: "Any approach to the family leads
toward the inclusive social context", and
the nurse knows a good deal about the
whole situation as it presents itself to
her in the home, but she has the respon-
sibility of a teacher and not the respon-
sibility of the caseworker.
Some Implications
In thinking through the implications
of this point of view we have, in our
agency, found that it helped to think of
the nurse as the social worker who is
especially concerned with the so-called
"'normal" person rather than with the
"'problem" person or family. As a case-
worker, it seems to me that one of the
reasons so little headway has been made
in prevention in the field of social prob-
lems is that we have been so absorbed
with the problems of the maladjusteJ
(probably about 2 to 5 per cent of the
population in pre-depression times) th lt
we have paid no attention to the 95 to
98 per cent of the population from the
point of. view of its needs, but only from
the angle of their contributing to our
work with a tiny fraction of the whole
community. Wouldn't we know more
about dev;ations from the norm of hc'
havior if we knew more about what th
norm is? What about the needs of this
95 to 98 per cent from the point of view
of mental hygiene? What does thi;:;
group do about such problems as jealousy,
hate, inferiority, problems of income and
outgo, of training children, of sex educa-
tion? In a word, what do we do about
our own problems? How do our friends
NOVI'MBFR, 1934
527
meet theirs? Who helps us? Surveys of
the problems of college men and women
show a strange similarity to those of the
underprivileged group. Novelists have
concerned themselves with this group,
columnists in newspapers have ridiculed
their ways. Someone has pointed out that
perhaps the size of our cities, where w
do not know our next door neighbour and
miss the chance of testing our experience
with his, may be responsible for the great
popularity of the newspaper feature
above-mentioned and for the way in
which biographies have become be.;t
sellers in the last decade or so. We idew
tify ourselves with these people whose
problems are similar to ours. We recog-
nize our own struggle in the struggle of
the characters, and we hope always to
get some light on our problems which
will help us. Novelists such as Willa
Cather and Arnold Bennett, to name
only two, put into words the realities
which all our lives have so surrounded
us and become part of us that we coulJ
not get perspective enough to know what
was happenIng, except in flashes of in-
sight. They make us realize what we
really know, that any human life story
seen with understanding is as full of
interest as the case record of a psychiatric
patient and much more useful to most
of us in the conduct of our own lives.
Family Building
The point of view which we try to
inculcate in our staff is that of conserving
family life and studying it. We believe
that mental and physical hygiene are
inseparable and that every family needs
understanding and help because, if they
are human, they have problems. We are
saying, in other words, that to be "nor'
mal" is to be in need of advice about
innumerable things from a friendly per'
son in whom one has confidence. Who
qualifies potentIally and sometimes actuJ.I-
Iy, here, as well as the public health
nursc--a professional person whom the
mother meds when she is wanting
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
guidance and help during her pregnancy
and later after the baby is born? It has
been recognized for some time th=1t
healthy emotional development is largely
the result of the wanted child's contact
with happily,mated, understanding pa'
rents. These are ideal conditions and as
rare as the ideal usually is
but do we
know a happy marriage when we see
one, and how happy must a marria
e
be to bring about the desired result in
emotional stability in the child exposed
to its influence? Are we so pleased at the
sight of one which seems even passably
so that we breathe a sigh of relief and
think that there is one family we don't
need to worry about?
It is just here that it seems as though
we had been very blind. Some years ago
we decided that we would study the very
"best" family in the district, with as
much interest as though it were the very
worst. The mother was a fine, intelligent
woman, accepted as a leader in the
mothers' club and interested in civic
affairs. The results were very enlighten'
ing. The oldest boy was found to be
almost completely deprived of initiative
by his close association with his masterful
mother. She, completely blind to what
had happened, was humiliated by his
repeated failures to sustain the respon'
sibility of a job and let him know this
very definitely. The only daughter in
the family was so ill,at'ease and awkward
in a group of girls that it has taken four
years of understanding help in a girls'
club to enable her to get any real sense
of companionship with her own sex and
age group. With our eyes thus opened,
we have continued our study of families
which seemed, as one worker put it, .. just
exactly like my own family." We have
found that all parents need help in get'
ting perspective on their children. We
have found that happy, intelligent
parents may be quite unaware of the fact
that the middle child of their three has
been ignored and is fast learning to
develop defenses to protect herself from
hurt when her attractive six,year,old
brother is admired by all comers and the
new baby is exclaimed over.
I think that most of us ha ve seen
similar happenings many times repeated
in our own immediate circle of friends
and relatives. Why have we ignored
these needs and not tried to provide for
them in a community plan? Is it because
we have never, until now, really been
willing to accept ourselves and our own
human nature and admit that we needed
help? I like so much something which
Jessie Taft of Philadelphia said quite a
long time ago:
If, as we have come to think, the deepest
human misery, the inner problems, are com'
mon to rich and poor alike, to ignorant and
learned, because they arise from the fear
and hate and anger for which no relief has
yet been found, our superiority can lie only
in the fact that we have begun to understand
and accept within ourselves the pain as w('ll
as the joy of our own emotional lives and
no longer need to escape from our own fears
into the fears of the other.
The Nurse's Task
To sum up, then, we see the public
health nurse as a social worker who func,
tions "directly, on the positive side of
family building" and whose method is
that of the teacher with a social view'
point. Following the path she took when
the first well baby clinic was established,
she works with that large and hitherto
neglected group-the average, the "for'
gotten man" and his family,-referring
to casework and neighbourhood agencies
those who need such referral. When
all is said and done.. what we want is to
increase the happiness and satisfactions of
people, because people who have experi,
enced love and security and a chance to
be independent in their first years are
not likely to become insane and neurotic
as adults; because happy people do not
commit crimes nor does a contented
nation make war.
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Department of Private Duty Nursing
WHA T DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?
During the last few months the] ou.rnal
has received a numher of somewhat dis-
concerting letters (most of them not ill'
tended for publication) deploring the
present trend toward higher educatio;1
for nurses. The writers claim that highly
educated women do not make good nurses
and that they show themselves to be more
commercial and less devoted than "prac-
tical" nurses.
It is quite apparent that this opinion
is fairly widespread. It is frequently
expressed by physicians, and nurses them-
selves occasionally give voice to it. There
has even been comment in the press, and
the Mail and Emþire. one of the leading
newspapers in the City of Toronto, re'
cently' published a brief article under the
heading of "Nurses and Degrees" which
reads as follows:
One of our leading university men is
reported to have told a gathering of nurses
the other day that enough thought is not
now being .given to the place a degree should
occupy. If he had said that enough thought
is not always given to the type of girl being
trained for one of the noblest and one of
the most difficult of the professions he would
have been nearer the mark. As a highly
successful nurse said to us not long ago,
"All the training in the world will not make
a good nurse from a girl who enters the pro'
fession from any other motive than intense
love of the work. If she has not that inherent
love for nursing she can take all the post-
graduate courses possible. she may be rated
high in her examinations. but she will not
be a nurse." The judgment of this nurse is
the judgment of many who have suffered at
the hands of girls and women who were sup'
posed to be front'rankers in the profession.
We have known cases in which a highly
trained nurse who had taken up the work
in a purely commercial spirit. has left a patient
in anything but a satisfactory condition. a
condition from which said patient has been
extricated by the ministrations of a despised
"practical" who loved her work and added
sympathy to skill. Character. fineness of fcel-
NOVFMBER. 1934
ing and a willingness to adapt herself to the
situatIOn she may find in the family in which
she is nursing, are the essentials for a nurse.
If these are present. technique is pretty sure
to follow.
The registered nurse to whom we arè:
indebted for having drawn our attention
to this article comments upon it thus:
I could not help but think while listening
to the different addresses given in Toronto that
too much is being made of college education
and not enough of the practical side of nurs'
ing and the real feeling of service which
usually characterizes the "practical nurse."
There seems to be so little. real feeling or
understanding for the patient among so many
of our profession, patients are just "another
case" not individuals with feelings. It seems
to me there are wonderful girls who would
make real nurses who are being kept from It
because they are unable financially to obtain
the necessary education. True nurses will
always find something to do even if not at
$5.00 per day. I have never enjoyed letters
in 'The Canadian Nurse more than the two
in the July number from "Katy Lee" and
"An Ontario Nurse." I know of a boy who
earns very little and is very ill. Two private
nurses are in attendance and it is obvious
that his recovery is being hindered by wondef'
ing how he is going to manage.
A careful reading of the newspaper
article and of the accompanying letter
will show that two serious criticisms are
made of well educated and highly trained
nurses. One is that they are commercially'
minded and that they cost too much anJ
the second is that they lack the qualiti..:s
of character and heart which it is claimed
characterize the "practical" nurse. These
criticisms are made by responsIble per-
sons and therefore cannot be ignored.
They are aimed at nurses who are engageJ
in private duty (especially in the home)
and the suggestion is put forward that,
in this particular branch of nursing
service, sympathy and a spirit of helpful-
ness arc more important qualifications
than a high degree of technical efficiency.
529
530
THE CANADIAN NURSE
At this point it is interesting to quote
from an article by Miss Jean Gunn whic!J
appeared in a recent Issue of the
Journal: *
In the city of Toronto in the past year the
professIonal nurses' registry had a total of
11 ,97 3 requests from nurses of which 90.17
percent came directly from hospitals for nurses
for special nursing duty. Of the remaining
9.83 percent sent to private homes a certain
number took the patients into hospital so that
the number of calls for private duty in homes
in the city of Toronto is less than 9.83 per-
cent of the total requests received for nursing
service. This cannot possibly represent the
number of patients being nursed at home and
demonstrates very definitely the need for care-
ful study and development of this field of
nursing.
It is apparent that fully qualified nurses
are rapidly being displaced in the homes
of our people by other workers who appa-
rently give better satisfaction at less cost.
There must be a reason for this prefer-
ence. What do you think about it? Take
pen in hand and tell us.
4l
ee The Canadian Nurse, September, 1934, p.
COMPULSORY REGISTRA TION
In view of. the interest displayed at
the Biennial Meeting in compulsory
registration of all who nurse the sick for
hire, the accompanying letter written by
Miss Isabel Macdonald, chairman of the
private duty section of the International
Council of Nurses, to Miss Isahel Mac-
Intosh, retiring chairman of the private
duty section of the Canadian Nurses
Association, is particularly timely:
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of the foundation of the Canadian
Nurses Association will you please convey to
your section all my good wishes for its wel-
fare and progress and my sincere congratula-
tions too on the part which it has played in
building up, not only your great National
Association of Nurses, but also upon what
has been accomplished by the private nurses
for the sick in Canada and for the advance-
ment of knowledge of hygiene in the homes
they enter. Probably they themselves know
best and talk least of the comfort and support
they bring into lives in your Canadian homes
in times of crisis and great anxiety. In no
other branch of nursing are we called upon
to take more individual responsibility and in
none is the preservation of professional and
ethical standards of a greater importance.
I gather that, just as in Great Britain,
private nurses in Canada find the economic
situation much more difficult than in previous
years. In this country the profession is un-
doubtedly overcrowded and there is a tendency
for such overcrowding to be most serious in
the ranks of the private nurses. In England
there is an aspect which, in its influence on
the economic situation, proves a very dan-
gerous one to the private nurses and which
I hope is less acute in your country. I refer
to the competition arising from women who
do not possess the State qualifications, those
who have either failed in the State examina-
tions or failed to qualify for such examina'
tions through not having completed an
adequate period of training.
That those who do not reach the minimum
standard recommended by the authoriti
s
administering any Act for the State
Registration of Nurses should be permitted
to work on the same footing as registered
nurses might, in these days, be dêscribed as
an anachronism and dangerous to the welfare
of the patients and the safety of the nurses'
position in the body politic; the public exer-
cise, as a rule, so little discrimination between
the trained and the untrained. But when, as
readily happens, those nurses undercut the
registered nurses by taking a smaller fee than
that ordinarily charged by the latter,
the dangers arising on the aforementioned
point are increased as those unqualified women
are the more widely employed because of it,
and their economic competition with the
registered nurses is correspondingly greater.
I would urge our colleagues in Canada to
use every opportunity to promote a system
of comþulsory State Registration of nurses
in all countries that thereby we may attain
greater progress, educational development and
protection for the profession. Not until State
registration becomes comþulsory can it be
relied upon to be really effective in achieving
the protection for the sick and for the nurses
which such legislation is calculated to attain.
VOL. XXX, No. 11
Book Reviews
ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRICS FOR NURSES.
By Philip C. Jeans, A.B., M.D.,
Professor of Pediatrics. State Univer-
sity of Iowa, Iowa City, and Winifred
Rand, A.B., R.N., Specialist in Paren-
tal Education, Merrill- Palmer School,
Detroit. 73 illustrations. 503 pages.
Price $3.50. Published by the J. B.
Lippincott Company, Canadian
Branch: 525 Confederation Building,
Montreal, P.Q.
Sixty pages of this book are devoteJ
to a discussion of normal development
in infancy and childhood. This approach
is especially commendable because not all
nurses know how to handle healthy chil-
dren intelligently and therefore fail to
gIve effective nursing care to those who
are ill. One chapter deals with the fun-
damental principles underlying pediatric
nursing. Valuable advice is given cow
cerning the management of children ad-
mitted to hospitals which if carried out
in practice, would avoid much of the
trying emotional disturbance usually
experienced by both the child and his
parents. An excellent chapter on nursing
technics gives detailed information, fur-
ther amplified by good illustrations,
concerning nursing procedures which are
peculiar to pediatric nursing. Five chap'
ters are devoted to nutrition. Here again
the approach is from the normal angle
although due attention is paid to nutn'
tional disorders. Part four is made up
of six chapters dealing with the common
diseases of childhood grouped under th-
various systems, circulatory, respiratory,
etc. Another chapter treats congenit.ll
diseases and malformation of the n
w
born, and yct another outlines the essen'
tial features of the nursing care of
children suffering from communicablè
diseases. There is a brief glossary anJ
a good index.
Many schools of nursing find Jifficulty
in affording their students sufficient
clinical experience in peJiatnc nursing;
NOV!'MBER, I9J4
this book will help to make the best use
of such expenence as may be available.
To nurses specializing in pediatrics thl?
book will be invaluable.
TEXT-BOOK OF THE PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICE OF NURSING. By Bertha
Harmer, R.N., B.S., A.M., formerly
director of the School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada; formerly instructor and
assistant in administration, the T oron-
to General Hospital School of N urs-
ing; formerly assistant professor, Ya
e
University School of Nursing and fÌßt
assistant superintendent of nurses, the
New Haven HospitaL Third edition
revised, 803 pages and index. Illus-
trated. PublIshed by the Macmillan
Company of Canada. 70 Bond St.,
T oromo.
This well-known nursing classic has
again been meticulously revised and
largely re-written. No other nursing
text compares with it in comprehensive-
ness and sound scientific thinking. The
essential philosophy of the book remains
what it has always been and is based on
a conception of nursing as a field of
service and a personal growth, the stu-
dent sharing in responsibility for both.
Emphasis on the preventive aspects of
nursing is consistently maintained
throughout and there is reflected in
every chapter that deep and sympathetic
understanding of the patients' needs
which make nursing an art as well as a
SClcnce.
WANTED
Second-Hand Copy of
"Life oj Florence Nightingale"
(2 \olumes) by Cook
Address:
"ecretary, School of Nursing,
UnÏ\-ersity of 1oronto,
Toromo 5, Ontario, Canada.
531
Notes from the Nationa I OfFice
Conrributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
While the official distribution of the
resolutions and recommendations adopted
by the Canadian Nurses Association in
General Meeting in June, 1934, was duly
made, it is deemed advisable to have
them appear in this issue of the Journal
for the benefit of the membership at
large. A number of the recommenda-
tions have been published in previous
issues in conjunction with the reports of .
committees of which they were a part;
these, too, are included at this time in
order that an outline of the major por-
tion of the C.N.A. programme for the
next two-year period will be readily
available for reference purposes to indi-
vidual members as well as to organiza-
tions of nurses. It is suggested thJ.t
reference to the Report of the Survey
of Nursing Education in Canada be
made by those who desire amplification
of the content of the majority of these
resolutions. Copies of the Survey Report
are available for reference (also for sale,
$2.00 each) at the offices of the Provin-
cial Associations of Registered Nurses
and at the National Office. For the sake
of clearness the material has here been
arranged in three groups. In the first
group are the resolut
ons formulated and
passed at the General Sessions; in the
second group are the resolutions formu'
lated by the private duty and nursing
education sections respectively, and
approved by the General Session; in the
third group are the recommendations
formulated by various committees and
approved by the General Session.
RESOLUTIONS FORMULATED AND PASSED AT THE
GENERAL SESSIONS
Registries and the Subsidiary Nursing
Group
Resolved:
That the Executive Committee of the
C.N.A. approach the Provincial Asso-
ciations of Registered Nurses with the
following requests:
1. That an immediate effort be made
to form a registry in at least one plac
in the province with the following special
characteristics:
(a) Representatives of all groups Lf
nurses on the governing board.
(b) Some number of various types of
nurses to be enrolled on this registry
including graduates and practical nurses.
( c) An experiment to be tried by this
registry of placing a group of its nurses
on a monthly salary.
2. That some immediate steps be taken
to try to give direction or supervision tlJ
the subsidiary nurse group.
532
3. That the C.N.A. Executive Com-
mittee ask the Provincial Associations of
Registered Nurses to make a progress
report on the two above matters not later
than May 31, 1935.
Nursing on a Salaried Basis
Resol ved :
That the C.N.A. support the efforts
of the Provincial Associations of Regis-
tered Nurses as outlined above, by mak-
ing an annual payment up to $500.00
for the coming two years to every prov-
ince undertaking the work of putting
nurses on salary, providing the Provincial
Association will add an equal sum, such a
project in each province to be approved
by the Executive Committee of the
Canadian Nurses Association.
Educational Policies
Resolved:
1. That no effort be spared to COI1-
tinue by organized effort to strengthen
VOL. XXX, No. II
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
and build up the schools of nursing in
Canada by:
(a) Raising the standards of qualification
for an approved school;
(b) Improving the educational and person'
ality entrance requirements of students;
( c) Providing trained teaching staff and
adequate teaching and clinical facilities
with a thoroughly sound workable cur-
riculum adjustable as required to the
social and economic needs of the com'
munity.
2. That every encouragement be given
to the building up of libraries in nursing
schools, to preparation of text books by
Canadian nurses and to the development
of nursing journals.
3. That the question of adJitional
training and experience III obstetrical
nursing be studied.
4. That, in the organization of post'
graduate courses for nurses, the impor'
tance of real educational value be
tressed.
5. That the C.N.A. continue to urge
that every hsopital with a school of
nursing undertake a definite study of
nursing costs in its own institution, Ó
order that the cost of nursing educatio:1
and nursing service may be separated
and compared, and that leadership in the
study be given through the National and
Provincial Joint Study Committees.
The Central Curriculum Committee
Resolved:
1. That decision regarding the Central
Curriculum Committee of the Nursing
Education Section becoming a committee
of the Canadian Nurses Association be
delayed and the subject be thoroughly
investigated before any action be taken,
the Committee to report two years hence.
2. That the Canadian Nurses Asso,
ciation put at the disposal of the Commit,
tee on Curriculum of the Nursing
Education Section a grant of money of
at least $500.00; this money to be used
for assistance in completing the very
important work of this Committee.
1'he Mary Agnes Snively Memorial
Resolved:
NOVI"MBlR, 19.34
533
1. That a Memorial to Miss Snively
be established by which three medals will
be presented at each general meeting of
the Canadian Nurses Association \.0
nurses whose work exemplifies Miss
Snively's ideals of nursing and service;
there should be an impressive ceremony
in connection with the presentation which
should include a review of Miss Snively s
life.
2. That two thousand dollars ($2,000)
of the Association's assets be designated
for the provision of the Memonal to
Miss Snively.
The Canadian Nurse
Resolved:
1. That two thousand dollars ($2,000)
of the assets of the Canadian Nurses
Association be designated annually for
a possible deficit of The Canadian Nune
until the next General Meeting of the
Association, the balance of the Memorial
Fund to be absorbed in this way.
2. That separate incorporation of 'The
Canadian Nurse shall not take place for
another two years.
National Affiliations
Resolved:
That the future policy of the Canadla.1
Nurses Association be one of non,affilia'
tion with other national organizations.
History of Nursing
Resolved:
That the report of the History of
Nursing Committee he tabled, the matter
to be re,opened at a later date.
Professional Exhibits
Resolved:
That for future meetings of the CanJ.'
dian Nurses As.sociat
on. the Provincia.l
Association of the province in which
the meeting is being held be asked to
supply an exhibit for the meeting. In
this way expense of sending exhib
t
material will be saved. Each province
will have a turn at providing an exhibit
and the exhibit for ea.ch meeting will be
entirely new.
RESOLUTIONS FROM THE SECTIONS
From the Pri'Vate Duty Section:
Resolved:
That the Executive Committee of th
Canadian Nurses Association be request'
ed to appoint a Committee:
(a) To work out a constructive pro'
gramme in each province to broaden the
usefulness of registries to the public and
to the nurse.
(b ) To define the functions of the
private duty nurse and to formulaIC
standards concerning her professionJ.1
education, and the quality of service to
be rendered to the community both from
an ethical and practical standpoint.
(c) To study intensively the prin'
ciples of health insurance as these apply
to private duty nurses.
From the Nursing Education Section:
Resolved:
That a Committee be formed within
the Nursing Education Section, to be
known as the Committee on Instruction,
for the purposes of securing closer con-
tact and for the consideration of speci:!!
problems.
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM COMMITTEES
From the National Joint Study
Committee:
1. That Dominion Registration, con-
trolled by the Canadian Nurses Associa-
tion is desirable.
2. That a nucleus of a Committee on
Dominion Registration should be appoint-
ed by the C.N.A. in some locality and
that a representative of each province
be added to this Committee by appoint-
ment of each of the Provincial Associa-
tions.
3. That this Committee undertake to
study existing standards of nursing edu-
cation in the various provinces and tù
suggest desirable standards of Dominion
Registration.
4. That all who nurse the sick for hir
should be licensed.
5. That licensing should be under pro-
vincial control.
6. That each provincial association
appoint a body to study and take action
re clauses (4) and (5), and that in each
province the body acting in this matter
confer with the Provincial Joint Study
Committee, obtaining this Committee's
opinion and help as far as possible.
534
From the Central Curriculum
Committee:
1. That a period of experience in psy.
chiatric nursing be added to the five
major courses at present approved by
the C.N.A. as the basic requirement for
approved schools; and that, until studen:
affiliation be secured every encourag
-
ment should be given to postgraduate
experience in this field.
2. That a period of experience with a
public health organisation be given in
the undergraduate course and that this
experience should be urged.
3. That all supervisors and instructors
in schools of nursing be qualified before
assuming teaching responsibilities.
4. That ample time be allowed for con-
sideration of the first draft of the Curri-
culum before publication in book form
is undertaken.
From the Committee on Curriculum
for Nurses-in-Training in Mental
Hospitals:
1. As soon as possible nurses-in-train'
ing in mental hospitals should be replaced
by general duty nurses and, where facil-
ities justify it, by postgraduate or under'
graduate a ffiliate students. At present,
and until affiliations are arranged, it
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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
seems inevitable that a certain number
of training schools will continue to
operate in mental hospitals.
2. The Committee does not recognize
the need for more than a very limited
number of male nurses.
3. The Committee approves the prin-
ciple of the mental hospital training 1n
auxiliary staff of attendants
male and
female, with careful delineation of their
duties and supervision by the nursing
staff.
From the National Joint Committee on
Enrolment of Nurses for Emer-
gency Seryice in War or Disaster:
1. That a maximum establishment of
enrolment for emergency service be lauJ
down, the total for Canada not to exce
J
3,000 nurses in Classes A, B, and C
comprising the ages up to forty-five years.
Nurses in Class D might enroll in addi-
tion to this number and, if the Canadian
Nurses Association agrees with the
recommendation, the proposal should be
submitted to the Provincial Joint Com-
mittees.
Explanatory Note:
Class A: "\J"urses enrolled for war and
disaster.
Class B: Nurses enrolled for war only.
Class C: Nurses enrolled for disaster
only.
Class D: Reserves, including nurses over
the age of fo:ty-five years.
2. That the Provincial Joint Commit-
tees on enrolment for emergency service
should meet at least once a year, one
meeting to be held in November or
December, so that the enrolment in the
province might be reviewed and a report
be submitted to the National Joint Com-
mittee not later than January 31st.
From the Publications Committee:
1. That the present editor and busines.5
manager of The Canadian Nu.rse be re'
appointed for a further two-year period.
2. That the amount of money to b
hudgeted for salaries be $4,700.00.
3. That the editor and business man'
ager have one month's vacation annually.
NOVEMBER, 1934
535
From the Florence Nightingale
Memorial Committee:
1. That for the Florence Nightingal
Memorial Foundation Scheme the Cana,
dian Nurses Association should make an
effort to provide one scholarship of Æ250
annually for a period of five years, the
first scholarship being awarded in 1934.
2. That the total objective of the Cana-
dian Nurses Association to the Florenc.::
Nightingale Memorial Foundation fo
five years to Æl,250 towards scholarship3
and Æ 1,250 towards the Endowment
Fund, and that annually for the next four
years the C.N.A. raise at least sufficient
money for a scholarship of Æ250 and
that all the extra money raised each year
be sent towards the endowment.
3. That at the General Meeting of the
Canadian Nurses Association in 1936 a
report of the financial progress made J.Jy
the Florence Nightingale International
Foundation be received and plans made
at that time for securing the balance of
the Endowment Fund.
REGISTRATION OF NURSES
Province of Ontario
EXAMIN A TION
ANNOUNCEMENT
An e...amination for the
Registration of X urses in
the Province of Ontariu will
be held in No, ember.
Application forms, informa-
tion regarding subjects of
e...amination, and general
information relating thereto,
may be had upon written
applicdtion to
nss A. 1\1. }IUNN, Reg. N.
Parliament Buildin
s, Toronto
. OFF. . . DUTY. . .
We have been mild by rebuk..ed . . . by a steady subscriber . in Western
Canada . . . for being too lyrical . . . about the beauties of Montreal . . .
She says that there are other mountains in Canada . . . much biggØr and better
than Mont Royal . . . for example Pilot Mound in Manitoba . . . not to men-
tion the Lions which guard the harbour at Vancouver . . . She ask..ed us whether
we have ever seen Mount EdIth Cavell . . . or Mount Robson . . . or even
. . . (yes, she said even) . . . the mountain at Hamilton . . . and we replied
in a low chastened voice . . . that we have been privileged to gaze on all these
towering peak..s . . . and very fine they are too . . . though not to be compared
to the hills in North Wales . . . which overlook.. the Vale of Clwyd . . . No
other hills wil'l ever look.. so high to US as those . . . nor as beautiful . . .
Nevertheless we sympathize with her . . . when she says that when the time comes
. . . for her ashes to be scattered . to the four winds of heaven . . . she
hopes that a little pinch of them will finally come to rest . . . in many
widely,separated parts of Canada . .such as Chester, Nova Scotia . . . and
St. Andrews, New Brunswick.. . . . and the lak..e shore at Toronto . . . the
quiet part where you look.. out toward the Eastern Gap . . . She would also lik..e
. . . to gently drift down . . . on a fine autumn morning . . . in the
u' ap-
pelle Valley . . . and so on and so on . . . Then she ask..ed about us . . . and
we replied that' if we left enough money to pay postage . . . we would lik..e a tea-
spoonful or two sent to Paris . . . to be dropped into the Seine from the Pont
Neuf . . . but if that wasn't possible . . . then the Seine in Manitoba . . .
would do quite nicely . . . She did not believe there is such a stream . . . but
there is . . . and there is a bridge over it too . . . it is a suspens:on bridge witlJ
an insecure handrail . . . and it sways perilously . . . when you cross it . . .
on your way to the Trappist Monastery . . . to buy strange cheese . . . done
up in round balls . . . and honey which the bees mak..e from fireweed . . . These
purchases have to be negotiated with the Brother at the grille . . . who has a b;g
black.. cat and a red geranium . . . to solace him . . . Once we saw this Brother
crossing the bridge . . . to the village . . . It made us think.. of the Bndge of Sa"l
Luis Rey . . . It was an evening in October . . . and the sb was primrosc
yellow . . . and so were the trembling leaves of the poplars . . . and the
Manitoba Seine . . . was a stream of molten gold . . . Incidentally, as we writc
. . . we are look..ing at Mont Royal . . . where the Autumn is flaunting . . .
its scarlet banners . . . But we will say no more . . . The outraged feelings
. . . of steady subscnbers . . . in the West . . . or elsewhere . . . must
not be trifled with . . . lest worse befall . . .
HELD OVER
\Ve regret that, owing to lack of space, we are obliged to hold over a
number of news items until next month .-EDITOR.
536
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
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revised) and retains the same vitamins A and D ratio
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ALBERTA .
CALGARY: At the annual meeting of the
Calgary Graduate Nurses Association held on
Sept. 18, the following officers were elected
by acclamation: Hon. president, Dr. H. A.
Gibson; president, Miss P. Gilbert; first vice-
president, Miss F. E. C. Reid; second vice-
pre'iident, Miss O. Zimmerman; recording sec-
retary, Miss A. Young; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss M. Fleming; treasurer, Miss M.
Watt. Annual reports were read and plans
discussed for the winter. Much interest was
shown in the new Group Nursing Society
started by one of the members, Miss Maberley,
to make nursing service available to the public
at minimum cost, also providing work for a
considerable number of nurses.
EDMONTON: The 1934 Scholarship, given
by the Registered Nurses Association of Al-
berta, has been awarded to Miss Claressa Dean
(R.A.H., 1929), who has enrolled for the
public health nursing course at the University
of Toronto. Edmonton nurses were privileged
in meeting Miss Smellie, Chief Superintendent
of the Victorian Order of Nurses, during her
visit. Miss Smellie especially stressed the need
for greater knowledge of nutrition. Several
home economics departments of the universi-
ties are taking special interest in this subject
just now and are forming voluntary clubs
among their dieticians to study the subject.
MANITOBA
BRANDON: The Brandon Graduate Nurses
As
ociation held their opening meeting at the
General Hospital on October 2. The presi-
dent, Miss E. McNally, was in the chair and
after a brief business meeting the General Hos-
pital Group took charge, Miss M. Finlayson
introducing the speaker, Dr. J. S. Matheson.
His topic, "Primitive Medicine," was most in-
teresting. A pleasant evening was closed with
a social hour, refreshments being served by
the hospital group.
ST. BOl'IF ACE: The first full meeting of the
St. Boniface Nurses Alumnae Association was
held recently. The constitution and by-laws
were revised and the date of the annual meet-
ing changed from the first week of January to
the first week in June. Following the meeting
an interesting demonstration of the nasal gas-
tric suction apparatus was given by the Rev.
Sister Desilit and Poliquin of St. Boniface
Hospita1. This was greatly appreciated, as the
treatment is fairly new, and members not do-
ing hospital duty have had little opportunity
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to learn the routine. During the coming win-
ter we hope to have several similar demonstra-
tions.
WINNIPEG: The Winnipeg General Hospi-
tal Alumnae Association held its first autumn
meeting on Oct. 3, with a record attendance.
Miss Emily Parker, our president, gave a
splendid talk on the Biennial Meeting. Inter-
esting letters were heard from various members
of our school who are in other countries, in-
cluding one from Miss Margaret Suderman
(1927), who IS in India. A gratifying report
was heard from the Nurses Trust Fund, to
which any W.G.H. graduate may contribute
and which is used to place graduate nurses on
with very ill patients who otherwise could not
afford it, thus being of service to many pa-
tients and a means of giving employment to
many nurses. Already over five thousand dol-
lars has been donated, giving over twelve hun-
dred days' work to our nurses. It was an-
nounced that the W.G.H. Alumnae Club will
re-organize under five groups. Mass meetings
are to be held twice monthly.
NEW BRUNSWICK
BATHURST: The graduation exercises of the
James H. Dunn Hospital, Bathurst, were held
on Sept. 5, with Mr. George Gilbert, K.C., in
the chair. Dr. J. G. Logis addressed the class
and Lady Dunn presented the diplomas. Dr.
Cotton of London, England, was the guest
speaker and paid high tribute to Canadian
nurses. Miss Stuart, superintendent of nurses,
presented the school pins.
MONCTON: The regular meeting of the local
chapter of the N.B.A.R.N. was held on Sept.
7, with a good attendance. The members were
invited to a tea given by Miss MacMaster and
Miss Wilson in honour of Miss C. P. Scott,
who was recently married to Mr. Arthur De-
Bow. The members of the Chapter who at-
tended the annual meeting of the N.B.A.R.N.
in Saint John were Misses A. J. MacMaster,
M. MacLaren, D. Oliver and E. O'Brien.
MARRIED: In June, 1934, Miss Annie Gre-
gan (Moncton Hospital) to Mr. George Potter
of Hardwick, N.B.
SAINT JOHN: The Saint John General Hos-
pital Alumnae Association held its meeting on
O,-t. 1, with the president, Mrs. G. L. Dun-
lop. in the chair. Plans were made for a
bridge to be held early in November. The
appointment of Dr. E. C. Menzies as superin-
tendent and Dr. R. A. Gregory as medical
assistant, with Miss Lois A. Smith, superin-
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tendent of nurses at the Provincial Hospital
at FaIrvllle, gave great pleasure to many nurses
in New Brunswick.
MARRIED: On Oct. 6, 1934, Miss Doris
Robmson (S.J.G.H.), to Mr. Thane Belyea.
SAINT JOHN: The graduating exercises of
the School of Nursing of St. Joseph's Hos-
pital were held Sept. 10. The pri
e-winners
were Miss Vera McCarron, Miss Marion
O'Neill and Miss Mary Featherbarrow. Other
members of the class are: Misses M. Fit
-
gerald, M. Feeney, E. McFadden, E. Burns, T.
Murphy, M. Clancy. Dr. G. F. Skinner, presi-
dent of the medical staff, was chairman, and
Mayor Brittain and Rev. J. W. Harland ad-
dressed the class. The Alumnae Association
were hostesses on Sept. 13 at a dinner given
for the members of the graduating class. The
new members were welcomed by Mrs. J. 1.
Mullaly, president of the AssocIation. Bridge
VIas enjoyed and the evening proved very en-
joyable.
WOODSTOCK: The monthly meeting of the
Alumnae Association of the 1. P. Fisher Hos-
pItal was held Sept. 18, with Mrs. Harry
Dunbar in the chair. The usual business was
transacted after which refreshments were
served.
NOVA SCOTIA
BERWICK: Western Kings Memorial Hos-
pital, Berwick, recently held its graduating
exerci<;es, when Miss D. E. Nelson, Miss G.
H. Conrad, Miss M. Graham and MIss E. M.
Bowlby received their diplomas. This is the
first class to graduate as it has been decided
to discontinue the training schoo1.
MARRIED: In September, Miss Muriel Ethel
MacLeod, R.N., B.Sc. (St. Martha's Hospital,
1930), to Dr. James A. MacLeod.
HALIFAX: The Alumnae Association of Vic-
toria General Hospital held its first meeting of
the season On October 1, with Miss Gertrude
Crosby, the president, in the chair. Plans were
discussed for the winter meetings, and all are
looking forward to a very active period. Miss
Louise Steele has been appointed supervisor of
the Halifax Branch of the Victorian Order of
Nurses.
NEW GLASGOW: A meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Provincial Association
was held on Sept. 29, at Aberdeen Hospital,
New Glasgow. A most interesting account of
the Biennial Meeting was given by Nova
Scotia's delegate to the convention, MÜ:c;
Catherine Graham, of Halifax. Following this,
tea was served by MIss Marion Boa, Superin-
tendent of Aberdeen Hospital.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT 1
CHATHAM: Miss Lena Chaurin (St. Jo-
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seph's Hospital, 1930) has entered the novi.
tia::e of the Sacred Heart Convent. Prior to
her doing so Miss Hazel Grey entertained the
Alumnae Association in her honour. Miss M.
Donovan read an address and presented her
with 3. Missal as a parting remembrance. Com.
plimenting Mrs. Dr. Johnston, Miss Mary
Doyle entertained the Alumnae Association at
bridge; the guest of honour was presented with
a walnut coffee table. The members of St.
Joseph's Hospital Alumnae Association have
resumed their fall activities; Miss Jessie Ross
gave a very interesting report of the meeting
of the Canadian Nurses Association. Business
matters were discussed and plans made to hold
a bridge at the hospital.
DISTRICT 4
HAMILTON: The regular meeting of District
4 was held on Sept. 28 at the Ontario Hos.
pital when Dr. Williams, superintendent, gave
an address on mental diseases. A good atten'
dance was present. Mrs. R. Hess has been
appointed Assistant Night Supervisor at the
Hamilton General Hospital to take the place
of Miss Edith Bingeman, who is joining the
day staff. Miss Margaret Buchanan of the
supervising staff, has resigned and her mar.
riage wi1l take place early in November. Miss
Alma Tallman has severed her connection with
the Victorian Order of Nurses to return to
China, where she will be engaged in public
health work. Miss Dorothy Truesdale and
Miss Mary Mdlquham have obtained one
year's leave of absence from the Victorian Or.
der of Nurses to undertake a course of study
in public health nursing at McGill University,
Montreal.
MARRIED: Miss Constance E. Woodford
(H.G.H., 1927), to Mr. Frank W. Leet.
ST. CATHARINES: The annual meeting of
the Mack Training School Alumnae Associa.
tion was he1d on Sept. 5, when the following
officers were elected: Hon. president, Miss
Anne Wright, General Hospital, St. Cath.
arines: president, Miss Nora No1d, General
Hospital: first vice'president, Miss M. Mc.
Clunie, 59 Chaplin Ave.; second vice'presi'
dent, Miss E. Horton, R.R. No.2; secretary,
Mrs. J. Smith, 128 Queenston St.; treasurer,
Miss E. Daboll, 1 Fitzgerald St. Conveners:
Social Committee, Miss Bernice Rule, 146
WeIland Ave.; Programme Committee, Miss
Aleda Brubacher, 1 Fitzgerald St.; Represen-
tative, 'The Canadian Nurse, Miss Gertrude
Featherstone, 17 Hainer St.; Correspondent to
'The Canadian Nurse, Miss Emily Purton, Box
35, Thorold. After thc meeting a social hour
was enjoyed when Miss Tuck, on behalf of
the Alumnae Association, presented Miss
Helen Brown with a silver toilet set in recog.
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nition of the work she did in makìng the
sIxtieth anniversary of the Training School a
success, and for compiling the history of the
Traming School, which was published in book
form.
DISTRICT 5
OSHAWA: The members of District 5 were
the guests of Chapter One, R.N.A.O., Whit-
by and Oshawa, at a general meeting held in
Oshawa on Sept. 8. The afternoon activities
included tea, served in the Nurses Residence
of the Hospital, by the Women's Board, and
a trip to the "Plant Hospital" of the General
Motors Company. At the evening meeting
addresses of welcome were extended by the
Mayor of Oshawa, and by Mrs. R. S. Mc-
Laughlin, representing the Hospital Board.
The membership committee reported the lar-
gest active membership that District 5 has ever
had. The programme was unique for this dis-
trict. Adhering to the policy decided upon by
the executive as a plan for the meetings for
this year, which is to have the nurses them-
selves take charge of the meetings, this par-
ticular programme was planned by the nurses
of Chapter One. They entitled it "Nursing
Activities of Chapter One." Most interesting
and instructive papers were read on the fo]-
lowing phases of nursing, as carried out in
Oshawa and vicinity: public health nursing;
industrial nursing; private duty nursing; men-
ta] nursing; Motherhood Association of Osha-
wa: visiting bedside nursing and hospital social
service nursing.
TORONTO: MARRIED: On August 18, 1934,
at Trinity United Church, Toronto, Miss
Eleanor Hinch (Wellesley Hospital, 1922), to
Mr. Kenneth Little.
MARRIED: On June 30, 1934, at Almonte,
Miss Mary J amieson (Wellesley Hospita],
1930), to Mr. Gerald Charlesworth.
MARRIED: On June 30, 1934, at Powassan,
Ont., Miss Mabel Knight (Wellesley Hospital,
1933). to Mr. Elliot.
MARRIED: Miss Margaret MacDougal (Wel-
]es]cv Hospita], 1929), to Mr. Macintyre.
MARRIED: On June 30, 1934, in Hart
HOl1se Chapel. Toronto, Miss Mary McKay
(\Vellesley Hospital, 1930), to Mr. Eric Allan.
DISTRIr.T 6
LINDSAY: MARRIED: On Sept. 8, 1934, Miss
Phyllis M. Emmerson (Ross Memorial Hospi-
tal, Lindsay). to Mr. Charles Thomas.
MARRIED: On August 27, 1934, Miss Hele
A. Blanchard (Ross Memorial Hospital, Lind-
say), to Mr. Michael Tangney.
DISTRICT 9
SAUL T STE. MARIE: Miss Katherine Mac-
Kenzie, of North Bay, chairman, presided at
the annual meeting of District No. 9 of the
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario,
which was held Sept. 15, at the Sault Ste.
Marie General Hospital. Invocation was pro-
nounced by Rt. Rev. T. J. Crowley, who was
introduced by Miss Elizabeth Gordon, chair-
man uf the local chapter. A paper dealing
with the selection of students for training
s,:hools and eight-hour duty was given by Miss
Katherine F. Younge, B.Sc. An instructive
paper on the prevention of goitre was deliver-
ed by Dr. A. Sinclair. Miss K. MacKenzie
expressed gratitude for the kindness of the
S'w]t chapter in the preparation of the splen-
did programme. Her address was suitably re-
sponded to by Miss M. Delaney on behalf of
the Sault chapter of the R.N.A.O. Afternoon
tea wJ.s served by the General Hospital Nurses
Alumnae Association. Those assisting in
serving were: Mrs. W. A]derdice, Misses F.
Quinn, J. O'Driscoll, F. A]derdice, A. Cami-
'and, M. Gaffney. Y. Cloutier, G. George and
A. O'Connor. A business meeting followed,
M:ss K. MacKenzie presiding. In her chair-
man's address, she stressed the importance of
unity and co-operation in the nursing profes-
sion, and the need for voluntary enrolment for
service in war and disaster. Reports and cor-
espondence were presented by the secretary-
treasurer, Miss Robena Buchanan, Graven-
hurst. and discussion followed. The election
of officers for the dÜ;trict resulted as fonows:
Chairman, Miss E]izabeth Smith, New Lis-
keard; first 'vice-chairman, Miss Jean Smith,
G
avenhurst: secretary-treasurer, Miss Robena
Buchanan, Gravenhurst; and councillors, Rev.
Sister Fidelis, Timmins: Miss Mina Carson,
Sault Ste. Marie: Miss Helen Jordan, North
Bay; Miss H. Atkinson, Kirkland Lake; Miss
G. Rowden, Cobalt, and Rev. Sister Felicitas,
North Bay. Guests and delegates were met
upon arrival by Miss L. Goatbe, Miss Frances
A]derdice, Miss Mina Carson and Miss R.
Densmore. In the evening over seventy nurses
gathered at the Windsor Hotel, where a ban-
quet was served. Acting-Mayor Baldwin, in
his address of welcome, expressed greetings
from the Council. He stressed the need of co-
operation betwe
n the medical profession, the
nurses and the genera] public. Dr. Spratt
brought greetings from the Medica] Society,
while Dr. Rol->erts, M.P.P. for Algoma, ad-
dressed the gathering on present nursing prob-
lems. Two delightful solos were rendered dur-
ing the programme.
NORTH B.'\Y: An executive meeting of Dis-
trict 9 of R.N.A.O. was held on Sept. 4, at St.
Joseph's Hospital, North Bay. Miss K. Mac-
Kenzie presided. A chapter of the North Bay
member,> was organized with the election of
officers as follows: Chairman, Miss Alice
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Quinlan; vice'chairman, Miss Helen Jordan;
secretary,treasurer, MISS K. F. Docker.
MARRIED: On Sept. 15, 1934, Miss Grace
Ludford (Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital,
North Bay), to Mr. William Aubrey Macart,
ney.
OWEN SOUND: A jolly kitchen shower was
held at the home of Mrs. Tomlinson in honour
of a bride'to,be, Miss Cora Stewart (G. éi
M.H., 192 3), and about twenty' five members
of the Alumnae Association were present. A
decorated basket containing cream and green
enamel ware was brought in by Miss Madge
Story and Miss Alma Weeden. Mrs. D. J.
McMillan, on behalf of the Alumnae Associa,
tion, presented Miss Stewart with a walnut
table.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL: Miss R. Osborne has returned
from a vacation spent in England and Scot'
land. Miss Rose Wilkinson has completed a
course in anaesthesia at the Royal Victoria
Hospital, and after a vacation will resume her
du
ies at the Children's Memorial Hospital.
Miss Jean Argue has accepted a position as
night supervisor at the Montreal Foundling
and Baby Hospital. Miss Jeannette Manuel
has accepted the Children's Memorial Hospi'
tal scholarship, and is taking the public health
course at the McGill School for Graduate
Nurses.
QUEBEC: The Alumnae Association of Jef,
f-ey Hale's Hospital held their first meeting of
the season On Oct. 1, when Miss F. Upton
gave a most interesting address. The sympathy
of the members is extended to the Misses
Mayhew and Mackay on the death of their
mothers and also to the Misses Jack on the
death of their father. Miss E. Richardson is
replacing Mrs. A. Drysdale (Miss Ena West)
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on the staff of the Joyce Memorial Hospital,
Shawinigan Falls.
MARRIED: On Sept. 8, 1934, Miss Ena
West (J.H.H., 1929), to Mr. Alexander Drys'
dale.
SASKATCHEWAN
REGINA: On Sept. 29, an autumn tea was
held undet. the auspices of the Regina Branch
of the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Asso,
ciation, at the Nurses Residence, of the Gen'
eral Hospital. The proceeds, some seventy
dollars, are to be used to augment the Nurses
Relief Fund. This fund provides nursing care
for seriously ill indigent patients, and is a
source of employment for graduate nurses.
Miss Elizabeth Smellie, Chief Superintendent
of the Victorian Order of Nurses, addressed a
meeting of the Registered Nurses Association,
Regina Branch, on Oct. 4. The Saskatchewan
Health Officials' Association met in Regina on
Oct. 10. One feature of the programme was a
round,table conference on pubHc health nurs'
ing. Miss R. M. Simpson was chairman and
the subject was introduced by Miss Ruth Mor'
rison of Prince Albert and Miss Anne Mor'
ton of Weyburn. On Oct. 11, a conference of
provincial public health nurses was held at
the Legislative Buildings, Department of PulY
lic Health.
M"'RRIED: At Regina, on June 28, 1934,
Miss Helen B. Smith (V.G.H., 1926) to Dr.
J. A. Brown of Regina. Miss Smith was for'
merly superintendent of nurses at the Regina
General Hospital.
SASKATOON: A dance was held by the City
Hospital Alumnae Association on October 3,
1934. Mrs. W. S. Holmes, Miss E. Amas and
Miss M. Chisholm lent their patronage to the
charmingly arranged affair.
OVERSEAS NURSING SISTERS' ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
On September 7, 1934, a wreath of laurel
leaves and popies (procured from the British
Legion) was placed by Matron-in,Chief Mar'
garet Macdonald at the Cenotaph in London,
England. The wreath bore a card inscribed:
"In proud and loving memory, from those
who also served. 1914'1918," signed: J. Mac'
Leish, South Africa; E. Orr, Australia; M.
Thurston, New Zealand: J. Trail, India: M.
C. Macdonald, Canada. All these signatures are
those of nurses who served during the Great
War as matrons of nursing services recruited
in various far,distant parts of the Empire.
Within a fortnight of their brief meeting in
NOYFMßLR, 1934
London they were scattered once more to the
four quarters of the globe. But the link of
shared memories can never be broken: "All
round the world, and a little hook to fasten
it."
VANCOUVER: Entertaining in honour of
Miss Elizabeth Smellie, C.B.E., R.R.C., mem'
hers of the Vancouver unit of the Overseas
Nursing Sisters' Association of Canada were
hostes!>es at a luncheon. Congratulations on
the honour recently conferred upon her by
the King were extended her hy the president,
Miss Laura Holland, following which Miss
Smellie gave an informal and entertaining
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
talk. She brought greetings and messages from
other units of the association and touched up-
on some of the questions that had come up
fo::- di;;cuss:on at the reunion held in Toronto
in June. Covers were also laid for Miss M.
E. Learned, Mrs. J. M. Brough, Mrs. S. Shep-
herd, Miss E. Martin, Mrs. C. McDiarmid,
Miss J. Johnston, Mrs. B. Heyer, Mrs. H.
\V ood, Mrs. J. Rose, Mrs. E. Helliwell, Mrs.
T. K. McAlpine, Mrs. A. W. Hunter, Miss
M. McLane, Miss M. Duffield, Miss B. Ben-
nett, Miss K. Conway-Jones, Mrs. A. Valen-
t.ne, Miss D. Oliver, Mrs. J. Slevin and Miss
M. OgIlvie.
OBITUARY
GRENVILLE-On August 31, 1934, at Tho-
rold, Ont., Ina I. Grenville. Miss Grenville
was a member of the Alumnae Association
of the Mack Training School of St. Cath-
arines, from which she graduated in 1913.
After a period of private duty nursing she
enlisted for overseas service in 1915 under
MISS INA GRENVILLE
the St. John Ambulance Corps. During the
time of her service, which lasted till the
close of the Great War, she served in Mal-
ta, France and England. being attached to
the Canadian Red Cross, the British Red
Cross, and the Canadian Army Medical
Corps. At the close of the war Mi!'s Gren-
ville joined the staff of Christie Street Hos-
pital, Toronto, and later was one of the
first eight nUrses se;\t out by the Provincial
Department of Heaith. For the pa
t thirteen
years she rendered valuable cùmmunity ser-
vice under this departm<:nt in Algoma Dis-
tric:: and the friendships she established and
the contacts she made with the people of
Algoma and the North meant much to her,
while her sympathy and understanding en-
deared her to them. It will be many years
before the memory of Miss Grenville's
cheerfulness and ready spirit of helpfulness
fades in the thoughts of her friends and
colleagues. The funeral services were mili-
tary in character and a guard of honour
was provided by members of the Canadian
Legion and nurses representing the On-
ta::-io Department of Health and the Alum-
nae Association of the Mack Training
School for nurses. The ceremony ended
with the sounding of The Last Post.
BARR-On August 8, 1934, Winnifred Barr,
aged 25 years. Miss Barr was a member of
the class of 1929 of the Mack Training
School for Nurses, St. Catharines, Onto She
practiced as a private duty nurse and later
was a member of the nursing staff of the
Niagara Peninsula Sanitarium in which in-
stitution her death occurred. She endeared
herself to her many friends by her sunny
disposition and by the quiet patience with
which she bore her illness.
DILLON-The death occurred on September
10, 1934, of Miss Alma Dillon, graduate of
St. Joseph's Hospital, Chatham (class
1930). Miss Dillon took great interest in
all nursing activities and will be sadly miss-
ed by all who knew her.
MAcDONALD-On September 7, 1934, at
Glace Bay, Mrs. John A. MacDonald (née
Lydia Turner), formerly superintendent of
Harbour View Hospital, Sydney Mines.
RODGER-On October 30, 1933, Ethel
Greenwood Rodger, a member of the class
of 1926 of the School of Nursing of the
Hamilton General Hospital. Miss Rodger
died of pneumonia at St. Mary Abbot Hos-
pital, London, England. Cremation took
place in England and burial at Drummond
Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Onto Miss
Rodger had taken postgraduate courses in
obstetrics at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital
and in general anaesthesia at Grace Hos-
pital, Detroit, and was keenly interested in
her profession.
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Directory
International Council of Nurses:
Secretary, Miss Anna Schwarzenberg, 14, Quai Gustav Ador, Geneva, Switzerland
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Officers
President............ 0........ .Miss R. M Simpson, Parliament Buildings, Regina, Sask.
First Vice-President.. . . . . o. . . . . . .1'vliss G. M. Fairley, General Hospital, \'ancouver, B.C.
Second Vice-President. 0" . . . . . . . . . Miss 1\1. L. Moag, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal, P.Q.
Honorary Secretary. . . . . . . . . 0 .. 11iss Elsie Wilson, 668 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipe
, :\1an.
Honorary Treasurer... . . . . . . . . . . , .Miss 1\1. Murdoch, General Hospital, Saint John, N.B'
COUNCILLORS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COM
ITTEE
Numeralll preceding names indicate office held, ft.: (I) Prellident, Protlincial Nurses Al8ociation; (2) Chairman
Nuraing Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section; (4) ChairfTI..an, Private Dutil Section. '
A.lberta: (1) Miss F. Munroe, Royal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmollton; (2) Miss J. ConIlal, General Hospi-
tal, Call!;ary; (3) Miss B. A. Emerson, 604 Civic
Block, EdmoIltoIl; (4) Miss J. Clow, 11138-82Ild
Ave., EdmoIltoIl.
British Columbia: (1) MiS8 M. F. Gray, Dept. of
Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vallcouver;
(2) Miss L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; (3) Miss 1\1. Duffield, 175 Broadway Eaøt,
Vallcouver; (4) Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft NuraiIlg
Home, Cook St., Victoria.
Manitoba: (1) :\liss :\Iildred Heid, =,,"ur!'es Re!'idence,
\-\- innipeg General Ho
pital, Winnipeg: (2) :\Iiss G.
ThompsoIl, :\Iisericordia Ho!'pital, Winnipep;; (3)
:\Iiss E. :\lcKelvey, 603 :\Iedical Arts Building,
\\ innipeg; (4) Miss K. :\lcCallum, 181 Ellfieid
CresceIlt,
or
ood.
New Brunswick: (1) Miss A. J. MacMaster, MOIlctOIl
Hospital, MOIlctoIl; (2) Sister Corillne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, CampbelltoIl; (3) Miss Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saillt JOhIl; (4) Miss Mabel Mc-
Mullen. St. Stephell.
Nova Scotia: (1) :\liss Lenta G. Hall, Victorian Order
of
urses, Hahfax; (2) Miss H. JonC'as, Victoria
General Hospital, Halifax; (3) :\liss 1\1. O. Gray,
ew Glasgo\\; (4) :\liss C. MacLean, !)7 South
Kline St. Halifax.
Ontario: (I)
\Iiss :\Iajorie Buck, Korfolk Hospital,
::;imcoe; (2) :\liss f'. :\1. JamiesoIl, R.R.l, Bralltford,
(3) :\In:. Agnes Haygarth, 19 Dromore Crescellt
Westdale, Hamilton; (4) l\liss J. L. Church, 12Ó
Strathcona Ave., Otta\\a.
Prince Ed\\ard Island: (1) :\Iiss Anna :\lair, P.E.!.
Hospital, CharloUeto\\Il; (2) Miss F. Laver
, Prince
Co. Hospital, Summerside; (3)
liss Dorothy :\Ic-
KenIla, Summerside; (4) :i\liss 1\1. Gamble, 51
Ambrose St. Charlotteto
n.
Quebec: (1) Miss C. V. Barrett. Royal Victoria Mater-
nity Hospital, MOlltreal; (2) Miss Martha BatsoIl,
Montreal General Hospital, Montreal; (3) Miss
Christille Dowling, 1246 Bishop Street, MOlltreal;
(4) Miss C. 1\1. Watling, 1230 Bishop Street. MOlltreal.
Saskatchewan: (1) Miss Edith Amas, City Hospital,
::;a!'katooIl; (2) MiH' Annie La
rie, Gem>ral Hospita
,
Regina; (3)
Irs. E. 1\1. FeeIlY, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament llldgs., RegiIla; (4) Miss l\1. n.
Chi"holm, S05 7th Ave. X., Sa
katooll.
CH \IRMEN NATIO!,;AL SECTIONS
NCRSINO EDUCATION: Mi!'sl\larion Lindeburgh, School
for Graduate Nur!'es, McGill "CIlivenity, Montrpal;
PUBLIC HEALTH:
Ii
!' A. E. WeIll!, Dept. of Health,
Legislative Bldgs., Winnipeg; PRIVATE DUTY: Miss
1\1. It. Chisholm, !o.03 7th Ave. N., f'askatoon.
Executive Secretary: Miss Jean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
Montreal, P.O.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF CANADIAN "iVRSES ASSOCIATION
Nl RSING EDUCATION SECTI01'.
CHAIRM "N:
liss Marion Lindeburgh, School for Grad-
uate Nurses, :\lcGill Ulliver
ity. ;\lolltreal; VICE-
CH\lR\I\N: :\li!'s Constance Bre\\ster, General Hos-
pital, Hamilton; SECRET..RY: :\Ii.tls Nora =,,"ap;le, 2ïO
Cooper Street, Otta
a; TRE "BURER: Mi"s:\1. B1anC'he
AI1derFoIl, OUa\\a Civic Hospital, Otta\\a.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\liss J. Connal, General
Ho!'pital, Calgary. British Columhia: l\Iis!' L.
:\Iitchell, Hoyal Jubilee 1I0::,pital, \ïctoria.
Iani-
toha: :\lis!' G. Thompson, .l\li!'pricordia Jlo
pital
\\innipeg. New Bruns\\ick:
istpr Corinne I\:err,
Hotel Dieu, Camphellton. Nova Scotia: :\liss H.
Joncas, \ïC'toriaGpneral I1o"pital. Halifax. OntarIo:
:\liss S.:\1. Jamieson, n.R.1. Bralltford. Prince
Edward Island: :\Iiss F. I aver". Princ'e Co. Ho
pital,
::;ummer"ide. Quebec: :\Iis!' :\Iartha Batson, :\Iont-
rpal General Hospital, :\lontreaI. Saskatchc\\an:
1\li
s Annie La\\rie, General Ho,.pital, H(ogina.
PRIVATE Bl'T\' SECnON
CH\lRMAN:
Iiss 1\1. R. Chisholm, so;; 7th Avc, K,
::;askatoon; VICE-CH ..IRMAN: :\Ii"s C. 1\1. \\ atIing,
1230 Bi!'hop
treet, :\Iontn>al;
t"CRET"Ry-TREA8-
URER: Miss Helen \\ ills, 2840 Robinson Street,
Hcgina.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\Ii,.s J. Clo\\, 111:tS-S2nd
Ave., Fdmonton. British Columbia: l\li..
:\1.
:\Iirfield, Bea{'hcroft :\ur
ing Home, ViC'toria. \Ianl-
NOVFMBFR, 1 Q J4
toba: .Miss K. :\lcCallum, 181 Enfield Cre"., Kor-
ood. New Bruns\\ick:
lis" Mabel .:\1 c:\1ulleIl,
St. Rtephen. Nova Scotia: Misø C. :\lac1.ean, 97
South hline St., Halifax. Ontario: :\Iiss J. 1..
Church. 1:l0 Strathcona A\"e., OUa\\a. PrInce Ed-
ward Island: i\liss i\1. Gamblp, 51 \mbro!'e
t.,
CharlottetO\\Il. Quehec: 1\li!'!' C. 1\1. Watling, 12:iU
Bishop Rtrcct, .l\lontrpal. Saskatche\\an: :\liH M.
R. Chisholm, 805 ïth Ave. N., Ra
katoon. CON-
VENER OF PUBLICATIONS: Miss :\1. R. Chh.holm,
80,') 7th Ave. N., Sa!'katooll.
PUILIC HEALTH SECTION
C'HAIR\lAN: :\Ii!'s .\. 1:. \\ ell", Dppt. of IIpalth, I.'gi,,-
lative Bldgs., \\ innippp;; VICE-CH ..IRM ..N: "Ii"" :\1.
Kerr, !H6 20th ,,"ve. \\., Vancouvpr; SECRt'T"R'-
TRE"NURER: :\liss Isab.'1 :\1C'L>iarmid, 31i:J I.angsidp
St., \\ innipcg.
('OUNCILLOR!t- -\Iberta: :\Ii
" ß, -\. EmerøoIl, 604
CiviC' B1o('k, Fdrnonton. British Columbia: :\Ii!ls
:\1 Duffield, 175 Bwad\\ay Fast, "ancou\pr.
Manitoha: :\Iiss F. :\I(.}\.t'lvey, 1i()3 :\Iedi,'al Arts
Bldg., \\ innipPjl;. XC\\ Bruns\\ick: :\Ii..
.-\da
Burns, Hpalth ('cntrp, Saint John. :\ova Scotia:
:\Ii"s :\1. O. Gray, r\e\\ Gla-go\\. Ontario: :\Irs.
.\gnes Haygarth, 19 Dromorp ('rp!!{'pnt.. \\ e
tdale,
Hamilton. I)rince Fd\\ard Island: :\hss Dorothy
:\Ichpnna, Runllllpnidp. Quebec:
lill" Christine
1)0\\ linp;, 12.1fi Bishop
t., :\Iontreal. Saskatch.e-
\\an: Mrs. }'. :\1. FpC'n) , I).opt. of Hpalth, I'arba-
"wnt Hldp;"., !lpgina.
H5
546
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of Re
istered Nurses
President, :\Ii"", F. Munroe, Royal Alexandra Ho--
pital, Edmonton; First Vice-President,
Iiss J. Connal,
General Hospital, Calgary; Second Vice-President,
)'Iiss E. McPhedran, Central Alberta Sanatorium,
Calgary; Secretary- Treasurer- Hcgibtrar,
In. A. E.
Vango, 11107-82nd Ave., EdmontoIl; Chairman:
Nursing Education Section, :\Ii.,s J. Connal, General
Hospital, Calgary; Public Health Section, Mi
E n. A.
Emerson, 6o.t Civic Block, Edmonton; Private Duty
Section,
\Iiss J. C. Clow, 11138-82nd Ave., Edmonton.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
President, M. F. Gray, 1466 \V. 14th Ave., Vancouver;
First Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-Prel'i-
deIlt, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Yallcouver
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, 1\1. Kerr, 516 Vallcouver
Block, Vallcouver; Conveners vf Committees: Nursing
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, \Ïc-
toria; Public Health, M. Duffield, 175 Broad\\ay East,
\'ancouver; Private Duty, Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft
1'\ ursiIlg Home, Cook St., Victoria; Councillors, M. P.
Campbell, M. Dutton, L. McAllister, 1\:. Sanderson.
MANITOBA
Manitoba Association of Re
istered Nurses
President, Miss M. Reid, Winnipeg General Hospital;
First Vice-PresideIlt, Miss S. Wright, Metropolitan
Life, Willnipeg; Second Vice-President, Miss C. Mc-
Leod, BraIldoIl General Hospital; Third Vice-President,
Sister Krause, St. Boniface Hospital; Members of
Board: Miss M. Lang, Miss E. Carruthers, Sister Mary,
Miss K. W. Ellis, Miss K. McLearn, Miss M. MeehaIl,
Miss E. JOhIlSOIl, Sister St. Albert; Conveners of Sec-
tions: Public Health, Miss E. McKelvey; Private Duty,
Miss K. :\lcCallum; Nursing Education, .\'liss G.
ThompsoIl, .\Iisericordia Hospital, Winnipeg. Conve-
ners of Committees: Directory, .\Iiss J. Kerr, 74 Cobourg
Ave.; Social, .\liss S. Pollexfen, 954 Palmerston Ave.;
Sick Visiting, Miss L. Gray, \Ïctorian Order of Nunes;
.\Iembenhip, l\Iiss E. Iromide, Winnipeg General Hos-
pital; Librarian, l\Ii"s W. Grice and l\liss A. Starr, 753
\Volseley Ave.; Press and Publication, 1\Iiss E. Banks,
64 Cross St.; Reþresentatit'es: Local Council of \V omeIl,
Mrs. Willard Hill and l\Irs. Emmett D\\yer; Central
Council of Social Agencies, .\-Iiss F. RobertsoIl; Vic-
toriall Order of Nurses, Miss E. A. Russell; Junior Red
CrosE, ,',Iiss E. Parker; Red Cross Enrolment, .\Irs. J.
F. Morrison; E....ecutive Secretary and Registrar, Mrs.
Stella Gordoll Kerr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Association of Re
lstered Nurses
President, Miss A. J. MacMaster, Moncton Hospi-
tal, MonctoIl; First Vice-President, Miss Margaret
Murdoch; Second Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
Kay; Honorary Secretary, Rev. Sister Kenny; Council
Members: Mi8B Florence ColemaIl, Miss H. S. Dyke-
mall, Mrs. A. G. Woodcock, Miss Elsie M. Tulloch;
Conveners: Public Health Section. Miss Ada A. BurIls;
Private Duty Section, Miss Mabel McMulliIl; Nursing
Education See/ion. Sister Kerr; Committee Conveners:
The Canadian Nurse, Miss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tutiOIl and By-Laws, Miss S. E. Brophy; Secretary-
Treasurer-Rep;istrar, Miss Maude E. Retallick, 262
Charlotte St. West, Saint JOhIl, N.B.
NOVA SCOTIA
Re
istered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia
President, :\Iiss Lenta Hall, Victorian Order of
urses, Halifax; Fir:o.t Vice-President, .\Iiss Sarah
Archard, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax; Second
\Ïce-President, :\Iiss Anna Hillcoat, Amher"t; Third
Vice-President, Sister Anna Seton, Halifax Infirmary;
Recording Secretary, ,',Irs. D. .T. Gillis, 9 Welf'foro St.,
Halifax; Treasurer and Registrar, Miss 1\1 uriel Graham,
413 Dennis Bldg., Halifax.
ONT ARlO
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 1925)
President, Miss Marjorie Buck, Norfolk Gelleral
Hospital, Simcoe; Firat Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Pen'y, 7 Queens Park Cres., ToroIlto; Second \Ï('e-
President, ..\Iiss Constance Brewster, Gelleral Ho
pital,
Hamilton; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Matilda E. Fitz-
gerald, 3 Willcocks St., ToroIlto; Chairman, Nurse
Education Section, .\Iiss S. Margaret Jamie
on, R.R.
<? 1, Brantford; Chairman, Private Duty Section,
.i\hss J. L. Church, 120 Strathcona Ave., Ottawa;
Chair mall, Public Yealth Section, .\Irs. Agnes Haygarth,
19 Dromore Cres., Westdale, Hamilton; District No. I:
Chairman, .\Iiss .Mildred Walker, Institute of Puhlic
Health, London; Secretary-treasurer, 1\Iiss 1\Iildred
Chambers, Institute of Public Health, London; Districts
": and 3.: Cha
man, .i\liss A. E. llingeman, Freeport
SanatorIUm, Kitchener; Secretary-treasurer,l\li
s .l-.dith
Jones, 253 Gren\\ich St., Brantford; District "Vo. 4:
Chairman,
\Iiss Constance Bre\\ ster, General Hospital,
Hamilton; f;ecretary-treaf'urer, l\lrs. Eva Barlow, 211
Stin
on St., Hamilton; District NO.5: Chairman, Miss
Dorothy .i\lickleborough, 20 Humewood Court, 9
Hume\\ood Dr., Toronto; Secretary-treasurer, Miss
Isabelle Park, 1348 Yonge St., Toronto; District No.6:
Chairman, .\Iiss Helen 1\1. Anderson, 709 'Water St.
Peterborough; Secretary-treasurer, Mi
s Dorothy .Mac-
BrieIl, Kicholls Hospital, Peterborough; District NO.7,
Chairman, :\Iiss Loui
e D. Acton, General Ho
pital,
Kingston; Secretary-treasurer, .Miss Olivia "'ihon:
General Hmpital, l\:ing
ton; DÜtrict No. 8: Chairman,
:\Iiss 1\1. Blanche .-\nd('rmn, Ottawa Civic Hospital,
Ottawa; Secretary, 1\liss A. G. Tanner, Ottawa Civi('
Hospital, Ottawa; Treasurer, .i\liss Mary Acland,
f;trathcolla Hospital, Otta\\a; District No. (): Chairman,
.\Iiss Elizabeth Smith, Box 30.), New Li
keard; E=ecre-
tary-treasurer. Mi
s Robena Buchanan, Sanatorium
P.O., Gravenhurst; District No. 10: Chairman, .i\Iiss
,"era Lovelace, 3 \Viley Rd., Port Arthur;
ecretary-
treasurer, l\Irs. \\T. J. ßurney, Ardr'en Gold Mine
,
l\:a
habo\\ie, Ont.
District No. 8 Re
istered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, Miss M. B. Anderson; Vice-Chairman,
Miss J. L. Church; Secretary, Miss A. G. Tanner,
Ottawa Civic HOBpital; Treasurer, Miss M. E. Acland;
Councillors, Misses G. Clarke, A. Ebbs, M. Graham;
E. C. McIlraith, C. C. Murray, M. Slinn; Conveners
of Committees: Membership, Miss G. Clarke; Publica-
tions, Miss E. C. McIlraith; Nursing Education, Mil's
C. C. Murray; Private Duty, Miss J. L. Church; Public
Health, Miss H. O'Meara.
District No. 9 Re
istered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chairman, .i\lifos Elizabeth Smith; Fin.t Vice-Chair-
man, .\Ii, s Jean Smith; Secretary- Treasun-r, .Miss
Robena Buchanan, f'anatorium P.O., Gravenhurst;
Councillors: Rev. Si<<ter Fidelis, l\liss .i\Iina Canon,
.\Iiss H. Jordan, :\Iiss H. Atkimon, l\Iiss G. Rowd('n,
Hev. Sif'ter Felieitas.
District No. 10 Re
istered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Pre
ident. .\Ii
s \'. Lovelac'e; \Ïce-Pre
id('nt, .\Iiss ::\1.
Hamilton; Serretary-Treasun-r, :\Irs. "'. J. Burney,
Ardeen Gold :'.Iine!', l\:a
habo\\i(', Ont.; Councillors:
:\Iiss Jane Hogarth, .\Iiss .:\1. Wallace, .\Iis
C'. Lemon,
:\Ii"s C. Chivers Wilson, Miss Flannigan, Miss lnr.e
Hibditch.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Re
istered Nurses
Association
Pre<;ident, Miss Anna l\Iair, P.E.I. Hospital,
Charlottetown; Vice-President, :\Iiss :\1. King, Char-
lottetown Hospital; Secretary, Miss 1\1. Campbell, 8
Grafton St., Charlottetown; Trea"urcr and Registrar,
l\liss Edna Green, 2.'J7,Y2 Queen St., Charlottetown;
Nursing Education, :\Iiss F. Lavers, Prince Co. HOf'pital,
Summerside; Public Health, ::\Iiss Dorothy ::\lcKenna,
Summerside; Private Duty, 1\liss M. Gamble, .'i1 Am-
brose St.. Charlottetown; Hepresentative to The
Canadian Nurse. l\liss Anna Mair, r.E.1. Hospital,
Charlottetown.
QUEBEC
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
547
Association of Re
lstered
urses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
Advisory Board: MiB8es Mary Samuel, Mabel F. j
Hersey, C. :\-1. Watling, Rév. Mère M. V. Allaire, Rév. I
Soeur 8te. Igidora; President, Miss C. V. Barrett,
Royal Victoria
Iontreal :\Iaten1Ïty Hospital; \'ice- I
President (English), MiBB :\1. L. Nloag, Victorian Order
of Nurses, 1246 Bishop 8t., Montreal; Vice-President
(FreIlch), Rév. Soeur Al!ard, Hôtel-Dieu de St. Joseph,
:\-Iontreal; Hon. Secretary, Miss Esther Beith, Child
Welfare Association. :Forum Bid!!:., Montreal; Hon.
TreaslU'er, :\-liss:\1. E. Nash, Victorian Order of Nurses,
1246 Bishop St.,
Iontreal. Other Members: Miss
:\Iabel K. Holt, The Montreal General Hospital,
:\Iademoiselle Edna Lynch, Nursing Supervisor, Metro-
politan Life Insurance Co., Montrpal, Rév. Soeur St.
Jean de I'Eucharistie, HôpitaI Notre Dame, Montreal,
Miss Marion LinJeburJ!:h, School for Graduate Nurses,
:\IcGill UI1Ïversity, Montreal, Mademoiselle Ale,rina
:\Iarchessault, Ecole d. Hygiêne SociaJ .-\ppliquée,
Université de :\Iontreal. Conl!enprs of Sections: Private
Duty, (Enl1;lish), Miss C. :\1. Watling:, 1230 Bishop St.,
:\Iontreal; Pril!ate Duty (FreIlch), Mademoiselle .-\lice
L
::>ine, H5pital Notre Dame, :\lontreal; Nursino Edu-
c'ltion fEnl1;lish), Miss :\lartha Batson, The Ylontreal
General Hospital, Montreal; Nursing Education
(French), Rév. Soeur Au!tustine, I-Iôpital St. .Teall-de-
Dieu, GameliIl, Que; Public Health, -:\Iiss Christine
Dowling, Victorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.,
,...Montreal; Board of Examiners, Miss Olga V. Lilly
(Convener), Royal Victoria MOlltreal l\1atemity H08-
pital, :\Iiss :\Iarioll Lindeburgh, School for Graduate
Nurses, :\-IcGill UI1Ïversity, l\1ontre1l.1;
Iiss Katherine
MacN. MacLeIlnan, A.lexandra H08pital, :\Iontreal;
Melle. Edna Lynch, 4642 rue St. Dellis St., Montreal;
l\If'lIe. l\Iarie Anysie Déland, Institut Bruchési, Mont-
réaJ; :\Ielle. A. :\Iarche
!'oault, 3:l56 a,enue Lacombe,
:\Iuntreal; Expcutive Secretary, Rej!;istrar and Official
School Vil'itor, !\Iiss E. Frances Upton, Room 221
1396 St Catherine St. W.,
IontrpaL .
SASKA TCHEW A
Saskatchewan Re
lstered Nurses Association
(Incorporated
Iarch, 1917)
President, Miss Edith Ama8, City Hospital. Saska-
toon; First Vice-President, Miss Ruby M. SimpsoIl,
Department of Public Health, Regina; Second Vice-
PresideIlt, Miss Helen B. Smith. General Hospital,
Regina; Councillors, Miss Jean McDonald, 1122 Rae
St., Regina, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Normal School,
Moose Jaw; Conveners of Standinu Committeea: Nursinu
Education, :Uiss Allnie La\\rie, Gpneral Hmpital,
Regina; Public Health, 'Irs. E. :\1. Fpenpy, Depart-
mellt of Public Health, Regina; Pril!ate Duty, Miss M.
R. Chisholm. 805-7th Ave. N., Saskatoon; Legislation,
Miss R. M. Simpson, Regina; Secretary-Treasurer and
Registrar, Miss Margaret Ross, 45 Angus Crescent,
Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate Nurses
Hon. Pre5ident, Dr. H. A. Gibson; President,
Ii"s
P. Gilbert; First \ïpp-Pre!'idpnt, :\Iiss F. E. C. Reid;
econd \ïpe-Presidpnt, )Ii
s O. Zimmerman; Nee.
Senretary, :\Iiss A. Y oung; Corrp
ponding
epretary,
)Ii'ls
I. Flemming; Trpasurer, :\Iiss
1. \\att.
Edmonton Association of Graduate I'urses
President, Miss Ida Johnson; First \"ice-President,
Miss Turner; Second Vice-Prpsident, Miss O'Brien;
Recording and Corresponding Secretary, Miss \"iolet
Chapman, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton;
Treasurer, Miss Gavin; Registrar, :\Iiss Sproule, 11138
Whyte Ave., Edmonton.
Medicine Hat Graduate Nurses Association
President, \\Irs. J. Keohane; First Vice-President,
Mrs.
1. Tobin; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Gil-
christ; Secretary, Miss A. McLeod, 2 Diana Court;
Treasurer, Miss F. Smith; Committee Conl!eners:
Membership, MiBB A. Allan; Flo\\er, Mrs. W. Fraser;
Private Duly Section, Mrs. Chas. Pickering; Correspuu-
dpnt, The Canadian Nurse, Miss M. Hagerman.
BRITISH COLU'IBIA
Nelson Graduate Nurses Association
Hun. President, Miss V. B. Eidt, Acting Ruperinten-
dent, Kootenay I ake General Hospital; President
M;ss K. Gordon; First Vice-President, Miss :\1. Mad-
den; Second Vice-President. MiBB S. Archibald; Secre-
tary-Treaøurer, Miss Edna Fraser. Box 1105, Nelson,
B.C.
Vancouver Graduate !liurses Association
President, Mrs. \Vestman, 800 Cas'lair St., Vancouver;
First Vi(.e-Prellident. Miss Jane Johnstone, Rteveøton,
RC.; Second Vice-Pr!,qident, :\Iiss E. Berry, St. Paul's
Hospital; Secretary, :\Iiss F. Walker, Vancouver Gen-
eral Hospital; Treasurer. :\liBB L. Archibald, 5
6 West
12th Ave.; Council, Misses K. SandersoIl, Kilburn, G
M. Fairley, Wismer and M. F. Gray. Finance, Miss
Teulon, 1385 West 11th Ave.; Directory, Miss K.
\\Iotherwell, 1947 West 10th Ave.; Social, Miss A. J.
MacLeod, Vancouver General Hospital; Programme,
MiRS B. Donaldson, St. Paul's Hospital: Si('k Visitin,r,
l\IiBs C. Cooker. Vancouver General Hospital; Mem-
bership, Mrs. Blankenbach, 1816 West 36th Ave.;
Local Council of Women, MiSBes Duffield and Gray;
PreBB, \\Irs. E. Simms, Vancouver General Hospital.
Victoria Graduate l'urses Association
Hon. Presidents, Miss L. Mitchell, Sister Superior
Ludovic; Prp!lident, Miss E. J. Herbert; First Vice-
President,
Iiss M. :\Iirfield;
econd Vice-Presi-
deIlt, Mrs. KirkneBB; Secretary, Miss I. Helgesen;
Treasurer,
liBs \V. Cooke; Registrar, Miss E. Franks.
1035 Fairfield Road, Victoria; Executive Committee.
:\Irs. E. B. Strachan, Miss E. McDonaJd, Miss C.
!{enny, Miss E. Cameron, Miss D. Frampton.
IANITonA
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association
HOIl. Pre
ident, l\Ii!'os E. Birtles; HOIl. \"ice-Pre
idpIlt,
:\Irs. \\. H.
hillingla\\; Prp,idpnt,
Ii!'s E,a McXally;
\"ice-Pre
idents, :\lrs. L. Flctchpr, :\Iiss
I. ParfonF;
Secretary, :\Jiss Dorothy Iongl!'y, l\fpntal Ho
pit8l,
Brandon; Trpa!lurer, l\Irs. 1\1. Long. Dominion Bank
Bldg., Brandun; Committees: Pres!', :\Iiss }lplpn :\Iorrri-
!'on; Sipk \"i,iting, :\Irs. J. R. Fil'her; \\ p!far!', !\IiI's
I
. :\1. Higgen!'; Rocial and Programmp, :\Ir!'. E. lIanna;
rook Book,., )Irl<. -\. h.ain!'; Privale DutJl, Mrs. L.
FletC'her, :\Iiss I,.ob('l hnox; Hc&i
trar, l\Ii
s C. Mac-
l('od.
QUEBEC
Graduate Nurses Association of the Eastern
Townships
Hon. President, \\Iiss V. Beane; President, MiBB F.
Bean' \ ice-President. :\oIiss G. Dwaine; Correflponding
ecreiary, M iBB F. \\ ardle\\ orth; Recording Se('ref.ary,
:\fiBl! Harvey; Tre8.l!urer, MiBB Margaret Hobin8-
H!'pr('!'entati\e to The Canadln" ,,"11.'<', 1\Ii,.s. ('
Hornby, Bux :i21,
h('rbrooke ; Hppr"""ntah\!'.
P7ivate Duty Section, :\Ii
,. I:. \forri
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548
THE CANADIAN NURSE
SASKATCHEWAN
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss L. C. Phillips; President, Miss
Chrifltille Watling, 1230 Bishop St.; First Vice-Presi-
dent, Miss G. AllisOIl; Secolld Vice-President, Mrs. A.
StanJey; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Registrar,
Miss Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrür,
Miss Kathleen Bliss; Relief Registrar, Miss H. M.
Sutherland; Convener GriffintowIl Club, Miss G.
Colley. Regular Meetillg. Secolld Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, October and December.
Moose Jaw Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, Mrs. M. Y oUIlg; President, Miss
R. Last; First Vice-President, Miss C. Kier; Second
Vice-President. Mrs. W. MetcaUe; Secretary-Treasurer.
Miss J. Moir, General Hospital, Moose Jaw; Convenerll
of Committees: Nursing Education, Mrs. M. Young,
Sr. Mary Raphael, Miss E. Jellsen; Private Duty, Miss
E. Wallace, Miss E. Farquhar, MiBB T. Reynolds, Miss
J. Casey; Pu.blic Health. Registrar, Miss C. Kier; Pro-
grammE', Miss G. Taylor; Sick Visiting. Miss L. TreIlch;
Social, Miss M. Armstrong; Constitutioll and By-Laws,
Miss E. Lamond' Representative to The Canadia'1l
Nurse, Miss M. Gall; PreBB Representative. Mrs. J.
Phillips.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ary
PresideIlt, Mrs. L. de Satge; Vice-President, Miss
4. WillisOIl i Recording Secretary, Miss E. Thorn;
Corresponding Secretary, MiBB P. N. Gilberti Trea-
surer, MiBB S. Craig; Honorary Members, Rev. Soeur
St. Jeall de l'Eucharistie, Miss M. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
HOIl. President, Miss F. Munroe; President, Miss K.
Brighty; Vice-President, Miss I. Johnson; Second Vice-
PresideIlt, Miss K Miller 1\Ic:
lanus; Sepretary, Miss
L. EinarsoIl; Corresponding Secretary, Miss G. Mc-
Diarmid; Treasurer. Miss A. Oliver; Committee Con-
lJeners: Programme. Miss G. Allyn; Social, Miss V.
Kelly McNeil; Sick Vi:siting, Miss J. l\Iunro; 1\lember-
ship, l\Iiss M. Cullerne.
A.A. University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
HOIl. President, !vliss E. Fenwick; President, Miss
M. Reed; First Vice-President, Miss L. Gourlay;
Secolld Vice-President, Miss B. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss A. Revell; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
D. Duxbury, UIlÍversity Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M.
Rowles, University Hospital; Executive, l\Iisses M.
Gordon, I. Ross, A. Baker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. A. E. Archer; PresideIlt, Mrs.
B. 1. Love; Vice-Presidellt. Miss O. Scheie; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss F. E. Reid. lO09-20th Avenue. W.,
Calgary; COllvener, Social Committee, Mrs. R. Shears.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. Vice-
PresideIlt, Sister Therese Amable; President, Miss B.
Geddes; Vice-President. Miss R. McKernaIl; Secretary,
Miss F. Treavor, Assistant Secretary, Miss V. Dyeri
Treasurer. Miss B. Muir; Executive, Misses M. Mc-
DOllald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, S. Christie,
R. McGillivary, K. McDoIla!d.
A.A., V&1ncouver General Hospital
President, Miss M. Lunan; First Vice-President,
Mrs. C. H. C. Bell; Second Vice-President, Mrs. K.
Craig; Secretary, Miss I. Collier; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss K. Heaney, Vancouver General Hospital;
Committee Conveners: Programme. Miss A. Croll.
Membership, Miss V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; RefreshmeIlts, Miss J. Hunter; Press, Mrs. G. E.
Gillies; Treasurer ßIld Bonds. Miss Geary, 3176 West
2nd Ave.; Represelltative, V.G.N.A., Miss Rhodes.
Royal
A.A., Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
HOIl. PresideIlt, Miss L. 1\litchen; PresideIlt, Miss
J. Moore; First Vice-PresideIlt, Mrs. Yorke; Secolld
Vice-PresideIlt, Miss M. Mirfield; Secretary, Mrs. A.
Dowell, 30 Howe St.; Assistant Secretary, Miss C. M.
Cox; Treasurer, Miss J. Stewart; EIltertaiIlmeIlt Com-
mittee, Mrs. Russell; Sick Nurse, Miss E. Newmall.
MANITOBA
A.A., Children's Hospital, Wlnnlp
HOIl. President, Miss M. B. Allan; President, Miss
Catherine Day; First Vice-President, Miss Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, Miss W. M. Barratt, Children's
Hospital; Treasurer, Miss M. D. Hughes; Sick VisitiIlj1;,
Miss Edith Jarrett; Entertaillment, Mrs. Geo. Wilson
A.A., St. Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
HOIl. PresideIlt, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, Miss K
McCallum, 181 Ellfieid Cr., Norwood; First Vice-
PresideIlt, Miss H. StepheIl, 15 Ruth Apts., Maryialld
St., Winnipeg; Secolld Vice-President, Miss M. Madill,
St. Boniface Hospital; Secretary, Miss J. Archibald,
Shriner's Hospital, Willnipeg; Treasurer, MiBB E.
Shirley, 14 KiIlg George Ct., WinIlÍpeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Banks (Collvener), 64 Cross St..
Winnipeg, Miss J. Williamson, Miss A. NelsoIl; Sick
Visiting Committee, Miss T. Grellville (Convener), 211
Hill St., Norwood; Miss K. RowaIl, Miss J. Greig;
Press Represelltative, Miss B. Altman, 420 College
Ave., Winnipeg; Representatives to Local Coullcil of
Women, Miss B. Altman (Collvener), Miss B. Chandler,
Miss M. Spooller.
A.A., Wlnnlpe
General Hospital
HOIl. President, Mrs. A. W. Moody, 97 Ash St.;
PJesideIlt, Miss E. Parker, Ste. 25, Carlyle Apts., 580
Broadway; First Vice-PresideIlt, Mrs. C. V. Combes,
.530 Domillion St.; Secolld Vice-Prf>sident, Miss J. Mc-
DOllald, Deer Lodge Hospital; Third Vice-PresideIlt,
Mrs. J. S. Ward, 197 Beaverbrook St.; Recording
Secretary, Miss A. Effier. Ste. 12
Dialla Crt.; Corres-
pOIldiIlg Secretary, Miss 1\1. Graham, Willnipeg
Gelleral Hospital; Treasurer, 1\liss M. DUIlcan, WiIl-
nipeg Gelleral Hospital; Rcpreselltative OIl Training
School Committee: Miss K. McLearIl, Shriner's
Hospital; Membership, Miss I. Ramsay, Celltral
Tuberculosis CliIlic; Sick Visiting, Miss J. Morgan,
102 Rose St.; EIltertainmeIlt, Mrs. C. McMillaIl,
Hertford Blvd., Tuxedo; Editor of Joumal, Miss F.
McRae, 44 EvaIlsoIl St.; Assi
tallt Editor, Miss J.
Moody, 76 Walnut St.; Busilless 1\'1aIlager, Miss E.
Timlick, WiIlIlipeg Gelleral Hospital; Special Com-
mittee. Miss P. BrowIlell. 215 ChestIlut St.; Aiumllae
Club, Miss F. Tretiak, Broad Valley, Mall.; Archivist,
Miss S. J. Pollerlen, 954 Paimerstoll Ave.
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOHN
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. J. Mitchell; President, Mrs
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, Miss Ethel Hen-
derson; Second Vice-President, Mrs. F. McKelvey;
Secretary, Mrs. J. Edp:ar Beyea, 121 Unioll St.; Trea-
surer, Miss Kate Holt; Executive Committee, Miss
Margaret
Iurdoch, Miss R. Reid, Mrs. J. H. Vaughan.
ST. STEPHEN
A.A., Chipman Memorial Hospital, St. Stephen
President, l\liss Myrtle Dunbar; Fint Vice-President,
Mr
. H. W. Short; Second Vice-President. Miss Rosa
Madsen; Secretary, Miss Estella Gibbon, St. Stephen:
Treasurer, 1\1rs. Cedric H. Dinsmore; Board of Din'c-
tors: l\IisFes J. Sillclair, 1. Hart, J. Bavi., l\lrs. R.
Bartlett; Committee Conveners: Programme, 1\Jrs H.
Mallory, Misses E. Gibbon, E. Giles, Mr
. H. Short;
Refreshment, l\lis
es E. Spinney, D. Devlin, l\Irs. R.
Bartlett; Nominating, Misses F. Cunningham, 1. Hart
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
WOODSTOCK
A.A., L. P. Fisher '\femoriaIHospital, Woodstock
HOIl. PresideIlt, Miss Elsie Tulloch: President, 1\Irs
Harry DUIlbar; Vice-President, Miss Gladys Hayward;
Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Pauline Palmer: Board of
Directors: Miss G. Tams, Mrs. B. SUttOIl, Mrs. FultoIl,
Miss 1\1. Samphier, Miss N. VeneBB: Committee Con-
lIeners: Programme, Mrs. P. Caldwell, Miss E. Kerr,
Miss E. Dunbar, MiB8 B. Bellis: Sick Visiting, Miss H.
CummiIlgs, I\IiBB D. Peabody, Miss 1\lersereau;
Editor, Miss M. Samphier.
ONT ARlO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Bellevf1]e General Hospital
HOIl. PresideIlt, Miss Florence MclIldoo: PresideIlt,
Miss Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President, l\frs. J. Andrews:
Secretary, Miss L. Smith; Tre88urer, Miss Marion
MacFarlaIle; Flower Committee, Miss Betty McEwan:
Representative to The Canadian NUTse, Miss H.
Thompsoll.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss E. M. McKee; President, Miss
K. Charnley: Vice-PresideIlt, Miss G. Tumbull:
Secretary, Miss F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., BraIlt-
ford; Assistant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell: Treasurer,
Miss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital: Social Convener,
Mr!!. F. Doherty: Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
Miss W. Laird, !\Iiss M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
Miss J. Edmolldson, Mrs. E. ClaridJ!:e: The Canadian
NUTse alld Press Represelltative, Miss H. DiamoIld;
Chairmall. Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole:
Represelltative to Local Coullcil of WomeIl, Miss R.
Cleaves.
BROCKVILLE
A.A., Brockvf1]e General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss A. L. ShaIlIlette; President,
Mrs. H. B. White; First Vice-PresideIlt, Miss M.
Arnold: Secolld \"ice-PresideIlt, Miss J. NicholsoIl;
Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds: Secretary,
Miss B. Beatrice HamiltoIl, Brockville General Hos-
pital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Vandusen, 65 Church St.;
Represelltative to The Canadian NUTse, Miss V.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss P. Campbell; President, !\Iiss
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crackle; Second
Vice-PresideIlt, Miss F. Houston; Recordinp; Secretary,
Mi8B E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, Miss R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretary, Miss M. Stacey; Treasurer,
Mi8B R. Haley; Pre8B C'orrespoIldeIlt, Miss R. Baker;
Committee Conlleners: Refreshment, Miss M. Wickett;
Buying. MiSBes J. Finney, M. McNauJthton and !\Irs.
R. F. Mitchell; Floral, l\liss E. Orr; Social, !\Irs. T.
Burke; Councillors, Misses V. Dyer, L. Baird. A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian NUTse,
MiBB P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. President, Mother Mary; Hon. Vice-President,
Sister M. Consolata; President, Miss Ruth Winter;
Vice-President, :\Iiss M. Kearns; Secretary-Treasurer,
:\Iiss J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; Executives, Misses
H. Gray. I. Poissant, Z. Martin, Mrs. R. Hodgin; Rep-
resentative District No.1, R.N.A.O., l\liss JeBBie Ross;
Representative to The CanadÍlln Nurse, MiA Y. L.
Chauvin,
CORNWALL
A.A., Cornwall Geneoral Hospital
1I0Il. PresideIlt, !\Irs. I. P. l\Iadntosh; President,
:\Iiss Verna Meldrum; First Vice-President, ;\Jisl<
Kathleell Burke; Secolld Vice-Pre8ident, l\Ii"s Elva
Lmpey; Secrptary-Treasurer, Miss C. Droppo, CorIl-
\\all Gencralll08pitat; Represelltative to The Canadian
Nurse, l\liss II. C. WilsoIl, Corn\\all Gelleral Hospital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
HOIl. President, Mi81 A. Cleaver; President. Miss
S. Mitchell; Secretary, Miss L. MacNair, 91 Victoria
Ave.; Assistant Secretary, MÏI!I! T. RaiIley; Tre88urer,
:\liss A. MacDona]d; Flower COIlveIler. l\1i8B Ruther-
ford; Repreeelltative to The Canadian Nurse and PreN
Representative, Mil!l! M. Vandyke.
549
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
HOIl. PresideIlt, ';\liss S. A. Campbell, Superinten-
deIlt, Guelph General Hospital; PresideIlt, l\liss L.
FergusOIl; First Vice-PreøideIlt, l\fi8s K. Cleghom:
Secolld Vice-PresideIlt, :\Iiss 1\1. Wood; Secretary,
Miss N. KenIley, Guelph Gelleral Hospital: Treasurer,
Miss J. Watson; Conlleners of Committees: Social, :\Irs.
L. Jackson: Programme, Miss E. Eby; Flower, :\fiss
I. WilSOIl; Represelltative to The Canadian Nurse,
l\Iiss L. Sillclair.
HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
ROIl. President, Miss E. C. Rayside: PresideIlt, Mrs.
R. He8B; Vice-President, Miss M. BaiIl; Recording
Secretary, Miss M. MathesoIl; CorrespoIldiIlg S6('re-
tary, Miss H. Hauert, Hamilton Genera] Hospita];
Trea.'IurE'r, Miss J. Jackson, 326 Maill W.; AMi stant
Treasurer, Miss G. Hodgs(;Il; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Bellefit AssociatioIl, Miss O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee Conveners: Executive. Mil!ll H.
AitkeIl; Flower, Miss A. Squires; Programme, Miss
1\1. GosIlell; Registry, Miss N. Thompson; Budl!;et,
Mrs. 1\1. Barlow; Representative to The Canadian
^'uTse, Miss A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Ron. President, Mother Martina; PresideIlt, Miss
Eva Moran; Vice-President. Mise F. Nicholson; SeC're-
taT.}', Miss Mabel Macintosh, 168 Ray St.; Tre88urer,
l\fiss M. I{elly; Representative to The Canadian NUrs
,
Miss B. McKpnna, 277 Herkimer St.; Representati\'e
R.N.A.O., 1\Iiss J. Morill.
KINGSTON
A.A., Hotel Dleu, Kln
ston
HOIl. President, Rev. Sister DOllovan: President,
Mrs. W. G. Elder; \ïce-PresideIlt, Mrs. A. Hearn;
Secretary, Miss Olive McDermott; Treasurer. Mi8B
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. CochraIle,
Misses K. McGarry, 1\1. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
Committee, Misses N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque: Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. W.
Clarke, Misses N. Hickey, B. Watsoll.
A.A., Kin
ston General Hospital
HOIl. President, :\IiS8 J.ouise D. Acton; Pre!'ideIlt,
Miss Alln Baillie; Vice-PresideIlt, Miss Florence
Smart; Secretary, Miss \"oI1DÏe l\Iac
Iartin, liing!'tOll
Gelleral Ho!"pital; Treasurer, Mrs. C. V.. Mallory,
203 Albert St.; Corresponding Secretary, :\Iiss Emma
Sharp, hingstoll General Ho!'pital.
KITCHENER
A.A., Kltchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President. Miss K. W. Scott; President, Mrs.
Walter Ziegler; First \"ice-Prel\ident, Mi8B Thelma
Sitler; Second Vice-President, :\Jif's El!!ie TroUl!e;
Secretary, Miss Jean Sinclair, 144 \\ater St. S.; ABBi!!-
tant Secretary, :\Iiss Marion Ballantyne; Trea!!urer,
MiBB Mary Orr.
LI!\ DSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
lion. Pre:<ident, :\Ii:<s E. Reid; Pre,.ident, :\Ii:s,., L
lIarding; Fint \"iC'e-Pre,.ident, :\In. O. Walling; SeC'<!nd
\"ice-l'rc:sident, :\Ir!'. 1\1. ThurstoIl; CorreEpondmp;
S('cretary, Mi!'!' E. Da\\wn; TreaEurcr, :\JTF. G. U.
.4.I1cn; Flo\\er Convener, :\Iiss E. Lo\\c; Social Con-
vener, :\Ii:<s h. :\Iortimore.
LONDON
A.A.. Ontario Hospital
Hon. President, !\lies Mary L. Jacobe; President,
l\Ii8B N. I\L Williams, 55 Ed\\ard St.; First \ïce-Presi-
dent,
1rs. V. 1\1. Reilly;
eC'ond Vice-Pre6ident, I\lil!fl
F. R. llall; Secretary, :\Irs. E. D. Groe"enor,
2 Doulton
Ave.; Treasurer, 1\lil'II E. Kennedy, Ontario HO!!I>ital;
Social Committee, Mi!'scs I. Lindl!8Y, L. KE'I1y; PreM
Representative, Mise F. Burls.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. Prel\ident, !\Iother
1. Patricia; Hon. Vice-
Pre!lident, Sister M. Ruth; President, Millll OliH
O'
eil; First Vice-PresidE'nt,
lil!l8
fadalel1e Raker;
econd Vice-PrNident, Millll Erla llep;er; Recordilll
Secretary, :\Iil!l! Glad
'1!1 :\fartin; C'orr
polldinll: 8e<,re-
tary,
fi8B Irene qriffen:.Treuurer.
hl!l! Glad). Gray,
Preu RE'preøentahve, 1\118'"
tella GljlnaC; RpprNPnt.a-
tives to Rep;istry Board. :\lIMN Rhea Rouatt, C'e('ll.
Slattery, Olive O'Neil.
550
THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, Miss M. 1\1-
Jones, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-President. Miss H.
Huston; Second Vice-President, Miss M. McLaup:hlin;
Treasurer, Miss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary, Miss F. Quigley; Correspondinl!; Secretary, :\Iit's
M. Smith, Victoria Hospital; Board of Directors, Misses
C. Gillies, A. Malloch, J. Mortimer, l\J. Yule, C.
Rkinner, Mrs. C. Rose.
NIAGARA FALLS
A.A., Nia
ara Falls General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss M. S. Park; President, Miss A.
Irving; First Vice-President, Miss Y. Coutts; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. H. English; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss F. J. Loftus, 823 McRae St. Correspondinl!; Secre-
tary, Miss A. Pirie; Auditors, Miss Day, Mrs. Sharpe;
Sick Committee, Mrs. Teal, Miss Carson, Miss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Dufferln Hospital
Hon. President. Mrs. O. Fleming; President, Miss
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, Miss V. Lee;
Secolld Vice-President, Miss I. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
Miss E. M. Hayward; Treasurer, Miss A. Burke.
ORILLIA
A.A., Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Johnston; President, :\Iiss
L. :\lcKenzie; First \'ice-President, :\Iiss J. Harper;
Hecond Vice-President, :\Iiss C. Robinson; Corr.
Rpcretary, :\Iiss Alice M. Hmith, 103 l\lary St.; nee.
Secretary, Miss L. :\1. Whitton; Trf>asurpr, :\Iiss A. '".
Beekie, Soldiers' :\Iemorial Hospital, Orillia.
OSHA W A
A.A.,Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Mac WiJJiams, Genera1 Hos-
pital; PresideIlt, MiSB J. Mcintosh, 414 MaBBoIl St.;
First Vice-President, Miss J. Thompson, 115 Agnes St.;
Second Vice-President, Miss R. Post, General Hospital;
Secretary, Miss M. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; Assistant
Secretary, Miss M. Tribble, 91 Connaught St.; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Miss E. Clark, 97 Athol St.;
Treasurer, Miss E. Dickinson, 534 Mary St.
OTTA W A
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. Pre
<ÏdeIlt, Miss M. A Catton; Pre
ident, !\Iiss
Jean Blyth; Vice-Pre
ident, Miss 1\1. McNiece; Secn>-
tary, Miss Gertrude Halpenny, Protestant Children's
Village; Tr('asurer, Miss 1\1. Blinn, 204 H1anley Ave.;
Board of Directors: Miss('s E. McColl, S. 1\lcQuade,
L. Bedford, 1\1. Stewart; Committee Conveners: Flower,
Mrs. V. Boles; Press, Mrs. \V. C. Elmitt; RcpreseIlta-
tive to The Canadian Nurse, Miss A. Ebbs.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
HOIl. President, MiB8 Gertrude Bennett; President,
MiBB Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, Miss Dorothy
Moxley; Secolld Vice-President, Miss E. Curry; Ue-
cordiIlg Secretary, Miss Mary Lamb; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss Downey; Treasurer, Miss \Vinnifred
Gemmell; Executive Committee, Miss Muhraul!;h, Miss
Lera Barry, Miss Bertha Farmer, Miss D. Johnston,
Miss D. Kelly; Representatives to Centra1 Rel!;istry,
Miss Katie Clark, Miss L. Boyle; Convener F1o\\er
Committee, Miss G. FergusoIl; PreBB Representative,
Miss E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
HOIl. PresideIlt, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitille; President,
Miss K. Bayley; First Vif'e-President, Miss G. Clark;
Second Vice-President, Miss M. Munroe; Secretary-
Treasurer, Miss Dorothy I{nox, Ottawa General Hos-
pital; Membership Secrett1ry, Miss F. Poitras; Siek
Committee, Miss P. Bissonnette, Misa S. Kearns, Miss
n. Lel!"ris; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
Miss E. Kennedy; Representatives to Local Council
of Women. Mrs. Latimer, Mrs. Dunne and Mrs. Le
('lair: Representath'f>1! to Central Registry, Miss
Rogers. Mit's M. J.andreville.
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Maxwell; President, Miss
1\1. Maf'Laren; Vice-President, Miss M. Lunan; Secre-
tary, Miss M. Nelson, 44 First Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
I. Allan, 1188 Gladstone Ave.; Central Registry. Misses
1\1. Wi1son, S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
Misses S. C1ark, S. Carmichael, E. Y oun
; Representa-
tive to The Canadian Nurse, Miss M. DrummoIld, Civic
Hospital.
OWEN SOUND
A.A., Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital
Hon. President, Misa B. Hall; President, Miss F.
Rae; Fir
t Vice-President, Miss l\1. Paton; Second
\ïee-President, Miss J. Agnew; Sceretary, Miss A.
Robertson, 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer. Miss A.
Weedon; Pianist, Miss R. DUIloon; Flower Committee,
Mrs. Mc:\lillan; Programme Committee, Miss M.
Cruickshank; Sick Committee, Miss M. Sim; Press
Representative, Miss H. \Valden; Pefreshment Com-
mittee, Miss C. Penner; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A.,
icholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, Miss
A. Dobbin; Fir"t \'ice-President, Miss H. Rus8ell,
SeC'ond Vice-President, Miss L. Simpson; Secretary;
Miss S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Treasurer, Miss
S. Wood, 212 Barmlrdo Avp-.; Corresponding Secretary;
MiBB E. Wagar, 273 Park St.; Social Convener, Miss
M . Watson.
SARNIA
A.A., Sarnia General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. Lee; President, Miss L.
Segrist; Vice-PresideIlt, Miss A. Cation; Secretary,
Miss A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Miss A. Wilson.
Representative to The Canadian Nurse. Miss C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), Miss D. Shaw;
Programme and Socia! Committee, Miss L. Segrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss A. M. MunIl; President, Miss
L. Attwood; Vice-President, Miss M. McMaster;
Secretary-Treasurer. Mrs. !{. Snider, 36 Douglas St.;
So('ial Convener, Miss .-\. Rock; Flower Convener;
Miss C. Staples.
ST. CA THERINES
A.A., Mack Training School
Hon. President, :\lisR Ann(' 'Wright; Prefid{'nt Miss
!';ura Nold; First 'ïce-Pre
ident, 1\Ii
s :\1. McClunie;
HpC'ond \'if'e-President, !\Iiss E. Horton; Secretary,
:\Ii"s J. Smith, 128 Qupenston :;1., St. Catharinei';
Trea
urpr, 1\Ii"s E. Daboll, 1 FitzgpraJd t't.; Conveners:
Hocial, :\Iiss BerniC'e Uule; Prugramme, ;\Iiss Aleda
Hrubaehpr; Hepresentativ(' to The Canadian Nurse,
:\Iiss Emily Pur ton, Box No.3,>, Thorold.
ST. THOMAS
A.A., Memorial Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss ArmstroIlg; Hon. President,
Miss Buchanan; President, Miss Bella Mitchener;
First Vice-President, Miss Annie Campbell; Second
Vice-President, Miss Jervell; Re('ordinp; Secretary;
Mit's Esseltine; Corresponding Se('retary, Miss Lamond,
Treasurer, Miss Claypole; E...ecutives, Miss McAlpine,
Miss Irvine, Miss Nona Mannix, Mi8s Hazel Hastings,
1\fiss L. CraIle; Committee Conveners: Nominating,
Miss J. Grant; Sick Nursing, Miss E. LanyoIl; Social,
Miss C. Robertson; Purchasinl!;, Misl' L. Ronson; 'Ways
and Means, Miss Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse. Mil's Amy Prince; Representath'e
to the R.N.A.O., Miss Mary !\fay.
TORONTO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. C. J. Currie; President, Miss
A. O. Bell; Recordinl!;
ecretary, Mi8s Doris L. J\pnt;
Corresponding SeC'retary. Miss May Hood. Grace
Hospital. Toronto; Treasurer, Miss V. M. Elliott, 1!l4
Cottingham St.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
55i
.....A.. The Grant MacDonald Trainin
School
for Nurses
HOIl. Presidellt. Miss Esther M. Cook, 130 DUIlIl
Ave.; President, MiB8 Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn Ave.;
Vice-President, Mrs. Marion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, Miss Norma :\fcLeod; Correspollding Serretary,
Miss Ethel Watson, 130 DunIl Ave.; Tn.asurer, Miss
Phyllis La\\TenCe; Social Convener, Miss Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Presidents, Mrø. GOodSOIl, Miss F. Potts; HOIl.
Vice-President, Miss Austill; President, Mrs. StrachaIl;
Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Cassan, Mrs. Ra:rmond; Record-
iIlg Secretary, l\liss E. Langman; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Blackwood; Treasurer, Miss Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee Conveners: Social,
Irs. A.
Russell; Flower, Miss H. Fisher; Pro
Rmme, Miss
Elliott; Puhlications, :MiB8 S. E. I e\\ is; Ree:istry, Mi8B
Currie; Welfare, Miss Parker; R.N.A.O., Miss
Iillpr.
A.A., Riverdale Hospital
President, l\liss Armstrong; First '"ire-President,
Miss Gastrill; Secolld \"ice-President, Miss :\1. Tholllp-
SOIl; Secretary, Miss Staples, Riverdale Hospital;
Treasurer, :\Irs. II. Dunbar. 1)3 Peplar A"e.; Board of
Directors. Miss Mathieson,
Iiss Stratton, MiB8 Breeze,
:\liB8 Raxter, Miss LO\\Tie. Rinrdale Hospital.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
IIon. Pre
ident, f::iister Beatrice,
uperint(>ndent, St.
.Juhn's Covent; President, :\Ii!<s S. Morgan; First Vice-
Presidpnt, Miss J. Vanderwcll; Second Vice-PresideIlt,
Mi"s N. Hetherington; Secretary, Miss W. ""ebb, 77
Summerhill Ave.; Trcasurer, l\liss D. "hiting; Corres-
ponding f::iecretary, Miss :\1.
\lartin; Con1Jmera: Entpr-
tainmpnt Committee, Miss 1\1. Davies; Sick Visiting,
l\liss H. Fro.'It; Pre"" Representative, l\liss F. Young,
'227 Mih'erton Blvd., Toronto 6.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. Pre.'!ident, Rev. Sister
Iary Marjl;aret: Presi-
d( nt, Miss M. Kelly; First Vice-President, Miss O.
Kidd; Second Vice-Presidpllt. :\Iiss M. Daly; Record-
ing Seeretary, l\li"f' :\1. Goodfriend; Corresponding
Secretary, Mise \'. Hanley: Treasurer, l\liss F. Robin-
son; Coundllors,
Iisse!' A. Timlin, L. Dunhar. I.
Po\\er. R. McCue.
A.A., St. Michael's Hospital
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Norine; lion. Vice-
President, Rev. Sister Jeanne; President, Miss l\farie
:\Ielody; First Vice-President, Miss Crocker; Second
Vice-President, Miss R. Grogan; Third \'ice-President,
MiB8 J. O'Connor; Treasurer, :\Jiss G. Crmlter, Apt.
404,42 Isabelle St.; As
istant Treasurer, :\Jiss I. Nealon;
Recording Secretary, Miss M. Doherty. St. Michael's
Hospital; Corresp(>nding Secretary, Mis!! K. Mc.-\ulifJe,
Eaøtwood -\pt., Sherbourne St.; Prirate Duly Repre-
sPntative, Misø McGuire: Public Health Rl:presentati1Je,
:\Jiss H. Kerr; Prelll\ Rppresentathe, !\Iiss Rel!;an:
Councillors, l\1isses M Brown, L. :\1l:Gurk, C. Cronin.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
IlOIl. Pre!'.ident, Miss Jeall GunIl; Pre:o-ideIlt, Miss
Jean Ander"on, I.HI Glenholme Ave.: First \Ïce-
Prpsident, l\liss l\larp:arpt Dulmage: Second Vice-
Prpsident, l\1i"" Eh;ra :\Ianning; Serretary, :\fi'!s
:\Iary Filder, 2'; Rraemar .-\ve.: Treasurer, :\Ii,." Hilda
:\'adennan, 14 Lynwood Ave.; As-i.,tant Trpa"urpr.
:\Jiss Evelyn Robson; Archivist. Miss Jean Kniseley;
ConrJener.< of (ommiUees: Programme, :\Ii-s Clara
Brown; Pres". :\Ii-s
Iarion Stp\'art; Ro,'inl, :\It II.
J. H. Th'lfp!",on; :'\ominations,
Iiss Pan!ill!' :-teveR;
I nsuranrp, \Ii",
Effip For
i('; Flo\\er, :\Ii-f, :\Iargaret
MrKay; Elizaheth Fi..ld Rmith Memorial Fund, :\Yiss
Gretta HO
II.
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Training School for ('I;urses
lIon. PresideIlt, \Jiss E. l\ICLeaIl, Torollto East
Gelleral Hospital; PrebideIlt, Miss H. Loui!' , 1806
Danforth Ave.; Secretary- Trea"urer, Miss N. V.
"'
ilSOIl, 50 CO\\aIl Ave.; Representatives to Celltral
Rpgistry, l\liss B. l\lacIIltosh, 748 Soudl\Il Ave.,
Miss 1\1. BestoIl, 232 Mi1l\\()(><l Rd.; RepreseIlbtivp to
R.N.A.O., !\Jiss B. l\IacIIltosh.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, Miss li. L. Ellis; President. l\hB8
F. l\Iatthe\\s, 74 Westmount Ave.; \'ice-PrE'Sident,
l\fi88 U. Colwell; Recurdin
Secretary, MiB8 G. Patter-
son; Secretary-Treasurer, l\liss Helen Ste\\art, Toronto
Western Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss F. Greena\\ay.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
HOIl. PresideIlt, l\Ii
s Ross; President, l\1i"s Jessie
GordoIl; \'ice-President, Miss Lind:'"ay; C'orrespondiIlg
Secretary, r\liss !\1. AndersoIl, HiS Isabella
t.; H.ecord-
iIlg Serretary, :\Ii
s llUIlgay; Treasurer, !\IiI's Little,
168 Isabella St.; Correspondellt to The Canadian
Nurse, :\Iiss I. On
lo\\.
Au\., Women's College Hospital
Hon. Prpsident, Mrs. Bo\\man; Hon. \,i("e-President,
!\Iiss Meiklejohn; Predident,
Jiss Worth, fl3 Scsrb(,ro
Beach Blvd.; Secretarv, !\Iiss Free, 48 Northumberland
St. Treasurer; Miss Fraøer, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Connau
ht Trainin
School for !\urses
Toronto Hospital, \\'eston
Hon. President, !\Iiss E. .MacP. Dickson, T..rullto
Hospital. Weston; \"ice-President, 1\1iss A.'n l'ul\\ell,
Toronto Hospital. v,'eston; Secretary. Miss G. J eem-
illl!;, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Treasurer, l\liss R.
l\lcKay, Toronto Hospital, \Yeston; Convener 01
Social Committee, l\liss :\L Jones, Toronto H( spital,
\\"eston.
WI
DSOR
A.A.. Grace Hospital
Hon. Presid(>nt, .-\djutant A. Butt; President, l\liss
E. \\ illiams; \'ire-President. :\Iisf- G. Sutherland;
Secretary, l\1i
.s Glady,. Duffield, 218 Peter St. W.,
Sandwich; Trea"urer, :\Ii,.
\\ .l\Yervin; Pres8f:erretary,
l\IiH C. McI arell.
A.A., Hotel Dieu, Windsor
Hon. President, Hev. :\Iother l\Yarie de I a Fprre;
Pn'sident, :\liss
Iary Perrin; Fir.,t \"jcE'-Presidpnt,
Mis" l\larie Odette; I"e('ond \ ice-President, :\Iist< Zoe
I ondeau; !':ecretary, Miss :\1. Spence; Trea"urer, 1\1i"1!
:\Yary Fenner; Con1Jeners of (ommittees: :\li"'beS J.
Iondeau, II. :\Iahoney, :\1. :\YcClory.
WOODSTOC:K
A.A., General Hospital
First Hon. Pre
idcnt, :\Iiss Frallcell !'harpe; Epcolld
Hon. Prpsidpllt, :\Iiss Hplen Pott,,; Pre!ident,
lills
\Iabel C'o,.t(>llo; \ ice-l'f{'
idcnt, :\Ii"s Anna Cook;
Hprordinp; :'prrptary, :\Ii.." I ila Jarkson; Corre
pond-
inp;
pcfI.tary and Pre.. H,'pfl' plltati"p, :\Ii,,!! :\Iay
!>avi""II, .-,Iii \delaid., :'1.; \...,.i-tant
t'('rptary, :\Yis"
.Jpan h..Jly; Trf'asur,'r, :\11" \1. :\I ad '11t'r> on ; .\8"istant
'freasun'r, :\Ii"s F. Fluf; (onteners of Committus:
1'rOjl;ramnlP, :\Ii"" 1>. Crail!:: 1"Io\\pr and Gift, \Ii.,. ()
Hohhs; :-:Of'ial, :\Ii",. J. \nd..r' nil.
552
THE CANADIAN NURSE
QUEBEC
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
HOIl. PresideIlt, Miss M. L. BrowIl; PresideIlt, Mrs.
L. Jobber, 1646 Van Horne Ave.; Vice-President, Miss
R. Goodfellow, Lachute; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss A.
Roy, 379 St. Catherines St., LarhiIle; Executi,'e Com-
mittee, Misses M. McNutt, E. Dewar.
MONTREAL
A.A., Children's Memorial Hospital
HOIl. President, Mi8S A. Killder; President, Miss K
PatersoIl; Vice-President, Miss H. Nutall; Secretary,
Miss J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, Miss E. Hillyard,
Miss M. Flander; Socia! Committee, convener, Miss
M. Gill, Miss A. AdliIlgtOIl, Miss M. McCallum and
Miss M. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss V. SchIleider; Sick Nurses Committee, Miss
H. E88terbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
PresideIlt, Miss A. Porteous; Vice-President, Miss
M. Hayden; Tre88urer, Miss D. Miller, Homeopathic
Hospital; Assistallt Treasurer, Miss N. Horner; Secre-
tary, Miss S. Holland; Assistant Secretary, Miss J.
Gray; Private Duty Section, Miss A. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee, Miss H. Bright; Entertainment
Committee, Miss M. Hayden; Representative to The
Canadian Nurse, Miss J. Whitmore; Representative,
MOlltreal Graduate Nurses Association, Miss M.
Bright; Sick Bellefit Society, Mrs. J. Warren.
L' Association des Gardes-Malades Graduées de
I'Hôpital Notre-Dame
Exécutif: IVlesdemoiselles SuzanIle Giroux, Prési-
dente; Irène Rouillard, Vice-Pré!'idente; Juliette
Beaulieu, 2ème Vice-PrèsideIltc>; Lu('rèce Boucher,
Trésorière; Marguerite Pau:zé, 4234 St. Hubert
t.,
SeC"rétaire; Conseill
res: Mesdemoiselles Françoise
Chevrier, Georgette Hébert, Germaine Bris
t, Ludi-
ville Bérubé.
A.A., Montreai General Hospital
I10Il. Presidents, Miss J. Webster, Miss N. Tedford,
Miss F. E. Strumm; HOIl. Treasurer, Miss H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, Miss J. Craig; President, Miss E.
Frallces Upton, Ste. 221, 1396 St. Catherine St. W.;
First Vice-President, Miss M. MathewsoIl; Secolld
Vice-PreøideIlt, Mrs. L. H. Fisher; Recordinl,! Secretary,
Miss D. SIlOW; Correspollding Secretar:r, Mrs. E. C.
MeIlzies, 6635 L88alle Blvd., Verdun; Treasurer (Alum-
Ilae Association and Mutual Benefit Committee), Miss
I. Davies, MOlltreal General Hospital; Executive Com-
mittee, Miss M. K. Holt, Miss H. Newton, Miss L.
SUttOIl, Miss O. Lilly, Miss B. HermaIl; Representa-
tives to Prif!ate Duty Section. Miss E. Gruer (Convener),
Miss C. Cole, Miss E. Marshall; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, Miss I. Welling (Collvener),
Montreal General Hospital;. Representatives to Loeal
Council of Women, Miss u. Colley, Miss M. Ross;
Sick Visiting Committee, Miss F. E. Strumm, Miss B.
HermaIl; Prol1;ramme Committee, Miss I. Davies, Miss
M. BatsoIl; Refreshment Committee. Miss R. Under-
hill (Convener), Miss C. Coombes. Miss C. Fitzgerald,
Miss D. McRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
HOIl. President, MiBB E. A. Draper; President, Miss
M. F. Hersey; First Vice-President, Miss J. StevenAon;
Second Vi
e-President, Mrs. Grieve; RecordinJl; Secre-
tary. Miss E. B. Ro
ers; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss K.
.lamer, Royal Victoria Hospital; Executive Committee,
!\Jrs. E. Roberts,
frs. G. C. Melhado, Mrs. Prideaux,
Misses E. Etter, E. Reid, A. Bulman; Conveners of
Committees: Finance, Miss B. Campben
Sick \'isitinJ!:,
!\1iss rl. Fellow
; Programme, MrA. K. Hutchison;
Refreshments. Miss M. Rowley: Pr;vate D'lty Spction.
:ViI's R. CochraIle; Representatives to Local Council
of WomeIl, Miss J. SteveIlsoIl, Mrs. E. Cooper; Repre-
sentative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss E. Allder.
A.A., St. Mary's Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, Sister Rozon; President, Miss G.
1\1cLellan; "ice-President, Miss 1\1. 1\Ic:\Teil; Secretary,
:\Iiss K. Brady, Nurfes Residence, 1863 Dorchester St.
\V.; Treasurer, 1\1isf' A. J_alonde; Sick Committee,
fissesB. Latour,I.1\1cDonell; Programme Committee,
Iisses 1. Kenny, 1\1. Lapointe, E. O'Hare.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Westmount
HOIl. Presidents, Miss F. George, Miss E. TreIlch;
President, Mrs. L. M. Crewe; First Vice-President,
Miss E. Moore; Second ''ice-President, Miss K. Mar-
tin; Recording Secretary, Miss R. Sixsmith; Corres-
ponding Secretary, MiSB N. Brown, Apt. 5, 1187 Hope
Ave.; Treasurer, Miss E. L. Francis; Sick Visiting.
Miss G. Wilson, Miss L. Jensen; Private Duty, Mrs.
A. Chisholm, Miss G. Wilson; Representative to The
Canadian Nurse, Miss C. Morrow; Social Committee,
Mrs. Drake, Miss Clark. Regular monthly meeting
every Ulird \"ednesday, 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nurses, McGill
University
Hon. PresideIlt, Miss Mary Samuel; Hon. Vice-
PresideIlt, Miss Bertha Harmer; HOIl. 1\Iembers,
Miss M. F. Her!'ey, Miss Grafe 1\1. Fairley, Dr. Helen
R. Y. Reid, Dr. 1\1aude Abbott, Mrs. R. W. Reford,
l\Ji'Ss 1\1. L. Moag; President, Miss Mad<.>line Taylor,
Viclorian Order of NurEes, 1246 BiEhop St.; \"ice-
PreEideIlt, Miss Eileen C. Flanagan, Royal Victoria
Hospital; Secretary-Treasurer, 1\lhs K. 1\facLennan,
Ale...andra Hospital; ChairmaIl, Flora Madeline Shaw
Memorial Fund, Mi
s E. Frances rptoIl, 1396 St.
Catherine St. W.; Programme, !\Iiss Flora George,
Women's General Hospital; Repre'Sentatives to Local
Council of Women, l\fi'Ss Ethel Sharpe, 1\IiSR AbiJ!:ail
Baker; Representatives to The Canadian Nurse:
Administration, 1\Ji"s 1\1. DesBarre!', Shriner,,' HOf-
pital; Teaching, l\Iiss C. Mill!', Montreal General
Hospital; Public Health, Miss L. Charland, 3421
Grand Blvd.
QUEBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
HOIl. President, Mrs. Barrow; President, Miss D.
Jackson; First Vice-President, Miss E. Fitzpatrick;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. C. Young; RecordiIlg
Secretary, Miss E. McCallum; Corresponding Secre-
tary, MiSB M. Fischer; Treasurer, Miss E. McHarg;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse. Miss N.
Martin; Private Duty Section: Miss G. Martin; Sick
Visitinl!; Committee,
frs. Barrow and Mrs. Buttimore;
Refreshment Committee, Mrs. Melling, Miss Weary,
Miss Hansen, Miss McClintoch; Councillors. l\fif's
Imrie, Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Mackay, Miss
B. Adams.
SHERBROOKE
A.A., Sherbrooke Hospital
Hon. Presidents, Miss E. Frances Upton, Miss VerIla
Beane; PresideIlt, Mrs. Gordon MacKay; First Vice-
President, Miss O. Harvey; Second \'ice-President,
Mrs. A. Savage; Recording Secretary, l\1iSB M. Gelin88;
CorrespondinJ!: Secretary, Mrs. Herbert MacCallum;
Treasurer, Miss Alice Lyster, lOa Wellington St. N.;
Representative to The Canadian Nurse, Miss F.
Wardleworth.
SASKATCHEWAN
A.A., Saskatoon City Hospital
Hon. President, Miss G. 1\1. Watson; President, Miss
M. R. Chisholm; First Vice-President. Miss G. Munroe;
8econd Vice-President, Miss H. Johnston; Recording
Secretary, Miss J. "Tells; Corresponding Secretary,
Miss r.. Kirk, 419-9th St.; Treasurer, Miss A. Ferguson,
Convener8: Press, Miss M. E. Grar.t; Relief, Miss G.
Munroe; Sick Visitin2, Miss M. Graham; Educationøl,
Mrs. G. Pendleton; \Vays and Meane, Miss M. DI"nCan;
Social, Mrs. H. Buck.
101. XXX
AONTREAL
)ECEMBER 1934
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TliE CURRICULUM
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A GATEWAY
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PROVINCIAL MEETINGS
566
THE EDITOR'S DESK
567
CORRESPONDENCE
568
STAFF EDUCATION
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569
EDUCATION FOR PRIVATE DUTY
Ruth E 'f all man
572
NEW LIGHT ON PUBLIC HEALTH'
Anna E. Wells
574
BOOK REVIEWS
577
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE'
578
NEWS NOTES
580
OFF DUTY
588
OHICIAL DIRECTORY ,
590
INDEX FOR 1934
598
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VOL. XXX, No. 12
The
Canad ian
Nurse
A MonthJy Journal for the Nurses of Canada
Published by the Canadian Nurses Association
VOL XXX
o. 12
.MONTREAL, QUE., DECEMBER, 1934
A PHYSICIAN LOOKS AT NURSING
CHARLES P. LUSK, M.D.. Toronto.
Ours is a complex civilization with
ever-widening streams and currents of
life which criss-cross at a thousand angles
creating new contacts and new depen-
dencies. These invite the establishment
of new bridges and viaducts and of new
banks to stem the flow here. and alter
its rate there, so that life may progress
smoothly for the mass and with comfort
to the individual.
A New Spirit
Nineteen hundred years ago the worl.i
had arrived at a time of doubt. with
crumbling faiths and waning powers,
which made necessary a change in the
relations of men and of their behaviour,
to lift them out of the whirlpool and
into a life governed and animated by a
new spirit which would ultimately bring
peace and secunty to every man. v..' e
have progressed somewhat in the inter-
vening centuries so that in the stream
of human relations men are thinking more
and more of their fellows and a greater
proportion than ever are disciples of the
lowly NaZ,lrene. believers in the prin-
ciples He enunciated. So much so that
less than a hundred years ago again a
woman in her quiet home in safe EnglanJ
heard the anguished cry of woundeJ
dying men on the fields of Sebastopol amI
stepped forward to help lift men toward
peace and rest. T here the spirit of the
An adtlrt'ss ddhert'd at the Biennial :\Ict'tin
of
thl' Canadidll Nurses b.,()('iation. Junc :!!I, 1!131. In
Toronto.
onTMRFR, 1934
nurse of today was born
gain and woman
made possible our present advantages anJ
people recognized another agency for
good.
The Need
What is the need in my practice today
and what do my patients look for? First,
for a woman of good health, not encum-
mered by weakness, or one who falls
by the wayside in the day of trial. It:s
a place for the robust. Second, she must
be of good judgment and common sense
and one who is tactful in dealing with
an endless variety of people, which means
she must know men and women. Third,
she must be humane, ready to listen to
every complaint and with an infinitude
of patience. No hasty impatient soul
should dream of applying for this type
of service. There is no room for her nor
her impatience in this pain-wrecked
world. Fourth. she must have a gooJ
education, the more knowledge she P()S-
sesses the greater her usefulness.
Preparation for Nursing
She must be trained in the care of the
sick, and the broader this training is,
the greater her ultimate efficiency. She
must know the sick man in all stages of
his sickness, so that she may be able to
judge of his progress. The rapId flutta-
ing pulse of a failing heart, the 1I1cre,lsing
respirations of the advancing pneumom,\
patient, the import of pain in the v,lriou,;
systems and a hundred otha rcJ lights
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which only experíence can give. By this
I do not mean that we expect her to
become a specialist in diagnosis or a junior
physician. Leave to Caesar the things
that are Caesar's. There is a world of
knowledge to acquire between the nurse
who is entering her training and the field
of the physician and surgeon; a world
that will give play to all her faculties
and abilities, no matter how brilliant
they may be.
What countless times have I seen the
uncared-for patient, restless, sleepless, ill-
nourished, full of discomfort, started on
his way toward health by the service ot
an able nurse and the whole picture
changed in a few hours from doubt and
uncertainty to quiet and comfort. How
often has the quiet hourly watchfulness
of the keen experienced nurse put one
on the way to a fuller understanding oÍ
the patient's need, or to a more exact
diagnosis of his condition.
These two things are your stock-in-
trade: first, the best of home training;
secondly, experience in the best centre
available of hospital training, afld I must
confess I think they are of equal impor-
tance for one is unable to carry on suc-
cessfully without either. If dwarfed by
an inadequate home training one can
never rise to the fulfilment possible to
one endowed with an able mother and
trained in a good home, and by home
I do not mean a palatial hotel, I mean
home in the loftiest sense of the word
whether it is a four-roomed cottage on a
back concession road or the home of the
well-to-do, where the mother has kept
her feet on the ground and her hands and
mind busy with the highest affairs of
the nation, in teaching sons and daugh-
ters to love and honour their Lord, their
King and their fellow men.
The Opportunity
As I go about from house to house on
the daily round of duty there comes the
constantly reiterated request: send some
one to help us. Here it is a salesgirl who
is sick in a small back room of a boarding
house, åfraid to take the leap into the
unknown hospital but willing to stay
in the known surroundings. There it js
a sick child, where the distracted over'
worked mother needs the assurance and
steadying hand of some one who knows
what to do and how to do it. On th
other side of the block the storekeeper is
taken ill and with help his wife can
carryon the little business providing he
is at hand for advice and direction, but
should he be obliged to leave home for
hospital then business is jeopardized and
income fails. And so on the list might
grow of places where the nurse can be
used.
Skilled and Unskilled
In times past, before the minds of the
people were as fully appreciative of the
facilities of the well-managed hospital as
they are today, a much larger percentage
refused to consider hospitalization. b
those days I have had, in the homes of
patients, high forceps deliveries, even
the use of the cephalotribe and, on many
occasions, the prolonged use of the
catheter in aged bed-ridden patients and
after tedious childbirths with safety both
immediate and ultimate, assisted only by
sensible teachable women who had nev
r
been inside a hospital door. Today in
urban communities these things are not
done and only occasionally in rural dis-
tricts except by hospital trained women.
Today if I ask what is meant by nurs-
ing I am told that it is the functioning
of a graduate of a recognized training
school and that the word nurse may bz
applied only to such a woman. Mani-
festly then there is much care of the sick
being done today, in spite of all our
hospitals and training schools and nurses,
which therefore may not be dignified by
the word nursing. A review of several
hundred case histories for the year 1933
revealed that only 15.5% of those per-
sons seeking advice at my hands secured
skilled nursing help and that but 3.9%
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A PHYSICIAN LOOKS AT NURSING
(or 25% of these) were sent to hospital.
In practice of another sort these propor-
tions would be quite different. Who took
care of the remaining 84",. or that pro-
portion of them who needed some assis-
tance?
Doubtless a considerable number
needed no special care but there must
be also a percent
ge that would have
been glad of, and the better for, trained
assistance. As in my practice so in all
other practices, a considerable percentage
of patients battle through their illnesses
because they are unable to afford help
of any kind, let alone skilled nursing
help.
The Practical Nurse
The cruel conditions of the last tew
years have obliged so much retrenchment
that patients are willing to submit to even
indifferent service at lower expense and
this in turn has invited the development
of numerous expedients to meet lowered
ability to pay. In large communities we
have registers of practical nurses so-called,
and associated with them a register. of
graduate nurses who are willing to serve
at a reduceJ rate in order that they may
have some income and not he forced into
the ranks of the unemployed. Again in
cases where longer attendance is needed,
fully trained nurses are permitted to
carryon at a reduced rate of remunera-
tion.
Restriction of Output .
In 1928, which we must remember was
a good year for most people, as unem-
ployment had not raIsed its ghastly face,
of the 8,000 graduate nurses of Ontario
only 40%, were continuously employeJ
and another 20% only partially, leaving
405f unemployed, so that we were gra-
duating, even in the fl ush years, 40 %
more nurses than we could find work for.
What must be the position today? The
records of the registries and the bank
deposits of the nursing profession make
record.
Manifestly the hospitals cannot go on
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559
turning out nurses more rapidly than
they can be absorbed into the community.
A considerable proportion are now un-
employeJ and an aJditional percentage
only part-time employed. To increas
the number under our present system
means either additional unemployed or
that the remuneration asked for the ser-
vice must be greatly reduced as people
are unable to pay the present rate. That
in turn means that the nurse is unable to
continue to serve and ultimately becomes
a charge upon the community unless she
belongs to a well-to-do family who ca!"!
provide for her.
A Legitimate Demand
The demand is present, and it is a
very persistent one for less expensive help.
I think it is a leg
timate demand, for there
is a considerable percentage of cases
where one with a moderate amount of
training could unJertake with safety and
considerable efficiency the care of pa-
tients belonging to this group. For this
type of patient the service of a fully-
qualified nurse is needless and her time
is wasted in the care of such cases.
Graded Service
It is evident to my mind that two
thll1gs must come. First, we must lift the
stanJarJ of the fully-qualified nurse. It
is to her that we must look to provide
us with our leaJers, teachers, supervisors
and special nurses in the various depart
ments of service. Let us call this group
HA" for the time heing. From group HB"'
should he drawn those women who are
willing to serve minor cases of illness for
a much reduced pay. They could anJ
should have a curtaileJ amount of hos'
pital training, so as to become familiar
with illness and the care of the sick, hut
much of their training could be done in
the classroom in small groups. Here the
highly-trained graJuates can he utilÜ;ed
as teachers and demonstrators. In the
wards of the hospital, manneJ in the
main hy funy qualified nursl''' who coulJ
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
look after the patients, the members of
group "B" could be utilised for the
ordinary duties of every-day service;
thus the patient in hospital could be
looked after without any lowering of its
safeguards. Such a scheme would permit
of training a group of women to supply
at reduced cost the service needed not
only for the hospital patient but also for
a large proportion of home cases.
The Community and ,lVurs;ng
It, therefore, seem obvious that we
need a considerable body of women, and
there is also room for a much smaller
group of men. who will serve their com-
munities as nurses whether as the spe-
cialist or fully-qualified trained nurse or
in the less well-equipped group trained
in the fundamentals of nursing service
in the home. If these services are essen-
tial to the community then the commu.
nity must be prepared to assume its
responsibilities. If we ask a nurse to
fulfil certain important duties in pro-
tecting the health and returnmg the sick
of a community to duty then we have ::t
right to support her in such a course.
The inherent conditions of nursing
service are such that there are great
waves of demand when epidemics arise
followed by periods when sickness is less
frequent and numerous nurses are left
unemployed. This necessitates provision
for their suppòrt during these periods for
the individual consentmg to serve her
community must be so protected during
her or his term of service. This will
oblige our consent, as a people, to protect
the service during its period of unem-
ployment. Whether this is to be done by
a form of insurance or by direct state
aid it is not for me to decide. That wIll
require the experience and wisdom of a
wiser Solomon. 'The absolute need is
here, it must be þrovided for. It should
no longer be necessary to turn to the
ran
s of the untrained to þrotect our
patients in their time of need.
NURSING CARE IN "POLIO"
N. H. SUTTON, M.D., Medical Officer of Health, District 6, Province of Ontario.
In speaking to nurses it is not
expected, of course, that I should say
much on the diagnosis of a disease such
as anterior poliomyelitis, usually known
to physicians and nurses as "polio. " Yet
something must be said, for you will be
asked by parents for your opinion as to
the ailments of children especially, and
it were well that you knew enough of
the ways of the disease to discern, in a
seemingly moderate ailment, the neces-
sity for calling in the physician to deter-
An address delivered before the members of Dis-
trict 6, Registen'd Kllrsl's Association of Ontario.
mine whether it may be the start of a
disastrous attack.
W hat to Look For
Especially in the hotter months from
June to October, when a child is brought
to your notice as having been rather
promptly prostrated or "knocked out"
and you can't find any sufficient rise of
temperature or other symptom or condi-
tion which would account for it. it is
time to think of "polio" and to get
meùical advice. If you have the child
sit up and bend forward so as to kiss his
knee or put his head between his knees
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NURSING CARE IN "POLIO"
(without help from you or others by
trying to push its head forward) and
standing to one side, you find that the
child cannot do it bec
use of pain whic
stops anterior flexion in any part of the
spinal column, there is no time to was::e
in getting the physician on the job.
Where your advice is thus sought, you
will of course note such other symptoms
as you may observe, or be told of, so as
to facilitate as rapid a diagnosis as pm'
sible when the physician arrives: head,
ache, sore throat, nausea or vomitting,
diarrhoea, pain in trunk or limbs and
twitching of muscles.
The Nurse's Part
In the acute stage, when the doctor
arrives, you may have to assist at a spinal
puncture but there is nothing special to
be said concerning the nursing car
,
except to stress the value of keen and
accurate observance by you of the
patient's progress. Immune serum will
have been given; is he doing well? You
must be quick to let the doctor know af
unfavorable developments or ones which
you suspect to be unfavorable. More
doses of serum may be needed; perhaps
more spinal punctures. Ease and comfort
of the patient, while maintaining good
position, are the objpctives of the nursing
care. Now suppose for any reason, your
patient does not come out of the acute
stage without paralysis, or partial para'
lysis, of some muscles; there are certain
principles governing the management of
these muscles: the efficiency with which
these are applied determines what per'
centage the patient gets, of the recovery
that is possible to him. This is where
you specially come in.
What to Do and Why
When a muscle in health is called
upon to exert say, twenty per cent of its
power, the nerve cells do not call upon
all the cells of that muscle to exert twenty
per cent of their power, but rather Jo
they call upon twenty per cent of the
muscle cells to e
ert their full power.
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561
The "polio" virus seldom or never kills
all the nerve cells which innervate all
the cells of a muscle. For d time all
these nerve .:eiis may be desperately' sick
but some of them will recover, mayb
five per cent, maybe a hundred per cent
of them. A sick motor nerve cell means
a sick muscle cell supplied by it, and a
sick muscle cell can ill stand stretching.
For this reason, means must be found to
keep affected muscles and nerves at rest
in a relaxed or unstretched position. To
get the maximum of recovery, this posi,
tion must be attained at once and main'
tained without even one moment's inter'
ruption until well on the way to the full
possible recovery. Supposing for instance,
the extensors in the thigh are fairÌy
seriously affected. The limb is of course
maintained straight at the knee, most
likely by splinting. If it should be neces'
sary, for any reason, to remove the limb
from the splint, you must see that the
knee is not for a moment allowed to flex.
That would be an insult from which, if
it occurred in the first week. the musc;e
m
ght never fully recover; if in the seconJ
month, it might take a week or two to
recover and so on. You see how exact
your nursing care must be; and yet the
skin must be kept fit by such bathing as is
necessary. Think out your problem as
clearly as you can. then talk it over with
the doctor in charge. If a change 11.
the procedure should at any time se
m
advisable, talk that over with him before
you adopt it. It is his responsibility,
you know.
All Imþroy;scd Bath
A complete bath is beneficial in so
many ways for these cases, that I will
try to describe to you a method of giving
one to a child in bcd, since ordinary bath
tubs are neither handy nor suitable for
maintaining proper posture. One needs
two boards, ten to twelve inches wid
,
and long enough to go from top to
bottom of the bed. These arc to be
set on their edge.:; at the side<; of the
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bed and maintained there by hooks, turn
buttons or other device so that the bed
is now a sort of box bed. If they can
be hinged so as to drop down at the siJe
of the bed when not in use. so much the
handier. One of the boards should have a
six inch square cut from its lower side
at the end toward the bottom of the bed.
Four long cushions or bolsters are made
for the ends and sides of the bed, thus
completely lining the inside of the "box
bed." Now have a stout rubberized shed
of such ample width and length as to
cover all and be secured without tension
to the sides and perhaps ends of thp.
box bed by something like spring clothes
pins. The rubber sheet can be passed
under the child in the usual way, the
side boards adjusted, the bolsters placed
and the sheet drawn over them and
attached to the sides of the bed. Now
pour in the water and get on with the
bath. When it comes time to start some
assisted or voluntary movements, they
can be added in such a bath. Now, to
get rid of the water. That is where th
six' inch square out of the lower corner
comes in. Loosen the rubber sheet fas'
tenings near the corner and draw the
corner of the sheet down through th
hole aDd direct into a bucket standing
below it on the floor. Shove the bolsters
apart at that corner and the water is
all run out in a jiffy. The rest is easy.
Persevere!
These cases do not get better in a day.
Recovery can continue for from two to
five years, or even longer. You know how
prone we human beings are to get weary
in well,doing. Wisely directed efforts,
if persistent enough to allow of no slIp'
ups, will give a near approach to the
fullest possible recovery. In many, many
cases, it will make the difference between
a happy, because self,supporting, life anJ
a crippled and dependent existence. If
parents of reasonable intelligence have
the luck to have a welhnformed anJ
conscientious nurse for the first few
weeks of the "polio" affiiction of their
child. that nurse will have them so fully
informed as to the necessary care, the
length, exactness and continuity of effort
needed to get the fullest possible recovery,
that said parents will be content with
nothing less than the best and will b
prepared to undertake their long, anJ
often tedious task. If you can get the
parents in the mind for this, the child
will have much reason to bless you.
OUR MISS DICKSON
"Our" Miss Dickson - and all Can'
adian nurses will know at once that this
is Edith MacPherson Dickson - has re'
cently completed twenty' nine years of
service as Lady Superintendent of Nurses
and Assistant Superintendent of the To,
ronto Hospital for Consumptives at Wes,
ton. To mark the end of this epoch in
her life, and to usher in the new and de'
lightful one which she is about to enter,
J. E. B.
her friends in Toronto recently entertail1'
ed her at a dinner party at the Granite
Club. It was a very gay and happy fes,
tivity and it provided an opportunity of
rehearsing some of the notable achieve'
ments of this very notable Canadian
nurse.
When Miss Dickson went to Weston,
immediately following her graduation
from the Training School of the Toronto
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General Hospital, she found a cottage
and a few old street cars to accommodate
patients. From this insignificant begill'
ning there has emerged one of the finest
institutions to be found anywhere, and,
in her capacity as assistant superinten'
dent, Miss Dickson made an invaluable
contribution to its development. But the
special glory of the Toronto Hospital for
Consumptives has been its nursing ser-
vice. Miss Dickson was a superintendent
of nurs:ng as well as of nurses. That is
why the patients at Weston received the
refinements of nursing care, and it is also
W
1Y p
tients were made the central
theme, rather than disease to be treated.
In addition to her great achievement in
::er own institution, Miss Dickson has
made a remarkable contribution to nurs-
ing organization in Canada. It was she
who marshalled the forces in Ontario
which finally broke down the barriers to
r
gistration for nurses, and it was she
\"ho planned the re-organization which
finally culmin{}ted in the present Regis-
tered Nurses Association of Ontario. She
also made a valuable survey of training
schools in Ontario, and so paved the way
tor regular inspection. She was the first
c
1airman of the Council of Nursing, ap'
pointed by the Government of Ontario,
and still occupies this important position.
To Canadian nurses generally she is
perhaps best known as a former president
of The Canadian Nurses Association.
During her period of administration, she
did not have all the valuable adjuncts of
a national office to help her. Her own
office was the national office, and there,
under difficulties which no longer exist,
she carried on the affairs of the C.N.A.
to the admiration of all her constituents.
At the end of her term, she made avail,
ahle to her successor her own rich experi-
ence, with the generosity which is typical
of her.
Happily, Miss Dickson's gifts are not
of the kind that diminish with use. In'
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563
deed, she has talents and resources in her
own character which are bound to make
the next phase of her life the same great
success as the one she has just completed.
After all, the art of nursing was not Miss
Dickson's greatest accomplishment. It
was something even greater. It was, and
.
MISS E. MACPHERSON DICkSO....
is, the art of living. Her friends are
watching with eagerness to see how she is
going to manage that thing we all hope
for and perhaps fear a little - leisure.
Knowing her, we know she will master it,
as she .has all her other problems. Indeed,
she already has a gay and radiant air,
and one hears that since she has estab,
lished herself in her charming flat in
town, there has been a rush for informa'
tion ahout annuity schemes.
In searching for an apt phrasc to de-
ribe "Our Miss Dickson," on'e thinks
of a well-known line of Chaucer which,
hy changing the first and the last word,
reads: 511e is a l'erv {'arfalt, ge'ntle lad".
THE CURRICULUM
An analysis has recently been com-
pleted of the replies to the curriculum
study which was prepared some months
ago by the National Committee on Cur-
riculum for consideration by the provin-
cial sub-committees. These findings are
important and interesting because they
constitute a cross section of the opinions
held by representative nurses in all parts
of Canada. It goes without saying that
there are some marked differences regard-
ing certain controversial questions but
there is also sufficient agreement on many
essential principles to guide the national
committee in its task of curriculum build,
ing. The chairman, Miss Marion Linde,
burgh, has prepared the following sum-
mary of the principal findings:
School of Nursing Committee: Differences
of opinion regarding the personnel and func-
tion of such a committee indicates the need
for a common understanding as to its signifi-
cance in connection with the administration
of a school of nursing.
'The School of Nursing Budget: While in
many cases appropriations are made for cer-
tain needs of the school, in no instance was
there a definite and separate buçget for its
total demands. Until this can be accomplish-
ed, our educational objectives can not be
fully achieved.
Fees: The majority of answers definitely
suppo
ted the policy that tuition fees should
not be imposed until better educational facili-
ties can be secured, the general reaction be-
ing that, in the majority of schools, the
student is still giving more to the hospital
nursing service than she is receiving in terms
of education.
Night Duty: Many different views were
expressed as to length and frequency of terms
but it was conceded that the first assignment
should not be made until the student has been
at least six months in the school, and then
only under supervision.
Nursing Matriculation: Possibly in no other
issue is the difference of opinion so marked,
although the majority of replies show opposi-
tion to this educational policy. Those opposed
claim (a
that the student is not sufficiently
mature to choose her vocation intelligently;
(b) that all high schools cannot provide for
the required content; (c) that it may not
qualify students for entrance to other facu]-
ties and therefore may interfere with graduate
study or prevent the student from transferring
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in case she proves unsuitable to nursing. Those
supporting the policy claim (a) that it would
improve educational standards in the school
of nursing; (b) that it would prevent the
overloading of the curriculum and permit con-
centration on underlying scientific principles;
(c) that it would afford flexibility for the in-
clusion of activities leading to fuller develop-
ment. The contrast in thinking is sufficiently
sharp to merit careful consideration of both
points of view.
Student Discipline: The better schools,
which have already achieved fairly adequate
educational standards, approve of a disciplin-
ary policy which places responsibility upon
the student body.
'Teaching facilities: All replies indicated an
appreciation of the importance of good teach-
ing facilities. It is significant, however, that
the majority of schools report no definite
yearly appropriation for library purposes.
Clinical experience: While class-room teach-
ing in the majority of schools has been fairly
adequate, the greatest weakness in the educa-
tional programme definitely lies in the clinical
fields. Emphasis is placed upon two major
difficulties: (1) the lack of evaluation of
ward assignments; (2) the need for more time,
on the part of head-nurses and supervisors,
for effective ward teaching on a co-operative
basis.
Elimination of non-nursing duties: Here
again diversity of opinion is reflected. A few
stelte frankly that it is not possible to reduce
non-educational tasks which are now assigned
to students. The majority approve of their
partial elimination; very few suggest that they
be abolished completely. The employment of
ward helpers is frequently advocated.
Psychiatric and neurological nursing:
Opinion is almost unanimous that clinical ex-
penence in psychiatry and neurological nurs-
ing is desirable, Some suggest that this should
be afforded by a postgraduate course, rather
than included in the basic curriculum. The
majority have made no arrangement for ex-
perience in psychiatric nursing, but a few of
the best schools have met the need satisfac-
tori]y.
Health and þreventive aspects: The import-
ance of emphasizing, in the basic course, the
preventive and public health aspects of nurs-
ing was universally admitted. It was pointed
out, however, that in practice the necessary
community affiliations are not easily obtained
and that it is difficult to find sufficient time for
community experience during the undergradu-
ate period. Here again. some of the best
school
have surmounted the difficulty.
Methods of teaching: Many valuable sug-
VOL. XXX, No. , 2
A GATEWAY
gestions are recorded as to ways of reducing
the use of the lecture method and the sub,
stitution of other means which will stimulate
individual thinking and class activity. The
majority disapprove of extensive note,taking
and recommend mimeographed material for
student guidance.
Case studies: Universal approval is given
to this method of teaching and learning.
Educational measurements: The replies re'
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fleet a growing consciousness of the need for
accurate and adequate educational records of
the student's total educational experience, of
her health, and of her personal and profes'
sional efficiency throughout her course.
Examination types: Although certain diffi,
culties in regard to the use of the objective
type of examination are indicated, man)' ad,
vantages in its use are recorded, and it is
being adopted in many of the better schools.
A GATEWAY
Through this portal, so distinctive in it.,
old,world charm, the swift current of hospital
life has ebbed and flowed for more than a
hundred years. The first patient crossed it"
threshold in 1821 and today it is still the main
entrance to the imposing group of buildings
which now constitute the Montreal General
Hospital. Its dignity and grace are admirably
portrayed in this drawing, made by a Cana'
dian artist, Miss Marion Robertson, of Mont'
real. Christmas cards showing this design
may be obtained at the Hospital at a cost of
twenty,fi ve cents for two, Or $1. 50 for one
dozen.
C I'LCt"Cl.rLce _ :Tne ,,'1.ontr>f'ol çent"ral .t1o,odal
M R" Ó.. IH "\)"
DECEMBFR, 1934
PROVINCIAL MEETINGS
Alberta
During October the Alberta Association of
Registered Nurses and the Alberta Hospital
Association met in conjoint convention in Ed-
monton, the first day being given over to joint
sessions and the second to business meetings.
The guest speaker was Dr. Harvey Agnew,
who conducted round,table conferences and
spoke at a luncheon meeting. Addresses given
by Dr. J. J. Ower, Provincial Pathologist; Dr.
R. T. Washburn, Superintendent of the Uni-
versity Hospital, and Dr. A. H. Baker of the
Provincial Sanitorium, were full of practical
interest, and Hon. Mr. Hoadley, Minister of
Health, spoke on "The proposed health in-
surance scheme in its relationship to hospitals
and the nursing profession, including private
duty nurses." This was followed by brief ad-
dresses by Dr. Wallace, President of the Uni,
versity of Alberta; Miss Connal, convener of
the nursing education section, and Dr. A. E.
Archer of Lamont, their subjects being "What
hospitals conducting schools of nursing should
offer the student nurse"; "What hospitals
should expect from the student nurse"; "What
the community should expect from the nurse."
Canadian nurses are well aware of the pro'
gressive attitude and sympathetic understand,
ing of Dr. Wallace toward nursing education.
Miss A. Conroy, who is a public health nurse
in a rural community, gave a most interesting
talk on "Nursing problems in a rural com-
munity" and described some very original im-
provised equipment. Miss Brighty, superin-
tendent of provincial public health nursing,
described an experiment in community nursing
conducted by the Alberta Association of Reg-
istered Nurses which is planned to give super-
vised experience in district nursing in a rural
community to a graduate nurse and at the
same time the much needed nursing service to
the community. Dr. Bow, Deputy,Minister of
Health, then told of the two Public Health
Units at present functioning in this province.
The delegates were later the guests of the
Capitol Theatre when the film "Good Hospital
Care:' produced under the direction of Dr.
M. T. MacEachern, was shown. At a lull'
cheon, arranged by the Edmonton Association
of Graduate Nurses, the guest speaker was
Miss K. Underwood, a young journalist, who
gave an interesting description of an aeroplane
trip to the Great Bear Lake mining district.
The delegates from both Associations were
guests at afternoon tea at the Royal Alexan-
dra Hospital. The following resolutions were
passed: (1) A resolution to ask the A.A.R.N.
Council to appoint a committee to investigate
the scheme for a registry as suggested by the
C.N.A.; (2) A resolution to ask the local
censor of moving pictures to extend the cour-
tesy of an invitation to a member of the
Council of the A.A.R.N. to pre-views of pic-
tures in which nurses are featured in order to
eliminate anything derogatory to the nursing
p:ofession; (3) A resolution that a refresher
course for members of all three sections be
arranged.
British Columbia
The autumn meeting of the Graduate
Nurses Association of British Columbia was
held in Victoria on October 6 when a heavy
programme was carried through in two ses-
sions, instead of the three usually given to
business. In the place of the evening meeting,
a dinner was held when Miss Elizabeth Grubb
gave an address entitled "Ill, Health and Social
Adjustment." A very interesting exhibit of
ward equipment used at the Royal Jubilee
Hospital was shown and an excellent address
was given by Miss Cora Tretheway on her
experiences in England during the past year.
Sectional business meetings were held as usual
and the afternoon meeting was used for con-
sidering the resolutions and reports from the
Biennial Meeting of the Canadian Nurses As-
sociation. Included in the list of those attend-
ing were several nurses who had been at
sessions of the British Columbia Hospital As-
sociation, whose annual meeting occupied the
earlier part of the week. Greetings were sent
to Sister Mary Ignatia, R.N., who left that
day with a party of Sisters of St. Ann for
Japan. The annual meeting of 1935 will be
held in Vancouver.
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d.re restoring (for this occasion only) to
the caption of this page, an artist friend's
conception of what our desk should look
like at Christmastime but probably won't.
In sad reality the romantic quill pen is
replaced by a wooden affair, the handle
of which we occasionally nibble when in
the throes of literary composition. There
is no room for the Roumanian vase and
the gay holly, nor indeed for anything
else except untidy wire baskets usually
filled with galleys waiting to be proof-
read. Yet the steady flame of the candle
has its own significance. It is only one of
many, lighted in faith and hope the
world over at this time of the year, in
memory of the birthday of a little Child.
Reader's Guide
This month there are several features
of the Journal to which we would like
to draw your attention. First of all comes
the leading article, in which Dr. Lusk,
like the wise and humane physician that
he is, gives us a frank diagnosis and sug-
gests some remedies. Another physician,
Dr. Sutton, in the "Nursing care of
polio" provides just that blend of prac,
tical sense and scientific knowledge which
is so hard to come by in articles of this
kind. Under the caption of "New light
on public health", Miss Anna E. Wells,
chd.irman of the public health section of
the Canadian Nurses Association, sum'
marizes the findings of yet another impor,
td.nt survey and applies them to our
Canadian scene. Miss Batson, in her
clear and concise programme for staff
education, gives us a lead in a piece of
work we ought to get on with. In "Edu'
catlon for private duty" Miss Tallman
displays a fine conception of the duties
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DECEMBER, 1934
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and privileges of the private duty nurse.
Things seem to be stirring in the prov,
inces too. Just read Notes from the
National Office and the reports from
Alberta and British Columbia which
appear in the body of the Journal. and
be sure not to miss the lively arguments
on the correspondence page.
Curriculum
You should have seen the huge piles
of questionnaires returned from all parts
of the country which Miss Lindeburgh,
the energetic chairman of the Central
Committee on Curriculum, had to ana'
lyze in order to provide you with the
cross section of nursing opinion which
appears this month. Excellent work has
been done by many busy women in an'
swering these questions and it will be a
satisfaction to them to know that their
thought and effort are being woven into
the fabric of the new curriculum.
Index
This issue of the Journal contains the
index for 1934. As we compiled it we
were struck by the pattern which gradu,
ally emerged from its rather uninspiring
pages. Just turn to it for a moment. It
is a sort of intelligence test. If you have
sufficient knowledge and insight, plus a
dash of imagination, it will turn into a
map on which you may trace the salient
features of our Canadian nursing scene.
A stubborn pride whispers that, when
our Golden Jubilee rolls round in 1959,
the President of the Canadian Nurses
Assuciation in search of historical back
ground for her presidenti.il address, may
run her finger down the lines and get a
f.tirly clear picture of what Canadian
nurses were thinking and doing in the
yc.lr of their Silver Jubilee.
567
Correspondence
"I arise to remark. . . n
. . . in response to a portion of the article
entitled "What do you think about it?" in the
November issue of the Journal (p. 529) that
it is apparent that the writer feels that prac-
tICal sense and higher education are incom-
patible-yet she comments favour ably on my
letter entitled "Unemployed?", which appear-
ed in the July issue of the Journal (p. 323).
Therefore-I arise to remark-that I, "An On-
tario Nurse," do not feel I could have accom-
plished the piece of work which I did in my
community had it not been for the broadened
vision obtained through continued study since
graduation, twelve years ago. I have a Bache-
lor of Science degree in nursing administration
-not that this is essential to accomplishment
-but academic preparation has, for me, been
a decided asset. Yet I have lost none of the
practical sense I possessed, and feel confident
that my horizon has been broadened to include
the greater need.
Will any nurse in Canada, who has done
advanced scholastic work, say that it has failed
to lend a new flavour, riper and richer, to her
work? I wonder, could it be that those who
have not tasted do not know the real flavour?
"AN ONTARIO NURSE."
Would This Help?
The letter of "A Private Duty Nurse" in
the October number of the Journal (p. 470)
was of especial interest to me as I feel sure the
statements made in it are only too true. Nurses
all want to keep up their standards but what
with unemployment, competition from practi-
cal nurses and others with a knowledge of
nursing care, the trained nurse has a very hard
situation to cope with. Has not a nurse good
reason to feel bitter if she finds she is not get-
ting a square deal from the registry? Why
give a nurse registration in a certain province
if she finds she is considered an interloper in
certain localities in that very province? In the
majority of cases "The Golden Rule" is for-
gotten.
May I make a suggestion through this page
-without prejudice? At the annual meeting,
could the registrar provide for inspection, by
private duty nurses, a written statement show-
ing where each and every call came from for
the individual nurse, be it from doctor, pa-
tient, friend or registrar? In this way every
nurse would be satisfied if her name were list-
568
cd according to the calls she received together
wIth the dates they were received; then, if Miss
Dlank's name were listed more often than hers
each nurse would know where the calls cam;
f:-om and would surely be broad-minded
enough to feel she had had a square deal. In
my opinion this would be fair to registrar,
nurse, and all concerned - and I feel sure
that more nurses would have confidence in the
regÙ.try and pay the fee without a grudge.
Does not a Council give a complete report-
theh why not a registry? Private duty nurses,
don't be timid. Give your opinion and sug-
gestions - this is your privilege, and your
problem.
"ANOTHER PRIVATE DUTY NURSE."
A Word jor the Registrar
MIss McMullen's article, "The future of
private duty nursing" which appeared in the
November Journal, gave me several new ideas.
Of course it is nonsense to say there is no
future for private duty-but I wonder if that
future will not be under the guidance of the
State rather than under a federal or provin-
cial council? I have watched our associations
grappling unsuccessfully with this problem.
When there was lots of work and money it
was a simple matter to have a registry and
provide nurses in answer to calls; but there
never was any real supervision or discipline
because the registrar had no real power. She
had to contend, more or less, with the nurses,
doctors and public. The fact that so many
nurses think they are unfairly treated unless
called in rotation, no matter what their qualifi-
cations for a certain case may be, shows that
the ordinary graduate nurse does not under-
stand that nursing is a highly competitive job
just as much as any other means by which
you earn money. It is not only a question of
hours that makes a nurse like hospital work
better than private duty, but because, when
you are on salary, there is no question of
money between you and the þatient. It seems
such a let-down, somehow, when you have
nursed a patient who, in spite of everything,
does not recover, that the next move on the
programme must be the presentation of your
bill. To me this has been the very worst
feature of private work. Give me a headquar-
ters and a salary, even if it is much less than
we used to make in the "good old days."
"AN ALBERTA NURSE."
VOL. XXX, No. 12
Department of Nursing Education
STAFF EDUCATION
MARTHA BATSON, Instructor of Nurses, School of Nursing, Montreal General Hospital.
Every institution in this age of rapid
change and growth needs constant re'
examination to determine whether it is
growing in the right direction. Training
and education must go hand,in,hand to
produce leadership and to make us realize
our professional usefulness. Before expert
nursing service can be developed we must
select the right kind of student material
to work with, and we must be able to
secure well qualified people on the nur3'
ing staff, who will be prepared to put
on the kind of educational programme
which will give us not only better schools,
but better nursing service, both in the
hospital and the community.
Now the preparation of the nursin
staff (by this I mean those responsible for
the care of the patient and the training
of student nurses) can only be accom'
plished by some well organized pro'
gramme of staff education. Dr. Weir, in
the Survey of Nursing Education in
Canada, emphatically states that: "Insti,
tutional positions should be considered
among the choicest that the nursing pro-
fession can offer. Only high-grade, well,
educated nurses should be accepted for
these positions-nurses with specialized
training and skills, competent to teach
some branch of their professions as well
as efficiently discharge their other nursing
duties." He also states that it is not
humanly possible to give this high quality
of service unless the eight-hour day b
adopted.
Some Dcfinitions .
Now what is meant hy staff education?
For our present purpose we may acceilt
Mrs. Mary M. Wayland's definition:
"Staff Education is a programme for dc'
An address dclnered at the Bienni..l Meeting of the
Canadian Nurses Association, June. 1934.
DECEMBl'R, 1934
veloping workers on the job in which they
are engaged as full,time workers. It is
one of several ways of improving those in
service." This type of education has
been carried on (perhaps under no name)
for many years by earnest women, respon,
sible for the care of the sick in our hospi'
tals and for the training of students. Miss
Katherine Densford classifies staff educa,
tion into two main types; first, that which
improves the technical skill and ability of
the workers, and second, that which en'
riches their general background and
understanding.
A staff programme cannot be empha'
sized too much, and not until we have
proper care given in our hospital wards
can we expect our staff education pro-
gramme to attain maximum, or even
moderate, efficiency.
Special Preparation
In the June number of 'The Canad:an
Nurse an excellent article appeared en-
titled "Opportunity Beckons." The
author emphasizes the need of special
preparation for those holding staff posi-
tions in institutions. To quote briefly:
"Why is it that the courses in public
health are eagerly sought. while those
in teaching and supervision in hospitals
attract only a handful. Head nurses and
even supervisors are sometimes selected
on the basis of executive ability alone,
without enquiry as to their capacity or
willingness to teach, though teach they
must, since their departments are staffed
largely by students." Women who are
charged with the teaching and direction
of students need imdlectu.ll stimulus .lI1d
they should be encouraged to seek it;
and hospitals and universities should be
prepared to offer the kind of education
which they seck.
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
The Head Nurse
While many of the instructors and
supervisors have had speciali
ed training
before entering their respective fields,
there is one group which needs special
preparation-the head nurse group.
Nursing is more complex toda y than
formerly, therefore a wider knowledg
is required and a head nurse is a graduate
nurse who is in charge of a ward or unit
How many head nurses have had any
actual preparation for their jobs? Yet she
is directly responsible for the care of the
patient and the field work of the student.
She holds a very important position, :lS
she is not only responsible for the patient
and the student, but equally responsible
to the doctor, who must be able to depend
upon her skill, and judgment in the many
crises which occur during his absence.
She has to be alert to see that every treat'
ment is carried out, and to help her stu'
dents to fix standards which can be car'
ried over into situations less ideal than
those met with in the bospital ward.
She is also charged with the supervi,
sion of the ward helpers and ward maids,
and must get the work done in the least
time in the best interests of all concerned.
It is she who keeps the ward machinery
running smoothly. To carry out the many
duties required in a large ward, without
an assistant, makes it difficult for her
to have any time left for teaching
even
though she may be interested in doing so.
Yet if we assume the responsibility of
training students. we must also be respon,
sible for their teaching and supervision
so that efficient and intelligent nursing
care may be given. Students spend about
three'quarters of their time in the wards,
during their three years, practising nur;:;'
ing. When so much depends upon the
preparation of the head nurse, it is im'
portant that her training be of the right
kind and not left to chance.
General Duty
Then there is the general duty group.
General duty in a hospital means a ser'
vice rendered by a graduate nurse, wh
has been employed to assist with the
nursing service in anyone of the many
departments of a hospital. In this group
is the young woman who is enriching
her experience in bedside nursing, and
who is further preparing herself for the
position of head nurse or supervisor.
General duty nurses should be helped to
appreciate the advantages and oppor,
tunities of their work, and to look UpO
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that service as a valuable graduate ex'
penence.
A Possible Programme
There are many ways of developing
staff education in our hospitals, many
constructive programmes have been ou
'
lined. The following arc a few:
Every opportunity for educational
advancement should be given and courses
in psychology, principles of teaching,
biology, mental hygiene, public health,
social science and physiology might be
arranged. All these have direct bearing
on the clinical work. They may be taken
by attending evening classes or summer
courses. Time would have to be pro'
vided.
Regular staff conferences, say weekly.
These conferences should be informal, 50
that all may feel free to bring their
problems for solution.
Observation of student demonstrations
in nursing practice from time to time,
so as to be well acquainted with the
methods taught. This enables the head
nurse to direct the work of the student
more intelligently.
Periodical visits should be made to
public health centres to become acquaint'
ed with the preventive measures taught.
A course in hospital and ward adminis,
tration planned by experienced members
of the staff. This would be helpful in
developing better methods of administra'
tion.
Making good use of the library, which
should be well equipped with material
of interest to staff nurses.
VOL. XXX, No. 12
STAFF EDUCATION
Rotation in the different services, say
once or twice a year
this to include
night duty and the out'patient depart'
mente
Departmental conferences at which
the care of the patient and any new treat'
ment in the various departments
such
as gynaecology, surgery and paediatrics,
should be brought forward and discussed.
This type of conference is invaluable.
Attending meetings of nursing orga,
nizations including all groups such as
public health, private duty and nursing
education. Keeping in close touch with
the provincial and national organizations,
and participating in the activities of these
organizations.
A greater effort should be made to
encourage anå stimulate all staff mem'
bers to read more regularly the nursing
journals, both national and international,
so as to keep in touch with nursing
developments in other parts of the world.
Recently a prominent public health offi,
cial who has had experience in grading
examination papers written by nurses,
made the statement that nurses are very
negligent in the matter of reading their
professional journals.
Nursing by the case assignment method
whereby the general duty nurse may be
encouraged to make a study of the par'
ticular treatments, and to discuss them
from time to time.
571
Having doctors demonstrate any new
treatments, and attending lectures given
by the medical staff.
Utilizing the exchange system whereby
there may be an occdsional exchange of
an instructor, supervisor, or head nurse.
Leave of absence for periods of study.
This would be difficult in our busy hos,
pitals but these individuals would return
to their work refreshed, enthusiastic, anJ
with a broader vision and understanding.
Refresher courses or institutes orga'
nized or sponsored by hospitals and
universities.
Spending an indefinite period, say one
week, in the training school office to
obtain a knowledge of records and admill-
istrative policies and methods.
There should be some form of educa'
tion to help the nurse to a better under-
standing of life in general and of her
function as a nurse.
Miss Nutting has very appropriateiy
stated that for us, as nurses, the thing
that seems to be of the utmost importanc
is that whatever we undertake to do shall
be well done. We are on trial before the
world, being tested for our judgment,
good sense and knowledge of our own
situation. If we can keep alive in our
groups the desire to do and learn. and to
improve in their work. to be happy doin.
and improving, and to have a vision,
then the world will be worth while.
THE BLOODLESS PHLEBOTOMIST
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DECEMBER, 1934
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Department of Private Duty Nursing
EDUCA TION FOR PRIV A TE DUTY
RUTH E. TALLMAN, Private Duty Nurse, Hamilton, Onto
Private duty, though the oldest branch
of the profession, is yet the latest to take
on organized and professional form, and
of all branches of nursing, has the most
difficult and, in some respects, the most
unsd.tisfactory basis. What are the func,
tions of a private duty nurse? Have they
been defined? Let us see. To hegin with
the Committee on Education of the In'
ternational Council of Nurses have given
this definition of a tramed nurse:
A trained nurse is a person of good
general educational and cultural back,
ground who has completed a period of
professional preparation in nursing of
approximately three years, as a full,t;me
student, in a recognized school of nurs'
ing, under a fully qualified nursing and
medical staff. This training should have
prepared her to give expert nursing care
to medical and surgical patients of both
sexes and of all ages, including the mental
as well as the physiccd, the preventive as
well as the curative aspects of nursing.
,Our own National Committee on Cur'
riculum has recently defined the objec'
tives of nursing education as follows:
1. To place nursing service and nurs,
ing education on a full professional basis,
and to produce in our schools, not only
trained nurses but educated nurses, if
nursing is to hold its own with the many
other vocations for women and if it is to
compete with these vocations in attract'
ing the best type of young women.
2. To broaden the conception of nurs'
ing service to include the nursing care of
the whole patient, mind as well as body;
attention to the whole environment, so'
cial as well as physical; the prevention of
sickness as well as the bedside care of the
sick, and health service to families and
communities as well as to individuals.
572
Surely such an educational programme
should give student nurses at least an
elementary preparation for nursing in the
home. Its soundness is confirmed by Dr.
Weir in '"A Survey of Nursing Educa'
tion in Canada" wherein he outlines
some of the teaching methods whIch are
needed in its development. These may be
summarized under the following head,
ings:
Psychology
The modern nurse should know some'
thing of mental hygiene, for unless she
understands the mental attitudes of her
patient her success can be only partial.
She may with profit be introduced to the
cmses, symptoms and conditions of emo'
tional disturbances and mental abnor'
malities, not only of the patient, but also
of the patient's family and friends. This
education may make all the difference
between a calm and peaceful influence or
a strained and antagonistic atmosphere,
especially in a home. To understand the
patient's whims, the nurse must be a
humanist rather than merely a technical
automaton. To tactfully impart a know'
ledge of the way to better health requires
the trained teacher.
Case Assignment Method
Case study involves the consecutive
nursing of the patient as a whole, not
in parts. From the standpoint of de'
veloping responsibility in character and
putting real vitality into the nurse's edu,
cation, the c<lse assignment method is
definitely superior to the more common
efficiency method. Only in this way can
the nurse have opportunity to study the
complex personality of the patient as a
whole. It is only reasonable that all stu'
dents should, before graduation, receive
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EDUCATION FOR PRIVATE DUTY
some training in the field of work which
immediately confronts them. In a home,
when the doctor is absent, the nurse has
full responsibility for her patient, and
she must be trained to accept this re'
sponsibility. Case assignment trains her
to watch for symptoms of complications
which may develop in the disease, as well
as in the patient's mental attitude to'
wards life.
Nursing Interneship
As an aid toward development of a
social and community viewpoint close
correlation with some social service or
visiting nurse organization should be es'
tablished. The gradual introduction of a
nursing interneship or district nursing
should be made an objective in training
student nurses. This suggests the obser'
vat ion of at least three treatments, in
homes, such as bladder irrigation, hot
pack, and morning care of a maternity
case. Preparation for a maternity case in
a home requires special demonstrations of
a very practical nZtture-sufficient for op'
posite types of homes - one providing
every convenience and one requiring the
strictest economy.
Social Training
Many girls enter the hospital with little
or no social training. A social instructor
would educate the students 111 the art of
conversation, the development of a pleas'
ant personality, and a knowledge of the
current events of the day. This general
knowledge would be a real asset to any
nurse - particularly during her contact
with patients who have had the advan'
tage of a higher education than herself.
To keep a patient from becoming self,
centred and introspective is a ld.rge part
of a nurse's duty. The trained nurse en'
tering any home to take care of a patient
is in the beginning only one more proh,
lem connected with that illness, .1I1d only
insofar as she is ahle to hring under'
standing sympathy together with well,
halanced judgment and ad.1Ptahility into
that home, can the prohlem not only of
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573
her presence but of the situation as a
whole be comfortably adjusted.
Essential Qualifications
Student qualifications, therefore, re'
lating to intelligence, personalIty, apti,
tudes, character, social and cultural back,
ground as recommended by Dr. Weir,
and outlined in the curriculum study are
among the first considerations in the pre'
paration for private duty nursing. These
may be briefly stated thus:
First, intelligence, and the special edu,
cation necessary to give her a mastery
over the techniques that apply to the par,
ticular branch of service involved. Th]s
implies sufficient liberal education to en'
able her to appreciate all legitimate hu,
man interests, never forgetting that many
situations exist in the practice of nursing
that demand a keen sense of humour.
Second, personality, which is the sum
total of the nurse's physical, mental and
r.10ral characteristics, plus their organi'
ution into a unity that conditions the
engaging effect of the nurse upon her
d.ssociates.
Third, character, and a whole,hearted
hut well, balanced devotion to the service
of her patient and an immovahle deter'
mination to prefer always her patient's
to her own interests.
A J'eachcr of Health
It is in the battles fought and won in
the privZite duty nursing field that the
harriers have been broken down and the
W.lY paved for the coming preventive
he.llth teaching. If the best constructive
work for health teaching is to go on, the
closest correlation in ideals must exist in
the education of the private duty and the
puhlic health nurse. The hourly and
daily aim of the nurse giving continuous
hedside nursing care, is toward positive
health. With her expert skill, her well,
developed ad.1Ptability to all circum'
st.lI1CCS, and her sympathetic presence, a
good private duty nurse has an unparal,
leled opportunity to h.
a rl',tl he,llth
tc.lchcr.
Department of Public Health Nursing
NEW LIGHT ON PUBLIC HEALTH
ANNA E. WELLS, Health Education Service, Province of Manitoba; Chairman of the
Public Health Nursing Service of the Canadian Nurse.s Association.
One of the most important and signifi,
cant contributions to public health litera'
ture that has appeared in recent years is
the report of a survey of public health
nursing* undertaken by the National Or'
ganization for Public Health Nursing in
the United States, through the financial
aid of the Commonwealth Fund. It is
important because the facts gathered re'
flect the peculiar position of the public
health nurse in the field of public health;
and significant because it shows the trend
of public health nursing and seems to
mark the beginning of a new era in this
type of nursing service.
Why It Was Made
This survey, the first of its kind, was
planned and begun in 1931 before or'
ganization and practices in public health
nursing were greatly affected by econ'
omic and social stress; and completed in
June, 1932, when distress was definitely
felt in certain sections of the area studied.
It was undertaken primarily as an at'
tempt to measure the effectiveness of
public health nursing according to the
yardstick of accepted standards; with the
justification that in its amazing growth
during the past twenty,five years, public
health nursing had been "pushed into
many settings. . . subjected to a variety
of infl uences, and had adapted itself to a
number of controlling factors." To gain
as complete a picture as possible, a cross
section study of the whole field in the
United States was made of fifty,seven
principal kinds of public health nursing
agencies: public health nursing associa,
tions, departments of health and boards.
of education in twenty'eight districts.
"Survey of Public Health Nursing" by the National
Organixation for Public Health Nursing. K. Tucker,
Ceneral Director. and H. Hilbert, Assistant Director for
the Survey. Published by the Commonwealth Fund,
193-4. .41 East 57th Street, New York. Price, $2.00
574
The report covers organization and ad,
ministration, personnel, provisions for
the education of nurses, working condi,
tions, student affiliation, financing, com'
munity relationships, nursing programme
and quality of service.
A highly condensed summary of the
conclusions is appended which it is hoped
will stimulate a careful study of the book
itself.
Organization and Administration
Accepted principles and standards are
applicable to all types of agencies which
administer public health nursing.
The dangers of static control by gov,
erning boards may be avoided by wide
representation of men and women, and
provision for rotation of membership.
Statistical accounting of a nursing ser'
vice is essential to sound administration,
and calls for uniformity of records and
definitions of types of work, particularly
in comparing service with that of other
agencIes.
Education of Nurses
Approximately only one'third of the
nurses in the agencies studied have had
any theoretical preparation. The major
problem at present belongs to schools of
nursing, the individual nurse, and the
public health nursing agency. Since the
responsibility for preparing the nurse for
the field of public health has fallen
largely upon public health agencies, it is
necessary for them to provide for and
improve their present facilities for educa'
tional supervision, and for a continuous
staff educational programme. This re'
sponsibility also implies a careful selec'
tion of nurses who have within their
personal and educational equipment the
equipment and capacity for growth and
development. It is worthy of note that
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NEW LIGHT ON PUBLIC HEALTH
all studies and activities which lead to the
incorporation in schools of nursing of the
fundamental theory and experience esscw
tial as a basis upon which to build fur-
ther public health nursing preparation
and practice are also endorsed. Provision
for continuous staff education is gener-
ally lacking in extent and method when
compared to the need for facilities for
written guides, library, attendance at
staff and outside conferences and leaves
of al1sence for educational purposes.
Working Conditions
An important factor affecting the
efficiency of the public health nursing
agency is the health of public health
nurses. While sick leave for actual illness
is generally allowed, measures for the
prevention of illness are practically non-
existent. Since an excessive load of work
puts an unusual stress on health, nurses
should not only come to an agency in
good health but should have provision
for continuous health supervision after
appointment. Salaries, pensions, uni-
forms, equipment, working hours and
vacations also affect the efficiency and
well-being of the nurse upon whom rests
the responsibility for adequate service.
Student Affiliation
That programmes for students are not
l1etter planned and executed is due to
two factors: inadequacies of staff and
facilities for teaching. When public
health nursing agencies assume responsi...
bility for teaching student nurses, either
undergraduate or postgraduate, there is
a distinct advantage for the agency as
well as for the school of nursing, provid-
ing that adequate educational experiences
are planned and given to complete funda...
mcntal nursing education. Such experi-
ences are stimulating to the staff and pro...
vide a means of recruiting nurses suitcd
to public health nursing.
Financing
All public health nursing services
should be made available to everyone in
the community irrespective of economic
DFCEMBFR, 19H
575
and social status. This is not the case at
the present time. In addition, all thosc
who can afford to pay for these services
should be encouraged to use them, pay-
ing for them on the basis of actual cost.
Community Relationships
Relationships between health and so-
cial agencies are for the most part casual
and haphazard, though goodwill between
agencies, the medical profession and other
health and social organizations is essential
for a sound and productive relationship.
Such a relationship would mean:
A real understanding of each other's ser-
vices and division of responsibility.
Use of social service exchange.
Systematic referral of cases and reporting
back on cases referred.
Inter-agency conferences to promote uni-
form standards and methods {or strengthening
relationships.
It is interesting to note that councils
of social agencies are considered to be
important in social planning and in cor-
relating agency programmes in health and
social fields, and for this reason it is re-
commended that all public health nursing
agencies should be represented in com-
munity councils. The use of volunteer
workers is regarded as a valuable means
for developing service through practical
assistance as well as enlisting the support
of puplic opinion.
Nursing Programme
Since public health nursing is now ad...
ministered for the most part on an agency
rather than a community basis, it is dc...
sirable to emphasize its development in
terms of a comprehensive community
programme, and to provide machinery for
programme planning with a division of
responsibility between agencies in order
to avoid gclpS and duplications, and to
work toward a reduction in the numher
of agencies administering such services.
Performance
In so far as it was possiblc to rate the
intangible elements that constitutc sat is...
factory nursing, an analysis of each type
of service revealed variation in lJuality of
performanLC in the following' order:
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
1. Pre' natal care ranks first, although statis,
tical records to determine early contact with
patients were generally lacking.
2. Care of the sick showed a tendency on
the part of nurses to give all care themselves,
and to give little instructions to members of
the household, thereby neglecting the educa,
tional potentialities of bedside service. An
analysis of delivery care (so important from a
public health standpoint) showed that only
about one,third of the agencies provided for
home delivery.
3. An analysis of postpartum and neonatal
care revealed that only about one'third of the
agencies assist with arrangements for medical
examination of mother and baby at the end of
the six weeks' period.
4. Health supervision of infants took fourth
",lace.
5. An examination of disease prevention
activities (including tuberculosis, communic'
able dIseases and venereal disease) demon'
strated that relatively few agencies provide
bedside care for cases of communicable diseases
in the home. Such provision affords the best
opportunity for effective teaching in the pre'
vention and control of these diseases. Venereal
disease nursing is the least developed, con'
sisting largely of persuading patients to re'
turn to the clinic.
6. Health supervision of pre'school children
ranked sixth.
7. Health supervision of school children
ranked lowest, though an important part of
the nurse's work with school children is her
contact with parents so that they may more
satisfactorily meet their responsibilities for the
health of their own children. It was found,
however, that opportunities for parent in'
struction and participation were not generally
utilized.
Criteria
Approach, technique, teaching and
adequacy of care were used as criteria
for rating quality of performance. A fifth
element was also considered but not used.
As an important factor in home visiting,
however, it is worthy of mention:
"awareness that the individual given care
is
I member of a family and a community,
thus recognizing the psychological and
social aspects as well as the health aspects
of the home situation, and giving evi,
dence of intelligent use of community re'
sources for family situations."
The score for each of the four criteria
is highest for public health nursing or'
ganizations, second for departments of
health, and lowest for boards of educa'
tion. In the case of home visits for health
supervision of school children, the score
ranks highest for boards of education. For
all agencies as a single group, approach
ranks highest, technique second, ade'
quacy of care third, and teaching lowest.
For boards of education, adequacy of care
rcll1ks second and technique third.
A nd in Canada?
. In Canada, there is no great variation
in methods of organization and adminis,
tration in public health nursing from
those in the United States. It may be
said that our problems are similar. Thus
the same need for stock,taking exists.
Criticism has already been levelled at the
ineffectiveness of the Canadian public
health nurse as a health teacher and at
puhlic health nursing in general for its
inadequacy. Is it justified? If it is, who
is responsible? How can we -find out?
There is no fund, according to our know'
ledge, from which we may draw for a
definite study and analysls of the general
public health nursing situation and its
trends in the Dominion. Therefore, this
survey, made by women of proven ability
in the field of public health nursing,
should stimulate individual and group
study of our own standards and methods
that we may be ready to give intelligent
direction to the development of work
which has grown into an essential branch
of public health service.
As a preliminary study for the indi,
vidual public health nurse, the survey
will encourage self,analysis. Even a
casual reading of it should make her con'
scious of the various factors which deter'
mine good quality community nursing.
As an outline of study for public health
nursing groups, it should serve as a valu'
able guide. Lastly, às a record for com'
parative study, it should be in the library
of every ;-igency employing public health
VOL. xxx, No. 12
BOOK REVIEWS
nurses, and read carefully by all who
na ve any part in the administration of
puhlic health nursing services.
In studying a report of this kind it be-
comes ev
dent that while the public
health nurse of yesterday was a pioneer
in a new field of nursing-since she had
to huild the structure-the puhlic health
nurse of today is no less a pioneer in at-
tempting to apply modern methods of
577
efficiency to her work in the light of com-
munity needs, and to interpret such work
that it may rank with the best for the
common weal. Where public health nurs-
ing stands in the future may depend
largely upon just such activities as these.
It is a challenge worthy of the great op-
portunities that a changing social order
will undoubtedly offer to public health
nurses.
Book Reviews
NURSING SCHOOLS TODAY AND To-
MORROW. The final report of the
Committee On the Grading of Nursing
Schools, obtainable from the National
League of Nursing Education, 50 West
50th St., New York. Price $2.00.
This book summarizes the findings an.:!
recommendatIOns of the Committee 0:1
the Grading of Nursing Schools in the
United States. The principal recom-
mendations are: Overproduction of
nurses must be stopped. There is one
way to do It; and that is to close most
of the schools. It is a curious fact that
dependence upon students for a major
professional service, which seems so
natural in the case of nurses. should seem
too far-fetched to be seriously considered
when the principle is applied to other
professions. Suppose that the public
schools, for example. were always staff:J
by normal school students who taught
for three years, received their diplomas,
and were then discharged to support
themselves as best they could by becoming
private tutors! Suppose that banks dis-
charged one-third of their workers every
year in order that they might give their
places to new anJ untrained clerks! Sup-
DI.CFMBCoR, 1934
pose that hospItals reserved all their
medical practice for undergraduate
medical students, and assumed that as
soon as a student received his medical
degree he would take himself off to prac-
tise outside the hospital walls! It is hard
to listen patiently to such suggestions.
Yet it would seem probable-even with-
out the abundant evidence available to
prove it-that the belief "the way to
secure good nursing is to have a school"
lies at the heart of most of the nursing
problems.
All graduate nurses, and all other
workers, who nurse the sick for hire
should be licensed by the State. Some
means should be devised for State licen,
sure of all schools which claim to prepare
students to give any form of nursing
care for hire. Schools of nursing must
be developed which are directed with a
primary educational aim and animated by
professional ideals. They must co-operate
with hospitals but they must have their
own management and their own budgets
if they are to function as educational
institutions and to meet the social needs
of the community.
Notes from the National OFfice
Contributed by JEAN S. WILSON, Reg. N., Executive Secretary.
Reports from the Provincial Associa,
tions of Registered Nurses to the autumn
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Canadian Nurses Association showed
that even during the summer, organiza'
tion activities were carried on. In addi,
tion to their individual programmes,
these units have under consideration the
resolutions referred to them by the C.N.
A. from the General Meeting of 1934.
Alberta
The Alberta Association of Registered
Nurses has issued a reprinting of the
Registered Nurses Act and by, laws of
the Association following the adoption of
amendments to the Act and the by, laws.
In future the Council of seven members
shall hold office for a two'year period;
the council,elect, at its first meeting, shall
appoint the officers from among its mem'
bers. Provision is made whereby a repre,
sentative (the chairman: if possible) of
each of the three sections shall be invited
to meet the Council at its various meet'
ings. These section representatives shall
have the privilege of taking part in the
discussions of the business of the Council
without voting privileges.
British Columbia
Already the Graduate Nurses Associa,
tion of British Columbia is considering
plans for the arrangements for the C.N.
A. General Meeting in 1936, which is to
be held in Vancouver. Miss Kathleen
Sanderson, executive secretary of the
Greater Vancouver Health League, has
been appointed convener of the commit,
tee on arrangements.
Manitoba
The Manitoba Association of Register,
ed Nurses, through a specially appointed
committee, is undertaking the reorganiza'
tion of the provincial office and the Mani,
toba Central Directory. The appropria'
tion allowed for the operation of an in'
terchange of nurses scheme in Manitoba
578
having heen absorbed, this activity is com,
pleted. Negotiations are proceeding for
reciprocal registration with the General
Nursing Council of England and Wales.
New Brunswick
At the annual meeting of the New
Brunswick Association of Registered
Nurses the following resolutions were
adopted:
1. That the following committee be formed
to function along the lines recommended by
the Canadian Nurses Association at the To,
ronto Meeting, 1934. and to find out what
can be accomplished in the way of establish,
ing a central registry in New Brunswick which
will be able to provide all types of nursing
service to those in need of this: Convener,
Miss Agnes D. Carson (organizer and for
nine years Director of the Central Bureau of
Nursing Service in Detroit City); committee
members, Miss Mabel McMullen, Miss H. S.
Dykeman, Sister Veronica, Miss Winnifred
Dawson.
2. That an approved training school for
nurses in New Brunswick shall have the fol,
lowing (minimum) staff: superintendent of
nurses, assistant superintendent of nurses,
qualified instructor, night superintendent, all
registered in New Brunswick; that no hospital
shall conduct a training school unless it has a
daily average of 40 occupied beds including
bassinettes and is able to give training in
courses as approved by the N.B. Association
of Registered Nurses; that the minimum en-
trance educational requirement shall be junior
matriculation.
3. That $50.00 yearly for five years be
contributed toward the Florence Nightingale
Memorial Endowment Fund from the provin-
cial treasury (this is in addition to the volun'
tary contributions which may be raised toward
the Scholarship Fund).
4. That candidates writing the Registra'
tion Examinations who make an aggregate of
55 per cent and not less than 45 per cent on
any two papers, be allowed a pass mark. (The
present pass mark is 50 per cent on all
papers. )
5. That the secretary of the New Brunswick
Association of Registered Nurses write to the
secretary of the New Brunswick Hospital As,
sociation and recommend that the latter Asso,
ciation consider sending a representative to the
annual meetings of the New Brunswick Asso,
ciation of Registered Nurses.
VOL. xxx, No. 12
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
Each member of the Registered Nurses
Association of Nova Scotia has received
a summary of the Report of the Survey
of Nursing Education in Canada. The
summary was prepared chiefly by Dr. H.
Benge Atlee, a member of the Provincial
Joint Study Committee in Nova Scotia.
At the semi, annual examination for the
registration of nurses, only fifty per cent
of the candidates were successful in pass'
ing these examinations; the greatest num'
ber of failures were in bacteriology. Pay'
ment of the annual fee is cancelled for
those nurses who by examination (in
May) waiver or reciprocity join the As'
sociation prior to the current annual
meeting.
Ontario
The Registered Nurses Association of
Ontario is divided into nine district asso'
ciations. In sections of the province,
where distance is great between centres
of population, the district associations
have organized local groups. Five districts
have adopted this plan. The local groups
hold regular meetings and have a general
district annual meeting. Copies of the
minutes of each meeting of the local
groups are sent to the district secretary
who forwards them to the president and
secretary of the Provincial Association.
By means of the local group type of or'
ganization it has been found that mem'
bers take a keener interest in the Regis'
tered Nurses Association of Ontario.
Prince Edward Island
The quarterly meeting of the Graduate
Nurses Association of Prince Edward
Island was held in picnic form in Septem'
ber. A large number of the members were
in attendance and, in addition to hearing
the reports of the official delegates to the
C.N.A. General Meeting, there was a
lively discussion on the registration of
practical nurses. A short talk on the
National Enrolment of Nurses by Miss
Mona G. Wilson resulted in several
members re,enrolling.
rWCEMBER, 1 Q H
579
Quebec
Following the September meeting of
the Board of Management, Association
of Registered Nurses of the Province of
Quebec, the secretary wrote, in part,
"This will acknowledge with grateful ap
preciation, correspondence, copies of
minutes of the Executive Committee
meetings of the C.N .A., the resolutions
approved in General Meeting, 1934, the
list of officers, C.N.A., 1934,36, and
statistical statement of the budget for
1935 and 1936. Oddly enough, every'
member present had attended the General
Meeting in June. We appreciate very
much having copies of these minutes, and
all other valuable information which is
sent to us from the C.N.A. office from
time to time. It will be our own fault if
we are not familiar with the plans and
progress of our National Association of
which we in Quebec constitute so large
a part."
The annual meeting of the A.R.N.
P.Q. is to be held in the Ritz,Carlton
Hotel, Montreal, on January 30 and 31,
1935. The chairmen of the sections form
the programme committee with Miss
Martha Batson, chairman of the nursing
education section, as convener.
Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Registered Nurses
Association continues to increase its mem'
bership since the amended Hospital Regu,
lations make registration in Saskatchewdn
obligatory for all nurses employed in hos,
pitals in that province. Committees amI
sections are organized and busy.
In IH emoriam
On Remembrance Day a basket of au'
tumn flowers and foliage was placed be,
fore the Canadian Nurses Memorial in
the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa by
the Canadian Nurses A
sociation.
Greetings
The staff of the National Offiæ of the
Canadian Nurses Association
:\.tends
best wishes for a Happy Christmas
l'.IS()n
to ,.11 mcmhers of the AssoÓation.
News
New. Item. intended for publication in the enauing iøaue mu.t reach the Journal not later than the eïahth of the
precedma month. In order to en.ure accuracy all mntributiona mould be typewritten and double-.paced.
Notes
ALBERTA
LETHBRIDGE: The Lethbridge Graduate
Nurses Association met recently at St. Mi
chael's Hospital. Thirty-two nurses were
present including the St. Michael's staff. Miss
M. Slater and Mrs. P. M. Sauder, appointed
to investigate hospital contracts suitable for
nurses and their families, gave a report of
their investigations. Five of our members at-
tended the convention in Edmonton and Miss
H. Levenick, superintendent of the Galt Hos-
pital, and Miss M. O'Neil, of the private duty
section, read interesting reports.
MARRIED: On Oct. 14, 1934, Miss Verna
Evelyn Bell (class of 1930, Vancouver Gen-
eral Hospital), to Mr. Cecil Walker.
MARRIED: On Oct. 22, 1934, Miss Helen
Hocking (Vancouver General Hospital), to
Mr. St. Clair Rivers.
MARRIED: Recently, Mrs. Lilli as Puffer
(class of 1920, Galt Hospital), to Mr. A.
Bletcher.
CALGARY: The Calgary Association of
Graduate Nurses met on Oct. 16 with the
president, Miss P. Gilbert in the chair. It was
decided to apply for affiliatjon with the Local
Council of Women. Miss F. E. C. Reid gave
an interesting report of the convention of the
Alberta Association of Registered Nurses. A
round-table discussion followed and was much
enjoyed. Miss Maberly, of the Calgary Group
Nursing Society, gave a report of the progress
the society is making. The public is taking
up the idea rapidly and subscriptions are com-
ing in at a gratifying rate.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER: The following are the results
of examinations held in September for candi-
dates wishing to obtain title and certificate of
Registered Nurse in British Columbia. Ninety-
three nurses wrote the examinations. The
standing obtained was as follows: First Class
(80 per cent and over): C. M. Clibborn, Van-
couver General Hospital and U.B.C.; E. H.
Blanchet, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria: M.
H. F. Thomas, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria, and J. K. Walters, Vancouver General
Hospital, equal; F. S. Pearl; G. 1. Browne; H.
E. B. Fleming; R. Cheeseman: D. A, Sharpe;
1. E. Lamont; K. 1. Smith; E. M. Davis and
G. 1. Mainwaring-Johnson, equal; M. E. Law-
son; E. H. Bain; D. G. May; M. I. Orr: A. P.
Belecky and E. D. Hickman, equal; G. P. Mer-
cer and M. W. Wallbank, equal; K. M. Creel-
man and C. 1. P. Gray, equal. Second Class
580
(65 per cent to 80 per cent): D. 1. Neuman;
1. Porter and E. M. Richardson, equal; E. A.
Wildman and F. E. Dopson, equal; G. C.
Newport; M. K. Maude; H. C. Kendall and
C. F. Nelson, equal; A. F. Lanegraff and W.
M. Morris and J. A. Robertson, equal; V. A.
Johnston and B. C. Risa and I. 1. McAstoc-
ker, equal; R. C. Ashley and I. Chodat, equal;
M. O. Blundell and M. E. Heath, equal; M.
H. Steven and M. E. Tingle, equal; V. G.
Baker and E. R. McCulloch, equal; J. O. An-
nand; M. Noble and C. A. Platt, equal; N.
Cunningham; D. C. Mackin; A. Stratton; M.
Olund; D. J. Barton; E. C. Wattie; M. E. Y.
Day and M. E. Nichols, equal; E. Mc1. Phil-
lips; J. E. Wilson and C. M. Gowans, equal;
M. E. Aitken and E. K. McGee and A. H.
Stevenson and M. E. Dunn, equal; M. H. Ed-
wards; H. M. McGrade and M. H. Hewett.
equal; I. M. Westman and 1. P. Ferris and F.
M. Stacey, equal; H. M. Fowler and W. M.
Johnston, equal; G. M. Leresche and A. M.
Suffil, equal; H. E. Garratt; F. A. Barbaree;
M. C. Bridgman and E. M. Forbes, equal;
R. E. Jenkins; E. A. Felker; E. 1. Dann-
hauer and J. I. McNeill, equal; P. A. Mc-
Leod: M. E. Mitchell; H. M. Higgs; M. M.
Verchere; E. T. Clappier; K. Jackson; M. W.
Hallam and M. W. Inglis, equal. Passed (60
per cent to 65 per cent): J. C. Gray; E. D.
Egg. Passed with (1) supplemental: B. Ball.
MANITOBA
WINNIPEG: The election of the following
officers of the Nurses Alumnae Association of
the Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg, took
place at a meeting held on Oct. 10: Honorary
president, Sister St. Bertha; president, Miss E.
Bannatyne; vice-president, Miss B. Picken;
secretary, Miss S. Honning; treasurer, Miss D.
McDonald.
WINNIPEG: The Winnipeg General Hos-
pital Alumnae Club has been re-organized un-
der the leadership of five groups as follows:
professional problems and current events
group under Miss P. Anderson; social group,
under Mrs. W. H. Anderson; handicrafts
group, under Miss 1. Thordarson; music, art
reading, poetry and drama group, under Miss
E. Wilson; and the social service group under
the leadership of Miss S. Pollexfen. Each
group is preparing a splendid programme for
the winter months, which includes a service un-
dertaken last year, which wí1l be continued by
the social s'ervice group, of caring for two
families, one in the city and One in the
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country. It is also planned to have several
well,known public speakers at our future
meetings.
MARRIED: On Oct. II, 1934, Miss Mildred
McKay (W.G.H., 1931), to Dr. John Roland
McDonald.
MARRIED: In October, 1934, Miss Sarah
Isabella Ramsay (W.G.H., 1927), to Mr. Les'
lie Mackay.
MARRIED: On Oct. 20, 1934, Miss Kate
Schellenberg (W.G.H., 1930), to Mr. A.
Wilke.
NEW BRUNSWICK
FREDERICTON: A meeting of the local
Chapter N.B.A.R.N. took place on November
5, with a good attendance. Plans were made
to provide Christmas boxes for sick nUrse5.
Dr. Gilbert Turner gave an interesting addre5s
on poliomyelitis. We are proud to have three
of our graduates taking postgraduate courses
in Montreal. We realiz.e as never befo
e tpp.
desirability of postgraduate education. The
nurses are: Miss E. Ellis and Miss C. Brighton
(1933), who are taking a course at the Royal
Victoria Maternity Hospital. and Miss M.
Tupper (1932), who is at the Children's
Memorial Hospital.
MONCTON: The local chapter of the
.B.A.R.N. recently held a rummage sale
under the convenership of Mrs. A. Hopper
and Mrs. A. DeBow; a considerable sum was
thus added to the funds of the chapter. A
meeting of the local chapter was held on
November 5 with a large attendance. OU!
annual meeting followed, when the following
officers were elected: President, MIss M. S.
Bennett; vice'president, Miss R. Gunn; secre'
tary, Mrs. A. DeBow; treasurer, Mrs. A.
Hopper; representative to '[he Canadi..m
N.urse. Miss M. E. Maclean, assisted by Mi
"
Honeywell.
SAINT JOHN: The annual meeting of the
local Chapter of the New Brunswick Associa'
tion of Registered Nurses was held at the
Saint John General Hospital with a large at'
tendance. Various reports told of much acti,
vity during the year. The following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. VanDorser;
first vice'president, Miss Carson; second vice'
president, Miss M. Wallace: secretary, Miss C.
Sabeau: treasurer, Miss M. Mcjunkin; regis,
trar, Miss M. Fraser. The committee con'
veners are: Benefit Fund, Miss E. J. Mitchell;
Public Health Section, Miss A. A. Burns; Pri,
vate Duty, Miss H. Reicker; Canadian N.mse.
Miss S. Hartley. A surprise shower was ten'
dered Miss Ethel Crawfoid hy a great num'
ber of her classmates and friends uron the
occasion of her approaching marriage. A de'
lightful Hallow'een party was tendered to the
DECEMBER, 1934
581
POST-GRADUATE COURSE
IN THE
NURSING of TUBERCULOSIS
.
The Saint John Tuberculosis
Hospital, Saint John, New
Brunswick, offers a three
months' post-graduate course
in Tuberculosis Nursing.
.
For further information apply to:
Miss Florence E. Coleman, R. N.,
SUPERINTENDENT OF NURSES
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
SCHOLARSHIP
.-\ scholarship of the vdlue of l\\ehe
hundred and fifty dollars (
1250)
is offered by the Canadidn
urses
Association for the purpose of
taking a course .It Bedford College,
London, England, during the ses-
sion 1935-36 for either (1)
urse
Administr,ltors ,md Te<tchers in
Schools of K ur!>ing, or (2) Puhlic
He,dth.
.-\pplicdnts must he v;r,ulu,ltcs of an
dppron.d School of :\ ursing <tncl he
registered in the pro\'ince in \\ hich
they ,Ire actj"c1y engdged in nurs-
ing. The age limit is 41 ye,lfS.
.-\pplic.ttion blanks ,lOd calend<trb
giving full infornMtion of the
courses I1ldyh<.' had on request,from
The Execu tive Secretary,
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
1-111 Crescent Street.
Iontreal,
to \\hom completed 'Ipplic.ltions
should he r('turned 110t titer th.lO
\1.lfCh J, I I )JS. .dong \\ith JIl'n'
.lr}
fllrlll
.md creden t i.lls.
582
THE CANADIAN NURSE
affiliating nurses by the nursing staff of the
Saint John Tuberculosis Hospital. Miss Flor'
ence Coleman, superintendent of nurses, was
a gracious hostess.
MARRIED: On Sept. 6, 1934, Miss Doris L.
Robinson (S.J.G.H., class 1926), to Mr.
Thane Belyea.
ST. STEPHEN: The annual meeting of the
local chapter of the N.B.A.R.N. was held on
October 16, when favourable reports wen>
given by the secretary and treasurer and the
election of officers resulted as follows: Presi,
dent, Miss Mabel McMullen; vice-president,
Miss C. Boyd; treasurer, Miss J. Murray;
secretary, Miss M. Dunbar; refreshment and
entertainment committee, Miss Boyd and Miss
Murray; reporter to 'The Canadian Nurse.
Mrs. Harry Short. Miss Grace Moffat, super'
intendent of the Chipman Memorial Hospi'.:al,
has returned from a visit to Montreal.
WOODSTOCK: A meeting of the Alumnae
Association of the L. P. Fisher Memorial Hos,
pital was held on Oct. 16, when Dr. J. F. L
Brown gave an interesting lecture on public
health.
NOVA SCOTIA
ANTIGONISH: At the recent meeting of the
Maritime Conference of the Catholic Hospital
Association the following officers were elected
to serve during the coming year: President,
Sister Kerr, R.N., Reg. Ph., Hôtel Dieu Hos,
pital, Campbell ton, N.B.; first vice'president,
Sister Veronica, R.N., St. Joseph's Hospital,
St. John, N.B.; second vice-president, Sister M.
Camillus, R.N., City Hospital, Charlottetown,
P.E.I.; third vice'president, Sister John Baptist,
Bethany, Antigonish, N.S.; secretary,treasurer,
Sister Kenny, R.N., Hôtel Dieu Hospital,
Chatham, N.B. The committee includes:
Mother M. Ignatius, R.N., Bethany, Antigo,
nish, N.S.; Mother Audet, Hôtel Dieu Hos'
pital, Campbellton, N.B.; Mother Angela de
Brescia, Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Moncton, N.B.;
Mother M. Sacred Heart, Hôtel Dieu Hospi,
tal, Chatham, N.B.; Sister Anna Seton, Hali,
fax Infirmary, Halifax, N.S.
HALIFAX: The Halifax branch of the R.N.
A. of N.S. met on Oct. 16, with Miss Edith
Fenton, president, in the chair. Plans for win,
ter activities were discussed, among them a
proposed refresher course. The three Halifax
training schools recently held their graduation
exercises, the Halifax Infirmary graduating
thirteen nurses, the Children's Hospital twelve,
and the Victoria General, nineteen, three of
whom are male nurses. At the Victoria Gen,
eral exercises, an unusual feature was the pres'
entation of the gold medal for highest aggre-
gate to each of three students, who totalled
the same number of points: the fortunate
nurses were Miss V. Hamm, Miss M. Ernst
and Miss D. Enman. Miss Jean Nelson (V.
G.H., 1932) has been appointed operating
room supervisor at Payzant Memorial Hospital,
Windsor, N.S. Several promotions were made
at the New Waterford General Hospital re'
cently, Miss S. MacNeil, formerly day super'
visor being promoted to instructress of nurses;
Miss E. Johnston, formerly night supervisor,
to the same position On day duty, and Miss J.
Campbell, to the position vacated by Miss
Johnston. Miss J. McKinlay (Public Health,
McGill, 1934) has been appointed to the staff
of the V.O.N., Dartmouth. Miss E. Arm'
strong has been appointed to the staff of the
V.O.N. in Halifax.
SYDNEY: A meeting of the Registered
Nurses Association of Cape Breton and Vic,
toria branch was held on Oct. 2, with Miss J.
Sullivan presiding. She urged members who
have not paid their Provincial Registration
fee
to do so now, as a flat rate of $10.00
will be accepted as full payment of all arrears,
during the present year only. At a special
meeting on Oct. 16 it was decided not to
reduce the private nurses' rates.
MARRIED: On Nov. 6, 1934, Miss Gertrude
Banks (formerly of the staff of the V.O.N.,
Halifax), to Mr. Charles Moss.
MARRIED: Recently, Miss Frances Hagen
(Public Health, McGill, 1933) of the staff of
the V.O.N., Lunenburg, to Mr. Gilbert Ber,
ringer.
MARRIFD: In September, 1934, Miss Edna
Hurst (St. Martha's, 1928), to Mr. Hugh
Gillis.
MARRIED: On Oct. 9, 1934, Miss Margaret
Josephine Mahoney (St. Joseph's, 1927), to
Dr. Darrell Delancey Althouse.
ONTARIO
DISTRICT 1
LONDON: Miss Margaret McLaughlin, a
graduate of the School of Nursing of Victoria
Hospital, London, has been honoured with
an appointment as graduate nurse on the staff
of the London Life Insurance Company of
London. Miss McLaughlin is a graduate of
the course in hospital administration given in
the Division of Study for Graduate Nurses of
the University of Western Ontario, London,
and has had experience in the private duty
field. She has been on the staff of Wellesley
Hospital, Toronto, and of Grace Hospital,
Windsor, and for the past ten years has been
connected with Victoria Hospital, London, as
head of the out-patient and emergency ser'
vice, and latterly as second assistant and prac'
tical instructor. This is a splendid opportunity
and the congratulations and best wishes of her
many friends are extended to her.
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DISTRICTS 2 AND 3
OWEN SOUND: At a recent meeting th
Owen Sound Nurses Alumnae Association
was addressed by MIss Cryderman, represent-
ing the Victorian Order of Nurses. The chair
was occupied by the president, Miss F. Rae.
In honor of Miss Ann McMillan, assistant
superintendent of the General and Marine
Hospital, who is leaving to accept the position
of superintendent of the Listowel Memorial
Hospital, about thirty local graduate nurses
participated in a charming social evening.
The nurses presented Miss McMillan with a
remembrance in Lady Hamilton silver.
MARRIED: On October 20, 1934, Miss Cora
Stuart (G. and M.H., 1923), to Mr. Howard
Graham.
BRANTFORD: A meeting of the Victorian
Order of Nurses, districts 2 and 3, was held
here recently, fifteen members being present.
The guests were entertained at dinner and
Miss Anne Ash, formerly with the V.O.N.
in Calgary for mneteen years, gave an interest-
ing talk on her experiences in the West. Miss
H. Kerr, of the V.O.N., has commenced her
Mother League classes for girls. Miss T.
Dawson, organi 4 er for the Home Nursing
Classes, Brantford Branch, Ontario Red Cross,
has outlined a constructive programme for the
coming season. Following is a list of th.::
various
roups and teachers: Gunther, LtJ.,
Miss Nichol; Paterson, Ltd., Group 1, Miss
Ar
ue; Wm. Patterson, Ltd., Group 2, Mi,s
Kuhl; Ladies from Rebecca Lodge, Miss Kerr;
Mohawk Institute (Indian School), Mi
s
Moyer.
MARRIED: On October 2, 1934, Miss
Frances Jean Batty (B.G.H., 1930), to Mr.
Wilfred Knoepfli.
MARRIED: On July 30, 1934, Miss Grace
Turnbull (B.G.H., 1927), to Mr. James
Davison.
GUELPH: Mi
,. M. Clark, a graduate of
Guelph General Hospital, has accepted the
position of aSiistant superintendent at Smiths
Falls Public Hospital. She has had consi-
derable experience in hospital admmistration;
as operating room supervisor at the Moose
Jaw General Hospital, and for over six years
was assistant superintendent at the General
Hospital, Galt.
STRATFORD: At the annual meeting of th
Alumnae A"'
ociation, the following officers
were elected: President, Mis
K. Snider: vic...
president, Miss D. Rohfritch; secretary-tr.-.a-
surer, Miss F. Weicker. Appropriate cerc'
monies marked the opemng of the paediatric
ward of the General Hospital: this ward was
made possihle through the efforb of the
DECEMBER, 1934
583
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THE CANADIAN NURSE
Women's Hospital Aid. Mrs. Snider formaily
dedicated the room furnished by the Alumnae.
MARRIFD: Recently, Miss Olive Morris
(S.G.H., 1932), to Mr. Frank A. Davis.
DISTRICT 4
HAMILTON: A successful bridge was held
by the Hamilton district on October 22, the
proceeds being donated to the Permanent
Education Fund. The regular meeting of the
A.A. of the H.G.H. was held on November
6, when Dr. Cornett gave an interesting
address on the life of Dr. Edward Trudeau.
DISTRICT 5
BRAMPTON: MARRIED: On August 28,
1934, Miss Dorothy McArter (St. Michael's
Hospital, 1932), to Dr. Herbert Hetherington.
MARRIED: On August 28, 1934, Miss Mar'
garet Sugrue (St. Michaei's Hospital, 1932),
to Mr. J. Murphy.
TORONTO: Miss Edith Campbell, M.M.,
A.R.R.C., until recently superintendent of
the Victorian Order of Nurses in Toronto
is now living in Montreal. During the four'
teen years Miss Campbell was in charge of
the Toronto Branch she brought about many
improvements in the living and working con'
ditlOns of the staff, and stimulated a very real
esprit de corps. At the time of her retirement
she was chairman of the joint enrolment com'
mittees of R.N.A.O. and an honorary presi,
dent of the Toronto Unit of the Overseas
Nurses Association. Miss Campbell is a gradu,
ate of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York,
where, prior to 1914, she was in charge of the
Hospital Social Service Department. Going
overseas with the first contingent she was
attached to a British Hospital in Boulogne.
Being given rank of Matron, she opened the
Canadian Red Cross Hospital at Taplow in
1915, and remained in charge for several
years. Later she returned to France as Matron
of No. 1 Canadian General Hospital at
Etaples, where she received the Military Med..1
for devotion to duty during enemy air Lom'
bardment.
TORONTO: The annual meeting of tht.
Community Health Association of Greater
Toronto was held on October 22. Miss Man'
ning p:esided and Dr. C. H. McCuaig, senior
assistant and chief of staff at the Psychiatric
Hospital, Toronto, spoke on "The problems
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confronting the nurse in community mental
health." Miss Gamble was re,elected as preSl'
dent for the ensuing year.
TORONTO: On October 20, the Right Hon.
R. B. Bennett laid the foundation stone of thp
new Women's College Hospital, Toronto, of
which Miss H. Meiklejohn is the capable
superintendent. A guard of honor of naval
cadets preceded the procession of speakers and
guests to the platform and Girl Guides act
d
as ushers. The members of the present nu,s'
ing staff of the hospital, wearing blue capes
over their uniforms, were seated together.
The invocation was read by Sir Robert Fal,
coner, who later, dedicated the hospital. The
copper box placed in the foundation stone
contained greetings from the alumnae of tod;ty
to those of tomorrow.
TORONTO: A meeting of the staff council,
Toronto Branch, Victorian Order of Nurses,
was held on October 2, when a reception
was held in honour of Miss Ethel Cryderman
who recently took over the duties of superin'
tendent of the branch. She was presented
with a bouquet and, in expressing thanks,
referred to the fine spirit of service which had
been developed in the branch during Miss
Campbell's administration. Miss M. McNa,
mara, president of the staff council, assured
Miss Cryderman of the co'operation and sup'
port of members of the staff and asked her
to accept the office of Honorary President of
the Council.
WESTON: At the conclusion of the business
meeting of the Alumnae Association of the
Connaught Training School for Nurses, held
on September 20, Miss E. MacPherson Dick,
son, superintendent of nurses, was presented
with a silver tea service on the occasion of
her retirement.
DISTRICT 6
PETERBOROUGH: Chapter C, District 6.
R.N.A.O. held a well attended meeting on
September 25 when its president, Miss Ander'
son, gave a report of the C.N..A., Biennial
Meeting. On October 2] we were happy to
welcome Miss Buck, president of the R.N.A.O.
who praised District 6 for the splendid work
it is doing in relation to the Education Fund.
She commended us to go over our membershir
list and make all possible effort to increase
it. We think we can and will.
The Central Registry Graduate Nurses
Phone Garfield 0382
Registrar:
ROBENA BURNETT, Reg.N.
91 Balsam Ave., Hamilton, Onto
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PETI:RBOROlfGH: In Ocwbel the Nichoil's
Hospital Alumnae A"sociation sponsored a
motion picture, which proved a huge success.
The sum of $300.00 previously donated by the
Association to purchase beds for the pedia'
tric department, has lately been utilized for
that purpose. Miss O. Waterman (1919),
formerly superintendent of the Lady Minto
Hospital, Cochrane, has assumed charge of
the General Hospital, Orillia. Miss S. B,tt,
tersby (1932), is taking a public health course
at Toronto University. Miss F. Vicker"
(1921), is taking a postgraduate Course 111
the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.
DISTRICT 7
SMITHS FALLS: Mtsses Hewitt (1931) and
Hart (1932), have completed a postgraduate
course in gynaecology and obstetrics at the
Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Hospital.
Miss M. Earner, class (1929) is taking a post-
graduate course at the Laurentian. Sanatorium,
Ste. Agathe. Miss H. Turner and Miss E.
Dezell completed an affiliating course at the
Western Hospital, Toronto. The Alumnae
Association of the Smiths Falls Public Hos'
pital held their first annual meeting on Sep'
tember 18, the anniversary of its organization.
Plans were made for the winter's work and
the meeting was enthusiastic. The officers
of the year are: Hon. Presidents, Miss M. F.
Bliss and Mrs. George Mulligan: president,
Miss Lila Lesson; vice'president, Mrs. Gordon
Marsh; secretary'treasurer, Miss Grace Gore:
convener, social committee, Mrs. Johnston.
MARRIED: On September 15, 1934, Miss
Jean Osborne, formerly assistant superinten'
dent of the Smiths Falls Puhlic Hospital, to
Mr. Geo:ge Mulligan.
MARRIED: On September 15, 1934, Miss
Bernice Chanonhouse (Kingston General Hos,
pital, 1930), to Mr. Arthur Whyte, B.Sc.
DISTRICT 8
Many Canadians throughout the land are
having the privilege of hearing Dame Janet
Campbell as she travels across the continent
on her speaking tour under the auspices of
the Canadian Council on Child and Family
WeHare. The nurses of Ottawa were espe,
cially interested in her visit, for District 8,
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario had
the pleasure of making the arrangements for
her stay in Ottawa, at the request of the
Health Divi,ion of the Council. One of the
ollt..tanding events was a dinner, held at the
Château Laurier, when Dr. Lomer, Medical
Officer of Health for Ottawa, presided, and all
the various organizations of Ottawa interested
in social, health or educational work, were in,
vited to send memher representati....es. Seldom
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586
THE CAN ADIAN NURSE
has Ottawa seen such a general representation
of her workers. Service clubs, Children's Aid,
Catholic Women's League, Hebrew Benevo-
lent Society, Y.W.C.A., Trades and Labour
and many other organi
ations (thirty-two in
all) were drawn together by the common
bond of interest in community welfare. Dame
Janet chose as her topic, "School Medical In-
spection," a subject -especially suited to an
Ottawa audience where' this service has re-
cently been inaugurated.
OTTAWA: Miss E. Osborne has resigned
from the staff of the Ottawa Civic Hospital
and ha5 entered the University of Toronta,
where she is studying Public Health. Miss B.
McKerracher (O.C.H. 1931), is taking the
public health course in Toronto. Miss A.
Lindsay (O.C.H. 1930), has been appointed
assistant supervisor of the children's ward of
the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Miss G. Ferguson
(O.C.H. 1930), has been appointed practical
instructor replacing Miss C. Murray, who is
now studying in England.
MARRIED: On October 6, 1934, Dorothy
Frances Go:man (O.C.H. 1930), to Arthur
Labbe.
MARRIED:On September 29, 1934, Berna-
dette Smith (O.C.H. 1928), to Paul Gormley.
MARRIED: Recently, Ruth Fraser (O.C.H.
1931), to Dr. John Murphy.
DISTRICT 9
HAILEYBURY: A meeting of the Cobalt,
Haileybury and New Liskeard branch of the
R.N.A.O. was held on October 9, with Miss
H. E. Smith, the newly appointed distnct
president and chapter chairman, presiding.
An address was given by Miss M. C. Mc.
Cuaig, western supervisor of the V.O.N. The
next meeting will be held in Cobalt.
NORTH BAY: The graduation exercises of
the School of Nursing of St. Joseph's Hos-
pital, North Bay, took place recently when
eight nurses received their diplomas. A pre-
sentation was made to Rev. Sister Felicitas
dS a token of the appreciation of the gradu.
ating class.
SAULT STE. MARIE: The General Hospital
Alumnae Association met on October 9 to
hear a delightful talk by Mrs. A. Durlin
,
who told of her training at St. George's Hos-
pital, London, England. Miss A. O'Connor
gave an excellent report of the Biennial
Meeting. Miss E. Hoodless has returned from
New York, where she took a postgraduate
course in obstetrics and surgical nursing at
the Lying.in.Hospital. Miss R. McCarroll
(1926), who has returned from a six years'
:,ojourn in India as a missionary is at present
in Toronto taking a po&tgraduate course.
Miss E. Gordon presided at the October meet-
ing of the Sault Chapter of the R.N.A.O.
It was decided to form the chapter into
groups, edch to be responsible for raising the
sum of $5.00 before the end of the 'year.
DISTRICT 10
PORT ARTHUR: A meeting of District 10,
R.N.A.O. took place recently at which Miss
Lovelace presided. An excellent address on
public health nursing was delivered by Miss
Howey. The Alumnae Association of the
Port Arthur General Hospital recently held
a successful novelty sale.
FORT WILLIAM: The McKellar Alumnae
Association held its annual meeting recently.
Mrs. F. Eberts presided and an excellent
paper on the nursing of tuberculosis was given
by Miss M. Boisseau. The election of officers
took place as follows: President, Miss Ether-
ington; first vice'president, Miss E. Laine;
second vice-president, Mrs. J owitt; secretary,
Miss Brown; treasurer, Miss Gleeson; mem-
bership visitor, Miss Kirkpatrick; sick visitor,
Mrs. Pritchard.
MARRIED: On August 27, 1934, Miss Laura
Louise Young (Port Arthur General Hos-
pital), to Mr. Robert M. Nish.
MARRIED: Recently, Miss Ethel M. Ste-
wardson (McKellar General Hospital), to Mr.
William J. Burney.
QUEBEC
ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL: Recent ap-
pointments at the Royal Victoria Hospital,
are as fo[ows: Miss H. Eberle (R.V.H.,
1929), has been appointed assistant to Mt.òs
Flanagan at the Montreal Neurological Insti-
tute. Miss M. Goldie (R.v.H., 1930), Miss
L. MacNichol (R.V.H., 1933), Miss E.
Boune (R.V.H., 1933), are head nurses on
the staff of the Institute. Miss Margaret
Smith (R,V.H., 1932), has been appointed
hedd nurse in charge of Ward "F". At the
November meeting of the Alumnae Associa-
tion an excellent lecture on "The Origin of
Communicable Diseases" was given by Dr.
H. B. Cushing.
MARRIED: On Sept. 3, 1934, Miss Jean D.
Bain (R.V.H., 1919), to Dr. H. C. Bird.
MARRIED: On Sept. 29, 1934, Miss Isabella
B. Drysdale (R.V.H., 1933), to Mr. J. Fred.
eric Sparling.
MARRIED: On Sept. 29, 1934, Miss Mary
Macdonald Drysdale (R.V.H., 1930), to Mr.
John Trainor.
MARRIED: On Sept. 20, 1934, Miss Lillian
Horsman (R.V.H., 1927), to Mr. Gordon E.
Wight.
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NEWS NOTES
MARRIED: On Sept. 20, 1934, Miss Kather-
ine Webster Leckie (R.V.H., 1930), to Mr.
Bertram Francis Wilcox.
MARRIED: On Sept. 6. 1934, Miss Helen
Rice (R.V.H., 1917). to Mr. Lawrence Au-
gustus Squair.
MARRIED: On Sept. 18, 1934. Miss Mar-
garet Rowley (R.V.H.. 1930), to Mr. John
Gerard Holland.
MONTREAL: The Alumnae Association of
the McGill School for Graduate Nurses is
planning a large dance to be held in the
Windsor Hotel on St. Valentine's Day,
February 14, 1935. The proceeds are to be
donated to the support of the school.
MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL: On
October 9, the new PrIvate Patients' Pavilion
of this hospital was officially opened by His
Excellency the Governor General. At present
only three floors are opened for use. MISS
A. Wells (M.G.H. 1928), is in charge of
the second floor: Miss Dyer (Western Hos-
pital, 1912), is in charge of the third floor
and Miss G. Calder (M.G.H. 1919), is in
charge of the fourth. All operating'room work
for the whole Western Division is done in
the new operating rooms on the tenth floor.
The division is entirely staffed by graduate
nurses, which has enabled us to put in force
an eight-hour day. Those who knew the
Western Hospital as it was, will be interested
to hear of the enlargement of the out-patient
department. This change was made possible
through the utili
ation of the old dining rooms
and kitchens and the former X-ray depart-
ment. On October 17, 1934, Miss Strumm
completed thirty years of service on the staff
of the hospital. The Alumnae Association
587
presented her with a fitted over-night bag In
black leather with chromium'plated fittings.
She received many congratulations from her
medical and nursing associates. Mi
s C. Wat-
ling (M.G.H. 1909), has been appointed to
the staff at the Central Division as Home
Sister. Miss E. Coombs (M.G.H. 1932), has
been appointed Sister,in,Charge of Ward
'T' in the Central Division.
MARRIED: On October 3, 1934, Mary
Patricia Kenehan (M.G.H., 1927), to Hugh
Raymond Mahoney.
MARRIl:.D: On November 3, 1934, Helzn
McGregor Gardner (M.G.H., 1931), to Dr.
M. Digby Leigh.
MARRIED: On October 6, 1934, Madeline
McKie! (M.G.H., 1932), to Thomas Owen
Evans.
SASKA TCHEW AN
SASKATOON: Dr. J. A. Valens gdve an
interesting lecture to the Saskatoon City Has-
pital Alumnae Association on October 9, on
his observations of hospitals in London,
England, during his recent visit. Miss M.
Chisholm, the president, acted as hostess. Miss
H. J. Johnston (S.C.H. 1931), and Miss E.
P. Cameron (S.C.H. 1931), are takIng post'
graduate courses in the Sanatorium, Saska-
toon. In compliment to Mrs. Leonard Shaw,
the bride of the General Superintendent of
the City Hospital, a delightful tea was gin'J1
by the nursing staff and the Alumnae As<;o'
ciation. Receiving with Mrs. Shaw were Mi
s
E. Amas and Miss M. R. Chisholm. Mrs.
J. A. Valens, Mrs. W. S. LindsdY, Mrs. A.
Croll and Mrs. E. E. Shepley presided over the
tea urn.
OBITUARY
BERTRAND - In the early part of Septem-
ber, 1934, as the result of a motor accident,
Blanche Bertrand. Miss Bertrand was a
member of the class of 1933 of the School
of Nursing of St. Michael's Hospital,
Toronto.
By RNES - In September. 1934, at Colling'
wood, Ont., Mrs. John Byrnes, an early
graduate of the School of Nursing of St.
Michael's Hospital, Toronto.
DECEMBER, 1934
COULTER -The death occurred on October
17, 1934, of Nursing SI
ter Ann Coulter,
who served overseas in the Great \Var.
Mi.... Coulter was a graduate of the School
of NursIng of the Wmnipeg Generdl Ho
-
pitdl and, prior to her la
t illne
... wa!o
relief officer for the city of Sdult Ste. Mdrie,
ant., for two years. A Idrge representation
of the S.llIlt Chapter attended the fllnenl,
when nuhtary honours were accordld hrr.
. OFF. . . DUTY. . .
Just the other day. . we had the sort of stimulating experience. . . which
gives us strength . . . to toil at the editorial oar . . . We were privileged to see
and hear . . . a Real Editor in action . . . No hint will be given as to his identity
. . . except to say that he directs an important periodical . . . published less than
a thousand miles . . . from the fair city of 'f oronto . . . His audience (with one
solitary exception who shall be nameless) was composed of bright spirits . . . such
as authors, poets, artists in blacl{ and white, star reporters . . . and writers of the
persuasive advertisements . . . which ma
e you buy the things you don't need . . .
Surrounded by this heavenly company we were acutely aware . . . of our utter
insignificance . . . Only one thought sustained us . . . we were the only other editor
present . . . 'Though he will never
now it . . . that Real Editor was to us as a man
and a brother. . . He is t.he only person we have yet encountered. . . who seems
to how how it feels to be the editor of a Canadian magazine . . . He spok...e of the
ruthless competition . . . of the high,powered and glittering rival publications . . .
published in Britain . . . and the United States of America . . . He related the sad
h:story . . . of reducing the size of his publication . . . to the irreducible minimum
. . . He touched more in sorrow than in anger. . . uþon the reason why "Indignant
Subscriber" sends in a cancellation . . . instead of a renewal . . . 'Then he referred
to the editorial privilege . . . of carving hun1ts out of long and informative articles
. . . in order to mak..e room for something amusing . . . Yes, that is what he said
. . . amusing . . . He seemed to think.. such a sacrilege was justifiable . . . Of
course, we don't agree with him . . . at least, not out loud. . . 'Then he described
t.he sort of contributions . . . which are or are not welcomed on his editorial des
. . . He said he didn't li1{e dull poetry . . . but that comic verse delighted him. . .
His idea of the perfect length for an article. . . is one thousand words. . . about
four double'spaced typewritten letter size pages . . . in case you don't
now . , .
He deplored the solemnity of most Canadian serious writing. . . and the slopPiness
of the less serious . . . and then he tool{ up the question of the Society Column
. . . We gathered that he feels about this highly necessary department . . . as we
do about News Notes . . . but, li
e him, we decline to be more specific . . . we
agree that nothing can be done about it . . . after all, what are editors for? . . .
'Then he told a nice story . . . about a dachshund and the Dionne quintuplets . , .
which we are saving up . . . in order to point a moral and adorn a tale . . . Later
we saw him surrounded . . . by a seething mob of poets, authors, writers, star
reporters and artists in blac
and white. . . all of whom hope to sell him something
. . . so we folded up our tents. . . li
e the Arabs. . . and silently stole away. . .
and spent the rest of the day . . . speculating on what would happen to us . . . if
we ever tried to exercise the privileges of a Real Editor . . . Once we did ta
e three
semi,.colons and forty,five "problems" . . . out of a serious article. . . and inserted
a few sub,headmgs of our own . . . in the hope of brightening it up . . . But this
is not a serious article . . so we will nut harrow your feelmgs . . . by relating the
consequences
588
VOL. xxx, No. 12
THE CANADIAN NURSE
589
,
THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF "D"
IN GLUCOSE-D
Glucose may be indispensable, but it is not usually sufficient in
itself. In many of the conditions to which glucose therapy is
applied it is necessary to prescribe a low Fat diet, and iF this diet
is continued there is always the risk of subjecting the patient to
fat-soluble vitamin privation. With the deprivation of vitamin D
there is a consequent derangement of the calcium and phosphorus
metabolism, a condition that could be classed as serious, especially
in children.
By reinforcing glucose-as in Glucose-D-with enough vitamin
D to compensate for any deficiency of this calcium-regulating
Factor, it is possible to keep patients for long periods on low Fat
diet without danger of interFering with calcium and phosphorus
metabolism,
Glucose-D is simply pure medicinal glucose (98%) reinforced
with calcium and phosphorus, and sufficient vitamin D to maintain
normal metabolism of these e:ements.
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DITFMßI"R, 19J4
Official
Directory
International Council of Nurses:
Secretan', Miss Anna Schwarzenberg, 14, Quai Gustav Ador. Ceneva, Switzerland
CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Officers
President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss R. M Simpson, Parliament Buildings, Regina, Sask.
First Vice-President..... ........ .l\Jiss G. M. Fairley, General Hospital, Vancouver, B.c.
Second Vice-President.... . . . . . . . . ..Miss
l. L: Moag, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal, P.Q.
Honorary Secretary. . ., ., l\-l1ss. ElsIe Wtlson, 668 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, Man.
Honorary Treasurer... . . . . . . . . . . . .1\1:ISS M. Murdoch, General Hospital, Saint John, N.B'
COUNCILLORS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE'COMMITIEE
Numeral8 preceding names indicate office held, IIÜ: (1) President, Prollincial Nurses Association; (2) Chairman
Nurtring Education Section; (3) Chairman, Public Health Section; (4) Chairman, PrifJate Duty Section. '
Alberta: (1) Miss F. :\Iunrof', Hoyal Alexandra Hos-
pital, Edmonton; (2) :\Iiss J. Connal, GeneralHospi-
tal, Calgary; (3) Miss A. A.
II'Kee, 20ö Oddff'lIo\\<s
Bldg., Calgary; (4) .:\Iiss J. Clow, 229-l:;th Ave. N.\\-.,
Calgary.
British Columbia: (1) Miss M. F. Gray, Dept. of
Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;
(2) Miss L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; (3) Miss M. Duffield, 175 Broadway East,
Vancouver; (4) Miss M. Mirfield, Beachcroft Nursing
Home, Cook St., Victoria.
Manitoba: (1) :\Jiss Mildred Reid, :'Ilur
es Residence,
Winnipeg General Ho
pital, Winnipeg; (2) Miss G.
Thompson, ;\Iiserif'ordia Hospital, Winnipeg; (:3)
Miss E. l\icKelvey, 603 .:\If'dical Arts Building,
Winnipeg; (4) Miss K. McCallum, 181 Enfield
Crescent, Norwood.
New Brunswick: (1) Miss A. J. MacMaster, Moncton
Hospital, Moncton; (2) Sister Corinne Kerr, Hotel
Dieu Hospital, Campbellton; (3) MiBB Ada Burns,
Health Centre, Saint John; (4) MiBB Mabel Mc-
Mullen, St. Stephen.
Nova Scotia: (1) Miss Lenta G. Hall, Victorian Ordf'r
of Nurses, Halifax; (2) l\Iiss H. ,Jonl'a!', Victoria
General Hospital, Halifax; (3) Miss 1\1. O. Gray,
New Gla
gow; (4) :\Iiss C. Mad f'an, 97 Routh
Kline St. Halifax.
Ontario: (I) Miss Majorie Buck, Norfolk Hospital,
Simcoe; (2) Miss S. .:\1. Jamieson, R.R.l, Brantford,
(3) Airs. Agnes Haygarth, 19 Droruore Crf's('f'nt,
Westdale, Hamilton; (4) Miss J. L. Church, 120
Rtrathcona Ave., Ottawa.
Prince Edward Island: (1) :\liss Anna Mair, P.E.L
Ho
pital, Charlotteto\\<n; (2) 1\iiss F. Lavers, Prince
Co. Hospital, SummerÛde; (3) l\iiss Dorothy l\Ic-
Kenna, Summer
ide; (4) Miss M. Gamble, 51
Ambro
e St. Charlotteto\\n.
Quebec: (1) Miss C. V. Barrett, Royal Victoria Mater-
nity Hospital, Montreal; (2) Miss Martha Batson,
Montreal General Hospital, Montreal; (3) Miss
Christine Dowling, 1246 Bishop Street, Montreal;
(4) Miss C. M. Watling, 1230 Bishop Street, Montreal.
Saskatchewan: (1) :\Iiss Edith Ama
, City Ho!'pital,
askatoon; (2) :\Iiss Annie La\\Tie, Gen('ral Ho>pital,
Hegina; (:
) :\1rs. E. :\1. F('pny, Dept. of Public
Health, Parliament ßldgs., Hegina; (4) Miss Helen
Wills, 21->40 Robimon St., Hcgina.
CHAIRMEN NATIONAL SECTIONS
NURSING EDUCATION: Mis
:\Iarion Lindeburgh, School
for Graduate Nurses, McGill Univer
ity, Montreal;
PUBLIC HEALTH: l\Ii
s A. E. Wells, Dept. of Health,
Legislative Bldgs., \\-
innipeg; PRIVATE DUTY: Miss
1\1. U. Chisholm, 80."'} 7th Ave. N., Saskatoon.
Executive Secretary: Miss Jean S. Wilson, National Office, 1411 Crescent St.,
Montreal, P.O.
OFFICERS OF SECTIONS OF CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Nt:RSING EDUCATION SECTION
CRAIRM "'N: l\liss Marion Lindeburgh, School for Grad-
uate Nur
es, .:\IcGiIl UniverÛty, l\Iontreal; VICE-
CHAIRMAN: Miss Constance Brewster, General Hos-
pital, Hamilton; SECRETARY: Miss Nora Nagle, 270
Cooper Street, Ottawa; TREA-SURER: Miss M. Blanche
Anderson, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa.
COUNCILLORs-Alberta: :\iiss J. Connal, General
Hospital, Calgary. British Columhia: 1\liss L.
lit"heIl, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria. Mani-
toba: Miss G. Thompson, Misericordia Hmpital
Winnipeg. New Bruns\\ick: Rister Corinne Kerr,
Hotel Dieu, Campbellton. Nova Scotia: .:\liss H.
Joncas, \ïctoria General Hospital, Halifax. Ontario:
Miss S. M. Jamieson, R.R.l, Brantford. Prince
Edward Island: :\iis/ò F. Laven', Prince Co. Hospital,
Summerside. Quebec: :\iiss Martha Batson, Mont-
rf'al Gf'neral Hospital, Montreal. Saskatchewan:
Miss Annie Lawrie, General Hospital, Hegina.
PRIVATE DI'TY SECTION
CHURMAN: Miss M. R. Chisholm, 80.,} 7th Ave. N.,
Saskatoon; VICE-CH"'IR!\IAN: Miss C. 1\1. \\Tatling,
1230 Bishop Street, l\iontreal; SECRETARy-TREAS-
URER: Miss Helen Wills, 2R40 Robinson Rtreet,
Hegina.
('OUN('lLLORH - \Iberta: :\li'iS ,1. ('10\\, 22U-Xth \ve.
N.W., Calgary. British Columhia: :\Iiss ;\1. :\Iir
field, ]ka(.hl'roft Nur.-ing HOIIIP, \-j(.toria. Mani-
590
tuha: l\Iiss I\:. McCallum, 181 Enfield Cres., 1\'or-
wood. New Brunswick: :\Iiss Mabel :\lc:\iJullen,
St. Stephen. Nova Scotia: .:\Iiss C. .:\IacLean, 97
outh Klinf' St., Halifax. Ontario:
Iiss .1. L.
ChuT('h, 120
trathcona \Vf'., Ottawa Prince
Edward IslanJ: :\Iiss :\1. Gamblf', 51 .\mbro"e
t.,
Char lottetown. Quebec: .:\liss C. :\1. "atling, 1230
Bi,hop
t., :\lontreal. Saskatchewan: l\Iiss Helen
\\ ill:--, 2
-tO Hobim on :-;t., Hep:ina_ CONVENER OF
)>unLH'A-TlONS: i\ljss M. H. Chisholm, XII.) 7th \ VP.
X., :-;askatoon.
Pt:BLlC HEAL TII SECTION
CHAIRMAN: Miss A. E. \\-'ells, Dept. of Health, LegiR-
lative Bldgs., "Tinnipeg; VICE-CHAIRMAN: Miss 1\1.
Kerr, 946 20th Ave. \V., Vancouver; SECRETARY-
TREASURER: Miss Isabel McDiarmid, 363 Langside
St., Winnipeg.
COUNrILLORS-Alberta: :\Iiss A. A. l\IeI\:e(', 201ì
Oddff'llo\\s Bldg_, Calgary. British Columbia:
"'liss:\1 Duffif'ld, 17.) Broadway FaHt, Vancouver.
Manitoha: :\Iiss E. :\IeKdV(,y, tiO:! i\ll'dil'al Arts
Bldj!:., Winnipf'g. New Brunswick: :\Iiss Ada
Burn
, Health Centre,
aint John. Nova Scotia:
:\IiRs :\1. O. Gray, Xf'\\< Gla:<gow. Ontario: l\Irs.
\gnf's HaYJ!;arth, 19 Dromorf' Crf'scent, \\Testdalf',
Hamilton_ Prince Edward Island: :\Iiss Dorothy
:\ldÙ'nna, HUll1mersidf'. Quehec: .:\Iiss Chribtinp
DowlinJ!;, 12-tti Bishop f't., :\Iontrf'al. Saskatche.
wan: :\Irs. E. 1\1. Fe('ny, Dept. of Health, Parlia-
1II('nt BJdJ!;s., HpJ!;ina.
VOL. XXX, No. 12
THE CANADIAN NURSE
591
Provincial Associations of Registered Nurses
ALBERTA
Alberta Association of Registered Nurses
Prc,.idf'nt, :\lisJOo F. :\lunl"Op, Hoyal \Ipxandra Hos-
pital, FdlllOnton; .First \ ice-Pr('sident, :\Iiss J. Connal,
G
neral Hospital, Calgary; t;eeond \ïpe-Prpsident,
hss E.
IcPhedran, Central Alberta Sanatorium.
Calgary; ::5epretary-Treasurer-Hpgistrar, :\lrs. A. E.
Vango, I1107-82nd Avp., Edmonton; Chairman:
.Yursing Education See/ion, :\Iiss J. .-\. Connal, GpllPral
Hospital, Calgary; Private Duty Section, .:\liss J. C.
Clow, 2:!fI-Sth Ave. X.\\., Calgary; Public Health
Section, :\Ii"fi -\. -\. :\IPI\:pp, 201) Oddfello\\s Bldg.,
Calgary.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia
. Presi
ent, M: F. Gray,1466 W. 14th Ave., Vancouver;
Fust Vice-President, E. G. Breeze; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, G. Fairley; Registrar, H. Randal, 516 Vancouv-er
Block, Vancouver; Secretary, M. Kerr, 516 Vancouver
Block, Vancouver; Con1!e1Iers of CommiUeu: Nur8ing
Education, L. Mitchell, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vic-
toria; Public H,ealth, M. Du
eld, 175 Broadway East,
Vancouver; PTlvate Duly, :\bss M. Mirfield. Beachcroft
Nur!!ing Home, Cook St., Victoria; Councillors, M. P.
CampbelJ, M. Dutton, L. McAllister, K. Sanderson.
)fAl'ìITOBA
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses
. Presi
ent, Mi
s M. Rei
, Winni
ej1: General Hospital;
First Vice-President, MIS8 S. \\ right, .Metropolitan
Life, Winnipeg; Second Vice-President, Mis8 C. Mc-
Leod, Brandon General Hospital; Third Vice-President,
3ister Ivause, St. Boniface Hospital; Members of
Board: Miss M. Lang, Miss E. Carruthers, Sister Mary,
Miss K. W. Ellis, Miss K. l\IcLearn, l\Ii88 M. Meehan,
Mi88 E. Johnson, Sister St. Albert; Convener. of Sec-
tion,: Public Health, Mi88 E. McKelvey; PrifJate Dutil,
:\liss K. :\lcCallum; .Vursing Education, Miss G.
Thompson, :\Iisericordia Hospital, Winnippg. Conve-
ners of Committees: Directory, :\liss J. Kerr, 74 Cobourg
Ave.; Social, :\-liss S. Pollexfen, 954 Palmerston Ave.;
Hick Visiting, :\'liss L. Gray, Victorian Order of
ur"es;
:\lembership, Miss E. Ironside, WinniP<'g General Hos-
pital; Librarian,
Iiss \\. Grice and
Ji,.s A. Starr, 753
Wolseley A\'e.; Press and J'ublication, :\1iss E. Hanks,
64 Cros
S1.; Representa/iz'es: Local Council of \\" omen,
:\Irs. Willard Hill and :\Irs. Emmett D\\yer; Central
Council of Social Agencies, :\Iiss F. Robertson; \ïc-
torian Order of Nurses, .\Iis!< E. A. Hus
ell; Junior Red
Cros!', .\Jiss E. Parker; Red Cross Enrolment, :\Irs. J.
F. :\Iorrison; Executive Secretary and Rpgistrar, :\Irs.
Stella Gordon Kerr.
NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Association of Registered Nurses
President, Mis!! A. J. l\lacMaster, Moncton Hospi-
tal, Moncton; First Vice-President, Mi88 Margaret
Murdoch; Second Vice-President, Miss Myrtle E.
Kay; Honorary Secretary, Rev. Sister Kenny; Council
Members: Mi88 Florence Coleman, l\1i88 H. S. Dyke-
man, Mrs. A. G. Woodcock, Mis8 Elsie M. Tulloch;
Convener,: Public Health Section. Miss Ada A. Burns;
PrifJate Duty Section, Mil!8 Mabel McMullin; Nur8Ìng
Education Seclion. Sister Kerr; Committet- Conpenerø:
The Canadian Nurse, Miss Kathleen Lawson; Consti-
tution and By-Law!!, Mi88 R. E. Brophy; Secretary-
Trea8urer-ReJtistrar, Mi88 Maude E. Retallick, 262
Charlotte St. West. Saint John, N.H.
NOVA SCOTIA
Rel1lstered Nurses Association of NOt'a Scotia
Presidpnt, .\liss Lenta Hall, Victorian ()rd..r of
ur!'es, Halifax; First \ï('e-l're"id('nt, :\Iiss Sarah
-\r('hard, Victoria Gpneral Ho"pital, Halifax; f'('l'ond
\ ice-Pre",id('nt, .\Iiss Anna HilIc'oat, Amherst; Third
Vicc-Prpsidr'nt,
istpr -\nna f'('ton. Halifax Infirmary;
Hel'ordinf/:
e('rptary. .\Ir!l. n. J. Gilli!', 9 \\ pl"ford S1.,
Halifax; Trf'asurprsnd Hpgi"trar, :\Iisfo :\Iuripl Graham,
4I:t I knnis Bldg., Halifax.
ONTARIO
R
lstered Nurses Association of Ontario
(Incorporated 19.15)
President, Mil!8 Marjorie Buck. Norfolk General
Hospital, Simcoe; First \ ice-l'reøidpllt, Millll J)ornthy
Percy, 7 Queens Park Cr('!<., TorolJ[o; :-'('('(md \'j(.('_
Presl
ent, .\.hss ('on
!anpe Bre\\"ter, GeneralUo'pital,
HamJlton;
('('retary-rrea:surer \Ii!'s Matilda E Fitz-
gerald, 3 \\illcocks H., Tor
nto; Chairman 'Xurse
E,duca/ion Seclion, .\Iiss $. Margarct Jamieso
, RH.
C? 1, Brantford; Chairman, Priz'ale Duly Section,
:\hs
J. L. Church, 120 Stratheona Ave" Otta\\a;
Chairman, Public Yealth Section, :\lr!<. Agnes Haygarth,
19 J?romore Cres., \Vestdalp, Hamilton; District 1\"0. I:
Chauman, :\Iiss .:\lildred W alkpr, In
titute of Public
Health, London; Secretary-treasurer, .\Ii!'s Mildnd
Chambers, In
titute of Public Health, London; Districts
2 and 3.: Cha!
man, :\Iiss A. E. Hingeman, Freppürt
Sanatorn
m, l\.1tch
ner; Secretary-treasurer ,l\li
s Edith
Jon
s, 2,,3 qren\\lch f't., Brantford; District .\'0. 4:
Chau:man,
l1ss Constance Bre\\ foter, General Hospital,
H
mdton; ::-:ecretary-treasurer, .\1rs. Eva Barlo\\, 211
Stmson S1., Hamilton; Vistricl No. 5." Chairman, :\Iis!<
Dorothy l\Iickleborough, 20 Hume\\ood Court, 9
Humewood Dr., Toronto; Secretary-trea!'urer,
Ii!'s
Isabelle Park, 1348 Yonge ::5t., Toronto; District No.6:
Chairman, Miss Helen M. Anderson, 709 \\'ater St.
Pe
rbo
?ugh; Sef'retary-treasurer, :\JifS Dorothy :\Iac-
Hne!l' .1\lC'holl
Ho!'pi
8I, P{'tcrborough; District }..'o. 7,
C
alrman, .\hss LOUl
e D. Acton, General Ho,.pital,
hmgston;
ecrptary-treasurpr, :\lifS Olivia "il: on:
G
neral Ho!'pital, l\.Ìng"ton; District }..'o. 8: Chairman,
hss 1\1. Blanche AnderfOn, Ottawa Civif' Ho!'pital,
Otta
a; Secretary, :\liss A. G. Tanner, Otta\\a CiÙ..
I;IOSPltal, Ottav..a; Treasurer, .\Iiss .:\Jary Adand,
:--t
athcona HosJ;1tal, Otta\\a; District .vo. ç: Chairman,
:\hss Elizabeth Smith, Box 30.'),
e\\ Li
keard' f'ecre-
tary-treasurer, .:\liss Robena Ru('hanan, San
torium
P.O., GravenhuTl't; District No. 10: Chairman,
Iiss
\'era L01rela('p, 3 \\ïJpy Rd., Port \rthur:
Pl'rptar)-
t
easurer, .
Irs. \V. J. Burnf'Y, .-\rd('pn Gold
Iine!',
Ka!'habo\\le,Ont.
District No.8 Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Chariman, :\liss :\1. B. -\ndpl"!'on; \ï('{'-Chairman,
.\Iiss J. L. Church; Sef'retary, .:\Iiss .-\. G. Tannpr,
Otta\\a Civic Hospital; Trpa"urer,
li!'s :\1. E. .-\f'land;
Councillor!', .\Iis
ps G. Clarke, '\. Fbb!l,
1. Uraham,
E. C.
lcIlraith, :\1. H. Hall, .\1.
Iinn; Conveners of
Committu.<: :\I('mbership, .\Ii!'!' G. Clarkp; Publi(.ation",
:\Iiss E. C :\ldlraith; l\'ursing Education, :\Iis!' r. C,
.\(cIlraith; Privale Duly,
Ii!'s J. I.. [,hUTl'h; Public
II ealth, :\1 i!<s H. 0' .\It'ara.
District No.9 Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario
['hair man, :\Iiss Elizabpth
mith; Fint \i('{'-Chair-
man, .\Ji!'s Jean Smith; SCf'retary-Treasurpr, l\li..s
Bobena BUl'hanan, ::-;anatorium P.O., Urav('nhur!'t;
Councillors: I{('v-.
istpr Fidplis, :\(j
R
lina Canon,
:\liss H. Jordan, :\Ii"s H. -\tkimon, l\Ii!'!< G. Ho\\df'l\,
Hev. Sister Felicitas.
DIstrict No. 10 Re
lstered Nurses Association
of Ontario
Pre
idf'lIt, :\liJOos V. I ovelal't'; \'j,'p-Prp>, id('1I1
Iiss :\1.
Hamilton; :-:cc'l"('tary-Treasurer, :\Irs. \\. J. Buru('y,
\rdeen Gold :\lin(''', Ka,habo\\it', Ont.; Councillors:
:\Jiss Jane Hogarth, :\[j",s :\1. Walla('{'. Miss f'. J ('(lion,
:\Iiss C. Chivcrs \\ il
on, :\Iiss Flannigan, .\[jss Ir('11I'
Hibditf'h.
PRINCE EDWARD ISI.AND
Prince Edward Island Re
lstered Nurses
A88OClation
Pre...ident, l\(i>l.'I Anna Mair, P F.1. H08þital,
Charlottetown; \ï('c-I're...idf'nt, :\Ii"ll :\1. hing. Char-
lottf't0\\ n Hospital: f'pcretary. :\IiM :\1. ['am pbcll , 8
Graftnn t-:t. CharlottPlo\\n: Trf'asurf'r and n,'gi"trar,
liss Ldna Grt'cn, 1á7
Queen :-:1., Char!oltf'to\\ n;
Nur8Ìng Fducation, :\li.....F. J a\
.
, Prinf'f' Co. no,.pital,
:->ummer"ide; Public Health, :\hsa Dorothy :\!<,h.'nua.
Xummf'rside; Private Duty, :\li...'1 1\1. Gamble, 51 \m-
bruøe St. Charlottf'to\\n; R('I)r
('utl1tiv,.. to The
Canadian' Nurse. :\h...'1 Anna :\(air, J> F I. n"'I)itaJ,
Charlot t f't 0\\ n.
QUEBEC
THE CANADIAN NURSE
592
Association of Rejlistered Nurses of the Province
of Quebec Incorporated 1920
Advi8ury Uuard: 1\'lisses :\lary ::;amuel, Mabel F.
Hersey. C. :\1. W ...tiÍn
, Ité>
.
lcre 1\1. V. Allaire, Rev.
::)Jeur Ste. I
id(}ra; Prdsident, Miss C. V. Barrett,
Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Huspital; \ïce-
President (English), MIss :\1. L. 1\1oag. \ïcturian Order
of Nurses, 1246 Bishop
t.. :\lontrea!; Vice-President
(French), Rév. Soeur Allard, Hútel-Dieu de St. Joseph,
Montreal; Hon. Secretary, Miss Esther Beith, Child
Welfare Association, Forum Bld
., l\1untreal; Hon.
Treasarer, 1\-1iss 1\1. E. Nash, Yictorian Order of Nurses.
1246 Bishop St., Montreal. Other Menlbers: l\liss
Mabel K. Holt, The Montreal General Hospital,
Mademoiselle Edna Lynch, Nursing Supervisùr, Metro-
politan Life Insurance Co.. Montreal, Ré>v. SoeUf
t.
Jean de I'Eucharistie, Hôpital N"otre Dame, Muntreal,
:\-1iss Mariun Lindeburgh, School fur Graduate Nurses,
McGill University, Montreal, Mademoiselle Alexina
Marchessault, Ecole d'Hygiène Social Appliquée,
Université de :\lontreal. Convenpr8 of Sections: Private
Duty, (English). Miss C. M. Watlin
, 1230 Bishop St.,
:\lontreal; Pri7lute Duty (French). Mademoiselle Alice
Lepine, Hôpital Notre D.1me, :\lontreal; Nur8ino Edu-
ntion rE'l7;lish), Miss :\Iartha Batson, The Montreal
General HoBpital, Montreal; Nur8ino Education
(French), Rév. Sueur Au
ul!tine, Hôpital St. .Jean-de-
Oieu, Gamelin, Que; Public Health, Miss Christine
Dowling, \ïctorian Order of Nurses, 1246 Bishop St.,
Montreal; Board of Examiners, Miss Olga V. Lilly
(Convener), Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Hos-
pital, Miss Marion Lindeburgh. School for Graduate
Nurses, McGill University, Montreal; Miss Katherine
MacN. MacLennan, Alexandra Hospital, Montreal;
Melle. Edna Lynch. 4642 rue St. Denis St., Montreal'
l\h'lIe. l\1arie Anysie Déland, Institut Bruchési, l\Iont
réal; Melle. A. l\1, archessault 3256 avenue Lacombe,
Muntreal; Executive Secretary, Registrar and Official
School Visitor, }\1iss E. Frances Upton, Room 221.
1396 St. Cathenne St. W., Montreal.
SASKATCHEWAN
Saskatchewan Rellistered Nurses Association
(Incorporated March, 1917)
PrC'
ident, :\Iiss l:dith Ama
, City Hm pital, ...a
ka-
toon; Fir"t Yi..C'-Pre
idl'nt, Ri"ter :\1. Clotilda Provi-
de
l'e Hospital, :\Ioose .Jaw; Sel'ond \ïce-Pr
sident,
:\hss
ean B. :\IcDonald, 1122 Rae
treet, Regina;
CounC'lllor:<, .:\Iis
Edith Stocker, ::5anatorium, f'a
ka-
toon. .:\liss R. :\1. ::;impson, Dept. of Health, [{('gina;
Conveners of Standing Commillees: Nursing Education,
:\Iiss Annie La\uip, General Hmpital. R{gina; Public
Health, :\lrs. E. :\1. Feeny, Dept. of H{'alth, H,-gina;
Private Duty. :\Iiss Helen Will
. 2
-tO Hobin>on
t.,
Hegina; Leoi8lation, :\Iiss Edith .-\ll1a
, City Ho
pital,
f'a"katoon: Spl'retary-Tn'asurer and Hegistrar,
Iiss
:\Iargaret A. Hos
, 4,') Angus Cre:o:C'., Regina.
Associations of Graduate Nurses
ALBERTA
Cal
ary Association of Graduate Nurses
Hon. President, Dr. H. A. Gibson; Presidf'llt, :\Iiss
P. Gilbert; First \ïI'P-PrC'
idl'nt, :\liss F. E. C. Hpid;
f'C'cond Vice-Prpsid,-nt,
Iiss O. Zimmerman; HC'I'.
C' 'retary, :\Iiss A. Young; Corrpspondinl!:
e('retary,
:\Iis!'<
1. Flemming; Trea!'<un'r, :\Ii!'<s :\1. \\ att.
Edmonton Association of Graduate Nurses
President, Miss Ida Johnson; First Vice-President,
MiBB Turner; Second Vice-President, Miss O'Brien;
Re::ording and Corresponding Secretary, Miss \ïolet
Ch!Lpman. Royal Alexandra Hospital. Edmonton;
Tre1.8urer, Mi88 Gavin; Registrar, Miss Sproule, 11138
Whyte Ave.. Edmonton.
Medicine Hat Graduate Nurses Association
President, Mrs. J. Keohane; First Vice-President,
Mrs. M. Tobin; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Gil-
christ; Secretary, Miss A. McLeod, 2 Diana Court;
Treasurer, Miss F. Smith; Committee Convener8:
Membership, Miss A. Allan; Flower, Mrs. W. Fraser;
Private Duty Section, Mrs. Chas. Pickering; Correspon-
dent, The Canadian Nurse, Miss IVI. Hagerman.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Nelson Graduate Nurses Association
lion. Prp
iJpnt, :\Iiss T\:. E. Gray, supcrintpndent,
hLotenay Lakp Gpneral Hospital; Pre
ident, .:\Iiss Y.
B. b:idt; First \Ïce-Pre
ident, .:\Iiss :\1. l\Iaddpn; HeC'ond
\ïC'e-President, :\Iiss
1. J. I,eslip; ::5ecretary-TrC'asurer,
:\Iiss f;. J<. .:\1. Scott, Box UH, Nelson, H.C'.
Vancouver Graduate Nurses Association
President, Mrs. Westman, 800 Cassair St.,Vancouver;
First Vice-President, MiSB Jane Johnstone, Steveston,
B.C.; Second Vice-President, Miss E. Berry, St. Paul's
Hospital; SeC'retary, Miss F. Walker, Vancouver Gen-
eral Hospital; Treasurer, Miss L. Archibald. 536 West
12th Ave.; Council, Misses K. Sanderson, Kilburn. G.
M. Fairley, Wismer and M. F. Gray. Finance, Mis8
Teulon, 1385 West 11th Ave.; Directory, Miss K.
Motherwell, 1947 West 10th Ave.; Social, Miss A. J.
MacLeod, Vancouver General Hospital; Programme.
MiAs B. Donaldson, St. Paul's Hospital; Sick Visiting:
MiAs C. Cooker. Vancouver General Hospital; Mem:
bership. Mrs. Blankenbach, 1816 West 36th Ave.;
Local Council o
Women, Misses Duffield and Gray;
Press, Mrs. E. SlmlIlB, Vancouver General Hospital.
Victoria Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. Presidents, Miss L. Mitchell, Sister Superior
Ludovic; President. Miss E. J. Herbert; First Vice-
President, Miss M. Mirfield; Second Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Kirkness; Secretary, Miss I. Helgesen;
Treasurer. Miss W. Cooke; Registrar, Miss E. Franks,
1035 Fairfield Road. Victoria; Executive Committee,
Mrs. E. B. Strachan, Miss E. McDonald, MiBB C.
Kenny, Miss E. Cameron, Miss D. Frampton.
MANITOBA
Brandon Graduate Nurses Association
Hon. President, :\Iiss E. Birtle::;; Hon. \ï{'(,,-Pre
idpnt.
:\lrs. W. H. Shillingla\\; Prer,:ident, :\Iiss Eva McNally;
Fin,t \ïce-Pre!>ident, :\Irl". L. FletC'her; Second \Ïce-
President, :\Iiss \'. \"ance; Secretary, .:\liss Dorothy
J ongley, :\lental Hospital. Brandon; Treasurer, Mrs.
:\1. Long, Dominion Hank Bldg.. Brandon; Committees:
Pres
, .\Iiss Hplen .:\IorrÜ on; f'il'k \ïsiting. l\Ir
. J. R.
Fi
h,'r; \\',.)fare, :\Iiss E.
1. Higgpns; Social and Pro-
gramme, l\lr
. E. Hanna: Cook Book, :\lrs. A. Kains;
Private Duty, :\Irs. L. Fletl'hpr, l\li
s hobel Knox;
Registry, Miss C. .:\Jac.leod.
QUEBEC
Graduate Nurses Association of the Eastern
Townships
Hon. President, Miss V. Beane; President, Miss E.
Bean; Vice-President. Miss G. Dwaine; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss F. \Vardleworth; Recording Secretary,
Miss Harvey; Treasurer. Miss Margaret Robinø-
Repre>entative to The Canadian Nurse, Mil"R C.
Hornby. Box :
2-t, Sherbrooke ; Hepre"entativp,
Private DUly ......ection. Mi
R E. l\Iorri
"ette.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
MONTREAL
Montreal Graduate Nurses Association
HOIl. President, MiB8 L. C. Phillips; President, Mi811
Chrit<tine Watling, 1230 Bishop
t.; First Vice-Presi-
dent, MiB8 G. Allison; Second Vice-President, Mrs. A.
Stanley; Secretary-Treasurer and Night Registrar,
liB8 Ethel Clark, 1230 Bishop St.; Day Registrar,
:\1iB8 Kathleen BliB8; Relief Registrar, MiB8 H. M.
Sutherland; Convener Griffintown Club, MiB8 G.
Colley. Regular Meeting, Second Tuesday of January,
first Tuesday of April, October and December.
593
SASKATCHEWAN
Moose Jaw Graduate Nunes ASIIOClatlon
lion. Pre
!dpnt,.:\lrs. :\
. Young; Pre
idpnt, Miss A.
:\
padows; hrst \ I(:e-Prpo.ldp
t, Mrs. :\h,tc'alfp; Second
\l!'('-Prpsld
nt,. ;\hss C.
"IPr; SN'rptary-Trpasurpr,
;\hSN J. MUIr, ('I'!1pralllo
plt
l, M
)>-I' Jaw; H(.gistrar,
\Ir.!!.
Iptralf('; Conveners of (omm.llees: Nursing Edu-
catIOn, :\Irs. ). oung, Hr. :\Iary Helena' Public lIealth
:\Iiss Smith; Pr
vate Duty, :\lisN Coy,gil-': :\Iiss Covpntry';
Programme, :\hss L. Cartt'r; Prps", :\hss :\lutrIP' Hoeial
:\Iiss Freneh; Sirk and \ïsiting, :\Iiss Arll:strong:
Heprescntative to The Canadian !\'urse, :\Iiss :\1. Arm:
strong.
Alumnae Associations
ALBERTA
A.A., Holy Cross Hospital, Cal
ary
Preøident, Mrø. L. de Satge; Vice-President, MiB8
.
. Williøon; Recording Secretary, MiB8 E. Thorn;
Corresponding Secretary, MiB8 P. N. Gilbert; Trea-
øurer. MiB8 S. Craig; Honorary Memberø, Rev. Soeur
St. Jean de l'Eucharistie, MiB8 M. Brown.
A.A., Royal Alexandra Hoøpltal, Edmonton
Hon. President, Miss F. l\Iunroe; President, Miss K.
Brighty; Vice-President, Mi,.
I. Johnson; Second Vice-
President, Miss E. Miller Mc:\lanus; Secretary, 1\-liB8
L. EiIlII.rson; CorrespondiIlg Secretary, Miss G. Mc-
Diarmid; Treasurer, :\Iiss A. Oliver; CommiUee Con-
I1mer.: Programme. Miss G. Allyn; Social, :\1iss V.
Kelly McNeil; Sick Visiting, Miss J. Munro; Member-
ship, Miss 1\-1. Cullerne.
A.A. University of Alberta Hoøpltal, Edmonton
Hon. President, :!\liB8 E. Fenwick; President, MiB8
:\1. Reed; Firøt Vice-President, Miss L. Gourlay;
Second Vice-President, MiB8 ß. Fane; Recording Secre-
tary, MiB8 A. Revell; Corresponding Secretary, Mi811
D. Duxbury, University H08pital; Treasurer, MiBl! M.
Rowles, University H08pital; Executive, MiB8et1 M.
Gordon, I. ROBl!, A. Baker.
A.A., Lamont Public Hospital
lion. Pre
ideIlt, Mrs. A. E. Archer; Pre
idcnt, :\Irs.
B. I. Love; Vice-President, MiB8 O. Scheie; Secretary-
freallurer, Mrs. C. Craig, Namao; Corresponding
Secrt'tary, MiB8 F. E. Reid, l009-20th Avenue, W.,
Calgary; Convener, Social Committee, Mrs. R. Shears.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.A., St. Paul's Hoøpltal, Vancouver
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Superior; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister Therese Amable; President, MiB8 B.
Geddes; Vice-President, MiB8 R. McKernan; Secretary,
MiB8 F. Treavor, AB8istant Secretary, MiB8 V. Dyer;
Treasurer, MiB8 B. Muir; Executhe, Mill8es M. I\lc-
Donald, E. Berry, I. Clark, V. Pearse, S. Christie,
R. McGillivary, K. McDonald.
A.A., Vl1ncouver General Hoøpltal
Pr
ident, MiB8 1\1. Lunan; First Vice-President,
:\Irs. C. II. C. Bell; Second Vice-President, Mrs. K.
Craig; Secretary. MiB8 I. Collier; Corresponding Secre-
tary, MiB8 K. Heaney, Vancouver General lI08pital;
CommiUee Conl1mer.: Programme. MiB8 A. Croll.
Membership, MiB8 V. Peters; Sick Benefit, Mrs. Mait-
land; Refreshments, Miss J. Hunter; PreM, Mrs. G. E.
Gilließ; Treasurer alld Bonds, MiB8 Geary,
176 West
2nd A"'e.; Representative, V.G.N.A., MiB8 Rhodes.
Royal
A.A., Jubilee 1I0apital, Victoria
lion. President, Mi'!ls L. Mitchell; President, !\-IiSR
J. Moore; First Vice-Pre"ideIlt, Mrs. Y orke;
cond
Vice-President, Miss !\I. Mirfìeld; Secretary, Mrs. A.
Dowell, 30 Howe St.; As"istant Secretary, Miss C. 1\1.
Cox; Trpa'lurer, !\fisø J. Stey,art; Entertamment Com-
mittee, Mrs. Russell; Sirk Nurse, Misø F. Newman.
MANITOBA
A.A., Children's Hospital, Winnipeg
Hon. President, :\[iss :\1. B. .-\lIan; President :\Iiss
-\1 ice :\I('.-\uley; First \ïce-Prpsident, )Iiss' Elsie
Fraser; Secretary, :\Iiss W. :\1. Barratt . Childrell's
H,?spita
; Treasurer, :\Ii
s F. :\lcLeod;
ick VÜ:iting,
.:\hss Dltchfield; Entprtammpnt, Mrs. Geo. Wil
on.
A.A., St, Boniface Hospital, St. Boniface
Hon. President, Rev. Sr. Krause; President, MiB8 K
McCallum, 181 Enfield Cr., Norwood; First Vice-
President, MiB8 H. Stephen, 15 Ruth Apts., Maryland
St., Winnipeg; Second Vice-President. :\1iB8 M. Madill,
St. Boniface H08pital; Secretary, Miu J. Archibald
Shriner'ø H08pital, Winnipeg; Treasurer, MiB8 E:
Shirley, 14 KiIlg George Ct., Winnipeg; Social Com-
mittee, Miss E. Bank!! (Collvener), 64 CrOBl! St.
Winnipeg, MiB8 J. Williamson, MiB8 A. NeløOIl' Sick
Vi.siting Committee, M
B8 T. Grenville (Convene;), 211
Hill St., Norwood.; 1\11B8. K. Rowan, MiB8 J. Greig;
Press Representative, 1\l1øe B. Altman, 420 College
Ave., Winnipeg; Representat.ivetl to Local Council of
Women, MiB8 B. Altmall (Convener), Miu B. Chandlpr
MiB8 M. Spooner.
A.A., Wlnnlpe
General Hospital
Hon. President, Mrt<. A. W. Moody, 97 Ash
t.'
Plesident, !\Iiss E. Parker, Ste. 25, Carlyle Apts., SSÒ
Rroady,ay; First Vice-President, Mrs. C. V. Combes
530 Dominion St.; Secolld \'ice-Prpsident, !\Iisø J. Me:
Donald, Deer Lodge Hospital; Third Vice-President,
:\[rs. J. S. Ward, 197 Rcaverbrook St.; Recordinc
Secrptary, l\IissA. Effier,Ste. 12
Diana Crt.; Corres-
pollding Secr
tary, !\Iiss :\1.. Graham, Winnipel
Gelleral Hospital; Treasurer, I\hss 1\1. DunC'8n, \\ in-
nipcg General Hospital; Representative OIl Trainiq
School Committee: !\Iiss K. McI..eam, Shriner'e
Hospital; !\Iember8hip, !\list< I. Ramfay, Celltral
Tuberculosis Clinic; Sick \'isitiIlg, Mi
s J. !\Iorgan,
102 ROfe St.; Entertainment, 1\-Irt<. C. Mc:\fillan,
Hertrord Blvd., Tuxedo; F..ditor of Journal, Mise F.
McRae, 44 EvaIl80n St.; ASl'if:ltant Editor, !\Ii'ls J.
Moody, ï6 Walnut St.; Businp!ø Manager, Mi"" E,
Timlick, Winnipt'g General Ho:opital; Special Com-
mittee, Miss P. Broy,nell, 215 Chestnut St.; Alumnat'
Club, Miss F. Tretiak, Broad Valley, Mall.; Arrhivi!lt.
Ii"t< S. J. Pollexfen, !l54 Palmerston Avp.
EW ßRUNS\\ ICK
S \INT JOII"J
A.A., Saint John General Hospital
Uon. President, :\1iB8 E. J. Mitchell; President, :\In
G. L. Dunlop; First Vice-President, MiB8 Ethel Hell-
derson; Serond Vice-Pretlident, l\[rs. F. McKelvey;
Secretary. Mrs. J. FdJ!:ar Beyea. 121 Ullion St.; Trea-
surer, :\li!\S hate Unit; Executive Committee, 1\li..
Margaret )[urdnch, Miu R. Reid, Mrø. J. H. Vaughan.
ST. STFPIIEN
A.A., Chipman ML'morlal Hospital.
t.
tephcn
Pre:oidpnt, :\liss
Iyrtle Dunbar; Fint \ïce-Pre"idpnt,
:\lrs. H. W. Short; :O;prond \ïce-Pre"ident, 1\li!<t< Ho.s
)Iad"pn; SPrrptary.-Mis!I E
tclla Gibbon, St. Stppht'n;
Trp.a"urpr, !\Irf'. Ct'dri(' 11. I>in
morp; Hoard of Dirp('-
turR: Misfe.. J. Sinrlair, 1. lIart, J. Havill, :\In. n.
Hartlptt; Commillu Cnnt'eners: Programme, !\In. n.
Mallory, :\Iis>('" F. Gibbon, E. Gill.... :\lrR. II. I-ihort;
Hpfrp"hlUpnt, :\fi..Fel! I:.
pinnpy, 1>. 1>evlin, :\Ir!l. R.
Bartlett; Xominating, :\Ii
,.('
F. Cunningham, I. lIart
594
THE CANADIAN NURSE
WOODSTOCK
A.A., L. P. Fisher Memorial Hospital, Woodstock
Hon. President, Miss Eløie Tulloch; President, Mrs
Harry Dunbar; Vice-President, Miss Gladys Hayward;
Secretary-Treasurer, MiB8 Pauline Palmer; Board of
Directors: Miss G. Tams, Mrs. B. Sutton, Mrs. Fulton,
MiB8 M. Samphier, MiB8 N. Veness; Committee Con-
Ðener8: Programme, Mrs. P. Caldwell, Miss E. Kerr,
MiB8 E. Dunbar, MiB8 B. Bellis; Sick Visiting, MiB8 H.
Cummings, MiB8 D. Pee.body, MiB8 Mersereau;
Editor, Miss M. Samphier.
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE
A.A., Belleville General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 Florence Mclndoo; President,
MiB8 Reta Fitzgerald; Vice-President, Mrs. J. Andrews;
Secretary, MiB8 L. Smith; Treasurer, Miss Marion
MacFarlane; Flower Committee, MiBB Betty McEwan;
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e, Miss H.
Thompson.
BRANTFORD
A.A., Brantford General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 E. M. McKee; President, MiB8
K. Charnley; Vice-President, MiB8 G. Turnbull;
Secretary, MiB8 F. J. Batty, 52 Charlotte St., Brant-
ford; AB8istant-Secretary, Miss V. Buckwell; Treasurer,
Miss L. R. Gillespie, General Hospital; Social Convener,
Mr.. F. Doherty; Flower Committee, Mrs. Phillips,
Misø W. Laird, MiM M. M. Nichol; Gift Committee,
MiM J. Edmolldeon, Mrs. E. Clari<Ù/;e; The Canadian
NUTlle and Presø Representative, MiB8 II. DiamoIld;
Chairman. Private Duty Council, Miss P. Cole;
Repr68entative to Local Council of Women, MiM R.
Cleaves.
BROCK VILLE
A.A., BrockvlIle General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss A. L. Shannette; President,
Mrø. H. B. White; First Vice-President, MiBB M.
Arnold; Second Vice-President, MiB8 J. Nicholson;
Third Vice-PresideIlt, Mrs. W. B. Reynolds; Secretary,
Miss B. Beatrice Hamilton, Brockville General Hos-
(lital; Treasurer, Mrs. H. F. Vandusen, 65 Church St.;
Representative to The Canadian NUT8e, MiB8 V.
Kendrick.
CHATHAM
A.A., Public General Hospital
Hon. President, 1\IiB8 P. Campbell; President, Miss
B. Pardo; Vice-President, Miss K. Crackle; Second
Vice-President, MiBB F. Houston; Recording Secretary,
MiB8 E. Craig; Corresponding Secretary, Misø R. Will-
more; Asst. Secretary, MiB8 M. Stacey; Treasurer,
MiB8 ß. Haley; PreBS Correspondent, Miss R. Baker;
Committee Conrenn8: Refreshment, Miss M. Wickett;
BuyiIlg, MiB8es J. Finney, M. McNaughton and Mrs.
R. F. Mitchell; Floral, MiBB E. Orr; Social, Mrs. T.
Burke; Councillors, MiB8es V. Dyer, L. Baird, A. Head,
E. Liberty; Representative to The Canadian NUT8e,
MiBB P. Griffeth.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hoøpltal
Hon. President, Mother Mary; Hon. Vice-President,
Sister M. Consolata; President, Miss Ruth Winter;
Vice-President, Miss M. Kearnø; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss J. Lundy, 112 Van Allen Ave.; Executives, Misses
H. Gray, I. Poissant, Z. Martin, Mrs. R. Hodgin; Rep-
resentative District No. I, R.N.A.O., Miss JeB8ie Ross;
Representative to The Canadian NUTse, Miss Y. L.
Chauvin.
CORNW ALL
A.A., Cornwall General Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. I. P. Macintosh; President,
Miss Verna Meldrum; First Vice-President, Miss
Kathleell Burke; Secolld Vice-President, Miss Elva
Empey; Secrl'tary-Treasurer, l\1iss C. Droppo, Corn-
wall General Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss H. C. Wilson, Corn\\all General Hospital.
GALT
A.A., Galt Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 A. Cleaver; President, Miss
S Mitchell; Secretary, MiM L. MacNair, 91 Victoria
A"ve.; AB8istant Secretary, MiBB T. Rainey;. Treasurer,
Miss A. MacDonald; Flower Convener, M1B8 Ruther-
ford' Representative to The Canadian NUT8e and Press
Rep;esentative, MiB8 M. Vandyke.
GUELPH
A.A., Guelph General Hospital
lion. President, Miss S. A, Campbell, Superinten.
dent, Guelph General Hospital; President, Miss L.
Ferguson; First Vicp-President, Miss K. Cleghorn'
Second Vice-President, Miss l\'I. Wood; Secretary:
Mi
s N. Kenney, Guelph General Hospital; Treasurer,
Mi
s J. Watson; Conveners of Committees: Social, 1\.lrs.
L. Jackson; Programme, Miss E. Eby; Flower, Miss
l. WilSOIl; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
:\fiss L. Sinclair.
HAMILTON
A.A., Hamilton General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. C. Rayside; President, Mrs.
R. Hesø; Vice-President, MiB8 M. Bain; Recording
Secretary, MiBB M. Matheson; CorrespondiIlg Secre-
tary, Miss H. Hauert, Hamilton General Hospital;
Trea.'Iurer, MiB8 J. Jackson, 326 Main W.; Assistant
Treasurer, Miss G. Hodgson; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mutual Benefit Association, MiB8 O. Watson, 145
Emerald S.; Committee Convener,: Executive, MiB8 H.
Aitken; Flower, Miss A. Squires; Programme, MiB8
M. Gosnell; Registry, MiB8 N. Thompson; BudJ?;et,
Mrs. M. Barlow; Representative to The Canadian
NUT8e, MiB8 A. Scheifele.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton
Hon. PresideIlt, Mother Martina; President, Miss
Eva Moran; Vice-President, Miss F. Nicholson; Secre-
tary, Miss Mabel Macintosh, 168 Ray St.; Treasurer,
MiB8 M. Kelly; Representative to The Canadian NUT8e,
MiB8 B. McKenna, 277 Herkimer St.; Representative
R.N.A.O., MiBB J. Morill.
KINGSTON
A.A., Hotel Dleu, Kingston
Hon. President, Rev. Sister Donovan; President,
Mrs. W. G. Elder; Vice-President, Mrs. A. Hearn;
Secretary, MiB8 Olive McDermott; Treasurer, MiB8
Genevieve Pelow; Executive, Mrs. L. Cochrane,
MiB8es K. McGarry, M. Cadden, J. O'Keefe; Visiting
Committee, MiB8es N. Speagle, L. Sullivan, L. La
Rocque; Entertainment Committee, Mrs. R. \V
Clarke, Misses N. Hickey, B. Watson.
A.A., Kingston General Hospital
Hon. President, '-1iss Louise D. Acton; President,
Miss Ann Baillie; Vice-President, Miss Florence
Smart;
ecretary, l\-1Ïss VOllnie Mac
lartin, Kingston
General Hospital; Treasurer, Mrs. C. W. 1\lallory,
203 Albert St.; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Emma
Sharp, I\:ingston General Hospital.
KITCHENER
A.A., Kltchener and Waterloo General Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 K. W. Scott; President. Mrs.
Walter Ziegler; First Vice-President, MiB8 Thelma
Sitler; Second Vice-President, Miss Elsie Trouse;
Secretary, MiB8 Jean Sinclair, 144 Water St. S.; AB8is-
tant Secretary, MiBB
larion Ballantyne; Treasurer,
Miss Mary Orr.
LlNDSA Y
A.A., Ross Memorial Hospital
Hon. President, :\1iss E. Reid; President, !\Iiss L
Harding; First \'ice-Pre
ident,
Ir8. O. Walling; Second
\'ice-President, :\Ir!". 1\1. Thurston; Corre
pondillg
Secretary, Miss E. Dawson; Trea
urer, 1\lr8. G. n.
Allen; Flower Convener, Miss E. Lowe; Social Con-
vener, :\1iss K. Mortimore.
LONDON
A.A., Ontario Hospital
Hon. President, MiB8 Mary L. Jacobs; President.
l\-1iB8 N. M. Williams, 55 Edward St.; First \'ice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. V. M. Reilly; Second Vice-President, Miss
F. R. Ball; Secretary, Mrs. E. D. Grosvenor, 52 Doulton
Ave.; Treasurer, Miss E. Kennedy, Ontario HOB(>ital;
Social Committee, Misses I. Lindsay, L. I{elly; Press
Represelltative, Miss F. Burls.
A.A., St. Joaeph's Hospital
Hon. President, Mother M. Patricia; Hon. Vice-
President, Sister M. Ruth; President, MiB8 Olh'e
O'Neil; First Vice-President, Miss Madalene Baker;
Second Vice-President, Miss Erla Beger; RecadiIlg
Secretary, Miss Gladys Martin; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Miss Irene Griffen; Treasurer. MiB8 Gladys Gray,
Press Representative, MiB8 Stella Gignac; Reprt'f!enl.a-
tivfs to Registry Board, MiBBt'f! Rhea Rouatt, Cecile
Slattery, Olive O'Neil.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
A.A., Victoria Hospital
Hon. President, Miss Hilda Stuart; Hon. Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. E. Silverwood; President, Miss M. M.
Jones, 257 Ridout St. S.; First Vice-President, Miss H.
Huston; Second Vice-President, Miss M. McLaughlin;
Treasurer, Miss D. Atkinson, 174 Langarth St.; Secre-
tary, Miss F. Quigley; Corresponding Secretary, Mil!ø
M. Smith, Victoria Hospital; Board of Directors, Misses
C. Gillies, A. Malloch, J. Mortimer, M. Yule, C.
Slcinner, Mrs. C. ROlle.
NIAGARA FALLS
A.A., Niai1ara Falls General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss M. S. Park; President, Miss A.
Irving; First Vice-President, Miss V. Coutts; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. H. English; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss F. J. Loftus, 823 McRae St. Correspomling Secre-
tary, Miss A. Pirie; Auditors, Miss Day, '-frs. Sharpe;
Sick Committee, Mrø. Teal, MÙ!8 Carson, :\1iss Thorpe.
ORANGEVILLE
A.A., Lord Duflerln Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. O. FlemiIlg; President, Miss
L. M. Sproule; First Vice-President, Miss V. Lee;
Second Vice-President, Mi8B I. Allen; Corresponding
Secretary, Mi8B M. Bridgeman; Recording Secretary,
Mi8B E. M. Hayward; Treasurer, Mi8B A. Burke.
ORILLIA
A.A., Orlllia Soldiers' Memorial Hospitai
lion. President, :\Ii"" E. Johnston; President, :\Ii
s
L. :\IrKeIlzie; First 'Ïce-President, :\lisR J. Harper;
Sf'cond Vire-President, .:\Iiss C. Robinson; Corr.
Spcretary, :\Iiss Alicc 1'1. Smith, 103 .:\Iary St.; Hee.
Serretary, Miss L. .:\1. \\hitton; Treasurer, .:\Iiss A. \.
Rcpkie, SlJldiers' .\Iemorial Hospital, OriIlia.
OSHA WA
A.A., Oshawa General Hospital
Hon. President, Miss E. Mac Williams, Gelleral HOII-
pital; President, Mi8B J. McIntosh, 414 l\1888on St.;
First Vice-President, Miss J. Thompson, 115 Ajl;nes St.;
Second Vice-President, Miss R. POIIt, General Hospital;
Secretary, Mi8B M. Chappell, 259 Celina St.; A8Bistant
Secretary, Miss M. Tribble, 91 Connaught St.; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Mi8B E. Clark, 97 Athol St.;
Treasurer, MiBB E. DickiIlBon, 534 Mary St.
OTT A W A
A.A., Lady Stanley Institute (Incorporated 1918)
Hon. President, Miss :\1. A. Catton; President, Miss
Jean Blyth; Vice-President, Miss M. Mc:-i"iece;
ecre-
lary, Miss Gertrude Halpenny, Protestant Children's
Village; Treasurer, Miss 1\1. Slinn, 204 Stanley Ave.'
Board of Directors: Misses E. McColl, S. McQuade'
L. Bedfold, M. Stewart; Committee COnÐenerlJ: Flower'
Mrs. V. Boles; Press, Mrs. W. C. Elmitt; Repre'ienta:
tive to The Canadian Nur.e, Mi8B A. Fbbs.
A.A., Ottawa Civic Hospital
Hon. President, Mi8l! Gertrude Bennett; President,
:\li88 Edna Osborne; First Vice-President, MiBB Dorothy
Moxley; Second Vice-President, Miss E. Curry; Re-
cording Secretary, Mi8l! Mary Lamb; Correøponding
Secretary, Mi811 Downey; Treasurer, Miss 'Vinnifred
Gemmell; Executive Committee, Miss Mulvaugh, Miss
Lera Barry, Mi8B Bertha Farmer, Mi8B D. Johnston,
Mi8B D. Kelly; Representatives to Central Re/(istry,
:\Ji811 Katie Clark, Miøø L. Boyle; Convener Flo\\.er
Committee, Mi811 G. Ferguøon; Press Representative,
l\1i8B E. Pepper.
A.A., Ottawa General Hospital
lion. President, Rev. Sr. Flavie Domitille; President,
:\li88 K. Bayley; Firøt Vice-President, Mi8l! G. Clark;
Second Vice-President, Miss M. Munroe; Secretary-
rreasurer, !\1i8B Dorothy Knox, Ottawa General 1108-
pital; Membership Secretary, Mi88 F. Poitras; f;ick
Committee, Mi8B P. Bissonnette, .:\fi811 S. Kesrnø, Mi8l!
n. LelO'iø; Representative to The Canadian Nurse,
MIss E. Kennedy; Representativeø to local Council
or Women, Mrø. Latimer, Mrs. Dunne and !\frs. r e
Clair; Representatives to Central Rep;il!try,
li811
Rogers, Mills M. I.andreville,
595
A.A., St. Luke's Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, Mi88 E. Mu\\ell; President, MiN
M. MacLaren; Vice-President, Mi88 M. LUIlaIl; Secre-
tary, Mi8B M. Nel.øoIl,44 First Ave.; Treasurer, Mi811
I. Allan, 1188 Gladstone Ave.; Central Registry, Mi8lles
M. Wiløon, S. Carmichael; Nominating Committee,
Mi88es S. Clark, S. Carmichael, E. Young; Representa-
tive to The Canadian NurlJe, Mi8l! M. Drummond, Civic
HOIIpital.
OWEN SOUND
A.A., Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital
Hon. President, Mi8B B. Hall; President, Mi8l! F.
Rae; First Vice-President, Mi8l! M. Paton; Second
Vice-President, Mi8ø J. Agnew; Secretary, MiN A.
Robertson, 473-12th St. W.; Treasurer, Mi811 A.
Weedon; Pianist, Mi8B R. Dunoon; Flower Committee,
Mrs. McMillan; Programme Committee, Mi8ø M.
CruickshaI1k; Sick Committee, Mi8B M. Sim; PreBl!
Representative, Mi88 H. WaldeIl; Refreshment Com-
mittee, Miss C. Penner; Auditor, Mrs. Johnston.
PETERBORO
A.A., Nicholls Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. E. M. Leeson; President, Mil!8
A. Dobbin; First Vice-President, Mi8B H. RUMell,
Second Vice-President, Mi8B L. Simpson; Secretary;
Mi8B S. Battersby, 406 Sheridan St.; Treasurer, !\Iisø
S. Wood, 212 Barnardo Ave.; Corresponding Secretary;
Mi88 E. Wagar, 273 Park St.; Social Convener, Mi8B
M. Watson.
SARN"IA
A.A., Sarnla General Hospital
Hon. PresideIlt, Mi88 M. Lee; President, Mi88 L.
Segrist; Vice-PresideIlt, Miss A. CatioIl; Secretary,
Mi811 A. Silverthorn; Treasurer, Mi8l! A. Wil.øon,
Representative to The Canadian Nur8e. Mi811 C. Med-
croft; Flower Committee (Convener), Mi8l! D. Sha\\ ;
Programme and Social Committee, Mi8l! L. Segrist.
STRATFORD
A.A., Stratford General Hospital
Hon. Pr('
idpnt, :\li!<!1 .-\. :\1. :\Iunn; Prp
idpnt, :\In
K. Snider; \Ïee-Pre"idpnt, .:\Iis!l D. Hobfritl h; I'p('rp-
tary-Trpasurpr, :\liss F. \\t>irkpr, -t-t jJIsk<<>
t.; :'m.ial
Convpnpr, :\li!<!1 .:\1. Thomas; Flo"pr COnVl'lWr, 'Ii..!>
L. .\ttwood.
ST. CA THERINES
A.A., Mack Tralnlni1 School
11on. Pre!'ident, :\Iis!< "-nnc \\ rip:ht; Prp>idlnt :\liss
:-i"ora Kold; Fir!'t \Ï('e-Prp!<ident, :\li!<s :\1. :\II'Cluni(';
Sc('ond \ïce-Pr('>lidpnt, ;\Iis!< E. Horton;
('rct&ry,
:\Iiss J.
lIIith, I:!" Qupen!oton t't.,
t. CatharineI';
Trea
urer, :\Ii"s E. Daboll, 1 Fitzg('rald :'t ; Comeners:
Soria I , :\1i!lB llemi('p Hule; Programme, .:\1iss AlMa
Brubacher; Repre
entati".p to The Canadian Nurse,
.\Ii!l!< Fmily Purlon, Box Xo. 35, Thorold.
ST. THO
tAS
A.A.,
Icmorlal lIospltal
Hon. President, Miss Arl1l8trong; Hon. President,
!\ti811 Buchanan; President, Miss Bella
litchener;
First Vice-President, Mi811 Annie Campbell; Second
Vice-President, Mi811 Jervell; Recording Secretary;
Mil!s El!I!eltine; Corresponding Secretary, MI8II1 amond,
Treasurer, Mi8l! Claypole; Executives, Mi811 McAlpine,
Mi88 Irvine, Mi8l! Nona Mannix, MiBIJ Hasel HBlltings,
Miss L. Crane; CommiUee ConÐener8: NominatinJl:,
Mi8B J. Grant; Sick Nursin/(, Miss E. Lanyon; Social,
Mi8B C. Robertson; PurchBllinp;, Mi8B L. Ronson; Waye
and Means, Mi811 Olive Paddon; Representative to
The Canadian Nur8e, :\fil!l! Amy Prince; Representative
to the R.N.A.O., Mi811 Mary May.
r()RO
TO
A. A. Grace Division, Toronto Western Hospital
lion. President, !\I1'ø. C. J. Currie; President, :\Ji..
A. O. Hell; Recording Secretary, :\Iilll Dorie L. hent;
Corresponding Secretary, l\Ii811 May Hood. Gr.ce
Hoepit&l, Toronto; Treaøurer, :\li811 V. :\1. Flliott. 194
Cottingham St.
596
THE CANADIAN NURSE
A.A., The Grant MacDonald Tralnln
School
for Nurses
Hon. President, MiBB Esther M. Cook, 130 Dunn
Ave.; President, MiBB Ida Weekes, 130 Dunn Ave.;
Vice-President, Mrs. Marion Smith; Recording Secre-
tary, MiBB Norma McLeod; Corresponding Se('retary,
MiBB Ethel Watson, 130 Dunn Ave.; Treasurer, Miss
Phyllis Lawrence; Social Convener, Miss Betty Blythe.
A.A., Hospital for Sick Children
Hon. Presidents, Mrs. Goodson, MiBB F. Potts; Hon.
Vice-President, MiBB Austin; President, Mrs. StrachaIl;
Vice-PresideIltB, Mrs. CaBBan, Mrs. Raymond; Record-
ing Secretary, MiBB E. Langman; Corresponding
Secretary, MiBB M. Blackwood; Treasurer, MiBB Deck,
613 Avenue Rd.; Committee Conveners: Social, Mrs. A.
RUBBell; Flower, MiBB H. Fisher; Programme, Miss
Elliott; Publications, MiBB S. E. Lewis; Registry, Miss
Currie; Welfare, MiBB Parker; R.N.A.O., MiBl! Miller.
A.A., Rlverdale Hospital
President, Misø Armøtrong; First \"ice-President,
Miss Gastrill; Second Vice-President, Miss M. Thomp-
SOIl; Secretary, Miss Stapleø, Riverdale Hospital;
Treaøurer, Mrs. H. Dunbar, 1\3 Peplar Ave.; Board of
Directors, MiBB Mathieson, Miss Stratton, MiBB Breeze,
MiBB Baxter, Miu Lo\\rie, Riverdale Hospital.
A.A., St. John's Hospital
Hon. President, Sister Beatrie-e, Superintendent, St.
John's Covent; President, Miss S. Mor
an; First Vice-
President, Miss J. Vanderwell; Second Vie-e-President,
MiBB N. Hetherington; Secretary. Miss W. Webb. 77
Summerhill Ave.; Treasurer, Mis!' D. Whiting; Corres-
ponding Se('retary, Miss M. Martin; Conveners: Enter-
tainment Committee, Miss M. Davies; Sirk Vi..,iting,
Miss H. Frost; Press Representative, Miss F. Young,
227 Milverton Blvd., Toronto 6.
A.A., St. Joseph's Hospital
Hon. Presid('nt, Rev. Sist('r :\Iary :\Iargaret: Prpsi-
dent,
Iiss :\1. Kelly; First \"ice-President, :\liss :\1.
O'l\lalloy; Second Vice-Prcsident, :\Iiss V. Sylvian-
Recording ::;ecretary, :\Iiss
1. Goodfriend' Correspond:
ing S
cretary- T
easurer,. :\tiss :\1. Fuller: St. Joseph's
Hospital; Counrillors, :\hsses :\1. :\If'Carthy, F. Lawlor
V. Hanley, T. Currie.
A.A., St. Michael's Hospital
H?n. President, Rev. Sister Norine; HOIl. Vice-
President, Rev. Sister Jeanne; President Miss Marie
elody; ,Firøt Vic:e-President, MiBB Cro
ker; Second
VI
e-Presl
ent, MIBB R. Grogan; Third Vice-President,
MIss J. 0 Connor; Tr
surer, MiBB G. Coulter, Apt.
404, 42
sabelle St.; ABBIs
ant Treasurer, MiBB 1. Nealon;
Recor:dmg Secretary, MIBB M. Doherty, St. Michael's
Hospital; Corresponding Secretary, Miøs K. McAuliffe,
East,,:ood
pt., Sherþourne St.; Private Duty Repre-
"
tatl11e, MIBB McGUire; Public Health Representative,
MIBB
. Kerr.; Press Representative, MiBB Regan;
Councillors, MIBBes M. Brown, L. McGurk, C. rronin.
A.A., Toronto General Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss Jean Gunn; President, !\Iiss
Jean. Allderson, 149 Glenholme Ave.; First Vice-
Pres!dent, M
ss Ma
garpt Du,lmage; Second Vice-
Preslde
t, Mls_s Elvira Mannmg; Secretary, Miss
Mary Fllder, 2;) Braemar Ave.; Treasurer Miss Hilda
MaclennaIl, 14 Lynwood Ave.; As
istant Treasurer
Miss Evelyn Robson; Archivist, MiBBJean Kniseley:
Convener.
of Committees: Programme, Mil's Clar
Brown; Pres!', Miss JYlar
oIl
tewart; Social, MIs.
J. H. Thuresfon; NommatIonf", Miss Pau!Ïne Steves'
Illsurance.,
lisR Effie. Forgie.; Flower, Miss Margaret
McKay; Ehzabeth Field SUllth Memorial Fund MisB
Gretta Ross. ' .
A.A., Toronto Orthopedic and East General
Hospital Training School for Nurses
Hon. President, Miss E. McLean, Toronto East
General Hospital; Pres.ideIlt, MisB H. Louis, 1806
D
nforth Ave. ; Secretary-Treasurer, MisB N. V.
WllS0Il, 50 Co\\an Ave.; Representatives to Central
Bt;gistry, Miss 13. MacIntosh, 748 Soudall Ave.,
l\-hss M. Beston, 232 Millwood Rd.; Representative to
R.N.A.O., Miss B. MacIntosh.
A.A., Toronto Western Hospital
Hon. President, MiBB B. L. Ellis; President, MiBB
F. Matthews, 74 Westmount Ave.; Vice-President,
MiBB U. Colwell; Recording Secretary, MiBB G. Patter-
son; Secretary-Treasurer,
-liBB Helen Stewart, Toronto
Western Hospital; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss F. Greenaway.
A.A., Wellesley Hospital
HOIl. President, Miss Ross; President, !\liss Jel'sie
GordoIl; Vice-President, Miss Lindsay; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss M. Anderson, 168 Isabella St.; Record-
iIlg Secretary, Miss BUIlgay; Treasurer, Mi!'B Little,
168 Isabella St.; Correspolldent to The Canadian
Nurse, Miss I. Onf'low.
A.A., Women's College Hospital
Hon. President, Mrs. BowmaIl; Hon. Vice-President,
MiBB Meiklejohn; President, MiBB Worth, 93 Scarboro
Beach Blvd.; Secretary, MiBB Free, 48 Northumberland
St. Treasurer; Miss Fraser, 125 Rusholme Road.
A.A., Connau
ht Training School for Nurses
Toronto Hospital, Weston
Hon. President, Miss E. MacP. Dick8on, Toronto
Hospital. Weston; Vice-President, MiBB Ann Bolwell,
Toronto Hospital. Weston; Secretary, MiBB G. Leem-
ing, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Treasurer, Miu R.
McI{ay, Toronto Hospital, Weston; Convener of
Social Committee, MiBB M. Jones, Toronto Hospital,
Weston.
WINDSOR
A.A.. Grace Hospital
Hon. President, Adjutant A. Butt; PresideIlt, Misø
E. Williams; Vice-President, Miss G. Sutherland;
Secretary, Miss Gladys Duffield, 218 Peter St. W.,
Sand wich; Treasurer, Miss W. Mervin; Press Secretary,
Miss C. McLaren.
A.A., Hotel Dleu, Windsor
Hon. PresideIlt, Rev. Mother Marie de La Ferre;
President, MiBs Mary Perrin; First Vice-President,
Miss Marie Odette; Second Vice-President, Miss Zoe
LOlldeau; Secretary, Miss M. SpeIlce; Treasurer, Mil's
Mary Fcnner; Conveners of Commi/lees: 1\Iisses J.
Londeau, H. Mahoney, M. McClory.
WOODSTOCK
A.A., General Hospital
First Hon. President, Miss Frances Sharpe;
rond
Hon. President, .ì\Iiss Helen Potts; Prel'ident, l\IisB
:\Iabel Costello; Vice-President, !\Iiss Anna Cook;
Recording Secretary, !\Iiss Lila Jackson; ('orre
pond-
ing Secretary and Press Ueprcfentative, 1I-liss l\1ay
Davison, 567 Adelaidp fo;t.; Assistant Secretary, Miss
Jean Kelly; Treasurer, !\Iiss
I. !\lacPhcrson; Assistant
Treasurer, Miss E. Eluf; Conveners of Commil/et',
:
Programme,
Iiss 1>. Craig; Flower and Gift, 1\lis
D.
Hohhs; Rorial, Miss J. Anderson.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
QUEBEC
LACHINE
A.A., Lachine General Hospital
Hon. President. 1\liss 1\1. L. Brown; Presid{'nt, !\Irs.
L. Jobber. 1646 Van Horne Ave.; Viee-Prc:,;ident. '-ti!>s
R. Goodfellow. I aehute; Secrelary-Trf'a,mrcr. Mio.;.'1 A.
Roy. 379 St. Cath{'rines St.. Laehine; Executhe Com-
mittee, 1\Iissc::! M. McNutt, E. Dewar.
MONTREAL
A.A., Children's :\-femorla) Hospital
Hon. President. Mi:,s A. Kinder; President. MiB8 K
Paterson; Vice-President, MiB8 H. Nutall; Secretary.
MiB8 J. Cochrane, 1615 Cedar Ave.; Treasurer. MiB8
L. Destromp; Executive Committee, MiB8 E. Hillyard,
MiB8 M. Flander; Social Committee. convener, Miss
t. Gill, MiB8 A. Adlington, MÏ88 M. McCallum and
MiB8 M. Robinson; Representative to The Canadian
Nurse, MiB8 V. Schneider; Sick Nurses Committee, Miss
H. Easterbrook.
A.A., Homeopathic Hospital
President, MiB8 A. Porteous; Vice-President, MiB8
:'\1. Hayden; Treasurer, MiB8 D. Miller, Homeopathic
Hoøpital; AB8istant Treasurer. Miss N. Horner; Secre-
tary, MiB8 S. Holland; AB8istant Secretary. MiB8 J.
Gray; Prirote Duty Section, MiB8 A. Porteous; Pro-
gramme Committee. :\tiB8 H. Bright; Entertainment
Committee, MiB8 M. Hayden; Representative to The
Canadian Nurse, MiB8 J. Whitmore; Representative,
MOlltresl Graduate Nurses AB8ociation, MiB8 1\1.
Bright; Sick Benefit Society, Mrs. J. Warren.
L'Assoclatlon des Gardes-
lalades Graduées de
I'Hftpltal Notre-Dame
Exécutif:
Ie8demoiselles Suzallne Giroux, Prési-
dente; Irène Rouillard, \ïce-PrésideIlte; Juliette
Beaulieu, 21'-me Viee-Prèsidente; Lurrèce Boucher.
Trésorière; Marguerite Pauzé, 4234 St. Hubert St.,
Serrétaire: Consejll
res:
Iesdemoiselles Françoisc
Chevrier, Georgette Hébert, Germaine Bris-<et, Ludi-
vine Bérubé.
A.A., Montreal General Hospital
HOIl. Presidents, Miss J. Webster, MiB8 N. Tedford,
Miss F. E. Strurnm; Hon. Treasurer, Miss H. Dunlop;
Hon. Member, :\liBl! J. Craig; President, Mi88 E.
Frances UptOIl, Ste. 221. 13Y6 St. Catherine St. W.;
First Vice-President, Miss M. Mathewson; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. L. H. Fisher; Recordinl1: Secretary,
MiB8 D. Snow; Corresponding Secretary,
frs. E. C.
'-Ienzies, 6635 Laslille Blvd., Verdun; Treasurer (Alum-
nae AB8ociation and Mutual Benefit Committee), MiB8
I. Davies. Montreal General Hoøpital; Executive Com-
mittee, MiB8 M. K. Holt, Miss H. Newton, MiB8 L.
Sutton, l\-liB8 O. Lilly, Mi8l! B. Herman; Representa-
tives to Pril'ate Duty Section. :\Iil!l! E. Gruer (Convener),
:\fi8l! C. Cole, Mies E. Marshall; Representative to
The Canadian Nurse, MiB8 I. Wellinp; (Convener),
Montreal General Hospital.;. Representatives to local
Council of Women, MiB8 u. Colley, MiB8 M. RO!'II;
Sick Visitin
Committee, MiBl! F. E. Strumm, Miss R
Herman; Prol1;ramme Committee. MiB8 I. Daviell. MiBB
M. Batson; Refreshment Committee. MiB8 ß. Under-
hill (Convener), :\liBl! C. Coombes, Miss C'. Fitzp;erald.
!\1iss D. McRae.
A.A., Royal Victoria Hospital
Hon. President.
li8l! K A. Draper; President, :\tiBl!
M. F. Hersey; First Vire-President. !\.tiB8 J. Stevenson;
Second Vice-President, :\trs. Grieve; Recordinp; Secre-
tary, MiB8 E. B. ROl1;erl\; Secretary-Treasurer. Miss 1(.
Jamer, Royal Victoria Hospital; Executive Committee,
Mrs. E. Roberts, :\trs. G. C. :\[elhado. Mrll. Prideaux,
:\1il!l!e/! E. Etter, E. Reid. A. Bulman; Conrmen 01
Committres: Finance. 1\1 iss n. Campbell: Sirk \ïsitinp;,
ti8l\ tl. Fellow!"; Prol1;ramme. Mrs. K. lIutrhison;
Refreshments. Milll! M. Rowley; Pr.rote Duty S,chon.
:'tAil's R. Corhrane; Hepr{'lIentatives to Local Council
597
of Women, Mi8l! J. Stevenaon, Mrs. E. Cooper; Repre-
sentative to The Canadian NUr8e, Mi8l! E. Allder.
A.A., St. Mary's Hospital
Hon. President, Si..ter Rozon; President, :\liss G.
JcLellan; Vice-President, Miss :\1.
If'
eil; Secretary,
:\Iiss K. Brady,
urEes Residence, 186:1 Dorchester f't.
W.; Treasurer, !\tiES A. Lalonde; Sick Committee.
\Iisses B. Latour, I. McDonell; Programme Committee,
lisEes I. Kenny, :\1. Lapointe, E. O'Hare.
A.A., Women's General Hospital, Weøtmount
Hon. Presidents, Mi8B F. George, MiB8 E. Trench;
President, Mrs. L. M. Crewe; First Vice-President,
Miss E. Moore; Second Vice-President, Mi8l! K. :'\[ar-
till; Recording Secretary, MiB8 R. Sixsmith; Corres-
ponding Secretary, MiB8 N. Bw\\n, Apt. 5, 1187 Hope
Ave.; Treasurer, !\.tiss E. L. Francis; Sick Villitinp;.
Miss G. Wilson. l\tiB8 L. Jell8en; Prirote Duty,
Irll.
A. Chisholm, MiB8 G. Wilson; Representative to Tlte
Canadian Nurse. MiB8 C. Morrow; Social Committee,
Mrs. Drake, MiB8 Clark. Regular monthly meetinl1;
every third Wednesday. 8 p.m.
A.A., School for Graduate Nunes, McGill
University
Hon. President, Miss :\lary Samuel; Hon. Vice-
President, Miss Bertha Harmer; Hon. MemberI',
!\.-lis
:\1. F. HerFey, MiEI' Grace M. Fairley, Dr. Helen
H. Y. Reid, Dr. Maude Abbott, ì\In:. R. W. Heford.
:\liss l\1. L. :\toag; Presidpnt, Miss Madeline Ta)'lor,
\ïctorian Order of NurEcs, 1246 Bi
hop St.; \ïc('-
Pre
ident, Mi
f Eilepn C. Flanagan, Royal Victoria
Hospital; Secretary-Treasurer, 1\Iifll K. MacLennan,
Alexandra HOl'pital; Chairman, Flora :\tadeline Sha\\
Iemori&l Fund, !\.Ii
s E. Frances rpton, 1396 St.
Catherine St. W.; Programme, MiEs Flora George.
Women's Gpneral Hospital; Repre!ientatives to Lo("al
Counf'Íl of Women, Mi"s Ethel Sharpe, :\liiJl AbiltaÏl
Baker; Representatives to The Canadian Nurse:
Administration, :\Ji's
1. DesRarrp!l, Shriners' HOf-
pital; Tearhinp;. 1\ti
!I C. Mill!', Montrpal Genpral
Hospital; Public H('alth, :\liEI' L. Charland. 3421
Grand Blvd.
QUEBEC CITY
A.A., Jeffrey Hale's Hospital
Hon. President, :\lrll. Barrow; President, :\li8l! D.
Jackson' First Vice-President, Mi8l! E. Fitzpatrick;
Second 'Vice-President, :\[rs. C. Young; Recording
Secretary.
[iB8 E. McCallum; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Mi8l! M. Fischer; Treasurer, Mi88 E. McHarg;
Representative to The Canadian Nursr, :\tiBl! N.
:\[artin; Prirote Duty Section: Mi88 G. Martin; Sick
\ïsitinp; Committee. !\trs. Barro\\ and !\trs. Buttimore;
Refreshment Committpe. :\trs. Melling. MiB8 Weary.
:\JiB8 Hansen, l\t is!! :\[c{'\intoch; Councillors. :\1iB8
Imrie. Mrll. CraÏJt, Mrs. Jackson, Mil!l! Mackay, :\tiBl!
B. Adams.
SHERBROOKE
A.A., Sherbrooke Hospital
Hon. Presidents, Mi88 E. France/! l"pton,
[jl!l! \'erna
Beane' President. Mrs. Gordon MacKay; Firllt Vice-
Presid
nt. MiB8 O. Harvey; Second Vice-President,
:\Irs. A. Savap;e; Recordinl1; Secretary, :\tiB8 1\1. Gelinl
lI;
CorreflpnndinJ/: Secretary. !\trs. Herhert MacCallum;
Treasurer. :\Jil'S Alice I ystpr, lOa Wrllinp;ton St. N.;
Rf'prPllentative to The Canadian Nurse, Mills F.
\V ardleworth.
SASKA TCIIEWA
A.A., Saskatoon City Hospital
Hon. President, MiBl! G. M. Watson; Prt'sidt'nt. l\1i8l!
:\1. R. C'hisholm; First Vice-Prellident, Mil!l! G. Munr
;
8econd \ïf'e-President. MiBl! H. Johnston; Recordmg
t'ecretary, :\tiss J. Wells; Correspon
ing
ecretary,
:\fi8l! L. ....irk. 419-9th St.; Treasurer. !\tISS .
. Fpr
Wlon,
ronÐeners: Presll. !\tiB8 M. E. Grant; Rehef, 1\1188 G.
:\tunroe; Sirk 'isitiull, Misll 1\1. Graha":l; Fdurational,
:\frll. G. Ppndleton; \\'ays and :\feanll. :\flllll :\J. Duncan;
(lcial. :\lrs. II. Huck.
THE
CAN ADIAN NURSE
INDEX FOR VOLUME XXX
JANUARY - DECEMBER, 1934
Agnew, Dr. G. H., Nurse'patient ratios in Canadian hospitals, July 301
Anderson, M. B., Selection of students, Nov., 522
Baird, K. A., Putting the patient first, Feb., 61
Barrett, C. Y., Impressions sur Ie Congrès Biennal, Sept., 413
Batson, M., Staff education, Dec., 569.
Biographical notes:
The Accolade, Feb., 53 and How they won the M.B.E., Mar., 105:-Darrach; Dunn;
Estabrook; Holland; Pearston; Rayside; Ross; Simpson; Smellie; Smith
Campbell, Dame Janet, Oct., 473
Dickson, E. MacP., Dee., 562.
Eastwood, Charlotte, June, 268
Emory, F. H. M., June, 245
Harmer, Bertha, Sept., 415
Simpson, Ruby, Aug., 353
Book Reviews: Jan., 28; Feb., 77; Mar., 123; May, 220; June, 270; Sept.. 418; Oct. 487;
Nov., 531; Dec., 577.
Canadian Nurses Association:
Biennial Meeting, Jan. 15; Apr., 171; June, 245; Aug., 361 and 369
A quarter of a century, June, 245
A memorable occasion, Aug., 361
Impressions sur Ie Congrès Biennal (Barrett), Sept., 413
The resolutions (Simpson), Nov., 513
The new President, Aug., 353
Pageant of nursing (Gunn), Apr., 154; Aug., 383
Scholarship, Apr., 158; Dec., 581.
Canadian Nurses Association official reports:
Executive secretary, Aug., 373
National Joint Study Committee, Aug., 384
Membership committee, Aug., 382
Exchange of nurses committee, Aug., 385
Nightingale Memorial Committee, Sept., 420
Curriculum in mental hospitals committee, Sept., 423
Standing committee on curriculum, Oct., 476
Co'ordination of nursing education interests, Oct., 490
Canadian Nurses Association provincial units reports:
Alberta Association of Registered Nurses, Sept., 425
Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia, Sept., 427
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses, Sept., 428
New Brunswick Association of Registered Nurses, Sept., 430
Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia, Sept., 432
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, Sept., 433
Graduate Nurses Association of Prince Edward Island, Sept., 434
Association of Registered Nurses of the Province of Quebec, Sept., 435
Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association, Sept., 438
Notes from the National Office: Jan., 29; Feb.. 79; Mar., 125; Apr., 170: May, 222: June, 272;
July, 324; Aug., 373; Sept., 420; Oct., 490; Nov., 532; Dec., 578.
Care of Life (MacKay), Oct., 461
Chamard, P. and Martin P., Physiology on the screen, Apr., 169.
Collins, P., New Light, Feb., 76
Correspondence: Jan., 27; Feb., 66; Mar., 124; Apr., 162; May, 210; June, 256: Oct., 470;
Nov., 520; Dec., 568.
Curriculum:
Report of the national standing committee on curriculum, Oct., 476; Dec., 564.
The proVInces and the curriculum (Lindeburgh), Feb., 63
Curriculum for nurses'in-training in mental hospitals (Fidler), Sept., 423
Editorials:
Editor's Desk, Jan., 13; Feb., 65; Mar., 109: Apr., 161; May, 209; June, 257; July, 313;
Aug., 371; Sept., 417; Oct., 475; Nov., 521: Dec., 567.
598
VOL. XXX, No. 1.2
THE CANADIAN NURSE
599
Canadian Scene, Jan., 5; Feb., 57; Mar., 108; Apr., 155; May, 202; June, 269
How they won the M.B.E., Mar.. 105
Opportunity beckons, June, 254.
The Accolade, Feb., 53
The Calgary experiment, Nov., 516
What do you think about it? Nov.. 529
Emory, F. H. M., Yesterday and tomorrow, Aug., 349
Fraser, C., A nursing allegory, May, 217
Gunn, J. 1., Towards action, Sept., 405
Hall, M. H., Health teaching in the basic course, Oct., 480
Hally, D., Understanding reactions of children, July, 318
Hillyard, E. M., Inguinal hernia in children, Feb., 59
International relationships:
Britain to Canada, Aug.. 367
Echoes of the Congress (Tansey), Jan., 25
Nightingale Fellowship scholarship, Apr.. 160
Nursing education and the LC.N. (Lmdeburgh), Mar.. 110
Private duty and the LC.N. (MacIntosh), Jan., 18
\Ve exchange, Nov., 517
Jdckson, P., Public health and the small town, May. 214
Jowsey, A. M., Nursing in the Canadian Labrador, June. 264
Law, A., The value of interchange, Apr.. 163
Lindeburgh, M., Nursing education and the LC.N., Mar., 110
Lusk, Dr. C. P., A physician looks at nursing, Dec., 557.
Macdonald, Isabel, Compulsory registration, Nov.,. 530
MacIntosh, 1. M., Private duty and the LC.N., Jan., 18
MacKay, Ira A., The Care of Life, Oct.. 461
Macleod, A. J., The teaching staff confers, Jan., 16
MacLennan, K. M., Nursing communicable diseases, July, 306
McDonald, M. M., Broadening the field, Apr.. 164
McMullen, M., Future of private duty nursing, Oct.. 484
Manning, R. M., We speak our mind, Feb.. 74
Martineau, A., Communicable disease control, Feb.. 71
Millman, M. B., Essentials of supervision, Jan.. 21
Mills, Dr. E. S., Pernicious anaemia, Jan. 10
Mitchell, W. T. B.; Mitchell, H.; Rogers, E. B.; Peden, G., SelectIOn of students and integration
of mental hygiene in the curriculum, June. 258
Murdoch, M., Immunization of student" nurses, Apr.. 153
Mental Hygiene:
Make your voyage (Stevenson), May. 197
Selection of students and integration of mental hygiene in the curriculum (Mitchell, W. T.
B.; Mitchell, H.; Rogers, E. B.: Peden, G.), June. 258
Understanding the reactions of children (Hally), July, 318
Nash, M. E., Planned supervision, July, 320
Nursing Education:
A challenge to the profession (Wallace), Aug., 354
Broadening the field (McDonald), Apr., 164
Health teaching in the basic Course (Hall), Oct.. 480
Interchange of nurses (Notes from National Office), Feb.. 79
Physiology on the screen (Chamard and Martin), Apr., 169
Principles and ideals in education (Pierre), Feb.. 67
Selection of students (Anderson). Nov., 522
Staff education (Batson), Dec., 569.
Teaching staff confers (Macleod), Jan., 16
Value of interchange (Law), Apr.. 163
Vitalizing the teaching of materia medica (Reid), May. 211
National enrolment:
Report of committee, Aug., 380
N dtional enrolment, Sept.. 416
Canada calling, Nov.. 515
Ni
htingale Memorial:
Nightingale Memorial (Fdirley), Feb.. 62; May. 207; June, 252; July, 312; Aug., 382;
Sept.. 412 and 420; Nov.. 518
Inauguration of the Nightingale Foundatiun, Oct.. 468
Widening horizons (Old International), May, 204
Ncw
Notes, Jan., 31: Feb., 81; May., 126; Apr., 175: Mil,', 224: June 278; Juh. 325: Au
.
388; Sept.. 440; Oct., 49:'; Nov., 538; Dec., 580.
DECEMBI.:R, 1934
600
THE CANADIAN NURSE
Nursing practice:
Diet in diabetes mellitus (Park), June, 247
Inguinal Hernia in children (Hillyard), Feb., 59
Malignant diseases of the ear, nose and throat (\Vright), Mar., 101
New Light (Collins), Feb., 76
Nursing care in "polio" (Sutton), Dec., 560.
Nursing in the Canadian Labrador (Jowsey), June, 264
Nursing communicable diseases (MacLennan), July, 306
Pernicious anaemia (Mills), Jan., 10
Puttmg the patient first (Baird), Feb., 61
Obituary: Jan., 36; Feb., 85: Mar., 133; Apr., 181; May, 228; June, 288; July, 335; Aug., 392;
Oct., 496; Nov., 544; Dec., 587.
Off Duty: Jan., 39; Feb., 94; Mar.. 142; Apr., 190; May, 230; June, 276; July, 336; Aug., 386;
Sept., 448; Oct., back cover; Nov., 536; Dec., 588.
Official Directory: Jan., 40; Feb., 86; Mar., 134; April, 182; May, 233; June, 289; July, 337;
Aug., 393; Sept., 449; Oct., 497; Nov., 545; Dec., 590.
Park, R., Diet in diabetes, June, 247
Pease, S. H., New frontiers in public health nursing, Nov., 524
Pierre, Sister, Principles and ideals in education, Feb., 67
Private Duty:
Education for private duty (Tallman), Dec., 572.
Future of private duty nursing (McMullen), Oct., 484
Nursing allegory (Fraser), May, 217
We speak our mind (Manning), Feb., 74
What use is a forum? Apr., 168
Provincial Association Meetings:
Alberta, Dee., 566; British Columbia, May, 219, Dec., 566; Manitoba, Mar., 122; New
Brunswick, Oct., 491; Quebec, Mar., 121; Saskatchewan, June, 255.
Public health and prevention:
Common sense and public health (Smellie), Mar., 118
Communicable disease control (Martineau), Feb., 71
Essentials of supervision (Millman), Jan., 21
Future of public health nursing (Smellie), Nov., 509
Immunization of student nurses (Murdoch), Apr., 153
New light on public health (Wells), Dec., 574.
New frontiers in public health nursing (Pease), Nov., 524
Planned supervision (Na!'h), July, 320
Public health and the small town (Jackson), May, 214
Tuberculosis contact (Robertson), Apr., 165
Vancouver Health League (Sanderson), Feb., 72
Reid, M. M., Vitalizing the teaching of materia medica, May, 211
Roberts, M. M., Trends in American nursing, Apr., 149
Robertson, M., The tuberculosis contact, Apr., 165
Sutton, Dr. N. H., Nursing care in "polio", Dec., 560.
Sanderson, K. I., Vancouver Health League, Feb., 72
Simpson, R. M., The Resolutions, Nov., 513
Smellie, E. 1., Common sense and public health, Mar., 118
Smellie, E. 1., Future of public health nursing, Nov., 509
Stack, M. K., Non-nur
ed sick and the idle private duty nurse, Mar., 113
Stevenson, Dr. G. H., Make your voyage, May, 197
Schools of nursing:
Approved schools of nursing (Notes from Ndtional Office), Feb., 79
First Canadian School of Nursing, Mar., 107
McGill School for graduate nurses, Feb.. 64; July, 311; Oct., 472
Opening of a door (Children's Memorial Hospital), July, 315
Sixty years young (Mack Training School), Sept., 411
Social and economic aspects of nursing:
A physician looks at nursing (Lusk), Dec., 557.
Calgary experiment, No 1.-'., 516
Compulsory registration (Macdonald), Nov., 530
Non-nursed sick and the idle private duty nurse (Stack), Mar., 113
Nurse-patient ratios in Canadian hospitals (Agnew), July, 301
Towards action (Gunn), Sept., 405
Trends in American nursing (Roberts), Apr., 149
Tallman, R., Education for private duty, Dec., 572.
Wallace, R. C., Challenge to the profession, Aug., 354
Wells, A. E., New light on public health, Dec., 574.
Wright, Dr. R. P., Malignant diseases of the ear, nose and throat, Mar., 101
Yesterday and tomorrow (Emory), Aug., 349
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