Show sairy bamps modern counterpart still competing with trained nurse hy by ISABELL 11 STEWART columbia in the survey the struggle s to maintain decent nursing standards lias has been going on since the first schools for nurses were founded in this country in 1873 and the battle is not yet won by any means who believe in the efficiency of the pre nightingale nurse are active in advertising the virtues of the untrained or combination of doni domestic estic and nurse who is miraculously to relieve the present shortage of nurses end and whose services service arc to be especially designed for the sick poor and for the rest of us who belong to the unfortunate wage wag e earning class but these modern sairy bamps never have seen anything in nursing except a form forin of simple manual work requiring some dexterity and a smattering of elementary knowledge which they believe can be obtained in a few weeks or months by any ordinary woman who can read and write ahey usually state that they consider any knowledge beyond this a positive detriment and an encroachment on the province of the physician they believe that a worker of thi this s typo type will be quite willing not only to care for the sick in the ordinary fai family nily lut but to do a considerable share of the housework as well veil at the modest sum of 16 15 or at most of 26 25 a week once nil all this had been accomplished they will promise that large jarge numbers of highly competent women will flock into this field of work arid and that soon every one will be able to employ a nurse at less lesa me pera than on ono was cu employ a cook or hou housemaid seid |