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Show I TRAINING SCHOOLS FOU NunSCS. The Ho-plla , w y,irk ily ltt-h I it M,'u mil Wnniru for J.ur-dnc. The Bellevuu Trainnsf School for Nurse vrs started on -any J, l :;:), viih a enpcriutend;'nt and live nurses, having five wards under their cam. In tin, school had Ci pupils and had graduated SU"., while as a direct outgrowth out-growth of tlmt luoiicnt beginning there are three oilier great whi !s in Now York alone. These are the New York City, v Mcli l:;iH t:4 prpils end has gradu-ated gradu-ated i(l!l; the New York hospital, with 4S pupils and !); gradual-.'!), and Mount Sinai, with o pupils and 111 graduates. There are also smaller schools ia the city, but, great or n:i;ill, UclVvue nut t ahvvs he honored cs th pioneer. Lor graduates are at the hcr.l of iue.,t of the important schools and hospitals in the country, and have even gone so far uu Id an England, Italy and China. The next school to be established was the New York city, which was started by the commissioners of charities and correction in 1877, and in entirely supported sup-ported by the city. Until VVJ it was known as the Charity Hospital school, because it began there, but as it grew it;- work spread, until the old name was misleading and had to bo changed. It is now tho largest and in some respects re-spects the most important of nil the schools, as it unrsea five different hospitals hos-pitals Charity and Maternity on Black-well's Black-well's Island, tho Infa.its' hospital tin Randall's Island, Oouverneur, at Gon-vtrneur Gon-vtrneur Slip, and Harlem, at the foot of East One Hundred and Tvontiethtroet, the two last bt4ng accident or emergency hospitals, while at Charity tho cases are largely chronic. Besides the pupils of the school there are thirty -two perma-j perma-j nent trained nurses at Charity and Ran-; Ran-; dall's Island, making nearly a hundred j in all, for whom tho superintendent is ! directly responsible, and over whom sho I has full authority. The other schools in 1 tho city are supported from the funds of tho hospitals which they nurse. Mrs. Frederick Rhinelander Jones in Scrib-j Scrib-j uer's. |