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Show STATE BOARD GRANTS NURSES CERTIFICATES Of twenty-six applications for trained nurse certificates, filed with the state board of nurse examiners, twenty-five were granted at the meeting held yes-terdav. yes-terdav. Miss H. Claire Haines, secretary secre-tary of the board, who recently returned from the convention of the National League of Xursiug Education held at Chicago, reported that tho keynote of the convention was the need of better instruction for nurses, better equipment equip-ment in hospitals and more rigid prerequisite pre-requisite for those contemplating nurse training. It was suggested at the convention, she said, that girls should be required to have completed high school work in household economic:-, chemistry, physiology physi-ology and sufficient mathematics" to enable them to understand chemistry. The convention also considered t'.ie advisability of establishing regular courses for nurses assistants which should combine six months of intensive theory with a period of practical nurs |