Show r 5 5 WOMAN NURSE FAH 50 YEARS Describes Hospitals of Earlier Day Day NEW YORK May 12 By N N. E E. A A. A A life lite saver unde undecorated orated with medals and awards holds a record that may never be surpassed A nurse for nearly fifty years she Is still stilt on the job quietly heroically going on with her work of ot rescue She Is Miss Susan West one of the first graduates from the first American training school for nurses established In Bellevue hospital In 1372 1873 After ACter fter all nIl these years she says nothing seems to me more worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while than the profession of ot nursing nurs nurs- ing Today much muc more than In my time It opens doors tp to many opportunities American hA nurses are wanted now In every part of the world to nurse or to open training training- schools Important Important Important Im Im- Im- Im positions are open to the able nurse In almost every country But It was not that way fifty years ago when I came tp to Bellevue Then a nurse had to do a a. patients patient's B laundry If he had clean clothing had hadI I to light a candle at night If the sick needed attention for the gas was turned oft off t and had to use carbolic car car- bolic bolla acid as tho the only antiseptic The care as to detail that makes make the modern hospital a life lite saving Institution in institution institution In- In says Miss West did not exist then But with the the- coming of ot the trained nurse came the tho change It was some change for Mrs Elizebeth Ell Ell- C C. Hobson who was one of or the women who started the training school says these conditions ex exIsted existed ex- ex isted fated There were no regular night nurses A man called a a. night watchman passed through the wards and If he found a patient ill HI or dying he called a s. young doctor Occasionally patients who had been overlooked were found dead In the morning Rats flats scampered over the floors at night The house staff dressed wounds going from one patient patient to to another often otten carrying Infection In spite of or precautions precautions' used Sponges for washing washing- the wounds were not cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton but bits of real sponge and were used on one patient after atter another another another an an- other without any But all that has been changed with the advent of the new methods and better training LEGION PLANS PLAN'S CONVENTION SAN FRANCISCO May 12 By UP U U. P The P.-The The fifth annual convention of ot the American legion to be held here her from October 15 to October 20 Is expected to draw from to according TO 10 the arrangements committee of the tha chamber of commerce |