. A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. templates the annual group of alumnas sentforth from the Cuban hospitals. By their birth andlanguage, their knowledge of the customs and habitsof tropical countries, their experience of what sanita-tion has done in their own land, and their triumphantsuccess in demonstrating the ability of the daughtersof the south to take command, they are clearly theones in line for this oncoming immense piece of up-building. There can be no doubt t
. A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. templates the annual group of alumnas sentforth from the Cuban hospitals. By their birth andlanguage, their knowledge of the customs and habitsof tropical countries, their experience of what sanita-tion has done in their own land, and their triumphantsuccess in demonstrating the ability of the daughtersof the south to take command, they are clearly theones in line for this oncoming immense piece of up-building. There can be no doubt that, in a few yearsmore, advance guards of Cuban nursing battalionswill begin penetrating these as yet non-nursed coun-tries, carrying into them a practical application of theprinciples of prevention of needless disease andmisery. And may it not be possible that the Spanishnursing field is also waiting for the Cuban nurses? The National Association of Nurses of the Republicof Cuba was established March 29, 1909, and withinone year numbered three hundred members. Itsfirst honorary member was Senora America Arias de 1 Letter from Miss Hibbard, May 23, Isabel Mclsaac Formerly Superintendent of the Illinois Training School and then Interstate Secretary; Head, Army Xurse Corps Porto Rico 3°7 Gomez, wife of the President of the directed, their association will be the mostpowerful organ that the nurses can have for main-taining their professional and ethical standards. Porto Rico.—Porto Rico has also a record of goodwork done. There are two excellent training schoolsin the island, one in the Presbyterian Hospital whichis under mission auspices, and the larger insular schoolconnected with the Municipal Hospital. The latterwas founded and placed on a firm basis by Miss AmyE. Pope, from the New York Presbyterian. She hadthere, as assistant, a young Porto Rican, SenoritaPilar Cabrera, who had been trained in Baltimoreat the Mercy, then the Baltimore City, Hospit
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