. The Canadian nurse . ties for1938 was given by Miss ElizabethSmellie, , , the Chief su-perintendent. Victorian Order nursesgave care to 84,697 patients in 765,-969 visits in the 89 centres operating inCanada in 1938. Of these visits it isinteresting to note that 8 percent werefully paid for by the patients, 16 per-cent partly paid, 17 percent paid for byinsurance companies, and 59 percentwere free. One might conclude fromthese figures that had visiting nursingnot been available to these patients themajority would not have received skillednursing care. During the year, five newbra
. The Canadian nurse . ties for1938 was given by Miss ElizabethSmellie, , , the Chief su-perintendent. Victorian Order nursesgave care to 84,697 patients in 765,-969 visits in the 89 centres operating inCanada in 1938. Of these visits it isinteresting to note that 8 percent werefully paid for by the patients, 16 per-cent partly paid, 17 percent paid for byinsurance companies, and 59 percentwere free. One might conclude fromthese figures that had visiting nursingnot been available to these patients themajority would not have received skillednursing care. During the year, five newbranches were opened — namely,Surrey, in British Columbia; Amherst,in Nova Scotia; Leamington, Chatham,and Peninsula, in Ontario. In NovaScotia, Liverpool extended its boun-daries to take in the towns of Brooklynand Milton, and the branch at GlaceBay was closed. A fairly large turnover of staff wasreported. Sixty-nine appointments weremade, and forty-four resignations ac-cepted. Twenty of the nurses resigning JUNE, 1939. Fathers Day did do so in order to be married. MissSmellie spoke of the difficulty of obtain-ing fully qualified public health nursesat the present time. With the co-opera-tion of the Montreal Branch, twomonths of intensive training was g\\ento a limited number of nurses who in-tend taking public health training withina year or two. These nurses are giventemporary employment with the under-standing that when they have completedthe public health course in universitythey will return to the Order. A study of 10,000 maternity recordswas made in 1938 and a preliminaryreport submitted by Dr. Phair. Studiesof the quality and cost of the servicewere made in the Toronto and Mont-real Branches by Miss Johnson and of the Metropolitan Life Insur-ance Company. 325 324 THE CANADIAN NURSE Miss Smellie paid tribute to the ex-cellent work done by the nursing staffand made special reference to the con-tribution made by the supervisors: Without detracting one iota froin th
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