NURSES AND NURSERIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 216, 5 June 1908, Page 5

NURSES AND NURSERIES.

The,,■ -Archbishop/ .of Westminster, ih\ 'Bourne, recently opened the St. Mary's 'Nursery: College, Highgatc, which has . 'been established to train educated girls as children's nurses. It is proposed to give at the college a practical course in the dailycaro and feeding of children from ;a. fortnight to five years old, together with courses.of in--stniction in nursery hygiene, the physiology of children, first aid, and kindergarten • games. Mrs. Bernard Mole, principal of tho col- / lege,; said that already she had had several applications for nurses, including the offer of a post at tho Russian Court at a salarv of £dOO a year. The secretary of, tho .conference, Mr. Ernest Schofield, 1 in an V interview; said that there were about 33,000 registered nurses .in England Qualified to take entire charge of maternity cases. The Act of '1902, which comes into full force in 1910, restricts maternity work, to these nurses, and'will throw out of employment 30,000 untrained nurses now dealing with / this .class of cases. Irained and educated nurses," said Mr. ■ bchoneld, "must' take 'their places. , It is partly to point out [that in this particular branch of nursing lie 3 an excellent career tor suitable young 1 women of some education that this conference is to bo held." .Speaking on the ''Education of the Future, at the^ Manual Training Teachers' Conference at> Caxton Hall, "Westminster, Mr.; J. Arrowsmith said that we were onlv beginning to understand that man's brain • was developed by craftsmanship. The child first sought food and then wanted to break things, that is, use his muscles. In that way the : brain substance was -properly de- . The • speaker held that proper nutrition of/the mother and of tho child after birth was important, and that there was crime T, i°i b " ttt ; ecn mal-nutrition and ' th P Jw lEclc of knowledge how to use fine muscles was marked among criminals.