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Title: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Annual Report
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital
Subjects: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital Maternal health services Child health services Charities, Medical--New York (State)--New York Foundlings care Child care
Publisher: New York Nursery and Child's Hospital
Contributing Library: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Samuel J. Wood Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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ince 1916 the number of patients has in-creased 50 per cent. In that same period the number of residentnurses, in accordance with modern treatment and training, hasincreased 125 per cent. The improvised nurses home is over-full, and still we must refuse added affiliations for training inobstetric and pediatric nursing needed by this hospital and inmuch demand by the general hospitals of this and other cities. Nurses need and deserve the relaxation of comfortable bed-rooms and inviting social rooms and they are bound to reflectthese surroundings in the spirit and skill which they bring to theirpatients. This we cannot give them under present conditions. Additional classrooms are urgently needed. To lead in thecare of its patients, a hospital must lead in the scientific educa-tion of its nurses. Our standards of training are high enoughto be sought after, our methods to be copied; but both havebeen developed in spite of physical handicaps that should be al-lowed to persist no longer. 14
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More Stack lor Ward Patients. The care of women inchildbirth is one of this hospitals oldest responsibilities. In thepast two years, the number cared for in our public wards in-creased 50 per cent. Only by using space intended for privatepatients could they be received. We need, not only additionalward beds, but also a labor ward so that mothers with babiesmay be spared the distress of being in the same ward withmothers in labor. The Dispensary. The excellent work of the dispensary hasalready been mentioned. The true value of its work can be ap-praised only when the pitifully inadequate quarters available aretaken into consideration. With an average daily attendance of91, which at times runs as high as 140, the temporary steelbuilding now used has already been outgrown. We need a new dispensary with double the present capacityso that we may not only serve the patients now being cared forbut also provide for the immediate development of the vitallyimportant preventive and educational w

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