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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ore than one-half of them are now thus engaged in New York, and theirearnings are greater than the average made by skilled labor, byeither men or women, in other departments, and fully equal tothat of the average compensation of female teachers in the NewYork grammar-schools. This training-school encountered at first many prejudicesfrom various quarters — even from members of the medicalprofession, where it was least to have been expected. It wasaverred that a hospital was not a proper place for a womanto visit — certainly not for a young woman, unless, perhaps,she might be a sister of charity — and it was apprehendedthat trained nurses might set the authority of physicians atnaught; but the profession has come fully to appreciate thevalue to them of such services, and they have not been slow toinculcate the same idea upon their patients. When the man-agers of the Bellevue Training-school first proposed to providenurses for private families, the applications were so rare that it
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AMONG THE WEEDS.See Note 39.

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