ECOLE D`INFIRMI~ES PRIVCES, PARIS.

JUNE,
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of Great Britain and Ireland, I represent the Registered
Nurses' Parlianentary Council on the National Council of
Nurses and sin a member of the Royal British Nurses'
Association.
I have held the following posts of importance since X ~ I Z .
Matron, West Kent General Hospital, Maidstone : Matron,
Territorial Army Nursing Service lsince 1 ~ 0 9 ) ; War
Service Matron, 5 Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth ;
73 General Hospital, France; 37 C.C.S. Rhine Amy.
Awarded Royal Red Cross January 1916. Twice Mentioned in Despatches. Matron, Ministry of Pensions
Nursing Service ; Natron London Temperance Hospital.
Present post, Matron, West End Hospital for Nervous
Diseases, London.
Should you do me the honour to elect me I will endeavour
to serve you on the Coizndl of the College to the utmost
of my ability.
KATHLEENA. SMITH,F.R.CN., S.R.N., 310.
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1929.
Brownsdon, F.B.C.N., Sister-in-Charge School Treatment
Centre, L.C.C., spoke ably on the Pre-War Nurse, and Miss
Silvia Vian, F.B.C.N., Assistant hfatron, Charing Cross
Hospital, on the Nurse of To-day.
The advocacy of both was well sustained, but in the end
it appeared that both were of opinion that there was no
real line of demarcation between the two.
There emerged, as a result of the Debate, that there is a
considerable amount of talent amongst the Fellows and
Members of the College, which could be fostered and encouraged in the informal atmosphere of debate, and Miss
Bushby proposed that the Council of the College should
be invited to consider the foundation of a Debating
Society before the Autumn Session.
L'INAUGURATlON DE LA NOUVELLE MAISONECOLE D ' I N F I R M I ~ E S
PARIS.
PRIVCES,
L'inauguration du nouvel immeuble de la Maison-Ecole
Vallance," The Rose Walk,
d'Infirmibres Privbes, Paris, a eu lieu le 27 Avril 1929,
Goring-by-Sea, Sussex.
To THE FELLOWS
OF THE BRITISH
COLLEGE OF NURSES, sous la prbsidence de M. Oberkirch, Sous-Secrbtaire d'Etat
SHygiene, en presence de nombreux professeurs des
LADIES,-I am seeking election on the Council of the kFacultBs
de Droit et de Mbdecine.
British College of Nurses, and ask for your vote.
siege de la Maison-Ecole se trouvait auparavant 66,
If I have the honour of being elected by you, it will be rueLeVercingbtorix.
Le voici maintenant 2, Place de la
my endeavour to uphold the honour and dignity of the
Porte-de-Vanves,
dans
vaste immeuble de trois btages,
College, also to serve and further the interests of the que sa directrice, Mlle.unChaptal,
a fait construire,
Nursing Profession in every way possible.
Un batiment rectangulaire, aux proportions harmonieuseYours faithfully,
ment calcul6es, aux lignes nettes, dresse sa masse blanche
(Signed) M. WINMILL,F.B.C.N.
sur la Place de la Porte-de-Vanves qu'il domine. Le public
Late Matron of Queen Mary's Hospital
de Vanves, qui sait le rBle bienfaiteur des infirmi&res,
for Children, Carshalton, Surrey.
stationne par petits groupes sur la place.
I1apparait que la prboccupation premiere de l'architecte a
LECTURE ON SUNLIGHT AND HEALTH.
btb de repandre Sair et la lumi&re B l'intbrieur de son
On May 14th Fellows and Members of the British College edifice. Deux salles k manger, un salon, des cuisines et
of Nurses had the privilege and pleasure of listening t o a leurs dbpendances, la grande salle de conferences occupent
lecture, illustrated by very fine lantern slides, by Dr. C. W. le rez-de-chaussbe. Quarante chambres et trois salles de
F.R.S.E., Chairman of the cours sont distribubes sur trois Btages. Une immense
Saleeby, M.D., Ch.B., F.Z.S.,
Sunlight League.
terrasse, ouverte aux vents et au soleil, forme le toit du
Miss M. Breay, Vice-President of the College, was in bhtiment. Partout le jour penetre it profusion B travers de
the Chair.
grandes baies vitrkes.
The lecturer began by stating that 400 years before
La Maison-Ecole d'Infirmidres Privbes a. &B fondbe en
Christ Rippocrates, the Father of Medicine, used the sun- 1905 et reconnue d'utilitB publique en xgn. Son objet est
light, devoted himself largely to nature cure, and insisted de former des infirmihres qui suivhnt des cows et y trouvent
upon the value of gymnastics.
bibliotheque et logements. Elle forme aussi des assistantes
In the nineteenth century there were heralds of the dawn, de Service Social qui, dans milb circonstances difficiles,
foremost amongst them Florence Nightingale. Thirty- travaillent, k soulager le malheur ou 5 relever la moralite
eight years ago also Dr. Palm made a series of remarkable d'btres dBchus.
recommendations in the Practitioner, in which he advocated
L'btablissement reGoit, t~ titre d'61dves internes, les
the systematic use of sunbaths as a preventive and thera- jeunes a l e s de vingt-et-un & trente-cinq ans pour une
peutic measure in rickets and other diseases, and the educa- durbe de deux ans. Au bout de ce temps, les Blhvessont
tion of the public to the appreciation of sunlight as a means preparbes B leur rale social.
of health.
L'auvre de Mlle Chaptal, fondation de l'Bcole, directbn
In 1893 Finsen began in Denmark to use the sun as an de la revue "L'Ix&rmidre FranGaise," creation de la
antiseptic, and discovered that it was very successful Bibliothhque de l'Iniirmi&re-n'bpuise pas son activitb.'
in treating certain forms of disease. Queen Alexandra Elle prbvoit et dei& organise un petit h6pital de bBbks
became very interested in the work of Finsen and presented au-dessous de trois ans oh ceux-ci, mis en surveillance,
a Finsen Lamp to theLondon Hospital: later Her Majesty bchapperont aux contagions des hopitaux municipaux.
became the first Patron of the Sunlight League ; indeed,
Mlle. Chaptal convient avec bonne grace de son ambition.
the lecturer thought it might reasonably be claimed that Car illui manque, pour realiser ses desseins,le plus nkcessaire.
owing to her interest in treatment by light, and the I1 faudrait encore prhs d'un, million pour achever l'installapart she played in the introduction of this method into tion de l'bcole.
this country, the King, in part, owed his recovery
Sur la bibliotheque, est inscrit le nom d'une regrettee
from his recent critical illness to the influence of Queen bienfaitrice,Madame Edouard Tuck, et la salle de confbrences
Alexandra.
porte le nom du Professeur Letulle. Au-dessus de la
chaire se trouve un magnifique portrait de Gros : il reprbTHE PRE-WAR NURSE A N D THE NURSE OF sente Chaptal, le Ministre du Consulat. Celui-ci, aYed
TO-DAY.
de la Directrice de la Maison-Ecole, avait crBb B la Maternit6
An animated Debate took place at the British College de Paris l'Ecole des Sage-Femmes et fait rentrer les
of Nurses, 39, Portland Place, London, W., on May 7, when religieuses dans les hapitaux apr& le Rbvolution. Son
Mrs. Bedford Fenwick, President, was in the chair, on " The effigieest bien Q sa place dans le foyer d'hygihne e t CassistPre-War Nurse and the Nurse of To-day." Miss E. F. ance qu'est la Maison-Ecole CInfirmihres Privees.
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