ABSTRACT
Hospital authorities and superintendents of training schools have done to the best of their ability, and have utilized approximately to the limit the possibilities of the system under which they have been hampered and under which they have had to work. The main limitation is based upon the fundamental fact that from the educational standpoint the relation of the training school to the hospital has always been an impossible one. In endeavoring, then, to arrange for the affiliation of training schools would advocate the establishment of central institutes in each State offering a comprehensive theoretical and practical training in general nursing. Such institutes would be independent of any particular hospital, but would be organized and administered through a central committee composed of the proper representatives from the hospitals and schools entering into the affiliation. Being primarily educational, the course of training would attract a more uniformly desirable class of women.
