ABSTRACT
The small general hospital, with fifty beds or more, is generally justified in having attached to it an organized training school. The so-called cottage hospitals found in the smaller cities or in thickly populated country districts have a comparatively wide scope. The existence of the small and special hospitals are the outcome of various factors. Some have been founded from pure philanthropy or as memorials of departed friends; others are the monuments of wealthy people, who wish to perpetuate their names, and in a country where fortunes are made as rapidly as in America this form of bequest is not unusual. Children’s hospitals, private hospitals for the carrying out of the rest cure and the treatment of nervous patients and separate hospitals for the insane are necessities. That hospitals and sanitariums opened by individuals for their own private gain should have in connection with them training schools for nurses, is a condition worthy of the severest condemnation.
