London, Oct. 1
Nursing problems in the mission field occupied an important part of the programme at the Meeting of the Medical Advisory Board of the Conference of British Missionary Societies vat the Bible House last Wednesday, September 25. Doctors and norses representing all the chief societies and fields were present, but it was evident that those from China were in the majority. This, led to the afternoon discussion being mainly centred round the question as to whether it was necessary in training nurses in China to maintain the high standard of the Nursing Association of Ching. Some doubted this, and one doctor present said thet directly the nurses had received training they said, "We are too big ladies to go and do mere nursing now. We want to read books." Even those who did continue to be nurses got married, and he knew one missionary who was threatening in future only to take widows as students.
On the other hand, there was evident fecting that it was a wrong policy to lower the standard. "China faust be given our best." as Dr. F.
Mosse, of Shantung Christian University, said.
Mrs. Maxwell, for 18. years member of the Nursing Association China, said that from her own experience during the war she did not want to see the V. A. D. standard of nursing the standard for China. Her husband, Dr. James L. Maxwell, general secretary of the China Medical Missionary' Association, pointed out that 78 per cent. of the membership of the China Nursing Association was now Chinese, and the high standards were welcomed by them. They had invited the International Nursing Association to mest in China four years hence.
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