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158 158 A Short History of Nursing and other vile things thrown in her windows. She gave her life to her work and died at her post, of heart disease. It would be interesting, but too lengthy, to follow all the pioneer schools in the various sections of the United States. By 1880, there were fifteen training schools for nurses. In 19 18 there were 1580 accredited schools and others not yet up to grade. Toward the west — the Illinois Training School (1881) in Chicago; — still further west, the Colorado Training School at the City and County hospital of Denver (1886), and St. Luke's, Denver (1887), were among the earliest schools. In the far South, the Memphis, the New Orleans, and the Galveston schools, were the first, while the opening of the Johns Hopkins hospital (1889) made a broad gateway to a career for southern gentle- women, and marked a definite era in professional standards, as the whole Johns Hopkins foundation was endowed for the distinct purpose of following the highest educational ideals. The women trained in these early schools pio- neered in hospital regeneration, training school organization, visiting nursing and private duty, and in improving professional instruction. With few exceptions, the first American and Canadian schools provided all the nursing leaders for the