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243 Educational Developments 243 In 1 91 3, the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study Treatment, and Prevention of Tuberculosis in Philadelphia opened a school for graduate nurses in affiliation with the Visiting Nurse Society, and the Philadelphia Training School for Social Ser- vice. It had an eight months' course. During the war this was temporarily discontinued. A similar course has been worked out by the School of Civics, Chicago, in co-operation with the Chicago Visiting Nurse Association and other social and public health agencies in that city. St. Louis, Missouri, has also a nine-months' course connected with its School of Social Economy and the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association in Milwaukee offers a short period of training. In 1 91 8, a School of Social Work and Public Health Nursing was opened in Richmond, Virginia, the first one in the South. Its organization was agreed on by a conference called by the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women (191 6), and it was first called the School of Social Economy. Its early history gives vivid testimony to the courage and patience of women trying to upbuild their ways and means for giving public service, and also proved what success may reward unselfish endeavours for such ends. Various public and philanthropic and state agencies unite in the opportunities