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282 282 A Short History of Nursing liminary course for probationers, and also their Home, receiving for this purpose a government grant. An odd little story connects this Home with Miss Nightingale. The pupils had at first not been required to live in a Nurses' Home, as it was repugnant to the free customs of the country to "live in." Each nurse therefore lived where she pleased. The results of this system were so injur- ious to the hospital service, that Mrs. Manner- heim consulted Miss Nightingale. We know how strongly she felt on the need of having probationers live together, under supervision and moral in- fluence. She therefore told Mrs. Mannerheim that she would give a certain sum of money to the school as soon as all the pupils were collected into a suitable Home, and this soon after was accomplished. The Nurses' Association publishes a journal, Epione, conducts a sick fund for private nurses, and has initiated visiting and public school nursing. Swiss nursing is largely carried on by deaconesses who are well trained and do most conscientious „ ., work. The Red Cross also manages Switzerland some hospitals and training schools. There are religious orders, notably that at Ingen- bohl, of an unusually progressive type. On the