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293 Nursing in other Countries 293 Hamilton's work is to be the starting point of new and ample buildings, and in the new Nurses Home American nurses will have a memorial to all nurses who died in the world war. The Paris administration made an effort to improve the nursing in the city hospitals in 1907. A splendid and well-equipped building was then erected as a school for nurses. The best available pupils were placed there under a Matron, an able woman, but at first, one who was not a trained nurse. The pupils were trained in the wards of different hospitals under head nurses, but no trained Ma- trons were placed in the hospitals to regulate pupils and head nurses alike. Naturally there is still no moral protection for young women, nor a pro- fessional standard for guiding pupils through the practical work, and careful parents will not allow their well-brought-up daughters to enter public hospitals under those conditions. Until Paris is ready to accept the Matron with full powers, she will not be able to compete with England in skilled nursing, nor with her own city of Bordeaux. Many new groups arose during and since the war, but it is too soon to summarize them. The immense, and, from the standpoint of archi- tecture and interior decoration, the beautiful hospitals of Italy, many of which are former con-