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304 304 A Short History of Nursing unifying educational schedule. Such was actually gained under the auspices of the Central China Medical Association Board for the schools and hospitals within its control, and in 1910 its first certificates were presented. A year later a Chinese nurse, Mrs. Ts'en, was one of the registration committee. Among mission hospitals one especially notable is conducted entirely by Chinese women, under Dr. Mary Stone, a medical woman who studied medicine in the United States. It has a three years' course for nurses and the pharmacist and anaesthetist are women. The pupils are exceed- ingly well trained. Efforts carried on by foreigners must of necessity be a temporary bridge. Foreign nurses realized this, and all served with the aim of helping China to find herself. The genuinely indigenous work in training Chinese women came with the revolution, and resulting democratic movements, when Dr. Yamei Kin, a highly educated medical woman, was appointed to conduct a national plan of hospital and nursing organization under the gov- ernment. There are now professional nurses among young Chinese women who are conducting schools for native pupils and introducing social service work in connection with hospitals. Some