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Rh dation's activities may be gained from the following titles of a few of its publications:

The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City.

Medical Inspection of Schools.

Laggards in Our Schools.

Correction and Prevention. Four volumes.

Juvenile Court Laws in the United States : Summarized.

The Pittsburgh Survey. Six volumes.

Housing Reform.

A Model Tenement House Law.

Among School Gardens.

Workingmen's Insurance in Europe.

The Campaign Against Tuberculosis in the United States.

Report on the Desirability of Establishing an Employment

Bureau in the city of New York.

Wider Use of the School Plant.

The above statement of some of the activities of the Foundation is not inclusive or complete, nor is it intended to be. It is only illustrative. The Foundation has never published a complete report of all of its activities.

Miss Nevins, the superintendent of the Garfield Memorial Hospital and president of the Graduate Nurses' Association, District of Columbia, was born in Bangor, Maine. She was reared in Massachusetts, and educated in public and private schools. In 1889, she entered the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, and was a member of the first class graduated from that school. She served one year as the first head nurse appointed. Miss Nevins became superintendent of nurses in the Garfield Memorial Hospital School, Washington, D. C., in 1894. She was appointed superintendent of the hospital in 1908. She is an active member of the National and International Nursing Societies, of the Red Cross Nursing Service, of the American Hospital Association, and for years president of the Graduate Nurses Association of the District of Columbia.