148 A Short History of Nursing Sisterhoods of the Protestant Episcopal Church had some part in early nursing steps in the United Protestant ^^^^^s. Dr. Muhlenberg had visited sisterhoods Kaiserswerth and advocated the found- and nursing -^^ ^£ jjyj-gjj^g orders in the church. His words had influence in the creation of the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion in New York City (1845). These Sisters carried on the nursing in St. Luke's hospital from 1859 until 1888, when the present school was opened. There was also, in Baltimore, a branch of the English All Saints Sisters, and Sister Helen, a highly trained English- woman, was there in residence when, after the war between the North and the South, Bellevue opened its school and appointed her as its Superintendent. About 1869, too, began the work of Mrs. Tyler which brought the English Sisterhood of St. Margaret's to Boston and so initiated the present admirable service of the Children's hospital in that city. St. Mary's is another Episcopal Sisterhood which interests itself in hospital and nursing work, especially among children. The earliest organized nursing in our country was carried on by Catholic Sisters, and historical names of the Old World are found in their Ameri- can annals. The first convent in the United States
