274 A Short History of Nursing Many Japanese women come to the United States to be trained, and from their numbers dis- trict nursing is being introduced at home, and they take back aspirations for social service and public health work. There are many European nations where two or more nursing systems share almost equally in Countries popular prestige, yet where the Night- of mixed ingale system is gradually modifying systems even replacing the other forms. Among such countries we may place Holland and the Scandinavian nations, with Switzerland, for in them the Deaconess Motherhouse has first given the prevailing type, which still prospers among them. Red Cross nursing shares this loyalty to a great extent or even surpasses it, while pioneer schools on the Nightingale system have often had the effect of improving the training methods of the Deaconess and Red Cross orders. Germany will follow in a class by herself, as, before the recent war, more numerous varieties of nursing orders and systems, all surviving in a fairly strong state, were to be found in Germany than in any other country. Though the predomi- nant types were the Deaconess and the Red Cross Motherhouse, newer associations were disputing their supremacy.
