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A Short History of Nursing

Nursing in other Countries 307 Superintendents of India was formed, which bent its efforts toward promoting a Trained Nurses' Asso- ciation for India which should include the native nurses as they completed their hospital training. The Nursing Journal of India was founded to aid these and all other professional purposes, under the editorship of a Johns Hopkins graduate, Etha Butcher Klosz. The question of unified teaching and well-graded professional education quickly became as burning an issue in India as elsewhere. Severely hampered by the drain of war, these home interests suffered for a while, and the Nursing Journal was suspended for a time. Corea, Turkey-in-Asia, Syria, Persia, the greater part of the African continent, and Turkey-in- Europe were, before the Great War, Countries only so far advanced in nursing de- where mis- - ..... sion work is velopment as foreign missions had been chief in able to take them, but Corean nurses nursing had been trained who were most promising, and regarded with pride and satisfaction by their teachers. Russia and the Balkan countries had before the war only the most elementary nursing systems, yet they were their own. Russian Sisters of Mercy have been in existence since the Crimean War, or even earHer; crudely trained men nurses have