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nurses is most imperative. The present Home was designed many years ago to provide for the care of forty or fifty nurses. Now there are 150 pupil nurses and about twenty officers and instructors in the Training School, besides about fifty graduates and special nurses. To enable the present directress, Mrs. Macdonald, to keep up the standard of the school, better and larger quarters are essential. As noted in the beginning of this sketch, the hospital was made to meet the need for Christian service. The whole conception was that of a devoted priest of the Church. Dr. Locke was the chaplain until his death, although several others did the active work under his direction. The late Bishop Toll began his ministerial work here ; Rev. George S. Todd was twelve years in residence ; the Reverends W. D. McLean, Percival Mcln- tyre, William Grant, Edward Warren, Char- les T. Susan, Alfred T. Perkins, and others for lesser periods of time. The present chap- lain is completing his twentieth year in resi- dence. Daily chapel and ward services have been maintained for years. The religious influ- ence is certainly one of the most important in the training of the pupil nurses. The min- istrations of the chaplain are welcomed and appreciated not only by the patients, but as well by the doctors and friends interested in them. Until recent years the Social Service work has fallen upon him. Now, through the ef- forts of Miss Susanne Ryerson and the Women ' s Board, the Social Service work has been thoroughly organized including an Oc- cupational School and Kindergarten for pa- tients especially in the children ' s department, engaging the services of four skilled workers under the most efficient direction of Miss Zoe Harpster. This department is co- operating with many other agencies in the city for general assistance of the poor who come under its care. The hospital is indeed a valuable asset to the great work of the Church and her Master. Churchmen cannot afford to see its influence wane or lag for lack of proper equipment. As the project for new buildings has de- veloped, the Bishop and many of the clergy have been at one with the chaplain in the feeling that a prominent feature of the plant should be a chapel building in keeping with the hospital buildings projected. Such seemed also the feeling of the superintendent who, in the very beginning of his planning, asked the chaplain to make a sketch of what he thought desirable. This was done sev- eral years since, the plan composing a com- modious, substantial, churchly chapel, with chaplain ' s quarters, library room, etc., and beneath the chapel, an assembly room for entertainments, gatherings of various sorts, gymnasium purposes, and such like. For this the chaplain has been quietly working during several years. He has not urged the matter because the time did not seem ripe. Much interest has been manifested, some en- couragement given. Although $50,000 or more would be needed for the purpose, suc- cess seems certain. The time is ripe now for an earnest effort. Such a chapel building would be a fitting memorial indeed to some departed friend of the Hospital, especially to Dr. and Mrs. Locke. What building at such a cost woul d serve a more splendid purpose? It would be a very acceptable addition to the many me- morials at St. Luke ' s, of which special men- tion cannot be made in an article like this. Their very mention calls to mind a long list of friends and benefactors whose names must of necessity be omitted here, although worthy of the highest honor for their devotion and self-sacrificing efforts in building up this splendid institution. From the small beginning in 1864, under the inspiration of those devoted people Dr. and Mrs. Locke, both of whom have now en- tered into life eternal, have developed this truly noble institution with its record of good works extending over more than five decades and its brilliant prospects for far more effective services in the years to come.
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tunc and to raise the standard of the school by striving to make the Spiril and Fear oi the I ,ord the basis of all work. Pupil nurses and others interested in the school were eligible to membership and were admitted formally by proper office, in the Chapel. The badge of membership was a Latin Cross worked in blue on the sleeve oi the left arm. It was recommended that all mem hers ust ' the Blue Cross prayer daily. Mrs. Clinton Locke, Miss Champlin and Miss Lett were chosen as directors. Miss Lett was then Superintendent of the Train- ing School, a Bellevue graduate, in whose office in St. Luke ' s Hospital the first com- mittee met for the purpose of organizing the American Society of Superintendents, which in 1911 became the National League of Nursing Education. Miss Lett died in 1893, after five years as Superintendent of the Training School. The Clinton, now the Saranac, was built in 1893, in the hope of increasing the income of the hospital. In the autumn of 1894, Dr. Locke retired from the presidency of the hospital, and was made honorary president. Mr. Arthur Ryer- son was unanimously elected to the presi- dency. For nineteen years he was a faithful friend and trustee, and for eight years presi- dent of the hospital. During six years of this period, the Rev. j. W. Van Ingen was super- intendent. He resigned in 1890 to take up parochial work again. With the advent in 1899 of Mr. L. R. Cur- tis, the present most efficient superintendent, a new era began. Rich in hospital experi- ence, he took up the work with the hand of a master. The hosptial was soon put on a self-supporting basis. A deficit of $47,000 was paid off. Necessary repairs to the build- ing were made. But they were becoming rapidly antiquated -and unfit to meet the in- creasing demands of a rapidly growing city. He therefore worked out a comprehensive plan for new buildings equal to the demands for years to come. A part of this plan was realized in 1908 through the generosity of Mi-, lames Henry Smith, a friend ol Mr. I ,eslie ( barter, then and for eight year before his death, the president of tin- Board. I fe had long been a friend and patron oi the hospital. Through him Mr. Smith was made acquainted with its needs. In tin- George Smith memorial, generous prov ision has been made lor the accommodation ol the well to do, although even now nol equal to the press ing demands. This section of St. Lukes is a model hospital, fireproof to the last degree, strictly modern in its equipment; scientific- ally administered, yet so free from a hos- pital atmosphere, that it seems more like a home hotel. St. Luke ' s was started as a free hospital. In 1865 one hundred and twenty-five patients were cared for ; in 1S73, 248 patients ; in 1880, 384 patients; in 1890, 1,050 patients; in 1915, 8,604 patients, of whom 39 per cent were free. For such and for a multitude of af- flicted who desire lower priced rooms than are provided in the Smith Memorial, new- buildings are sorely needed, as also for the laboratory, X-ray, and other departments. Plans for a fourteen-story building to replace the Indiana Avenue buildings, and extending along the Indiana Avenue frontage of 304 feet, have been made. It is purposed now to erect a section about 250 feet long to meet pressing needs and to afford temporary ac- commodations for the nurses until a suitable building is erected for them. For money to do this the Board of Trustees, of which Mr. W. J. Bryson is now president, has made a public appeal. Members of the Board have subscribed most liberally, as has been the case in the Woman ' s Board, an auxiliary to the Board of Trustees, the purpose of which is to arouse interest in the hospital, and to secure donations of linen, delicacies for free patients, reading matter, etc. This Board was organized very early in the history of the Hospital and under differ- ent names has enlisted the interest of many of the most influential women of the city from time to time, proving a very efficient aid to the hospital work. The demand for the additional accommodations for
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