Dedication of the new building and hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878.

  • Boston Medical Library Association.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dedication of the new building and hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OK THE DIRECTORY FOR NURSES. BY FREDERICK C. 8HATTDCK, M. D., CHAIRMAN. The establishment of the Medical Library in a building of its own afforded an opportunity for supplying a want which had been long felt in the community, and we are sure that a few words as to this want and the means which were taken to supply it cannot fail to be of interest. Until within the last two years any person to whose lot it fell to try to secure a competent nurse for a case of sudden illness was com- pelled to get a long list of nurses from a phj^sician or friend, and often to spend hours of precious time in driving about the city before a nurse could be found ; and then, too frequently, the employer had to put up with what was to be had rather than what was desired. In other words, there were no means of finding out what nurses were disengaged at any particular moment, or of learning the real qualifica- tions of a nurse when the immediate and unexpected services of one were required. Encouraged by the moral and material aid of a few kind friends, not of the medical profession, the Medical Library Association under- took the task of establishing a Directory for Nurses, ofi'ered it a home in the Library Building, and appointed a committee of two — Drs.