THE SAINT LOUIS 
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 
AND 
BY-LAWS 
PRINTED FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 
INCORPORATED, DECEMBER, 1883. 
NURSES HOME, NO. 1510 LAFAYETTE AVENUE. 
ST. LOUIS: 
NIXON-JONES PRINTING CO. 
1884. Members of the Society are reminded that 
the Annual Dues are payable December 1,1883. 
All Donations, Subscriptions, and Annual 
Dues should be sent to the Treasurer of the 
Training School for Nurses, Mrs. JAMES M. 
LEETE, 2912 Washington Avenue, who will 
return a receipt. THE SAINT LOUIS 
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 
AND 
BY-LAWS 
PRINTED FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 
INCORPORATED, DECEMBER, 1883. 
NURSES HOME, NO. 1510 LAFAYETTE AVENUE. 
ST. LOUIS: 
NIXON-JONES PRINTING CO. 
1884. 0||icct:> 1883—84. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
President: 
Mrs. W. H. Pulsifer, 1837 Kennett Place. 
First Vice-President: 
Mrs. J. G. Chapman, 1714 Lucas Place. 
Second Vice-President: 
Mrs. J. N. Norris, 3039 Piue Street. 
• Treasurer: 
Mrs. James M. Leete, 2912 Washington Avenue. 
Mrs. Chas. E. Briggs, 2735 Olive Street. 
Mrs. Sam’l Treat, 3023 Chestnut Street. 
Mrs. Dexter Tiffany, 3104 Laclede Avenue. 
Mrs. R. II. Keai.iiofer, 609 Garrison Avenue. 
Mrs. W. B. Farr, Vandeventer Place. 
ADVISORY BOARD: 
Rev. Dr. W. G. Eliot. 
Mr. Jas. E. Ykatman. 
Hon. Henry Hitchcock. 
Mr. George S. Drake. 
Dr. D. V. Dean. 
Secretary: 
Miss Julia Shepley, 1418 Washington Avenue. 
Superintendent of Nurses: 
Miss A. R. Hunt, Graduate of Bellevue Hospital Training School. 
Matron of the Home, 1510 Lafayette Avenue: 
Mrs. P. Coleman. STANDING COMMITTEES. 
Mrs. J. G. Chapman, Chairman. 
Mrs. W. L. Hdse. 
Mrs. G. O. Carpenter, Jr. 
Mrs. E. C. Copelin. 
1. Hospital Committee. 
Mrs. John D. Davis. 
Mrs. Dexter Tiffany. 
Mrs. Daniel Catlin. 
Mrs. E. W. Nelson. 
Miss Mary Moore. 
Mrs. Chas. E. Briggs, Chairman 
Mrs. James M. Leete. 
Mrs. Martha Davis. 
2. Household Committee. 
Mrs. Henry Amelung. 
MRS. G. A. riNKELNBURG. 
Miss Lizzie Sherman. 
Miss Daisy Sherman. 
Mrs. W. B. Farr, Chairman. 
Judge S. M. Breckenridge. 
Mrs. John Whittaker. 
Mr. John T. Davis. 
3. Finance Committee. 
Mr. J. G. Cijapman. 
Mr. Geo. O. Carpenter, Jr. 
Mrs. E. Malinckrodt. 
Mrs. H. L. dousman. 
4. Instruction Committee. 
Mrs. James N. Norris, Chairman. 
Mrs. H. M. Hoxie. 
Mrs. John W. Noble. 
Mrs. W. H. Pclsifer. 
Miss Frances Markham. 
5. Publication Committee. 
Mrs. Samuel Treat, Chairman. 
Mrs. oerard B. Allen. 
Mrs. E. B. Adams. 
Mrs. Charles Parsons. 
Mrs. John B. Henderson. 
Mrs. R. H. Realhofer, Chairman. 
Mrs. Dwight Tredway. 
Mrs. C. T. Charless. 
Mrs. J. S. Fullerton. 
6. Admission Committee. 
Mrs. Henry W. Eliot. 
Mrs. Newton Crane. 
Mrs. Edgar Lackland. 
Mrs. Theodore Meier. 
Mrs. David R. Francis. 
Mrs. Dexter Tiffany, Chairman. 
Mrs. John T. Davis. 
7. Auditing Committee. 
Mrs. N. C. Chapman. 
Mr. W. H. Pulsifer. 
Mrs. J. G. Chapman. CORPS OF INSTRUCTORS. 
Lectures to be delivered to the Nurses of the Training School, at the 
Home, 1510 Lafayette Avenue. 
Dr. G. Baumgarten — Three Lectures : — 
2. Urinology. 
1. Observation of Pulse, Respiration, and Temperature. 
Dr. L. Bremer—Course of Lectures: — 
Nursing in Diseases of the Nervous System. 
Dr. C. E. Briggs — Four Lectures: — 
Water in Physiology and Nursing. 
Diet and Feeding of the Sick. 
Circulation. 
Digestion. 
Dr. D. V. Dean — A Course of Lectures: — 
Thermometry. 
Metric System in Medicines and Surgery. 
Methods of Administering Medicines and Remedies. 
Antiseptics, Dressings, and Care, in General Surgery. 
Dr. G. Engelmann— Course of Lectures: — 
Nursing after Gynaecological Operations. 
Dr. W. E. Fischel— Course of Lectures: — 
Food and its Preparation. 
Toxicology. 
Diferential Diagnosis of Eruptive Fevers. 
Dr. John Green— Course of Lectures: — 
What the Nurse should be able to recognize, and what she 
should be properly expected to do, and refrain from 
doing in matters relating to the eye. 
Dr. W. A. Hardaway—Course of Lectures:— 
Care of the Skin in Health and Disease. 
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Dr. J. P. Kingsley— Course of Lectures: — 
Care and Nursing of Infants and Children. 
Dr. W. A. McCandless— Course of Lectures: — 
Elements of Anatomy and Physiology. 
Dr. E. M. Nelson — Course of Lectures: — 
Nursing Lying-in Cases. 
Dr. William Porter— Course of Lectures : — 
Nursing and Emergencies in croup or diphtheria. 
Care of Lung cases. 
Dr. C. B. Pulsifer, — Course of Lectures: — 
Contagious and Infectious Diseases. 
Relations of the Nurse to the Physician, to the Patient, and 
to the Family. 
Dr. G. Richter— Course of Lectures : — 
Ventilation. 
Disinfection. 
Bathing. 
Arrangement of the Bed. 
Nursing of Dying Patients and care of the Dead. 
Dr. E. W. Saunders— Course of Lectures : — 
Special Nursing in Fever Cases. EXPLANATORY OF AIMS AND METHODS. 
The St. Louis Training School for Nurses, a society 
organized under the laws of this State, appeals to the 
public for and support. It has been commonly 
supposed that an}r person with a desire in that direction 
could properly nurse the sick, and the professional nurse 
1ms too often been found to be entirely without education 
or moral character. The well known characters depicted 
by Dickens in “ Martin Chuzzlewit ” are not so much ex- 
aggerations as it at first seems, and to the class of which 
they are the type our sick have been trusted when the im- 
mediate friends and relatives have been incapacitated 
from attending them. 
Good nursing is as indispensable in illness as proper 
medical attention. Good nursing means intelligent work, 
a knowledge of the best methods of caring for the pa- 
tient. This intelligence can only be obtained by proper 
instruction and by practical experience at the bedside, 
and this intelligence and instruction the Training School 
proposes to give. 
Dr. Jacobi, of New York, says: “ I do know and pub- 
licly proclaim that the results of the best physicians have 
vastly improved since their cases have been in the hands 
of trained nurses.” The knowledge of uneducated 
women was, and is, ignorance driven to actual or alleged 
work by starvation. The knowledge of a trained nurse 
is the result of two years’ study under competent teach- 
ers and a constant practice. 
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Something was done early in the century towards in- 
structing nurses in this country, and fifty years ago train- 
ing schools were established in Germany; but the first 
training school in this country was established in 1873 in 
connection with Bellevue Hospital, in New York, modelled 
after the training school attached to St. Thomas’s Hos- 
pital, London, founded by Miss Nightingale. The first 
graduating class of the Bellevue Training School num- 
bered but six members. They now have 62 pupils, and 
four hundred applicants are waiting for an opportunity to 
enter. Training schools have been established in Boston, 
New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Rochester, Chicago, 
and other cities, until there are now more than twenty 
existing in this country. 
The graduates of the Eastern schools have constant 
employment at $16 to $20 per week. 
That the School is needed in St. Louis is evident to any 
one who has had occasion to require the services of a 
nurse. 
The School may in time be self-supporting, but this 
cannot be expected at present, and the Executive Com- 
mittee appeal to the public for substantial aid. They do 
not regard this enterprise as in any way a charity. It 
appeals to the selfish side of our natures. The presence 
of a band of trained nurses, ready at all times to respond 
to the call of the sick, will be an inestimable boon. The 
Committee direct attention to the articles of Association 
and the By-laws, and solicit application for membership 
in the society, which may be addressed to Mrs James M. 
Leete, Treasurer, 2912 Washington Avenue, St. Louis. 
The Executive Committee of the St. Louis Training 
School for Nurses has made arrangements with the 
authorities of the St. Louis City Hospital for giving two 
years’ training to women desirous of becoming profes- 
sional nurses. 9 
Applicants for admission to the Training School must 
be preferably between twenty-five and thirty years of age, 
of medium height and size, and possess a good common- 
school education. They must present certificates of good 
character, sound health, and physical capacity- for the 
duties of nurses, satisfactory to the Admission Committee 
and to the Snperintendent and Surgeon in charge of the 
Hospital. They should make their application to Mrs. R. 
H. Kealhofer, Chairman of the Admission Committee, 
No. 609 Garrison Avenue, St. Louis. 
After approval, they will be received into the School 
for one month on probation, during which time they will 
be boarded and lodged, but will receive no other com- 
pensation unless accepted as pupils, when they must sign 
an agreement to remain in the School and subject them- 
selves to the rules of the School and of the Hospital for 
a period of two years from the date of their entrance 
into the School. 
Applicants may be received at any time during the 
year, when vacancies occur. 
Failure to discharge the duties imposed, violation of 
the rules or regulations of the School or Hospital, evi- 
dence of moral or physical unfitness for their work, will 
be deemed sufficient cause for dismissal. 
A monthly allowance of ten dollars ($10) for the first 
year, and of twelve dollars ($12) for the second year will 
be made to each pupil. This sum is allowed for dress, 
text-books and other personal expenses of the nurses, 
and is in no wise intended as wages, it being considered 
that the education given is a full equivalent for their 
services. Board and washing will be furnished without 
charge, and in illness all pupils will have gratuitous 
medical attention. 
The nurses are required, after the month of probation, 10 
to wear when on duty the dress prescribed by the School, 
which is of blue and white seersucker, simply made, 
wrhite apron and cap, linen collar and cuffs. 
The day nurses are on duty from seven a. m. to seven 
p. m. , and, when practicable, some time each day will be 
given for exercise in the open air. They are allowed a 
day off duty once a month. A vacation of two weeks is 
allowed in each year. 
It is not proposed to place nurses on night duty until 
they have been in the school three months. 
At the end of each term there will be an examination 
of the pupils, conducted under the supervision and in 
the presence of the Instruction Committee and of the 
Superintendent and Surgeon in charge of the Hospital, 
which being creditably passed, will entitle pupils of two 
years’ standing to the Diploma and Badge of the Train- 
ing School. 
INSTRUCTION. 
The instruction includes: — 
1. The dressing of blisters, burns, sores and wounds; 
preparation and application of fomentations, poultices, 
cups and leeches, and of minor dressings. 
2. The administration of enemas and the use of the 
catheter and the management of appliances for uterine 
troubles. 
3. The management of helpless patients, making beds, 
changing clothing, giving baths in bed, prevention and 
treatment of bed sores, and the best methods of friction 
to the body and extremities. 
4. Bandaging, making bandages and lining splints. 
5. Care of patients’ rooms, changing sheets while the 11 
patient is in bed. The best methods of supplying fresh 
air and of warming rooms and hospital wards. 
6. Certain emergencies and how to treat them. 
7. The preparation and serving of food for the sick. 
The pupils will also be instructed to make accurate ob- 
servations and reports to the physician in charge, of the 
state of the secretions, expectoration, pulse, skin, appe- 
tite, temperature of the body, intelligence — as delirium or 
stupor, breathing, sleep, conditions of wounds, eruptions, 
formation of pus, effect of diet, of stimulants, and of med- 
icine, and to learn the management of convalescents. 
When the full term of two years is ended, the nurses 
thus trained will be at liberty to choose their own field of 
labor, whether in hospitals or private families. 
Applicants for admission to the school will be required 
to answer the following questions. Blanks for this pur- 
pose may be had on application to the Superintendent of 
Nurses, at the Home, 1510 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, or 
to Mrs. R. H. Kealhofer, Chairman of the Admission 
Committee, 509 Garrison Avenue, St. Louis: 
1. Candidate’s name in full, and address, . 2. Con- 
dition in life, single or a widow, . 3. Present occupa- 
tion or employment, . 4. Place and date of birth, . 
5. Height, . 6. Weight, . 7. Where educated, 
. 8. Are you strong and healthy, and have you always 
been so? . 9. Are your sight and hearing perfect? . 
10. Have you any tendency to pulmonary complaint? . 
11. Have you any physical defects? . 12. If a widow, 
have you children? How many? How old? How are they 
provided for? . 13. Where (if any) was your last situa- 
tion? How long were you in it? . 14. Names in full and 
addresses of two persons to be referred to. State how long 
each has known you. If previously employed, one of these 
must be the last employer, . 15. Have you read, and do 
you clearly understand the regulations? . 
I declare the above statement to be correct. 
Date, 
Signed, . ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 
OF THE 
ST. LOUIS TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 
Adopted Dec. 5,1883. 
It is hereby certified that the undersigned have asso- 
ciated themselves by the Articles of Agreement below 
set forth, under and pursuant to the provisions of Article 
X., of Chapter 21 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 
1879, “Of Private Corporations,” and hereby agree to 
form a society for the benevolent purposes in said articles 
set forth. 
And it is intended, in pursuance of section 970 of the 
said Revised Statutes, that the said society shall be 
incorporated in the manner prescribed in and by Article 
X., of Chapter 21, aforesaid, with all and singular the 
franchises, rights and powers which such corporation 
may lawfully hold under the statutes aforesaid. 
Article I. The name of this society shall be the 
“St. Louis Training School for Nurses.” 
Article II. The objects and business of said society 
shall be the training and education of nurses for the sick 
and wounded. 
Article III. Any person may become a member of 
this society who shall pay to the treasurer thereof, under 
such regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by 
the by-laws, the sum of ten dollars annually. 
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The payment of one hundred dollars at any one time 
by any person, subject to the regulations aforesaid, shall 
constitute such person a life member. 
The payment by any one person, subject to the regu- 
lations aforesaid, of the sum of five hundred dollars, 
shall constitute such person a patron, and entitle such 
person to nominate one pupil in said School from time to 
time. 
The payment by any person of the sum of one thou- 
sand dollars, subject to the regulations aforesaid, shall 
constitute such person a benefactor, and each benefactor 
may nominate two pupils in said school from time to 
time. 
Article IV. There shall be an Executive Committee 
of nine members, having the powers and duties here- 
inafter mentioned. Said Executive Committee shall be 
divided into three classes, each class consisting of three 
persons, and the term of office of each class, except as 
hereinafter provided, shall be three years. The following 
persons shall constitute the first Executive Committee, 
namely: Bertha M. Drake, Martha E. Ware, Emma B. 
Chapman, Cordelia H. Leete, Rebekah W. Briggs, Louise 
B. Norris, Caroline B. Treat, Anne S. Tiffany, Cornelia 
B. Pulsifer. 
The Executive Committee, composed of the above 
persons, shall at their first meeting divide themselves 
by lot into three classes, of three persons each, the 
members of the first class to serve for one year, and 
until their successors are elected, the members of the 
second class to serve for two years, and until their suc- 
cessors are elected; the members of the third class to 
serve for three years, and until their successors are 
elected. At the first annual meeting of the society, 
and at each annual meeting thereafter, the places of 14 
those members of the Executive Committee whose term 
of office are then expiring shall be filled by election, by 
the members of the society, by ballot, under such regu- 
lations as may be provided in the by-laws. 
Article V. The officers of said society shall be the 
following: — 
A President, two Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer and 
Recording Secretary, and a Corresponding Secretary. 
Said officers shall respectively be elected by the Execu- 
tive Committee, to serve respectively for one year and 
until their successors are elected; such election to be 
held immediately after the annual meeting. The Presi- 
dent and Vice-Presidents shall be chosen from among the 
members of the Executive Committee for the year during 
which they are to serve. 
Article VI. An Advisory Board shall be annually 
appointed by the Executive Committee at the first 
meeting of said Committee after the annual meeting 
of said society. Said Board shall consist of not more 
than five gentlemen, whose duty it shall be to advise and 
consult with the Executive Committee from time to time 
as and whenever by said Committee requested. 
Article VII. The President shall preside at all meet- 
ings of the Executive Committee and of the society, 
may call special meetings of the Executive Committee 
and of the society at discretion, and shall call special 
meetings of the Executive Committee at the request of 
any two members thereof, and special meetings of the 
society at the request in writing of any five members 
thereof, provided the purpose of such meeting be indi- 
cated in such request. 
The President shall perform such other duties as are 
usually incident to said office, or as may be prescribed by 
the by-laws. 15 
Article VIII. The Vice-Presidents shall be elected by 
the Executive Committee as First and Second Vice-Presi- 
dent respectively, and shall in that order perform the 
duties of the President in case of the absence or inability 
or failure to act of the President. 
Article IX. It shall be the duty of the Recording Sec- 
retary to keep a record of the proceedings of the Execu- 
tive Committee, and also of the corporate meetings of the 
society; such record to be at all times subject to the in- 
spection of the Executive Committee and the members 
thereof; and to perform such other duties as may be 
prescribed by the by-laws. 
Article X. The Corresponding Secretary shall con- 
duct such correspondence on behalf of the Executive 
Committee and of the corporation as may by the by-laws 
or by the Executive Committee from time to time be 
directed ; and shall perform such other duties as may from 
time to time be prescribed by the by-laws, or by the Execu- 
tive Committee. The same person may hold the office of 
Recording and Corresponding Secretary. 
Article XI. The Treasurer shall receive and keep all 
moneys of the society, depositing the same as may by the 
Executive Committee be directed from time to time; and 
shall disburse said moneys in such a manner as may be 
authorized by the by-laws. At each regular meeting of 
the Executive Committee the Treasurer shall submit a 
statement showing the amount of money on hand, and 
also the receipts and expenditures of the society since the 
last meeting of said Committee. 
Article XII. The Executive Committee shall control 
and manage the affairs of the society, subject to the pro- 
visions of the by-laws. Any vacancy occurring therein 
by death, resignation or otherwise may be filled by said 
Committee, and the person so elected shall serve until 16 
the next annual meeting. Said Committee shall appoint 
Standing Committees of Administration, from among the 
members of the society, such Standing Committees 
respectively to exercise such powers and fulfil such duties 
as may be provided by the by-laws, and the Executive 
Committee may delegate to such Standing Committees or 
any of them from time to time such further powers and 
duties as to it may seem expedient. It shall be the duty of 
such Standing Committee from time to time to make such 
reports of its operations and of the condition and work 
of the society so far as entrusted to such Standing Com- 
mittee, as may be required by the by-laws, or as may be 
called for by vote of the Executive Committee at any time ; 
and, except as otherwise provided in the by-laws, each of 
said Standing Committees shall, in fulfilling the duties 
entrusted thereto, observe the directions which may be 
given by the Executive Committee from time to time con- 
cerning the same. 
At each annual meeting the Executive Committee shall, 
through the President, submit to the members of the 
society a full report of its condition and the management 
of its affairs and operations for the preceding year, with 
such recommendations as to said Committee may seem 
expedient. 
Akticle XIII. The annual meeting of the society shall 
be held in the City of St. Louis on the first Tuesday of 
December in each year, at such hour and place as may be 
designated by the Executive Committee. Notice of every 
such meeting shall be given to the members of the society 
by the Recording Secretary. 
Special meetings of the society may be called by the 
Executive Committee, or by the President as above pro- 
vided. The members present at any annual meeting shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but 17 
not less than fifteen members of the society shall con- 
stitute a quorum at any special meeting. 
Article XIV. These Articles or any of them may be 
amended at any annual or special meeting of the society 
by a majority of the members present constituting a 
quorum; provided, that notice of the subject-matter of 
the amendment proposed to be acted upon at any such 
meeting shall have been given at a previous general annual 
or special meeting of the society. ST. LOUIS TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 
BY-LAWS. 
I. There shall be seven standing committees designated 
as follows: — 
Hospital Committee, Household Committee, Finance 
Committee, Publication Committee, Instruction Commit- 
tee, Admission Committee, Auditing Committee. 
Such committees shall be composed each of one mem- 
ber of the Executive Committee, who shall be chairman, 
and not less than four nor more than eight members of 
the society; they shall be elected by the Executive Com- 
mittee at its first meeting after the annual meeting of the 
society in each year, and hold office for one year, or un- 
til their successors are elected. 
If. The Hospital Committee shall have the general di- 
rection of nurses and pupils in the Hospital, including 
their discharge. Shall keep a record of their character 
and qualifications, ascertained during their connection 
with the school, and, in case of their discharge, of the 
reasons therefor, which record shall lie upon the table at 
every meeting of the Executive Committee. 
III. The Household Committee shall have the care and 
superintendence of the Home and may act in any emer- 
gency that may arise there. Accounts shall be inspected 
monthly, and family expenses regulated by this commit- 
tee, one of whose members will be required to visit the 
Home at least once in each week. 
IV. The Finance Committee shall, with the Treasurer, 
manage the finance of this society. 
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V. The Instruction Committee, shall have charge of all 
instruction and examination of nurses, both practical and 
theoretical, including arrangements with instructors, the 
procuring of text-books and utensils. They shall pro- 
vide for quarterly as well as final examinations. 
VI. The Admission Committee shall have the manage- 
ment of the admission of new pupils, shall keep a list of 
applicants with information concerning them. 
VII. The Auditing Committee shall examine and coun- 
tersign at or before each regular meeting of the Executive 
Committee all bills and accounts, and at the close of the 
fiscal year make an examination of the books after the 
Treasurer. 
VIII. The Publication Committee shall attend to the 
printing of all published matter required by the Executive 
Committee. 
IX. Vacancies in any of the Standing Committees may 
be filled by the Executive Committee at any regular or 
special meeting. 
X. The absence of any member of the Executive or 
Standing Committee from meetings of the Committee of 
which he may be a member for a consecutive period of 
three months, without giving notice to the President or 
Secretary, may be considered as equivalent to a resigna- 
tion. 
XI. A regular meeting of the Executive Committee, 
and of each Standing Committee, shall be held at least 
once in each month, at such time as said Committee shall 
fix by standing rule. 
XII. The Treasurer is authorized to pay all bills passed 
by the Auditing Committee, and signed by the Recording 
Secretary, and to make such other disbursements as may 
from time to time lie ordered by the Executive Commit- 
tee.