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Press Clipping Bureau
Inc.
31 East 17th Street
NEW YORK CITY
N
FROM
Evening Post
NEW YORK CITY
ung,
American Woman Is Director of Only
Public Health Nursing Program in Japan
CL
1
Christine Nuno
Established Work
isti
s
Four Years Ago
so
By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL
Copyright, 1930, by N.Y. Evening Post, Inc.
It's really too bad, from the viewpoint
of the individual, that Christine Nuno
decided to dedicate her ability as a
nurse to the world at large instead of
3
to one private patient after another.
For since illnesses must come to us
mortals on occasions the particular
type of person who moves about our
sick room in starched uniform and coy
little cap is important; and Christine
Nuno is the type that would make the
sorriest invalid feel better the minute
he saw her smiling face in the door-
way.
Not a Professional Optimist
Not that Miss Nuno is the kind of
nurse who would smile at her patient
as part of her professional duty. It's
not that sort of smile at all. She
smiles because she finds life in general
a very pleasant thing indeed, and the
rest of the time she laughs heartily be-
cause after all it's really quite an amus-
ing thing, too.
There have been plenty of experi-
ences, in her years of nursing, that
aren't such happy memories to look
back upon. When one has had the re-
When Christine Nuno went to Japan to organize public health work she
sponsible post of head nurse in a hos-
learned th her surname is two Japanese characters which
pital filled with 11,000 sick and
together mean "white linen." Being a nurse. she could not have a more
wounded soldiers, and has sped to the
appropriate name if she had picked it herself.
rescue of people stricken in a disaster
like that which overtook Smyrna
there were no public health nurses
homes. In this way, the mothers were
shortly after the war, it couldn't be
otherwise. But the sad and sorrow-
anywhere in the country. The Japa-
acquainted beforehand with the nurse
nese Government had a few nurses in
who would call on them, and she met
ful memories are not the ones that
Miss Nuno keeps on tap with which to
the schools, but their work was very
with no difficulty. The Japanese wom-
entertain her friends and acquaint-
elementary compared with the well-
en are tremendously co-operative in
ances. The stories she tells are the
organized and efficient school nursing
our child welfare work. and are eager
funny things that have happened, the
done in the United States. Today,
to learn how to take the best possible
quaint little anecdotes of people and
as the result of her work, Tokio has
care of their children."
places she has worked among and the
sixteen public health nurses, all Japa-
Despite the Spanish father who gave
splendid achievements of men and
nese, visiting in the homes of the peo-
ner the Castilian surname, Miss Nuno
women who have worked beside her in
ple and teaching native mothers how
is 'wholly American, having been born
various crises.
to care for their babies and young chil-
in Buffalo and lived all her life in
Last night Miss Nuno left New York
dren. They work through various
New York State until she went to
on the first lap of her long journey
clinics such as a pre-natal clinic,
Greece with the Red Cross just after
back to Japan, where she is director of
child guidance clinic, baby clinic
the war. During the war she served as
the only public health work so far car-
school clinic and a number of others
head nurse of the debarkation hospital
ried on in the Flowery Kingdom. An
Planning the Campaign
on Ellis Island and later went in the
original furlough* of six months was
"We had to proceed very cautiously
same capacity to the huge hospital of
extended to a year's leave, in order
in getting this public health work
11,000 beds established by the Govern-
that she might spend half her time
started," Miss Nuno said, "because the
ment in Grand Central Palace.
W
studying the public health programs
Japanese are not used to having stran-
"I thought," she laughed, "that when
of various American cities and the
gers come knocking at their doors, and
I signed up for war service I would be
W
other half speaking in many different
we had to pave the way for our nurses
sent overseas immediately, and instead
places on the work being conducted in
entrance into their homes, So we
I never got nearer Europe than Ellis
St. Luke's Hospital in Toklo, which is
started in the maternity ward of St.
Island!"
her headquarters.
Luke's Hospital.
Perhaps part of Miss Nuno's perfect
An Appropriate Name
"Here the nurses visited the mothers
g
content with life is her conviction that
"When I first went out to Japan four
and gave them advice about the care of
she is in the field of work completely
years ago," Miss Nuno said, in discuss-
their babies, Then they asked them if
suited to her
J
ing her work just before she left, "I
they would come back to see them in
"If I had everything to do over
found everybody awaiting with much
a month so they could see how the
again," she reflected, "I wouldn't have
interest the arrival of 'the Japanese
bables had progressed. Practically all
anything different. I would do it all
2
nurse' from America who was to be
the mothers did come back, and then
just the same way."
adviser on school nursing to the Im-
the nurses told them that in another
Which, after all, is a pretty sound
perial Government's Department of Ed-
month they would call on them in their basis for a happy outlook on life.
ucation. When I arrived. many of the
Japanese nurses seemed so surprised
to see an American that I asked about
it.
'Why,' they said, 'look at your
name!
'What's the matter with my name?'
I said. 'It's a perfectly good Castilian
name. My father was a Spaniard, born
in Barcelona.'
10
0
'Well, they replied, 'the name is
composed of two regular Japanese
characters, "nu" and "no," and to-
to
gether they mean "white linen."
"So," laughed this American with
the Spanish-Japanese name, "my name
is certainly an appropriate one for a
nurse working in Japan!
When Miss Nuno arrived in Tokio
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