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    "ocrText": "Telephone 3-4242\ndevote to it their spare hours. It was the\n\"Henry-House\" ideal, the \"Hull-House\"\ndream of JANE ADDAMS. Nor was it very\nfar removed in time from those great enter-\nprises, for JANE ADDAMS went to Hull\nHouse only eleven years before the Nurses'\nSettlement was opened in Richmond.\nClearly, from the outset, Miss CABANISS\nand Miss MINOR saw the perspective of\ntheir work: Nursing was not to be an inci-\ndent of general social work; nursing, the\ngreatest need, was to come first. For two\nyears members of the class of 1900 at Old\nDominion hospital struggled to discharge\nthe duty they had taken upon themselves.\nBy 1902, they had given to Richmond a\nlittle of their vision. The Instructive Visit-\ning Nurses' Association was organized. Miss\nCABANISS, Miss MINOR and Miss HARVIE, of\nSt. Luke's, became the first staff, Neither\nthose devoted women nor anyone else real-\nized it at the time, but the day they opened\ntheir doors they opened also a new era in\nsocial work in Richmond.\nThe city has gone so far since then that\nsonal it is difficult remembrance realize have just N. what A.\nfor those who no per-\nof it to\nSettlement and the I. V.\nmeant the Nurses' thirty time, in Rich- they\nyears ago. For a\nwere the center of all social work\nmond. After six years, the city health de-\nwas organized, under Dr. E. C.\npartment LEVY, charities J. T. MAS- and\nand the state board of\ncorrection was formed, with Dr.\nTIN as its secretary. Together, these two\nagencies and the I. V. N. A. developed vir-\nthe whole of the present social-wel-\nthe tually fare juvenile structure Pine Home Camp, and\nof Richmond.\ncourt, the Virginia\nIndustrial School for Girls, the detention\nhomes, the classes for undernourished chil-"
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