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    "ocrText": "N\nST. LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL\nTOKYO\nto\n-2-\nS\nand a fairly large group in Korea. One of the greatest difficulties\nyest they\nseems must\"be no included in the association. I do not know whether this will\nto be that those who have had no contact with the foreign nurses\ne\nmeet with your approval or not but I should be glad if you will let me\nknow as soon as you conv can. They reacted to that suggestion\nand also to the one of the whust first money with which the machinery ideas\ncould\nM\nbe set up. very will served them both excellent\ne\nThe question of the men, being the dominating influence in\ns\nthe association, was discussed, and my suggestion that as long as it\nseemed necessary to have them appear they would be classed as an \"hono-\nC\nrable\"group, and need only include a group of prominent men, both\nForeign and Japanese, and a few of the important women of the country\nlike Princess Chichibu and some or the other members of the Imperial\nHouseold. This Miss Hagiwara felt weould be done and might be a solution\nif it is acceptable to you. I suggested that they would have no office\nwhatever, being honorary only, and that the activities per the association\nbe in the hands of the nurses; that the first officers* chosen moniness from this\ngroup of six or eight superintendents of nurses of the promont hospital\ntraining schools act temporarily; and that when skeleton for the orga-\nnazation had been sent up aléng the lines laid down by the National\nNurses Association, a general meeting be held of the members of thi\ntraining schools and a nominating committee be elected, and the group\nhave an election at the next meeting to decide who would hold office for\nthe regular term.\nI feel that arter the organization is set up in Tokyo and is\nat work and running, that then we can get the other large cities to orga-\nnize on the same plan. The superintendents of nurses of the hospitals,\nin their turn, are practically all graduates of Tokyo training schools,\nand my feeling is that from the interest of the superintendents in the\nTokyo association that the other local groups will be developed, and then\nit is only a short step to the national organization,\nMy suggestion regarding Korea and Taiwan was with the president\nand one elected member ofrice as a director or the National Asso-\nciation. This is as far as we went with the discussion. I am hoping\nthat a meeting will be called some time in the month of October, and\nalthough I know that it will not be possible for a letter from you to\nreach us by then, it will come some time in the next two months, with any\nsuggestions that you may have for organization,\nI am sorry to say that neither Miss Kimura or Miss Inouye are\ndoing public health nursing. Miss Kimura has a position with the Home\nDepartment and is, I believe, working with feeble-minded children, al-\nthough she specialized at Bedford College in tuberculosis, Miss Inouye\nis doing a little teaching but nothing really constructive, She\nseems\nquite discouraged but I am hoping that we can get together and do some-\nthing about it. At present her salary is being paid by the Red Cross\nSociety to accompany Miss Hagiwara as interpreter and translator for the\na\nwork in connection with the new association. Mrs. Hora, I understood\nfrom Miss Van Kirk, has started a similiar organization in Osaka and has\nJ\nabout twenty members. She has not included the American nurses, Miss\nJean and Miss Van Kirk, but feels that the nursing organization should\n2\nbe for Japanese nurses only. gues Here is addicult lady schoold\nsay!"
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