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Potomac Division Bulletin,
April 28, 1919
Death in France of
in which capacity she visited the
Philippine Islands, China, Japan and
Miss Jane A. Delano
Hawaii. Due to her untiring efforts
Director of the Department of Nurs-
8,000 carefully selected nurses were
ing of the American Red Cross
available for Government service at
the time the United States entered the
DELANO, under whose
war and her leadership was largely
more than 30,000 nurses
responsible for the success of thenurse-
were recruited through the American
recruiting campaigns which followed.
Red Cross for service in the Army
Miss Delano served three terms as
and Navy after the United States
president of the American Nurses'
entered the great conflict, was one
of
Association, and also served several
the foremost figures of the nursing
years as head of the directorate of the
world and recognized as one of the
American Journal of Nursing. She
leaders of her profession in this coun-
was a woman of striking personality
try. She was born in Watkins, N.Y.,
and appearance. Regal in carriage, a
in 1862. Her father was killed in the
mass of snow-white hair crowning a
Civil War and she was raised by her
strong but kindly face, she was a com-
grandfather, a Baptist clergyman.
manding figure in any gathering. A
The call to relieve suffering humanity
gentle manner and sympathy that
came to her while still a young girl,
was boundless, won for her a great
and after her preliminary education
circle of friends. Miss Delano served
she began fitting herself for the career
the American Red Cross from first to
in which she was destined to attain
last without compensation-a full-
4
such great prominence.
time volunteer. She was the last of
Miss Delano was graduated from
her family, her passport application
Bellevue Hospital Training School
filed a few months ago giving the
for Nurses, New York, in 1886, and
name of a comrade nurse as her
two years later rendered her first
"nearest relative."
great patriotic service to her country
by volunteering to nurse vellow-fever
victims in Jacksonville, Fla. Up to
the time Miss Delano and a few other
courageous trained nurses went to
Jacksonville from New York, the fever
patients had been cared for by some
negro nurses who, while tender and
devoted, lacked the scientific skill
necessary to successfully combat the
dread malady. Although at that time
medical science had not decided that
the mosquito was a yellow-fever car-
rier, Miss Delano had reached that
conclusion, insisting on the use of
mosquito netting by her nurses with
the most satisfactory results.
Her work in Jacksonville finished,
Miss Delano was called to Bigbee,
Ariz., in 1889, to establish a hospital
for one of the big copper companies.
Two years later she was made super-
intendent of the Nurses Training
School of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, a position she held for five
years. Special courses in philanthropy
and medicine followed and in 1900
she returned to Bellevue Hospital to
direct the Nurses' Training School of
that institution, continuing in that
capacity until 1905. When the Amer-
ican Red Cross, following its organi-
zation in 1905, entered into an agree-
ment with the American Nurses As-
sociation for the purpose of develop-
ing a nursing reserve for the Army
Nurse Corps, Miss Delano was ap-
pointed chairman of the committee in
charge of the work. She was also
named as superintendent of the Army
Nurse Corps by the Surgeon-General,
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