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the'-new professional spirit. Sir Arthur Stanley and the Council of the College of Nursing. Limited, gave an "at home" at the . Royal Automobile, Club. London .to celebrate the passing into law of the ; Nursesl ■Registration Act (states the "Daily Mail"). Dr. Addison,-in reply to a resolution of thanks to Lord Sandhurst and himself, for,'their services in piloting Hie Act through Parliament, sa'd that tho Act was the beginning of a big movement. No Government would ever be able to go back upon it, and it contained something which must compel people to move forward. If there _ wer> to be an improved health service available for the .needs, of -the .people, no time _ivas4'o lie lost in improving and extending tile-fa-, eilities for.-tl\e. work- of nursing. As lie forecast the work of mirs'es, it,,' 'yeas' riot only to ass'st those .who were in' the dire'necessity of ilhinss. but to "guide and instruct- the people to keep well. The latter was not a striking or dramatic form of activity, but the preventive service was fundamentally the most- important for the'health of the nation, and tliev must' concentrate lipon its improvement. That, would cost a lot of money, but it was one-of the ereatest of national reononr'es. He would place first among the essentials of that improved service the pronir payment :>f nurses. The system, which prevailed too widely, under which nurses were worked very hard and received the wages of a scnlleryma'd, uns not right, and was ngainsl the essent'als of success, and history had nroved that to be 90. "With the cost of living nt its present level they must l:e. prepared to pay nurses liellcr than heretofore.-; Tho second essential was that tlie opportunit'cs and focilit'es for the training of nurses nmst be extended steadily. He (believed that invitations had been sent to those whom he-had chosen to <fonn tho- first council under the Act. The first and last essential was that that council should be-.one wlrcli understood its. ivorlr. It would have a difficult task, for upon its shoulders, would rest the responsibility of developing a real professional spirt anil professional organisation, sano and. well-disciplined, working towards, good nract'cp and good ideals. Above all things, he implored- them to be citizens first and nurses second. The reverse state of things was the bane of the profession.Tll years ?ono' by the medical profession had lacked an or<ran : sntion to study the -nature of the services which it could '•"Her to tlm whole community. The time bail come when the needs of the.people bad found voice, and the profession must be brought in, ; n a proper manner to minister, to., those, newß He, hoped Hint a sound organisation of the mi'Viis: profcpainn would "b" formed, and that -it ivor.'d cons'der how t'" l needs of IV tV"f".=sion could 'be moulded to the public needs'. ' , - - . J/>rd Sandhurst, who also replied, remarked H"it nurses must, also be properly housed. -He ke<nv of ca«e= in which that va= an imperative -necessity. S'r Art'nir St.inl"v mentioned that the British Women's Guild had started an appe-l to the nation' for money to endow a c-ollosn for nurses and to' establish a fund for the relief of nnrses in distress O" illness.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 4
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