Abstract
In an address<sup>1</sup>to the graduating class of Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses, Isabel Hampton Robb, formerly superintendent of the school, has discussed some of the defects in trained nurses. She insists that "inefficiency, superficiality and lack of thoroughness belong not to the graduate nurse alone, but are the common property of modern woman, and belong to the average American household." Out of 175 applicants for admission to our training school for nurses only forty were considered worthy. The deficiency of women in the practical knowledge of the affairs of the house is strongly emphasized. An effort is now being made in many of the more progressive training schools for nurses, both at home and abroad, to overcome, by means of a preliminary course, this deficiency as regards the care of the household and the properties of food. Desirable as this is, it is only an effort
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