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328 MEDICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC WORKin going to work in other hospitals where the trainingschool is in the making and the superintendent needs anassistant, or even in taking the place of superintendents insmaller hospitals and teaching others what they have alreadylearned themselves. To quote one of the matrons in chargeof a training school for men nurses :The training of men nurses is now being carried on systematically and carefully in many centres where foreign trained womensuperintendents of nurses have Ixvn appointed. In the training ofmen nurses there is no counteracting of existing methods, nor anycompromising with existing prevailing custom. Male nursing of sickmen is to the Chinese a new and foreign custom ...The hospitals without foreign superintendents have already in some places been suppliedwith trained nurses from training schools in the centres ;and in oneinland port (at least) trained men nurses have been of great servicein nursing foreign men patients, no foreign nurse being available.As in the homelands so also here there is a leakage ol.trained nurses from the women s side, for many of ournurses marry after their training. This is only to be expected and we are glad to know they make better wives,and through them we can do much to help China s futuregenerations to have a better chance of good health. Withthe men there is not likely to be this leakage, for boys areentering our training schools with the idea of making nursing their life-work.^ie ^urses Association ofCChina hasf St dadapted its syllabus to suit both men andwomen. For general nursing both go over the same ground.We have been handicapped by the scarcity of books onnursing in special subjects; and are much indebted to theChina Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation for aspecial grant they have allowed for a nurse translator.Our translator has been busy during the past year and wehope soon to have a larger library of textbooks on nursingfor our pupils. A special textbook for men nurses isbeing prepared by two of -our members who have goodexperience on which to work.nsAnnual examinations have been started.Last year candidates entered from variousparts of China; two doctors chosen by the China MedicalMissionary Association, and two nurses chosen by the Nurses