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Monday, September 16, 2019

Dr. Mary E. Lapham of Highlands, N.C., Training Nurses in Czecho-Slovakia, Sept. 16, 1919

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Sept. 16, 1919

North Carolinian Trains Nurses’ Aides in Czecho Solvakia

Dr. Mary E. Lapham of Highlands, N.C., is taking a leading part in giving the new republic of Czecho-Slovakia something it never had before—trained nurses.

Dispatches from Prague, capital of Bohemia, state that Dr. Lapham, with other members of the American Red Cross mission to Czecho-Slovakia, realized the great need for trained nurses when the Red Cross first entered the country. Nurses were practically unknown to the Czecho-Slovaks, but after a conference with Miss Alice Masaryk, daughter of President Masaryk, the Red Cross workers were allowed to lecture on nursing before several women’s organizations.

As a result, 60 young women volunteered to take training as nurses’ aides. They are being taught by Dr. Lapham and others and plans are being made for the establishment of permanent schools of nursing.

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