TABLE 149.-Students in day and night courses in the commercial and business schools reporting for 1906-7. 12,837 32,643 39,687 12, 102 32 4,687 4,162 8,849 21 1,265 817 2,082 3,456 10,608 2,112 4,395 187 141 27 31 673 612 1,285 12 8 430 409 1,817 1,758 3,575 1, 184 State or Territory. TABLE 150.-Students and graduates in commercial courses and students in English course in business schools, 1906–7. TABLE 151.-Students and graduates in amanuensis course and students in telegraphy in business schools, 1906-7. State or Territory. Schools re United States...... 367 North Atlantic Division. 104 South Atlantic Division.. 25 South Central Division... North Central Division.. 169 Western Division... Texas. Arkansas. Oklahoma. Indian Territory.. North Central Division: Ohio. Indiana. Illinois.. Missouri. North Dakota. South Dakota. Western Division: Montana. New Mexico. . California This Office received statistical reports for the school year 1905-6 from 974 schools for the training of professional nurses. In those schools there were reported as registered 21,052 pupils, 6,400 of whom graduated during the year. In the hospitals with which the abovementioned schools are affiliated there were reported 166,063 beds. In the school year 1906-7 the number of schools reporting was increased to 1,023-a gain of 5 per cent. While a marked increase in the number of pupils was not reported, a gain is shown. The number of graduates was increased to 6,759 (a gain of 359, or 5.5 per cent), and the number of beds to 176,026. The increase in the number of nurse-training schools during the past quarter of a century may be said to have been extraordinary. In the school year 1878-79 there were reported to this Bureau but 11 schools in the United States (located in the cities of Boston, Brooklyn, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington, D. C.), with 298 pupils, 141 graduates, and an average course of study of one year and seven months; while in 1907 the number of schools had reached 1,023, of pupils had reached 21,119, and of graduates had reached 6,759, as is shown in the following table: Comparative statistics of nurse training schools. a In hospitals for the insane, epileptic, and feeble-minded the number of Inmates is used. 39791-ED 1907-voL 2- -39 1123 TABLE 152.-Summary of schools for the training of professional nurses-Class A. [Class A excludes schools connected with hospitals for the insane, feeble-minded, etc., which form Class B and are given in Table 153.] State or Territory North Atlantic Division. South Atlantic Division. South Central Division.. North Central Division. United States... North Atlantic Division: New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York.. South Atlantic Division: |