(Entered at the Post Office, Boston, Uata., 

 as Second Class Mail Matter) 



FRIDAY . JANUARIC 4. 1939 



Dean of American Nursea 



Miss Anna Caroline Maxwell. Former 

 Director of Nursing In the Massachu- 

 setts General Hospital, Dies in New 

 Yorli 



Miss Anna Caroline Maxwell, seventy- 

 seven years old, dean nf American nurses, 

 well romembcrfd In Boston and who had 

 been called "tlie American Florence 

 NiRlitinsalc," dipd last niglit in the Medi- 

 cal Center Hospital, New York, where 

 Anna C. Maxwell Hall is named after 

 her. For thirty years before her resigna- 

 tion of Its directorship in 1921 Miss Max- 

 well was the inspiring spirit of the School 

 of Nursing In the Presbtyerlan Hospital 

 In New York. 



In the World War, Miss Maxwell waa 

 j not permitted by the regulations to un- 

 dertake active hospital service, but she 

 was constantly at work in behalf of 

 nurses who went to France, her service 

 ranging from the designing of their uni- 

 forms to the obtaining oC military rank 

 for the Army Nurse Corps. In the war i 

 with Spain Mi!?s Maxwell, with a corps of 

 160 as.sls-tants, invaded Camp Tlinmas In 

 Geore:ia, rather to I he rtiemay of the au- 

 thoritiecs of Sternljer.? Hospital, who re- 

 garded them.'ielves as already sufficiently 

 burdened with the care of the sick, but 

 her i:orce succeeded in reducing the ty- 

 phoid death rate to 6.7 in the hundred — a 

 remarkable record under the circum- 

 stances. When she left Colonel Hoft 

 wrote to her; "When you came we did 

 not know what to do with you. Now we 

 do not know what we would have done 

 without you." ,, 



