Scene in dining room, Hospital for the Insane of Nebraska, Norfolk
Description
Patients sit at tables eating in a large dining room in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. Four nurses in uniforms stand around the room observing the patients.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Fourteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane of Nebraska, Norfolk, Nebraska" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 292-293.
Historical Notes
The Training School for Nurses, run in conjunction with the hospital had eight graduates during the biennium. In 1915 the school graduated Mary Michael, Elizabeth Stewart, Ethel Janks and Dorothy Zimmerman. And in 1916, Beulah Deerson, Elsie Braun, Margaret Parchen and Mary Clemens.
