Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
A. Yes, yes.
Q. Then how many years of trahing?
A. Well, it was just two years of training in inmy schoo$s. Sore of our
big schools in Chicago like Michael Reese, and Cook Count$ and the Resbyterian
Hospital, they already had their big standards on their own-full
hi@ school. But now that is prevalent entirely now, the requlremnt of
full hi& school to enter a school of nursing. This worn next door is
making up her hi& school so that she can enter the nmiqg course at the
university which will include som practical work. She hqws her way around
the hospital now because she works as an aide in the orth pedic departmnt.
The baard'of nursing from 1913 to 1917 was di~ctly State Board
of Nurse Examiners. It was a separate organization of Pharmcy,
Board of Undertakers, and so forth. Then in
under the State Department of Registration and
been passed. That is when I contributed the words reglstdation and education
to the orgmizatimal title because of our responsibility of establishing
accredited schools of nursing. And the men saw it ri&t way, you bow, that
the others were doing the same thing. I man the pharmacy, the dentistry
and the doctors.
Q. Was the board backed by the legislature? Did the fun* for this board
come throm legislative action from the state?
A. Yes, yes. And there was a fee from the nurses when t+y took the exam
inations, a small fee. I canf t remerher exactly . . .
Q. About how many nurses were there in the state at this time?
A. Oh, I couldntt tell you.
Q. Okay*
A. But we'd have classes of somthing like sixty cm,that is graduates to
take the examination.
Q. And they would have to come here to Springfield?
A. No, we'd have mre exesrdnations in Chicago because of the size of the
territory. Then in Springfield--we'd get the dormstate peqple mstly here--
wetd have opportunities for them or they could corn to Chitago to take it.
Or the Chicago people could corn down here if this ion was more convenient
to them.
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Q. Where would you hold the em? A. Well, now we held them in the County Building In The questions
I had and the paper that they re to wrLte on and was in a small
trunk which had to be put in frei&t car, of
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