CHAPTER XXIX.

[Containing tables 152 and 153.]

SCHOOLS FOR THE TRAINING OF PROFESSIONAL

NURSES.

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. The figures for 1907 include a few short-term schools which do not enter into Tables 152 and 153. e Not including pupils in 17 schools making no report in 1906, but which reported 213 pupils in 1905.

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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.]

TABLE 153.-Summary of schools for the training of professional nurses-Class B. [Class B includes schools connected with hospitals for the insane, feeble-minded, etc.]

CHAPTER XXX.

[Containing Tables 154-159.]

SCHOOLS FOR THE COLORED RACE.

[References to preceding publications of the United States Bureau of Education in which this subject has been treated: Annual Reports-1870, pp. 61, 337-339; 1871, pp. 6, 7, 61-70; 1872, pp. xvii, xviii; 1873, p. lxvi; 1875, p. xxiii; 1876, p. xvi; 1877, pp. xxxiii-xxxviíì; 1878, pp. xxviii-xxxiv; 1879, pp. xxxix-xlv; 1880, p. lviii; 1881, D. lxxxii; 1882-83, pp. xlviii-Ivi, 85; 1883-84, p. liv; 1884-85, p. lxvii; 1885-86, pp. 596, 650-656; 1886-87, pp. 790, 874-881; 1887-88, pp. 20, 21, 167, 169, 988-998; 1888-89, pp. 768, 1412-1439; 1889-90, pp. 620, 621, 624, 634, 1073-1102, 1388-1392, 1395-1485; 1890-91, pp. 620, 624, 792, 808, 915, 961-980, 1469; 1891-92, pp. 8. 686, 688, 713, 861-867, 1002, 1234-1237; 1892-93, pp. 15, 442, 15511572, 1976; 1893-94, pp. 1019-1061; 1894-95, pp. 1331-1424; 1895-96, pp. 2081, 2115; 1896-97, pp. 2295-2333; 1897-98, pp. 2479-2507; 1898-99, pp. 2201-2225, lxxxviii-xcii; 1899-1900, pp. 2501-2531; 1900-1901, pp. 2299-2331; 1901-2, pp. 191-224, 285-307, 2063-2095; 1902-3, pp. 2253-2285; 1903-4, pp. 2175-2207; 1904-5, pp 1293-1327; 1905-6, pp. 1149-1173; Circulars of Information-No. 3, 1883, p. 63; No. 2, 1886, pp. 123133; No. 3, 1888, p. 122; No. 5, 1888, pp, 53, 54, 59, 60, 80-86; No. 1, 1892, p. 71; Special report on District of Columbia for 1869, pp. 193, 300, 351-400; Special report, New Orleans Exposition, 1884-85, pp. 468-470, 775-781.]

Separate schools for the whites and negroes are maintained in the 16 former slave States and the District of Columbia. Separate accounts of expenditures are kept in the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina. It is estimated that at the present time about 20 per cent of the public school funds in the South is for the support of schools for the negroes. For the year 1906-7 the sum of $49,907,262 was expended for the schools of both races. The table which follows shows the common school enrollment in the South, separate as to race, each year since 1877. The annual expenditure for the schools for both races since 1870 is shown in the same table. The public school expenditure for the entire South since 1870 has aggregated $914,290,782. It is estimated that at least $165,000,000 of this sum has been expended to support common schools for the colored race.

Table 155 exhibits, by States, the comparative statistics of the common schools for both races for the year ending June, 1907. The totals for the South are compared with like items for the years 1889-90 and 1899-1900.

Public high schools for negroes are included in this table, and their statistics are also summarized separately in Table 156. There were 121 of these high schools in 1907, as compared with 129 the preceding year, the enrollment of secondary students being 7,067, as compared with 6,576 the year before. Tables 157 and 158 summarize the statistics of schools devoted to the secondary and higher education of