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200 A Short History of Nursing showed it intent on the practical steps of securing ampler space for education on public health nursing in the curricula of training schools for pupils and post-graduates ; on ways and means for attracting larger numbers of gifted women into public health work; on publicity methods of fostering commun- ity units for public health service, suitable units being the county, or the municipality ; on stimulat- ing legislation which should establish public health nursing divisions within state health departments ; and on completing this nation-wide plan by a federal public health nursing service under the federal authority. During the late war, a co-ordina- tion on the last-mentioned lines did in fact arise, and its inception was very largely due to the in- fluence of nurses active in the public health nursing association and service. The early results of tilling these fields were deeply encouraging. Numerous training schools sought to give adequate instruction on the new lines, by co-operation with visiting nurse associa- tions, schools for civics and philanthropy, and other special groups, such as health departments, anti-tuberculosis societies, infant welfare and child welfare groups, or some of the many incipient cen- tres for carrying on industrial health conservation. The advances of the association may be studied