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244 A Short History of Nursing given by this school, among them the Instructive Visiting Nurses' Association, which had grown out of the Nurses' Settlement founded by Sara H. Cabaniss and Nannie G. Minor. In the beginning the public health nursing was seen as an adjunct to the social work of the school, but as it went on it became more and more closely related to com- munity needs, and seized the public sympathy so closely that it became equally outstanding with the purely social work, becoming, indeed, an in- terpreter to the people of other phases of work with schools and families. In that year, also, there was a post-graduate course for nurses, of nine months' extent, arranged by the New Haven Visiting Nurse Association and Yale University. As a result of the united efforts of Michigan nurses, the University of Michigan, in 191 9, es- tablished a Department of Public Health Nursing, and appointed Dora M. Barnes as professor, the first nurse to receive such a distinction in the University of Michigan, and the second woman only, a medical woman in earlier days having had for a short time a University Chair. This new step received strong support from pro- gressive citizens^ but owes a special debt to Mrs. Gretter, whose faith in its outcome never faltered.