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Nursing in other Countries 261 the work she did with a few trained assistants made the doctors unwiUing to return to the old regime. A Nightingale nurse, Miss Franks, came in 1879, and laid a more enduring foundation. Finally Miss Kelly, an Irishwoman who had at- tained distinction by having organized the first secular training school under a religious order, led the Stevens, one of the most characteristic and interesting of Irish hospitals, into a smooth path. Another of the most important of the old Dublin hospitals is Sir Patrick Dun's. Its own modern school was built up to full perfection by Margaret Huxley, who came (1884) from St. Bartholomew's, where she had been one of the group of young progressives under Mrs Fenwick's matronship. The Rotunda Lying-in hospital in Dublin is an especially noted one of its kind. A Nightingale nurse, Sara Hampson, reorganized its nursing ser- vice in 1 89 1. The young Irish Matrons and their pupils are ex- tremely alive to all the outer influences that may affect their profession. They are ready to organize and quick to discern sinister purposes. Throughout the long struggle for registration in England, Irish nurses gave strong support in every crisis, and the downright, unaffected frankness of their revolution- ary promulgations makes these a joy to read.