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Nursing in other Countries 277 Progress has been slow, and leaders have fallen in the fight. Miss Hubrecht died in 1918, a loss irre- parable to those who knew her. For some time before her death she had turned to the woman suffrage movement as holding out the only solid hope for women seeking to advance their profession. Her conviction was that not until the vote was gained would women be able to build up standards of life and work. Not long after her death, this object was attained. The younger women are now pressing on in her footsteps, and little by little are gaining a stronger position. Denmark has very ancient traditions of nursing from the old warlike days. Like other countries it shared the general depression of . . Denmark women s work m the eighteenth cen- tury. The Nightingale system made its link with Denmark in the person of Mrs. Henny Tscheming, who, after learning all she could in her own country's hospitals, went to St. Thomas's for further training, then returned to hospital posi- tions in Copenhagen. In 1899 Mrs. Tscheming founded the Danish Nurses' Society or National Union, of which she has been president to the time this was written. In the constructive work of this association Mrs. Tscheming's most important work has been done, for it has been actually the